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Saturday, March 3, 2018
East Oregonian
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OUT OF THE VAULT
Heppner ‘gold strike’ creates havoc for landowners
Heppner ranch owners who discov-
ered a cache of gold coins on their prop-
erty in March 1968 quickly discovered
the “strike” was almost more trouble
than it was worth.
Mary Colleen Greenup, her sister
Ilene Wyman and brother Bob Kilkenny
owned a ranch purchased by heir father,
John Kilkenny, in 1914 from Preston
Thomson.
Rumors abounded for years that
Thomson had buried money on the
place, and a 1968 article in True West
magazine brought fortune hunters to the
property in droves. Greenup said that
many people, from all over the country,
phoned for permission to search the
ranch and others simply showed up at
the door.
Two men from Minnesota who read
the article teamed up with Greenup in
the first week of March 1968 to search
for the buried treasure, first with metal
detectors and finally with a bulldozer.
A cache of 28 coins was found buried
under the ranch’s fish pond, with dates
ranging from 1870 to 1896. Fourteen
of the coins were $20 gold pieces, nine
were $5 coins and five were $10 coins,
for a total face value of $375. One of
the pieces, with an 1891 mint date, was
valued at $500.
And it wasn’t the first find on the
ranch. Ten years previously, two grade
school boys fishing at the pond found
four gold pieces. They kept them, and
Greenup at the time didn’t try to recover
them.
Greenup split 14 coins of the new
stash between the two men (whose
names were not available when the
March 9 article was published). An
advisor later said the government would
require the money to be turned in, the
finders receiving only 15 percent.
Another said that each member of the
family could keep one piece. With three
owners and 12 children between them,
there weren’t enough coins left to go
around.
Considering the two finds, it is
reasonable to assume that the hunt for
treasure continued.
DEAR ABBY
Flirtatious co-worker dials back after his ex returns
Dear Abby: I have a crush
tion to you that he did before.
on a guy I work with. I’m 19,
Because he isn’t, you need to
and he’s 26. He has a kid, which
understand that he and his ex
actually doesn’t bother me. I
obviously have some unfinished
love kids and have taken care
business together, regardless of
of them most of my life. My
her history of infidelity. Set your
problem is he has this ex who
sights on someone else.
wants to get back together with
Dear Abby: All my mom
him. They broke up because she
does is talk about work. If we
Jeanne
was staying out all night and Phillips are having a conversation, she
cheating.
links every topic to her work
Advice
He used to flirt with me and
and her co-workers.
text me all the time and offer me
It is alienating my sister and
his hoodie. Now she’s sort of back in the me. When we tell her things about our
picture and he ignores me and doesn’t kids — her grandkids — she still relates
return my texts. But when we see each it to work.
other he starts flirting again, and we just
Another thing: She’s constantly on
click. We make sense.
her tablet for work or on Facebook. I
I guess my question is, should I live seven hours away from her. When
tell him how I feel before it’s too late we make the drive down, I don’t want
or just keep it to myself? Should I risk to watch her on her tablet. If we try to
everything and go for it? — Uncertain confront her on anything, all she does is
In New York
cry.
Dear Uncertain: Announce your
Mom and I had a good relationship
feelings for the guy if you wish, but before she took that job. Now she’s so
do not expect him to drop everything negative that it’s difficult to want to
and rush to you. If he were interested talk to her. Where do I even start? —
in more than a workplace flirtation, he Missing Her While She’s Here
would be paying the same kind of atten-
Dear Missing: Rather than
“confront” your mother, ask her what
may have changed in her life since
she took that job. Her focus may have
shifted because that’s the center of her
activity.
Conversations are two-way, and this
may be all she feels she has to contribute
on her end. As to her “hiding” behind
Facebook rather than carry on a conver-
sation with you, like many people, she
may have become addicted to it and
unable to tear herself away. However,
you will never know unless you ask her
calmly.
Dear Abby: I’ve gone to licensed
mental health professionals on and off
since I was 7. Talk therapy has been
ineffective. What do you do when
talking to a licensed therapist doesn’t
work? — Wants To Know In New
Mexico
Dear Wants: Sometimes a combina-
tion of talk therapy and medication can
be more helpful than talk therapy alone.
Because the many years of talk therapy
alone haven’t been effective, consult a
psychologist who works with a psychia-
trist, who can prescribe medications that
may help you.
ODDS & ENDS
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 3-4, 1918
M.E. Hotchkiss, sheepherder for
Claud Sloan, is lying near to death at a
hotel in Echo while Ira Miller, another
herder, is held by the sheriff, without
bail, on a charge of having stabbed his
fellow worker in a quarrel that occurred
in Juniper canyon early Saturday
morning. The story as received here
is that there had been trouble between
the two men before and that it came to
a head at breakfast Saturday morning.
The men, with George Harding accom-
panying them, were four or five miles up
Juniper canyon, trailing the Sloan sheep
from Touchet to Cold Springs. Just how
the fight started was not clear but in the
melee Miller stabbed Hotchkiss several
times with a kitchen paring knife.
He stabbed him several blows on the
body, some of the wounds being above
and below the heart. The condition of
Hotchkiss is regarded as critical.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 3-4, 1968
It was not uncommon in pioneer
days for neighbors to gather for a
house-raising, but neighbors of Mr. and
Mrs. Weldon Witheritte of Butter Creek
gathered recently for a “house-razing.”
The old house in which the Witherittes
had lived for the past 16 years was built
in 1884 by John Thomas Galloway, for
Ezra Kelty. Mr. Kelty and Jonathan T.
Hoskins were partners in the sheep busi-
ness and upon dissolving partnership
Hoskins bought the house. It was moved
a quarter-mile down the creek from its
original site, where it was the home for
the Hoskinses for many years before
being purchased by Will Wattenburger.
The house changed hands several time
in succeeding years. After furniture and
other belongings were removed from the
house by the Witherittes, neighbors used
tractors, cables and other equipment to
pull the old house down, haul it to a
place near the creek and burn it. Several
square nails were saved for souvenirs.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 3-4, 1993
A section of Interstate 82 was closed
this morning when a truck carrying
nuclear waste slid off the road about
10 miles south of Umatilla. The truck,
bound for Richland, Wash., slid off the
icy road and was bumped by another
truck that also went off the road. There
were no injuries and no sign of a release
of the truck’s cargo, Oregon State Police
said. State police blocked traffic until
a tow truck could arrive and return the
truck to the road. The waste — stored
inside a cask — was identified as
hastelloy steel and graphite, a solid form
of nuclear waste. The shipment was
on its way to a low-level waste burial
ground located at Hanford.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Today is the 62nd day of
2018. There are 303 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On March 3, 1931, “The
Star-Spangled
Banner”
became the national anthem
of the United States as Presi-
dent Herbert Hoover signed a
congressional resolution.
On this date:
In 1791, Congress passed
a measure taxing distilled
spirits; it was the first internal
revenue act in U.S. history.
In 1845, Florida became
the 27th state.
In 1849, the U.S. Depart-
ment of the Interior was
established.
In
1918,
Germany,
Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria,
the Ottoman Empire and
Russia signed the Treaty
of Brest-Litovsk, which
ended Russian participation
in World War I. (The treaty
was rendered moot by the
November 1918 armistice.)
In 1923, Time magazine,
founded by Briton Hadden
and Henry R. Luce, made its
debut.
In 1943, in London’s East
End, 173 people died in a
crush of bodies at the Bethnal
Green tube station, which
was being used as a wartime
air raid shelter.
In 1959, the United
States launched the Pioneer
4 spacecraft, which flew by
the moon. Comedian Lou
Costello died in East Los
Angeles three days before his
53rd birthday.
In 1960, Lucille Ball filed
for divorce from her husband,
Desi Arnaz, a day after they
had finished filming the last
episode of “The Lucille Ball-
Desi Arnaz Show” (“Lucy
Meets the Mustache”) on
Arnaz’s 43rd birthday.
In 1974, a Turkish Airlines
DC-10 crashed shortly after
takeoff from Orly Airport in
Paris, killing all 346 people
on board.
In 1985, coal miners in
Britain voted to end a year-
long strike that proved to be
the longest and most violent
walkout in British history.
In 1991, motorist Rodney
King was severely beaten by
Los Angeles police officers in
a scene captured on amateur
video. Twenty-five people
were killed when a United
Airlines Boeing 737-200
crashed while approaching
the Colorado Springs airport.
In 2002, voters in Swit-
zerland approved joining the
United Nations, abandoning
almost 200 years of formal
neutrality.
Ten years ago: Demo-
cratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama said his
campaign had never given
Canada back-channel assur-
ances that his harsh words
about the North American
Free Trade Agreement were
for political show, despite a
Canadian memo indicating
otherwise. Four adults and
two children were found slain
in a Memphis, Tennessee,
house;
three
children
survived the rampage. (The
brother of one of the victims
was convicted of murder
and sentenced to death.) A
gunman opened fire inside a
Wendy’s restaurant in West
Palm Beach, Florida, killing
a paramedic who’d gone
back to fetch a missing meal
toy for his child; the gunman
wounded five others before
turning the gun on himself.
Operatic tenor Giuseppe Di
Stefano died in Santa Maria
Hoe, Italy, at age 86.
Five years ago: Vice
President Joe Biden led civil
rights leaders and national
political figures in a cere-
monial crossing of a Selma,
Alabama, bridge where
voting rights marchers were
beaten by law enforcement
officers in 1965. The SpaceX
company’s Dragon capsule
made good on its latest
shipment to the International
Space Station, overcoming
earlier mechanical difficulty
to deliver a ton of supplies.
Bobby Rogers, a founding
member of Motown group
The Miracles and a song-
writing collaborator with
Smokey Robinson, died at
his suburban Detroit home;
he was 73.
One year ago: President
Donald Trump toured St.
Andrew Catholic School, a
private religious facility in
Orlando, Florida, praising
it as an ideal institution for
“disadvantaged
children”
while re-emphasizing that
his education agenda would
focus on school choice. The
Nintendo Switch, a hybrid
game machine that works as
both a console at home and
a portable tablet on the go,
made its debut.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Socialite Lee Radziwill is
85. Singer-musician Mike
Pender (The Searchers)
is 77. Movie producer-di-
rector George Miller is 73.
Actress Hattie Winston is
73. Singer Jennifer Warnes
is 71. Actor-director Tim
Kazurinsky is 68. Singer-mu-
sician Robyn Hitchcock is
65. Actor Robert Gossett
is 64. Rock musician John
Lilley is 64. Actress Miranda
Richardson is 60. Rock
musician John Bigham is 59.
Radio personality Ira Glass is
59. Actress Mary Page Keller
is 57. Olympic track and field
gold medalist Jackie Joyner-
Kersee is 56. Former NFL
player and College Football
Hall of Famer Herschel
Walker is 56. Actress Laura
Harring is 54. Contemporary
Christian musician Duncan
Phillips (Newsboys) is 54.
Rapper-actor Tone Loc is 52.
Actress Julie Bowen is 48.
Country singer Brett Warren
(The Warren Brothers) is 47.
Actress Jessica Biel is 36.
Musician Brett Hite is 32.
Thought for Today:
“Some people stay longer
in an hour than others do in
a month.” — William Dean
Howells, American author
and editor (1837-1920).
School to keep
‘Millionaires’
mascot name
LENOX, Mass.
(AP) — Students at a
Massachusetts school want
to remain Millionaires.
The Lenox Memorial
Middle and High School
student council on
Wednesday announced that
a poll found a majority of
students want to keep the
sometimes contentious
Millionaires mascot.
About 96 percent of
the school’s 438 students
voted last month. Fifty-one
percent voted to keep the
nickname, 32 percent
wanted to change it, and 17
percent had no opinion.
Students last spring
voted to change it because
it is divisive, leads to taunts
from opposing schools, and
doesn’t accurately reflect
the town’s economics.
The nickname is a
tribute to wealthy out-of-
towners, called “cottagers,”
who built mansions
during the gilded age and
employed the locals.
Man with sauce
on face charged
in meatball theft
HAZLE TOWNSHIP,
Pa. (AP) — Police say a
clue led to the arrest of a
man charged with stealing
a pot of meatballs — red
sauce smeared on his face
and clothes.
Authorities charged
Leahman Glenn Robert
Potter for allegedly
swiping a pot of meatballs
from a man’s garage on
Monday.
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