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FOUR * Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 1, 1992 Justice Court Report____ The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow ONPA The Justice Court office at the courthouse annex building in Heppner reports handling the following business during the past week: G regory C hristopher McDaniel, 19, Heppner-No Coast Guard Approved Life Sav ing Devices, $22 fine; Robert Lee Wilson, 21, Ione- Exceeding the Maximum Speed Limit, 73 mph in a 55 mph zone, $46 fine; William Dean Rill Jr., 25, Hermiston-Exceeding the Max imum Speed Limit, 74 mph in a 55 mph zone, $68 bail forfeited; Geneva Mathews, Heppner- Allowing Dog to Run At Large, $18 fine. The Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper U S P S 240-420 Published ever) V\ ednesdat and entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3, 187V. Second class postage paid at Heppner. Oregon. Office at 147 West Willow Street. Telephone (5031676-9228. Address communications to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P.O. Box 337, Hepp ner. Oregon 97836. Subscriptions: $15 in Morrow, Wheeler, Gilliam and (¡rant Counties; $23 elsewhere. Joyce H u g h es............................................................Office Manager. Typesetting April Sykes ........................................................................................... News Editor Mary Van B ibber................................................................. Graphics Department Monique P a rre t.............................................................................. Bindery Penni k eersem ak er........................................................................................Printer Jean Ann T u rn e r....................................................................................Distribution David and April Svkes. Publishers Letters to the Editor Don't sell out local pharmacies Marriage Licenses To the Editor: Heppner, Oregon is a town of 1450 population. It is heavily dependent upon agriculture (wheat and cattle) and forest pro ducts to sustain the economy. As both are in decline we now are promoting value-added products, tourism and retirees. It is im possible to promote these things without a viable health care system. Pioneer Memorial Hospital at Heppner has the only trauma IV level em ergency services available for 150 miles on three (3) sides. And on the remaining fourth (4) side the nearest hospital is fifty (50) miles away. Most family farms are here, as these farmers will work for less monetary return than corporation farms. I understand congress is becoming worried about the average age (55) of farmers, as well they should. Few’ replacements are in sight. A farmer who plants a crop and suf fers crop failure is not unlike the retail operation that buys Christmas merchandise and then has no sales. It is now so expen sive to get a crop in the ground that even disaster loans do not help. How many loans can any farm stand? How many health care customers can a community lose and .still have a health care system? The recent Blue Cross/Blue Shield proposal to have all federal employees use mail order pharmacy would hurt a community like South Morrow County badly. In Heppner the Forest Service alone has fifty-five (55) permanent employees and 14 The Clerk’s office at the cour thouse in Heppner reports issu ing the following marriage licenses during the past week: June 23: Howard Loran Breidenbach, 18. Heppner; and Tonja Georgette Morrell, 17, Heppner. June 26: Jose Cornelio Villegas-Bedolla, 30. Irrigon; and Elena Ponce Madero, 21, Boardman. temporary employees. Then add the AARP, postal employees. Blue Cross/Blue Shield and other insurance customers who get price breaks for mail order. It could become impossible to keep our pharmacy doors open for customers who only use our ser vices when they need medications immediately. Citizens have a right to a fair price on their medications. Utilities and phone service prices are regulated to secure fairness of pricing, but still ensure providers are available. Are medications any less vital? No congressman or administra tion official should be proud of selling out community pharmacy to the insurance and phar maceutical companies. I will no longer vote for those that do. Sincerely, (s) Margaret G. Murray Vice-chairman Morrow Co. Republican Committee Correction The Kate J. Young Lodge of the Degree of Honor will have their annual picnic on July 14 not July 7 as previously stated. The picnic will be held at the home of Dean and Shirley Con nor beginning at 6 p.m. The lodge will furnish the meat. Those attending should bring a salad or dessert. For more information call Ruth Bergstrom 676-9717. Eric Connor was inadvertent ly omitted from the Blue Moun tain Community College honor roll. v ? ! ! I JULY SPECIALS Bronco 32oz. Fly Spray & Wipe-on N .W . N o w *J7 * July Hours Mon. - Fri. 7:30 a m. to 5:30 p.m. Sat. 7:30 a m. to 1:00 p.m. Closed July 4th GREEN FEED & SEED HWY 207 B7BB422 HEPPNER. OR. j V by City of Heppner Blend Cat Food 20 lbs. Kellee Ruth-Suzanne Jones- a daughter Kellee Ruth-Suzanne was bom to Mike and Robin Jones of Heppner on June 10, 1992 at St. Mary's Medical Center in Walla Walla, Wa. The baby weighed 7 lbs. 11 oz. Grandparents are Barbara and David Williams, Baker City; and Bob and Sue Jones, Heppner. Great-grandparents are Lcs and Ruth Erwin, Baker City; Delmar Fellers, Eugene and Alva Jones, Heppner. Kellee joins a sister Brianne, four years old, at home. Shavla Nicole Patterson-a daughter Shayla Nicole, was bom to Sombaht Zumwalt and Jason Patterson of Heppner on June 12, 1992 at Good Shepherd Com munity Hospital in Hermiston. The baby weighed 7 lbs. 5 oz. Jose Raul Martinez-a son, Jose Raul was bom to Irasema and Raul Martinez, Jr, of Board- man, on June 12, 1992 at Good Shepherd Community Hospital in Hermiston. The baby weighed 7 lbs. 6 oz. Araceli Zalvala-a daughter Araceli, was bom to Carmen Valencia of Boardman on June 19, 1992 at Good Shepherd Com munity Hospital in Hermiston. The baby weighed 8 lbs. 4 oz. Weather Report Now t < £ ( < Births 8 June 16 - 29, 1992 High I .ow Prec Rain Tues. 72 48 .0 Weds. 79 50 .0 Thurs. 85 56 .0 92 54 .0 Fri. 91 58 .0 Sat. Sun. 95 63 .0 Mon. 98 66 .0 Tues. 102 64 .0 Wed. 99 72 .0 Thurs. 93 67 T 90 60 .0 Fri. 97 60 .05 Sat. 96 54 .52 Sun. 74 52 .10 Mon. Obituaries Celebrate Capitalism Rose J. Heliums Rose J. Heliums, 75, Heppner, died Tuesday, June 23, 1992 at Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Heppner. At her request no funeral ser vices were held. She was born June 6, 1917 at Stanfield to Arthur and Clara Gossage Motheny. She grew up in the Stanfield and Echo areas and attended local schools. On May 19, 1934 she married Virden A. Heliums at Walla Walla, Wa. They lived in the Echo and Pendleton areas for a number of years. They were at American Falls, Idaho for 12 years before coming to Heppner in 1972. She and her husband have spent winters in Southern California and Arizona for the past 18 years. Mrs. Heliums enjoyed walk ing, hiking and traveling. Survivors include her husband at the home; daughters Marlene Well, here we are on the eve of another 4th of July. A holiday for a picnic in the park, a parade and shooting off our fireworks in more ways than one. Parades will be full of politicians this year which brings us to the point. While historical purists debate the point, we celebrate the 4th as the birth of our nation, the beginning of the United States. We call it a Democracy only because we need a word for it and FDR gave us a word. Our form of government is not a democracy, of course. FDR was a Democrat. Un til 1940, we called ourselves a Republic, which is what we are, of course, but FDR was a Democrat not a Republican. But form of government does not describe the feature about the United States that is most distinctive throughout the world nor does our form of government account for the high standard of living we enjoy. There have been democracies and republics before and since, all without distinction. What really sets us apart in the world and accounts for how well we live, is our form of economic system. We believe in the private ownership of property, profits and losses and rewards for our risks. Economists call us a Capitalist economy. ‘Janie’ Rimensberger of West Capitalism is different from socialism where the government owns Lake Village. CA., and Elizabeth all the property and makes the decisions about what to do with it. Com ‘Liz’ Burke of Hermiston; son, munism is a form of socialism imposed by force. There could be a Virden ‘Scoop’ of Portland; democratic socialism I guess or even a republic socialism (though it’s brother Orval Matheny of Hepp hard to imagine). ner; and sister Ada Kent of When a person who owns property, say a store building, invests his Bonanza; four grandchildren and money in fixtures and inventory and opens a store of some kind in the one great-grandchild. A sister hope that he can sell his merchandise at a profit, that’s the clearest Opal Motheny died earlier. example of capitalism at work. If he desires even more profit (they all do) he might hire a clerk or two and maybe a delivery boy. The Memorial contributions may be drive for profits creates jobs, maybe the only thing that ever created made to the American Cancer a job. Society, Oregon Division, 0330 When a person’s property consists of a farm complete with water SW Curry, Portland, 97201. rights, the same principles apply. Farmers buy equipment and fertilizer Sweeney Mortuary, Heppner, and other supplies which some other capitalist produces, hoping to make was in charge of arrangements. a profit. Pearl L. Curry But when the government comes along and takes away some of that A memorial service for Pearl property; taxes, the right to use certain chemicals, and some of the L. Curry will be held at the Ir irrigation water necessary to grow a crop, then capitalism breaks down rigon Seventh Day Adventist and we become more and more a socialist state. Church on Saturday, July 4 at 4 The creeping fescue dies out as creeping socialism robs the capitalist p.m. Private inurnment will be at of access to those materials and resources needed to make a profit. the Mount Hope Cemetery in Without profit, of course, there is no means to pay taxes, nor hire College Place. employees nor expand production so all of us can have new and better Mrs. Curry, 93, of Boardman, things to enjoy life with. died Wednesday, June 24, 1992, So as you enjoy the 4th of July holiday, remember it is not Democracy at Good Samaritan Center in (nor more correctly a Republic) that we celebrate most. It is capitalism Hermiston. that gives us the time, money and desire to celebrate the birth of the greatest nation on earth. She was bom Feb. 20, 1899 in And after the fourth, as you go back to work, either at your own Nebraska to Omar and Florence Predmore Stallings. She grew up 1 capitalist project or that of your employer, think about the ways that capitalism is being eaten up by socialism. We could be celebrating a in Nebraska and attended school , hollow holiday sometime soon.______________________________ there. On March 15, 1922, she mar ried Claude Curry at Gearing, Neb. She and her husband lived in many areas of the United States Marine Cpl. Dennis G. Kitchen Krew Meeting following his occupation in heavy By Lori Moeller Whitaker, son of Ruth M. construction. They moved to and Mindy Qualls Bostick of Irrigon, was recently Walla Walla, WA. in 1946. Mrs. Mindy Qualls and Lori Moeller promoted to his present rank Curry worked at Birds Eye Foods held a cooking meeting on June while serving with 3rd Battalion. in the mid-1950s and had work ed in a greenhouse for Mojon- 26 at leader Chloe Pearson’s 9th Marines, 1st Marine Divi house. They made sweet rolls, sion, Camp Pendleton, CA. niers after her retirement. white bread, frozen raspberry jam The 1988 graduate of Riverside She enjoyed tatting. and fruit smoothies. They took High School, Boardman joined She was a member of the Ir rigon Seventh Day Adventist the leftovers home for their the Marine Corps in January 1989. Church and the Home League families to taste. After the meeting was finished, they had an Club. Army Staff Sgt. David E. After her husband’s death in enormous cleaning job. Hall, a squad leader, has arriv Super Chefs 1981 she moved to Boardman to ed for duty at Fort Bragg, Fayet By Dan Scott, reporter live with her son. teville, N.C. Miranda McElligott, Nikki Survivors include her son C.L. Hall is the son of LoRayne McElligott, Dan Scott and Mark Curry, of Boardman; brother, Bowman, Heppner, and Eldon Omar Stallings of Salt Lake Ci M cElligott attended a 4-H Hall, Corvallis. ty, Utah; two grandchildren, six meeting at Bridget McElligott’s The soldier is a 1980 graduate great-grandchildren and seven house on June 24. The club made of Alsea High School. tacos, milkshakes and jello. They great-great grandchildren. also talked about the fair and what M unselle-Rhodes Funeral Home, Milton-Freewater, is in they should be doing to get ready. The club will meet again in July. charge of arrangements. 4-H News [tar IbXpangled Court Street Market 111 N. Court In the Service Heppner 676-9643 I GROCERIES - MEATS - PRODUCE Blue Bell 7 oz. box Potato Chips 7 CHEVROLET A ••V Oberli 5.75 oz. Black Olives • •* ea HONES TY-1NTEGRITY-RESPONS1BILITY-SER VICE Doing business for over 45 years in the same old fashioned way Dill Pickles Western Family 32 oz. Salad Dressing or Mayonnaise *P*ea Pepsi Cola Whole Ham SERVICE SHERRELL CHEVROLET Hermiston, Oregon Phone 567-6487 *j**,b » * • * .* ,. Fresh Express 1 lb. • W * l F*lb Bar-S Ham CHEVROLET Salad Shrimp 6 pack cans diet-reg. Toilet Bowl Cleaner Sliced Bacon Beef Pot Roast » l ‘ »„ Coca Cola Hills m t Boneless 12 pack cans diet or reg. Lysol Cling 22 oz. Rib Steak lb. Frozen Western Family 46 oz. Over the years some things never change at a quality dealership Whole Fryers *i , - * l » * l b . Lettuce 9 9 \> Red Potatoes lO V Cantaloupe 15V 1 lb. bag Mini Carrots ’rices good July 1 through 7th Radishes or Closed Saturday, July 4th Green Onions 99V 4 bunches for
