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COFFEE BREAK Saturday, July 22, 2017 East Oregonian Page 5C OUT OF THE VAULT Blue Mountains may extend to Idaho A story in the July 9, 1987 East Oregonian speculated that the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon, commonly thought to extend from Dayton, Washington, to John Day, Oregon, may actually extend as far east as Idaho and include some of the state’s most iconic peaks. The gentle slopes of the Blue Mountains are in stark contrast to the rugged peaks of the Wallowas and Elkhorns in the northeast corner of Oregon. But most geologists and science writers would include the Elkhorns near Baker, the Strawberries near John Day, the Wallowas and even the Seven Devils range in western Idaho as part of the Blues. And it all has to do with plate techtonics, the motion of land masses that move across the globe on a sea of molten lava far beneath the crust. According to the theory, one of those pieces of the floating shell, the North American plate, has been colliding with and, in places, overriding the heavier Pacific plate for millions of years. The movements of the plates in relation to each other has, in the case of the Elkhorns and Wallowas, created massive mountain ranges where the North American plate has scraped up features from the Pacific plate, a process called accretion. Studies indicate that the Wallowas were at one time volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean near the equator. Geologists think that the Elkhorns, including the Anthony Lakes area, were pieces of the ocean floor. And as more pieces of the Pacific plate stack up on the North American plate, the coastline — once found in western Idaho, then central Oregon — continues to move westward. The Blues have a more complicated history. As the Pacific plate is driven (subducted) under the North American plate it melts, re-emerging as lava through thousands of fissures and volcanoes. The Columbia River Basalts, lava flows that covered more than 15,000 square miles in only a week, at depths of up to two miles, occurred sometime between six and 16 million years ago. And for reasons as yet unknown to scientists, the basalts folded in places and formed the hills and valleys familiar to Eastern Oregon residents. Stan Prowant, a geology professor at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton in 1987, suggested that the Blue Mountains actually should be called the “Blue Holes.” Familiar features such as the Blue Mountain Anticline, which extends from central Oregon to the Meacham area, and the smaller Rieth Anticline just west of Pendleton, are examples of the upward folds caused by this geologic action. And Pendleton and Pilot Rock lie along the Agency Syncline, a downward fold in the basalts. And geologic activity continues in the Blues. Earthquakes shake the area an average of every 15 years, some registering 5 or higher on the Richter scale. And geologist Mark Ferns of the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Resources in Baker suggested in the story that future lava flows would not be out of the question. “Troy would be a good place,” Ferns said. “That’s where the most recent flows originated.” ■ Renee Struthers is the Community Records Editor for the East Oregonian. See the complete collection of Out of the Vault columns at eovault.blogspot.com DEAR ABBY Dad can’t be thanked enough for helping daughter pay bills Dear Abby: My wife and I answer your phone if you prefer have been married just over a not to talk at a particular time, year. It’s the second marriage and you certainly do not have to for both of us. Since our entertain him and his wife at the wedding, my father-in-law drop of a hat. The next time the continually “reminds” us that he subject comes up, explain that helped my wife financially after to him, hand him a check and let her divorce. He does it because the chips fall where they may. he wants us to continually Dear Abby: My best friend Jeanne acknowledge that fact. Phillips is pregnant. Her husband is a lazy jerk who, during her I have offered to write a Advice last pregnancy, caused her to check and pay him back for all miscarry. It happened after he he did for her during that time, but he refused because he doesn’t want informed her he was filing for divorce the money; he wants the appreciation. and marrying a mail-order bride. I can’t bring myself to be happy for To him what that means is when he calls on the phone, we answer. When he her. What do I do? How can I be happy and his wife drop by, we are home, etc. for the person who means the most to I feel that since I have offered to pay me, but will probably lean on me for him back and he refused the money, the more support than I can or want to give? slate is wiped clean. Your thoughts? — — Best Friend Blues In Kentucky Dear B.F.B.: Friends do lean on Not Son-In-Law Of The Year Dear Son-In-Law: Your father- each other for support, but you can in-law regards his generosity as a only do what you can do. Frankly, I means to control your wife — and you am surprised that she’s still with the by extension. You are not required to husband who treated her so shabbily. Help her in those areas that you can, but ultimately understand that she is responsible for her own choices. If she needs more help than you can give her, encourage her to reach out to a profes- sional. Dear Abby: A colleague of mine was let go a few days ago and it shocked us all. I imagine it was even more shocking to her. She seemed to have a good deal of responsibility outside of her normal role, and from what we saw, she was excellent at her job. We weren’t close friends outside of work, but we would text each other now and again and I consider her someone I would like to keep in touch with. Would it be inappropriate to text her and offer my condolences? — Etiquette Advice In California Dear Etiquette: You are entitled to a personal life outside the office. I don’t think it would be inappropriate to reach out to her on your own time. As long as you don’t discuss it at work, it is your business and no one else’s. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 22-23, 1917 Following investigations that convinces the officers that several rooming houses of the city are being used as places of prostitution, Chief of Police Al Roberts has served notice upon the owners of three of the buildings that they will be held answerable under the city ordinance making them equally responsible for such practices with the lessees or proprietors of the place. Those served with such notices are Charles Koch, owner of the State Hotel building, John Siebert, who owns the building where the Columbia rooming house is located, and R. Martin, owner of the building in which is located the Arlington. Tony Masters is proprietor of the first place and H.F Peters of the other two. It is said that the owner of a fourth house, also under the management of Peters, is to be served with such a notice. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 22-23, 1967 A state fire marshal continued investigation in Milton-Freewater today of a fire that caused about $500,000 damage Thursday. The fire destroyed $300,000 of frozen food and a large wooden building, as well as damaging a masonry structure. The buildings are owned by Harris Food Industries Inc. The food ruined by the blaze was stored in the Harris buildings by other firms. Refrigeration equipment was a total loss, Harris manager Bud Smith said, and there will be little salvage from either building. The fire apparently started on the north side of the wooden building soon after midnight. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 22-23, 1992 For a few moments this week, the skies above Pendleton were alive with the drone of Japanese Zeroes — the kind flown by kamikaze pilots in World War II. Seven replicas of the Japanese war planes landed at the Pendleton Airport for refueling before heading to Everett, Wash. Col. Charles Hutchins of Texas City, Texas, said the planes are part of the Confederate Air Force, a flying museum for planes that were used during World War II. The squadron that landed in Pendleton included Zeroes, Kate torpedo bombers and Val dive bombers. All of the replicas were constructed in 1968 for the filming of the movie “Tora, Tora, Tora.” THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today is the 203rd day of 2017. There are 162 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On July 22, 1942, the Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp. Gaso- line rationing involving the use of coupons began along the Atlantic seaboard. On this date: In 1587, an English colony fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina. In 1796, Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by General Moses Cleaveland (correct). In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation. In 1916, 10 people were killed when a suitcase bomb went off during San Fran- cisco’s Preparedness Day parade; two anti-war labor radicals, Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings, were jailed but eventually released amid doubts about their guilt. In 1934, bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, where he had just seen the Clark Gable movie “Manhattan Melodrama.” In 1937, the U.S. Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court. In 1946, the militant Zionist group Irgun blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people. In 1967, American author, historian and poet Carl Sandburg died at his North Carolina home at age 89. In 1977, Elvis Costello’s debut album, “My Aim Is True,” was released by Stiff Records. In 1983, Samantha Smith and her parents returned home to Manchester, Maine, after completing a whirlwind tour of the Soviet Union. In 1992, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. (He was slain by security forces in December 1993.) In 2007: A bus carrying Polish Catholic pilgrims from a holy site in the French Alps plunged off a steep mountain road, killing 26 people. Padraig Harrington survived a calamitous finish in regulation and a tense putt for bogey on the final hole of a playoff to win the British Open. Cinematogra- pher Laszlo Kovacs (“Easy Rider”) died in Beverly Hills, California, at age 74. In 2011, Anders Breivik, a self-described “militant nationalist,” massacred 69 people at a Norwegian island youth retreat after detonating a bomb in nearby Oslo that killed eight others in the nation’s worst violence since World War II. Today’s Birthdays: Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., is 94. Actor-comedian Orson Bean is 89. Author Tom Robbins is 85. Actress Louise Fletcher is 83. Rhythm-and-blues singer Chuck Jackson is 80. Actor Terence Stamp is 79. Game show host Alex Trebek is 77. Singer George Clinton is 76. Actor-singer Bobby Sherman is 74. Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, is 74. Movie writ- er-director Paul Schrader is 71. Actor Danny Glover is 71. Singer Mireille Mathieu is 71. Actor-comedian-di- rector Albert Brooks is 70. Rock singer Don Henley is 70. Movie composer Alan Menken is 68. Singer-actress Lonette McKee is 64. Jazz musician Al Di Meola is 63. Actor Willem Dafoe is 62. Rhythm-and-blues singer Keith Sweat is 56. Actress Joanna Going is 54. Actor Rob Estes is 54. Folk singer Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls) is 54. Actor John Leguizamo is 53. Actor-comedian David Spade is 53. Actor Patrick Labyorteaux is 52. Rock musician Pat Badger is 50. Actress Irene Bedard is 50. 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