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COFFEE BREAK Saturday, December 30, 2017 East Oregonian Page 7C OUT OF THE VAULT Stolen automobile recovered Round-Up style N ot all rodeo champs wear chaps and spurs. A car thief in December 1917 found out the hard way that there’s more than one way for an irate owner to recover a stolen vehicle. Si Reetz, a well-known Pendleton barber, was not a cowboy. But Reetz used some of the best Round-Up moves he could muster after his car was stolen from the First Christian Church Dec. 30, 1917, the second time it had gone missing. Reetz was quite upset as he walked downtown, and there met up with Gus Byers, to whom he related his tale of woe. Byers invited him to climb into his vehicle to search for the missing car. Just east of Pendleton on Wildhorse Road, they passed a car that turned out to be the stolen Saxon. Byers turned his car around and they chased the thief into Pendleton. The two cars raced down East Court Street, and when the driver of Reetz’s car realized he was being chased, he “stepped on her.” The Byers car shattered local speed records in the race. Reetz jumped to the running board as Byers pulled alongside the Saxon. As soon as the cars were running even, Reetz jumped to the running board of his stolen car and threw both arms around the driver’s neck in a classic bulldogging move. The thief, a well-known 17-year-old Pendleton youth, immediately stopped the car and surrendered. Reetz shoved the boy over to the passenger side of the Saxon and then drove him around town, lecturing the young fellow on the impropriety of taking a car without the owner’s consent. But Reetz promised to bring no charges against the boy as long as he held to his word to “be good.” ■ 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 Cheating partner shifts blame for collapse of relationship Dear Abby: My partner painful. He is making excuses of 11 years has decided he is for wanting to trade you in for no longer in love with me. He a newer model. This is why says it’s because he thinks I he is accusing you of having cheated on him. I have told him done something that he is doing repeatedly that it didn’t happen, under your nose. which is the truth. The only true confession he Long story short, he says he has uttered is that he doesn’t wants us to start over as friends want to be in a relationship. Jeanne and see where things go because Phillips That is your cue to head for he doesn’t want to be in a rela- the door, unless, of course, the Advice tionship with anyone right now. roof over your head belongs to However, he’s sleeping with a you. If your home is rented or 22-year-old here in the home we share. jointly owned, other arrangements will I love him so much that it hurts. When have to be made. But for the sake of I tell him every day that I love him, he your sanity, do not live with him under tells me he knows. Our relationship these conditions, or he will make you hasn’t been a bed of roses, but we did old before your time. have good times when we were able to Dear Abby: My family includes do things together. Should I hold out a niece and her husband with three for him, or tell him the “friends” thing kids ranging in age from 8 months is not going to work and cut ties alto- to 7 years old. The middle child, a gether? — Confused And Lost Guy 5-year-old girl, is allowed to choose Dear Guy: I don’t blame you for her own outfits for family gatherings feeling confused and lost, considering and school, with appalling results. Her the mixed messages you have been hair, which is long and tangled, goes getting from your partner. What you unbrushed. Her ill-fitting clothes are are experiencing now is, of course, worn and inappropriate for the weather and school. When I discussed it with her parents, their answer fell flat. Because she’s learning to dress herself without parental guidance, she’s not learning what’s appropriate. When they came for Thanksgiving dinner the child showed up in summer clothes — sleeveless top, thin cotton skirt, etc. By the end of the evening, she appeared ill. I’m surprised neglect charges haven’t been filed against the parents. Any suggestions to get across to them that their parenting style is lacking? — Worried Relative Dear Worried: Your dilemma isn’t how to get across to the parents that they need to teach their child better fashion choices. If that little girl is going around with tangled hair and summer clothes in cold weather, it may be that her parents are unable or unwilling to give her the basics. I, too, am surprised that the school hasn’t contacted Child Protective Services to do a welfare check. Since they haven’t, you should talk to these parents again and voice your concerns. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 30-31, 1917 News reached Pendleton this morning of the death at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, of Sergeant Major Irwin G. Brooks, formerly of this city and Athena. He was in training at that point for the aviation service and was to have left early last month for England with his company when an epidemic of measles swept the camp. He was one of them who contracted the disease and it developed into pneumonia and an affec- tion of the midear from which he died yesterday. His father, Dr. F.M. Brooks of Portland, had hurried to his bedside on receipt of the news of his illness. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 30-31, 1967 One of Eastern Oregon’s two hop farms is going out of business. Herm- iston Farms, 210 acres of hop land, is being cleared, and the Salem corpora- tion plans to sell the land, according to C.A. “Cap” Becker, farm manager and veteran hop grower. The last Eastern Oregon hop farm is located at Ontario. The balance of the hop farms are on the west side of the Cascades. A quarter of a century ago, Oregon had 600 hop farms. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 30-31, 1992 A 15-year-old Pendleton boy was cited for “recklessly endangering” after reportedly sending a volley from a 12-gauge shotgun over the heads of two other boys Wednesday along the Umatilla River. The two boys, both 12 years old, reported the incident. The investigation by Jeff Williams, Oregon State Police senior trooper, netted the older boy three citations. Besides recklessly endangering, he also was cited for pointing a firearm at another and for a minor game violation. The incident occurred at about 2:40 p.m. while the boy was duck hunting along the Umatilla River above Riverside. The shotgun was seized as evidence and the boy was cited to appear in juvenile court. York’s Times Square. In 1947, King Michael I of Romania agreed to abdi- cate, but charged he was being forced off the throne by Communists. In 1954, Olympic gold medal runner Malvin G. Whitfield became the first black recipient of the James E. Sullivan Award for amateur athletes. In 1965, Ferdinand Marcos was inaugurated for his first term as president of the Philippines. In 1979, Broadway composer Richard Rodgers died in New York at age 77. In 1989, a Northwest Airlines DC-10, which had been the target of a tele- phoned threat, flew safely from Paris to Detroit with 22 passengers amid extra- tight security. In 1997, a deadly massacre in Algeria’s insurgency began in four mountain villages as armed men killed women and children in an attack that lasted from dusk until dawn the following morning; up to 412 deaths were reported. In 1999, former Beatle George Harrison fought off a knife-wielding intruder who’d broken into his mansion west of London and stabbed him in the chest. (The attacker was later acquitted of attempted murder by reason of insanity.) In 2007: Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki was declared winner of an election marred by widespread allegations of rigging; violence flared in Nairobi slums and coastal resort towns, killing scores in the following days. Three days after Benazir Bhutto was assassinated, her 19-year-old son, Bilawal Zardari, was named symbolic leader of her Paki- stan Peoples Party, while her husband took effective control. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Russ Tamblyn is 83. Baseball Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax is 82. Folk singer Noel Paul Stookey is 80. TV director James Burrows is 77. Actor Fred Ward is 75. Singer-musician Michael Nesmith is 75. Actress Concetta Tomei is 72. Singer Patti Smith is 71. Rock singer-musi- cian Jeff Lynne is 70. TV personality Meredith Vieira is 64. Actress Sheryl Lee Ralph is 62. Actress Patricia Kalember is 61. Country singer Suzy Bogguss is 61. Former “Today” show co-host Matt Lauer is 60. Actress-comedian Tracey Ullman is 58. Rock musi- cian Rob Hotchkiss is 57. Radio-TV commentator Sean Hannity is 56. Sprinter Ben Johnson is 56. CIA Director Mike Pompeo is 54. Actor George Newbern is ODDS & ENDS Man’s 1944 love letter found within remodeled home’s walls GREENFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Massachusetts police have a new mystery to solve: Who wrote a 1944 love letter discovered within the walls of a house being remodeled? The Greenfield Police Department took to Facebook on Saturday to ask for the public’s help in figuring out the backstory behind the handwritten letter. 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