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East Oregonian
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OUT OF THE VAULT
Running all in the family for Lexington athletes
By RENEE STRUTHERS
East Oregonian
Lee Padberg was proud of his son
Bryan, whose high school running
career took off his freshman year at
Heppner High School with state Class A
titles in the 1,500 and 3,000 meter runs
in 1986. But Lee was more proud that
Brian broke 20-year-old school records
in the mile and 2-mile runs the same
year — records Lee had set himself 20
years earlier.
Running titles were a family affair
for the Padbergs, beginning with the
family patriarch and continuing with
daughter Jodi, a middle-distance
standout during her high school career.
Bryan’s freshman success, though, led
to some attitude problems and he failed
to repeat his win in the 1,500-meter race
his sophomore year.
“I didn’t work as hard that year,”
Bryan said during an April 26, 1989
interview with the East Oregonian.
But coach Dale Conklin agreed that
Bryan learned his lesson and “worked
his tail off” during his junior year,
posting personal bests in the 1,500 with
4 minutes, 3 seconds, and the 3,000
meters at 8:54.7 at the Gladstone Meet
of Champions. He capped his junior
season by leading Heppner to the state
Class A track championship, taking
the titles for the 1,500 and 3,000 and
anchoring the team’s fifth-place 1,600
meter relay team. He was named the
Class A men’s athlete of the year in the
1989 issue of “Who’s Who in Oregon
Track and Field.”
Along with the boys’ first-ever state
track championship, Bryan’s junior year
also included a spot on the roster of
Heppner’s second-place football team
during the fall state Class A champi-
onships. But it wasn’t all victories for
Bryan and his teammates that year: the
Mustangs failed to move past the district
playoffs during basketball season, his
favorite sport.
Bryan was considering nibbles from
the University of Oregon and Pacific
Lutheran University track coaches as
his high school career was drawing
to a close, his senior year focused on
improving his GPA in hopes of scoring
scholarship offers. “I’ve got to do well
this year. I guess that’s one of my pres-
sures,” Bryan said as his mother, Linda,
watched him prepare for yet another
race.
“Maybe he puts a little too much
pressure on himself,” Linda said. “I
think he’s nervous this year.”
Bryan promptly ran away from the
field, breaking the tape in meet-record
time for the 800 meter race.
DEAR ABBY
Family judges pretty woman’s boyfriend on his looks alone
Dear Abby: I am a
about their comments? —
33-year-old woman with two
Genuinely Happy
young children (11 and 9).
Dear Genuinely Happy:
“Andrew” and I have been
Mark Twain once said, “It takes
dating for almost a year, still
your enemy and your friend,
learning about each other and
working together, to hurt you
building a foundation for our
to the heart: the one to slander
relationship.
you and the other to get the
My family recently told some
news to you.” I think it applies
Jeanne
other family members that I am
here. Do not “confront” your
“too pretty” to be dating Andrew Phillips family. Just tell them you feel
Advice
and I “can do much better.” My
that their comments are shallow
younger sister even said Andrew
and hurtful, and reflect more on
isn’t good-looking enough and I need to them than on your boyfriend.
find someone who matches my beauty
Dear Abby: I’m a 13-year-old girl.
as well as my heart. Shocked, I told her My friend “Bailey” and I both like the
Andrew has been wonderful to me and same boy but didn’t want him to come
my kids, and his looks don’t bother me. between us. We made a pact that we
My last boyfriend was very good- wouldn’t ask him out.
looking but turned out to be a horrible
Bailey can be selfish, and I know
person. He assaulted me, dumped me she’d say yes if he asked her. When I
on the side of a highway and stole my told her my friendship with her meant
car. Fortunately, a passerby stopped and more to me than the boy, she laughed
helped me. After getting a restraining and said that meant she’d get him. I’m
order and going to court, I decided my not sure what to do. I have liked him
next boyfriend would be a good-hearted longer than she has, and I think he likes
man with character regardless of his me back. He knows me much better at
looks. Should I confront my family least.
If he asks me, should I say yes and
risk my friend getting hurt, even though
I know she’d say yes in my place? — A
Reader In Missouri
Dear Reader: When you told
Bailey your friendship with her meant
more than the boy, her response
showed that your friendship is less
important to her than he is, and the pact
means nothing to her. If the boy likes
you, he will probably ask you out to
do something. If he does — and your
parents agree — you should accept. I
say this because I don’t think Bailey is
a true friend at all.
Dear Abby: If someone organizes
a trip for a nonprofit organization and
charges a fee, and later finds out that,
due to certain circumstances, the trip
didn’t cost as much, should the money
be refunded to the people who took the
trip or be given to the organization? —
Just Asking In New Jersey
Dear Just: Because the trip was
under the auspices of the organization,
return the money to the organization
and let them decide whether it should
be refunded to the individuals.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 21-22, 1918
A new system of selling thrift
stamps has been devised by Principal
Drill which meets with the approval
of all the students, as it promotes
rivalry among them. An amount of
$2000 must be raised in four weeks in
order to make up the school’s quota.
Mr. Drill suggests that each class take
$500 worth of stamps and when they
have sold them, the members of that
class will be entitled to a one-half
holiday. The president of each class
called a meeting immediately after
assembly to get a list of the number
of students under his rule so each one
would have an equal amount to sell.
One of the classes at least is building
air castles, they already having
decided where they will hold their
picnic, to celebrate the day they go
“over the top.”
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 21-22, 1968
J. David Hamley, president of
Hamley and Co., today announced
plans to close Hamley’s Saddle Tree
Shop and Custom Saddle Shop. After
85 years in the custom saddle business,
“it had become a way of life with
us,” Hamley said. “However, in this
modern world it is no longer feasible
or practical to attempt to continue
these shops.” Rising production costs
and a lack of interest by young people
to enter the saddle making trade have
forced nearly all of the old-time saddle
shops out of business, Hamley noted.
“We are phasing out our saddle busi-
ness and will deliver all of the saddles
on order.”
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 21-22, 1993
Seven Hermiston High School
baseball players have ended their
season following a school investiga-
tion into alleged alcohol use during
a team trip April 10. Six members of
the 17-player varsity roster and one
junior varsity player were among those
suspended. “Some were starters,”
Hermiston coach Rob Phillips said. “I
can’t give the names.” The investiga-
tion, Hermiston High School athletic
director John Kopta said, “is still
ongoing, but right now the people that
have admitted to being involved have
all come forward.” Hermiston traveled
by bus to Bend on the evening of April
9 for an Intermountain Conference
doubleheader with Mountain View on
April 10.
ODDS & ENDS
It’s (another) boy!
Michigan family with
13 sons gets No. 14
ROCKFORD,
Mich.
(AP) — There will be no
shortage of hand-me-downs
for this Michigan kid.
The Grand Rapids Press
reports that Kateri and
Jay Schwandt welcomed
the birth of their 14th son
on Wednesday, five days
before he was due. They
have no daughters.
WOOD-TV reports that
the boy weighs 8 pounds,
4 ounces and is 21 inches
long. His name was not
announced by press time
Friday.
As with their last few
children, the couple from
Rockford, north of Grand
Rapids, didn’t want to know
the baby’s sex ahead of
time.
Jay Schwandt said earlier
this year that he would have
loved to have a girl, but
didn’t think would be in the
cards. He was right.
Kateri Schwandt has
said she’s used to large
families, as one of 14 chil-
dren herself.
The couple’s oldest son
is in his 20s.
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY
On April 21, 1918,
Manfred von Richthofen,
25, the German ace known
as the “Red Baron” who was
believed to have downed
80 enemy aircraft during
World War I, was himself
shot down and killed while
in action over France.
In 1509, England’s
King Henry VII died;
he was succeeded by his
17-year-old son, Henry
VIII.
In 1649, the Maryland
Toleration Act, providing
for freedom of worship for
all Christians, was passed
by the Maryland assembly.
In 1789, John Adams
was sworn in as the first
vice president of the United
States.
In 1836, an army of
Texans led by Sam Houston
defeated the Mexicans at
San Jacinto, assuring Texas
independence.
In 1910, author Samuel
Langhorne Clemens, better
known as Mark Twain, died
in Redding, Connecticut, at
age 74.
In 1930, fire broke out
inside the overcrowded
Ohio
Penitentiary
in
Columbus, killing 332
inmates.
In 1942, the first
edition of “The Stranger”
(L’Etranger),
Albert
Camus’ highly influential
absurdist
novel,
was
published in Nazi-occupied
Paris by Gallimard.
In 1955, the Jerome
Lawrence-Robert Lee play
“Inherit the Wind,” inspired
by the Scopes trial of 1925,
opened at the National
Theatre in New York.
In 1962, the Century 21
Exposition, also known as
the Seattle World’s Fair,
began a six-month run.
In 1977, the musical
play “Annie,” based on
the “Little Orphan Annie”
comic strip, opened on
Broadway, beginning a run
of 2,377 performances.
In 1986, a rediscov-
ered vault in Chicago’s
Lexington Hotel that was
linked to Al Capone was
opened during a widely
watched live TV special
hosted by Geraldo Rivera;
aside from a few bottles
and a sign, the vault turned
out to be empty.
In 1998, astronomers
announced in Washington
that they had discovered
possible signs of a new
family of planets orbiting
a star 220 light-years away,
the clearest evidence to date
of worlds forming beyond
our solar system.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth
II is 92. Actress-comedi-
an-writer Elaine May is 86.
Actor Charles Grodin is 83.
Actor Reni Santoni is 80.
Anti-death penalty activist
Sister Helen Prejean is 79.
Singer-musician Iggy Pop is
71. Actress Patti LuPone is
69. Actor Tony Danza is 67.
Actress Andie MacDowell
is 60. Rock singer Robert
Smith (The Cure) is 59.
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