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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.”
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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. Actor Rhys Ifans is 50.
Actress Diana Maria Riva
is 48. Actor Colin Ferguson
is 45. Actor/singer Jaime
Camil is 44. Retired NFL
player Keyshawn Johnson
is 45. Rock musician
Daniel Jones is 44. Singer
Rufus Wainwright is 44.
Actress Franka Potente is
43. Actress A.J. Cook is 39.
Actor Keegan Allen is 30.
Actress Camila Banus is 27.
Actress Selena Gomez is 25.
Britain’s Prince George of
Cambridge is four.
Thought for Today: “If
America forgets where she
came from, if the people lose
sight of what brought them
along, if she listens to the
deniers and mockers, then
will begin the rot and disso-
lution.”— Carl Sandburg
(1878-1967).
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