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TWELVE - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 13,1998 Task force emphasizes monitoring need in Imgon. Sheriff's Report May 4 -MCSO and Boardman Fire Department responded to a report of a VW van on fire, 1-84 WB five miles east of Boardman. Boardman Police Department received a report of three men - one with a BB gun and another with another type of gun that he had hidden underneath a coat in Boardman. Oregon State Police received a report of a vehicle hit and run in Imgon. MCSO and Imgon Ambulance responded to a report of a man assaulted with broken nose, scrapes and a cut. Man at first refused an ambulance but his nose wouldn't stop bleeding. He refused ambulance again. Heppner Police Department received a report of a possible DUII in Heppner. Turned out the driver was just tired. MCSO received a report of loud music in vehicles in Imgon. Oregon Department of Transportation and Oregon State Police received a report of a rock slide on Highway 26 milepost 88-90 almost blocking both lanes. MCSO reported that the flood computer crashed and was rebooted. May 5 -Oregon State Police received a report of a Ford Escort traveling at a very fast speed. MCSO received a report of a green Bronco traveling at a high rate of speed at 1-84 WB. Heppner Police Department received a report of a rototiller that had been beaten with a hammer with $2,000 in damage. MCSO received a request for a deputy to pick up NSF checks at the Lexington gas station. MCSO received a report of possible abuse of a student who lives in Imgon. MCSO received a report of a silent panic alarm at Klamath First Federal in Heppner. Turned out to be a false alarm. Oregon State Police received a report of two adults getting in the back of a U-haul moving van. Man reporting incident was concerned about welfare of the adult an the -U-hauL --------- (- — MCSO received a report of a lunch pail deserted at lone Schools containing drug paraphernalia. Boardman Ambulance and Boardman Police Department received a report of a 12-year-old girl who had cut her foot and was bleeding heavily. She was transported to Good Shepherd Hospital. Heppner Police Department received a report of a neighbor's kids teasing a dog. Boardman Police Department received a report of a domestic assault. Brent Musick, 25, was arrested for Assault III domestic. MCSO received a report of music cranked up loud in a vehicle. May 6 - MCSO received a report of excessive noise in Boardman from a diesel water pump placed in the canal at Canal Lane, Boardman. MCSO received a report of windows broken out of bathroom at Willow Creek Dam Day Park. Oregon State Police, Columbia Basin and State Highway Division received a report of a truck losing its load and hitting a power pole. Heppner Police Department received a report of an adult shoplifter at Central Red Market in Heppner. Dora Melanie Starr, 56, was cited for Theft III. Heppner Ambulance received a report for a 30-year-old male patient having seizures at Heppner Dental Office. MCSO received a request for a deputy to cite a student at CMS for disorderly conduct. MCSO received a report of a person being harassed by juveniles in Imgon. MCSO received a report of an on-going problem with loud music in Irrigon. MCSO received a report of a person detained at Tupper with a possible MIP. Another subject had left on foot. May 7 -MCSO received a report of a robbery of $17 in Tupper area. Boardman Police Department received a report of an audible burglar alarm/motion detector at Riverside High School. Heppner Ambulance received a report of a man who had fallen in Heppner and couldn't get up. Daughter called back and said she would take care of it. MCSO received a request to fill a fraud complaint against a man MCSO received a report of a domestic dispute in progress with weapons. MCSO responded to back up Umatilla County. MCSO received a report of a broken water main in Heppner. MCSO received a report of an on-going loud music problem from a blue Cutlass. Boardman Police department received a report of a white van speeding around Desert Springs Estates. Driver had been suspended. A gun was confiscated and vehicle was impounded. Heppner Police Department received a report of someone entering a house without owner's permission, taking pick-up keys and driving off in pick-up. Owner wanted to report pick-up stolen. May 8-MCSO received a report of a stolen travel trailer in Imgon. MCSO received a report that someone left a baby in the phone booth at the Imgon Manna. Officer searched area but was unable to locate anything. Heppner Police Department received a report of a burglary and money stolen at D & L Auto Parts in Heppner. The incident was recorded on tape. MCSO received a report of a vehicle hit and run at Sentry Market in Irrigon. MCSO arrested Larry Lynn Ledgerwood, 32, for DUII. MCSO received a report of a child with a whip harassing cows as they were watenng. Child left and caller did not wish contact wit police. MCSO received a report of a suspicious pickup at Patterson Ferry Road. MCSO received a request for an ambulance for a female at Bakes in Imgon. Woman had fallen or was pushed off a bar stool. Ambulance was cancelled. MCSO received a report of an animal problem in Imgon. When deputy responded, dogs chased deputy to his patrol car. MCSO received a report of domestic disturbance at Imgon Mobile Court. MCSO arrested Tony Lee Wilson, 35, for Driving While Suspended felony on wildlife refuge. MCSO received a report of a couple yelling and screaming at each other at their home in Imgon. Officials were unable to locate anyone upon arrival. Boardman Police Department received a report of a civil problem concerning moving a trailer into Wilson road Trailer Court. MCSO arrested John Joseph Homer Jr., 51, on two Umatilla County Sheriffs Office warrants for failure to appear/dnving while suspended and failuie to appear/dnving under the influence of intoxicants. He was lodged at UCSO Jail. MCSO received a report of a dog barking in Irrigon. MCSO received a request for an officer concerning a noise complaint. Heppner Police Department received a request for an officer to the fairgrounds in Heppner for a lock out. Heppner Police Department and MCSO responded to a report of a woman who had been allegedly assaulted by her step son. She reported that she had been assaulted, her clothes ripped and she was bleeding. Corey Gamel, 21, was arrested for Assault III. Donna Gamel was cited for Assault IV. He was transported to UCSO Jail and she to Pioneer Memorial Hospital. MCSO received a report of an audible alarm at Humes Washboard and BP in Irrigon. Turned out to e employee error. Heppner Police Department, Heppner Fire Department and Heppner ambulance responded to a report of a one vehicle motor vehicle accident in front of old swimming pool on Heppner- Condon Highway. Ambulance was cancelled. MCSO received a report of water sprayed on a house from an imgation circle. MCSO received a report of Criminal Mischief I at Imgon. MCSO received a request for an officer from a male who said his step dad grabbed him by the arm and neck and threw him out. MCSO received a call from Good Shepherd Hospital concerning a man who had come in with a pellet gun wound to his nght leg occurring in Boardman. MCSO received a report of a male subject assaulted by another male in Imgon. Letters to the Editor The Momtonng Task Force for the destruction of chemicals at Editor's note: Letters to the Editor must be signed. The Gazette-Times will not the Army Depot in Umatilla, publish unsigned letters Please include your address and phone number on all made up of federal, tribal, state, letters (or use by the G-T office The G-T reserves the right to edit. county and local representatives met May 4 to further define the process for obtaining chemical Atkinson promotes self-interest agent monitoring equipment. The monitoring system, in have not demanded his To the Editor: with personal I believe that when a candidate resignation. To aggregate this conjunction protective equipment, would be uses his elective political offices much political power and then to by emergency first to gain an unfair advantage over use these offices to promote his used other candidates in a contested candidacy in a contested primary responders in the "unlikely" race, he should be censured. In a is not only unseemly, but in clear event of a chemical release at the primary election, the party at the violation of standards of Umatilla Chemical Depot. county and state level must neutrality in contested primaries, traditionally observed by both remain neutral. I am amazed that Perry political parties. If Perry Atkinson is willing to Atkinson, a candidate for Congress, has not resigned from abuse the power granted him as Northeast Oregon Area Health his positions as chairman of the an elected political officer of his GOP Central Committee in party, there is no question that he Education Center (NEOAHEC) Jackson County and vice- would use his congressional will offer a "coding compliance chairman of the Oregon office and power to promote his series" via satellite at local ED- NET I sites on June 3, 10 and 17 self-interest. Republican Party. (s) Layton DeZell from 12-1 p.m. I cannot understand why A comprehensive class Central Point candidates and party officials workbook is included with the During a conference call with representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Army, the task force discussed response situations where agent monitoring capability would provide essential information and enhance response efforts. Oregon occupational safety requirements demand that workers who respond to possible hazardous substance incidents be adequately protected, said a release from Morrow Count)' Emergency Management. Series scheduled on Ed-Net Atkinson violates party neutrality To the Editor: As one who has campaigned twice in the 2nd District, in 1992 and in 1994, 1 am thoroughly familiar with the character and tactics of the numerous candidates who campaigned with me in the GOP U.S. Senate primary and the 2nd Congressional District primary campaigns. Never in my 65 years have I seen any elected Oregon congressman, senator, governor or any office holder, except Bob Packwood, derive nearly 90 percent of his campaign funds from outside his constituency. Greg Walden has now achieved that distinction, ironically, a man who was willing two years ago to form his own party to nominate himself for election to Congress. Further, can you imagine Sam Coon, Denny Smith or Bob Smith, the Second District's Congressmen over the past 50 years holding down state party and county chairmanships while seeking nomination in a contested primary? What makes Perry Atkinson think that it is fair for him to do just that, violating the traditional position of neutrality of his party primary elections. The public should demand that he resign his party offices because of conflict of interest between his elected political party affiliations and his campaign for a seat in Congress. It is only fair to the other candidates in the race. (s) John DeZell Central Point Huss long on solutions To the Editor: The m ainline new spapers would have us believe we only have two choices for govemor- Sizemore vs. Kitzhaber. But now that Sizemore’s campaign seems ‘tofie fizzling out, we’re fortunate to have Walt Huss also running for GOP governor. Unlike most other candidates, Walt Huss is short on rhetoric but long on solutions. While many complain about the tax-and-spend legislators, Huss submitted his two percent equal tax initiative in 1994 to the people. It received 284,195 “yes” votes. In the 1970s, Huss went to Oregon’s 36 counties to show grassroots people how they could get inform ed and involved. Today’s GOP growth can be di rectly attributed to that. The GOP said things would change if they could get control of the legisla ture. The GOP-controlled legis lature in 1997 approved more than Kitzhaber requested in his $26 billion budget. Things haven’t changed. Read about the accomplish ments of Walter Huss in your V oters’ Pamphlet. Vote Walt Huss on May 19. (s) Betty Freauf Turner N CORS board meeting slated May 21 The North Central Oregon Re gional Strategies board meeting will be held Thursday, May 21 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Gilliam County Fairgrounds in Condon. The agenda is as follows: call to order; introductions; minutes of March meeting; financial report; Umatilla County will soon have three times its current capacity for housing Eastern Oregon's adult inmate population. McCormack Construction of Pendleton and Lombard-Conrad Architects of Boise, Idaho, have just finished the first phase of the county's $1,4.9 million justice facilities project. The community corrections center is a 10,000-square-foot, non-secure building with 28 beds and administrative offices for the Com m unity C orrections Department and parole and probation employees. — Phase- 2, - scheduled for completion this December, contains the detention facility, CSEPP emergency operations however, that OIA supports you in your bid for Congress. Oregonians In Action, as an organization, has not declared its support for any candidate in your primary race. Individuals within the organization are, of course, free to support the candidate of choice. Oregonians In Action is recognized for its integrity and relentless defense of personal property rights. It troubles me, and it should trouble you sir, that voters will be lead to believe that there are shared views and values regarding property rights issues when, in fact, that may not be the case. In the event the subject quote is accurate, and I believe it is, you may wish to take personal action to set the record straight. (s) Jasper H. Coombes, Richland, OR In the Service Army Private Miguel A. Gutierrez has entered basic infantry training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga. During the training, he will receive instruction in drill and ceremonies, map reading, tactics, military customs and courtesies, and first aid. He will develop basic combat skills, and experience using various reports from (action as needed)- chair, staff. MCEDD, GEODC, OEDD, policies and procedures task force, tourism task force/ NCOTC, environmental/profes- sional services task force, natu ral resources task force, county capacity builders; and the 1998- 99 funding process. Umatilla County plans jail expansion Set the record straight To the Editor: Dear Candidate Walden: I am writing this letter to you, and providing it to newspapers that serve the Second District, in order to set the record straight regarding a statement you allegedly made during a public debate at noon in Hermiston on April 28. A reliable individual who was present at that debate quotes you as having said, "Cooley might have a 100 percent voting record on property rights but the property rights people in Oregon, Oregonians In Action, is supporting me." As you unquestionably know, that statement is only half true. It is true, I believe, that voting records indicate Representative Cooley had a flawless voting record on property rights issues while in Congress. It is not true, registration fee of $35 per person. A discount rate of $25 per person is available to groups of four or more from the same organization. Registration deadline is May 15. For more information contact Carole Smith, 962-3423. weapons available to the infantry soldier. Gutierrez is the son of Albeza F. Gutierrez of Imgon. His wife,, Loretta, is the daughter of Francisco and Maria Perez of 204 Oblate, Mission, Texas. Scratch Pads center, 911 dispatch and offices for the sheriff’s department and 911 staff. The 66,000-square-foot jail is a medium-to-high security for 192 inmates, with a design that allows for possible future expansion to 256 beds. According to Bruce Peet, project manager for Umatilla County's justice facilities, "Umatilla County has had a positive working relationship with McCormack Construction ever since the beginning of this project with professional assistance throughout. It has been a real pleasure working with Dave Fishel and the management team. I wish every project would run as smoothly as this one has." Med Quest camp planned in June Interested in pursuing a health career? Looking for a neat way to spend a week this summer? Here's the camp for you. MedQuest '98, the Northeast Oregon Area Health Education Center sponsored Health Careers Choices Camp will be held June 22-26, 1998. Held on the Eastern Oregon University campus, students who live in the NEOAHEC region, and are entering the 10-12th grade next fall, or 12th graders who graduated in spring 1998 are eligible. Tuition for the camp is $225, which includes meals, housing and all activities. Sessions will include health career information, self enrichment, hands-on clinical skills and workshops, as well as opportunities to shadow health care professionals. Student enrollment is limited to 30 students. For additional information or to receive an application packet, contact NEOAHEC at (541) 962-3801. Groundbreaking held on packing plant Official groundbreaking of Morrow Cold Storage and Watts Brothers Packing and Distribu tion Co. was held May 7 at the Port of Morrow. The new 230,000 sq. ft. freezer warehousing, dry storage and re packaging facility is a joint part nership between Watts Brothers Frozen Foods and the Port of Morrow. Morrow Cold Storage and Watts Brothers Packing and Dis tribution will allow Watts Broth ers Frozen Foods to expand their current packaging and logistical capabilities to better meet the needs of their current customers, said a Port of Morrow news re lease. Morrow Cold Storage in tends to operate as a public ware- nousing facility, accepting prod uct from food processors all over the Columbia Basin area, the re lease said. Watts Brothers Pack aging and Distribution will oper ate under a separate lease arrange ment and will be solely managed by Watts Brothers Frozen Foods. Morrow Cold Storage and Watts Brothers Packing and Dis tribution will employ approxi mately 50 people. 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