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FOUR - Heponer Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 12, 1992 Many reasons not to use drugs, alcohol The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow To the Editor: I want to share many of the good wholesome reasons for the youth in our community not to engage in use of alcohol and other drugs. Fishing in Willow Creek, horseback riding, 4-H exhibits, Boy Scouts, baseball games, soft- ball, picnics in the park. Morrow County Fair and Rodeo, football games, homecoming weekend, homecoming dance, Saturday night dates, junior-senior prom, volleyball games, track meets, basketball games, school dances, school carnival, trips to the library and museum, St. Patrick’s The Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper U.S.P.S. 240-420 PuMtahed every W edneedav and entered as sevond-class matter at the Post Officr at Heppner. Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1»79. Second clan postage paid al Heppner, Oregon Office al 147 Weal WIBow Street. Telephone (503) 676-922». Address communications to the Heppner Gaxette-Times. P.O. Box 337, Hepp ner. Oregon 97136. Subscriptions: »15 In Morrow, Wheeler. Gilliam and Grant Counties; »23 elsewhere Joyce Hughes.................. April Sykes ...................... Mary Van Bibber ......... Monique Parrei................ Peoni Keenemaker .... Jean Ann Turner Office Manager. Typesetting ................................ News Editor Graphics Department ......................... Bindery ...........................Printer Distribution David and April Svkes. Publishers Streets need cleaned Letters to the Editor To the Editor: Any tourist would notice our beautiful flowers on Main Street. Let’s hope that they don’t also see our very dirty weed infested Why not C-Span? To the Editor: Having lived in the Willamette Valley for 12 years where C-Span I and II is a regular program. Dee and I are at a loss to understand why Heppner TV does not have these programs. Since Heppner TV Inc is a local publicly owned TV net work, whose object we feel should be to bring into our lives, Market Report Compliments ot the Morrow County Grain Growers Tuesday. Aug. 11, 1992 Soft White ‘3.80 ‘3.81/‘3.83 ‘3.83 Aug Sept. Oct.-Jan. Barlev *93/‘94 *95/‘96 *97/‘98 Aug. Sept. Oct. Day weekend, friends at school, free education, conversations on the school bus, trips with Grace, church and Sunday School and many many more. I am sure if you used your im agination you could think of many fine wholesome reasons not to use alcohol and other drugs. Thanks for taking the time to read, ponder and share your good reasons. Sincerely, (s) Rev. Stan Hoobing Convenor of the Heppner/Lexington Oregon Together programs that affect our lives, in a positive manner, especially what our country representatives, house and senate are doing. This is the object of C-Span I and II, to furnish free, to all cable networks. But when we attended a TV board meeting, and sug gested same-we were advised after some discussion, that it was too costly. Seems like we can afford “soap, rap’’ or any other pro gram but cannot afford a program that is issued free, that would let us all know what they really are doing, while they are actually do ing it. If you are really interested in how the government operates, push for C-Span I and II. (s) Lowelll and Dee Gribble main thorough-fare. What does it take to have the street cleaned at least once a month? Sincerely, (s) Lorena Jones Proud to work for Cooley To the Editor: I am really proud to be work ing on the Wes Cooley for state Senate campaign. After believing that I would never again be so in volved, I could not resist the op portunity to help elect a man that will truly represent the Eastern part of the state in Salem. Wes Cooley is highly qualified, both academically and in work experience to do a very good job for us. He is a working man, a farmer, a business man, a fami ly man and represents a way of life that we all know so well. He has a lovely wife, Rosemary, who is not only helping with the campaign, but holds the family business and home front together when Wes is campaigning in this huge, 11 county district. It is not too early to think about the election on November 3. If we really want good policy to come out of Salem, we must send good people to influence that pro cess. Wes Cooley supports the timber industry, agriculture, pro perty rights, jobs, business, fami ly values and term limitations. He also gives high priority to educa tion. We are fortunate that Wes Cooley is willing to work for us in Salem. Sincerely, (s) Rita Swyers Hood River For Wes Cooley To the Editor: I’m voting for Wes Cooley for State Senator in District 28. Wes has been very involved in fighting for rancher water rights. I really appreciate that. Water is the most important thing to our way of life. He is a farmer and rancher in Alfalfa, Oregon. I am impressed 4? an New Menu - New Cooks - New Taste B.P.O.E. #358 - Heppner Elks Lodge - Invites its membership and their guests For an evening of fine food and fun Starting at 6:00 p.m. (Lounge opens at 4:00 p.m.) , 4 This Fridays and Saturdays Menu: . i “2 Fer” Special: 2 complete ‘Filet Mignon’ steak dinners special:® IS*1 (Fer 2) l or Chicken Devine-Fettuccine Boneless breast of chicken in a white wine sauce...special: •8*’ or Char Broiled Salmon Fillet...special ®D*^ I All Dinners Include: | Homemade soup, green salad, J | choice of potato and a dessert £& 676-9181 Heppner Elks 142 N. 358 ___ Main Where friends Meet COAST TO COAST YOUR that he has been so involved in organizations like the Cattlemen’s Association and the Farm Bureau, who fight every day for farm people. Wes Cooley has my vote. Yours truly, (s) Frank Windust, Jr. Corbett Be a Farmer What a great time to be a farmer. Cattlemen are being kicked off the public domain, irrigation water is be ing left in the rivers for fish and pesticides are being shelved in favor of “the environment.” the future of fanning couldn’t be brighter. I read just last week that the big West Coast cities-Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Denver-were aligned in their efforts to go after irrigation water for municipal use. Of course, they join the tribes in their claims for in-stream flows to support fish. Federal wetlands legislation gob bles up any old mud puddle for birds | By Ed Glenn and state rule makers prohibit building a farm house on the farm. With the crippling onslaught of anti-agricultural sentiment, the future in farming couldn’t be brighter. Farming has evolved considerably from Grant Wood’s “American Gothic”. Today’s farmer must be botanist, chemist, mechanic, marketer and political scientist all in one. Today’s farmer has a tough job, especially with his own money on the line and prices assuring a meager return. There are lots of good farmers today. So many that agricultural pro duction has created surpluses and export goods beyond expectations. And that’s what makes the future of farming so bright. Consider: 1. A growing demand for water for municipal, industrial, fish and recreation will make fewer and fewer acres available for ag production. 2. Environmental concerns for clean air, land and water will make fewer and less effective farm chemicals available, thus lower produc tivity on those fewer acres. 3. The political and social bias against agriculture will dissuade more and more young people from seeking a career in farming, thus fewer and fewer farmers to farm those fewer and fewer acres that are less and less productive. What a bright future that is, indeed. How so? you say. People, human beings, homo sapiens, require food to live. Nearly all of that food comes from one farm or another, not the supermarket as most of them now believe. That fact alone, that people eat food, is not startling in itself. Even when you consider there are more than 260 million mouths to feed in the United States alone or when you realized there are five billion (yes billion with a “b”) world wide. After all, only a small percentage of them are starving to death now and most of them have over eaten to obesity. Here’s where the bright light comes on, however. Most authorities expect the population of the United States to double to 520 million in the next 100 years, but the world population to double to 10 billion in just 40 years. Can you imagine manufacturing a product less and less competition, for a market that doubles in just one person’s pro ductive lifetime? When Honda wants to sell more cars to a growing population, they just build another factory. But when that growing horde of people want more food, they grab some more water for recreation. It’s like burning down a factory every time you want more cars. With that soaring demand for food, and fewer acres to produce it, farmers will finally be in the economic position the product deserves. Fanners will become highly respected professionals, more so than doc tors or lawyers. And they will be specialized, hiring the botanists, chemists, mechanics and marketers to do the work. It’s that huge population growth, couple with a declining productive capacity that will make a farmer a king. What a future. (Next week: Don’t buy land.) Cease persecution of producers To the Editor: vironmental groups to exist, and a particular agenda is uncons agriculture. We must cease I am a farmer of 30 years and to access our legal system. This cionable and immoral. We must persecuting and condemning and a second-year Audubon Society would not be allowed in a coun lobby to retain due process of start cooperating with the many member. I try to be a responsi try ruled by dictatorship or law. We cannot allow our farmers and resource managers ble steward of the natural communism. legitimate fears to create a system that share our view of a peaceful resources I manage. Lately I feel If we bankrupt the United that convicts U.S. citizens of clean green planet, abundant with a growing concern as to the States economy through destruc crimes or takes their property life and love. responsibility of the Audubon tion of the free enterprise system, without the full protection of the Sincerely, Socieities’ leadership. I have read there will be no pristine environ safeguards in the constitution. (s) John Guynup Society articles that seem to en ment to protect, because the poor Our free enterprise system, our President of Western Oregon dorse the destruction of our free starving masses will overrun farmers and our entrepreneurs Livestock Association enterprise system, elimination of these areas and the government have funded this affluent society Box 273 private property rights, support of regulators will be either fired or and it is the responsibility of this Langlois, OR 97450 ' flawed legislation and complete shot. People will not standby and affluent society to fund a respon denial of the necessity of a freeze and starve while spotted sible environmental agenda. healthy agricultural industry in owl populations increase and Society must build more reason the United States. prime farmlands lay dormant into the existing regulations and Our active environmental because of improper wetland involve responsible producers in organizations are a result of our delineations. Members of the en creating new workable regula ORS 811.365 Illegal U-Turn. affluent society. This is good. vironmental movement must sup tions. We are losing thousands of Upon a highway within the limits Our farmers are such good pro port free enterprise and en opportunities to enhance our en of an incorporated city between ducers they have freed tens of trepreneurship because this is vironment because we have intersections. millions of people from food pro where our future lies. Through alienated our thoughtful respon ORS 801.155. It is against the duction to pursue profitable and efficient and responsible use of sible producers through bad law to ride a bicycle on comfortable jobs throughout our our renewable resources we can legislation and overly complex sidewalks. country . This is good. Adequate offer the United States citizenry regulation. ORS 609.060. It is against the food, clothing and shelter are fun a stable economy as well as a Our farmers and loggers are law permitting a dog to run at damental needs we all share. pristine environment. Kneejerk some of the best educated, most large. Farmers have invested genera environmentism does a disservice environmentally aware, and far It is against the law to trespass tions in providing food for us at to true conservationists. Using sighted in the world. on Corps of Engineers property the lowest prices in the world. bad science and ignoring true Civilized man cannot exist in The United States farmer has sub responsible scientists to push for this World without nrndiirtinn that is posted. sidized the U.S. consumer far beyond any pittance he receives from government programs. If he was paid a parity price for his production he could afford to pur IHN. Court Heppner 676-9643 sue many environmental projects F/ GROCERIES - MEATS - PRODUCE on his farm or ranch. Instead Fresh Express 1 lb. 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