FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 15, 1993
Teenage smoking remains a problem
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Letter to the Editor
Education state’s lowest priority
To the Editor:
I am writing this letter to the
editor as the superintendent of
schools in Perrydale School
District No. 21 located in Polk
County, Oregon.
1 recently had the opportunity
to review a document obtained
from the legislative fiscal office
entitled, “ Budget Highlights” ,
that summarizes the legislatively
approved 1993-95 budget.
As a school superintendent, I
was appalled by the fact that this
document shows 40 state agencies
out of 71 have received adopted
budgets in excess of 1991-93
estimated expenditures, and that
one agency, the Department of
Human Resources, received a
19.8 percent increase for this
biennium.
These increases occurred while
State School Support (Basic)
received a $372 million dollar
decrease from 1991-93 figures.
How is the legislature going to
explain these facts to school peo
ple and the parents across our
state once these facts are made
public? It appears education is the
state’s lowest priority and yet,
children are our state’s most im
portant resource for the future.
How is the legislature going to cut
an additional $1.2 billion in
revenue replacement cost in the
1995-97 budget? Will schools and
kids be the scapegoat again?
Where, when and how is this
" slo w
suffocation’’ and
deterioration of our quality
schools going to end?
Reductions in state government
that were made appear to be on
ly from “ current service” or
“ desired budget levels” and they
do not represent real cuts in peo
ple and programs at all. How can
1 explain this “ smoke and mir
rors” state budgeting process to
the taxpayers in Perrydale School
District at a time when we are
cutting 24 percent in real dollars
and people and programs over the
next two years. A loss of this
magnitude will devastate our
small school district and may
even force consolidation.
If you want to know why the
sales tax failed across the state,
the patrons in my district that I
have spoken with said it had a lot
to do with people’s perceptions of
the legislature and state govern
ment’s credibility.
After reading the Budget
Highlights document, I concur
with this assessment.
Respectfully yours,
(s) Tim Adsit, superintendent
Perrydale School Dist. No. 21
Amity
Likes to keep in touch
To the Editor:
Dear friends and relatives.
It was wonderful hearing from
all of you who have kept in touch
with me this last year. I have en
joyed the monthly bulletin that the
All Saints Episcopal Church
sends each month. My prayers
and blessings are always with
you.
Merry Christmas to all and a
very happy New Year. Keep
writing.
Sincerely,
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To the Editor:
As we get ready to celebrate
the Christmas season there are
some interesting facts about
teenage smoking that might in
terest all of us. Between 1983 and
1992, the proportion of adults
smoking cigarettes declined from
30 percent to 24 percent, a 20
percent reduction. This informa
tion, from a Louis Harris poll that
has been conducted every year
since 1983, confirms other
studies documenting the con
tinued slide in adult smoking
rates.
However, smoking by our
youth has not gone down. In the
1980’s it stayed on a stubborn
plateau, despite efforts to bring
it down. Since 1988, the number
of young people smoking cigaret
tes has begun to increase.
PRIDE (Parents Resource In
stitute for Drug Education)
recently released their annual
survey of teenage drug use and it
has some bad news. Between
1990-91 and the 1991-92 school
years, there was a seven percent
increase in smoking among high
school age students and a whop
ping 12 percent increase at the
junior high level.
These findings were cor
roborated by a study conducted
in California by John Pierce. As
a result of the multi-million dollar
campaign to reduce smoking that
was sparked by Proposition 99,
adult smoking has declined but
unfortunately teenage smoking
has not.
Now I realize that not all of our
teenagers smoke, but many use
other forms of tobacco that are
just as dangerous to the health of
our young people.
Maybe this Christmas season,
one of the best gifts to give our
children, and grandchildren, is a
creative alternative to smoking
cigarettes and use of other forms
of tobacco.
Sincerely,
(s) Rev. Stan Hoobing
Convenor of Heppner-Lexington
Oregon Together
Seeks others who share same experience
Pride in electorate again justified
To the Editor:
My pride in the Oreogn elec
torate has once again been
justified. The way in which the
sales tax was defeated should
send a message loud and clear to
those who keep trying to burden
the taxpayer with proposals to
develop an elite society of
bureaucrats and theorocrats. With
the OSEA and the OEA amuck in
Salem, it would be nearly im
possible for the legislators to
Justice Court
Report
The Justice Court office at the
courthouse annex building in
Heppner reports handling the
following business during the past
week:
Jody Lea Hendricks, 22,
Irrigon-Driving While Suspend
ed, $357 fine; Driving Unin
sured, $25 fine;
Teddy J. Finch, 52, St. Helens-
Open Fire in Prohibited Area,
$76 fine;
Stacy Lee W ilson, 19,
L exington-Failure to Dim
Headlights, $50 fine;
Bill J. Eubanks, 71, Oregon
City-No Bull Elk Tag, $65 fine;
Alvin D. Ferguson, 44,
Albany-No Bull Elk Tag, $65
fine;
Thomas Jackson Melton, 18,
Corvallis-Loaning Tag for Big
Game Mammal, Elk, $65 fine;
Charley Clint Biggerstaff, 47,
Irrigon-Hunting Without a Valid
General Season Elk Tag, $65
fine;
Billy Gene M elton, 58,
Hermiston-Failure to Tag Big
Game Mammal, Elk, $57 fine;
Borrowing Tag for Big Game
Mammal, Elk, $65 fine;
M ark Duane W ay, 27,
Heppner-Careless Driving, $264
fine;
Michael Robison, Heppner-
Negotiating Bad Check, $587
plus $187.37 restitution, 180 days
in jail; $500 fine and jail sentence
suspended with no further viola
tion of the law, no more bad
checks;
Kenneth Pearson. 32, Portland-
Possession of Less Than One
Ounce of Marijuana. $553 fine;
G regory Soum okil, 29,
Beaverton-Possession of Less
Than One Ounce of Marijuana,
$553 fine;
David Miler, 31. lone-Reckless
Driving, $587 fine, 180 days in
jail, 90 day license suspension;
$150 fine and jail sentence
suspended with no further viola
tion of the law excluding minor
traffic.
Market Report
Compliments of the Morrow County Gram Growers
Tuesday, December 14, 1993
Soft
White
Dec.
»3.63
Jan.
*3.64/*3.65
Feb.
*3.67
March
*3.67
New crop
July
»3.55
Aug.
*3.55
Barley
Dec.
*103
Jan.
* 105/* 106
Feb.
*107
operate without doing homage to
their demands. When those lob
by’s have the ability to dictate
conditions, it’s time the voters
bear arms.
I have received many favorable
comments about a recent “ let
ter” , concerning a flat-tax pro-
possal. It’s not new, just ignored.
Perhaps now it may get some
consideration.
As to the other half of the tax
liability we share, property tax.
This tax was designed to give
each local community (in Oregon
the counties), a method where
local governments (i.e. county,
cities and local schools) would be
financed. It became a reasonable
way to pay for those services, by
taxing the property values within
that jurisdiction.
Then came “ equalization”
whereby the wealthier school
districts were mandated to help
“ equalize” the not so wealthy.
Seemed fair. Unfortunately
equalization has come to mean,
not equal education, but salaries
of the educators to be equal to at
torney’s, doctors, etc. and lobbies
like OEA that have the electorate
so unwilling to trust^their
With the flu in the air, I hope everyone had a flu shot. Nothing
puts a crimp in the holidays like sickness. That vaccination can’t pro
tect one from the intestinal bug which fortunately doesn’t last long-
even though it leaves a body purged like a cat overdosed with castor
oil.
Once 1 realized that the very least effort during that affliction wasn’t
going to be my last thought, it leaves quality thinking time, because
you’re usually to weak for decisive action. My best thought in two
days was a vow to be kinder to others who are stricken. I heartily
recommend not to dwell about Christmas goodies that you might have
been planning to make, even if it’s lean cuisine. But just like the
December caption on the Lex Graham calendar, at my age I don’t
worry about health food as I need all the preservatives 1 can g e t-
just to function.
This minor setback did leave me with a finer appreciation of fresh
water, regardless of minerals or other things I can’t see. Home wells
are not often tested, so it’s surprising that we’ve lived this long. No
doubt that will be mandatory in the future, with a fee attached, of
course.
This leads into water and owner issues, sneaky, huh? It’s a fact
that who controls the water controls the land. So with the govern
ment stepping in to tell us how to manage water, maybe we’ll be
rationed to three glasses per day.
A printed statement said the cooperative spirit of the Umatilla Basin
water project could be shattered by a disagreement over the “ smaller
issue” of water spreading. If this person’s livelihood or his job was
dependent on the use of water on 17,500 acres along the Columbia
River, it might create quite a different opinion.
Already the draw-down of the John Day dam pool has had an im
pact on agriculture that generates taxes to support our country.
Wastefulness can’t be ignored, but a downturn in the agricultural
economy could have a disastrous result for everyone. People might
be upset if there were no food in grocery stores.
Hermiston is trying to develop more water for a growing popula
tion based from our agricultural economy. But there are other con
cerns. Indian treaty rights of 1885 guarantee enough water in the
Umatilla, Columbia and even beyond ceded land-to sustain a healthy
fishery. Every river and creek that run into this basin could be im
pacted by those treaty rights. Private landowners are already seeing
adjudication for the use of water in all river basins.
Small potatoes in the overall picture, but the DEQ termed a dry
canyon in our area as an intermittent stream; however a toad couldn’t
wet his whistle there except during a flash flood. But if all streams
and canyons are to be fenced off to improve fish habitat, livestock
could not utilize forage without convenient access to water. A con
centrated access to water causes more stream sedimentation and
destruction to the eco-system than access over a larger area. Disastrous
storms, wildlife damage or drought conditions are factors that land
owners constantly battle.
We can’t turn this country back to pioneer days. If cattle ranchers
are reduced to a few cows and a horse or two, maybe they can eke
out a living dude ranching by catering to those who would like to
turn the west into a wilderness. Wallowa County Judge Arleigh Isley
said it best at the cattlemen’s m eeting-“ We’re at war” to preserve
a way of life and the region’s economy. Pass the water and an aspirin,
please, it’s time to make Christmas fudge.
* Dec. 18:
Tom & Jerry Party 6:30-9 p.m.
Dec. 31:
Gala New Year Celebration, dining 6-9 p.m.
M usic 9-? p.m.
government.
How mayways are there to re
mind our legislators that its time
for everyone to tighten their belts.
I had a teacher complain to me
about the way the kids have been
“ betrayed” by the sales tax vote
and I couldn’t help but remark,
“ It’s always the kids who are
held hostage, isn’t it?” I’ll bet a
couple years in the timber in
dustry would change the attitude
of that teacher.
(s) Loren M. Seibert
Dallas
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Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year to all
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