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FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 2, 1992 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES U S P S. 240-420 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper Published weekl) tuid entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Hepp ner, Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879. Second class postage paid at Hepp ner. Oregon. Office at 147 West Willow Street. Telephone (503) 676-9228. Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P.O. Bos 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836. Subscriptions: $15 in Morrow, Wheeler, Gilliam and Grant Counties; $23 elsewhere. Joyce H u g h e s............................................................Office Manager, Typesetting April H ilton-Sykes...............................................................................News Editor Mary Van B ibber................................................................. Graphics Department Monique D e v in ..............................................................................................Bindery Penni Keersemaker ........................................................................................ Printer Jean Ann T u rn e r.................................................................................... Distribution David and April Hilton-Sykes, Publishers Justice Court Report____ The Justice Court office at the courthouse annex building in Heppner reports handling the following business during the past week: Jam es E dw ard Roy, 34, Heppner-Exceeding the Max imum Speed Limit, 65 mph in a 55 mph zone, $35 fine; Robert W ade Eastep, 32, M onum ent-O pen C o n tain er, whiskey, $65 fine; No Oregon Operator’s License, $75 fine; Possession of Falsely Applied for Resident Hunting License, $230 fine; Donald LeRoy Murphey, 30, H e p p n e r-F a ilu re to N otify Department of Motor Vehicle of Address Change, $24 fine; Kenneth Carl Wright, 46. H e p p n e r-E x p ired V ehicle License, $55 fine; Craig Wesley Holznagel, 24, Beaverton-Failure to Wear Seat Belt, passenger, $60 fine; G ayle Scott N ear, 44, Milwaukee-Permitting Unlawful Heppner Elk’s Lodge #358 Invites Its Members & Guests To Our Annual Tom & Jerry Party & Dance Saturday, Dec. 19th Featuring “ Top Hand” Country & Western Band Don’t Forget.... Now Open for lunch & dinner Wed - Thurs - Fri n. - Fine Dining on Fri & Sat Evening LADIES - Table at Artifactory Cancelled due to the game. —This Week’s M enu- Stuffed Pork Chops $ IO *5 j B.B.Q. Boneless Breast of Chicken ^ 4 ® 5 Tiger Prawns Surf & Turf *14*^ 8 oz. Fillet & Prawns Includes: Soup, Salad, Bread, Dessert & M ore Sign Up N O W F o r D ance Lessons!!! Heppner Elks 35« 676-9181 "Where Friends M eet" 142 N. Mail ¡COAST TO COAST it YOUR c ? P? t® Ï ® ® t® (® g t® i® t® t® t® SOURCE “ FOR Gifts MOM Gifts KIDS Let Us Help You! Make that perfect selection ® 5 ® S t® Open Sundays 12 to 4 p.m. til Christmas t® c® t® Get Your Card Punched Here!! t® GO GET ‘EM MUSTANGS! t® ® t® t® V Goast to Coast H rp p n rr WF f'i V H U F VO I . ? n -w n i Tualatin-Failure to Dim Aux iliary Driving Lights, $25 fine; P hilip G lenn B ach, 35, Portland-Parking on Highway, $24 fine; G erald Ray A n g e ll, 41, P rin e v ille -D riv in g W ithout Headlights, $25 fine; David Calvin Dockery, 28 M acdoel, C A .-N o T ra ile r License, $25 fine; Scott Allan Richardson, 32, S p ray -D riv in g W ithout Headlights, $25 fine; Thomas Charles McConnell, 29, Heppner-Aiding in Exceeding Bag Limit on Antlerless Deer, $45 fine; Scott William Rigdon, 18, Gresham-Minor In Possession, $108 fine; Frank Dee Halvorsen, 41, Ione-Failure to Drive Right (cut curve), $24 fine; Russel Gene W eber, 35, Hermiston-Exceeding the Max imum Speed Limit, 65 mph in a 55 mph zone, $35 fine. Chamber Chatter By Claudia Hughes, Chamber Manager Congratulations to the Heppner Mustangs from the Chamber of Commerce. W e’re proud of our team, their parents, the coaches and Heppner High School. This is yet another positive way that we ‘‘put Heppner on the m ap.” Good work guys and best of luck Saturday at 1:30 in Parker Stadium, Corvallis. Those who aren't able to travel to Corvallis will have to “ turtfc in” after they attend the annual Christmas Artifactory at the Mor row County Fairgrounds, spon sored by the Soroptimist Club. A great opportunity to Christmas shop. Heppner stores will also be open Sundays until Christmas to give everyone the opportunity to shop locally and still have time for Christmas preparations at home without the wear and tear of travel. December 13, children will have the opportunity to have Lunch with Santa at the Elks, a picture on Santa’s knee and en joy a video while their parents shop. Check next week’s Gazette- Times for the particulars. Tuesday, Dec. 8, at 7 p.m. the Bank of Eastern Oregon is the location for the next Town and Country planning meeting. It’s time to nominate folks in Morrow' County for the annual Chamber aw ards. Recipients will be honored January 13 during the Town and Country banquet. Next week’s chamber program will be Mary Reamer, CAPECO; and the option to sign on for the “ one senator per county” idea. Rem em ber, C ham ber meets Wednesdays now. Thought for the week: The dif ference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won’t. Road Plan Needs Reworked One morning a week or so ago, a cold blustery morning, I happened across a crew working for the Port of Morrow patching a chuckhole in Columbia Boulevard. Their asphalt was cold and they had to warm it with a torch. They had the traffic blocked off of one lane and with no flag man it was a free-for-all scramble to pass by. The chuckhole was beat out of one of the many road cuts made to pass water, power, or sewer across the boulevard as industry after industry has expanded over the years. This particular crossing is right in the bottom of the lake that forms with every tiny rain storm because of inadequate drainage. And no wonder there’s a chuckhole. The county road counter tick ed off 2500 vehicles per day past this point, in January when the traf fic is the lightest. During potato harvest thousands and thousands of tons of potatoes pass this point to storage. That is in addition to the thousands of tons of onions, wheat, wood chips, logs and solid waste that go by every day. And the several hundred passenger cars full of workers. Morrow County has a road plan, mapping out the major road pro jects for the next four years. The plan is to spend about $1.5 million every year on major projects. That’s more than $6 million for the four year period. Another $2 million will be spent on maintenance work. Of the total $75,000 is planned for Columbia Boulevard while $1.4 million will be spent on the south end of the Ione-G«x>seberry Road. The road department has counted the vehicles there too: fewer than 100 vehicles per day, a lot fewer on the very south end. A study a few years ago said it would take $2 million to rebuild Columbia Boulevard to the standard it should be to carry the traffic it bears. The road department says they don’t have two million. But when I pointed out that the plan was to spend $1.4 million on Ione-Gooseberry, the answer was “ But that is eight and a half miles.” Columbia Boulevard is only two and a half. Let’s see now, eight and a half miles times 100 vehicles per day is 850 vehicle/miles/day. Divide that into $1.4 million and it will cost $1,647 to build a road for each vehicle. On Columbia Boulevard the same figures would be 2500 vehicles per day times 2.5 miles equals 6,250 vehicle/miles/day. Divided into $2 million Columbia Boulevard would cost $320 for each vehicle. It should be clear how we would want the county to spend our tax money. Unless, of course, we live on the Ione-Gooseberry road. The road plan is often attributed to the County Road Committee even though it specifically says it was prepared by the road department. Assuming the Road Committee did have some influence in setting the priorities, that is no surprise. The committee of 21 is composed of 14 south county residents and seven north county residents. When some question was raised about Columbia Boulevard, the committee scheduled an on site inspection recently. Only two of the south county members even bothered to show up. One county commissioner has said that he thinks the potato plants along Columbia Boulevard should bare part of the cost of rebuilding that road. When asked if he felt the same way about the farmers along the Ione-Gooseberry Road, he answered, “ Well, they pay property taxes.” Does he believe that the potato plants do not? Does he believe that the taxes paid by those farms can be even a small fraction of that paid by Lamb-Weston, Oregon Potato, Inc., all the potato cellars, the onion plant, the Tidewater terminal, the Longview Fibre/Kinzua chip reload and the Finley Buttes land fill, all of whom use Columbia Boulevard? As I see it, the county road plan needs a new look. The old formula of “ a mile of road is a mile of road” needs to be complicated by a factor of 1: “ and how much traffic does it carry?” The county owns two traffic counters. By simply putting them out and moving them every two days and measuring each spot twice a year, we could measure the traffic on every eight or nine miles of road throughout the whole county by the end of 1993. By using information readily available to us we could do the most good for the most people with the least money. By not using that in formation, we confirm that we have some other goal in mind. Births Kelsi Taylor Putman-a daughter Kelsi Taylor was born to Sandi and Jim Putman of Longview, WA. on November 19, 1992. The baby weighed 7 lbs. 6 oz. Grandparents are Pat Wright, Lexington and Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Putman, St. Helens. HAVEN HOUSE RETIREMENT CENTER Quiet “ country’ environment - Accessible to downtown Fossil - Spacious, elegant apartments - Very affordable prices - Family oriented atmosphere - Single level facility— no stairs! - Helpful and friendly community! Haven House Fossil, Oregon 763-4651 H A V E N HOUSE Ask for Carol Rotirom ont C antor Foool, P ro p o n World Pramiere The Mickey Mouse Club's 200th Episode Special Special guest star Jesse Jackson meets the m em bers o f the Club. CHRISTM AS Gifts DAD Operation of Vehicle, $55 fine; Daryl Allen Harrison, 37, Albany-Exceeding the Maximum Speed Limit, 65 mph in a 55 mph zone, $55 fine; C arol Renee P o rter, 25, Madras-Exceeding the Maximum Speed Limit, 65 mph in a 55 mph zone, $55 fine; R alph C. L angston, 58, Clackamas-Allowing Operation o f Unlicensed Vehicle. $24 fine; Colleen Joyce Campbell, 55, Hermiston-No Trailer License, $25 fine; Randell Bryan Vanderhoof, 29, Beavercreek-Exceeding the Max imum Speed Limit, 65 mph in a 55 mph zone, $24 fine; D onald Lee M oss, 54, Monmouth-Exceeding the Max imum Speed Limit, 65 mph in a 55 mph zone, $35 fine; Patrick Arnold Niemi, 29, Lake Oswego-Failure to Validate Elk Tag, $65 fine; Arthur Francis Randall, 48, Medford-Failure to Validate Big Game Tag, $55 fine; Yancey Steven Fall, 25, Prineville-Disobeyed Stop Sign, $31 fine; Richard Wayne Coe, 51, Gilchrist-Failure to Use Seat Belt, $24 fine; Jason Leslie T aylor, 24, Wilsonville-Exceeding the Max imum Speed Limit, 67 mph in a 55 mph zone, $55 fine; Driving While Suspended, $357 fine, $200 fine suspended; Tami Kay Rietmann, 31, Heppner-Exceeding the Max imum Speed Limit, 65 mph in a 55 mph zone, $35 fine; Lewis Leslie Emerson, 57, Gresham -Operating ATV on Road, $24 fine; Walter Richard Chatfield, 45, Boring-Failure to Validate Elk Tag, $60 fine; Marvin Robert Padberg, 48, Ione-Exceeding the Maximum Speed Limit, 71 mph in a 55 mph zone, $55 fine; Kelley O ’Brien Swarat, 24, ' Lexington-Exceeding the Max imum Speed Limit, 72 mph in a 55 mph zone, $55 fine; Ron Grant Pearson, 49, Forest Grove-Inadequate Rearview Mir ror, $24 fine; R ichard Edwin Lile, 51, Portland-Exceeding the Max imum Speed Limit, 65 mph in a 55 mph zone, $35 fine; Roy Richard Skinner, 43, Cen tral Point-Failure to Validate Big Game Tag, first season elk, $55 fine; Jerrv D Leedv. 66. Springfield- Careless Driving, $190 fine; Karla Ann Waterland, 37, Heppner-Exceeding the Max imum Speed Limit, 68 mph in a 55 mph zone, $55 fine; C letus Jesse France, 60, C lackam as-D riving W ithout Headlights, $35 fine; Robert Martin Pardue, 32, Cascade Locks-Operating ATV on a Public Highway, $24 fine. Jam es E. B urgess, 46, Weaverville-Taking Game Mam mal Closed Season (buck deer), $180; Stacy Lee W ilson, 18, Lexington-Exceeding the Max imum Speed Limit, 65 mph in a 55 mph zone, $35 fine; Bradley Thomas Cimmiyotti, 37, Lexington-Exceeding the Maximum Speed Limit, 70 mph in a 55 mph zone, $55 fine; Joseph Clark Hanson, 29, > ■> 3 . 1 1 Court Street Market Good Luck Mus,angs! 111 N. Court Heppner 676-9643 fi! Ü fi! Ü fi! fi! fi! fi! fi! fi! fi! fi! fi! fi! Ü ü fi! fi! fi! fi! fi! t! fi! fi 3 n GROCERIES - MEATS - PRODUCE i Navel Oranges 1 4 V . Prices Good Dec. 2nd to 8th T-Bone Steak lb. Western Family 12 oz. Ruby Red 5 lb. bag Grapefruit > } $ p % Chocolate Chips Western Family 2 lb. Brown or Avocados 10 lb. bag ■ Potatoes (ET/PT) T h u r s • D e c . 3 • 7 :0 0 p m Channel — ------------------------------------- — Ü ©Disney Cable Imprint CATCH OUR FREE PREVIEW Dec. 3 - Dec. 6 Channel 14 Heppner T.V. Inc. 676-9663 • • ‘ bag Dry Yellow Brownie Mix Onions Clingfree 36 ct. 1 4 V . Beef Spareribs Fabric Sheets • • V a . ; I *1” . 1- 8 4 V * * ■ * ,„ 81% lean Ground Beef Cube Steak We Now Have CHRISTMAS TREE’S!!! Beef $ 1 # *, •Li. .f. X TFTTTTTO J * ! Beef Tip Roast ea. Western Family 22 oz. V S f
