A4 THE SPOKESMAN • TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2022
Oregon Athletic Hall of Famer Jack Morries dies at 90
BY CHRIS HANSEN
The (Eugene) Register-Guard
Oregon Athletic Hall of
Famer Jack Morris, a two-sport
standout for the Ducks and key
member of the 1958 Rose Bowl
team, died last month at age 90.
He was a longtime resident of
Redmond.
Morris was a multi-dimen-
sional athlete on the football
team from 1955-57, playing
halfback, defensive back and
kicker. He was also a sprinter/
hurdler on the Oregon track
team.
Morris was drafted in the
seventh round of the 1956
NFL draft by the Los Angeles
Rams and went on to have a
four-year professional career.
He died on April 27 of Alz-
heimer’s disease at his home in
Redmond.
Daughter Tricia Thompson
said Morris in his later years
had exhibited traits of chronic
traumatic encephalopathy, the
brain degeneration caused by
repeated head trauma that is
becoming more common in
former contact sport athletes
as well as soldiers.
Morris was proudly both. He
left Oregon after his freshman
year in 1950-51 to enlist in the
air force, serving four years, in-
cluding in the Korean
War.
He returned to
school in the fall
of 1955 and set the
Ducks’ then-sin-
gle-season scoring
record with 68 points.
Morris
He also started what
would become a
then-school-record string
of 23 consecutive successful
point-after attempts.
As a junior in 1956, Morris
led the team in rushing with
519 yards. As a senior in 1957,
he rushed for a then-school re-
cord 212 yards against USC and
helped the “Webfoots”
go to a bowl game
for the first time in
nine years when they
played Ohio State in
the Rose Bowl on New
Year’s Day.
Morris had 11 car-
ries for 60 yards in
the 10-7 loss to the
heavily favored Buckeyes, and
had a chance to give Oregon
the lead in the third quarter
with the score still 7-7 but his
37-yard field-goal attempt
went wide — barely.
“The kick was so close that
I thought for sure it went be-
tween the goal posts,” Ohio
State coach Woody Hayes said
afterward. “It’s lucky the of-
ficials were calling it instead
of me.”
When his Oregon career
ended, Morris ranked third in
career points scored (130) as
well as career rushing yards
(1,631).
He went on to play for Los
Angeles and led the Rams
with six interceptions as a
rookie. He followed with stints
in Pittsburgh and then Min-
nesota, where he played for
coach Norm Van Brocklin, the
former Oregon quarterback.
Morris grew up in Med-
ford and was a star athlete for
Medford High, winning two
state titles in the 200-yard low
hurdles (1949 and 1950) and
another in the 120-yard high
hurdles (1949) under the tu-
telage of legendary coach Bob
Newland Sr., who replaced
another legend at Medford in
1949 — Bill Bowerman.
Morris was inducted into
the Oregon Athletic Hall of
Fame in 2005 as an individual,
but was also honored in 1994
when the 1957 football team
was inducted.
Pipeline
REDMOND
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Sunflower exhibit to help
the people of Ukraine
Opponents of the project claim the irriga-
tion district’s easement across their properties
does not permit digging below the bottom of
the canal to install the pipeline. They pointed to
language governing the easement that limits its
scope to 50 feet “on each side” of the canal.
The judge said the 50-foot limit applies ver-
tically as well as horizontally, which means
they’ve wrongly interpreted the easement’s
terms.
“Critically, plaintiffs’ interpretation effectively
replaces the word ‘each’ with ‘either’ in an at-
tempt to limit the geographic scope of the ease-
ment to the water’s horizontal margins,” he said.
The Tumalo Irrigation District, which man-
ages 80 miles of canals and pipelines that serve
about 7,400 acres, typically lost half the water
running through open canals.
Such losses disrupt irrigation when be-
low-average snowpacks reduce the water sup-
ply, with federal protections for the threatened
Oregon spotted frog further aggravating the
problem.
Opponents filed a lawsuit in 2020 against re-
placing open canals with pipelines because the
lack of seepage would likely kill century-old
Ponderosa pines and other plants along the
canal, damaging wildlife habitat and property
values.
BY DAVID JASPER
The Bulletin
Tumalo Irrigation District
A judge has ruled favorable on a proposal by the
Tumalo Irrigation District to bury irrigation pipe-
line below ground, instead of using open canals.
“The burden is the loss of hundreds of thou-
sands of dollars in property value. It cannot
occur in this way if the burden on the servient
estate is increased,” said Esack Grueskin, attor-
ney for opponents, during oral arguments ear-
lier this year.
The irrigation district countered that irri-
gation districts have historically built elevated
pipelines to cross rivers and other obstacles, just
as it’s now common to rely on easement to in-
stall pipelines underground.
“The method of delivery may reasonably
change over time,” said Mark Reinecke, the ir-
rigation district’s attorney. “There is nothing to
say it cannot be done below the bottom of the
canal or anything else.”
Submitted photo
“Remembrance,” an acrylic by
Nate Lund, is part of an exhibit
at One Street Down Cafe.
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Homeless advocates in Red-
mond, Bob and Anne Bohac,
who have been working with
Moon, said one person con-
tacted them and offered to
connect her with a septic tank
repair company. Another said
she’d like to donate cash to the
family to help them get estab-
lished in their home.
Moon and her four children
became homeless in the fall of
2019 after the county obtained
a court injunction evicting her
family from her mobile home
because raw sewage was leak-
ing out onto the ground from
her septic tank. At the time
there were no shelters in Red-
mond with enough space for
the five of them. Simultane-
ously, she had pressed domes-
tic abuse charges against her
ex-husband and had filed for
divorce. The mobile home was
owned in her and her ex-hus-
band’s name.
The pandemic slowed down
the process in both fronts,
causing a quagmire that didn’t
clear up until late last year
when Moon was granted sole
ownership of the home. Just
a few weeks ago she was able
to pay the back taxes on it and
now needs to comply with
county rules to repair the septic
tank before she can move in.
“It’s examples like this that
show the huge gaps in our
systems,” Anne Bohac said.
“There are so many stories like
this.”
Among the offers to help
the Moon family is assistance
to obtain homeowners in-
surance from Jericho Road,
a homeless advocate non-
profit organization. Obtaining
homeowners insurance is one
of the county’s requirements
for being able to return to the
mobile home in Redmond.
The offers of help from all
parts of the community make
advocates like Bob and Anne
Bohac feel hopeful.
“It’s all been so positive and
reassuring,” Bob Bohac said.
“It’s so gratifying to know that
people will respond to some-
one they don’t know and who
is homeless. It shows me the
community wants to be show
how to help and they will.”
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Woman accused of stealing dog, truck
Spokesman staff
Homeless
One Street Cafe, located
at 124 SW Seventh St. in
Redmond, is hosting an ex-
hibit of sunflower paintings,
a benefit for the people of
Ukraine.
According to organizer
Gillian Burton, sunflowers
have long symbolized peace
in Ukraine, and by extension,
they’ve become a symbol of
support for Ukraine, which
is currently under attack by
Russia.
So far, about 20 artists
have donated paintings to
the show, which will hang
into the fall, and three have
already sold.
Money from sales will go
for both relief and future
re-establishment of a lib-
erated Ukraine via a desig-
nated fund at the American
Red Cross, according to the
announcement for the show,
which opened Sunday.
“I have set myself an am-
bitious goal of $10,000,” Bur-
ton said.
A resident of Redmond
was arrested May 3 and
charged with multiple counts
of theft after being accused by
police of stealing an unlocked
vehicle and a dog that was in-
side the truck at the time.
Phoebe Gean Duran, 35,
was arrested about 3:15 p.m.
at Lowe’s in Redmond af-
ter police recovered the
truck, trailer and pet. The
dog, named Amigo, was un-
harmed.
Duran was charged with
two counts of unauthorized
use of a motor vehicle and
first-degree theft of a compan-
ion animal. Police accuse Du-
ran of stealing the 2013 Ford
F250 from the Lowe’s parking
lot in Bend about 11:15 a.m.
on May 3. Amigo, a male pit-
bull/border collie mix, was
inside the vehicle at the time.
The truck was unlocked at the
time and had the keys in it.
Both were recovered about
four hours later.
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