FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 2, 1992
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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
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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
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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
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Complete 'Filet' Dinners '2 fer'
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APPles
Soda Crackers
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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
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Quaker packets - all varieties 12.5 oz.
London Broil
Instant Oatmeal
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Lays 6 '4 oz.
Top Round Steak
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Potato Chips
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Louis Rich bun size 16 oz.
Beef Rib Steak
Hot Dogs
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Closed Monday, September 7th
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