COFFEE BREAK
Saturday, October 20, 2018
East Oregonian
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OUT OF THE VAULT
Noon siren falls silent in Pendleton
A Pendleton tradition came to an
end when city officials decided not to
move a warning siren to the new city
hall complex in October 1996.
Pendleton’s noon siren was a
long-standing tradition. The city-wide
alert system began with a bell atop the
old city hall at the turn of the century
to call reserve and volunteer firefight-
ers to their work. The bell was even-
tually replaced by a siren, with the
old bell gracing the front of the Court
Street fire station. The original siren
was replaced by an air raid siren in the
1950s. And from 1962 to 1994, con-
trols at the downtown fire station were
used for the siren to indicate where
a fire was burning. From then until
October of 1996, the siren still was
tested each day (except Sundays) at
noon.
But when the new city hall com-
plex was opened, the Pendleton City
Council decided that the $10,000 bill
to move the siren to the new digs was
more than they could justify. The siren
would blast its last on Oct. 31.
Fire Chief Dick Hopper, who sug-
gested the siren be disconnected,
wasn’t sorry to see the tradition put to
rest. “I’m sure you’ve been downtown
when it’s gone off. It just about drops
you to your knees.”
Immediately, supporters of the
siren made their voices heard. “They
are taking a part of me away,” said
Jenny Hogge, who lived and worked
near the noon whistle all her life. “I
think it’s sad and I think it’s a part of
Pendleton.”
Rachel Lawrence, manager of
Maurices clothing store, said she
would miss the reaction of unsuspect-
ing tourists who weren’t prepared for
the siren’s shriek. And “I know my
employees are late if they come in
when the whistle blows.”
Jim Sewell, the former restaurateur
who bought the old city hall building,
said he received hundreds of phone
calls and letters asking that he con-
tinue the noontime tradition, including
a packet from fourth grade students
at Hawthorne Elementary School.
And Sewell said he would be happy
to keep the building-shaking blast a
part of Pendleton’s day. “I don’t mind
running the siren at all,” Sewell said,
though he added he would like the city
to help with its maintenance.
The siren remained atop the build-
ing until the late ’00s, when it was
sold to a private party.
DEAR ABBY
Girlfriend convinced partner’s parents dislike her
Dear Abby: Recently
out on her own. Ask your
something has come up in my
parents why they seem hesi-
life that has pushed the shaky
tant to interact with her, why
relationship between my girl-
they don’t invite her to things
friend, “Linnay,” and my
the family does and why they
parents to the front burner.
seem less than eager to cre-
She insists they do not like
ate a better relationship with
her. Because of it, she rarely
her. Linnay may be shy, or
Jeanne
speaks more than a few sen-
she may have picked up on
tences to them and dreads Phillips not-so-subtle signals your
Advice
going to my house to visit
parents are sending that they
them.
don’t approve of her.
I don’t think my parents
Dear Abby: I’m 11. My
dislike Linnay, but they do seem parents aren’t in my life, so my
hesitant to interact with her, involve grandparents are my guardians. I’m
her in things our family does, and thankful for all they do, but I am
they don’t seem motivated to create very scared because my grandfather
a better relationship with her.
is 85, and I know soon he is going to
Linnay has asked me to “fix” leave this world. So how do I accept
the situation, but I feel the way to that? — In Need Of A Prayer
make their relationship better is for
Dear In Need Of A Prayer: A
THEM to work it out. What should wise person once told me that the
each of them do to make this hap- way to ruin today is to spend it wor-
pen? And what can I do to help? — rying about what “might” happen
Anonymous In Texas
tomorrow. Many individuals a lot
Dear Anonymous: This is not older than you make that mistake.
something your girlfriend can work It’s clear that you love and appreci-
ate your grandfather. Tell him that
— often. Hold a good thought and
enjoy him for as long as the good
Lord allows, because if your grand-
father is in good health, he may last
quite a while longer than you think.
Dear Abby: How do I get my
roommates to do chores? I have
tried talking to them, creating chore
charts and explaining we will lose
our security deposit if the house
isn’t taken care of. Nothing works.
If I don’t want sticky counters,
ruined pots and pans, or trash pil-
ing up, I have to do it myself. Any
advice would be appreciated. — Not
Your Maid
Dear Not Your Maid: Whose
name is on that lease? If it isn’t
yours, the logical thing to do would
be find a place to live with more
mature roommates who feel the way
you do about clutter and hygiene.
However, if it is yours, you will
have to wait until the lease is up, get
rid of those roommates and screen
the next batch more carefully.
ODDS & ENDS
Motorists stunned
as metal balls roll
down Seattle street
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 20-21, 1918
Lieutenant Leslie Tooze, one of the
Tooze twins, well known throughout
the state and a visitor several times in
tis city, was killed by a German sniper
September 28, according to a cable-
gram received by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Walter L. Tooze of Salem, sent
by his twin brother, Lieutenant Lamar
Tooze who is also seeing active ser-
vice in France. Leslie Tooze will be
remembered here in Pendleton as the
manager of the University of Ore-
gon glee club, and the winner of the
junior cup at the university. The cable
message stated that Lieutenant Tooze
showed conspicuous gallantry in the
battle in which he lost his life. The
young man was 23 years of age. He
was accorded a military funeral in
France.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 20-21, 1968
Everything clicked almost per-
fectly for the Buckaroos most of the
time during the Pendleton-Redmond
football game here Friday night and
the result was an astounding score
of 74-0. Coach Don Requa used a
total of 57 players during the tussle,
the most he has used in a game since
he started coaching in Pendleton. It
also was the largest score the Bucks
have made under his tutelage, but he
wasn’t particularly happy about that.
“In Redmond’s behalf is should be
mentioned that the Panthers lost their
regular quarterback (Wayne Hilgers)
early in the first period with a shoul-
der injury, and one of their two fine
running backs, Jim Westendorf, suf-
fered a concussion just before the
half.”
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 20-21, 1993
The scene taking shape on the north
wall of Great Pacific Wine and Coffee
Co. will depict a view a person might
have had standing on the same spot in
the 1880s. Roger Cooke, an artist from
Sandy, Ore., began painting a mural this
week of Pendleton’s Main Street during
frontier days. It marks the second mural
commissioned by the Pendleton Cham-
ber’s Mural Committee. The first mural
was painted on the north side of Albert-
son’s in 1992 by Ivan Nicley of Weston.
It shows a wagon train descending the
Blue Mountains east of Pendleton with
a group of Indians watching from a dis-
tant hilltop. Cooke’s painting,which
should be finished by the end of the
month if the weather cooperates, will
show a stagecoach on Main Street with
a couple in the left foreground.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
On Oct. 20, 1973, in the
so-called “Saturday Night
Massacre,” special Water-
gate prosecutor Archibald
Cox was dismissed and
Attorney General Elliot L.
Richardson and Deputy
Attorney General William B.
Ruckelshaus resigned.
In 1803, the U.S. Sen-
ate ratified the Louisiana
Purchase.
In 1944, during World
War II, Gen. Douglas
MacArthur stepped ashore
at Leyte in the Philippines,
2 1/2 years after saying, “I
shall return.”
In 1947, the House
Un-American Activities
Committee opened hear-
ings into alleged Commu-
nist influence and infiltration
in the U.S. motion picture
industry.
In 1967, a jury in Merid-
ian, Mississippi, con-
victed seven men of violat-
ing the civil rights of slain
civil rights workers James
Chaney, Andrew Goodman
and Michael Schwerner; the
seven received prison terms
ranging from 3 to 10 years.
In 1976, 78 people were
killed when the Norwe-
gian tanker Frosta rammed
the commuter ferry George
Prince on the Mississippi
River near New Orleans.
In 1977, three members
of the rock group Lynyrd
Skynyrd, including lead
AP Photo
Special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox is sur-
rounded by newsmen outside D.C. District Court in
Washington on Friday, Oct. 19, 1973, after ousted
White House counsel John W. Dean III pleaded guilty
to conspiring to obstruct the Watergate investigation.
Cox said he further charges would be brought with the
exception of perjury if Dean’s testimony proves false.
singer Ronnie Van Zant,
were killed along with three
others in the crash of a char-
tered plane near McComb,
Mississippi.
In 1987, 10 people were
killed when an Air Force
jet crashed into a Ramada
Inn hotel near Indianapolis
International Airport after
the pilot, who was trying to
make an emergency landing,
ejected safely.
In 1990, three members
of the rap group 2 Live Crew
were acquitted by a jury in
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., of vio-
lating obscenity laws with
an adults-only concert in
nearby Hollywood the previ-
ous June.
In 2011, Moammar Gad-
hafi, 69, Libya’s dictator for
42 years, was killed as rev-
olutionary fighters over-
whelmed his hometown of
Sirte and captured the last
major bastion of resistance
two months after his regime
fell.
Today’s Birthdays:
Japan’s Empress Michiko is
84. Rockabilly singer Wanda
Jackson is 81. Former actress
Rev. Mother Dolores Hart
is 80. Sen. Sheldon White-
house, D-R.I., is 63. Movie
director Danny Boyle is 62.
Actor Viggo Mortensen is
60. Journalist Sunny Hos-
tin (TV: “The View”) is 50.
Rapper Snoop Dogg is 47.
Actor John Krasinski is 39.
Thought for Today:
“Next to ingratitude, the
most painful thing to bear is
gratitude.” — Henry Ward
Beecher, American clergy-
man (1813-1887).
SEATTLE (AP) —
Authorities
in
Seat-
tle temporarily closed a
street after motorists were
stunned by dozens of large
metal balls that spilled out
of a truck and cascaded
down the street, damaging
several cars.
A video taken by a per-
son at the scene Wednes-
day afternoon shows the
balls loudly bouncing and
rolling down the street as
a driver slowly backs up,
apparently attempting to
escape the onslaught.
The Seattle Times
reports that Seattle police
spokesman
Patrick
Michaud said the balls
appeared to be “really big
ball bearings” and that it
was unclear what caused
the load of them to fall out
of the truck.
Several cars were dam-
aged but no injuries were
reported.
‘Call my lawyer,’
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seized with stolen
sneakers
ROANOKE, Va. (AP)
— A Virginia store has had
20 right-foot shoes stolen
over the course of three
break-ins this year.
The Roanoke Times
reports Roanoke County
police arrested 21-year-old
Manuel Carlos Ramirez-
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Clean Soles operator
Rob Wickham previously
said he typically keeps
right shoes on display,
while their other halves
rest behind the counter.
A warrant says police
had found a cash regis-
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with a backpack containing
merchandise worth $5,000
and Ramirez-Godoy’s stu-
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