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FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 2, 1992 Vote for Fawbush The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow The Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper U S P S. 240-420 Published every Wednesday and entered aa •ecood-claa« m atter at the P ad Office at Heppner. Oregoo under the Act of M arch 3, 1*74. Second clam pontage paid at Heppner. Oregon. Office at 147 Weal WOow S tm t. Telephone (503) 674-922*. \d d rtm axnm unkatium to the Heppner Gazette-Tlmea, P.O. Box 337, Hepp ner. Oregoo 97*36. SubacrtpCion*: $15 In M orrow, W heeler. Gilliam and G rant Counties; $23 elsewhere. Joyce Hughes ......................................................... Office M anager. Typeaetting April Sykes ........................................................................................... News Editor Mary Van Bibber ............................................................... G raphics Departm ent Monique Par r e t............................................................................................. Bindery Penni h cerve m a k e r......................................................................................Printer Jean Ann T u rn e r................................................................................... D istribution D avid and A oril Svkes. Publishers Letters to the Editor Rates out of line To the Editor: My 10 year old son had a severe sore throat on July 3. I called the clinic, but it was clos ed. We doctored at home, but on Sunday I thought he needed to be seen. We went to the hospital and, saw Dr. W enberg in the em ergency room . He ad ministered a shot, took a culture, and gave us a couple days worth of Penicillin pills until the drug store opened. The bill was $353.14. My second son. age 18, caught the same virus. He was seen at the clinic, and was given the same pills on Monday, July 6. We left on vacation to Washingotn, D.C. on July 8. He was not getting bet ter. In fact was running a 103 fever in our hotel room in DC. I called the house physician who came to our room about 8:30 p.m. Thursday, July 9. He ad ministered a shot, pills, and a cough syrup. He charged $175.00 for the visit and $95 for the medicine. Total bill was $270. I believe the Heppner Memorial Hospital is out-of-line with their emergency room charges. We received excellent service to our hotel room in Washington, D.C. and it is still cheaper than going to our own rural hospital, which is subsidiz ed by our taxes. I believe the charges need to be reviewed and made affordable for our com munity residents. Sincerely, (s) Marlene Currin Wes Cooley supports local industry To the Editor: There has been a concern ex pressed about originality in political statements and letters to editors recently. With the risk of misspelling and poor grammar, here goes an original effort. Wes Cooley is running against Wayne Fawbush for state senator in his district (SD28). With the constant change in congressional districts, Wes has been sleeping in the right district, our district. At issue for voters, I believe, is the value of raw material produc tion in this d istrict. Wes understands the value of suppor ting local industry that uses the natural resources in this heavy resource district. The concept that govenment can do everything best has resulted in more and more paper work to comply with regulations. The legislators who feel state governm ent must set the parameters, has resulted in more legislative bills that regulate and set up agencies to regulate. Now, with the shortage of state funds, these agencies are resorting to Tines, penalties and fees to sup port their jobs. I feel there is a vast difference in the way Wes1 Cooley would deal with these issues as compared to Wayne Fawbush. Your vote for Wes Cooley will slow government in trusion into your life and help support and increase resource- based industry. Sincerely, (s) Don Peterson Morrow County Campaign manager for Wes Cooley The Most Beautiful Fit In The West. And these Wranglei w o m e n ’s S ilvei Lake contemporary casual jeans show it Their styling in cludes slash from p ock ets, a clear back, and darts for a flattering fit. G a rd n e rs 193 N Mam St 676-9218 MEN’S WEAR Heppner To the Editor: Senator W ayne Fawbush claims to be a friend of Oregon’s natural resource industries. His voting record indicates otherwise. During the last legislative ses sion, Senator Fawbush voted for Senate Memorial Number One. This memorial, which was pass ed by the Senate, favored by Governor Roberts, but died in the House, was a formal Oregon message requesting that the U.S. Congress nullify the intent and ef fectiveness of the 1872 Mining Law by putting additional stringent controls and fees on all mining operations. Had the U.S. Congress receiv ed and honored the request, the small mining industry, substantial part o f Eastern O regon’s economy and heritage, would have been entirely destroyed. In other words. Senator Fawbush voted to destroy the mining in dustry. not just in Oregon, but in the entire United States. Senator, we don’t need that kind of help. Doing special favors for in dividuals or organizations within an industry does not qualify one as a friend of the industry. It is the overall voting record that pro vides a true indication of where a legislator's allegiance lies. Senator Fawbush has proven he is no friend of our mining industry. The man who has challenged Senator Fawbush for his seat in the Senate is Wes Cooley. Mr. Cooley is a man of integrity who has had substantial experience in the natural resource industry. He believes in minimum government controls and less, much less, bureaucracy. In an effort to pro tect the mining industry and my way of life I will campaign and vote for Wes Cooley. I hope you will join me. Sincerely, (s) Donald Coombes Mine Manager Baker City Slain guard honored To the Editor: It was with much sadness that I read of the death of William Hall, the private security guard who was shot by an assailant in downtown Portland on August 22 . Bill was a former police officer for the City of Boardman, Oregon. He was also a student in criminal justice class I taught through Blue Mountain Com munity College. He was a per sonable, outgoing guy who en joyed police work. He was the father of four. It goes without saying that police officers put their lives on the line every day to protect the public. However, when a person you know and like is killed in the Justice Court Report The Justice Court department at the courthouse annex building in Heppner reports handling the following business during the past week: Jeremy K. Miller, 21, Issa- quah, W A-No O p erato r’s License, $135 bail forfeited; Billy J.B. Rogers, 46, Wamer- Overwidth, 10’-4Vi” , no escort, $46 bail forfeited; Rodger Dale Gross, 42, White Salmon, WA. Failure to Main tain Log Book, $65 fine; Expired Medical Exam, $65 fine; Rodney H. McGuire, 36, Condon-Failure to Use Seat Belt, $24 fine; Howard L. Breidenbach, 18, Heppner-Defective Equipment, turn signals, emergency brake, $31 fine; Barry Ward Munkers, 37, Lexington-No ATV License, $31 fine; Stewart N. Grater, 21, Spray- Violation of the Basic Rule, 35 mph in a 25 mph zone, $35 fine; Sheila D. Smith, 22, Hardman- No Oregon Operator’s License, $51 fine; Donald Keith Watts, 32, Salem-Failure to Use Seat Belt, defective, $24 fine; Calvin T. Foster, 23, Heppner- Violation of the Basic Rule, 35 mph in a 25 zone, $35 fine; Rodger Emmett Liles, Jr. 28, El Cerrito, CA-Violation of the Basic Rule, 104 mph in a 55 mph zone, $282 fine; James Robert Jepsen, 28, Ione- Careless Driving, $180 fine; Angela Marie Currin, 19, Heppner-Disobeyed Stop Sign, $35 fine; Daryll Frank Decius, 20, Heppner-Failure to Change Vehi cle Registration, $24 fine; Clarence Frank Rice, 73, Pilot Rock-Exceeding the Maximum Speed, 68 mph in a 55 mph zone, $49 fine; William Carl Kious, 36, Richland. WA.-Failure to Drive Right, cutting curve, trailer with wood. $50 bail forfeited; Herman Wendell Winter. 30, Heppner-Tandem Axle Overload, 25,500 alleged 20,000 weight limit, $200 fine; Rhonda Rhinehart, 18, Heppner-Minor In Possession, $96 fine; Sheila Dunaway, 18, Heppner- Minor In Possession, $96 fine; Shawn Wilson, Hermiston- Maintaining Dog as a Nuisance. $43 fine. line of duty, it is still a shock. Bill Hall died a hero’s death. He died protecting a child from a gun-wielding assailant. From reported accounts, it appeared that he may have withheld firing at the assailant even though he had a dear shot. On behalf of the law enforce ment community of Morrow County, I would like to publicly express our condolences to his family and our gratitude for his exemplary conduct in saving the life of a child. We will honor his memory. Yours very truly, (s) Jeff Wallace Morrow County District Attorney Heppner Correction Daryl Vinson, Heppner, took the best of show in the antique car division with his 1925 Model T- Ford in the Morrow County Fair and Rodeo Parade August 22. It was incorrectly stated in last week’s Gazette-Times. A photograph of the new Mor row County School District teachers was not identified in the Aug. 26 Gazette-Times. Columbia Junior High School teachers are 1-r Marv House, math and science, Tonya Martin, music and Pat Furgerson, social studies and English. The Lexington Baptist church will not hold services on Sunday Sept. 6. The date was listed as Sunday Sept. 5 in last week’s G- T . The Gazette apologizes for the error. In the Service Airm an Richard A. Basford has graduated from the refrigera tion and air conditioning course at Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls, Texas. Students were taught fun damentals of refrigeration and air conditioning to repair and service systems components, including compressors, condensers and evaporators. He is the son of Allen Basford, lone, and Shirley Basford, Lake Havasau City, Ariz. His wife, Shannon is the daughter of Adam Perez of Hepp ner. The airman is a 1986 graduate of lone High School. School’s Open Again School’s open for another year. You can feel it in the air. These cool crisp mornings, the sun laying toward the southern sky, a hint of fall touching the vegetation across the land. Those lazy days of summer are over when school boys idled by the old swimming hole. Now it’s daily doubles, early school busses and girls. I remember those days. Sum mer was for fishing any day of the week, and working the hay fields. By Fxl Glenn Building baled hay stacks was my job. On my dad’s farm and then at the neighbors’ around. I had a stack pattern that made a good solid stack, one that wouldn’t fall over. That was something a young man could take pride in back in those days. Now, baled hay is picked up with a machine, one with its own stack pattern that isn’t near as good. Football signals fall is here. Prospects of a state championship run high during early season practice. Parents and townsfolk show up for daily doubles. There’s excitement in the air. Fall was made for toot- ball. I played six-man football, a game nearly unheard of these days Sometimes that was all the football players my little school could muster-six. These days there are lots of sports at school. I like that. It gives everyone more and more chances to be proud of their children or grand children or their school in general. School also means teachers and classes. In case you’ve missed it in the past, I have a soft spot for teachers. My mother was a teacher and I started attending school when I was three. We didn’t even know about day care and pre-school in those days. I had my own little desk in the back of her third-grade classroom. My aunts and my sisters were teachers too. And so is my wife. Classrooms and teachers make it possible to gain the knowledge that mere survival in this world requires. When I was a boy it was seldom that you ever heard about someone you knew who went on to college to be a doctor or lawyer or something like that. Now, nearly everyone has a far better education than most of us ever dreamed possible. School buildings are really memorable places. At a school reunion this summer, I revisited my old school building. One two-story stone building that housed grades one through 12. It’s the same building where both of my parents graduated. But my younger brothers and sister didn’t because of school consolidation. That’s a sad memory. Few of us realize how much a school means to a community. More in a little town like the one where I grew up, less in a big city, but more than we realize anywhere. School is open for another year and while I won’t be there in per son, I can’t help but think of all the years I was. Some of those years are dim in my memory, but some are as vivid as yesterday. Thinking back about all the important times of my life, school had to be the very most significant. School. That’s the place we send our future. The place we entrust with our most important possession, our children. The place we meet our neighbors. TTie place we relive a bit of our own past. We should all go back to school.__________________________ AS I SEE IT Heppner Elk’s Lodge #358 Invites You To Try Our Menu: This Friday and Saturday’s Menu 1. ‘2 fer’ - Filet Mignon Dinner- 2. Surf-N-Turf-Tiger Prawns & Filet Mignon 8 oz. Filet and 'Tiger' Prawns 3. ‘Tiger’ Prawn Dinner 8 - 'Sauteed Prawns' $ |Q » 5 4. Teriyaki Chicken SJ95 Boneless Breast of Chicken Marinated in Teriyaki & Char Broiled Ladies Night September 3 Dinner 6:30 p.m. All dinners include: Soup, Salad. Choice of Potato & Special Dessert Dinners served 6 p.m. till 9 p.m. Lounge opens at 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday Heppner Elks 3581 676-9181 Where Friends M eet” r Court Street Market I $ I 5 * 5 Complete 'Filet' Dinners '2 fer' 111 N. Court Heppner 676-9643 G R O C ER IES - M EA TS - PRODUCE Golden Delicious 142 Mair LUNCH OX< SPECIALS Western Family 16 oz. *9V APPles Soda Crackers J9«ea Alpo Beef Chunk 14 oz. 3 lb. bag Potatoes 99V Large Size Dog Food 55*». Western Family 1.25 oz. Packets Tomatoes 49V Taco Mix Western Family 10-1 oz. packets Fresh Broccoli 59V Lean 3 lb. Chub Hot Cocoa Mix 99 \ 12 pack cans reg. or diet Ground Beef Pepsi *5*°.*r Quaker packets - all varieties 12.5 oz. London Broil Instant Oatmeal • 5 a*ea Lays 6 '4 oz. Top Round Steak •* * » ib Potato Chips S ilo ■ ea Louis Rich bun size 16 oz. Beef Rib Steak Hot Dogs Prices Good September 2nd through 8th Closed Monday, September 7th 8»*ea
