FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 5, 1992
‘Oregonian’ article inaccurate
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Candidates to speak at
Republican dinner
Candidates for secretary of
state, state senator and several
county offices will be on the
speakers list at the Lincoln Day
dinner in Boardman at Dodge Ci
ty, Saturday night. Feb. 8, accor
ding to Ed Glenn, chairman of the
event. The dinner is a more of a
fund raiser than a candidate’s
forum, sponsored by the Morrow
County Central Committee.
Those attending will have an op
portunity to meet the candidates.
State Senator Bill Kenemmer
and State Representative Randy
Miller, both candidates for the
Republican nom ination for
secretary of state, will attend.
Wes Cooley, seeking the
Republican nomination for state
senator. District 28 will attend,
as will state Representative
Chuck Norris, (R-Dist 58).
Matt Evans from Senator Bob
Packwood’s office will bring
greetings from the senator and
Sharon Smith will stand in for her
husband Gordon Smith, candidate
for state senator District 29.
Glenn said much of the even
ing would be devoted to a fun(d)
raising auction of GOP
memorabilia, antiques and slight
ly desirable white elephants. The
auction proceeds are used by the
County Central Committee to
support Republican candidates in
the upcoming general election.
Several candidates for county
wide office will also appear, in
cluding Slazmo Guezemeyer III,
a candidate for precinct commit
teeman with a keen wit for
what’s right and wrong about
Republican politics.
Tickets for the prime rib and
halibut dinner are $15 each. The
event will begin at 6:30 p.m.
Reservations for the dinner may
be made by calling either Glenn
at 481-3151 or county chairman
Bob Jepsen, 676-9850.
WOSC ed classes offered at HHS
Heppner High School is again
a site for Instant Replay television
programs. These upper divi-
sion/graduate level education pro
grams are the result of videotaped
classes from Western Oregon
State College in Monmouth.
W inter term registration
deadline is Feb. 14. Tuition is
$65 per credit hour for
undergraduates or $90 per credit
hour for graduate students.
Courses offered this winter
term are: Anth 312 social an
thropology 3 cr., Anth 463/563
culture and education 3 cr., Ed
462/562 encouraging the
discouraged child 3 cr., Ed
484/584 1st and 2nd lang. ac-
quisit. in biling/ESLprog. 3 cr.,
Hst 480/580 United States in the
20th century 3 cr., Hst 481/581
United States in the 20th century
3 cr., PS 350 intro to public
policy 3 cr., PS 351 intro to
public administratiqp 3 cr.
For further information contact
Barbara Hayes at Heppner High
School 676-9138.
To the Editor:
This rebuttal concerns an arti
cle written by reporter Dean
Baker of the Portland Oregonian.
The article "Boardman faces
changes, challenges" is about the
saddest example of journalism I
have seen. Mr. Baker, you saw
and wrote about what Mr. Her
nandez and Mr. Barbarrossa
wanted you to see, not what is ac
tually West Glen. Yes, we have
a few homes that could do with
a major cleanup and the Morrow
County Zoning Commission is
working with a West Glen
residents committee to handle
those problems. May I remind
you Mr. Baker that you had to
drive past seven clean and land
scaped homes (Caucasian homes)
to reach the Sauza home
(Rancho).
Mr. Sauza is my next door
neighbor. A good Hispanic
American taxpayer whom I feel
all three of you used. This is very
sad and makes me very angry.
We all try to live together as
neighbors and your article will do
nothing but cause animosity bet
ween the whites and Hispanics,
who up to this point have work
ed together to make West Glen a
nice place to live.
Because of your article, Mr.
Sauza will probably be in trouble
with the zoning commission ie:
‘West Glen Community Center”
as we are not zoned for that.
Emelio (as I know Mr. Sauza)
helps with local Hispanic parties,
but they are seldom held at his
home. He had two parties last
year, a Quinceneras for his
daughter and an end of the
harvest party. I know. I attended
both. Like I said, we are good
neighbors. This is a far cry from
a community center.
I also think maybe you ought
to go back to school and learn
how to count. I drove around
West Glen and counted 11
Hispanic neighbors and 23 white
neighbors. My count may be off
one way or the other by one or
two as I know few people on the
east end. Your article stated “ He
(Mr. Sauza) is of of about 100
former Mexicans (former?) who
live in 16 West Glen homes
beyond the pavement, down a
rutted road, outside Boardman’s
city limits.” We choose to have
rutted roads because the county
wants to charge us to put paved
ones in and if we did put them in,
we would have nothing but a
residential race track.
Mr. Hernandez also makes the
statement “ Ten years ago, there
weren’t any Hispanics here
(Boardman) at all. Then, boom,
they’re everywhere.” I don’t
know what Boardman he lived in
10 years ago, but I have lived
here 17 years and I had Hispanic
neighbors then. A lot of them
were illegal but they were here.
I babysat in my home in those
days and my best customers and
most enjoyable children were
Hispanic.
The idea behind La Causa is
wonderful and way past its time.
The Hispanic population in
Boardman are American citizens
and need to know the laws and
how to vote and have affordable
housing for those in need. So do
the Caucasians who are in need of
help. Times are tough for
everyone right now, my own hus
band is currently unemployed.
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Sheriff’s Report
The Sheriffs office at the cour
thouse in Heppner reports dispat
ching the following business dur
ing the past week:
January 28: Morrow County
Sheriffs office dispatched the
Condon ambulance to Frazier St.
One male was transported to Mid
Columbia Medical Center in The
Dalles;
M orrow County deputy
responded to the Irrigon area for
a situation at a local business;
M orrow County deputy
responded to the Irrigon area and
began investigation of a bicycle
reported stolen from Paul’s Satur
day afternoon. Amount of value
of the bicycle belonging to Frank
Hunsucker was unknown;
M orrow County deputy
responded to a business outside
Boardman that was reported to be
left unsecured. Party was con
tacted and business secured.
January 29: Morrow County
deputy responded to an Irrigon
business to begin investigation of
a possible theft, possibly civil. In
vestigation is continuing;
Morrow County deputy began
investigation of the theft of an
American suitcase, a .38 Der
inger, black leather brief case,
credit cards, CB radio, cel phone,
m iscellaneous tools value
unknown at this time, from a
truck belonging to Ron Benson of
Portland. Truck was parked at an
Irrigon business.
January 30; Morrow County
Sheriffs office dispatched the
Heppner fire department to a fire
at Evergreen Terrace Apartments
on 155 Rock St. Heppner;
Morrow County deputies ar
rested Mitchell Royce Drury, 33,
Irrigon for Unauthorized Use of
a Motor Vehicle, Driving Under
the Influence of Intoxicants, At
tempt to Elude and Driving While
Suspended. Drury was lodged at
Benton County Jail;
M orrow County deputy
responded to a report of an intox
icated driver in Irrigon. Parked
vehicle was located, there were
no arrests;
Morrow County deputy at
tempted to locate vehicles
reported traveling together at high
rates of speed on 1-84, west of
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Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class
Gregory A. Groshens, a 1981
graduate of Heppner High School
recently returned to Port
Hueneme, CA with Naval Mobile
Construction Battalion Four
(NMCB-4) following a seven-
month deployment to Japan and
the Republic of the Philippines.
While in Okinawa, Japan.
Groshens assisted in several pro
jects that included the rehabilita
tion of enlisted living quarters and
a public works building and
renovating one of the base’s
water mains.
After being redeployed to the
Philippines, Groshens par
ticipated in the recovery opera
tions at Subic Bay Naval Base
following the eruption of Mount
Pinatubo. His battalion worked
around the clock clearing road
ways, restoring utilities and
building shelters. Once their mis
sion in the Philippines was com
plete, NMCB-4 returned to
Okinawa to finish construction
projects before returning home.
Groshens joined the Navy in
October 1981.
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Graveside funeral services for
Violet M. Gourley were held
Monday. February 3, 1992 at the
Masonic Cemetery in Heppner.
Mrs. Gourley, 92, of Heppner,
died Thursday, Jan. 30, 1992, at
Pioneer Memorial Nursing Home
in Heppner.
She was bom Jan. 28, 1900 at
Heppner to Malcom and Isabella
Rendall Corrigall. She grew up
on a ranch at Buttercreek and at
tended a country grade school
near the family ranch. She board
ed with her sister in Heppner and
graduated from Heppner High
School, then attended Oregon
State College at Corvallis and was
a member of the skeet team.
On Feb. 20, 1930, she married
Wilbur Gourley at Walla Walla,
WA. Their first home was on the
Neal Ranch on Buttercreek. They
later moved to a ranch on Skin
ner Creek near Heppner.
Mrs. Gourley enjoyed hunting
and fishing on the ranch and in
the nearby mountains. The cou
ple retired from ranching in 1972
and moved to Lexington.
Mr. Gourley died in 1979.
Survivors include nieces,
Isabella Davis of Pendleton and
Kathryn Vogue of Portland;
nephews Gordon O’Brien and
Fred Hoskins of Heppner, Robert
Hoskins of lone, Malcom
O’Brien of The Dalles, James
O ’Brien of Salem, Pat O’Brien of
Walla Walla, WA. A brother and
three sisters died earlier.
Memorial contributions may be
made to Pioneer Memorial Nur
sing Home, P.O. Box 9. Hepp
ner. OR 97836.
Sweeney Mortuary Heppner,
was in charge of arrangements.
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responded to a location on NW
3rd St., Irrigon, for an animal
problem.
During the week of January 26
to February 2 Morrow County
deputies assisted one motorist.
111 N. Court Heppner 676-9643
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February 14
is
Valentine’s
Day.
a ir b a k e
but if this article is any indication
of how you are going to go about
it, I’m worried.
The kind of statements made in
this article are not only inaccurate
but irresponsible.
I suggest you come back and
take a second look at our little
community and talk to more of us
instead of Mr. Hernandez and
Mr. Barbarossa. You may want
to write another story about how
white and Hispanics lived in har
mony until they started writing
articles that were half truths.
I also hope that the Morrow
County Assessors office reads
your paper. My taxes should go
down to around 10 cents an acre,
(s) Mrs. Elizabeth Morris
Box 402
Boardman, OR 97818
Boardman. Deputy was unable to
locate vehicles.
January 31: Morrow County
deputy responded to investigate
an animal problem in Irrigon;
Morrow County Sheriff s of
fice dispatched the Condon fire
department to a fire by the
Holbrook Chipper near the
substation in Condon;
Morrow County Sheriffs of
fice dispatched the Heppner fire
department to a reported chimney
fire 510 South Main Heppner.
February 1: Morrow County
Sheriffs office dispatched the
Boardman ambulance to a
residence at Desert Springs
Estate. One male was transported
to Good Shepherd Hospital;
Morrow County deputy
responded to backup Boardman
police on a possible domestic
disturbance at Sandpiper
Apartments;
M orrow County deputy
responded to West Glen near
Boardman to investigate a pro
blem regarding a vehicle. Pro
blem was solved;
Morrow County deputy cited
and released Patricia Duff, 44, Ir
rigon, for Maintaining a Dog as
a Public Nuisance;
Morrow County deputy ar
rested
Anthelmo
Lopez-
Carmona, 19, Boardman for
Failure to Pay Fine/Theft III.
Subject was lodged at Benton
County Jail.
February 2: Morrow County
deputy arrested Beth Ann Jensen,
24, Echo, for Driving Under the
Influence of Intoxicants. She was
released
on
her
own
recognizance;
Morrow County Sheriffs of
fice dispatched the Boardman am
bulance to the Texaco for one
male with an unknown illness.
Male was transported to Good
Shepherd Hospital;
M orrow County deputy
responded to the Irrigon Marina
Park for a report of vandalism by
juveniles;
M orrow County deputy
responded to a report of a
speeding driver in the Boardman
area. Deputy was unable to locate
driver;
M orrow County deputy
responded to the Maria Flores
residence in Irrigon Mobile Court
for a report of a burglary and
theft. Value has not yet been
determined, investigation is
continuing;
Morrow County deputy ar
rested Victor A Olivas-Lopez,
35, Hermiston, for Failure to Ap
pear for Theft III. Lopez was
turned over to Umatilla County.
February 3: Morrow County
deputy responded to the Lex
ington area for a report of
suspicious circumstances. Call
was unfounded;
Morrow County deputy con
tacted a residence in the Irrigon
area regarding obscene phone
calls;
Morrow County Sheriff s of
fice dispatched the Arlington am
bulance for a male who had
fainted at the Cimmiyotti building
one mile south of Arlington on
Hwy 19. Male was transported by
private vehicle to the clinic in
Arlington;
M orrow County deputy
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