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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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