RECORDS
Thursday, December 14, 2017
PUBLIC SAFETY LOG
TUESDAY
9:04 a.m. - A Heppner resident reported he and his wife
were the targets of harassing text messages. A Morrow County
sheriff’s deputy told the woman sending the messages to stop.
11:07 a.m. - The school resource officer with the Morrow
County Sheriff’s Office received a report of inappropriate texting
at Ione School, Ione.
1:40 p.m. - The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office received a
call from a Texas detective regarding a fraud case.
2:29 p.m. - The Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office responded to
East Columbia Lane, Hermiston, to assist with an assault victim.
3:08 p.m. - A 911 caller on Southeast 11th Street, Pendleton,
told police a female hit a male.
3:30 p.m. - A caller reported someone vandalized the tractor
he uses up Elk Trail Lane off Chickadee Road, Heppner, and he
has an idea who did it.
7:30 p.m. - A man at Joy Lane and Highway 395, Hermiston,
called the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office and said there is a
warrant for his arrest and he wants to go to jail. The sheriff’s
office responded and did not find the caller.
11:04 p.m. - Stanfield police took a report of an assault at
Stanfield RV Park, 355 S. Main St.
11:46 p.m. - A Pendleton woman called 911 and reported her
daughter slapped her across the face.
ARRESTS, CITATIONS
Tuesday
•Hermiston police arrested Dante Lamar Marshall, 31, of
1105 S. First St., No. D6, Hermiston, on multiple warrants and
for attempted assault of a public safety officer, second-degree
disorderly conduct, interfering with a peace officer, unauthorized
use of vehicle and first-degree theft.
•Pendleton police at about 8:15 p.m. responded to a report of
an intoxicated person near the Vert Auditorium, 480 S.W. Dorion
Ave., Pendleton, and arrested Damon Fernando Ornelas, 22, of
1513 S.E. Court Ave., Pendleton, for assaulting a public safety
officer, second-degree disorderly conduct, interfering with a
peace officer and resisting arrest.
•Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office arrested Edgar Orozco
Nunez, 26, of Umatilla, for possession of cocaine.
Wednesday
•Oregon State Police arrested Kimberly Mae Langlois, 28, of
175 Hamilton St., Umatilla, for felony driving under the influence
of intoxicants. State police reported a trooper stopped Langlois
in a Buick passenger car for a violation at 12:55 a.m. while
heading east on Interstate 84 near milepost 202, and she told
the trooper she smoked marijuana.
The trooper had her take a sobriety test, according to state
police, and she also admitted to alcohol use. The trooper
arrested her and booked her into the Umatilla County Jail,
Pendleton, where a breath test showed her blood-alcohol
content was .13 percent, more than the .08 percent legal limit.
State police also cited her for speeding 88 mph on the 70
mph stretch of interstate and for having an open container of
alcohol in the car.
East Oregonian
OBITUARIES
Steven M. Shockman
Edward Victor ‘Ed’ Verkist
Hermiston
July 29, 1957 - December 6, 2017
Weston
March 25, 1940 - December 5, 2017
Steven M. Shockman creating a tool or making
was born on July 29, 1957, things just right for his use.
in Hermiston, Oregon, to
He is survived by
parents Arthur and Barbara his
daughters
Melony
Jean
Newsom
Shockman, Albany,
Shockman. He died
Ore., and Sara Rich-
on December 6,
ardson
(Logan),
2017, at his home in
Salem, Ore.; brother
Hermiston, Oregon,
Allen Shockman,
at the age of 60
Hermiston, Ore.;
years.
grandsons Johna-
He was raised
than and Landon;
and
attended
and
numerous
schools in Herm-
aunts,
uncles,
iston, Oregon, and
nieces,
nephews
in Fruitland, Idaho,
and cousins.
where he partici-
Steve
was
pated in wrestling
preceded in death
and football. Steve
by his parents
married
Wilma
and two brothers,
Philpott and they
Dick and Danny
had two daughters; Shockman
Shockman.
Melony and Sara
A celebration
and have remained
of life gathering
very close friends throughout will be held on Sunday,
the years.
December 17, 2017, from
He worked for Shockman 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. at
Brothers in construction the Eastern Oregon Trade and
and later as a long haul Event Center, 1705 E. Airport
truck driver for Willis Shaw Road, Hermiston, Oregon.
Trucking, and as an owner
A private family burial
operator through the years.
will be at the Hermiston
Steve loved going to Cemetery,
Hermiston,
auctions and flea markets Oregon.
looking for a good deal or
Please sign the online
anything “he needed.” He condolence book at burns-
enjoyed fishing, gardening mortuaryhermiston.com
and the outdoors. Steve was
Burns Mortuary of Herm-
always tinkering in his shop iston, Oregon, is in care of
either fixing something, arrangements.
DEATH NOTICES
Howard Russell Christensen
Corbett, Ore.
July 4, 1932 - Dec. 11, 2017
Former Arlington resident Howard Russell Christensen, 85,
of Corbett, Ore., died Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, at his home. He
was born July 4, 1932, in Decatur County, Kansas. Services are
pending with Burns Mortuary of Hermiston. Sign the online
condolence book at burnsmortuaryhermiston.com
Martin Hutsell
Weston
Jan. 18, 1962 - Dec. 11, 2017
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen speaks during a
news conference following the Federal Open Market
Committee meeting in Washington, Wednesday.
Fed raises interest rate
for third time this year
WASHINGTON (AP)
— The Federal Reserve is
raising its key interest rate
for the third time this year
and foresees three additional
hikes in 2018, a vote of
confidence that the U.S.
economy remains on solid
footing 8½ years after the
end of the Great Recession.
The Fed said Wednesday
that it’s lifting its short-
term rate by a modest
quarter-point to a still-low
range of 1.25 percent to 1.5
percent. It is also continuing
to slowly shrink its bond
portfolio. Together, the
two steps could lead over
time to higher loan rates for
consumers and businesses
and slightly better returns for
savers.
The central bank said
in a statement after its
latest policy meeting that it
expects the job market and
the economy to strengthen
further. Partly as a result, it
expects to keep raising rates
at the same incremental pace
next year under the leader-
ship of Jerome Powell, who
will succeed Janet Yellen as
Fed chair in February.
Chris Probyn, chief
economist at State Street
Global Advisors, said he was
surprised that Fed officials
upgraded their forecast for
economic growth next year
and lowered their forecast for
unemployment yet signaled
no additional rate hikes.
“They’re saying, ‘We’re
going to get more growth,
we’re going to get lower
unemployment, but we’re
not going to respond to it
with any more tightening,’”
he said. “They are prepared
to let the economy run a little
hotter.”
The Fed’s action was
approved 7-2, with Charles
Evans, president of the Fed’s
Chicago regional bank, and
Neel Kashkari, head of the
Minneapolis Fed, voting no.
Both preferred to keep the
benchmark rate unchanged.
The central bank’s
message
Wednesday
departed little from its recent
statements. It still stresses
that it expects to keep raising
rates gradually. Its projec-
tions for future hikes, based
on estimates of 16 officials,
showed that the median
expectation remains three
rate hikes in 2018, at least
two in 2019 and two more
in 2020.
By then, the Fed’s target
for short-term rates would
have reached 3.1 percent —
slightly above its estimate
of a long-term neutral rate
of 2.8 percent. That would
mean the Fed would still
be seeking to tighten credit
three years from now.
At a news conference
after the Fed’s meeting,
Yellen said she would
work to provide a smooth
transition for Powell. Powell
has been a Yellen ally who
backed her cautious stance
toward rate hikes in his five
years on the Fed’s board.
Yet no one can know for
sure how his style of chair-
manship or rate policy might
depart from hers.
What’s more, Powell will
be joined by several new
Fed board members who,
like him, are being chosen
by President Donald Trump.
Some analysts say they think
that while Powell might not
deviate much from Yellen’s
rate policy, he and the new
board members will adopt
a looser approach to their
regulation of the banking
system.
On Wednesday, the Fed
boosted its forecast for
growth to 2.5 percent next
year, up from its previous
forecast of 2.1 percent.
Those rates are far below the
3 percent to 4 percent growth
that the Trump adminis-
tration insists would result
from its economic policies
of tax cuts, deregulation and
stricter enforcement of trade
laws against unfair foreign
imports.
Martin Hutsell, 55, of Weston died Monday, Dec. 11, 2017,
in Richland, Wash. He was born Jan. 18, 1962, in Indianapolis,
Ind. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Munselle-
Rhodes Funeral Home in Milton-Freewater is in charge of
arrangements.
Mary Kennison
Salem
Dec. 11, 2017
Former Wallowa County resident Mary Kennison, 90,
of Salem died Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, at her home. Funeral
services will be held Thursday, Dec 21 at 1 p.m. at Bollman
Funeral Home in Salem, with internment in the Wallowa Ceme-
tery. Bollman Funeral Home is entrusted with arrangements.
James Personette
Pilot Rock
July 1, 1953 - Dec. 3, 2017
Edward Victor “Ed”
Verkist of Weston, Oregon,
passed away December 5,
2017, at his home after a long
battle with cancer at the age
of 77 years. Funeral services
will be Saturday, December
16, 2017, at 10:30 a.m. at
the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints in
Milton-Freewater,
Ore. Concluding
services and inter-
ment will be in the
Weston Cemetery,
Weston, Ore.
Memorial
contributions may
be made to the
Family of Edward
Verkist through the
Munselle-Rhodes Verkist
Funeral
Home,
902 S. Main,
Milton-Freewater,
OR
97862.
Ed was born March 25,
1940, in Bellingham, Wash.,
the son of Charles and Orpha
(Fox) Verkist of Glacier,
where he spent his childhood.
He attended Maple Falls
Elementary School, Mount
Baker Jr./Sr. High School
and Bellingham High School
where he graduated in 1958.
He was working for a
construction company in the
Seattle area when he met his
wife Elaine Hathaway. They
were married on February
20, 1962, after knowing
each other for 10 days. In
1974 they moved from the
western Washington area to
Weston, Ore., where he built
their current home and raised
their six children. Ed was
self-employed most of his
life, working as a construc-
tion contractor and wildland
firefighter with his sons.
Marylin L. Thomas
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
Aug. 10, 1943 - Dec. 9, 2017
Former longtime Umatilla County resident Marylin L.
Thomas, 74, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, died Saturday, Dec. 9,
2017. She was born Aug. 10, 1943, in Hermiston. Services will
be held Friday, Dec. 15 at 12 noon at the First Baptist Church
in Coeur d’Alene. Arrangements are with Yates Funeral Home.
UPCOMING SERVICES
THURSDAY, DEC. 14
No services scheduled
FRIDAY, DEC. 15
BAUMAN, PAULINE — Recitation of the rosary at 6
p.m. at St. John’s Catholic Church, 103 S. Lincoln St., Condon.
BURHOE, ROSE — Funeral services at 2 p.m.
at Munselle-Rhodes Funeral Home, 902 S. Main St.,
Milton-Freewater.
KOEHLER, JEFF — Celebration of life at 1 p.m. at
Living Word Christian Center, 401 Northgate, Pendleton.
STALFORD, BILL — Celebration of life service with
military honors at 1 p.m. at the Hermiston Church of the
Nazarene, 1520 W. Orchard Ave.
THOMAS, MARYLIN — Services at 12 noon at the First
Baptist Church in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
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He enjoyed logging,
farming and working in his
garden. His leisure time was
spent fishing (from the time
he was a young boy) and
making things out of wood.
It was very unusual for him
to come home after fishing
with less than his limit of
fish. His wood-
working included
making beautiful
items like cradles,
furniture and toys
for his children and
grandchildren. Ed
most recently made
a beautiful walnut
drop-leaf table for
his wife, which he
was able to finish
before
passing
away. He has been
a faithful member
of the LDS Church for the
past 45 years.
Ed is survived by his
wife Elaine Verkist at
the home; sons Jonathon
(Karen) Verkist of Harrison,
Idaho,
Richard
(Jill)
Verkist of Weston, Ore.,
Aaron (Lyndsey) Verkist
of Denver, Pa., and Daniel
(Nicole) Verkist of Walla
Walla, Wash.; daughters
Tana (David) Vanderholm
of Elk, Wash., and Debra
(Kevin) Andrews of Walla
Walla, Wash.; brothers Leon
Verkist of Ferndale, Wash.,
and Charles (Nancy) Verkist;
sisters Kay (Landon) Weeks
of Bellingham, Wash., and
Judith (Robert) Anderson
of Marysville, Wash.; 26
grandchildren and eight
great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death
by his parents, brother Albert
Verkist and sister JoAnn
Moore.
Last of Triple Nickels
paratroopers dies at 96
HUNTINGTON
STATION, N.Y. (AP) —
The last living member of a
pioneering unit that paved
the way for the U.S. mili-
tary’s first black paratroopers
has died. Clarence Beavers
was 96.
The
A.L.
Jacobsen
Funeral Home in Huntington
Station, New York, says
Beavers died Dec. 4.
Newsday reports the
Harlem-born Beavers joined
the segregated U.S. Army in
1941 and rose to the rank of
sergeant. In 1944, he and 19
James Personette, 64, of Pilot Rock died Sunday, Dec. 3,
2017, at his home. He was born July 1, 1953. A celebration of
life service will be held Saturday, Dec. 16 at 11 a.m., with a
luncheon to follow, at the Pendleton Eagles Lodge, 428 S. Main
St. Burns Mortuary of Pendleton is in charge of arrangements.
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other black soldiers became
part of a test platoon for
airborne training. Beavers
and 16 others passed, setting
the foundation for what
became the all-black 555th
Parachute Infantry Battalion,
known as the Triple Nickels.
Beavers was the last of the
original 17, who trained and
were based at the Pendleton
airport.
The 555th spent the last
year of the war fighting
forest fires set in the Pacific
Northwest by Japanese
balloon-transported bombs.
MEETINGS
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of regional events, visit
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THURSDAY, DEC. 14
U M AT I L L A - M O R R O W
COUNTY FARM BUREAU, 12
p.m., TBA, Pendleton. (Julie
Spratling 541-457-8045)
BOARDMAN RURAL FIRE
PROTECTION DISTRICT, 1
p.m., Boardman Fire Department,
300 S. Wilson Lane, Boardman.
(541-481-3473)
UMATILLA COUNTY SPE-
CIAL LIBRARY DISTRICT, 5:15
p.m., Pendleton Center for the
Arts boardroom, 214 N. Main St.,
Pendleton. (Erin McCusker 541-
276-6449)
HERMISTON PARKS &
RECREATION COMMISSION,
5:30 p.m., Hermiston City Hall,
180 N.E. Second St., Hermiston.
(541-567-5521)
ATHENA CITY COUNCIL,
6:30 p.m., Athena City Hall, 215
S. Third St., Athena. (541-566-
3862)
UMATILLA SCHOOL DIS-
TRICT, 7 p.m., Umatilla School
District office, 1001 Sixth St.,
Umatilla. (541-922-6500)
MONDAY, DEC. 18
WEST EXTENSION IRRIGA-
TION DISTRICT, 9 a.m., Irrigon
Fire Department, 705 N.E. Main
St., Irrigon. 2018 budget will be on
the agenda. An executive session
may be called to discuss legal is-
sues. (Lisa Baum 541-922-3814)
ECHO SCHOOL DISTRICT,
6 p.m., Echo Community School,
600 Gerone St., Echo. A budget
meeting will be followed by the
regular board meeting. (541-376-
8436)
HELIX CITY COUNCIL, 7
p.m., Helix City Hall, 119 Colum-
bia St., Helix. (541-457-2521)
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