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Saturday, January 6, 2018
East Oregonian
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OUT OF THE VAULT
Wind storm flattens Northeast Oregon
A
storm blew through Northeast
Oregon on January 7-8, 1990,
with winds approaching 80
miles per hour that toppled thousands
of trees, blew the roofs off structures
and closed businesses, schools and
roads.
The wind storm began the evening
of Jan. 7, tumbling trees and downing
power lines across the region. At
the height of the storm the entire
Umatilla Electric Cooperative’s
customer service area, from Meacham
to Boardman, was without power,
some areas for two or three days as
crews from local and outside agencies
struggled to repair power lines, poles
and transformers. Even two-way
radios weren’t working for part of the
day, hampering cleanup efforts.
Eighteen roads were closed in the
area due to downed trees and blown
detritus, including Highway 204 near
Tollgate where winds estimated at 100
mph blew down the equivalent of 10
million board feet of lumber during the
storm. Crews with chainsaws began
clearing the “timber carnage” of an
estimated 750 to 1,000 evergreens
from the highway Jan. 8, one working
east from Umatilla County while
another forged west from Elgin.
At Spout Springs ski resort near
Tollgate, trees fell all around the
buildings, but none were hit. The
high winds did cause some damage,
however, when seven trees were blown
onto the “Happy” chairlift, derailing
the lift off six towers.
Umatilla County Sheriff Jim Carey
reported at least one accident in which
a vehicle slammed into a downed tree,
and said an irrigation pipe blew across
Highway 395 and wrapped around a
power pole near Skyview Cemetery
between Pendleton and Pilot Rock.
Tribal Police Officer Shawn Bird said
a man reported an unknown explosion,
“a bright flash and an arc across the
sky” at 4 a.m. near the repeater station
at Poverty Flats on Cabbage Hill,
where wind speeds topped 80 mph.
Structural damage around the area
included a neighbor’s storage shed
blowing into a house and breaking
windows in Stanfield; a metal shed
across from city hall blowing over a
cyclone fence into a residential back
yard in Echo; a wooden sign at the
Forest Service office in Ukiah blown
into pieces; the entire roof of Brown’s
Auto and Truck Stop Tire Center,
measuring 24 by 72 feet, blown onto
Highway 730 in Irrigon; and the
Umatilla Marina’s floating club house
breaking away from its mooring and
slamming into another dock several
hundred feet away.
An Irrigon couple was sleeping at
their home on Washington Avenue
when a tree, more than 2 feet in
diameter at the base, “cut through
the bedroom wing like a cleaver,”
chopping it in two. Lloyd and Mildred
Franke were trapped in their bed
briefly but escaped without a scratch.
One Hermiston man’s shed vanished
without a trace, and another found his
metal shed more than a block away.
And at the Pendleton airport, wind
damage looked like a plane coming
in from the west had crashed into
the top of the hangars. “Sheet metal
was spread over a quarter mile,” one
observer said.
The following day, Jan. 9,
Pendleton enjoyed mild winds and
basked in record-high temperatures of
69 degrees downtown and 67 degrees
at the airport.
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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
Man left wife high and dry, now begs for second chance
Dear Abby: I was divorced
I’m not really happy with
for 10 years, and am now
my second husband. I haven’t
remarried. Four months after
been for a long time, and now
we said “I do,” my first husband
I have someone I have always
left me (on Valentine’s Day!)
loved who wants me back, and
without a word.
I don’t know what to do. Please
It was out of character for
help. — Confounded In North
him not to come home, and
Carolina
I was so worried I reported
Dear Confounded: I’m
Jeanne
him to the police as a missing Phillips sorry you didn’t describe what
has gone wrong in your second
person. If that wasn’t enough,
Advice
marriage because if it’s fixable,
he left me owing the power and
you promised to love and honor
water bills, and our rent was
your current husband until ... well, you
three months behind.
A few weeks later, he sent me an know the drill. It would be a mistake to
email. It read: “Don’t bother me. I’m throw him aside without first trying to
fine. Move on!” I was trying to do fix the problem.
exactly that when, a month later, he
Your first husband treated you with
knocked on my door, asking me to brutal disregard. If he has changed, he
forgive him. I thought I had, but it still wouldn’t be trying to break up your
bothers me.
marriage. Be warned.
My ex is now begging me to give
Dear Abby: I have been going
him a second chance. He has changed through some tough times during the
so much for the good, and he says he last few months. I have handled them
has never been with anyone more than as well as I can, but something just
two weeks because they can’t live up pushed me over the edge.
to me. I have always loved him. He had
I’m not formally educated. I have
a drinking problem, but he has been no college education. I graduated from
clean and sober now for nine years.
high school, but I was home-schooled
and people tend to not take me seri-
ously when they find that out. I opted
out of college because I couldn’t afford
the loans. I love to learn and have
continued to educate myself.
But today, someone I respected told
me I’m not as smart as he is because
I never went to college. He outright
called me stupid and said I should stop
pretending to be intelligent.
Abby, I am skilled with my hands. I
own my own business and spend most
of my time reading on various topics.
When I told him his comment hurt me,
he laughed and said that just proved I
wasn’t as intelligent as he is. I know
he’s not right, but I can’t stop thinking
about it. Can you help me? — Street
Smart In Alaska
Dear Street Smart: Gladly! The
individual you were talking to isn’t
intelligent; he is a classless boor who
tries to make himself feel superior by
putting down the people around him.
If you are as smart as you say you
are, you will avoid him as though he
has an infectious social disease. It’s
true, because cruelty can be conta-
gious.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 6-7, 1918
Rev. R.E. Gornall, popular pastor of
the Methodist church of Pendleton, has
been recommended by the bishop of this
district for appointment as a chaplain in
the army. There is said to be a strong
probability of new appointments being
made for the increased army and that
Rev. Gornall will be in line for appoint-
ment.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 6-7, 1968
An Army prisoner was en route from
Ohio, on an AWOL charge, to Fort
Lewis, Wash., in the custody of military
police when he jumped off the train
here at 7:45 this morning. MPs Rufus E.
Cannon and Anthony J. Rose reported
the escape of Stewart Gatewood to city
police. Gatewood hitched a ride with an
elderly couple which got him as far as
North Powder before state police picked
him up.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 6-7, 1993
The message on the box of cigars
read “It’s a Girl.” The gift from Dawn
Hawkins to her fellow Round-Up Asso-
ciation board members summarized
the situation as Hawkins broke one of
Pendleton’s most rigid gender barriers
Monday night. On Jan. 1, Hawkins
became the first woman to serve as
president of the Pendleton Chamber of
Commerce. And as chamber president,
she becomes an ex-officio member
of the heretofore all-male Round-Up
Board of Directors. “I don’t think
there’s any resistance,” said Round-Up
President Paul Rice Jr., a Pendle-
ton-area farmer and professional rodeo
cowboy. “Everybody knew it was going
to happen at some time, it was just a
matter of time.”
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Today is the sixth day of
2018. There are 359 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Jan. 6, 1968, a
surgical team at Stanford
University School of Medi-
cine in Palo Alto, California,
led by Dr. Norman Shumway
performed the first U.S. adult
heart transplant, placing the
heart of a 43-year-old man
in a 54-year-old patient (the
recipient died 15 days later).
On this date:
In 1540, England’s King
Henry VIII married his
fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
(The marriage lasted about
six months.)
In
1759,
George
Washington and Martha
Dandridge Custis were
married in New Kent
County, Virginia.
In 1838, Samuel Morse
and Alfred Vail gave the first
successful public demon-
stration of their telegraph in
Morristown, New Jersey.
In 1912, New Mexico
became the 47th state.
In 1919, the 26th pres-
ident of the United States,
Theodore Roosevelt, died
in Oyster Bay, New York, at
age 60.
In 1945, George Herbert
Walker
Bush
married
Barbara Pierce at the First
Presbyterian Church in Rye,
New York.
In 1950, Britain recog-
nized
the
Communist
government of China.
In 1974, year-round
daylight saving time began
in the United States on a
trial basis as a fuel-saving
measure in response to the
OPEC oil embargo.
In 1987, the U.S. Senate
voted 88-4 to establish an
11-member panel to hold
public hearings on the Iran-
Contra affair.
In 1993, authorities
rescued Jennifer Stolpa and
her infant son, Clayton, after
Jennifer’s husband, James,
succeeded in reaching help,
ending the family’s eight-day
ordeal after becoming lost in
the snow-covered Nevada
desert. Jazz trumpeter Dizzy
Gillespie, 75, died in Engle-
wood, New Jersey; ballet
dancer Rudolf Nureyev died
in suburban Paris at age 54.
In 1994, figure skater
Nancy
Kerrigan
was
clubbed on the leg by an
assailant at Detroit’s Cobo
Arena; four men, including
the ex-husband of Kerrig-
an’s rival, Tonya Harding,
went to prison for their
roles in the attack. (Harding
pleaded guilty to conspiracy
to hinder prosecution, but
denied any advance knowl-
edge about the assault.)
In 2001, with Vice Presi-
dent Al Gore presiding in his
capacity as president of the
Senate, Congress formally
certified George W. Bush
the winner of the bitterly
contested 2000 presidential
election.
Ten years ago: In a
video posted on the Internet,
al-Qaida’s American-born
spokesman, Adam Gadahn,
urged fighters to meet Pres-
ident George W. Bush with
bombs during his upcoming
Mideast visit. Mikhail
Saakashvili was declared
winner of a second term as
Georgia’s president.
Five years ago: President
Barack Obama returned to
Washington after a winter
vacation in Hawaii that was
interrupted by the “fiscal
cliff” crisis. In his first
public speech in six months,
a defiant Syrian President
Bashar Assad rallied a
cheering crowd to fight the
uprising against his author-
itarian rule, dismissing any
chance of dialogue with
what he called “murderous
criminals.” The NHL and
the players’ association
agreed on a tentative pact to
end a 113-day lockout.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Country musician Joey, the
CowPolka King (Riders
in the Sky) is 69. Former
FBI director Louis Freeh is
68. Rock singer-musician
Kim Wilson (The Fabu-
lous Thunderbirds) is 67.
Singer Jett Williams is 65.
Actor-comedian
Rowan
Atkinson is 63. World
Golf Hall of Famer Nancy
Lopez is 61. Actor Scott
Bryce is 60. Rhythm-and-
blues singer Kathy Sledge
is 59. TV chef Nigella
Lawson is 58. Rhythm-
and-blues
singer
Eric
Williams (BLACKstreet)
is 58. Movie director John
Singleton is 50. Actor Aron
Eisenberg is 49. Actor
Norman Reedus is 49. TV
personality Julie Chen is
48. Actor Danny Pintauro
(TV: “Who’s the Boss?”)
is 42. Actress Cristela
Alonzo is 39. Actress Rinko
Kikuchi is 37. Actor Eddie
Redmayne is 36. Retired
NBA All-Star
Gilbert
Arenas is 36. Actress-come-
dian Kate McKinnon is 34.
Rock singer Alex Turner
(Arctic Monkeys) is 32.
Thought for Today:
“He threatens many that
hath injured one.” — Ben
Jonson, English dramatist
and poet (1572-1637).
ODDS & ENDS
Police: Man used bank robbery
cash to buy engagement ring
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio
(AP) — Authorities say a
man robbed a bank in Ohio
and used the money to buy
his fiancée an engagement
ring.
The
Hamilton-Mid-
dletown
Journal-News
reports 36-year-old Dustin
Pedersen has been charged
with robbing a Fifth Third
Bank branch in Trenton on
Dec. 16.
Police say records show
that Pedersen spent $4,500
on an engagement ring
less than an hour after the
robbery and presented it
the next day.
A
Trenton
police
detective said in court
Wednesday the robbery
netted $8,800.
Police say Pedersen
became a suspect after a
man wearing an identical
hat robbed a Butler County
bank six days later.
Pedersen has denied
robbing any banks, but told
police that surveillance
photos of the robber look
like him.
Pedersen’s
attorney
wasn’t immediately avail-
able for comment Thursday.
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