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Museum to sponsor program on Chinese trading company St. Patrick’s Senior Center Bulletin Board Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday. Auflust 31, 1994 • FIVE Crops average to above average With nearly all the 1994 grain crop off the field, reports in dicate that quality was good and yields average to slightly above average in Morrow and Gilliam counties, according to Phil Nesse, OSU Extension agent. John Ripple of Morrow County Grain Growers says that he suspects that winter wheat yields in the north part of Morrorw County were most ly average while the crop in the southern part was generally above average. Most graded No. 1. The soft white winter wheat market has also improved since the onset of harvest. "By all rights, we should see higher prices for soft white winter wheat in the foreseeable future. We have less supply than last year and a seemingly constant dem and ," noted There were 138 people present for the senior dinner, including guests from Pendleton, Spray, Lynn Bibby's daughter from Florida and Daicy Collins' grandaughter from Eugene. Seven meals were taken out. Eva Griffith won the meal ticket. Members of the Methodist church served. The menu for the dinner Sept. 7 will be meat loaf, broccoli,- potatoes, rolls, coconut pudding and cookies. Members of the Lutheran church will serve. Jim Bruns will be at the center to assist with hearing aids at 10 a.m. Blood pressures will be taken at 11 a.m. There will be a meeting of the Meal Site Committee following the dinner. Nine passengers and driver Ed Baker went by bus to Weston for the senior picnic Saturday, Aug. 27. Live music and dancing were enjoyed before lunch and bingo was enjoyed in the after noon. Girls from the high school played several numbers on the bag pipes during lunch. Grace Baker, Barbara Struthers, Ruth Bergstrom and R.G. Watkins won prizes during the afternoon. Prizes given out on the bus were won by Ruth Bergstrom, Irene Swanson and Barbara Struthers. Seven people watched the movie "Son In Law" Sunday, Aug. 28. Several bus trips are planned: Dress Up Parade in Pendleton, Saturday, Sept. 10, time will be announced at dinner Wed., Sept 7; picnic at Anson Wright Park Sept. 12; Milton-Freewater Sept. 23; Condon Sept. 29. Sign-up sheets are in the office. The Red Cross will hold a blood drawing at the center Sept. 27 from 1 to 6 p.m. Other dates to remember are: Tuesday and Thursday exercise, 10 a.m.; Friday, cards, 2 p.m.; Sunday movie, 7 p.m. We will be CLOSED Monday, Sept. 5 HOURS: Mon-Fri., 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. RX: Mon-Fri. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. ^ MlM/MUjl D/ttU| ,INC. Heppner View of Gold Mountain: Letters from the Kam Wah Chung Trading Company", a talk by Jodi Varon, will be presented Saturday, September 10, at 7 p.m. at The Morrow County Museum. The public is invited and admission is free. The program is sponsored by The Morrow County Museum and is made possible by the Oregon Council for the Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. "A View of Gold Mountain" explores the world of the Kam Wah Chung Trading company, a unique establishment which operated in John Day from 1887 to 1952. Now preserved in its original form as a museum, “ A LABOR DAY 217 North M ain - 676-9158 Announcing a new law practice in BOARDMAN Glenn Slate Attorney At Law 481-2383 Monday - Thursday 10 a.m . - 6 p.m. and by appointment Town Square Building • PO Box 906 • Boardman Kam Wah Chung served the Chinese workers of the Eastern Oregon gold fields as a mercan tile, a medical clinic for herbal remedies and a religious and social gathering place. Kam Wah Chung was owned by two friends, Ing "D o c" Hay and Lung On, and the letters left by these two unique individuals create an indelible impression of their daily life and relation ships with family members left behind in China. An assistant professor of English at Eastern Oregon State College, Jodi Varon has translated correspondence from Kam Wah Chung in col laboration with Ying-Ju Chen. For further information about the program, please contact the Morrow County Museum at 676-5524, 1-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Boardman student participates in high school honors program Patricia Osgood, a student at Riverside High School in Boardman, is one of 57 sutdents from 48 states, the District of Columbia and Puer to Rico, and five foreign coun tries including France, Ger many, Italy, Mexico and Nor thern Ireland, who participated in the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) seventh annual DOE High School Honors Program. The program provides a sum mer research experience for up coming high school juniors and seniors and college freshmen who exhibit outstanding academic records. Each state and participating foreign coun- try selects one student to send to ORNL for a two-week research experience in the en vironmental sciences division. Osgood studied bioabsorp tion and ferm entation. Students researched the addi tion of ethanol to gasoline, a practice that reduces the level of carbon monoxide emissions. This process may be used to decrease pollution. The focus of the honors pro gram is on small group, "hands-on" laboratory and field research to encourage students to pursue careers in math and science, especially the environmental sciences disciplines. The Oak Ridge National Labortory, one of the Depart ment of Energy's multiprogram national research and develop ment facilities, is managed by Martin Marietta Energy Systems, which aslo manages the Oak Ridge K-25 Site and the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant. COMPUTER FORMS Gazette-Times 6 7 6 -9 2 2 8 Ripple. Kevin Gray, manager at Cargill in Arlington, estimates that Gilliam County yields averaged about 35 to 36 bushels per acre. Test weight mostly ranged from 59 to 62 lbs. per bushel. Disease did not seem to significantly affect the 1994 wheat crop in the area. "W e generally didn't see the disease problems that plagued us in 1993," said Nesse. "The dry winter and early spring helped to reduce infec tion of some of the more serious plant diseases such as Cephalosporium stripe, Take- All, and Strawbreaker footrot." "This fall, growers should avoid early seeding of a Cephalosporium susceptible variety such as Stephens winter wheat into fields with a history of Cephalosporium stripe," ad vised Nesse. Linda Dutcher studies cold war and peace Linda Dutcher, language arts teacher at Heppner High School, has completed the in itial phase of a special study program on "The Cold War: A Study in Conflict Manage ment" at the University of Oregon. This seminar was probably the first in the nation to study the Cold War as an historic era, emphasizing lessons, both positive and negative, for discussion in high school and middle school classrooms, and for application in international and local contexts. The seminar brought together teachers from 18 schools in Oregon, Idaho and Arizona, for lectures, discussion, and cur ricular development activities. The seminar was guided by Professor Herbert Ellison, an internationally renowned scholar of Soviet-US Relations from the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies. Other speakers included ^lartha Mautner, former direc tor of the U.S. State Depart ment Office of Research and Analysis for the Soviet Union; Professor Jerry Sanders, direc tor of peace studies at the University of Califor- nia/Berkeley; The Honorable Maurice Copithome, sometime Canadian ambassador to Austria and a professor of in ternational law at the Univer sity of British Columbia; Pro fessors Ronald Wixman, Alan Kimball and Fruim Yurevich from the University of Oregon; and Professor Richard Spielman from Willamette University. Funded by a grant from the United States Institute of peace to the Oregon International Council, the program will con tinue during the coming school year, with visits to each partici pant's school by seminar staff, follow-up conferences to help participants complete teaching plans, and distribution (statewide and nationally) of selected teaching units. The work done on this pro ject by Dutcher and her col leagues is desisned to help Oregon's young people learn to "deliberate on public issues" and "understand diversity", as called for in the state's "Educa tion for the 21st Century" Act. It is the latest part of the Oregon International Council's decade-long effort to achieve a stronger international dimen sion for Oregon education. Since its formation in 1982 the Council has assisted some 1,500 Oregon teachers to learn and teach about unfamiliar na tions and cultures, aided by over $1 million in grants from federal and other sources. GEOD C concludes best record year The Greater Eastern Oregon ment. They bring with them Developm ent Corporation the expectation of 28 new jobs (GEODC) has some good over the next two years in the news. RLF's area of service (Gilliam, According to John Grace, Grant, Morrow, Umatilla and president, GEODC concluded Wheeler counties). its best year on record as of GEODC is a private, non June 30. profit corporation formed in Their lending program 1982 as an SBA certified highlight was the closure of development corporation four SBA 504 loans in the last (CDC). They serve eight coun six months of the fiscal year. ties in Eastern Oregon as a The four loans totaled CDC with the SBA 504 loans. $1,600,000 and blended with These are long term, fixed rate, another $3,119,000 private in low interest fixed asset loans vestment for over $4,700,000 in designed to blend with banks crease in real and personal pro and private financing to result perty value in Umatilla/Morrow in the best product for the Counties and a total of 95 new borrower. jobs in the same area. In 1992 GEODC was GEODC's Revolving Loan designated the administrator of Fund (RLF), a fund which the five county economic makes smaller loans, also had development district of Gilliam, a good year by closing seven Grant, Morrow, Umatilla and projects totaling $252,000. Wheeler counties. Part of this These loans were blended with responsibility is the administra over $750,000 from lending in tion of the RLF mentioned stitutions and private invest- above. Serving as administrative staff for the North Central Oregon Regional Economic Development Strategy board has also been a significant pro ject for GEODC. This task re quired the coordination of meetings, resources, and ac tivities in the pursuit of developing a comprehensive strategic plan for the counties of Gilliam, Grant, Morrow, Sherm an, W asco, and Wheeler. In the coming year GEODC will serve as strategy implementation and manage ment staff for the board. Bowlers Needed Sign up now for League Bowling at Heppner Bowl Mixed Leagues • Mens • Womens Everyday Starting Tuesday, Sept. 6 Booster club to meet The Heppner High School Booster Club has planned a meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 7, at 7 p.m. at the high school home ec rom.
