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OUT OF THE VAULT
Two-time Nobelist returns home for honor
Linus Pauling, a two-time Nobel
Prize-winning chemist, returned to his
roots in October 1988 when his home-
town of Condon named the town’s air-
port after its most famous son.
The legendary scientist, whose dis-
coveries about the nature of chemical
bonds brought him international fame,
was humbled by Condon’s honor.
At dedication ceremonies for the
Condon State Airport-Pauling Field
on Oct. 15, 1988, Pauling gave credit
to the teachers who fostered his love of
learning. “I may very well owe a lot of
my understanding of the nature of the
world to the introduction I received in
Condon,” Pauling said.
Dedication organizers, including
Oregon Waste Systems, chose Pauling
for the honor because he “personifies
the strong will the Condon community
has, the desire to improve itself and its
emphasis on educational goals.” OWS
was lured to Gilliam County after the
Condon airport spent a million dol-
lars to accommodate larger, corporate
aircraft.
Pauling was accompanied to the
dedication by his daughter Linda Kamb
and two sisters who lived in western
Oregon. The Gilliam County Histori-
cal Society presented the 87-year-old
scientist with a brick embedded with a
red cross and a nickel, which was orig-
inally part of the walkway in front of
his father Herman Pauling’s Red Cross
Nobel
Prize-winning
scientist Linus
Pauling speaks
to about 200
people during
a dedication
ceremony at
Condon State
Airport-Pauling
Field in Con-
don on Oct.
15, 1988. The
airport was
renamed to
honor Pauling,
a former resi-
dent.
EO file photo
Drug Store. Pauling remembered the
nickel especially, because “he could
never get it out.” In return, Pauling pre-
sented the historical society with a cut
glass bowl saved from the store by his
sister during a 1908 fire.
The Pauling family lived in Con-
don until 1909, when they relocated
to Portland. Pauling attended the Ore-
gon Agricultural College in Corvallis
in 1922 and later the California Insti-
tute of Technology, where he received
his Ph.D. His book “The Nature of the
Chemical Bond,” published in 1932,
and his work on the nature of mat-
ter won him his first Nobel Prize, in
chemistry, in 1954. He won his sec-
ond, a Nobel Peace Prize, in 1962 for
his efforts in trying to effect a ban on
nuclear testing.
Pauling in his later years also became
known for espousing megadoses of
Vitamin C to prevent the common cold
and flu, publishing “How to Live Lon-
ger and Feel Better” in 1987.
He died Aug. 19, 1994, at the age of
93, at his home in Big Sur, California.
His ashes, along with those of his wife
Ava, were interred at Oswego Pioneer
Cemetery in Lake Oswego.
DEAR ABBY
Unemployed son complains he is overworked at home
Dear Abby: I am an unem-
properly. They just leave them
ployed (and looking) 24-year-
piled in the sink for someone
old male who is the oldest of
else, and my mother recently
four. My three sisters are a
yelled at me for “giving her atti-
tude” when I hadn’t said a word.
20-year-old who has a part-
This situation is making
time job and goes to college, a
it harder for me to get a job
14-year-old and a 12-year-old.
because I’m tired all the time,
We all live at home with our
Jeanne
and my parents don’t listen to
physician parents.
Our longtime cleaning lady Phillips a word I say. I’m not unaware
Advice
recently quit, and my parents
of the fact that as the oldest,
seemingly have no interest in
more is expected of me, but I
hiring a replacement. My sis-
think this is well past the point
ters and my father don’t help with the of what’s expected. What should I do?
chores because they are seen as either — Overworked In New York
too young or too busy. At most, they
Dear Overworked: Start reviewing
will unload groceries or assist in cook- your options. The first thing you need
ing a meal. My mother encourages this to do is understand why you are unem-
and does a fair amount of the work her- ployed. If there are no openings in your
self, but she has a job, so I’m frequently field, start considering other kinds of
told to handle the dishes, cooking, jobs you may be suited for.
pickups and drop-offs for after-school
If you want to be something more
activities, garbage and recycling, gro- than an unpaid domestic worker, you
ceries, miscellaneous errands (usually may have to figure out what it will take
picking up things at the pharmacy) and for you to live on your own — per-
haps with a roommate or two. Even if
occasional child care.
I get no sympathy or help. My sisters you don’t find the ideal job, employ-
don’t even bother to rinse their plates ment will solve your problem because
you will be too busy working to do the
things you’re being required to do now.
Dear Abby: I am getting married
soon, and I’m thrilled to have found
love. I have ex-co-workers I want to be
there. I also have longtime friends who
still work with me. The problem is they
gossip at work all the time. I know if
they attend my wedding, there will be
trouble in my work life and friendships.
How can I tell them not to gossip at
work about who was at my wedding or
who I excluded? How can I tell them
this is my day and I should be able to
have the pleasure of being surrounded
by friends and loved ones without wor-
rying about attendees being mean?
Please help. — Tired Of Gossip
Dear Tired: You are focusing on
the wrong thing. Concentrate on enjoy-
ing your special day. You can’t control
what other people will or will not do.
If you are asked after the wedding why
someone was absent, respond that bud-
getary limitations prevented you from
including everyone you would have
liked to invite. If you do, it will appear
to be less of a popularity contest.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 13-14, 1918
George P. Blakeslee, Warner M.
Blakeslee and Cyril T. Blakeslee, three
brothers formerly of Hermiston are
now in France. George P. Blakeslee,
the eldest, is in the artillery, Warner
M. in the medical corps and Cyril T.
in the engineer corps. Lieutenant C.O.
Wainscott, a brother-in-law of the three
young men, is a well known physician
of Hermiston who is in the medical ser-
vice in France.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 13-14, 1968
Steve Weld, a senior at Pendleton
High School, and the highest rank-
ing Boy Scout in the Umatilla dis-
trict of Blue Mountain Council, has
been awarded a gold palm to add to his
badges. The gold palm is next to the
highest award made to a Boy Scout,
said the Rev. A.J. Fisher, advancement
chairman for the district. Steve became
an Eagle Scout in 1967. He has been a
member of the Scouts for seven years,
and is dedicated to the program. He is
now serving as an assistant scout mas-
ter for Jack Brady, Troop 744, spon-
sored by Peace Lutheran Church.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 13-14, 1993
With barracks for classrooms, stu-
dents at Umatilla High School liter-
ally shake the floors when they change
classes. They also endure U.S. Army-
style heat and cold, thanks to sin-
gle-paned windows that look out of
the 1940s era buildings. Umatilla High
School is actually an amalgamation of
several former military housing units
that were tacked together hastily during
1949 as a temporary accommodation
for the school’s growing student body.
Toted on a barge up the Columbia River
from Vancouver, Wash., the barracks
were dumped on the shores of Umatilla,
where school officials promptly punched
out walls and fused the wooden build-
ings into a makeshift school. And it’s
remained that way ever since.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
On Oct. 13, 1999, the
Senate rejected the Compre-
hensive Nuclear Test Ban
Treaty, with 48 senators vot-
ing in favor and 51 against,
far short of the 67 needed
for ratification.
In A.D. 54, Roman
Emperor Claudius I died,
poisoned apparently at
the behest of his wife,
Agrippina.
In 1775, the United
States Navy had its origins
as the Continental Congress
ordered the construction of a
naval fleet.
In 1792, the cornerstone
of the executive mansion,
later known as the White
House, was laid by Pres-
ident George Washington
during a ceremony in the
District of Columbia.
In 1845, Texas voters rat-
ified a state constitution.
In 1932, President Her-
bert Hoover and Chief Jus-
tice Charles Evans Hughes
laid the cornerstone for the
U.S. Supreme Court build-
ing in Washington.
In 1943, Italy declared
war on Germany, its one-
time Axis partner.
In 1944, during World
War II, American troops
entered Aachen, Germany.
In 1962, “Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?,” by Edward
Albee, opened on Broadway.
In 1972, a Uruguayan
chartered flight carrying 45
people crashed in the Andes;
survivors resorted to feeding
off the remains of some of
the dead in order to stay alive
until they were rescued more
than two months later.
In 1981, voters in Egypt
participated in a referendum
to elect Vice President Hosni
Mubarak the new president,
one week after the assassina-
tion of Anwar Sadat.
In 1999, in Boulder, Col-
orado, the JonBenet Ram-
sey grand jury was dismissed
after 13 months of work with
prosecutors saying there
wasn’t enough evidence to
charge anyone in the 6-year-
old beauty queen’s 1996
slaying.
In 2010, rescuers in Chile
using a missile-like escape
capsule pulled 33 men one
by one to fresh air and free-
dom 69 days after they were
trapped in a collapsed mine
a half-mile underground.
Today’s Birthdays: Gos-
pel singer Shirley Caesar is
81. Actress Melinda Dillon
is 79. Singer-musician Paul
Simon is 77. Singer-musician
Sammy Hagar is 71. Sen.
Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.,
is 60. Singer Marie Osmond
is 59. Former White House
press secretary Ari Fleischer
is 58. NBA coach Doc Riv-
ers is 57. College and Pro
Football Hall of Famer Jerry
Rice is 56. Actor Matt Walsh
is 54. Olympic silver medal
figure skater Nancy Kerrigan
is 49. Country singer Rhett
Akins is 49. Actor Sacha
Baron Cohen is 47. Singer
Ashanti is 38. Christian
rock singer Jon Micah Sum-
rall (Kutless) is 38. Olym-
pic gold medal swimmer Ian
Thorpe is 36. Actor Caleb
McLaughlin (TV: “Stranger
Things”) is 17.
Thought for Today: “Do
you know the difference
between education and expe-
rience? Education is when
you read the fine print; expe-
rience is what you get when
you don’t.” — Pete Seeger,
American folk singer and
activist (1919-2014).
ODDS & ENDS
A 12-pound
chunk of the
moon on the
auction block
BOSTON (AP) — Any-
one who can’t make it to the
moon to gather a few lunar
rocks now has the opportu-
nity to buy one right here on
Earth.
A 12-pound lunar mete-
orite discovered in North-
west Africa last year is
up for auction by Bos-
ton-based RR Auction and
could sell for $500,000 or
more during online bidding
that runs from Thursday
until Oct. 18.
It is “one of the most
important meteorites avail-
able for acquisition any-
where in the world today,”
and one of the biggest
pieces of the moon ever
put up for sale, RR said.
The rock classified as
NWA 11789, also known
as “Buagaba,” was found
last year in a remote area
of Mauritania but proba-
bly plunged to Earth thou-
sands of years ago.
The meteorite is actu-
ally composed of six frag-
ments that fit together like
a puzzle. The largest of
those pieces weighs about
6 pounds.
Most lunar meteorites
found are the size of a wal-
nut or golf ball, said Geoff
Notkin, star of television’s
“Meteorite Men” and CEO
of Aerolite Meteorites,
which is selling the rock.
“As soon as we saw
this, we knew it was
extraordinarily unusual,”
he said. “This is close to a
once in a lifetime find.”
It is also one the few
known lunar meteor-
ites with what experts
call “partial fusion crust,”
caused by the tremendous
heat that sears the rock as
it descends through the
atmosphere.
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A 12-pound lunar me-
teorite discovered in
Northwest Africa in 2017
rests on a table, in Am-
herst, N.H.
“It actually toasted on
the outside,” Notkin said.
Another thing that
makes it different from
most meteorites is that it
is “unpaired.” Sometimes
different pieces of the
same meteorite are discov-
ered at different times, and
those examples are known
as “paired.” An “unpaired”
meteorite is more desirable
to collectors and perhaps
more valuable to science.
The meteorite would
be a nice addition to any
natural history museum,
but don’t be surprised if
a private collector snaps
it up, said Robert Living-
ston, RR’s executive vice
president.
“This is the only way
a private collector can
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of the moon because the
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