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Tuesday, June 30, 2015
East Oregonian
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HELIX: Farmer Matt Wood lost about 163 of 200 acres of wheat
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He estimated the pair of
blazes burned between 1,500
and 2,000 acres. The second
¿re burned through wheat
about seven miles southeast
of Helix near the junction of
Helix Highway and Shafer
Road.
“Both were started by
lightning strikes and were
winddriven ¿res,´ Bryant
said. “Ninety to 99 percent
of what burned was standing
wheat.´
He said the stand-off at
the Brogoitti farmhouse was
a team effort by ¿re¿ghters
from multiple agencies and
farmers. Traf¿c control help
came from Oregon State
Police, Umatilla County
sheriff¶s of¿cers and the
Oregon Department of Trans-
portation.
The ¿re was short-lived,
but memorable.
“,t was pretty intense,´
Bryant said.
Shortly after the ¿res
started, wheat farmer Matt
Wood drove his tractor to a
high point in a ¿eld near his
Hudeman Road home and
eyeballed the two separate
¿res. He could see one ¿re
to the northeast and another
to the southeast. He was
about to drive his tractor to
the northerly ¿re to help with
¿re¿ghting efforts when wind
direction changed dramati-
cally.
“The wind shifted and
came back at me,´ Wood said.
“I had half a mile of wheat on
either side of me.´
Wood moved to the edge
of the ¿eld and started disking
a line. Within 10 minutes,
neighbors with pumpers
and tractors arrived to assist
Wood.
BRONZE: McClintock
died at the age of 90 in 1998
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walk from the statue of
*eorge Fletcher, the ¿rst
black cowboy to compete at
the Pendleton Round-Up.
McClintock’s daughter,
Susan Stuart, traveled from
her home in New Mexico to
help unveil the statue. She
called her mother a vivacious
woman who helped run the
family ranch near Stan¿eld.
Stuart described her mother
as a diminutive woman ¿ve-
feet-two) who “had the queen
wave down.´ McClintock
died at age 90 in 1998.
“She would have been so
pleased,´ Stuart said of the
honor.
Local historian Keith
May, who penned the words
on the statue’s base and is
a member of the Pendleton
Arts Commission that spon-
sored the bronze, smiled as
he watched the proceedings.
“She’ll be a perfect
bookend
for
George
Fletcher,´ May said.
May leads plenty of tours
in Pendleton as a step-on tour
guide for Empress Cruise
Ships, which runs excursion
buses to Pendleton. He
enjoys watching tourists
interact with the statues as
they take photographs and
read the plaques.
“I’d say 99.9 percent of
them love the statues,´ May
said. “The statues lead them
up and down Main Street.´
During the dedication,
Houk read words from the
plaque saying the bronze is
“dedicated to the women
who have served as the face
of the Pendleton Round-Up.´
He said McClintock
returned to Pendleton from
the coast where she was a
teacher in order to serve on
the Pendleton Round-Up
court, ¿rst as a princess in
1928 and queen the following
year.
Pendleton Arts Commis-
sion member Mireya Wolf
expressed pleasure with
the work of Bunn, who the
commission chose unani-
mously to sculpt McClin-
tock.
“Her statues just seem to
come alive,´ Wolf said. “<ou
can see movement. <ou can
see the detail in the hat, rope
and the dress.´
Houk, who got to see
Bunn’s work as it progressed,
said, “I love it. It’s one more
addition to Pendleton that
shows that we recognize our
past.´
McClintock
ranked
fourth in surveys conducted
by the Pendleton Chamber
of Commerce and the East
Oregonian behind Fletcher,
Motanic and 1916 all-around
Round-Up
champion
Jackson Sundown. The statue
of bordello owner Stella
Darby, not an arts commis-
sion project, was ¿nanced by
the Pendleton Underground.
A bronze of Pendleton High
School football coach Don
Requa, given to the city
by the Linebackers Club,
will be unveiled July 11 at
Brown¿eld Park. A survey
will determine the next crop
of bronzes to ¿nd homes in
the downtown core.
The McClintock statue
was cast by Valley Bronze in
Joseph.
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WORLD BRIEFLY
Supreme Court:
Controversial
execution drug OK
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Trading sharp
words, a deeply divided
Supreme Court upheld
the use of a controversial
drug in lethal-injection
executions Monday, even
as two dissenting justices
said for the ¿rst time they
think it’s “highly likely´
the death penalty itself is
unconstitutional.
On their last day together
until the fall, the justices
voted 5-4 in a case from
Oklahoma that the sedative
midazolam can be used in
executions without violating
the Eighth Amendment
prohibition on cruel and
unusual punishment.
The court also divided
5-4 in cases upholding
congressional districts drawn
by independent commissions
and calling into question
¿rst-ever limits on mercury
emissions from power
plants. In addition, the
justices also agreed to hear
an important af¿rmative
action case in the fall and
acted to keep Texas abortion
clinics open amid a legal
¿ght that threatens to close
most of them.
In the dispute over
the lethal-injection drug,
midazolam was used
in Arizona, Ohio and
Oklahoma executions in
2014. The executions took
longer than usual and raised
concerns that the drug did
not perform its intended task
of putting inmates into a
coma-like sleep.
Justice Samuel Alito
said for a conservative
majority that arguments
the drug could not be used
effectively as a sedative in
executions were speculative
and he dismissed problems
in executions in Arizona and
Oklahoma as “having little
probative value for present
purposes.´
Calif. lawmakers
pass contested
school vaccine bill,
SACRAMENTO,
Calif. (AP) — California
lawmakers on Monday sent
the governor a contentious
bill that would impose
one of the strictest school
vaccination laws in the
country in reaction to a
recent measles outbreak at
Disneyland.
The Senate reaf¿rmed
the bill striking California’s
personal belief exemption
for immunizations on a
24-14 vote. Mississippi and
West Virginia are the only
two states with such strict
requirements in place.
Democratic Gov. Jerry
Brown has not said if he
would sign it. Although the
bill passed the Senate and
the Assembly with bipartisan
support, it did not pass with
a two-thirds threshold that
would be needed to override
a governor’s veto.
Parents opposed to the
bill vowed to take legal
action even though the issue
has been upheld in court,
including by the Supreme
Court.
Photo contributed by Robert McLean
A lightning storm came through the area Saturday eve-
ning and touched off a field fire fed by erratic winds.
“That is very typical out
here,´ Wood said. “There
were four tractors with discs
besides mine, plus guys in
trucks with spraying appa-
ratus. It’s a good neighbor-
hood.´
Wood said he lost about
163 acres of the 200 acres of
wheat in the ¿eld.
“Thankfully,
it’s
all
insured,´ he said. “We’ll be
okay.´
The East Umatilla County
Fire Protection District
provided incident command
for the Shafer Road ¿re.
Chief Don Jackson said
the emergency call came in
5:46 p.m. and burned mostly
standing wheat belonging to
multiple farmers.
He said the ¿re roared
through the wheat before ¿re-
¿ghters subdued the Àames.
Units on their way from other
jurisdictions were diverted to
other area ¿res.
Power in the area was
disrupted to some homes until
early morning.
The Brogoitti farmhouse
and the farm’s eight outbuild-
ings are now nestled into a
huge curved black scar. Bruce
said the farm lost about 325
acres of wheat, which was
insured, and the buildings
remained unscathed. The
couple won’t soon forget
the sight of that approaching
Àame and the efforts of their
neighbors and emergency
workers.
“This is the ¿rst time in
all my years of farming,´ he
said, “that ¿re has come this
close.´
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kaney@eastoregonian.com
or call 541-966-0810.
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