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Tuesday, December 13, 2016
East Oregonian
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Oregon Trail Interpretive Center getting 170-year-old map
By JOSHUA DILLEN
Baker City Herald
BAKER CITY — The
Oregon Trail Interpretive
Center will be the new home
of a book of historic pioneer
maps thanks to Sen. Ron
Wyden.
Through a partnership
between the Library of
Congress and the office of
the Oregon Democrat, the
170-year-old, seven-section
topographical map of the
Oregon Trail that is bound
into a book, has been secured
for display at the Interpretive
Center on Flagstaff Hill about
five miles east of Baker City.
Center Director Sarah
LeCompte is excited to
receive the map.
“It’s a great document to
have,” she said. “It’s some-
thing that is really authentic
and original that our visitors
can see. Our visitors always
love that — not a duplicate or
a replica of the real thing, but
the real thing.”
S. John Collins/Baker City Herald via AP
This Dec. 1 photo taken at the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretative Center in
Baker City, shows the fold out map inside the John C. Fremont book displayed there.
The Interpretive Center,
which is operated by the
BLM, will celebrate its 25th
anniversary in May.
More than 2.2 million
visitors have toured the center
since it opened on May 23,
1992.
Wyden stated in a press
release that as the son of a
librarian, he is always gratified
when a significant piece of
history finds its proper home.
“That’s why I am so pleased
to play a part in bringing this
book of maps to Baker City
where it can be appreciated for
generations to come.”
The map was developed
by cartographer Charles
Preuss, who accompanied
frontiersman John C. Fremont
and his wife Jesse Benton on
an expedition along the route
of the Oregon Trail from
Missouri to Oregon in 1843.
Fremont and his wife wrote
a book about the expedition,
“A Report of the Exploring
Expedition to Oregon and
California,” for the U.S.
Congress that was published
in 1845.
It included another version
of the map also created by
Preuss. The Interpretive
Center has a copy of that
report on display but does
not have the map that was
included with it. The map
Wyden’s office has procured
for the center is a larger and
more detailed version of the
one that was published with
Fremont’s report.
Congress ordered the
creation of this seven-section
map in 1845 from the field
notes and journal of Fremont
along with the sketches
and notes of Preuss. It was
published in 1846.
LeCompte said the map
will complement the center’s
exhibits.
“(Fremont) was one of the
first explorers to really docu-
ment the route,” LeCompte
said. “He followed the route
that was later used by the
Oregon Trail pioneers. Essen-
tially those maps are the first
accurate maps of the way out
West.”
Wyden’s
spokesman
Hank Stern said the senator
has interns who occasionally
select books to fulfill requests
from Oregon schools, libraries
and eligible nonprofits.
Almost all of these selections
are recently published books.
But occasionally the Library
of Congress discards surplus
books that are much older. The
book of maps is one example
of that.
“Wyden’s office recog-
nized the historical value
of the item and the office
offered it to the Interpretive
Center,” Stern said. “Senator
Wyden strongly believes that
history comes alive when
people can see firsthand such
unique documents as this
book. And when it comes
to the history of Oregon’s
pioneers, the Oregon Trail
Interpretive Center struck him
as the perfect home for this
170-year-old treasure.”
PENDLETON
Man faces charges
Downtown Holiday Stroll gets warm reception for attempted
murder and more
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Downtown
Pendleton
thrummed Saturday night
as hundreds bundled up and
took to the snow-covered
streets for the first Old Fash-
ioned Holiday Stroll.
Businesses stayed open
late, some offered free hot
chocolate, the burgeoning
Oregon Grain Growers set
up a stand and offered — to
adults only, of course — free
tastes of their vodka and
whiskey. Sisters in Song and
the Pendleton Men’s Chorus
trod Main and filled the air
with carols. And smiles were
in abundance.
The Holiday Stroll was the
invention of Molly Turner,
the downtown association’s
program manager. The asso-
ciation wanted to encourage
local holiday shopping, she
said, and creating an event
to pull people to downtown
helps achieve that. The
association used some adver-
tising and word of mouth to
spread the news about the
stroll, as well as Facebook,
which allows users to track
responses to invitations.
Turner recalled putting
the event’s invite on Face-
book weeks ago on a Friday
morning, and by the next
day more than 200 people
clicked the boxes for going
and maybe going.
That number, she said,
continued to climb, topping
out around 920.
Judging from the crowd,
that many may have made it
during the Holiday Stroll’s
four-hour window.
Turner said seeing so
release more information
later.
Glidewell
appeared
A Umatilla County man Monday afternoon via video
is in jail on accusations of from the Umatilla County
trying to harm and kill his Jail to face the preliminary
charges in circuit court in
significant other.
The sheriff’s office on Pendleton. Judge Lynn
Hampton set his
Friday arrested
bail at $500,000.
John
Paul
The defendant
Glidewell,
39,
asked the judge
near Weston. He
if she would
faces two counts
release him to live
of
first-degree
with his broth-
kidnapping, one
er-in-law, who is
of
first-degree
related to a super-
unlawful sexual
visor in the very
penetration and
jail where he now
one of attempted
finds
himself.
murder. The state Glidewell
Hampton said the
in court docu-
ments alleged Glidewell charges are serious and he
removed the victim from could file a motion with the
one place to another so he court seeking release.
She added fellow circuit
could sexually abuse her,
threatened to use a gun and Judge Christopher Brauer
would preside over that
tried to kill her.
Undersheriff Jim Little- hearing. Glidewell said
field said the case stems Brauer has a conflict of
from domestic violence interest because the victim
the sheriff’s office learned in this case used to serve
about Friday and has been him breakfast. Hampton
investigating since. Glide- said the court would let
well and his victim lived Brauer know about that.
She then set another
together for some time,
Littlefield said, and the hearing for Glidewell for
suspect beat her, strangled 10:15 a.m. Friday. That
gives the district attorney’s
her and injured her.
Littlefield added the case office time to take the
remains under investigation evidence to a grand jury for
and he would be able to an indictment.
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Staff photo by Phil Wright
Sisters in Song carol Saturday evening at the children’s toy and game store
Imaginarium in downtown Pendleton during the new Old Fashioned Holiday Stroll.
Staff photo by Phil Wright
Hundreds came out Saturday evening for the Pendleton
Downtown Association’s new Old Fashioned Holiday
Stroll, including Santa.
many people attend this first
year was a positive sign. She
also credited local businesses
and organizations for their
willingness to participate.
The crew at Great Pacific
Wine & Coffee Co. set up an
outside beer garden, complete
with hot air blowers to fend
off the chill. Owner Ken
Schulberg said he figured
maybe a few handfuls of
people would show. He was
happy to be so wrong.
“There’s people up and
down Main Street,” he
gushed, “and it’s after 5 on a
Saturday night.”
Dave and Tracey Fiore of
Pendleton joined the throng.
They said they loved the
stroll and walked from one
end of Main to the other,
with stops in Bella Cosa
Gifts & Home Decor, and
Alexander’s Chocolaterie &
Vino Bistro. And the recent
winter weather, Dave Fiore
said, only added to the cheery
atmosphere.
He even waited in line to
take a turn with Santa. Just
like the song says, this was
his big scene.
And Pendleton’s, too.
PENDLETON
Power failure affects 1,534
East Oregonian
PENDLETON
Judge deals blow to Hamley’s owner lawsuit
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Hamley’s owner Parley
Pearce won a partial victory
Monday in the court fight
against business partner Blair
Woodfield. But Woodfield
still has a shot of removing
Pearce from the business.
The two men each own 50
percent of the four limited-lia-
bility companies that oversee
the operations of the western
store, steak house, and the
real and intellectual property
that make up Hamley’s, an
icon of downtown Pendleton.
Pearce and Woodfield oper-
ated Hamley’s for years, but
their relationship soured after
Woodfield wanted to sell the
business and Pearce did not,
according to court documents.
Woodfield,
through
attorney Steven Joseph of
La Grande, filed a lawsuit
in September in Umatilla
County to oust Pearce from
anything to do with Hamley’s
force out a business partner
who is preventing a business
from operating as it should.
But claims of wrongdoing,
DeJong said, must be based
on facts.
“That’s just missing from
this case,” he said.
Allegations such as not
filling out paperwork on a sale
of an antique gun is not nearly
enough to force partners out
of a business, he continued,
nor is partners disagreeing
with one another.
Hampton dismissed two
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— the dissolution of the
companies and a derivative
claim. That’s a legal maneuver
allowing a shareholder to sue
when the company itself will
not. Hampton said the lawsuit
failed to specify which of
Pearce’s acts harmed which of
the Hamley’s organizations.
The judge, though, said she
needed more time to consider
the claim to expel Pearce.
After she hands down an
opinion, she said, the parties
have 30 days to respond.
and dissolve the companies.
Pearce, through his attorney
Timothy DeJong of Portland,
asked the court to dismiss the
lawsuit.
Circuit
Judge
Lynn
Hampton heard from both
sides Monday in Pendleton.
Pearce was in court while the
attorneys called in.
DeJong argued Wood-
field lacked the facts to
support expelling Pearce
from Hamley’s operations.
A business partner, he said,
must commit actions that
harm the business or make
operating the business impos-
sible. Woodfield’s “petty
complaints,” such as using a
company trailer for personal
use, do not meet that standard
in Oregon.
Joseph contended the
Hamley’s businesses cannot
carry on their duties in a
“reasonably
responsible
manner” based on Pearce’s
“wrongful conduct.” Under
the law, he said, a court can
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A power failure left
1,534 customers without
electricity for more than
four hours early Monday
morning in Pendleton.
Bill Clemens, regional
community manager for
Pacific Power, said the
disruption was caused by
a small stick, likely from
an osprey nest, that slipped
between two fuse cutouts
on a power pole near the
Umatilla River and shorted
the line. The power went
out at 3:01 a.m., and wasn’t
restored until 7:20 a.m.
“It took a while to find
the problem,” Clemens
said.
Homes and businesses
were affected the west side
of the city, including Blue
Mountain Lumber and St.
Anthony Hospital, Clemens
said.