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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 9, 1997 April 14th SHRINERS' DINNER. Letters to the Editor The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Editor s note: Letters to the editor m ust be signed. The G azette-Tim es w ill not publish unsigned letters. Please include your address and phone num ber on all letters for use by the G -T office. The Q -T reserves the right to ed it Heppner G A Z E T T E -T IM E S Idea suggested to cope w ith land closures U S P S. 240-420 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper Published weekly and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at tteppner. Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879 Periodical postage paid at Heppner, Oregon. Office at 147 West Willow Street. Telephone (541)676-9228. Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P.O. Bo» 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836. Subscriptions: $18 in Morrow, Wheeler, Gilliam and Grant Coun ties; $25 elsewhere. April Hilton-Sykes News Editor Stephanie Jensen ................................................................................... Typesetting Monique D evin.....................................................Advertising Layout & Graphics Bonnie Bennett ..................................................................................... Distribution Penni Keersemaker ....................................................................................... Printer David Sykes, Publisher Letter home from Bosnia (Editor's note: The following letter from Bosnia was written by Morrow County District Attorney Earl R. Woods, who is serving in Bosnia with his National Guard unit.) To the Editor: . . .Wildlife Commission and hunters of the North Fossil Unit - As most people know, Kinzua Resources has sold the hunting rights on approximately 70,000 acres in the North Fossil Unit. This leaves 35,000 acres open to the public. Kinzua Resources threatened to do this if Measure 38 passed. Measure 38 was voted down and they went ahead and closed it anyway. Also, they offered the hunting rights to the Wildlife Commission for 50 cents an acre. The Wildlife Commission wanted no part of this. They were afraid other landowners would follow suit. Believe me, if the Wildlife Commission doesn't think this $2,500 to $6,000 bull elk isn't catching on, they don't know anything about the South Fossil Unit. There are some steps that could be taken to prevent this: Step I — Limited entry drawing for all. tags. Step 2 — Land that has paid hunting will be taxed as recreation land. Step 3 — Drawing for tags based on the amount of land open to the general public. Step 4 — Limited entry. Spikes only every other year. Step 5 - Limited entry drawing for all tags with compensation to the landowner. For example, if there were 4,100 tags issued to the archery and rifle seasons and everybody paid $20 extra with their tag fee, there would be a pool of $82,000, of which 90 percent ($73,800) would revert back to the landowners. How would this work? Every landowner who opened his land to the general public would receive 50 cents an acre. The landowner who had limited entry would receive $ 18 per tag and 55 cents, an acre for the portion of his property open to the general public. The hunter, would give his hunting license number to just one landowner. The landowner would send this in and be reimbursed by the Wildlife Commission. This would work with some minor changes and might also give other landowners the incentive to open some of their property. This would have to go before the legislature, but if enough hunters agree, I see no problem. On March 11 and 12, the Wildlife Commission held meetings at Fossil and Heppner. The people at these meetings voted on next year's proposal. Out of these two meetings, 61 people voted for unlimited entry for bull and cows. No mention was made of deer. Where there are approximately 1,820 buck hunters, unlimited bull and bow hunters, I feel that 61 people is a poor representation. Due to this, myself and several friends are getting up a petition to have strictly limited entry tags, with consideration to land that has paid hunting and the open public ground. If this is not done, there are several landowners who will close their property due to the fact that there will be too many hunters forced upon them. Anyone interested in this petition can call me, 468-2855, or sign the petition at local businesses. It seems the Wildlife Commission has no interest in addressing this problem. So the hunters will have to do this themselves. (s)Robert Ordway Spray, Oregon 97874 Heppner Veterans Office closed Births Rita Hedman, Morrow County Veterans Service office, will be attending the semi-annual Veter ans’ Conference in Cottage Grove April 15-18, and will not be in the Heppner office on Thursday, April 17. Ruben Javier Gonzales-a son Ruben Javier was bom to Quirina and Ruben Gonzales of Irrigon on March 26,1997 at Good Shepherd Community Hospital in Hermiston. The baby weighed 6 lbs. 13 oz. Every once in awhile I get to feeling sorry for myself for being thrown into a situation at age 53 where I’m living in a tent in a foreign country without the benefits of civilization. I was feeling that way the other day when I met Lena. I Was out with members of the Hungarian .Army inspecting work that their engineers had done on the bridge between Bosnia and Croatia at Slavonski Brod. The bridge, which was blown up during the war, is in less than perfect condition (as is everything else in this area) and has to be inspected every time we want to put our tanks and equipment across it. During the process of the inspection we went under the bridge to inspect the footings and while we were under there we met Lena. Lena is an older widowed Serb who lives in a house that was 90 percent destroyed during the war. The house is situated on the east bank of the Sava River and prior to the war was probably not a bad place. Now, there is only one room intact and it doesn't have a roof. What it does have is sheets of corrugated metal which she put up between the first and second floor which sort of serves as a roof for the one room. Two things became evident once Lena approached us and began to speak. One is that she was very angry and the second is that she was pretty drunk. The thing that had Lena so mad was the conduct of the Serbian Police. It seems that Lena was caring for a prune orchard and a garden just below her house until last week and was intending to use the prunes and produce she expected to raise as a means of providing income for herself Sometime during last week the Serbian Police came and planted a mine field in her orchard and her garden, replete with trip wires. She wanted us to remove the mines. I had to tell her that not only could we not remove the mines, but there was only one agency, under the rules of engagement, that can remove the mines. You guessed it-the Serbian Police. Lena invited all of us in to have a drink with her in spite of the bad Unfortunately rules of General Order #1, no 1997 news. Heppner High School under Prom the Court (L-R): Prince Eric Schonbachler, Princess Brandi Marshall, Prince American soldier can consume alcohol in the "box". I had Waterland, to give Jim Schlaich, Princess Mandi Gutierrez, Queen Lindsey King Rick Worden, Princess Lori her that and as bad news also, as I got the impression that she was Moeller, Prince Brian Koffler awfully lonely. However, the good news is that I'm not feeling sorry for High myself anymore and later Saturday, that night I had the the strangest Heppner School held its prom Apnl 5, at high school. Seniors Rick Worden and Lindsey dream that a grey-haired soldier and two engineers Waterland were crowned King and Queen. Princesses removed were Lori a Moeller, Mandi Gutierrez and Brandi bunch of mines garden Koffler, and orchard. It must and be something Marshall. Princes from were a Brian Jim Schlaich Eric Schonbachler. I ate. April 17th FISHERMEN’S NIGHT. Lounge open at 4 p.m. Din ing at 6 p.m.: oyster&and baked ham. A great time to replenish your fishing supplies for free. 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