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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.
Catfish will be tempo-
rarily housed at the Mon-
key Island Rescue and
Sanctuary in nearby Green-
wood. The snakes and rab-
bit were taken to an animal
shelter.
Man wins lottery
prize by picking
Red Sox jersey
numbers
BRAINTREE, Mass.
(AP) — A Massachusetts
great-grandfather has won
a $100,000 lottery prize
by picking the jersey num-
bers of five members of
the World Series-winning
Boston Red Sox.
The lottery said in a
statement that 84-year-old
Jim Aylward Jr., of Temple-
ton, won the prize in Mon-
day’s Mass Cash drawing
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Twins from
different parties
get different
election outcomes
KENTWOOD, Mich.
(AP) — Twin sisters who
represented different par-
ties when they ran for seats
on the same western Mich-
igan county board will not
be working side-by-side.
Monica Sparks, a Dem-
ocrat, and her Republican
sister, Jessica Ann Tyson,
each won their party’s
nomination for the Kent
County Board of Commis-
sioners in August during
the Michigan primary
election.
They ran in different
Grand Rapids-area dis-
tricts for the seats. Unof-
ficial results show Sparks
was the top vote-get-
ter Tuesday for her seat,
while Tyson finished sec-
ond in her district. That
means Sparks will serve on
the board while her sister
won’t.
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