FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 16, 1992
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City of Heppner and the
County of Morrow
Heppner
GAZETTE-TIMES
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Morrow County's Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper
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ner, Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879. Second class postage paid at Hepp
ner, Oregon. Office at 147 West Willow Street. Telephone (5031 676-9228.
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Letters to the Editor
Congratulations from alum
I can see that the pride of be
ing a Mustang hasn’t decreased
over the years. Those of us who
choose to leave the area will
always have the feeling that it is
our team too. A special con
gratulations to the team for a
great season.
Sincerely,
(s) Ted Ferguson
Class of 1945
Gold Beach
To the Editor:
This past weekend I had the
time of my life. Members of the
1942 football team met in Cor
vallis to renew old friendships
and watch the current group of
Mustangs do their thing. They do
that very well. 1 enjoyed one of
the best played high school foot
ball games i have ever seen. The
players, coaches, parents and fans
have a lot to be proud of.
Philosophy of taxation unfair
To the Editor:
I noted recently that Barbara
Roberts has again proposed
several new revenue sources to
cover the projected shortfall from
Measure 5 tax reform. Because
1 am a physician, I was particular
ly interested in her proposal to tax
physicians and hospitals to make
up shortfalls in the health care
budget.
This philosophy of taxation is
unfair. If this thought process
were carried throughout society,
then each state worker should be
assessed a surtax to pay for short
falls in other parts of the budget.
Teachers might have a special
one percent tax on their earnings
to pay for budget shortages in
education. Tri-Met drivers should
have a tax placed on their income
to pay for their indigent riders.
Will doctors who provide free
medical care in their offices and
free clinics still have to pay this
tax?
It is demoralizing to be singl
ed out and taxed in excess of the
general society for services pro
vided to the general society. But,
if Governor Roberts cannot cut
waste and must “ enhance”
revenue in this unfair way, at
least the tax should be technical
ly fair. For example, because the
tax is based on gross revenue, not
net revenue, specialists with high
overhead practices could pay two
to three times more of their after
tax income than those with low
overhead practices. Also, a health
care worker who is an employee
rather than in private practice
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would pay nothing in the gross
receipts scenario. Furthermore,
HMO’s like Kaiser will be able
to pass this tax on to their insured
by raising premium rates, but
most private practitioners and
hospitals have their fees capped
by Medicare, Medicaid, and con
tracts with various insurance
payors and will have to absorb
most of this tax.
If patients are unhappy with the
present health care system, they
are no more unhappy than most
health care providers. Both ma
jor presidential candidates cam
paigned for medical reform
which included eliminating waste
created by competing insurance
com panies
and
lim iting
bureaucracy in providing medical
care. It is estimated that 30% of
our medical care expenditures are
wasted on administration. Star
ting up a new system of taxation
will only create one more
wasteful bureaucratic layer, and
does nothing to improve the pre
sent flawed system.
I would suggest that Governor
Roberts, her advisors, and the
state legislature can get much
more bang for their buck by
reforming the insurance industry
and stream lining the ad
ministrative portion of medicine,
than they ever would by creating
a new bureaucracy to tax and fur
ther demoralize health care
providers.
Sincerely,
(s) Dr. Brooks G. Cofield
Hillsboro
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To the Editor:
I have been doing a family
geneology research on my fami
ly, going through family records,
pictures, etc. While doing this, I
came across a photo of the 1927
Lexington football team. My
Sheriffs Report
The Morrow County Sheriff s
office at the courthouse in Hepp
ner reports dispatching the
following business during the past
week:
December 9: Morrow County
deputy recovered a signed stolen
vehicle from Hwy. 730, mile post
177;
Morrow County deputy in
vestigated the report of several
things taken from the Taggares
Farms. Total value was approx
imately $10,800.
December 12: Morrow Coun
ty deputy was contacted regar
ding a break in at the Boise
Cascade Fiber Farm. Tools and
a Polaris 4-wheeler were taken.
Amount of value was unknown;
M orrow County deputy
responded to investigate a report
o f m ischief at an Irrigon
residence.
December 11 : Morrow Coun
ty deputy attempted to locate a
juvenile that was reported to be
a runaway and was in Morrow
County;
Morrow County Sheriff s of
fice dispatched the Arlington am
bulance to a residence where one
person was transported to Mid
Columbia Medical Center with an
unknown illness.
Decemberr 12: Morrow Coun
ty deputy began investigation of
theft of Christmas light bulbs
from a residence in Irrigon;
Morrow County deputy in
vestigated a report of possible
stolen property at a residence in
Irrigon;
M orrow County deputy
responded to investigate
suspicious circumstances in
Irrigon;
Morrow County deputy ar
rested Cheryl McBride, 34,
Heppner for Assault II, Assault
IV and Reckless Driving. She
posted bail and was released;
M orrow County deputy
responded to investigate a report
of a possible disabled boat;
M orrow County deputy
responded to investigate
suspicious circumstances on Lit
tle Buttercreek Road out of
Heppner;
M orrow County deputy
assisted the Boardman Police
Dept to investigate a forced en
try at the Outback Apartments in
Boardman where items were
reported missing.
December 13: Morrow Coun
ty Sheriff s office dispatched the
ambulance to a residence on Main
Street in Condon for one male.
There was no transport;
Morrow County Sheriff s of
fice dispatched the Boardman
Fire Dept, and ambulance to Col
umbia View Apartments;
M orrow County deputy
responded to the Irrigon area for
a careless driver;
M orrow County deputy
responded to the Irrigon area for
a neighborhood disturbance.
December 14: Morrow Coun
ty deputy investigated a report of
shots being fired in Irrigon near
the residential area;
Morrow County Sheriffs of
fice dispatched the ambulance to
the Condon RV Park. One male
with an unknown illness was
transported to Mid Columbia
Hospital.
Heppner/Lexington area and liv
ed on Rhea Creek for several
years with his parents, Oliver J.
and Emma J. Cox. The family
lost one daughter Bessie, in the
1905 Rhea Creek flood. The last
father, Harold James Cox, is on
the left in the second row.
I thought you might be in
terested and perhaps print the pic
ture in your paper, being this is
the football season.
My father was raised in the
surviving member of the im
mediate Oliver Cox family, Lena
Cox Young, passed away July
29, 1992, at The Dalles, Oregon.
Thank you,
(s) Arnold O. Cox
Bridgeport, WA.
BMCC announces
holiday hours
LEW’S PROCESSING
Special service departments at
Blue Mountain Community Col
lege are changing hours for
Christmas vacation. McCrae Ac
tivity Center will closed Dec. 16
and will reopen Wed., January 6
when it will resume regular
hours.
The BMCC bookstore is clos
ed and the computer lab will close
Dec. 18. They will both open on
January 6.
The Pioneer Hall Library will
remain open for the holidays. The
hours will be 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday. Regular
hours will resume Wednesday,
Jan. 8.
The entire campus and all
outreach centers will be closed
December 24, 25, 31 and January
1.
Winter term 1993 begins
Wednesday, Jan. 6 for day and
evening classes. Registration will
be held Monday and Tuesday,
Jan. 4 and 5. Students are en
couraged to make their registra
tion appointm ents with an
academic advisor prior to those
dates.
Registration appointments for
returning or transfer students can
be made by calling the counsel
ing center at 276-1260, ext. 206.
For students who will be new
to BMCC and who have never at
tended college, the registration
process starts with placement
testing. The counseling center in
Pioneer Hall offers placement
tests at 11 a.m. Monday or
Thursday. Anyone interested in
attending BMCC and taking more
than eight credit hours of course
work is required to take the place
ment test. Appointments are not
necessary.
Home Cured Hams and Bacon
Smoked Turkeys and Pepperoni
Holiday Gift Ideas!
Call us for all your
custom meat cutting, curing and smoking
Locker beef by the half and quarter
Locker hogs - whole or half
Slaughter Service Available
We Deliver!
Len & Pat Schwarz
676-5150
(3rd and 4th generation meat cutters in Morrow County)
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