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OUT OF THE VAULT
Birthday surprise is just what the doctor ordered
A 19-year-old Pendleton man
received a once-in-a-lifetime birthday
surprise from his music teacher in Sep-
tember 1974 while recovering from
brain surgery.
Matt Neal’s 19th birthday party
on Sept. 7, 1974, was a casual affair,
attended by his family and a few local
celebrities, including Pendleton foot-
ball coaches Don Requa and Gary
Yates and state superintendent of pub-
lic instruction Jesse Fassold, friends
of the Neal family. A bevy of Neal’s
admirers of the female persuasion
perched about the room.
Also in attendance was Shirlene
McMichael, Neal’s piano teacher for
eight years and the director of the
Pendleton High School orchestra, for
which Neal played string bass. McMi-
chael brought a very special gift to the
party: a white sweatshirt signed by
players on the Portland Trail Blazers
professional basketball team.
When his sister Darcy pointed out a
small “Bill Walton” on the sweatshirt,
Neal’s eyes grew several sizes larger
and the biggest smile of his life flashed
EO file photo
Matt Neal of Pendleton, left, is all
smiles after receiving a sweatshirt
autographed by the Portland Trail
Blazers for his birthday Sept. 7,
1974.
across his face. “That’s pretty nice,” he
said softly.
Neal met the former UCLA
All-American and NBA legend in a
Portland hospital after a relapse from
surgery to remove a brain tumor in
March 1974. Walton was in the hos-
pital recovering from knee surgery.
The two became fast friends. McMi-
chael contacted the Trail Blazers with
the idea of an autographed sweatshirt
to help speed Neal’s recovery, which
doctors cautioned could take several
months.
“Sports is just about that kid’s
whole life,” McMichael said. “I
thought it would be a neat thing to do
for him, especially since he already
knows Walton.”
Not all of the Blazers signed the
sweatshirt, since most were out of Ore-
gon for the off-season, but McMichael
did manage to get signatures of John
Johnson, Rick Roberson, Greg Smith
and Larry Steele, in addition to Wal-
ton’s. A representative of the Blazers
organization was working with McMi-
chael to gather the rest of the players’
signatures when they returned for fall
training camp in Portland.
DEAR ABBY
Woman feels long-distance relationship is one-sided
Dear Abby: I am in a
ship. Communication has to
long-distance relationship. I
be voluntary, not mandatory. If
live in Kansas; he’s in Michi-
you continue to pursue him the
gan. Because we are 720 miles
way you have been, you won’t
apart, phone calls, text mes-
draw him closer; you will drive
sages and Skype are vital to
him further away.
the health of our relationship. I
Dear Abby: My father is
make it a priority to text or call
nearing the end of his life. I’m
Jeanne
“Good morning” or “Good- Phillips an only child with no fam-
ily nearby. When my mother
night.” Unlike me, sometimes
Advice
passed away, many people
he’s consistent and sometimes
reached out to me, and I know
not, especially on weekends.
He says he falls asleep, but it continues their intent was to comfort me. How-
to happen, and I’m getting tired and ever, most of the time I ended up com-
forting them! I would try to escape
frustrated about not being a priority.
I have been as patient and nice as by saying things like I had a task to
I can be, as well as continuing to tell take care of, but when people are cry-
him how much I love him and want ing hysterically on the phone or in my
our relationship to work. I would love kitchen, they don’t seem to hear. How
to hear your advice. — Faithful But can I politely tell people like this that
Frustrated Girlfriend
I’m not their therapist, and they are not
Dear Girlfriend: I know you love comforting me? — Taking Care Of
this man, but take a step back. You may Dad
be smothering him. Stop doing all the
Dear Taking Care: All you need to
work in maintaining the romance and say is you can’t talk right now, and you
give him some space. If you do, he will call them back later. Period. Then
may realize he needs to step up and hang up. If someone is having an emo-
devote more energy to your relation- tional meltdown in your kitchen, you
have the right to tell the person you
can’t deal with it right now, you’ll visit
with her — or him — “another time,”
and guide them to the door.
Dear Abby: I am a man who has read
your column for more than 40 years and
have often thought your advice is rea-
sonable, although not always exactly
what I would have advised. Now that
I’m retired, I find myself composing
little “Dear Abby” conversations in my
mind as I go through the day and meet
small challenges or hear about them
from acquaintances. You know what
I mean — what should Tom do about
his abusive daughter, how should I
address the neighbors’ habit of feeding
the deer and squirrels, or what should
I do with this latest bit of gossip? I lit-
erally ask you for guidance, then argue
with the advice I think you would give
— sometimes out loud. Is this a sign of
creeping insanity or something worse?
— Blabbering In Missoula
Dear Blabbering: It isn’t a sign of
creeping insanity. It’s a sign that you
may need another woman in your life
besides Dear Abby.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Sept. 8-9, 1918
From 35 to 40 head of outlaw horses are at the Round-Up
grounds. They were brought in the other day from the range
where they have been running wild on good feed for the past
11 months. They’re all in good shape and full of pep. The
horses will be tried out this week to see if they have lost
any of their tricks under the saddle. Broncho Bob Hall is
looking after the buckers and will have charge of the try-
outs. These buckers, which belong to the association, will
be supplemented by the best buckers in the Eddie McCarty
and Charles Irwin strings, both of Wyoming, and the George
Drumheller horses of Walla Walla.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Sept. 8-9, 1968
The next time Gordon Greenwood, president of the Main
Street Cowboys, hands a trophy to the Echo Fire Depart-
ment, he will stand back. Way back. Then he may stay dry.
When Greenwood handed the Echo firemen their first place
trophy in comic division entries in the Dress-Up Parade Sat-
urday, they let him have it — it being lots of water.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Sept. 8-9, 1993
An inmate at Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution
who tried to take advantage of a takeover rumor has been
charged with possession of weapons, Robert Hill, deputy
district attorney, said Tuesday. The Umatilla County grand
jury has indicted Richard Schoonover, a 46-year-old inmate
currently serving a 51-month sentence at the medium-secu-
rity prison in Pendleton. Hill said Schoonover tried to capi-
talize on a rumor of an inmate riot by volunteering two but-
ter knives to authorities while implicating prisoners who
posed a threat to him. “It appears he cooked up the story and
produced the weapons, which he claims they (other inmates)
gave to him,” Hill said. Schoonover may have promised
other inmates contraband drugs, Hill said, then found him-
self in trouble when he failed to make good on his promise.
In 1900, Galveston,
Texas, was struck by a hurri-
cane that killed an estimated
8,000 people.
In 1930, the comic strip
“Blondie,” created by Chic
Young, was first published.
In 1935, Sen. Huey P.
Long, a Louisiana Dem-
ocrat, was shot and mor-
tally wounded inside the
Louisiana State Capitol; he
died two days later. (The
assailant was identified as
Dr. Carl Weiss, who was
gunned down by Long’s
bodyguards.)
In 1939, President Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt declared
a “limited national emer-
gency” in response to the
outbreak of war in Europe.
In 1941, the 900-day
Siege of Leningrad by Ger-
man forces began during
World War II.
In 1951, a peace treaty
with Japan was signed by 49
nations in San Francisco.
In 1994, USAir Flight
427, a Boeing 737, crashed
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Today’s Birthdays: Ven-
triloquist Willie Tyler is 78.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.,
is 77. Secretary of Defense
James Mattis is 68. Singer
Aimee Mann is 58. Alter-
native country singer Neko
Case is 48. Actor Martin
Freeman is 47. Actor David
Arquette is 47. TV-radio
personality Kennedy is 46.
Rhythm-and-blues singer
Pink is 39. Actor Jona-
than Taylor Thomas is 37.
Rapper Wiz Khalifa is 31.
Actor Gaten Matarazzo (TV:
“Stranger Things”) is 16.
Thought for Today:
“Fools act on imagination
without knowledge, ped-
ants act on knowledge with-
out imagination.” — Alfred
North Whitehead, English
philosopher and mathemati-
cian (1861-1947).
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On Sept. 8, 1974, Presi-
dent Gerald R. Ford granted
a “full, free, and absolute
pardon” to former President
Richard Nixon covering his
entire term in office.
On this date:
In 1504, Michelangelo’s
towering marble statue of
David was unveiled to the
public in Florence, Italy.
In 1565, a Spanish expe-
dition established the first
permanent European settle-
ment in North America at
present-day St. Augustine,
Fla.
In 1664, the Dutch sur-
rendered New Amsterdam
to the British, who renamed
it New York.
In 1892, an early ver-
sion of “The Pledge of Alle-
giance,” written by Fran-
cis Bellamy, appeared in
“The Youth’s Companion.”
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to my Flag and the Repub-
lic for which it stands, one
nation, indivisible, with lib-
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