RECORDS
Friday, September 22, 2017
OBITUARIES
Hermiston
April 26, 1932 - September 18, 2017
to the Geneva House care
facility.
She was a devout Chris-
tian and attended Heppner
Christian Church in her
younger years and Ione
United Church of Christ, now
Ione Community Church,
for last 40 some years.
She was always
involved with the
4-H program and
was a 4-H leader
for many years.
Her mother and her
daughter Charlotte
lived in Portland
and she loved to
go there and take
them on trips to
the beach and out
to dinner when she
could get away
from the ranch.
Being a strong independent
woman she worked side by
side with her husband and
her son tending to the cattle
and helping out moving farm
equipment. It is believed
she probably hauled several
million gallons of water to
the cattle with their old water
trucks. She fed the family as
well as harvest crews and
a long string of hired men
while tending to the book-
keeping, the banking, and
keeping the house.
Lorene and George were
heavily involved with square
dancing for a number of
years, working in the state
organizations and helping to
put on large festivals. They
had a great social life through
that and met a lot of great
people that became longtime
friends.
Lorene dearly loved her
grandchildren, Tracy Griffith
(Mund) and Jenny Griffith
(Turner), and was able to
spend time watching them
play sports through grade
school and high school. She
also got to watch them rodeo
through junior rodeo, high
school rodeo, and college
rodeo. She even traveled to
Fallon, Nevada, to watch the
girls compete in the High
School International Finals
Rodeo. She always had a
smile and friendly greeting
for one and all. She was a
devoted and faithful friend
and the best mother and
grandmother.
She was preceded in death
by her parents Dorris and
Francis Mitchell; twin sons
Grant and Elmer; daughter
Charlotte; and close cousins
Gayle Justice, Clara Lee
Justice
(Lockhart)
and
Melvin Justice.
She is survived by Her
husband of 66 years, George
Griffith; son and daughter-in-
law Glen and Kelly Griffith;
granddaughters
Tracy
Griffith (Mund) and husband
Justin, and Jenny Griffith
(Turner) husband Ricky; and
great-grandson Tate Sage
Turner.
She will be deeply missed
but we know she is dancing
in heaven with her children
and her folks.
Memorial contributions
can be made to Geneva
House, 80580 S. Cabana
Road, Hermiston, OR 97838.
Sweeney
Mortuary
of Heppner is in care of
arrangements.
UPCOMING SERVICES
FRIDAY, SEPT. 22
MCRAE, LINDA — Funeral service at 11 a.m. in the
chapel at Burns Mortuary, 685 W. Hermiston Ave., Herm-
iston. Burial will follow at Desert Lawn Memorial Cemetery
in Irrigon.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 23
GOMEZ, BERTHA — Mass of Christian Burial at 10
a.m. at Our Lady of Angels Catholic Church, 565 W. Herm-
iston Ave., Hermiston. Burial will follow from 11 a.m. to 12
p.m. at the Hermiston Cemetery.
GRIFFITH, LORENE — Funeral service at 11 a.m. at
Ione Community Church, 470 E. Main St. A dinner will be
served after the service. Concluding service and interment
will follow at the Morgan Cemetery.
TRACY, JIM — Celebration of life service with military
honors at 1 p.m. at Hermiston Church of the Nazarene, 1520
W. Orchard Ave.
WEDNESDAY
7:26 a.m. - A vehicle took out a light
pole on Northwest Riverside Avenue,
Heppner.
9:27 a.m. - Pilot Rock police received
a call from a resident on Northeast
Douglas Street who said a scam tried to
get her Social Security number. About
40 minutes later, a second call from the
same street also reported a scam.
10:05 a.m. - Police and medical
emergency services responded to a
report of a man suffering a mental crisis
in Irrigon and took him to Good Shepherd
Medical Center, Hermiston, for help.
3:55 p.m. - Umatilla residents on
Oriole Street told police the young man
who stayed with them for a few months
left, but his vehicle remains on their
property. They wanted to know options
for removing it.
4:28 p.m. - A Pendleton landlord
ARRESTS, CITATIONS
reported a tenant has been missing
for three weeks from a residence on
Southwest Perkins Avenue.
6:42 p.m. - Wintry weather may have
caught one driver by surprise.
Oregon State Police responded to
a crash at about milepost 241 on the
westbound side of Interstate 84. Police
reported the driver, a 77-year-old man
from La Grande, said it began to snow
and he lost control of his white Cadillac
SRX. He told the trooper the SUV hit the
guardrail, according to state police, then
crossed both lanes and hit the median
head-on.
Neither the driver or his 75-year-old
wife were injured. Family arrived to take
his wife while the driver waited for the tow
truck.
State police also reported the trooper
warned the driver for failure to drive
within the lane.
•Pendleton police arrested Stanley
Dale James Jr., 40, of 72692 Emigrant
Hill Road, Pendleton, for third-degree
robbery, fourth-degree assault and
third-degree theft.
•The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office
at about 2:35 p.m. at the Sub Zero Motel,
205 S. First St., Irrigon, arrested Brittany
Ashton Abbott, 22, of Irrigon, on Umatilla
County warrants for probation violations
and failure to appear. Abbott struggled
with the deputies, and the sheriff’s office
also arrested her on new charges of
second-degree escape, resisting arrest
and assaulting a public safety officer.
•Umatilla tribal police arrested
Roslynn Celine Simmons, 18, of
Pendleton, for endangering the welfare
of a minor, criminal activity in drugs,
criminal use of drugs, and dangerous
drugs.
Facebook to release Russia ads, beef up election ‘integrity’
NEW YORK (AP) —
Facebook is slowly acknowl-
edging the outsized — if
unintended — role it played
in the 2016 U.S. presidential
elections.
Bowing to pressure from
lawmakers and the public,
the company said it will
provide the contents of 3,000
ads bought by a Russian
agency to congressional
investigators, while also
pledging to make political
advertising on its platform
more “transparent.”
“I don’t want anyone to
use our tools to undermine
democracy,” CEO Mark
Zuckerberg said in a Face-
book video and wrote in an
accompanying post . “That’s
not what we stand for.”
The moves Thursday
come amid growing pressure
on the social network from
members of Congress, who
pushed Facebook to release
the ads after the company
disclosed their existence in
early September. Facebook
has already handed over the
ads to the special counsel
investigating Russian inter-
ference in the 2016 U.S.
presidential election.
Facebook’s reluctance to
be more forthcoming with
information that could shed
light on possible election
interference has prompted
the chairman of the Senate
intelligence committee to call
for the company to testify in
its election-meddling probe.
A more transparent
Facebook
In one of the first steps
Facebook has ever taken
to open up its secretive
advertising
system
to
observation, the company
will now require political
ads to disclose both who is
paying for them and all ad
campaigns those individuals
or groups are running on
Facebook.
“We don’t check
what people say
before they say it,
and frankly, I don’t
think our society
should want us to.”
— Mark Zuckerberg,
Facebook CEO
AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File
In this 2016 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zucker-
berg speaks during the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked
2016 event on the eve of this week’s Mobile World
Congress wireless show, in Barcelona, Spain. On
Thursday Zuckerberg said that Facebook will provide
the contents of 3,000 ads bought by a Russian agen-
cy to congressional investigators.
That’s a key step that will
allow outsiders to see how
many different variants of a
given ad are being targeted
to various groups of indi-
viduals, a tactic designed to
improve their effectiveness.
At the moment, there’s no
way for anyone but Face-
book to track these political
ads, or for recipients to tell
who is sponsoring such
messages.
Since average users
“don’t know if you’re
seeing the same messages as
everyone else,” Zuckerberg
said, Facebook will “make
it so you can visit an adver-
tiser’s page and see the ads
they’re currently running to
any audience on Facebook.”
The company will hire
250 more people in the next
year to work on “election
integrity,” Zuckerberg said.
The top Democrat on the
Senate intelligence panel
would go farther. Virginia
Sen. Mark Warner is writing
a bill that would require
social media companies
to disclose who funded
political ads, similar to rules
on television broadcasters.
In an interview with The
Associated Press, Warner
said he hoped to work with
social-media companies on
the bill.
And yet still secretive
Zuckerberg
suggested
that the company may not
provide much information
publicly, saying that the
ongoing federal investiga-
tion will limit what he can
reveal.
The leaders of the Senate
Intelligence Committee have
sought to bring Facebook
executives before their
committee for the past couple
of weeks. But critics say
Facebook should go further.
They say the company
should tell its users how they
might have been influenced
by outside meddlers.
The
nonpartisan
Campaign Legal Center, for
instance, stressed again on
Thursday that the company
should make the ads public,
“so that everyone can see
the nature and extent of the
use of Facebook accounts by
Russia.”
Zuckerberg also warned
that Facebook can’t catch all
SACRAMENTO, Calif.
(AP) — Gatorade has agreed
not to make disparaging
comments about water as
part of a $300,000 settle-
ment reached Thursday
with
California
over
allegations it misleadingly
portrayed water’s benefits
in a cellphone game where
users refuel Olympic runner
Usain Bolt.
The game, downloaded
30,000 times in California
and 2.3 million times world-
wide, is no longer available.
The dispute between the
sports-drink company and
California Attorney General
Xavier Becerra was settled
in less than a day after
Becerra filed a complaint in
Los Angeles County.
Becerra’s
complaint
alleges the game, called
Bolt!,
misleadingly
portrayed the health benefits
of water in a way that could
harm children’s nutritional
choices. The game encour-
aged users to “keep your
performance level high and
avoid water,” with Bolt’s
fuel level going down after
drinking water but up after
drinking Gatorade, the
complaint alleged.
The settlement should
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MONDAY, SEPT. 25
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MEETING, 1:30 p.m., Hermiston Conference
Center Rotary Altrusa Room, 415 S. High-
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undesirable material before
it hits its social network.
“I’m not going to sit here
and tell you we’re going to
catch all bad content in our
system. We don’t check what
people say before they say
it, and frankly, I don’t think
our society should want us
to,” Zuckerberg said. But
those who break the law
or Facebook’s policies, he
added, “are going to face
consequences afterwards.”
Facebook won’t catch
everyone immediately, he
added, but it can “make it
harder to try to interfere.”
Facebook has company
in the hot seat
Zuckerberg’s move came
a day after Twitter confirmed
that it will meet next week
with staff of the Senate intel-
ligence committee, which
has been scrutinizing the
spread of false news stories
and propaganda on social
media during the election.
Warner
said
the
committee
wanted
to
hear from Twitter to learn
more about the use of fake
accounts and bot networks to
spread misinformation.
“Twitter deeply respects
the integrity of the election
process, a cornerstone of
all democracies, and will
continue to strengthen our
platform against bots and
other forms of manipulation
that violate our Terms of
Service,” the company said
in a statement.
California hits Gatorade in court for ‘anti-water’ videogame
AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File
Gatorade has agreed not to make disparaging com-
ments about water as part of a $300,000 settlement
reached Thursday with California over allegations it
misleadingly portrayed water’s benefits in a cellphone
game where users refuel Olympic runner Usain Bolt.
serve as a warning to
companies that falsely
advertise, Becerra said.
“Making
misleading
statements is a violation of
California law. But making
misleading
statements
aimed at our children
is beyond unlawful, it’s
morally wrong and a
betrayal of trust,” he said in
a statement.
Gatorade agreed to
the settlement but has not
admitted wrongdoing.
“The mobile game,
Bolt!, was designed to high-
light the unique role and
benefits of sports drinks in
supporting athletic perfor-
mance. We recognize the
role water plays in overall
health and wellness, and
offer our consumers great
options,”
spokeswoman
Katie Vidaillet said in an
email.
In addition to agreeing
not to disparage water,
Gatorade agreed not to
make Bolt! or any other
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Lorene A. Griffith
Lorene A. Griffith, 85,
our beloved mother and
grandmother, went to be
with the Lord September
18, 2017, after a long battle
with Alzheimer’s disease. A
funeral service will be held
Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017,
at the Ione Community
Church at 11 a.m.
Concluding service
and internment will
be at the Morgan
Cemetery following
the service and
dinner.
She was born In
Joseph, Oregon, on
April 26, 1932, to
father Dorris Early
Mitchell and mother
Francis Crawford Griffith
Parker. Both sides
of her family were
early pioneers to Oregon,
coming by wagon train in
1851 to Oregon originally
settling in the Willamette
valley. Both families moved
from there to the Cove
area in Union County, then
settling in Wallowa County.
Her father was a renowned
horseman and horse trainer
pioneering gentle training
methods as opposed to
“breaking” horses, the
more common practice of
the day. Her mother Francis
was from a ranching family
at Heppner, Oregon, and
went to Wallowa County to
teach at the Hurricane Creek
School near Joseph.
Lorene was an only child,
which was a miracle because
her mother was not supposed
to be able to have a child.
Lorene grew up on the family
ranch on “The Divide”
between Little Sheep and
Big Sheep creeks towards
Imnaha. She spent her early
years in Joseph attending
school there and hanging
out with cousins from the
Mitchell and Justice families.
She spent time riding horses
and tending to her animals.
She was involved with 4-H
through grade school and
high school,
attending summer school
and girls state at Oregon
State University.
She and her mother
moved to Heppner in 1945
after the untimely passing of
her father due to cancer. They
lived on the family ranch
belonging to her grandparents
Frank and Gertrude Parker.
She spent time with her
Hoskins and Parker cousins.
She attended Heppner High
School and graduated in
1950. She attended Oregon
State University on a Carl
Raymond Grey Scholarship.
She met George Griffith
through mutual family
friends and they were
married on May 19, 1951,
at Heppner. The couple had
a daughter, Charlotte Rose,
June 24, 1952, a son Glen
August 9, 1957, and twin
sons Grant and Elmer on
March 30, 1965, who died
at birth. George and Lorene
farmed at Morgan on the
Griffith property. In 1957
they bought a ranch west of
McDermott, Nevada, and
ranched there for a few years.
They returned to Ione and
bought out the family ranch
where she lived until moving
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sion that water will hinder
athletic performance or
that athletes only consume
Gatorade and do not drink
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