The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-03-21
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City Fathers Conclude That Pork
Production Is of Vital Import.
ance.-Five New Ordinances
Are Pending.-Warrant
For Improvements.

The Heppner City Council has
gone in for increased food production
and soon the old hog law will be
amended and the people Of the city
will be permitted to keep a pig in
their back yard. OF course 1t is the
Intention of the council to see that
every pig and pen is kept in clean,
sanitary condition. They are of the
opinion that the pig is among the
c!earest of animals, and especially so
If his porcine excellency is given half
a chance to keep clean.
Other important ordinances are
pending. A new city law about to
be passed deals with the junk and
second hand man. This law would
require him to register with proper
authorities all articles purchased by
him. City officials feel that such an
ordinance would aid them oftentimes
in tracing petty thefts, such as child
rem taking things from their home or
some other home and readily dispos-
ing of 1t to the second hand man.
One of the most important ordin-
ances ever placed on the city records
bids fair for an early passage. This
ordinance relates to the suppressing
of venereal diseases and makes 1t
compulsory for physicians to report
all such cases coming under their OBJ
servance, to proper city officials.
Other new ordinances as proposed
deal with sidewalk curbing and lien
on properties for street improvement.
Another ordinance recently passed
is No. 174. providing for the issuance
Of city warrants for street improve
ments, providing for the registering
of the same. and the time Of payment
thereof. and the rate of interest the
same shall draw. 1t is as follows:
The People Of the City Of Heppner
do ordain as follows:
Section 1. That whenever the city
council of the city Of Heppner shall
improve or cause to be improved any
street or alley within the corporate
limits of the city of Heppner, and
there shall not be sufficient funds In
the city treasury to pay the cost Of
such improvements in addition to re-
serving sufficient amount Of such
funds to pay all current expenses
that may accrue, city warrants may
be issued for such improvements pay
able on or before one year or on or
before two years as the council may
deem advisable as evidence of any In
debtedness that may be incurred by
tn city for such improvements.
Seton 2 That all warrants issued
under the provisions of this ordin-
ance snail show the purpose for
which they were Issued. and the timc
within which such warrants shall be
due and redeemable.
Section 3 That all warrants is
sued under the provision Of this or
dnance shall be registered with the
City Treasurer, and record thereof
kept by said Treasurer, and all sums
of money for which said warrants
shall be so issued shall draw interest
at the rate of six per cent per annum
from the date said warrants are reg
istered with the City Treasurer.
Section 4 That whenever there
shall be funds in the city treasury
available to redeem said warrants or
any part thereof as provided in sec
ton / of this ordinance, the city
Treasurer upon order of the city
council shall give at least ten days
notice therof to the record holder
thereof of the time and place that
said warrants or any part thereof will
be redeemed, by mailing or person
ally serving said notice to the holder
of such warrants, If the place of resi-
dence of such holder be known, and
If the place Of residence of such hold
er be unknown, then by publication
of said notice for at least ten days in
a newspaper of general circulation
in Morrow County, Oregon, and such
warrants shall be redeemed In order
of the registration thereof, and shall
cease to draw interest from and af
ter the date set for the redemption
thereof and notice given as herein
before provided.
Seton That warrants issued
under the provision of this ordinance
shall not be issued so as to create
city Indebtedness In excess of $751;
900.
Seton 6. 1t Is hereby adjudged
and declared that existing conditions
are such that certain streets within
the corporate limits Of the city of
Heppner are in urgent need of I'M
provement for the preservation of the
public health, peace and safety, and
owing to the necessity that city war
rants be Immediately issued for such
improvements, an emergency is de-
clared to exist and this ordinance
shall be in full force and effect from
and after It's approval by the Mayor.
Passed the common council and