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Saturday, April 14, 2018
East Oregonian
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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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