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U.S. PREPARES FOR GERMANY 99/62 WORLD CUP/1B Hottest June weekend in history 3A TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2015 139th Year, No. 183 WINNER OF THE 2013 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD One dollar HELIX Blaze threatens farm HEPPNER Apartment fire destroys two units Seven people displaced By GEORGE PLAVEN East Oregonian 7KH2UHJRQ6WDWH)LUH0DUVKDO¶VRI¿FH continues to investigate what started a ¿UH WKDW GHVWUR\HG WZR DSDUWPHQWV DQG damaged four others Saturday evening in Heppner. Morrow County Undersheriff Steve Myren said one tenant, an elderly woman, was taken to Pioneer Memorial Hospital with burns on her arms. Her injuries were not believed to be life-threatening. The blaze at Mountain Glen Apartments was just one of several incidents that kept emergency services busy across Morrow &RXQW\ )LUH¿JKWHUV ZHUH DOVR FDOOHG WR KHOS FRQWDLQ D ODUJH ¿HOG ¿UH DORQJ %LJ Butter Creek Road east of Heppner that See HEPPNER/8A Kidnapped woman calls 9-1-1, rescued near Arlington East Oregonian and Associated Press Photo contributed by Robert McLean A lightning storm came through the area Saturday evening and touched off a fi eld fi re fed by erratic winds. Pair of lightning-sparked fires burn through nearly 2,000 acres Bruce sprinted to his tractor and used disking equipment to quickly churn a line around the farmhouse and outbuildings. ³%\WKHWLPH,JRWDJXDUGOLQHGRQHWKH¿UH Bruce and Gail Brogoitti’s wild Saturday had already come up the draw,” Bruce said. evening started with a thunder clap. Gail stayed in the house, grabbing her Then came a phone call from a neighbor insulin and a carrier for a pair of family ZKRVDLGÀDPHVZHUHUDFLQJWKHLUZD\ Dry lightning had touched off a neighbor’s FDWVVKRXOGWKH\KDYHWRÀHH6KHQHUYRXVO\ ZKHDW ¿HOG DQG D ZDOO RI ÀDPH IDQQHG E\ glanced outside. ³,FRXOGVHHÀDPHWKURXJKERWKEHGURRP erratic winds had moved into the Brogoitti’s crop and raced toward their century farm on windows,” she said. “It was terrifying.” She glimpsed her husband through heavy Helix Highway about two miles southeast of smoke. Helix. By KATHY ANEY East Oregonian More inside NORTHWEST: Wildfi re destroys homes in Wenatchee, Washington Page 2A REGION: Lighting sparks fi res on Umatilla National Forest Page 3A +HOSDUULYHGLQWKHIRUPRI¿UH¿JKWHUVDQG a cadre of neighbors with water trucks and tractors. Bruce started sprinklers. A neighbor used a garden hose to spray trees. Lt. Kyle Bryant, of the Helix Rural Fire Department, served as incident commander IRU WKH ¿UH ZKLFK ZDV RQH RI WZR OLJKW QLQJFDXVHG¿UHVQHDU+HOL[ ³7ZR VHSDUDWH ¿UHV JRW JRLQJ DERXW WKH same time,” Bryant said. See HELIX/7A Lawmakers ask Congress to reclassify marijuana By HILLARY BORRUD Capital Bureau SALEM — Oregon lawmakers want to call on the U.S. Congress to remove marijuana from a national list of the most dangerous narcotics and work out a solution that would give state-legalized pot busi- nesses access to banks. The state House-Senate committee that has been working on marijuana issues voted Thursday to pass a measure that will send that message to Congress. Senate Joint Memorial 12 calls on Congress to declassify mari- juana as a Schedule I drug under the federal Controlled Substances Act and work on banking solutions for pot businesses in states with legalized marijuana. Drugs are listed under Schedule I if they have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical value in the U.S. Heroine is another drug listed as Schedule I while methamphetamine has D ORZHU FODVVL¿FDWLRQ XQGHU Schedule II. According to the memo- rial, 23 states and Wash- ington, D.C., have some form of legal marijuana. “Really the memorial is our little love note to Congress to say, ‘Please help us unscramble this issue by un-scheduling marijuana and GHDOLQJ ZLWK WKH ¿QDQFLDO prohibitions in the federal banking system,’” said Senate Minority Leader Ted Ferrioli, R-John Day, who asked for the memorial to be drafted. Ferrioli said that “prob- See MARIJUANA/8A A woman kidnapped and raped by a man who broke into her car Saturday in Arlington was able to call 9-1-1 for help DIWHUWKHYHKLFOHJRWDÀDWWLUHDXWKRULWLHV said Monday. The suspect, William T. Cooter II, 42, of Greenville, Tennessee, was arraigned Monday afternoon on charges of kidnapping, rape, sex abuse, sodomy, assault, coercion, menacing, criminal Cooter mischief, meth possession, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, providing false information to a SROLFHRI¿FHUDQGLQWHUIHULQJZLWKPDNLQJ a report. See KIDNAPPED/8A PENDLETON Rodeo queen immortalized in bronze Kathleen McClintock stands across the street from cowboy George Fletcher By KATHY ANEY East Oregonian Staff photo by Kathy Aney Cayden Carroll, 6, and Asher Carroll, 1, inspect the newly un- veiled statue of their great-grandmother, Kathleen McClin- tock. McClintock presided as queen of the Pendleton Round- Up in 1929. A rodeo queen is the latest to arrive on Pendle- ton’s version of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Instead of stars, bronzes dot Main Street, each an unforgettable personage from Pendleton’s colorful past. A statue of 1929 Round-Up Queen Kathleen McClintock, unveiled Saturday, joined bronzes of two famous rodeo cowboys and a brothel madam. Another statue, of 1926 Round-Up queen Esther 0RWDQLF WKH 5RXQG8S¶V ¿UVW ,QGLDQ TXHHQ VLWV at the convergence of Dorion and Court avenues. Medford sculptor Georgia Bunn created the McClintock bronze referencing an 8-by-10-inch photo obtained from the family. Bunn joined about 60 others to watch Pendleton Mayor Phillip Houk and three family members pull away a covering to UHYHDOWKHURGHRTXHHQRXW¿WWHGLQIULQJHGVNLUWDQG vest, hat and knee-high boots and clutching a rope in her hand. Bunn, who took four months to craft the statue, said she wanted to capture McClintock’s person- ality. “She had a sweet demeanor, a warm inviting smile,” Bunn said. “She looked like a woman you would want to get to know.” The McClintock bronze sits across the cross- See BRONZE/7A
