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A6 News wallowa.com January 7, 2015 Wallowa County Chieftain Pilot Grote makes another rescue 100 YEARS AGO Jan. 7, 1915 instead of the agent reserving them at La Grande as hereto- fore. The house of George Lath- Early days in Wallowa rop in Leap burned down last county, before there was any Saturday afternoon. Nearly Enterprise, were recalled last all the contents went with the week by the return, for a short house, as there was not time YLVLW RI +DZRQ 6WXEEOH¿HOG or opportunity to save more D EURWKHU RI 0LFNHO 6WXEEOH- WKDQDIHZWULÀHV)RUWXQDWHO\ ¿HOG 7KHLU IDWKHU ZDV :. for the owner, the house was 6WXEEOH¿HOGZKRPROGHUUHV- insured for about $700. Re- idents of the county still recall ports from Leap are to the ef- most kindly as “Uncle Billy.” IHFWWKDWWKH¿UHVWDUWHGLQWKH The visitor had not been here roof, probably from a defec- since 1909. He now lives at WLYHÀXH0UDQG0UV/DWK- Pilot Rock, Umatilla county, rop and four children were all where he drives a stage. at home at the time. Children of Enterprise 70 YEARS AGO gave a very pleasing juve- Jan. 4, 1945 nile production in the opera On June 6 Pfc. Glen E. KRXVH ODVW )ULGD\ QLJKW DV D EHQH¿W IRU WKH FLW\ OLEUDU\ ,W 0DGLVRQ RI %DUWOHWW ZDV was a representation of “Tom among the pioneer American Thumb’s” wedding. troops that stormed the beach- )RU WKH FRQYHQLHQFH DQG HV RI QRUWKHUQ )UDQFH 3YW accommodation of the travel- 0DGLVRQ KDV EHHQ DZDUGHG ing public the railroad compa- his fourth bronze campaign ny has made arrangements at star as the result of participa- the Enterprise station to sell tion in the battle of Norman- sleeper berths to Portland, dy, having already landed in MEDICARE BIRTHDAY RULE If you have a Medicare Supplement Plan you have 30 days after your birthday to compare & apply for a new Supplement Plan. Call Kathleen or Heather TODAY to discuss your options for a lower Medigap premium. 541-426-4208 Featuring Stonebridge Medicare supplements Locally owned & operated • 616 W. North Street, Enterprise OUT OF THE PAST Compiled by Rob Ruth the D-Day invasions of North $IULFD6LFLO\DQG,WDO\7HDP- ing with infantry, amphibian engineers are given the exact- ing task of storming enemy beachheads... A lumberjack and farmer before entering WKH VHUYLFH 3IF 0DGLVRQ LV WKHVRQRI(GZDUG0DGLVRQRI Bartlett. )LQDO ¿JXUHV RQ WKH VL[WK War Loan drive in Wallowa county reveal one of the best records of the war. The county quota was $260,000 and bond sales amounted to $369,536, or $109,536 over the quota. ,01$+$ ± 0U DQG 0UV 9HUQ :DUQRFN DQG 0U DQG 0UV :P 0D[ZHOO ZHQW WR (QWHUSULVH )ULGD\ 0U DQG 0UV:DUQRFN ZHQW RQ WR /D Grande Saturday where Vern will take treatments for sinus WURXEOH 0U DQG 0UV 5* 0RRUHPDGHDKXUULHGWULSWR Enterprise Saturday morning WRFDWFKWKH:DUQRFNVVR0UV 0RRUHFRXOGJRWR/D*UDQGH with them for medical advice. would be forthcoming from this area’s foremost prophet, Truman Poulson, whose fore- casting apparatus is set up in a strategic location on the snow and windswept banks of Crow creek. But Poulson, after be- 50 YEARS AGO ing buffeted and marooned Jan. 7, 1965 for a week by storms in the 7HG *URWH À\LQJ D KHOL- Clarkston-Asotin area, bat- copter out of the Joseph air- tled his way home and was so port, accomplished another shook up by his hair-raising rescue mission Saturday. He experiences he has not been ZDV FDOOHG WR EULQJ RXW 0UV heard from since. Poulson’s Jean Blanchette who had fall- unique approach to weather HQ)ULGD\DWWKH25DQFKRQ forecasting through the ob- lower Day Ridge and broken servation of the actions of her leg. One of the men at the meadow larks, robins, squir- ranch rode down to Troy and UHOV ¿HOG PLFH FR\RWHV DQG radioed in for help. The Day other fowls and beasts of the Ridge road was blocked by forests and range, has focused snow. Grote took off in very a great deal of attention on his stormy weather with poor predictions. visibility but made it to the UDQFK$IWHU SLFNLQJ XS 0UV 25 YEARS AGO Blanchette he ran into too Jan. 4, 1990 much overcast to return to En- 6HTXRLD )RUHVW ,QGXVWULHV terprise with his ship and had WRVHWGRZQDW)ORUDZKHUHKH this week announced that it was met by Verne Russell who has changed its legal name to brought the injured woman 5<7LPEHU ,QF7KH -RVHSK LQ WR WKH :DOORZD 0HPRULDO sawmill, which employs 70 persons, is one of two mills Hospital. ,W KDV EHHQ KRSHG DQG RZQHG E\ 5RQDOG <DQNH RI expected, that some prog- %RLVH ,GDKR WKDW ZLOO RSHU- nostications on the weather ate under the new business ',63/$< $' '$1&( Sat. Night Jan. 6 At Roup’s +DOO -RVHSK 2UHJRQ 0XVLF by Rhythmeers. Adm. 50¢ in- cluding tax. Community Calendar: The Big Read kickoff; Fishtrap Fireside Thursday, Jan. 8 .LFNRIIWR7KH%LJ5HDG)L- esta at the Joseph Community Center, 6-8 p.m. featuring tra- GLWLRQDO0H[LFDQIRRGJDPHV music, and a multimedia inw- T HE B OOKLOFT AND S KYLIGHT G ALLERY Finding books is our specialty 541.426.3351 • 107 E. Main • Enterprise • www.bookloftoregon.com 9DOOH\ 2UFKHVWUD WR p.m. at Enterprise High School. There is no audition or cost to musicians who join. Student and community musicians are Friday, Jan. 9 ZHOFRPH )RU PRUH LQIRUPD- )LVKWUDS )LUHVLGH IHDWXULQJ WLRQ SKRQH WKH ,1:0 RI¿FH Jon Rombach, Cameron Scott 7KH RUFKHVWUD¶V and Amy Zahm reading, 7 to 9 next concert is set for Sunday, SPDW)LVWUDS(DVW*UDQW 0DUFKLQ(QWHUSULVH 6WUHHW (QWHUSULVH )UHH DGPLV- Saturday, Jan. 17 sion. Bunco at Hurricane Creek Saturday, Jan. 10 Grange, starts at 9 a.m. Dice Tunesmith Night featuring roll from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. $Q$PHULFDQ)RUUHVW%UH3DO- Buy-in to tournament costs etta and Justin Bennett, 7 p.m. $10, includes baked potato bar at Lear’s in Enterprise. Doors luncheon. Bring white elephant open at 6 p.m. Admission $10 items and a few dollars for the at door or by season pass. All Dutch auction to be held at ages welcome. Sponsored by lunchtime. :DOORZD 9DOOH\ 0XVLF $OOL- Old-Time Community ance. 'DQFH WR SP 2GG Tuesday, Jan. 13 )HOORZV +DOO LQ (QWHUSULVH Rehearsals for Wallowa Admission $5/person, $10/ wtroduction to this year’s Big 5HDGQRYHO³,QWRWKH%HDXWLIXO North” by Luis Alberto Urrea. .LFNRIIHYHQWLVIUHH Church Directory St. Patrick's Episcopal Church Worship Service Sunday 9:30am 3rd & Main St Enterprise Senior Warden - Ann Hayes Info: 541-432-4834 Summit Church Gospel Centered Community Service time: 10:30 am Cloverleaf Hall in Enterprise Pastor Mark Garland www.summitchurchoregon.org Lake Chapel 11am July & Aug Joseph United Methodist Church 3rd & Lake St. • Joseph Pastor Kaye Garver Phone: 541-432-3102 ACROSS 1. Mandela's party 4. Gives up territory 9. Yellow edible Indian fruit 11. Storefront coverings 14. King of Huns 15. Atomic #18 16. Jive talk for ignored 18. D. Tartt's third novel 23. Three-toed sloth 24. Gained through effort 25. Macaw's genus 26. Helps little firms 27. A large group of pheasants 28. Baby bed 29. English dictionary (abbr.) 30. Yellow-fever mosquitos 32. Liquify 34. Add a supplement 38. Insistence on traditional correctness 39. Milk, butter & cheese 40. = to 10 amperes 43. Mined mineral 44. Greek god of war 45. Don't know when yet 48. Fellow 49. Detailed criteria for a piece of work 50. Special Spanish dish 53. Atomic #46 54. CBS This Morning hostess 56. Rubber tree genus 58. Pa's partner 59. A tiny bubble in glass 60. Lost light 63. Surface boundary 64. Islands 65. = to 1/100 yen name... Parent company Se- TXRLD )RUHVW ,QGXVWULHV RZQV a total of six mills in Oregon, &DOLIRUQLDDQG0RQWDQD Joseph artist Ramon Par- menter recently completed a bronze sculpture of the Nation- DO )RRWEDOO /HDJXH¶V DOOWLPH leading pass receiver, Steve /DUJHQW ZKR UHWLUHG IURP seasons with the Seattle Sea- hawks on Dec. 23. The sculp- ture, created at Parmenter’s studio in Joseph and poured at Parks Bronze in Enterprise, was presented to Largent during ceremonies conducted before the Seahawks-Redskins game, the last contest of Largent’s career. The Wallowa County Nursing Home has agreed to pay $20,300 in back wages to 15 of its employees. The settlement between the nurs- LQJKRPHDQG$PHULFDQ)HG- eration of State, County and 0XQLFLSDO (PSOR\HHV ZDV reached in August, and pay- ments are being made in in- stallments... The employees, through their union, charged that they were owed back wages for lunch periods they worked and were not paid for over the past six years. DOWN 1. Subside in intensity 2. __ Hale, Am. revolutionary 3. Leafstalk herbaceous plant 4. Price of a ride 5. 1/2 an em 6. Execute or perform 7. Narrative poems 8. Breathe deeply and heavily 10. 1/40 inch button measure 11. Morally reprehensible person 12. For instance 13. Members of U.S. Navy 17. Crown 19. Old English 20. Libyan dinar 21. 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Main Enterprise, Oregon Worship 2 nd & 4 th Sundays - 2 pm Bible Study Tuesdays before the 2 nd & 4 th Sundays at 11 am LCMS (Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) Christ Covenant Church Pastor Terry Tollefson Church Office: 541-426-0301 Family Prayer: 9:30am Sunday School: 10:00am Worship Service: 11 am 723 College Street • Lostine Providence Academy Enterprise Community Congregational Church 11:00am Summer Worship Worship & Children’s S.S. Service 10:00 am 10:00am Choir (Child Care Available) 9:30am Adult Education On the web at lostinepc.org PHONE 541-569-2451 Stephen Kliewer, Minister On the web at lostinepc.org Wallowa Assembly of God 606 West Hwy 82 Wallowa, Oregon 541-886-8445 Sunday School • 9:30 Worship Service • 10:45 Pastor Tim Barton wallowaassemblyofgod.com 301 NE 1St St * 541-426-3044 Worship at 11:00 Bible Study at 9:30 the “Big Brown Church” with the Open Door Pastor Joseph Newcomer, 541-263-5319 305 Wagner (near the Cemetery) P.O. Box N, Enterprise, OR 97828 541-426-3751 Church 541-426-8339 School Sabbath School 9:30 - 10:45 a.m. Worship Hour 11:00 a.m. - Noon Pastor Steve Gilmore family, children under 12 free. Beginners welcome, all danc- HV WDXJKW 0RUH LQIR /DXUD 6NRYOLQ Sunday, Jan. 18 0LG9DOOH\ 7KHDWUH DQQXDO general meeting and election of RI¿FHUVSPLQEDVHPHQWRI Lostine Presbyterian Church. 5HIUHVKPHQWV0RUHLQIR.DWH /RIWXVDW Friday, Jan. 23 3URMHFW +HDUWEHDW ¿UVW DLG CPR/AED class in Enterprise. Completion of 7-hour course JRRG IRU \HDU FHUWL¿FDWLRQ from American Red Cross. &ODVV FRVWV )RU PRUH LQ- IRUPDWLRQ RU WR UHJLVWHU Sunday, Jan. 25 &LWL]HQ $ZDUGV %DQTXHW WR SP &ORYHUOHDI +DOO in Enterprise. Ticket price $35, includes prime rib dinner. Night includes awards presen- tations, music by Sentimental -RXUQH\ WDEOH JLIWV UDIÀH EDV- kets, games, centerpiece draw- ings, trade show tables and more. Contact Wallowa County &KDPEHUIRUUHVHUYDWLRQV LQIR#ZDOORZDFRXQ- ty.org. The Community Calendar lists fundraisers, free local events and those with a nomi- QDO IHH RUJDQL]HG E\ QRQSUR¿W organizations. Submit infor- mation to calendar@wallowa. com. Deadline is 5 p.m. Friday. 7R SURPRWH IRUSUR¿W HYHQWV contact sales representative Brooke Pace at bpace@wal- lowa.com. Avalanche beacon class slated Wallowa Avalanche Cen- ter is hosting an avalanche beacon class from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Jan. 10, for ongoing learning lessons at Salt Creek Summit Snopark. No sign-up is necessary. The center conducts the class regardless of weather, but participants can warm up in the community build- ing. Attendees should bring their own beacon, shovel, and probe. The group will work on beacon practice and shovel- ing techniques in the snopark area. Get to know your own beacon with lots of practice. No snowshoes or skis are needed, but good snowboots are essential and possibly JDLWHUV )RU WKRVH LQWHUHVWHG in purchasing beacons and shovels, the hosts will have different ones to try. Email GLUHFWRU#ZDOOORZDDYDODQ- checenter.org for more infor- mation.