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COFFEE BREAK Saturday, November 10, 2018 East Oregonian Page 5C OUT OF THE VAULT Snowstorm traps hunting party in Blue Mountains A large hunting party endured a struggle for survival after a blizzard marooned them for 10 days in the snow- bound wilderness in the Blue Mountains near Pomeroy, Wash., in November of 1945. Several groups of elk hunters ignored warnings of an impending snowstorm on November 10, 1945, and were camp- ing on a mountaintop in the Blue Moun- tains northeast of Walla Walla when the storm hit. When it became obvious that they wouldn’t make it out of the moun- tains immediately, the groups banded together to share expertise and supplies. Lester Riley, a Snake River cat- tle rancher, started out on horseback for Pomeroy to bring help. He fought through snowdrifts up to 40 feet deep and arrived in Pomeroy with his horse almost dead from exhaustion. He spent $600 to arrange for a bulldozer to attempt to clear the road back to where his fel- low hunters remained huddled together for warmth and protection. Three days later, the dozer bucked through the last huge drifts to where 25 cars belonging to the parties were buried under the snow. By Saturday, Nov. 17, the party was digging out the cars and rationing what food was left amongst them. The cars assembled into a caravan on Sunday morning and started for Pomeroy with the bulldozer clearing the road ahead. By Sunday night the caravan had made it three miles, and was forced to sleep overnight in the limited protection of their vehicles. Meanwhile, Washington Governor Monrad Wallgren and state game commissioner Virgil Bennington had arranged with the Walla Walla air- base for the use of three rotary snow- plows, which started out from Pomeroy to meet the party coming the other way. By late Monday the hunters were bat- tling 70-mile-an-hour gales that dropped visibility to a few feet in front of them. They were frequently required to leave the safety of their cars to shovel by hand while the bulldozer labored ahead of them. A string of mules carrying sup- plies got off the road in the storm, and five of them plunged over a cliff to their deaths. Two more mules were lost but ultimately recovered, one of them weighed down by its pack and kicking feebly out of a snowdrift. Both were saved. The hunting party had struggled just another three miles through the drifts before meeting the rotary snowplows and an army rescue party late Monday evening. Members of the party praised Les- ter Riley for risking his life to ride for help, and Otis Banks, the mule skinner, who several times rescued people who became bogged down in the snow. Casu- alties in the party included a woman who suffered a heart attack, a man who con- tracted pneumonia, another with a bro- ken leg, and a third with a ruptured kid- ney. All were treated at local hospitals. J.C. Coleman of Kelso, Wash., said, “I wouldn’t take a million dollars for this experience, but I wouldn’t give two cents to do it again. It was the most terri- ble thing I’ve ever been through.” DEAR ABBY Time, distance cause fast friends to begin drifting apart Dear Abby: I’m a 15-year- ing you the attention she was old girl and a sophomore in able to when you were geograph- ically closer. If there’s one thing high school. Last year I went to I have learned about friendships, school across the country. While it’s that they tend to ebb and flow. I was there, I became best friends Because you now live apart, with this girl, “Amelia.” We did concentrate on building other everything together, and Amelia relationships with people close even flew back here to visit my Jeanne by. This doesn’t mean you can’t family when school ended and I Phillips remain friendly with Amelia; it had to go home. Advice It has now been a few months simply means you are expecting since I’ve seen her, and so much more from her than she’s able to has changed. She doesn’t make time to give you. text or call me hardly ever, and when Dear Abby: The holidays are she does, it’s always a quick conversa- approaching, and with them a problem. tion. Because of the time difference and I recently moved back to my hometown our schedules, I get that it’s difficult, but after being away for many years, and I shouldn’t she make some time for her was eagerly looking forward to spending best friend? the holidays with my daughter. She has Amelia and I were as close as sisters, just informed me that she’s joining a reli- and I can’t stand the thought of losing gion that doesn’t celebrate holidays, not her. I have already called her out a few even Thanksgiving or birthdays. I would times, and we are good for a few days, never stand in the way of her chosen but then she goes right back to pretend- path, but I’d still like to be able to include ing like I don’t exist. I’d rather not call her in family get-togethers. I just don’t her out again. Any thoughts? — Far- know how. Any suggestions? — Miss- away Friend In Maryland ing Her Already Dear Friend: Rather than “call her Dear Missing Her: Although you out,” it’s time to lighten up. Stop trying will no longer be able to celebrate the to make Amelia feel guilty for not giv- holidays with your daughter, you and the rest of the family can still see her and socialize. Talk to her about it and let her set the ground rules. As long as you are respectful, I’m sure she will be glad to give you suggestions about what you can do together. Dear Abby: Early this year my son was killed in an accident. A few weeks later I became ill and was hospitalized. My son’s widow looked after me all those weeks. She was known at the hospital by her name and also as my daughter-in-law. One of my doctors, standing close to her and right next to my bed, asked for and was granted permission to ask her a personal question — “What happened to your husband?” Was it insensitive of him to ask that in my presence? — Unsure In Oklahoma Dear Unsure: Please accept my deepest sympathy for the loss of your son. The doctor asked for permission to inquire about something personal and it was granted. That said, if the doctor was aware that you had lost your son a short time ago and your daughter-in-law was a widow, the question could have been asked privately because death is often a subject that’s painful to discuss when a person is grieving. THIS DAY IN HISTORY U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kevin S. O’Brien The U.S. national flag waves from the Iwo Jima me- morial during a wreath laying ceremony in honor of the 233rd Marine Corps birthday at the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. The memorial was dedicated in 1945. On Nov. 10, 1775, the U.S. Marines were orga- nized under authority of the Continental Congress. In 1871, journalist-ex- plorer Henry M. Stanley found Scottish missionary David Livingstone, who had not been heard from for years, near Lake Tangan- yika in central Africa. In 1917, 41 suffragists were arrested for picketing in front of the White House. In 1928, Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of Japan. In 1938, Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” on her CBS radio program. Turkish statesman Mustafa Kemal Ataturk died in Istanbul at age 57. In 1942, Winston Chur- chill delivered a speech in London in which he said, “I have not become the King’s First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.” In 1954, the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, depicting the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, was dedicated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Arlington, Virginia. In 1969, the children’s educational program “Ses- ame Street” made its debut on National Educational Television (later PBS). In 1972, three armed men hijacked Southern Air- ways Flight 49, a DC-9 with 24 other passengers on board during a stop- over in Birmingham, Ala., and demanded $10 million in ransom. (The 30-hour ordeal, which involved landings in nine U.S. cities and Toronto, finally ended with a second landing in Cuba, where the hijackers were taken into custody by Cuban authorities.) In 2005, Ellen John- son-Sirleaf, a former finance minister of Liberia, claimed victory in the coun- try’s presidential election. Today’s Birthdays: Film composer Ennio Mor- ricone is 90. Blues singer Bobby Rush is 84. Actor Albert Hall is 81. Coun- try singer Donna Fargo is 77. Lyricist Tim Rice is 74. Actor-comedian Sinbad is 62. Thought for Today: “Hypocrisy is a fashion- able vice, and all fashion- able vices pass for virtues.” — Moliere, French drama- tist (1622-1673). DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 10-11, 1918 First news of the German surrender to the allied armi- stice terms and the virtual ending of the war was given to Pendleton by the United Press, through the East Ore- gonian, at 12:20 this morn- ing, the United Press story in full reaching here 40 minutes ahead of any other report. In accord with a previous plan the fire department was at once notified of the news and upon getting the belated A.P. report nearly three quarters of an hour later the general alarm was given. Before that time, however, celebrators hearing the news from the East Ore- gonian had started demonstra- tions in the business section. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 10-11, 1968 Dr. Norman Shumway, Stanford University heart transplant specialist, has told the Elton Howland family of Hermiston that it may be pos- sible to delay little 8-year- old Becky Howland’s heart transplant surgery for a year. The Howland trio returned Saturday morning from Palo Alto, Calif., where Becky underwent tests for a week. For the Howlands this means that Becky will be taken off the “immediate call” status. The mother, Maxine How- land, said Saturday morning this is a “big relief.” She said: “I almost became sick every time the telephone rang in the past several months, thinking it might be a call to take Becky to Stanford Uni- versity for the surgery.” 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 10-11, 1993 An animation short film produced by Pendleton High School students has been named a winner in the Port- land Art Museum’s Young People’s Film and Video Fes- tival. The film was shown Sunday in Portland along with 27 other animation win- ners. “One of the main things was we had an artist-in-resi- dence come and help the kids put the film together,” said PHS art teacher David Rem- ington. Amy Blumenstein of the Northwest Film Center visited the school in the fall of 1992 to share her anima- tion expertise. The result was “REM State,” a humorous mix of images linked together by a common theme. The film’s title was also a play on Remington’s name, he said. “Kids call me Rem — and I do make a cameo appearance in the film.” ODDS & ENDS Large alligator found in Kansas City hot tub KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri land- lord stumbled upon an unwanted house guest while evicting a tenant: a large alligator in a hot tub. The tenant described the 150-pound reptile as “gentle as a puppy” after animal control workers were called to the Kansas City home on Wednesday. The workers also found two boa constrictors and a rabbit. The Kansas City Star reports a special- ist removed the alligator, which was at least 6 feet long. No one was injured. The tenant, Sean Casey, said he’d owned the alli- gator for four years and named it Catfish. He called the reptile “a big cuddly lizard.” A spokesman for the city’s Neighborhood and Housing Services Depart- ment says Kansas City doesn’t allow homeowners to have alligators. 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