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COFFEE BREAK Saturday, April 14, 2018 East Oregonian Page 5C OUT OF THE VAULT Lover’s triangle leads to tragic deaths A Heppner man, insanely jealous when the woman of his dreams chose a different companion, went on a shooting spree that left his heart’s desire and himself dead in May 1908. Henry P. Morrison, a brakeman for the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company in Heppner, had fixed his sights on the lovely Nora Wright. But Miss Wright spurned Morrison’s affections, instead choosing Barney Ahalt as her escort. On May 2, 1908, after several weeks of depression and working himself up into a jealous rage over Wright’s rejection, Morrison went looking for the pair with deadly intention. Morrison borrowed a .41 caliber Colt revolver from Express Messenger Smith, telling him a dog down the track had been annoying him and he wanted to be prepared. Morrison took a “speeder,” a small two-man vehicle used for railroad track maintenance, and traveled along the tracks to Cecil, where Miss Wright lived with her parents. He stashed the speeder in a field and created a hiding spot under a warehouse that gave him a good view of the Wright house. Morrison spent the night and half the next day waiting for Wright to emerge, finally spotting her and Ahalt climbing into a buggy around 2 p.m. on May 3 and heading south toward the tiny hamlet of Morgan. He caught up with the pair at a crossing two miles north of Morgan. Morrison had waved to the pair cheerfully as he traveled along the track in the speeder, and was waiting for them on the bank next to the wagon road when they approached the crossing. Morrison stopped Ahalt’s team, brandished a revolver and said, “You had better say your prayers.” He then opened fire. Miss Wright fell dead immediately with a bullet to the head. Ahalt was also shot, a flesh wound in the shoulder, but managed to whip the team into motion and fled, carrying Wright’s body with him. Morrison followed the racing team to Morgan, where he was told Wright was dead. He turned the gun on himself, shooting himself in the forehead. He was carried to a warehouse, where he died about 9 p.m. DEAR ABBY Serious video gamer gets no respect for her hobby Dear Abby: I’m an avid reading the latest trashy vampire book or going out every Friday video game player. My husband and Saturday night to get wasted and I bond over playing games, is “really living”? — Proud reading and talking about them. Gamer Girl In fact, in my spare time, I just Dear Proud Gamer: earned a master’s degree in A master’s degree in video video game culture. game culture is impressive. The issue I have is people People who regard you as lazy judge my hobby as “a waste of Jeanne time” or comment that I should Phillips or lacking in motivation are ignorant. Video game design read a book instead. I don’t Advice has become a well-established tell them I read a book a week industry. In fact, it’s akin to the because I shouldn’t have to justify what I do with my time. I have film industry in that the creative process a good job and a wonderful, stable requires an education similar to — but marriage, yet people consider me even more extensive than — that offered in film schools. Rather than try immature because of video games. Abby, video games are incredible to convince those who tell you how to works of art that tell amazing stories spend your time, focus your energy on and allow players to experience a host what works for you and spend less of it of worlds and narratives that can be around negative individuals. Dear Abby: I have a problem: I inspiring. Many people make lifelong friendships through online gaming or don’t have a mouth filter and haven’t learn new skills through educational since childhood. I bullied people in the past because of how I was bullied games. What can I say to people who dismiss and deliberately hurt people to prevent my hobby as a waste while claiming that them from hurting me. At work, I did it to the point that a co-worker called me the b-word and threatened to punch me in the mouth if I did it again. I take full responsibility. I deserved it. Abby, as an adult, I have become meaner and more bitter and hurtful than I was as a child. Please give me some advice because I’m afraid I’m going to be worse in the future. — Guilty And Sad Dear Guilty And Sad: You are not going to become worse in the future because you now realize you have a serious problem and are willing to do something about it. Awareness is the first step in fixing it. An anger manage- ment class could be a good start. With practice, you can develop a filter. Rather than reflexively lashing out, start consciously cultivating kindness. If you do that, you’ll be amazed at how quickly it will grow. Rather than criticize, first ask yourself, “Is what I’m going to say true? Is it helpful? Is it kind?” And if it’s not all three — don’t say it. ODDS & ENDS DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 14-15, 1918 Wind, cold and dust combined to keep many people from seeing the Port- land ball tossers sit on the hopes of the Walla Walla team yesterday afternoon when the two teams mixed at Round-Up Park. It took two score keepers to grab all of the many plays by the Beavers but a two-year-old could’ve added up the string of ciphers collected by the young- sters from the Garden City. Bill Fisher’s men pounded the simple offerings of the two slabsters opposing them for 16 hits, including homers by Lee and Peterson, a three sacker by Teck and double by Fisher, all of which extra base slams came with men on bases. The three former Pendleton players and Manager Fisher got the batting honors of the day. Gunner Peterson poled out a homer and two singles in five times at bat. George Pembroke singled twice cleanly in two times at the plate and Eddie Teck made four safeties in five trips, one going for three bases. Fisher made three hits out of five. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 14-15, 1968 Over a million miles logged in 22 years of accident-free driving by George Dormaier, motor transport operator for Standard Oil, Inc., was recognized at a dinner at the Pendleton Sky Room recently, when Mr. and Mrs. Dormaier were guests of honor. Dormaier is the first, and only, holder of such a record in the Northwest District which comprises Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska, and, as far as company officials could ascertain, their only driver in the nation with such a record. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 14-15, 1993 A pig-butchering controversy continues to brew in Milton-Freewater, so the city council has called for parties on both sides of the issue to share their perspectives. The council has directed Police Chief Don Witt to schedule a meeting that is expected to include those who did the butchering, those upset by it and city and health officials. The action was taken after Milton-Freewater resident Candy Bellamy told council members that hogs are continuing to be butchered within the city limits. While there is no law against butchering animals in Milton-Freewater, some residents have pressed the council to pass an ordinance banning or restricting the practice. The concerns were initially expressed after an incident in early February when a hog was butchered as part of a birthday celebration. THIS DAY IN HISTORY On April 14, 1865, Pres- ident Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater in Washington. In 1775, the first Amer- ican society for the abolition of slavery was formed in Philadelphia. In 1828, the first edition of Noah Webster’s “American Dictionary of the English Language” was published. In 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. ship’s time and began sinking. (The ship went under two hours and 40 minutes later with the loss of 1,514 lives.) In 1935, the “Black Sunday” dust storm descended upon the central Plains, turning a sunny after- noon into total darkness. In 1939, the John Stein- beck novel “The Grapes of Wrath” was first published by Viking Press. In 1949, the “Wilhelm- strasse Trial” in Nuremberg ended with 19 former Nazi Foreign Office officials sentenced by an American tribunal to prison terms ranging from four to 25 years. In 1956, Ampex Corp. demonstrated the first practical videotape recorder at the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters Convention in Chicago. In 1968, the gay-themed play “The Boys in the Band,” by Mart Crowley, opened in New York. In 1970, President Richard Nixon nominated Harry Blackmun to the U.S. Supreme Court. (The choice of Blackmun, who AP Photo/Library of Congress This April 1865 photo shows President Abraham Lin- coln’s box at Ford’s Theater, the site of his assassination. Under the headline “Great National Calamity!” the AP reported Lincoln’s assassination, on April 15, 1865. was unanimously confirmed by the Senate a month later, followed the failed nomina- tions of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell.) In 1981, the first test flight of America’s first operational space shuttle, the Columbia, ended successfully with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California. In 1986, Americans got word of a U.S. air raid on Libya (because of the time difference, it was the early morning of April 15 where the attack occurred.) French feminist author Simone de Beauvoir died in Paris at age 78. In 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 warplanes mistakenly shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk heli- copters over northern Iraq, killing 26 people, including 15 Americans. Turner Classic Movies made its cable debut; the first film it aired was Ted Turner’s personal favorite, “Gone with the Wind.” In 2013, Hugo Chavez’s hand-picked successor, Nicolas Maduro, won Venezuela’s presidential election by a narrow margin over challenger Henrique Capriles. Today’s Birthdays: Country singer Loretta Lynn is 86. Actress Julie Christie is 78. Retired MLB All-Star Pete Rose is 77. Rock musi- cian Ritchie Blackmore is 73. Actor John Shea is 69. Actor-turned-race car driver Brian Forster is 58. Actor Brad Garrett is 58. Actor Robert Carlyle is 57. Rock singer-musician John Bell (Widespread Panic) is 56. Actor Robert Clendenin is 54. Actress Catherine Dent is 53. Actor Lloyd Owen is 52. Baseball Hall of Famer Greg Maddux is 52. Rock musician Barrett Martin is 51. Actor Anthony Michael Hall is 50. Actor Adrien Brody is 45. Classical singer David Miller (Il Divo) is 45. Rapper DaBrat is 44. Actor Antwon Tanner is 43. Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar is 41. Actor-producer Rob McEl- henney is 41. Roots singer JD McPherson is 41. Rock singer Win Butler (Arcade Fire) is 38. Actress Claire Coffee is 38. Thought for Today: “When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.” — Abraham Lincoln (1809- 1865). AP Photo/Paul Cyr A massive ice carousel that’s 427 feet in diameter is shown Saturday on a frozen lake in Sinclair, Maine. Maine community creates huge ice carousel on frozen lake SINCLAIR, Maine (AP) — Residents in a Maine town believe they’ve created the world’s largest ice carousel on a frozen lake. About 100 volunteers cut a circle in the ice that’s 427 feet in diameter, and they used four outboard boat motors to get it rotating on Saturday. It happened in Sinclair in northern Maine. Mike Cyr, one of the organizers, announced, “we got ‘er spinning!” He says the ice carousel is big enough to break the world record held by a town in Finland. A team confirmed the measurements on Saturday. Volunteers used augurs to bore more than 1,300 holes, along with chain saws and other equipment, to cut the massive hole in lake ice that was 30 inches thick. They waited for warmer weather to get it spinning. 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