RECORDS
Friday, April 7, 2017
PUBLIC SAFETY LOG
WEDNESDAY
8:59 a.m. - A purse was reported stolen from an unlocked
vehicle on Southwest Seventh Place, Hermiston.
9:01 a.m. - The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office took a report
of theft and computer identity theft in Irrigon.
9:06 a.m. - Hermiston police received a report of a home
break-in on Southwest 11th Street the previous day.
9:39 a.m. - A resident of Northwest Dawn Drive, Hermiston,
reported a $200 mountain bike stolen from his yard the previous
night.
9:56 a.m. - A resident of Riverside Mobile Home Estates,
2712 N.E. Riverside Ave., Pendleton, called Pendleton police
after a neighbor stole a bag of returnable cans and broke her
gate. The caller said the suspect was currently at Safeway
returning the cans for cash.
11:07 a.m. - A theft and trespass were reported by Hermiston
Rock Products, 1875 N. First Place, Hermiston.
11:20 a.m. - An aggressive pit bull mix dog was reported
loose on Northwest Fifth Street, Pendleton, growling and barking
at people. Pendleton police were notified.
12:44 p.m. - Theft was reported by a resident of A Quiet
Living Mobile Home Park in the 100 block of Northwest 11th
Street, Hermiston.
1:42 p.m. - An Irrigon woman complained that she had just
picked up her kids and her ex-husband “poured stuff on her” and
took the keys to her Jeep. She requested contact from a Morrow
County sheriff’s deputy.
3:03 p.m. - A dead steer washed up on the shore at the east
end of the Irrigon Marina, Northeast Seventh Street, and a caller
asked to have it removed before it started to smell.
3:03 p.m. - Another burglary was reported in Hermiston, this
time at a residence on East Cherry Avenue. Hermiston police
took a theft report.
3:45 p.m. - Hermiston police took a stolen vehicle report from
a resident of East Newport Avenue who said his family members
saw the vehicle in Kennewick, Wash., earlier in the day.
4:17 p.m. - A new phone scam targeting iTunes customers
was reported to Pendleton police by a resident of Indian Hills
Apartments, 1335 S.W. Second St.
4:31 p.m. - A man on West Beech Avenue, Hermiston, threw
something on another man’s car and was yelling and screaming
at the caller, Hermiston police were told.
5:43 p.m. - A caller from Absolute Care, 805 E. Gerone St.,
Echo, asked to speak to a police officer about harassment by
police. The Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office took a report.
7:47 p.m. - A resident of North Townsend Road, Hermiston,
reported a burning barrel fire almost caught a car on fire.
8:09 p.m. - A man verbally threatening customers at Rocket
Mart, 2398 N. First St., Hermiston, was arrested by the Umatilla
County Sheriff’s Office.
9:41 p.m. - Homeless people reportedly broke into a van
parked behind Stet’s Steakhouse, 1619 N. First St., Hermiston.
10:42 p.m. - A resident of Monroe Street, Umatilla, reported
hearing 8-10 shots fired in the area. Umatilla police were unable
to locate a shooter.
ARRESTS, CITATIONS
•Oliver Daniel Ingersol, 22, address not provided, was
arrested by the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office on a charge of
aggravated fourth-degree assault, a felony.
•Joseph Lee Swope, 36, address not provided, was arrested
by the Morrow County Sheriff’s Office for possession of
methamphetamine and on a misdemeanor probation violation.
•Umatilla Tribal Police arrested Stanley Dale James Jr., 40,
address not provided, for criminal use of drugs and on misde-
meanor charges of criminal trespass and disorderly conduct.
•Oregon State Police responding to a report of a vehicle fire
on Southwest 19th Street and Frazer Avenue recognized the
vehicle from a driving complaint a couple of hours previous.
The officer noticed signs of impairment in the driver and a used
needle inside the car, and the driver admitted to taking pills. After
she failed field sobriety tests, Kasara Nicole Kennedy, 25, of
Pendleton was cited and released for driving under the influence
of intoxicants, her vehicle was towed and she was given a ride
to her home by the officer.
DEATH NOTICES
Lauren Jordan
Pilot Rock
Aug. 31, 1928-March 14, 2017
Lauren Jordan, 88, died Tuesday, March 14, 2017, in
Pilot Rock. She was born Aug. 31, 1928, in Portland. A
celebration of life will be held at a later date. A full obituary
will follow. Juniper Ridge Funeral Home is in charge of
arrangements.
UPCOMING SERVICES
FRIDAY, APRIL 7
BULLOCK, LEONARD — Visitation from 3-7 p.m.
at Burns Mortuary, 336 S.W. Dorion Ave., Pendleton.
HICKEY, PEGGY — Graveside funeral service at 1
p.m. at the Hermiston Cemetery.
SATURDAY, APRIL 8
BULLOCK, LEONARD — Funeral service at 2 p.m.
at Bethel Assembly of God, 1109 Airport Road, Pendleton.
GUTIERREZ ESTRADA, JAVIER — Funeral
service at noon in the chapel at Burns Mortuary, 685 W.
Hermiston Ave., Hermiston. Burial will follow at the
Hermiston Cemetery.
ROUSKA, MARK — Celebration of life and potluck
lunch at 1 p.m. at A.C. Houghton Elementary School, 1105
N. Main Ave., Irrigon. A family-friendly softball game
will follow the reception; wear your favorite sports team
apparel or Hawaiian shirt.
OBITUARY POLICY
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via the funeral home or in person at the East Oregonian office. For
more information, call 541-966-0818 or 1-800-522-0255, ext. 221.
East Oregonian
Don Rickles, king of insult comedy, dies at 90
NEW YORK (AP) — He
was only kidding.
Really. Don Rickles loved
everybody: black or white,
gay or straight, fat or thin.
But don’t get him started
on his wife, or the time she
dove into their swimming
pool while wearing all her
jewelry.
And drowned.
For more than half a
century, the hollering, bald-
headed “Mr. Warmth” let
everyone have it. Insults
rained on the meek and the
mighty, from unsuspecting
fans to such fellow celebri-
ties as Frank Sinatra, Dean
Martin and Johnny Carson.
And few seemed to mind.
Rickles, who died Thursday
at age 90, was among the
most loved people in the
business.
He was the acknowledged
grandmaster of insult comedy.
Despite jokes that from other
comics might have inspired
boycotts, he was idolized by
everyone from Joan Rivers
and Louis CK to Chris Rock
and Sarah Silverman. James
Caan once said that Rickles
helped inspire the blustering
Sonny Corleone of “The
Godfather.” An HBO special
was directed by John Landis
of “Animal House” fame and
included tributes from Clint
Eastwood, Sidney Poitier and
Robert De Niro. Carl Reiner
would say he knew he had
made it in Hollywood when
Rickles made fun of him.
Rickles appeared every-
where from strip joints to
AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File
n this Sept 2008 file photo, Don Rickles is honored for
best individual performance in a variety or music pro-
gram for “Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project,” at the
60th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. Rickles
died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 90.
the 1985 inaugural gala for
President Ronald Reagan and
remained a popular act well
after his ethnic and racial
humor had become outdated.
In 2008, he won an Emmy for
best individual performance
in a variety show for the
Landis film “Mr. Warmth:
The Don Rickles Project.”
At the ceremony, he joked:
“I’ve been in this business
for 55 years and the biggest
award I got was an ashtray
from the Friars in New
York.” The Friars gave him
a nice statuette in 2013 when
they presented him a lifetime
achievement award.
Rickles’ many friends
returned the wisecracks,
whether labeling him as a
man everyone loved to hate
No meetings scheduled
MONDAY, APRIL 10
IRRIGON FIRE DISTRICT,
7 a.m., Irrigon Fire Department,
705 N.E. Main Ave., Irrigon.
(541-922-3133)
PENDLETON
SCHOOL
DISTRICT, 6 p.m., Pendleton
School District office, 107 N.W.
10th St., Pendleton. (541-276-
6711)
HERMISTON
SCHOOL
DISTRICT, 6:30 p.m., district
office, 502 W. Standard Ave.,
Hermiston. (541-667-6000)
M I LT O N - F R E E WAT E R
SCHOOL DISTRICT, 6:30 p.m.,
Central Middle School, 306 S.W.
Second St., Milton-Freewater.
(541-938-3551)
HEPPNER CITY COUNCIL,
7 p.m., Heppner City Hall, 111
N. Main St., Heppner. (541-676-
9618)
M I LT O N - F R E E WAT E R
CITY COUNCIL, 7 p.m., Mil-
ton-Freewater Public Library Al-
bee Room, 8 S.W. Eighth Ave.,
Milton-Freewater.
(541-938-
5531)
PILOT ROCK FIRE DIS-
TRICT, 7 p.m., Pilot Rock Fire
Department, 415 N.E. Elm St.,
Pilot Rock. (541-443-4522)
HERMISTON CITY COUN-
CIL, 7 p.m., Hermiston City Hall
council chambers, 180 N.E.
Second St., Hermiston. (541-
567-5521)
AT H E N A - W E S TO N
SCHOOL DISTRICT, 7 p.m.,
Weston Middle School library,
205 E. Wallace, Weston. 5:30
p.m executive session, 5:45
p.m. work session, 7 p.m. regu-
lar meeting. (Kim Thul 541-566-
3551)
WESTON
PLANNING
COMMISSION, 7 p.m., Memori-
al Hall, 210 E. Main St., Weston.
(541-566-3313)
or, as his pal Bob Newhart
once joked, a man with
whom it was annoying to
travel. But the topper came,
from all people, radio host
Casey Kasem, who dressed
up as Hitler at a Martin roast
in Rickles’ honor and told the
comedian: “You are the only
man I know who has bombed
more places than I have.”
Placed by Jerry Seinfeld
on the “Mount Rushmore”
of comedy, Rickles patented
a confrontational style that
stand-up performers still
emulate, but one that kept him
on the right side of trouble.
He emerged in the late 1950s,
a time when comics such as
Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl
were taking greater risks,
becoming more politicized
and more introspective.
Rickles managed to shock
his audiences without cutting
social commentary or truly
personal self-criticism. He
operated under a code as
old the Borscht Belt: Go
far — ethnic jokes, sex jokes,
ribbing Carson for his many
marriages — but make sure
everyone knows it’s for fun.
“I think the reason that it
(his act) caught on and gave
me a wonderful career is that
I was never mean-spirited,”
he once said. “Not that you
had to like it, but you had to
be under a rock somewhere
not to get it.”
In the 1960s, Rickles was
welcomed for the first time
to the “Tonight Show” with
Carson. He sat down on the
couch and muttered, “Hello,
dummy.” The studio audi-
ence was initially startled,
but when the host began
laughing
uncontrollably,
so did everyone else. He
appeared countless more
times, haranguing Carson
about not being invited more
often or mocking his own
love life.
“I love my wife, but she’s
ill,” was a typical joke.
To his great disappoint-
ment, Rickles was never
able to transfer his success
to a long-running weekly
situation comedy. “The Don
Rickles Show” lasted just
one season (1972). “C.P.O.
Sharkey,” in which he played
an acid-tongued Navy chief
petty officer, aired from 1976
to 1978.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra founder Paul O’Neill dies at 61
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) —
Paul O’Neill, who founded
the progressive metal band
Trans-Siberian
Orchestra
that was known for its
spectacular holiday concerts
filled with theatrics, lasers
and pyrotechnics, has died.
He was 61.
University of South
Florida police spokeswoman
Renna Reddick said O’Neill
was found dead in his
room by hotel staff at a
Tampa Embassy Suites late
Wednesday afternoon. She
says there were no obvious
signs of foul play, and a
medical examiner is working
to determine an official
cause.
The band said in a state-
ment that O’Neill died from
a “chronic illness.” The band
calls his death “a profound
and indescribable loss for us
all.”
O’Neill was a rock
producer and manager who
began putting together
Trans-Siberian
Orchestra
in 1996, blending heavy
metal with classical music
and creating a unique
brand of rock theater. He
tapped three members of
the Tarpon Springs, Florida,
band Savatage to be part of
TSO and intended for it to
be a “supergroup,” similar
to popular bands like ELO,
AP Photo/Jim Cooper, File
In this Oct. 2006 file photo, Paul O’Neill of Trans-
Siberian Orchestra, poses in New York. O’Neill was
found dead in his room by hotel staff at a Tampa Em-
bassy Suites late Wednesday. He was 61.
Pink Floyd and Yes.
“The best description of a
TSO show I ever saw came
from a reporter who said the
only way to describe TSO is
‘The Who meets Phantom of
the Opera with Pink Floyd’s
light show,’” O’Neill told
the Tampa Bay Times in an
email interview in 2012. “I
would take any one of those
alone as a compliment.”
The band is best known
for its hard rock takes on
Christmas staples like “Carol
of the Bells,” but also more
experimental,
arena-rock
songs such as “Christmas
Eve (Sarajevo 12/24),” which
described a lone cello player
playing a forgotten holiday
song in war-torn Sarajevo.
That song was on the band’s
1996 album, “Christmas Eve
and Other Stories,” which
went triple platinum.
Fans especially loved
the band’s Christmas tours,
which were heavy on
guitar solos and heavier on
special effects — similar
to a Broadway Christmas
pageant with a heavy metal
soundtrack. One magazine
once wrote that “TSO has
enough pyro to BBQ an
entire school of blue whales”
during a show.
“My personal theory is it
was being in the right place
at the right time. It was easier
for us to jump the generation
gap between all the people
before us. There’s something
magical about watching a
15-year-old kid get into an
Al Pitrelli guitar solo and
his father jamming out there
with him. That’s (proof)
enough time has gone by
that everybody has rock in
common now, which simply
didn’t exist when it was born
in the ‘60s,” O’Neill told
Billboard.
But O’Neill, with his
signature flowing locks,
sunglasses
and
leather
jackets, was remembered
by legions of fans on
social media Thursday for
something else: his deep
generosity.
Fans recalled how O’Neill
would often approach them
before concerts and hand
them a silver dollar from
the year they were born (he
kept a case of them while
touring), or sometimes hand
out jean jackets. And others
recall him tipping waitresses
thousands of dollars for a
post-show meal, buying
drum sets for young fans
and on numerous occasions,
would not let security guards
kick fans out until everyone
received an autograph.
O’Neill is survived by his
wife and daughter.
HONORS
EOU names
winter dean’s list
LA GRANDE — Eastern
Oregon University named
509 students to the dean’s
list for the 2017 winter term.
Qualifying students achieve
and maintain a grade point
average of 3.5 or higher on
a 4.0 scale while completing
a minimum of 12 hours of
graded coursework for the
duration of the term.
The
following
local
students earned this distinc-
tion:
Athena: Devin Griggs;
Boardman: Briton Hansen,
Alesia Sterner; Echo: Diana
Bautista; Heppner: Patrick
Collins, Makenzie Correa,
Christopher Kindle; Herm-
iston: Samantha Baumgartner,
Matthew Booher, Jessica
Dixon, Ashlynn Holwegner,
MEETINGS
FRIDAY, APRIL 7
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Thursday, April 6
Martee
Kelly,
Hannah
Mabbott, Makayla Mangione,
Meghan
McDonough,
Annika Miller, Kimberly
Nevil, Lily Ringe, Natalie
Scotto, Brittany Smith, Debra
Smith, Truc Truong, Kalee
Walchli; Ione: Shannon Boor,
Jaqueline Juarez; Irrigon:
Jesus Contreras, James
Creason, Jennifer Matlack;
Milton-Freewater: Brittney
Hall, Jazmin Ornelas, Abigail
Biggs, Danielle Veitenheimer,
Jennifer Zerba; Pendleton:
Lindsey Caldera, Jeremy
Cochrane, Kimberly Denton,
Michael Derrickson, Travis
Hancock, Aaron Hines, Eliz-
abeth Hoffman, Greg Jones,
Brian Mandella, Crystal
Mitchell, Paige Navratil,
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Fri - Wed, April 7 - April 12, 2017
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