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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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private property rights, support of regulators will be either fired or
and it is the responsibility of this
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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
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