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COFFEE BREAK Saturday, November 18, 2017 East Oregonian Page 5C OUT OF THE VAULT Civic-minded tot gathers cache of trash N ot everyone bemoaning the litter befouling the streets of Pendleton is a taxpaying grown-up. In 1969 an enterprising young man took the initiative to clean up one of Pendleton’s biggest tourist attractions — to the surprise of his father, who didn’t even know the boy was gone. Blair Ranslam, a 3 1/2-year-old Pendleton boy, was spending Nov. 20, 1969, with his father Bob Ranslam, the manager of Pendleton Grain Growers’ feed and seed store on Southwest Dorion Avenue. Ducking his father’s watchful eye, Blair crossed busy Dorion and Court avenues and entered the Pendleton Round-Up Grounds, where he found a large plastic bag and filled it with trash. Meanwhile, his father had finally noticed the boy was missing from the store, and Blair’s frantic parents began a search, then called the police. The boy was eventually found with his bag of litter and returned to PGG. “The policeman came and said my daddy was looking for me,” Blair said, also remarking about the big bullets the officer carried. “Lot of junk over there,” he said later. When asked what he planned to do with the garbage he had collected, Blair said he planned to put it in a fireplace, but wasn’t sure where, since his family didn’t have one. And where did the litter come from? “Some people came over there and throw it down. They should throw it in a garbage.” ■ 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 EO file photo Young sanitation tech Blair Ranslam shows off his hard work after collecting trash at the Pendleton Round-Up Grounds Nov. 20, 1969. DEAR ABBY Teen is tasked with cooking thanksgiving dinner — alone Dear Abby: I am a 17-year-old a home-cooked feast rather than a girl and somewhat spoiled. My disaster after which your family mother delivers breakfast in bed will wind up in a restaurant. to me daily. My dad eats a burger Dear Abby: I am an adult for dinner, but Mom cooks a student in my late 20s. I had ribeye steak with a loaded baked multiple “jobs” and careers potato for me. before I finally settled on I don’t know how to cook, but teaching. Until I finish my Dad says I must cook a complete degree, however, I am working Jeanne Thanksgiving dinner with no Phillips in a customer service job to pay assistance! My smartphone will the bills. This, combined with my Advice help, but do you have any ideas? youthful appearance, has meant — Worried About Turkeys I must deal with people who Dear Worried: Mastering the basics assume I am a teenager and who treat me of cooking is an important skill you will with disrespect. need when you no longer live with your My late grandmother always said that parents. Your father has the right idea, polite people should hold their tongues, but he’s going about it the wrong way. so can you please inform your readers that Expecting you to go from not knowing because the person tending to their needs how to boil water to producing an entire may look like “a kid,” it’s no excuse for Thanksgiving dinner without help is saying things like, “I don’t want to talk to unrealistic, to say the least. some kid; where’s your supervisor?” By You and your mother should prepare the way, Abby, I AM the supervisor. — the dinner together, and she should guide Older Than He Looks In Iowa you as you prepare one or two of the Dear Older: I’m pleased to remind dishes. This will ensure that there will BE them, but an appropriate response to the person demanding to see the supervisor would be, “I AM the supervisor. Now, how may I help you?” Dear Abby: Next year my boyfriend and I will have been together for 15 years. We are not married and feel no urge to do so. We plan on spending the rest of our lives together; we just don’t plan on a wedding. My question is, I’d like to have an anniversary party. Is it unheard of for a unmarried couple to have one? We love each other and would like to celebrate our relationship with friends and family. What do you think? And would it be wrong to have a dance to “our song”? Any ideas would be appreciated as well. — Unmarried In Michigan Dear Unmarried: Fifteen years together is something to celebrate and there’s no reason why you shouldn’t. You can do anything you want at the party — including dance to “your song.” An anniversary of the day you became a couple is fine. Advertise it that way and there should be no criticism. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 18-19, 1917 Ed Mable of the Pendleton Cadillac Auto Co. the other evening got almost home before he remembered that his wife had told him to bring home some meat. He turned the car around and hurried back to the meat shop. It was five minutes until six and he knew he would have to have that meat home by six or the roast he would get would be of the kind not regulated by Hoover. He could hardly wait for the butcher to wrap the cut before he snatched it and dashed out of the door. He forgot all about his auto in his hurry and walked the ten blocks home at top speed. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 18-19, 1967 A proposed boys’ ranch in Umatilla County got the support Friday of Clay Myers, Oregon secretary of state. Myers said the proposal can cut millions of dollars from Oregon’s future welfare, prison and metal hospital costs. A boys ranch would be used to house youngsters who are in trouble but are not serious delinquents. Myers said it costs $5,000 a year to keep a boy at McLaren School for Boys. But on a boy’s ranch, in a home situation, the cost will drop to about $2,500 a year, with the state paying half. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 18-19, 1992 Last week’s shotgun slaying of 22-year-old Brian David Smith may have been an act of vengeance. Authorities believe the Hermiston man’s murder was intended to be retri- bution for his sexual abuse of a young girl earlier this year. Although he could not provide details, Umatilla County District Attorney Dave Gallaher said one of the suspects arrested over the weekend is a close friend of the family of a young girl Smith molested in May. THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today is the 322nd day of 2017. There are 43 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 18, 1942, “The Skin of Our Teeth,” Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-win- ning allegory about the history of humankind, opened on Broadway. On this date: In 1883, the United States and Canada adopted a system of Standard Time zones. In 1886, the 21st president of the United States, Chester A. Arthur, died in New York. In 1916, the World War I Battle of the Somme pitting British and French forces against German troops ended inconclusively after 4 1/2 months of bloodshed. In 1928, Walt Disney’s first sound-synchronized animated cartoon, “Steamboat Willie” starring Mickey Mouse, premiered in New York. In 1936, Germany and Italy recognized the Spanish government of Francisco Franco. In 1959, “Ben-Hur,” the Biblical-era spectacle starring Charlton Heston, had its world premiere in New York. In 1966, U.S. Roman Cath- olic bishops issued a Pastoral Statement on Penance and Abstinence, which did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays outside of Lent. In 1976, Spain’s parlia- ment approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship. In 1978, U.S. Rep. Leo J. 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