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In 1889, the Johns Hopkins Hos-
pital in Baltimore opened its doors.
In 1915, a German U-boat torpe-
doed and sank the British liner RMS
Lusitania off the southern coast
of Ireland, killing 1,198 people,
including 128 Americans, out of
the nearly 2,000 on board.
In 1928, the minimum voting
age for British women was low-
ered from 30 to 21 — the same age
as men.
In 1939, Germany and Italy
announced a military and polit-
ical alliance known as the Rome-
Berlin Axis.
In 1941, Glenn Miller and His
Orchestra recorded “Chattanooga
Choo Choo” for RCA Victor.
In 1945, Germany signed an
unconditional surrender at Allied
headquarters in Rheims, France,
ending its role in World War II.
In 1954, the 55-day Battle of
Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam ended
with Vietnamese insurgents over-
running French forces.
In 1963, the United States
launched the Telstar 2 communica-
tions satellite.
In 1975, President Gerald R.
Ford formally declared an end to
the “Vietnam era.” In Ho Chi Minh
City — formerly Saigon — the Viet
Cong celebrated its takeover.
In 1977, Seattle Slew won the
Kentucky Derby, the first of his
Triple Crown victories.
In 2010, a BP-chartered vessel
lowered a 100-ton concrete-and-
steel vault onto the ruptured
Deepwater Horizon well in an
unprecedented, and ultimately
unsuccessful, attempt to stop
most of the gushing crude fouling
the sea.
In 2019, two students opened
fire inside a charter school in a
Denver suburb not far from Colum-
bine High School, killing a fellow
student, 18-year-old Kendrick
Castillo, who authorities said had
charged at the shooters to protect
classmates. (Both attackers would
be sentenced to life in prison;
one who was 16 at the time of
the shooting could be eligible for
parole after about 20 years.)
In 2020, Georgia authorities
arrested a white father and son
and charged them with murder
in the February shooting death of
Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man they
had pursued in a truck after spot-
ting him running in their neighbor-
hood near the port city of Bruns-
wick. (The two men and a third
white man would be convicted
of murder in state court, and hate
crimes in federal court.)
Ten years ago: Vladimir Putin
took the oath of office as Russia’s
president for the next six years in a
brief but regal Kremlin ceremony.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan
broke ranks with the White House,
stating his unequivocal support for
same-sex marriage a day after Vice
President Joe Biden said on NBC
that he was “absolutely comfort-
able” with gay couples marrying.
Five years ago: French voters
elected independent centrist
Emmanuel Macron, 39, as the
country’s youngest president,
delivering a resounding victory to
the pro-European former invest-
ment banker and dashing the pop-
ulist dream of far-right rival Marine
Le Pen.
One year ago: A federal grand
jury indicted the four former Min-
neapolis police officers involved in
George Floyd’s arrest and death,
accusing them of willfully vio-
lating the constitutional rights of
the Black man as he was restrained
face-down on the pavement,
gasping for air.
Today’s Birthdays: R&B singer
Thelma Houston is 79. Actor Robin
Strasser is 77. Singer-songwriter
Bill Danoff is 76. Rock musician Bill
Kreutzmann (Grateful Dead) is 76.
Movie writer-director Amy Hecker-
ling is 70. Actor Michael E. Knight
is 63. Rock musician Phil Camp-
bell (Motorhead) is 61. Actor Traci
Lords is 54. Actor Morocco Omari
is 52. Singer Eagle-Eye Cherry is 51.
Actor-comedian Aidy Bryant is 35.
Actor Taylor Abrahamse is 31. Actor
Alexander Ludwig is 30. Actor
Dylan Gelula is 28.
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SaTuRday, May 7, 2022
Opening their doors to the past
Museums in Elgin,
Union set to open
Mother’s Day
weekend
Katherine Gallant
not included in
Voters’ Pamphlet
By DICK MASON
The Observer
UNION COUNTY —
The old will become new
this Mother’s Day weekend
at the Elgin and Union
County museums.
The two museums
will feature new display
items when they open this
weekend for their spring
and summer seasons. Both
museums will have their
grand openings for the year
on Sunday, May 8.
A new exhibit at the
Elgin Museum is a col-
lection of about 25 glass
medicinal store bottles
from Northeastern Oregon
made between 1890 and
1920. All are embossed
with the names of drug-
stores in Union, Wal-
lowa, Baker and Wallowa
counties.
Visitors will find bot-
tles from long forgotten
drugstores like the J.L.
Carter Drug Store in Island
City, the Sumpter Drug
Company owned by L. C.
Edwards, Silver Thorn’s
Drug Store in La Grande,
and City Drug Store in
Elgin.
All were collected by
Charlie Horn, the curator
of the Elgin Museum. Horn
has been collecting North-
eastern Oregon drugstore
bottles for decades.
“It has been a passion of
mine for most of my life,”
he said.
It was a passion ignited
when he found a bottle
from the old Owl Drug
Company in Elgin in a barn
60 years ago. Horn said
he reached through a barn
wall to find the bottle and
has been hooked ever since.
He never knows where his
search for old drugstore
bottles will lead him.
“It has taken on a life of
its own,” he said.
The Elgin Museum’s
curator said bottles with
the embossed names of
local drugstores disap-
peared around 1920 when
the process of bottle
making became automated.
Bottles with localized
drugstore names fell out
of favor with bottle manu-
By ANDREW CUTLER
The Observer
dick Mason/The Observer
David Reed, left, and Charlie Horn examine an old drugstore bottle, part of a new display at the Elgin
Museum on Monday, May 2, 2022. Horn, who created the display, is the museum’s curator and Reed is
a member of the museum’s board.
UNION COUNTY
MUSEUM
The Observer, File
A selection of vintage clocks tick away Tuesday, May 4, 2021, at the
Union County Museum in Union. The exhibit includes a timepiece
dating back to 1760.
facturers because the time
spent making them slowed
down the mass production
process.
This history museum at
the other end of the Grande
Ronde Valley also has new
items.
Visitors to the Union
County Museum in Union
will find wedding gowns
from the 1950s and 1960s
on display, according
to Sharon Hohstadt, the
Union County Museum’
curator. The gowns are
additions to the wedding
exhibit already in place.
Displays added within
the past year include Merle
Miller’s “Time and Chime”
exhibit of old timepieces
put on public display for
the first time a year ago.
The display has about 30
clocks, the oldest of which
is a wooden wheel clock
made in 1760 and a shelf
clock produced in 1820.
Miller’s collection
includes an Atmos clock
made in the mid-1950s
that does not need to be
wound manually. It gets the
energy it needs to run from
temperature and atmo-
spheric pressure changes in
the environment.
This year marks a mile-
stone for the Union County
Museum, the 25th year
since its “Cowboys, Then
and Now” exhibit opened.
The display has long been
one of the museum’s most
popular exhibits.
“It definitely draws
in a lot of people,” said
Janet Dodson, a member
of the museum’s board of
directors.
The Union County
Museum obtained the dis-
play in 1997 from the
Oregon Beef Council,
which had it set up at its
office in Portland. The
Oregon Beef Council
made the display available
because it was moving its
offices to Salem, Dodson
said.
The “Cowboys, Then
and Now” exhibit features
What: Opening day at the
Union County Museum
Where: 333 S. Main St.,
Union
When: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on
Sunday, May 8
Admission: Free
Note: After May 8 the
museum will be open each
week through September,
Wednesday to Saturday, from
11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission
will be $5 for adults, $4 for
seniors, and $3 for students
age 6 and older.
ELGIN MUSEUM
What: Opening day at the
Elgin Museum
Where: 180 N. Eighth Ave.
When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on
Sunday, May 8
Admission: Free
Note: After May 8 the
museum will be open each
week through September,
Thursday to Saturday, from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission
will be $2 for adults and $1 for
age 12 and younger.
a timeline tracing the his-
tory of cattle and cowboys
in the United States. People
examining the exhibit will
discover how domestic
cattle made their way to
this country and became
an icon of the Amer-
ican West. Information on
gear, breeds of cattle and
modern ranching practices
are included in the display.
Dodson said that a pro-
gram commemorating the
exhibit’s 25th year at the
Union County Museum
may be conducted later
this year.
Woodruff Lane Catherine Creek Bridge to be replaced
By DICK MASON
The Observer
LA GRANDE — A
bridge built nine decades
ago northeast of Hot Lake
is set to be replaced.
The Union County
Board of Commissioners
voted on Wednesday, May
4, to enter into an agree-
ment with the Oregon
Department of Transporta-
tion to replace the Wood-
ruff Lane Catherine Creek
Bridge, about 3 miles
northeast of Hot Lake.
The bridge project will
cost $2.5 million, with the
Oregon Department of
Transportation picking up
$2.25 million of the tab and
Union County handling the
other $250,000. ODOT’s
funding for the replacement
will be provided by the
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The Union County Board of Commissioners voted on Wednesday,
May 4, 2022, to enter into an agreement with the Oregon
Department of Transportation to replace the Woodruff Lane
Catherine Creek Bridge, about 3 miles northeast of Hot Lake.
Federal Highway Bridge
Replacement Program,
according to Union County
Public Works Director
Doug Wright.
The Woodruff Lane
Catherine Creek Bridge
is 77 feet long and 22 feet
wide and was built in 1930.
Age has taken a toll on
the structure, which was
selected by the ODOT
Bridge Selection Com-
mittee for replacement.
“It is structurally defi-
cient,” Wright said.
The bridge, made of steel
and wood, will be replaced
by a concrete slab span
structure that will have new
approaches and a guardrail.
It will be designed to have
a life of up to 100 years,
Wright said.
The current Wood-
ruff Lane Catherine Creek
Bridge has a load limit
of 24 tons, which means
heavy agricultural equip-
ment cannot be driven over
it. It also means that in the
event of something like a
fire in the area on the west
side of the bridge, emer-
gency vehicles would have
to take a 3-mile detour to
bypass the bridge to reach
the fire.
Construction of the
bridge will not begin for
at least two years, Wright
said, because of the length
of time the design work
will require.
Cove moves closer to creating a municipal court
By DICK MASON
The Observer
COVE — A municipal
court may be in the city of
Cove’s future.
The Cove City Council
took a step toward estab-
lishing a municipal court
on Tuesday, May 4,
approving the first reading
of a resolution that would
set up fines for viola-
tions of the city’s nuisance
ordinance.
“This resolution would
give us the foundation
we need for a municipal
court,” Cove Mayor Sherry
Haeger said.
A second reading of
CD2
candidate
takes issue
with guide
Resolution 2022-2 will
be conducted at a June
city council meeting. Pas-
sage of the second reading
would lead to a vote to
approve the resolution in
July.
Haeger said after sys-
temizing fines, the next
step would then involve
the approval of a resolu-
tion to create a munic-
ipal court. Two readings
and a vote of approval by
the council would also
be required to create the
court.
Cove’s proposed munic-
ipal court would be in
place to address violations
of the nuisance ordinance,
the only ordinance the city
has. Cove’s nuisance ordi-
nance was approved and
went into effect in 2021.
Presently, if someone
is determined to have vio-
lated the city’s nuisance
ordinance the council can
fine the individual but it
cannot force the individual
to pay the fine.
The council’s only
recourse, if someone
refuses to pay, is to have
the Union County Sher-
iff’s Office collect the
fine.
A municipal court could
force someone to pay a fine
or determine if there was a
violation and whether a fine
was warranted.
Upon establishing a
municipal court, the city
would then have to select
a judge. One option is
having the judge of Union’s
municipal court also serve
as Cove’s municipal court
judge.
“It is an option we
would consider,” Haeger
said.
City hall expansion
The city council also
discussed plans for the
expansion of its city hall
building. Expansion plans
call for a portion of city
hall to be moved into the
connected shop building.
LA GRANDE — A
Republican candidate for
Oregon’s 2nd Congressional
District was left out of the
Voters’ Pamphlet, and she
says it’s because the Secre-
tary of State’s office didn’t
clarify candidates’ options
for being included in the
guide.
Katherine Gallant, who
lists her res-
idence as
Ukiah, said
she wasn’t
aware until
after the
release of
Gallant
the guide
that candi-
dates had to either pay to be
included in the Voters’ Pam-
phlet or collect and submit
300 signatures.
“I found out after the
fact,” she said.
Ben Morris, communica-
tions director for Secretary
of State Shemia Fagan, said
the details are laid out for
candidates in manuals and
guides on the Secretary of
State’s website.
“In terms of disclosure
this is all very clearly stated
in the campaign manual
that we provide to candi-
dates listed on our website,”
he said. “It has all the infor-
mation the candidate would
need to go right through the
various steps.”
Morris said a State
Voters’ Pamphlet Manual,
also available on the Sec-
retary of State’s website,
includes information for
candidates on how to submit
a statement and photo for
the Voters’ Pamphlet.
“We send a letter to every
candidate that mentions the
Voters’ Pamphlet and how to
go about filing, including the
deadlines and the require-
ments to gather signatures or
pay a fee,” he said.
At the end of the day,
Morris said, it is the can-
didate’s responsibility for
knowing the necessary steps
in running for public office.
“If you’re running for
public office, it’s your
responsibility to understand
all the rules, campaign
finance laws, campaign
rules,” he said. “Candidates
are expected to read those
manuals and understand
those rules.”
Gallant, who according
to the Secretary of State
website filed to run for
office on Feb. 23 and lists
her occupation as political
commentator and writer,
also took issue with the
price for being listed in
the Voters’ Pamphlet —
$2,500 for a congressional
candidate.
“That’s complete extor-
tion because it discriminates
against those that might
want to run, but could never
afford that kind of money,”
she said. “I personally
could. But there are a lot of
people, candidates out there,
probably good, hardworking
honest people, that would
never be able to afford the
$2,500.”
Not all candidates pay
$2,500 to be included in the
pamphlet. Prices are tiered
based on the office being
sought. For example, a can-
didate for president or vice
president will pay $3,500,
while a candidate for county
commissioner will pay
$600. The fees and signa-
tures required for the Voters’
Pamphlet are laid out in state
statute ORS 251.095.
“They are going to claim
anything and everything to
skirt their way out of this
instead of just owning it,”
Gallant said. “That makes
me believe they do have
something to hide. I would
understand if it were just a
simple mistake but I have
deeply sacrificed to make
this happen.”