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Page 8A OFF PAGE ONE East Oregonian Friday, February 13, 2015 FLU: 7KHODVW3HQGOHWRQÀXÀDJFDPHGRZQLQHDUO\-DQXDU\ Continued from 1A ÀXÀDJVÀ\LQJ&LW\FRXQFLO expanded the previous list of directives to require prop- er ventilation at “all stores, bakeries, restaurants, meat markets, rooming houses, KRWHOVRI¿FHVEDQNVSLFWXUH galleries and studios and oth- er places of business where people are in the habit of assembling for the purchase of supplies or transaction of business.” Library patrons could check out books, but couldn’t linger to read. Resi- dents were ordered to remain DWOHDVW¿YHIHHWDSDUW &LW\ RI¿FLDOV GHVSHUDWH to quell the epidemic, were open to novel approaches. They heard that the town of Brawley, California, had VWDPSHG RXW WKH ÀX LQ ¿YH days after disinfecting city streets with a sheep dip solu- tion. The compound of insec- ticide and fungicide is nor- mally used to protect sheep from external parasites such as ticks and lice. The mea- sure, said the story, was an “effort to get the best of the LQÀXHQ]DZKLFKLVWKUHDWHQ- ing to put the entire town on the shelf.” On Dec. 27, the town’s street sweeper crew spread the solution at a rate of three gallons per block. The strategy made the town smell like a sheep camp, but didn’t reduce the VWHDG\VWUHDPRIQHZÀXFDV- es. Oddly, the worst hit were seemingly healthy individu- als in their twenties and thir- ties. James Ankeny, of Reith, died at age 22 at St. Anthony Hospital. Mrs. P.D. Ellis, 34, died at her Main Street home. Pendleton attorney Clarence White, 39, died on Dec. 21. By the end of the siege, a to- tal of 38 mostly young peo- ple were dead. As desperation grew, city DQGKHDOWKRI¿FLDOVWLJKWHQHG XS ÀX UHJXODWLRQV %DUEHUV and waiters and other people who served the public wore PDVNV ³)OX RI¿FHUV´ ZHUH stationed at store entrances to limit the numbers of peo- ple who could go inside at one time. Movie goers were required to sit in every other seat, with every other row vacant. 7KHODVW3HQGOHWRQÀXÀDJ in the state,” the article said. “Conditions are not so good, however, in other parts of the county, but with the ban ex- tended over the county, it is thought there is a chance to stamp the malady out entire- ly.” The next pandemic is GH¿QLWHO\ RQ WKH UDGDU RI PRGHUQGD\ KHDOWK RI¿FLDOV Sharon Waldern, clinic su- pervisor for Umatilla County Public Health, said pandemic planning doesn’t center on WKHÀXEXWUDWKHUDQ\ZLGH- spread disease. They got a GU\UXQLQZKHQ+1 ÀX KLW 0H[LFR KDUG DQG AP Photo/National Museum of Health Influenza victims crowd into an emergency hospital killed in higher numbers than near Fort Riley, Kansas in 1918. The Spanish flu pan- expected. demic killed 40-100 million people worldwide and As the disease headed this officials say that if the next pandemic resembles the ZD\KHDOWKRI¿FLDOVKDGWLPH birdlike 1918 Spanish flu, up to 1.9 million Americans to urge people to get vacci- could die. nated. Even so, three Uma- came down in early January measures stayed in place for tilla County residents who had underlying medical con- 1919 at the home of Mrs. a while. Grover Pead on West Alta ³,QÀXHQ]D FRQGLWLRQV LQ ditions died from the disease. Umatilla County Pub- $YHQXH %XW ZLWK LQÀXHQ]D Pendleton are probably bet- VWLOOSUHVHQWLQWKHFRXQW\ÀX ter today than any other town lic Health Administrator Meghan DeBolt called the ÀX ³H\HRSHQLQJ´ EXW takes some comfort in know- ing that “modern epidemiol- ogy had not yet taken hold in 1918. The understanding of hygiene in general is much better now” and information spreads much faster. “If the CDC sends out anything, we have it within minutes,” she said. Both Debolt and Waldern DUH EDIÀHG E\ WRGD\¶V ORZ vaccination rate. They’ve heard the excuses — some say they believe the vaccine will make them sick or that WKHÀXLVQ¶WDELJGHDO%RWK not true, they said. Pendletonians of 1918 didn’t have a choice, but one has to believe they would have protected themselves from the deadly virus if they did. ——— Contact Kathy Aney at kaney@eastoregonian.com or call 541-966-0810. FUNDING: ARS got an 8 percent budget cut across the board last year Continued from 1A “I cannot think of $911,000 out of its annual a greater return on operating budget, Long said, taxpayer dollars which is currently funded at $1.91 million. The station than what has been would lose its soil chemist, realized through hydrologist and soil phys- decreased erosion icist with the loss of pro- grams. and increased pro- “That important research ductivity through the is going to come to a dead halt, if this budget is passed,” efforts of the Pacific Long said. Established in 1970, CP- Northwest agricultur- &5&RI¿FHVDQGODERUDWRULHV al research system.” are located on Tubbs Ranch Road just north of Pendle- ton. The building is shared with Oregon State Univer- sity’s Columbia Basin Ag- ricultural Research Center, which also focuses on exper- LPHQWVWREHQH¿WIDUPHUV Funding woes actual- ly started a year ago, Long said, in the wake of the federal government’s bud- get sequestration. When a EXGJHW ZDV ¿QDOO\ SDVVHG the ARS experienced an 8 percent cut across the board, which dropped $152,000 out of CPCRC’s discretionary funds. The ARS gave $90,000 back to the station and Long ¿JXUHG WKH\ ZHUH RQ WKHLU way to recovery when the proposed 2016 budget was released. “I honestly thought we were pretty safe,” Long said. “Looking at this now, it boiled down to the presi- dent’s high priority items ... In order for the agency to fund those initiatives, they had to take money from oth- er places.” Jerry Zahl, a crop con- sultant from College Place, Washington, serves as chair- man of the liaison committee for the combined ARS and OSU agricultural stations, which met on Tuesday. He said the growers haven’t — Jerry Zahl, chairman of the liaison committee for the ARS and OSU agricultural stations started campaigning yet, but plan to get in touch with their leaders in Washington, D.C. to stress the importance of the work being done in Pendleton. “I cannot think of a great- er return on taxpayer dollars than what has been realized through decreased erosion and increased productivity through the efforts of the Pa- FL¿F 1RUWKZHVW DJULFXOWXUDO research system,” Zahl said. The CPCRC also has the support of the Oregon Wheat Growers League, which val- XHVWKHLQ¿HOGZRUNGRQHRQ behalf of the wheat industry. “It’s a very serious po- tential loss to the facility out there,” said Blake Rowe, wheat league CEO. “We’re GH¿QLWHO\ JRLQJ WR HQJDJH DQGWU\WR¿[LW´ Other research at the sta- tion includes developing cropping systems and rota- tional crops for both food and fuel, as well as the use of unmanned drones as an agricultural tool. ——— Contact George Plaven at gplaven@eastoregonian. com or 541-564-4547. Get Unlimited Everything. Plus $50 back. Switch to a Simple Connect Prepaid Plan for just $45/mo. with Unlimited Data, Talk and Text, including 1GB of high-speed data. Plus, for a limited time, get a $50 U.S. Cellular® Promotional Card to use toward the latest accessories or your next month of service. 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