FOUR - Heppner G azette-Tim es, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 29, 1992
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Support library district
The Official Newspaper of the
City of Heppner and the
County of Morrow
To the editor:
W e would like to express our
enthusiastic support for the for
m ation o f the O regon Trail
Library District.
By joining forces with other
areas, we can stabilize the fun
d in g fo r o u r lib ra rie s by
spreading the costs over a larger
population base. This m eans we
can look forw ard to expanded
h o u rs , a la rg e r b o o k and
The Heppner
GAZETTE-TIMES
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Letters to the Editor
Register to vote
T o the Editor:
It is impossible to over-state the
importance o f registering to vote.
W ithout informed and concerned
voters our governm ents cannot
begin to function.
The following party choices ap
pear on your registration form,
with a box beside them to check
the party preferred:
D e m o c ra t,
L ib e rta ria n ,
R epublican, Not affiliated with
any political party, other party
(print other party name).
There are many registrants who
check ‘Not affiliated with any
party’ and whom often refer to
them selves as Independents.
These persons so registered may
request a Republic ballot and
legally vote in the May prim ary.
Please take the time to express
your choices concerning the can
didates running for state, federal
and local offices. Come to the
candidates forum May 5, 7:30
p.m. at the Heppner High School.
Sincerely,
(s) Meg M urray
Urges vote for Glenn
To the editor:
M ost politicians are quick to
tell us what they think we want
to hear and then change as the
wind blows. O r they skirt the
issue and never take a position so
we never know where they stand.
Ed Glenn is not that way. He
researches facts, considers the
consequences and takes a position
on issues o f importance. Ed is not
reluctant to explain his position.
T hat’s a refreshing change from
most people in politics, including
the other candidates for M orrow
County Com m issioner.
I don’t always agree with Ed on
everything. To his credit, he will
listen to a different point o f view,
and, when all the facts are
known, Ed has the courage to
change his mind.
Ed Glenn is running for M or
row County C om m issioner and
we need a representative on the
county court who has the courage
o f his convictions and the ability
to listen and consider all points
o f view. I urge you to vote for Ed
Glenn.
Yours Truly,
(s) Bruce O. Nicholes
Boardman
Murgo for judge
To the editor:
Soon the people o f Morrow and
Umatilla Counties will be voting
on a judge to represent them in
Departm ent num ber 1 o f the
D istrict Court. This court has
traditionally been located in
Pendleton, how ever after recent
revelation that the law had been
changed in the mid 1980’s to in
clude M orrow County in its
jurisdictional area and titled it
D epartm ent num ber 1. This
discovery was m ade by Rudy
M urgo, city attorney for the city
o f Pendleton and a candidate for
district court judge. Departm ent
num ber 1.
Rudy M urgo is a person of
honesty, integrity, sincerity to
justice and academically qualified
(c u m la u d e , U n iv e rsity o f
W a s h in g to n ,
1971
and
W illam ette University 1975). As
a former assistant district attorney
in Um atilla county he establish
ed a reputation as a fair and stem
prosecutor protecting the states
interest. As Terry Rudolf, former
C hildren Services m anager, has
stated “ Rudy understands the
purpose o f the court and is an ad
vocate for fairness.’’ His ad
vocacy reaches beyond the actual
court room an into volunteering
on com m ittees that make a dif
ference with livability in our
communities. As past chair o f the
Um atilla County Juvenile Ser
vices Com m ission he assisted in
funding Youth Service officers in
H e rm is to n , P e n d le to n and
M ilto n - F r e e w a te r.
T h is
volunteerism didn’t stop there, he
is coaching young children in soc
cer and baseball, m em ber o f the
Criminal Justice Advisory Board
at B .M .C .C ., as well as being a
past m em ber on the G overnor’s
J u v e n ile J u s tic e A d v iso ry
Com mittee.
I urge you to support Rudy
M urgo for District C ourt Judge,
Departm ent num ber 1. Rudy
M urgo represents a choice and a
change, dedication, experience
and knowledge o f the law.
Thank you
(s) Greg Pierce
Pendleton, OR
Favors library district
To the editor:
Put my vote down in favor o f
form ing O regon Trail Library
D istrict. What a loss if the doors
o f the library had to close. No
m ore story hours. No m ore adult
and children reading program s.
No m ore m ystery books. No
more periodicals and tapes No
more videos. So sad.
Sincerely,
(s) Doris Young
P.O . Box 28
97818
B o ard m an
reference selection, and most im
portantly, continued service.
The 25 cent per $1000 o f
valuation is a very m inor amount
to pay for the valuable education,
inform ation and entertainm ent
our libraries provide.
Please join us in voting yes for
the Oregon Trail Library District.
Sincerely,
(s) Gary and Kathy Neal
Boardman
t
Prag for county commissioner
T o the editor:
O ver the last several years I
have served with John Prag on
the board o f directors, loan com
mittee and presently the executive
com m ittee o f the greater Eastern
Oregon Development C o rp ., an
eight county SBA approved non
profit lender.
J o h n ’s
d e d ic a tio n
and
perseverance has been and con
tinues to be most instrum ental in
the successful delivery o f much
needed loans to start up
e m e rg in g sm all b u s in e s s e s
throughout the areas. John is both
a leader and a team w orker.
I wholeheartedly endorse and
recom m end John Prag to the
voters o f M orrow County for
M orrow County Com m issioner
Position num ber 2.
(s) John Grace
Boardman
Vote for Jeff Wallace
T o the editor:
There are a num ber o f can
didates for district court Judge,
position 2. H ow ever, one in par
ticular stands out above the rest,
Jeff W allace.
Jeff is now serving as the
district attorney for M orrow
County. He has been both a pro-
secuter and a private attorney. He
knows his way around a cour
troom and is an experienced trial
lawyer.
Jeff W allace also has the em o
tional maturity and demeanor that
I feel is essential for a judge to
have. I want someone on the
bench who is calm and deliberate
in the way he approaches things
and Jeff fills the bill.
Please vote for Jeff Wallace for
district court Judge, Position 2.
Thank you
(s) Shirley Larson
415 N .W . 4th
Pendleton
Vote yes for libraries
To the editor:
A fter many years o f being one
o f the first departm ents o f the ci
ty budget to be cut, the libraries
in Boardman and H eppner have
received the final cut. For the
next budget year, the funds to
operate these libraries have been
reallocated to other departm ents
within the cities budgets. This ac
tion by the city councils o f the
respective cities may just be the
best thing that could have happen
ed to the libraries that serve these
com m unities. Due to the hard
w ork o f the Friends o f the
Library in Boardm an and Hepp
ner, there is a opportunity for the
com m unities to not only keep
their libraries open, but actually
im p ro v e th e s e rv ic e and
availability o f resource and
recreational reading material. The
vehicle that would allow this to
happen is the O regon Trail
Library District.
The O regon T rail Library
District will encompass the voting
precincts o f H eppner and Board-
m an. T hese p re cin cts w ere
chosen because they coincide
most closely with the present ser
vice area o f the two libraries. The
proposed district also includes
both industrial and utility value
areas which means:
1. Less o f the city taxpayers
dollar will go to library operation
(the cities are at the $10 limit set
by M easure 5, so the city tax rate
cannot be increased).
2. The industrial and utility
properties will pay approximately
60 percent o f all money needed
fo r
lib ra rie s .
3. The nlral area'Surrounding
the cities will see their taxes go
up by only 25 cents per $1000
assessed value ($25 per year on
the average $100,000 farm ).
I hope the citizens o f the corn-
unities o f Boardm an and Hepp
ner can see what a valuable asset
the libraries are to their areas and
vote yes for M easure 25-1 on
M ay 19.
Sincerely yours,
(s) Ed Struthers
Board C hairm an
H eppner Public Library
Wallace for district court judge
To the editor:
Jeff W allace is a candidate for
district court judge (position 2) on
the May primary ballot. I believe
that he would make an outstan
ding judge and urge everyone to
vote for Jeff.
I have known Jeff W allace for
a num ber o f years, both as an at
torney and as a person. He is well
qualified on both counts. He is
o rg in ally fro m the M ilton-
Freew ater area and was active in
4-H and FFA. He has lived in this
area most o f his life, including
both M o rro w and U m atilla
Counties.
Jeff has been the M orrow
County District Attorney for the
past five years. He is not only an
experienced prosecutor but has
had quite a background in private
practice as well. He is qualified
in many areas o f the law.
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(s) Lisa M cCune
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T o the editor:
I would like to express my sup
port for Rudy M urgo for District
C ourt Judge, Dept. 1. I believe
Um atilla and M orrow counties
are ready for a change. Rudy
M urgo has shown him self to be
very committed and involved, not
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T o the editor.
M y son has been going to the
Boardm an Public Library since
he was a baby. I would hope that
all future Boardm an children
have the same advantage.
Please support the formation o f
the Oregon Trail Library District.
(s) Barbara Hemnes
Boardm an
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The road from my house to town is
pretty important, considering I drive it
nearly every day, sometimes twice. I
know that road so well, I can see the
slightest little chuck hole start, develop
and grow until it’s fixed.
Sometimes I get to thinking that the
road I drive every day is the most im
portant road in the world. After all, a
lot of my neighbors drive the same road
as much as I do. I’ll bet that nearly
everyone is the same way, but, of
course, to most of them, it’s a different
road. We all get to thinking that our
By Ed Glenn
road is the most important and someone
else’s road can’t be nearly so valuable.
That’s the way I was thinking not long ago, until I realized there are
other roads important too. Take the road to elk camp that I drive once
a year. Now on the day before season opens, that’s a pretty important road
and equally so on the way out, if I have anything to bring out, that is.
The point, 1 guess, is that we all have important roads, some more so
than others. Or at least some are important more often than others. There
must be some way to measure the importance of the roads we drive. Not
even I would say the road to elk camp should be as good a road as I drive
to town everyday. Maybe on a scale of one to 10, and if the road to town
was a 10, well then I’d have to say the elk camp road would be just bigger
than a speck in the eye of a gnat.
Since Morrow County spends about half of its entire budget on roads
and since even then there isn’t enough money to make them all four-lane
freeways, there must be a way to decide which road is more important
than another.
Resources are limited so that we must set priorities on the roads needing
repair and reconstruction.
Condition of the respective roads is one consideration that we must use.
A road full of chuck holes should come before one that just has a few cracks.
Length might also be a factor. A long road disrepair might be assigned
a higher priority than a short one in similar condition.
Kind and volume of traffic should also be considered. Certainly a wheat
or potato haul road should be given a priority over that mud track to elk
camp.
Then, we should consider our objectives in building and maintaining
roads. High on the list is safety. No where should Morrow County allow
truly dangerous roads to remain long without repair. Another goal is to
promote commerce. Market roads are essential to our economy. To some
extent tourism roads are roads of commerce and should be afforded extra
consideration. Certainly, we must consider convenience of personal travel,
convenience in driving to town, or across the county. Finally, we should
consider roads a means of communication just like phone lines and the
postal service. Roads allow us to travel from place to place so that we
can talk to each other, eyeball to eyeball, which is the very best way to
communicate.
Considering the kinds of roads we need and the kinds of needs the serve,
we should be able to assign priorities on a sensible basis. It is just too
simple to say that traffic counts should be the basis for decisions. There
are many other factors to consider.
These kinds of decisions are typical of the kinds of decisions that govern
ment is so good at dodging. It’s hard work to make these kinds of hard
decisions and no matter how one decides there will be a few who disagree.
That’s something a politician finds hard to accept, someone who disagrees.
Most politicians are so afraid of losing just one vote that they avoid mak
ing any decision at all that might offend someone. So the kind of hard
work outlined above goes undone and priority decisions are not made on
a rational, sencible basis, but rather on some kind of political basis. What’s
worse, the decision making process is so muddled that it is virtually
unknown, even by the decision makers, how some particular decision was
made.
Roads are too important in Morrow County to hide the process from
the folks who pay the bill.
Please elect J e ff W allace
district court judge for position 2,
U m atilla and M orrow C ounties.
(s) Law rence Givens
Rt. 3 Box 194-A
M ilton-Freew ater 97862
111 N. C ourt
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