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.
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Mon-Fri. 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sat. 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
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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,
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LABOR DAY
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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.
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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.
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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.