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TuESday, JunE 21, 2022
TODAY
In 1377, King Edward III died
after ruling England for 50 years;
he was succeeded by his grandson,
Richard II.
In 1788, the United States Con-
stitution went into effect as New
Hampshire became the ninth state
to ratify it.
In 1834, Cyrus Hall McCormick
received a patent for his reaping
machine.
In 1942, an Imperial Japanese
submarine fired shells at Fort Ste-
vens on the Oregon coast, causing
little damage.
In 1954, the American Cancer
Society presented a study to
the American Medical Associ-
ation meeting in San Francisco
which found that men who reg-
ularly smoked cigarettes died at
a considerably higher rate than
non-smokers.
In 1964, civil rights workers
Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew
Goodman and James E. Chaney
were slain in Philadelphia, Mis-
sissippi; their bodies were found
buried in an earthen dam six
weeks later. (Forty-one years later
on this date in 2005, Edgar Ray
Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku
Klux Klansman, was found guilty of
manslaughter; he was sentenced
to 60 years in prison, where he
died in January 2018.)
In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court,
in Miller v. California, ruled that
states may ban materials found
to be obscene according to local
standards.
In 1977, Menachem Begin of the
Likud bloc became Israel’s sixth
prime minister.
In 1982, a jury in Washington,
D.C., found John Hinckley Jr. not
guilty by reason of insanity in the
shootings of President Ronald
Reagan and three other men.
In 1989, a sharply divided
Supreme Court ruled that burning
the American flag as a form of
political protest was protected by
the First Amendment.
In 1997, the WNBA made its
debut as the New York Liberty
defeated the host Los Angeles
Sparks 67-57.
In 2010, Faisal Shahzad, a Paki-
stan-born U.S. citizen, pleaded
guilty to charges of plotting a
failed car bombing in New York’s
Times Square. (Shahzad was later
sentenced to life in prison.)
In 2011, the Food and Drug
Administration announced that
cigarette packs in the U.S. would
have to carry macabre images
that included rotting teeth and
gums, diseased lungs and a
sewn-up corpse of a smoker as
part of a graphic campaign aimed
at discouraging Americans from
lighting up.
Today’s birthdays: Actor Bernie
Kopell is 89. Songwriter Don Black
is 84. Actor Mariette Hartley is 82.
Comedian Joe Flaherty is 81. Rock
singer-musician Ray Davies (The
Kinks) is 78. Actor Meredith Baxter
is 75. Actor Michael Gross (Baxter’s
co-star on the sitcom “Family Ties”)
is 75. Rock musician Joe Molland
(Badfinger) is 75. Rock musician
Don Airey (Deep Purple) is 74. Rock
musician Joey Kramer (Aerosmith)
is 72. Rock musician Nils Lofgren
is 71. Cartoonist Berke Breathed is
65. Country singer Kathy Mattea
is 63. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is
62. Actor Marc Copage is 60. Actor
Sammi Davis is 58. Writer-director
Lana Wachowski is 57. Actor Carrie
Preston is 55. Rapper/producer
Pete Rock is 52. Actor Juliette Lewis
is 49. Actor Maggie Siff is 48. Rock
musician Mike Einziger (Incubus)
is 46. Actor Chris Pratt is 43. Rock
singer Brandon Flowers is 41. Brit-
ain’s Prince William is 40. Actor
Michael Malarkey is 39. Pop/rock
singer Lana Del Rey is 37.
CORRECTIONS
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IN BRIEF
Walla Walla VA to hold
virtual community clergy
training program June 23
Isabella Crowley/The Observer
A 1951 Moline Zau tractor belonging to Fred Schoellig is on display at the antique tractor show at Elgin’s Riverfest on Saturday,
June 18, 2022.
For the love of tractors
OTEC conducting annual
inspection, testing of
power poles
Elgin couple
showcase five
historic tractors at
Elgin Riverfest
By ISABELLA CROWLEY
The Observer
ELGIN — A local
couple showcased five of
their antique tractors at
Elgin Riverfest on Sat-
urday, June 18.
Fred and Cathy
Schoellig made Elgin
their home in 1989.
When the couple left
New York, they sold
their two antique tractors
— a Minneapolis-Moline
and John Deere. Over the
last 30 years, they have
rebuilt and expanded
their collection.
“We’ve got six or
seven more at home,”
Cathy Schoellig said.
“We rotate which ones
we bring out.”
The husband and wife
duo are painting contrac-
tors and run their own
business — Schoellig
& Schoellig on Indian
Creek Road. They fix up
old tractors during the
winter.
“A lot of them don’t
run when we get them,”
Cathy Schoellig said.
The Schoelligs work
Isabella Crowley/The Observer
Cathy Schoellig’s 1951 Massey Harris Pony tractor and hitch are part of the antique tractor show
at Riverfest on Saturday, June 18, 2022, in Elgin.
on restoring the tractors
together. Fred Schoellig,
who has training as a
mechanic, focuses on the
engines and machinery
while Cathy Schoellig
does a lot of the detailing
work.
Many of the tractors
the couple bring to shows
are works-in-progress.
A major hurdle to fin-
ishing a restoration can
be getting all the nec-
essary parts, the couple
said. While there are
magazines dedicated to
antique tractors where
individuals can place
advertisements looking
for specific pieces, many
parts are simply found
through word of mouth
at events like Riverfest.
“Part of the thrill is
finding the piece you
need,” Cathy Schoellig
said.
Another exciting
aspect of collecting
antique tractors is stum-
bling upon old tractors
for sale. After selling
their original Moline
tractor, the couple had
been looking for another.
“We were driving and
we saw this old Moline
on the side of the road
with a for sale sign. We
pulled over so fast,” rem-
inisced Cathy Schoellig,
miming making a hard
left turn with a big smile
on her face.
Collecting and
restoring antique tractors
is more than just a hobby
for the Schoelligs. The
couple live on a ranch
and use their antique
tractors on a daily basis.
They could use their
new equipment, Cathy
Schoellig said, but it is
a lot more fun to hop on
one of the old tractors.
Green sees impact of Rotary club
By JEFF BUDLONG
Wallowa County Chieftain
ENTERPRISE —
The 107th year of Rotary
International is proving
to be a special one for
the Rotary Club of Wal-
lowa County.
Stacy Green, the pres-
ident of Rotary Club
of Wallowa County,
attended the annual
Rotary International
Convention from June
3-9 at the Houston Con-
vention Center in Texas.
It marked the first con-
vention — which rotates
sites around the world —
since 2019 because of the
global pandemic.
“The convention
brings the 1.5 million
Rotarians from around
the world together,”
Green said. “It really
shows when we come
together we multiply our
impact, and that impact
becomes significant.”
Green met, learned
from and shared the mes-
sage of Eastern Oregon
at the event, which was
attended by 11,000
people, down from a
typical 25,000. She met
with individuals from
places including Nigeria,
Uganda, Kenya, India,
Mongolia, Nepal, Japan,
Mexico and Canada.
“Where else would
I be able to make those
kinds of international
connections?” she said.
“By the time I left I had
invitations to stay with
people in Iceland, Mexico
and other places.”
Some of the chal-
lenges talked about
were similar to what
WALLA WALLA, Wash. —
The Jonathan M. Wainwright
Memorial VA Medical Center’s
Chaplain Service is hosting a vir-
tual community clergy training
program on Thursday, June
23, from 8-10 a.m. for clergy
throughout the Jonathan M. Wain-
wright VA’s catchment area, which
includes Union County.
The purpose of the training is to
provide support to rural clergy and
educate them on the readjustment
and other needs of returning vet-
erans and their families.
Presentations include topics such
as suicide prevention, presented
by Jonathan M. Wainwright VA’s
chaplain, Neissha King, and moral
injury, presented by guest presenter
Dr. Jeanette Harris.
Those interested are asked to
RSVP via email to Neissha.King@
va.gov to claim a spot for the event
and to receive the virtual connection
information. For questions or addi-
tional information, contact King at
509-525-5200, ext. 26181.
BAKER CITY — Oregon Trail
Electric Cooperative in a Thursday,
June 16, press release announced it
is beginning its annual pole-testing
program throughout the cooper-
ative’s service territory in Baker,
Grant, Harney and Union counties.
National Wood Treating, a con-
tracted service with the cooperative,
will be inspecting and testing utility
poles for strength and potential rot,
determining and treating ailing
poles. Testing — which is mandated
by the Public Utility Commission
— was set to begin in Baker and
Union counties, then will move to
Grant and Harney counties over the
next few months.
“Testing requires digging around
our power poles and this means that
in some instances National Wood
Treating employees will be working
in OTEC member-owners’ yards
and maybe even driving 4-wheelers
across open fields testing each
power pole,” said Joe Hathaway,
OTEC’s communications manager.
“OTEC and our contractor will both
be doing their very best to make
contact with each property owner.
But if a rancher is out in the fields or
a family isn’t home for one reason
or another, we are just wanting to
give a heads up that they will be
working in the area.”
OTEC’s power pole-testing
program calls for each pole to be
inspected and treated on a 10-year
cycle.
Approximately 10% of the
system is inspected each year to
identify any poles that need to be
replaced and to extend the lives of
those poles that remain in service.
OTEC maintains more than 44,000
poles, so around 4,400 poles will be
tested this summer.
These inspection helps to safely
maintain reliability and helps keep
costs down for OTEC’s members.
No city property available
for pump track
Bill Bradshaw/Wallowa County Chieftain
From left, Ron Polk on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, watches as Tom Gleason finishes unveiling
the Wallowa County Rotary Club’s Peace Pole on the grounds of the Wallowa County
Courthouse, Enterprise, and as Joe McCormack reads the Nez Perce language portion of the
pole. The pole is part of Rotary International’s focus on world peace.
MORE
INFORMATION
Stacy Green, president of
the Rotary Club of Wal-
lowa County, is presenting
about her experiences at
the convention during the
Rotary’s installation ban-
quet on Wednesday, June
29. For more information,
email Green at srgreen@
eoni.com.
Green sees in Wallowa
County while others
were basic human needs
like supplying feminine
hygiene products.
“It is a huge barrier
for girls and women that
forces them not to go to
school or work because
they have no ability to
manage it,” she said.
Green participated
in morning general ses-
sions with speakers that
included Indian Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi; Nobel Peace Lau-
reate Kailash Satyarth;
director of polio eradica-
tion for the World Health
Organization Dr. Hamid
Jafari; astronaut Charles
Duke, who went to the
moon on Apollo 16;
and Bruktawit Tigabua,
a social entrepreneur
who created a ground-
breaking educational
children’s television pro-
gram in Ethiopia that
has been scaled to reach
millions of children in
Africa and beyond.
Afternoon breakout
sessions focused on
topics of interest from
how to build a stronger
club to how to mobilize
resources at the local club
level to help address the
opioid addiction crisis.
Green said attending
the convention illustrated
the impact that working
together can have.
“The Wallowa County
club raised about $3,500
for Ukraine, which was
then sent to the district
level to become $118,000,
and that was sent to the
Rotary clubs in Poland
and that became $15 mil-
lion,” she said.
Getting and keeping
the younger generation
engaged both in Rotary
and their communi-
ties was another con-
sistent topic of discus-
sion. Rotary has made an
effort to create options
for high school and
young professionals to
interact and engage with
clubs before becoming
Rotary members. It has
led to an increase of
14,000 members globally.
Because of her expe-
rience, Green said she is
going to propose that the
Wallowa County club
help all future presidents
attend the international
convention.
ENTERPRISE — Once more,
hopes for a bicycle pump track on
city property in Enterprise have
fallen through, as property in the
Prairie Creek Floodway has been
determined unsuitable, the city
council was told during its meeting
Monday, June 13.
City Administrator Lacey
McQuead and the council apolo-
gized to Angela Mart, president of
the Wallowa Mountains Bicycle
Club, who has been promoting the
idea of a pump track. The admin-
istrator said the city has no other
property that could be used for such
a track.
Mart said June 16 that the club is
not giving up on the project.
“We think that it’s a plan and a
project that’ll benefit kids and fam-
ilies in the upper valley,” she said.
“The mayor, the city administrator
and the public works director have
all been amazing in trying to help
us finding an option.”
McQuead told the council she
had met with the state Department
of Land Conservation and Devel-
opment and after a review of the
Enterprise Municipal Code it was
determined the entire parcel is in
the floodway. A pump track will
not be allowed because of the cur-
rent fill on the west side of the
property and a waterway that runs
through its middle draining into
Prairie Creek.
McQuead said any other plans
for the property previously dis-
cussed also will not be allowed and
the land is virtually useless to the
city.
—EO Media Group