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Historical Society Board meets
By Delpha Jones
Morrow County Historical So
ciety board of directors met at the
Bloodsworth home on Sunday.
Dinner was enjoyed prior to the
meeting which was called to or
der by the chairman.
A report was heard from Louis
Carlson on the repairing of what
is called Groshens Springs near
the rodeo grounds Some of the
past history of this springs has
been lost and anyone having any
knowledge is asked to contact
Carlson or Wilbur Jackson.
There was also a discussion on
the small cemetery on Rhea Creek
which needs a fence built to pro
tect the stones. Anyone who
knows anything about this cem
etery is asked to call either Ruth
McCabe or Delpha Jones. They
hope to find out who owns the
ground, so that some work can be
done by the society to protect the
stones.
The Mason building in lone was
another topic and those in atten
dance discussed how it could be
placed into a national register. The
report is that is was at one time
the lone school. Board members
discussed therr wish to keep it up
and do some repair work
The “Chronicles'' needs new
members and the following were
appointed to help with this project:
Doris Brosnan, Jean Nelson,
Kathryn Hoskins, Ruth McCabe,
Dorris Graves, Ruth Bently and
Chester Wilson.
Don Eppenbaugh gave a report
on the Lewis and Clark Heritage
Foundation. Lewis and Clark
passed through the county and
plans are underway for a celebra
tion.
Plans are being made to visit
The Dalles Interpretation Center
and the one at Wildhorse. Barbara
Bloodsworth is the chairman for
the annual Historical trip and no
tices will soon be out explaining
the trip. Anyone interested should
call either Barbara Bloodsworth,
Ruth McCabe or Delpha Jones.
The next directors meeting will
be at Ruth McCabe’s home and
the June meeting, under the direc-
tion of Don and Donna
Eppenbaugh, will be in the Irrigon
area.
A late Christmas exchange
was enjoyed following the meet
ing. Those present were Don and
Donna Eppenbaugh from Irrigon,
Kathryn Hoskins, Ruth McCabe,
Jean Nelson, Diane and Lindsay
Kincaid, Dave and Fran Barnett,
Cecil and Delpha Jones, Louis and
Betty Carlson, and the host and
hostess, Jim and Barbara
Bloodsworth.
St. Patrick's Senior Center
Bulletin Board
Eighty meals were served in the Senior Center dining room January
19 and 18 meals were taken out. The Christian Missionary Fellowship
members served. Ed Hunt and Clarence Buchanon helped do the
dishes. Blood pressures were taken before the meal.
The menu for Feb. 2 will be hamburger pie, mashed potatoes, green
beans, tossed salad, rolls and cookies. Members of the First Christian
Church will serve. Hearing aid service will be given and blood
pressures taken before the meal. Lunch is served from 11 a m. to 1
p.m..
Exercises are held in the rec. room Tuesday and Thursday mornings
from 10-10:30 a.m. Cards are played Tuesdays and Fridays from 1-4
p.m. Bingo is played every Tuesday evening from 7-9 p.m.. Two tables
of pinochle were played Friday afternoon. The video "Alaska's Great
Wilderness Denali" was shown Wednesday afternoon and the movie
"Maverick " was shown Thursday afternoon. There's always a jigsaw
puzzle in progress. All seniors are invited to join in these activities, or
just come in to visit.
The Red Cross blood drawing is Thursday January 28. Everyone is
invited to come give the gift of life.
Remember the champagne Valentine dinner Feb. 14. Reservations
may be made by calling the Senior Center office, 676-9030, by Feb. 11.
CSEPP, OEM conduct joint test
Umatilla County CSEPP and
Oregon Emergency Management
conducted a joint test of the
CSEPP Alert & Notification
System on January 14.
The test consisted of a person
pushing the "C-34” button on the
Whelen console at the Umatilla
County Emergency Center in
Pendleton.
The live test was successful, in
that button "C-34" activated the
intended reader board with the
correct test message when the
"send" button was pushed,
according to a CSEPP news
release.
In the course of doing this test,
two associated issues were
identified, according to the
release:
-the "Crash Phone" that was
used for notifications just before
the test was done did not get
rings at the Hermiston Safety
Center or the Heppner EOC. The
"All-Call” line is the primary
system, and the "Crash Phone" is
a secondary notification system
Personnel are working with US
West and will have that problem
corrected right away, they said.
The second matter was that the
"Chemical Message Light" for
button "C-10" on the Whelen*
console came on during the
procedure. This light was cleared
before the "Send” button was
pushed. The fact that the light
came on raises the possibility
that the "Chemical Event
Warning" (Sirens and Reader
Boards) could have been
activated if the '"Send" button
had been pushed while that light
was on, according to the release
The two issues that were
identified during the tests will be
reviewed
and
addressed
immediately.
This should be the final step in
making all four consoles fully
operational,
concluded
the
release.
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St. Pats, Rodeo Committee can’t
agree on motorcross
To the Editor:
To the Editor:
Dear
St.
Patrick's
Day To The Oregon Trail Pro-Rodeo
Committee,
Committee,
The Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo From
The
St.
Patrick's
Committee was contacted by Committee.
your committee to limit the
The St. Patrick's Committee
Motorcross Race, which we regrets that they were unable to
sponsor, to a four-hour event this come to a compromise with the
year.
Rodeo Committee on the length
After discussion, the OTPR and time of the St. Paddy's Motor
Committee
will
not
be Cross, therefore resulting in the
participating with the Motorcross Rodeo Committee's decision to
Race this year. Our committee discontinue it during the 2000
felt that the following reasons for celebration.
this decision should be noted to
The good news is that its
you and your committee:
success
far exceeded all
a) The setup/preparation time expectations. As we understand it
allotted for this event to take from the conversation with Ken
place in our rodeo arena is two Bailey and Ken Eckman, the
days. The equipment, earth and event will continue to grow and it
safe track setup are all taken into is not their desire to have to limit
consideration.
entries. We understand it is a
b) Our advertising to the racers weekend of work for the Rodeo
in other communities and Committee and it certainly
sponsorships for our event should be worth their while.
requires considerable lead time. Growth is good and often, as in
Our committee has increased its your case, proves that an event
racers every year and is building can stand on its own.
this event. Our desire is not to
The St. Patrick's Committee
discourage participation, but wishes the Rodeo Committee
build the interest and offer continued success. We hope that
classes to all ages groups.
by rescheduling it for April
c) The committee does not wish Fool's weekend or another
to spoil the dinners and other weekend in the spring both
scheduled events or take away entities
will
have
more
from any downtown activities.
volunteers and more of us will be
We realize the importance of able to attend your event. With it
success,
however
OTPR scheduled on another weekend, it
committee feels that certain will not have to be limited time-
groups and crowd participants wise and the noise factor will not
attending the Motorcross Race interfere
with
the
Irish
would not ordinarily be involved entertainment provided during
with those downtown functions.
the Wee Bit O'lreland evening
Furthermore, nothing prohibits event. We would be glad to list
them from leaving our races the new date in the St. Patrick's
early.
brochure
if
we
know
d) OTPR Committee promoted immediately.
and sponsors the Motorcross
Our committee has appreciated
Race
for
the
underage your efforts to provide an activity
minors/teenagers and racers for youth and we still need that in
thereby keeping them occupied the afternoon. We would
and otherwise out of trouble in welcome ideas from you or other
our community during the St. organizations on this. The goal of
Patrick's Day event. And we the St. Patrick's Committee
have drawn people from outside continues to be to provide as
our community to participate many opportunities as possible
during the weekend and thereby for all organizations in Heppner
increase the numbers of to improve their finances, while
attendees at all functions.
working with the overall cultural
e) Many people stay in the Irish theme of the celebration and
Heppner area as a result of our working within the scheduling
Motorcross Race.
boundaries.
f) OTPR Committee wants to
The committee would be
contribute positively to our receptive to revisiting this. They
community m anyway that we are not adverse to change.
can. However, we need to know Possibly if the auction could be
how we can participate without changed to Friday night in 2001,
upsetting the St. Patrick's Day the motorcross could be held on
Committee or the downtown Sunday. Join us in keeping the
merchants.
lines of communication open and
g)
OTPR Committee has let's work together toward the
contributed financially to your success of all events in Heppner.
committee. Our all-volunteer
We would like to meet with the
committee works very hard to Rodeo Committee at your
contribute to our community.
convenience to explain the make
The OTPR Committee wishes up of the St. Patrick's committee
your comments and concerns so that the Rodeo Committee is
regarding the Motorcross Race aware that we are not a
and its importance to the committee of the Heppner
community. Please call the St. Chamber
of
Commerce;
Patrick's Day Committee or write however, the Chamber believes
OTPR Committee, P.O. Box 113, in and promotes all events and
Heppner, OR.
would certainly do so for an
(s) Ken Bailey, April Fool's Day Motorcross.
Chairman OTPR Motorcross
Please keep us advised.
(s) Claudia Hughes and Cara
Osmm
Co-chairpersons of the Heppner
St. Patrick's Committee
Hay growers
meeting set
A Umatilla-Morrow Hay
Growers meeting has been
planned for Friday, February 25,
from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the
OSU Hermiston Agricultural
Research and Extension Center.
The agenda includes:
Fertility Recommendations for
Alfalfa and Hay by Don
Homeck, with Agri-Check;
Interpreting Forage Nutritional
Analysis by Mike Mehren,
Wiomun Feeds, Hermiston;
Columbia River Processing-
Opportunities for Area Forage
Producers by Mike Gamroth,
OSU animal science, Corvallis;
Alfalfa Insect Problems and
Control Options, tentatively by
Glen
Fisher,
Extension
entomologist, OSU entomology
department, Corvallis; Selection
of Alfalfa Varieties for the
Lower Columbia Basin by Don
Miller, Agnpro-ABI Alfalfa,
Nampa, ID; and Hay Growers
Associations by Mylen Bohle,
OSU Extension, Pnneville.
McCain will target needed reforms
To the Editor:
Regarding the ethanol subsidy-
a few years ago when I served
on the Umatilla/Morrow County
Regional Strategies Committee for
economic development, we had a
meeting with the man running the
ethanol program for J.R. Simplot.
He advised that it was nowhere
near cost effective. We dropped
any further consideration of a like
program. Simplot’s made use of
potato waste from his vast hold
ings.
To me, using waste by-prod
ucts of foodstuffs makes much
more sense than using food stuffs
like com.
For some time. I have hoped
that any excess food production
that cannot be aggressively sold
be used for domestic welfare pur
poses as well as foreign aid. Why
not send food instead of guns?
Transportation as well as distribu
tion could be handled, but no ef
fort has been made to do this. We
could benefit far more in world
opinion from this generosity than
the current political monkeying
that sends money to corrupt for
eign leaders instead of help for
starving people.
That I don’t support the etha
nol program that smacks too much
like corporate welfare (gas and oil
too) is not to say I don’t under
stand the real need for farm policy
reform. There are deliberate road
blocks to prevent family farms and
ranches from marketing their
products with a price structure that
Obituary
William A. Huff
William Arnold “Bill” Huff, 72,
of Lonerock, died Wednesday,
January 19,2000, at his nephew’s
home in The Dalles.
Recitation of the Rosary was
Friday. January 21, 2000 at St.
John Catholic Church in Condon.
Funeral Mass was held Saturday,
January 22 at the church with con
cluding service and burial follow
ing at St. Joseph Cemetery in
Condon.
Mr. Huff was born May 7,
1927, at Walla Walla, Washington,
to Andrew and Detphine Nibbler
Huff. The family lived at Heppner
where he attended school for three
years before moving with his fam
ily to Hillsboro where he com
pleted school.
He served with the U.S. Navy
during World War II. Following his
discharge in 1948, he attended and
graduated from Pacific University
at Forest Grove.
On May 1, 1952, he married
Nola Nelson at Hillsboro.
He taught school at John Day,
Milton-Freewater, Helix, and for
18 years at the 509-J School Dis
trict on the Warm Springs Indian
Reservation at Madras, retiring in
1987.
In 1992, he and his wife moved
to Lonerock.
He was a member of St. John
Catholic Church, the Oregon Edu
cation Association and the Ameri
can Legion.
Mr. Huff enjoyed camping,
hunting and fishing.
Survivors include his wife,
Nola Huff of Lonerock; son, Bill
Huff of Bend; daughters, Patricia
Ann Ray in North Carolina, and
Tonja Marie Brown of Madras;
brothers, Andrew of Hillsboro,
John of Gold Beach, and Ted of
Clovis, New Mexico; sisters,
Helen Kingsbury of Hillsboro,
Margaret Dieringer of Oregon
City, and Agnes Whitman of Elgin;
two grandchildren and two great
grandchildren. He was preceded
in death by a sister, Frances
Nelson, and a brother. Albert
Huff.
Memorial contributions may be
made to the VA Hospital Cancer
Research Center, P.O. Box 1034,
Portland, Oregon 97207.
Sweeney Mortuary of Condon
was in charge of arrangements.
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allows them to sustain their op
eration and live too. All segments
of family farm production are in
serious trouble-no product is ex
empt. If these farms are allowed
to demise and international cor
porations are allowed to dominate
all markets with no competition,
you would soon be looking at
higher food prices and many in
dependent farmers reduced to
serfdom, or off to the city. None
of this is desirable.
We are at a crisis point where
we need to get the corporate spe
cial interests out of our nation’s
business and form a visionary
farm policy. John McCain’s pro
posal to end oil, gas and ethanol
subsidies is a first step, and a good
one, as he proposes using the huge
sums saved on education.
Many programs are lumped
under the heading of farm subsi
dies. This includes the school lunch
program which no one proposes
doing away with. But when such
things are looked at by the public
in odds against farm subsidies, the
public has no idea of what is in
volved. We have to trust our lead
ers to look after the public inter
est. Money from special interests
corrupts or muddies their view.
Please vote for a leader, John
McCain, who will target the
needed reforms. He’s proved he’s
tough-minded enough to withstand
most anything.
(s) Meg Murray
lone
Local man
hired by
Washington
Douglas Gribble, son of Lowell
and Delores Gribble of Heppner,
has been hired by the state of
Washington at Centralia, WA, in
their maintenance department.
Douglas Gribble was involved in
UVLM (Ultra Vibe Lubrication
Monitoring), an offshoot of UPM
(U ltrasonic
P redictable
Maintenance, established by the
Gribbles 32 years ago.
Prior to his employment with
the state of
Washington,
Douglas Gribble met with
Boeing concerning equipment
maintenance.
UPM has recently done work
for Union Pacific at Hinkle,
hoping to put a program together
to help prevent train wrecks, and
the elder Gribble has been
working with a professor at Blue
Mountain Community College
who
coordinates
the
manufacturing tech program at
the college.
lone preschool
plans Valentine
delivery
Creative Care Preschool is
once again making Valentine's
Day a little sweeter.
The preschool offers a choice of
two Valentine's Day gifts which
can be ordered and delivered to
sweethearts at home, school or
work in the Heppner, Lexington
and lone areas.
Those ordering may choose
between two options-a stuffed
animal, small box of chocolates
and stickers, with a Valentine
theme; or a single red rose with a
small box of chocolates-each for
$ 10 .
Delivery is on Valentine's Day.
Proceeds benefit the Creative
Care Preschool in lone. The
preschool is hiring a new teacher
and plans to send her to
childhood education classes and
is also considering buying their
building.
.To order call Shelly Rietmann,
422-7243. For more information,
call Shelly or Lea Mathieu, 422-
7215. Checks may be made
payable to Creative Care
Preschool and mailed to P.O.
Box 301, lone, OR 97843.
Quantities are limited this year,
so if orders are received too late,
they
will
be
returned
immediately.
Under the current elective system,
JOHN McCAIN needs money
to share his vision for the future.
Please send any size contribution to
M cCAIN 2000
P.O. Box 1677,Alexandria, VA 22314
Paid For By The Local Committee To Elect John McCain