Wallowa County Chieftain
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wallowa.com
September 9, 2015
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Schools add new sport: volleyball
100 YEARS AGO
Sept. 9, 1915
Every little detail that
careful supervision can sug-
gest has been attended to at
the local school buildings,
and they are now in excel-
lent condition. School opens
next Monday, September 13.
Several minor additions have
been made to the playground
apparatus. A basketball court
has been provided at the high
school and one at the grade
building. Two volleyball
courts have been laid out at
each school. This is a new
game for the local schools,
and it is expected to provide
much recreation to the pupils.
It can be played without any
outlay for racquets or other
accessories, and is considered
a very fair rival of tennis.
With the increase in con-
sumption of gasoline and dis-
tillate by the many automo-
biles and farm engines there
has been speculation as to
how much this county is pay-
ing the Standard Oil compa-
ny for such products. These
questions are answered by a
little computation of the ¿g-
ures in the monthly reports
of B.W. Hamilton and Sons,
local agents in charge of the
Enterprise station of the com-
pany. These ¿gures show that
in the last ¿ve months this
station has distributed oil
products selling at whole-
sale for more than $10,000.
This covers nearly all the oil
products used in the county
except what are sold in and
around Wallowa. It includes
practically all put out through
Lostine, Enterprise, Joseph,
the north country through to
Paradise and the eastern part
of the county to Snake river.
70 YEARS AGO
Sept. 6, 1945
A ¿re on the ridge between
Horse and Pumpkin creeks
about four miles (as the crow
Àies east of the end of the
lower Imnaha road gave of-
¿cials and ¿re crews of the
Wallowa National forest an-
other hectic week starting last
Thursday. A ¿re which had
been discovered on Thurs-
day and was believed under
control by a crew headed by
Bob 5eams suddenly Àared
up Saturday. Reinforcement
crews were immediately dis-
patched form Enterprise, and
the McCall, Idaho and Mis-
soula, Montana, forest of¿c-
es were called for parachute
¿re ¿ghters. A crew headed
by A. L. Duckett also went
OUT OF THE PAST
Compiled by
Elliott Seyler
will have to wait a little lon-
ger. The district will not be
on the November ballot, but
the Wallowa County Court is
hoping a legislative waiver
can be obtained to place the
district formation with a tax
base and election of a district
board of directors on the bal-
lot in May 1991.
In an emergency, Wal-
lowa County residents now
have an additional place to
turn for help. The Wallowa
County Road Department has
recently joined Radio Help, a
community service program
sponsored by Paci¿c Power.
Participants in Radio Help
volunteer the use of their ra-
dio-equipped vehicles to as-
sist citizens during medical
or personal emergencies. Par-
ticipants in the program mark
their vehicles with red and
white Radio Help logos and
agree to use their dispatching
system to contact police, an
ambulance or other emergen-
cy services agency during a
crisis.
Chieftain archives
This photo taken in 1898 is of a Joseph group called the Bachelors Club, but there are also some women in the picture. The
photo was printed in a special issue of the Chieftain published May 22, 1952, and a small story accompanying it identified
many of the people in the photo.
out from Imnaha, going up
the hill and down the ridge to
Cayuse Àat.
The local hospital prob-
lem was dumped back in the
laps of the county court yes-
terday when the present man-
agers announced that they
would terminate their con-
tract for the operation of the
institution on March 1.
Every person who can is
urged to take advantage of
the free chest X-ray service
which will be available on
next Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday, Sept. 11, 12
and 13, through the mobile
unit now touring the state
and scheduled here through
the county Public Health as-
sociation.
Local farmers have been
showing considerable inter-
est in the new federal crop in-
surance program. Under this
program farmers may insure
50 per cent of a normal yield
with a premium payment of
four-tenths of a bushel per
acre and a 75 per cent yield
with a premium of one and
four-tenths bushels per acre.
The insurance covers all
hazards but does not insure
that part of the crop which is
above the 50 or 75 per cent
normal.
The county highway de-
partment has been doing its
part in ¿nding work for re-
turning service men. New
employees, all recently out of
the armed forces, are: Floyd
Squibb, Wilfred Quesenber-
ry and Charles Ward. Amon
Thompson, who was former-
ly shop foreman and who was
away with the Seabees for
many months, has been back
on the job in his former post
since Christmas.
50 YEARS AGO
Sept. 9, 1965
A new and unusual experi-
ence is in store for ¿shermen
at Wallowa lake. This might be
another ten years in the future
but will come about because
of action taken by the Ore-
gon State Game Commission
this week. This experience
could be the taking of Kokan-
ee ranging up to ¿ve pounds
and measuring over two feet in
length. The game commission
on Tuesday planted 135,000
shrimp in Wallowa lake. The
shrimp are a nocturnal, deep
fresh water opossum shrimp
which thrive best in cold water.
They come from Waterton lake
in Alberta, Canada.
The County School Of¿ce
reports that, as compared with
the ¿rst quarterly report ¿led
September 30 last year, the to-
tal school enrollment for Wal-
lowa county this year shows a
slight increase. As of Tuesday
afternoon, a total of 1,605 stu-
dents had registered. Of this
number, 1,137 were enrolled
in grades 1 through 8, and 468
were enrolled in high school.
This compared with 1,091 in
the elementary last year and
499 in the high school.
25 YEARS AGO
Sept. 6, 1990
Archival information that
a young Chief Joseph buried
a son on what is now the Par-
menter property at the foot
of Wallowa Lake and that an
important meeting between
Chief Joseph, other Nez Perce
leaders and U.S. government
representatives took place
there not long before the Nez
Perce War of 1877 may add to
the historical signi¿cance of
the property.
Gus Malaxa and Joe Onaid-
ia, members of a vanishing
breed of Basque sheepherders,
will take their place among
the legendary ¿gures of Hells
Canyon when the packers and
mule-skinners come to town
this weekend. Malaxa, 89, and
Onaidia, 86, longtime partners
in the Cherry Creek Sheep
Company, are grand marshals
for the 10th annual Hells Can-
yon Mule Days.
The formation of the
proposed Wallowa County
Health District, which would
take over responsibility of the
hospital and nursing home,
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