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.. » . . * > i * * 1* M V *‘ ■ *>•' * • FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday. January 17, 1996 Smith embodies pioneer spirit The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner GAZETTE-TIM ES U S P S 240-420 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper Published vseekls and 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) 6 7 6 -9228 Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P.O. Bo* 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836. Subscriptions: $18 in Morrow, Wheeler, Gilliam and Grant Counties; $25 elsewhere. April Hilton-Sykes ...................................................................................... News Editor Stephanie Jen sen ...................................................... Typesetting, Layout, Distribution Monique Devin ........................................................... Advertising layout & Graphics Penni K eersem aker .....................................................................................................Printer David Sykes, Publisher Letters to the Editor Story biased, incomplete . To the Editor: We find a great disappoint ment in your last week's (Jan. 10) front page article concern ing our local medical situation, especially the Drs. Berretta. Did you personally attend the meeting? Did you make your own notes and conclu sion? If so, couldn't you at least have given our Drs. Jeanne and Ed Berretta a little support and defend what they have done since coming here? S end or H eceive Gazette-Times 676-9228 Also, it is our understanding that their salaries have been quoted in excess of what they actually receive. This couple chose to move to Heppner for many reasons. Since their ar rival, our health has never been better. We own them a lot. Air Life for one. They live right next door to the hospital and clinic and take a personal in- terst in all their patients, their community and their church. They dam well earn their salaries. Try on their "sh o es" for 24 or 48 hours. They de serve a pat on the back and a lot of "thank you's" for stick ing around for all of us. Please try to give your readers the whole picture and not just one very biased and in complete side of the story. Sincerely, (s) Cork and Jim Norene HEPPNER TOURNAMENT January 2 0 -2 1 , 27-28, 1996 W IB C ABC Doubles All Events T ea m s S in g le s Mixed Doubles E N T R Y PEES T eam s D o u b les S in g le s All E v en ts 4 8 .00 24.00 4.00 entry All Events Entry Forms available 12.°° 4 .00 at Heppner Bowling Alley To the Editor: We urge all Oregon voters to elect Gordon Smith to the U.S. Senate in the upcoming Jan. 30 election. Mr. Smith is a reli gious, hard-working family man of traditional family val ues. He is a successful busi nessman and believes that hard work embodies the spirit of the American pioneers who brought their Bibles and plows out west to realize the Ameri can Dream. Gordon Smith believes the American family today is over- taxed-40 percent of family in come. He supports federal tax relief for families and also sup ports the balanced budget amendment and congressional term limits. (Federal taxes eat up 25 percent of our income.) Mr. Smith believes in the sanctity of life. He opposes taxpayer-funded abortion. He supports parental notification for abortions by minors, realiz ing that the child can be put up for adoption if the family mem bers cannot help raise it. Gordon Smith supports vol untary prayer in public schools. He opposes outcome-based education and he also opposes banning ownership of legal firearms. Mr. Smith opposes minority status for homosexuals. He says they already have full civil rights under the U.S. and State Constitutions. Our state needs Gordon Smith in the U.S. Senate. Sincerely, (s) Philip and Jean Johnson Astoria Smith clearly best qualified To the Editor: Everyone that is registered to vote will have received in the mail a mail-in voting ballot by now. It is the obligation of each of us to mark this ballot and return to it to our county clerk for counting. Each vote is very important. Regardless of how you vote, our personal commit ment is very important. Personally, I do not approve of the negative tone of the cam paign ads we have been listen ing to. But we still must vote. I feel that Gordon Smith is clearly the best qualified of the two leading opponents. He has the business and communica tion skills to do the best job as our next senator. It appears to me we already have too many career politicians and this is a good chance to elect a person who took over a failing busi ness and has made it an impor tant part of our Eastern Oregon economy. I suggest you vote for Gordon Smith. He is our best bet for our next senator. Also another thought is that Ron Wyden is already a U.S. Representative with, I believe, another year or two left. Let him serve out his present term. After all these years, he has gained important committee appointments, and seniority is very important in Congress. I personally am in favor of term limits. Sincerely, (s) Herb Wright Fossil Leland Rill wins Geography Bee Leland Rill, sixth grader at tion with runner-up Jody Mad- Heppner Elementary School, dem. Maddem is also a sixth won the school championship grader. Rill has completed a at the Geography Bee held written test that will determine Monday, Jan. 8. Rill, the son of if he qualifies to participate in Molly and Cecil Rill of Hepp the Oregon Geography Bee in ner, participated for the first the spring. Other participants were Matt time in this contest for students Jepsen, Jeff Currin, Ben Good in grades four through eight. year, Jesse Gutierrez, Abby Rill missed only one question Kahl, Jeff Sneddon, Mitch in the preliminary round for the Mathews, Jake Roy, Craig top 13 qualifiers on a written . Scott, Daniel Jepsen and Brian test given in social studies Hague wood. A1 Beck read the classes before Christmas. He questions and served as judge; answered all correctly in the final round and won the cham Linda Shaw kept score and tim pionship round 2-1 in competi- ed the responses. Ed-Net program offered Jan. 23 Open to anyone w ith ABC or WIBC cards ...........................................................................................................i Happy I8ik BwiMay Clww! Y o u ’re big enough to wear the hat now! A program titled, "Commu nication, How Do You Rate?", will be offered to health profes sionals at Ed-Net I sites, Tues day, Jan. 23, from 1:30-2:30 p.m. The featured speaker for the program is Susan Lewis, R.D. Lewis is a registered dietician for Grande Ronde Hospital. For more information about the program or to find a local receive site, call Northeast Ore gon Area Health Education Center (NEOAHEC) at (541) 962-3801. This program is sponsored and produced by NEOAHEC. Morrow County receives forest receipts Love, Mom, Dad, Andy, Allison and Camille PAINT Morrow County has received $89,336 in national forest re- J ceipts for 1995. The county received $256,092 for 1994. Balance payments of national forest receipts to counties in Oregon and Washington bring total payments this year to $110 million for the state of Oregon and $30 million for Washing ton, says regional forester John Lowe of the USDA Forest Service. Lowe, the chief executive for the Pacific Northwest Region of the agency, says, "The balance payments of about $28.1 mil lion to Oregon and $7.7 million to Washington are the final share of national forest reve nu es." An interim payment of about 75 percent was made this year in October, he adds. Normally, 25 percent of re venues collected from land-use fees and the sale of resources from 24.5 million acres of na tional forest lands go to the States, schools and roads. We Print Business Cards Gazette-Times 676-9228 D IN IN G R O O M O P E N F R ID A Y A N D S A TU R D A Y N IG H TS from 6 -9 p.m. Gay and Patti Harahman are back aa cooks by popular request (unretired I ]. Plenty of good food at a reasonable price-try us-and enjoy. Bingo every Wedneeday night at 7:30 p.m. G o a s tto G o a s t H rppxrr W C M H U P t Ol 47*-♦**/ Charitable activities: Thanks to all who participated in the Townsend Family benefit-approximately 6 1 ,2 0 0 .0 0 were derived to aid our friends. 'w* H e p p n e r Elks 676-9I8I 4*8 - .* ’ ■■lihrrt I Mat" 358 142 N. Main Immigration laws abused Obituary Lowell Dean Chally Lowell Dean Chally, age 78, To the Editor: of La Grande, died Monday, U.S. immigration laws are January 8, 19%, at the Grande being horribly abused and Ronde Hospital. broken. We need only look at Services for Mr. Chally were California to see the conse held Friday, January 12, 19%, quences of failed law and or at Daniels Chapel of the Valley der. Northward spread of with the Reverend David E. California's welfare, crime and Paulson of the Zion Lutheran infrastructure burdening is not Church officiating. Committal in Oregon's interest. and interment followed at the Grandview Cemetery. Law and order is important Mr. Chally was born on Oc to the well-being of any socie tober 11, 1917, on a farm in ty and Oregon is no exception. Pocahontas County, Iowa to Illegal immigration drives Isaac and Daisy (Milbum) Chal sustainable industries to leave ly. He attended primary and and prevents new industry secondary schools at Marathon, from entering the area. Today, Iowa, where in early years at Oregon is benefiting somewhat tendance was oft times achiev from California's errors, but we ed by horse drawn bus or will end up on the losing end sleigh. He received a BA degree of this trend if we fall into the same trap which now sup in journalism at the University presses the California econo of Iowa in Iowa City and a secondary teaching certificate. my. Prior to entering the service Immigration reform oppo during World War II, he spent nents include big business, self- considerable time traveling and serving elitist politicians, cheap working from Mexico to the labor advocates and special in West Coast. He eventually terest groups. Intolerance, landed in Alaska, living most divisiveness, racism, bigotry, ly in the Kodiak and Nome McCarthyism and mean-spirit edness are a few of the hot but areas where he was employed ton words used by those in by the Army Corps of Engi terested in closing debate. neers. He found it amusing that These terms are intended to be one day he was experiencing intimidating and suppress bitter cold and virtually the open discussion of the issues next, he was experiencing the heat of New Guinea with the conducive to their agendas. Oregonians for Immigration Navy Seabees. He was station Reform (OIR) was formed to ed at various points in the Far counter such suppression, free East and returned to the states ing Oregonians to express their at the end of the war. During his college years, he opinion on illegal immigration met and dated Edna Helen issues in privacy by secret Walter, who went on the pur ballot. sue a nursing degree. They OIR has made available to Oregonians Initiatives 51, 52, 53 were married July 18, 1943, at and 54 on illegal immigration. Stratford, Iowa. Both enjoyed Three cover public education, * dancing and tennis as a recrea public benefits and drivers' tion for most of their lives. licenses for illegals and a fourth They lived for several years in requires that state agencies and North Bend, where he follow jurisdictions cooperate with Im ed newspaper work and she as migration and Naturalization a registered nurse. This was Service in the interest of law followed by more than 23 years and order. Signatures are now with the state of Oregon as ad being gathered. Petitions are ministrator of public welfare available at: OIR, P.O. Box 446, programs in Coos, Gilliam, Independence, OR 97351-0446. Wheeler, Morrow, Union and Oregonians interested in law Wallowa counties. Mr. Chally enjoyed collecting and order, excellence in educa tion and citizen welfare are en old cars and was an avid couraged to support the peti photographer. Following retire tion drive so voters can express ment at the end of 1979, he had their opinions later this year at the opportunity to fulfill his desire of further travel to places the ballot box. Extensive details on the sur in the world he had dreamed rounding issues and the four of as a boy. He brought back initiative petitions are also pictures that he enlarged and available, in full public view, on mounted. He was a past mem the Internet: http://www.ncw. ber of the American Legion and the Lions Club. A devoted net/-dyoung/wscic/oir.html. (s) Sharon S. Shepperd, family man, he found consider chief petitioner/founder of OIR able pleasure in family life. His Independence, OR wife of 49 years preceded him in death on June 2, 1992. Survivors include: daugh Energy assistance ters, Laurie Marcum of Baker City, Sue Skinner of North currently available Pole, Alaska; sister, Marjory Thomas of Emmetsburg, Iowa; Energy assistance for low-in- six grandchildren, several come persons will be available nieces and nephews and other Tuesday, Jan. 23, at the Hepp relatives and friends. Those who wish may make ner Neighborhood Center. Call Jan at the Neighborhood contributions in memory of Mr. Center, 676-5024, by Jan. 23 to Chally to the Boys and Girls make an appointment. Assist Aid Society, do Daniels Chapel ance will be offered on a first- of the Valley, 1502 7th Street, come, first-serve basis by La Grande, OR 97850. Daniels Chapel of the Valley, appointment. La Grande, was in charge of arrangements. YES! WE ARE REMODELING W e have purchased Country Rose and are expanding into the Country Rose building. W e will have a floral departm ent m anaged by T R IS H S W E E N E Y . The phone num ber to Country Rose (676-9426) will rem ain the sam e. Hours for the floral departm ent will be 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. W e are excited about future possibilities and look forward to serving you! John and Ann Murray Murray Drug Inc. MutAAij'j Diiifl 217 North Main Heppner 676-91 5H
