COFFEE BREAK
Saturday, July 13, 2019
East Oregonian
C5
OUT OF THE VAULT
Hermiston man flies B-17 once more
By RENEE STRUTHERS
East Oregonian
Patrick Martin’s hands wrapped
around the wheel firmly, and his feet
moved to familiar spots on the rudder
pedals of the B-17G after climbing
into the co-pilot’s seat and buckling
in on July 15, 1994. The 72-year-old
quickly glanced over the gauges, then
at the horizon again, his instincts tak-
ing over as the plane soared over Ore-
gon’s Coast Range.
He’s 22 again, and it’s April 11,
1944. Capt. Patrick A. Martin, United
States Army Air Force, is on a final
bombing run over Rostock, Germany,
with the 335th Squadron, 95th Bomb
Group, 8th Air Force.
Martin was bounced out of the
service in 1954 due to a reduction
of forces, something for which he
never forgave the Army Air Force. A
La Grande native, Patrick settled in
Hermiston after leaving the service
and went to work for Union Pacific
Railroad. He retired in 1986.
Martin was able to relive to his first
professional love — flying — thanks
to family friend Barbara Hansen.
Martin’s family wanted to get him in
the air again after he was diagnosed
in May of 1994 with inoperable can-
cer of the pancreas, and had decided
with his wife Doris that he would
forego chemotherapy and radiation
treatments.
Hansen helped line up a B-17G
owned by Evergreen Ventures Inc.
that was scheduled to appear at the
1994 U.S. Bank Rose Festival Air-
show in Hillsboro. Sue Petersen,
the coordinator of the World War II
planes for the show, called Martin and
asked, “How would you like to fly in
a B-17 again?”
Evergreen pilot Bill Maszala
watched Martin’s eyes as he took con-
trol of the plane. “You could tell he
was back in time,” Maszala said.
After 5 minutes at the stick, Mar-
tin banked the plane around on a gen-
tle 180-degree turn and gave the seat
back to co-pilot Greg Klein, then stood
behind the seat and watched every
move the pilots made until landing.
“It was more than everything I
wanted it to be,” Martin said, gaz-
ing at the plane once they were on the
ground again. “It was just like some-
thing I’d done before. I recognized the
feel of everything. My eyes went right
to the gauges. I just know I could take
it off and land it.”
Patrick Martin died May 20, 1995,
at the age of 73.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 13-14, 1919
The numbers of fire alarm boxes in the city, together with
instructions to how to turn in an alarm and what to do there-
after, are set forth on a card that has been printed by the East
Oregonian and copies of which may be had by anyone calling
at the business office. Owing to difficulties that arise in con-
nection with turning in alarms, Chief Ringold advises that
those who do not have these cards secure them. They may
be posted near a telephone or in some other accessible place.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 13-14, 1969
The bodies of two men were found in the two-month-old
wreckage of their light plane in the mountains west of Baker
Saturday. Police tentatively identified the victims as George
Gilham, 45, a Hermiston jeweler, and Jack Duaine Inglis,
36, Spokane. Their single-engine plane crashed May 2 en
route from Baker to Sandpoint, Idaho. A Baker fisherman,
Ron Johnson, found the wreck in the hills 13 miles west of
Baker near Pine Creek Reservoir. The search for the plane
had been long discontinued.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 13-14, 1994
Cheryl Davis says she’s comfortable bringing her young
children to Tillicum Grange at Mission. In fact, grange
meetings draw three generations. Davis and her husband,
Jack, were encouraged to join five years ago by his parents,
Dick and Marguerite Maznaritz, who are active at Tillicum
Grange. She and her husband are District 6 youth chairmen.
The district covers Eastern Oregon granges from Uma-
tilla County eastward. She received an honorary title, Ore-
gon State Youth Master, in April. Davis also was selected
1994 Outstanding Young Adult during the state session,
June 20-24 in McMinnville. Her expenses will be paid to
the national grange convention in November at Peoria, Ill.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
On July 13, 1985, “Live Aid,” an
international rock concert in London,
Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney,
took place to raise money for Africa’s
starving people.
In 1863, deadly rioting against the
Civil War military draft erupted in
New York City. (The insurrection was
put down three days later.)
In 1960, John F. Kennedy won
the Democratic presidential nom-
ination on the first ballot at his par-
ty’s convention in Los Angeles, out-
drawing rivals including Lyndon B.
Johnson, Stuart Symington and Adlai
Stevenson.
In 1977, a blackout hit New York
City in the mid-evening as lightning
strikes on electrical equipment caused
power to fail; widespread looting broke
out. (The electricity was restored about
25 hours later.)
In 1990, the romantic fantasy
“Ghost,” starring Patrick Swayze and
Demi Moore, was released by Para-
mount Pictures.
In 2005, A suicide car bomb
exploded next to U.S. troops hand-
ing out candy and toys in Iraq, killing
more than two dozen people, includ-
ing 18 children and teenagers and an
American soldier.
Thought for Today: “Back of every
mistaken venture and defeat is the laugh-
ter of wisdom, if you listen.” — Carl
Sandburg, American writer (1878-1967).
Universal Crossword
Edited by David Steinberg July 13, 2019
ACROSS
1 Bit of skin cream
4 “That ___ my day!”
8 Antelope with curved
horns
14 Employ
15 Posthumous bio
16 Humanitarian Clara
17 *Bucks for a buck’s
partner?
19 Curly, for one
20 They follow from causes
21 *Adornment on a
boyfriend’s gift?
22 How-___ (certain guides)
23 Straight, flush and
straight flush
24 *”Well, ply that needle!”
27 Tiff
28 Choice if you don’t
like the listed choices
32 Way off
33 Building support
35 Victorian ___
36 Put (down)
37 Domestic helpers, or
this puzzle’s starred
answers?
38 Not min., in music
39 “I hate that!”
40 Disorderly crowd
member
41 Information
42 Certain believer
44 Respectful address
45 *Sign prohibiting
Japanese drama?
46 “We ___ please!”
48 Zilch
49 *Imaginary enemy?
52 Makes thicker, as
one’s wallet
56 Excited about
something
57 *Plumlike fruit that’s
late to ripen?
58 Rotten eggs produce
one
59 Prefix related to semi-
and demi-
60 Solar power source
61 Greets the villain
62 Prepare for
publication
63 Conclusion
DOWN
1 Bro
2 Beginning on
3 Taco filler
4 Dairy farm animal, to a
toddler
5 Lies next to
6 Makes a burrow
7 Biblical verb ending
8 “A Doll’s House”
playwright Henrik
9 Bullfighters
10 “In Search of Lost
Time” novelist
11 Subtitle of an
encyclopedia’s first
volume, maybe
12 Corporate image
13 Over again
18 Help prevent
21 More risque
23 Friend of Hamlet
24 Spanish toast
25 Old enough
26 Encouragement to a
shy child
27 Line of repartee
“DOUBLE-O SIX” By David Alfred Bywaters
sudoku answers
29 Superhero who fights
Skeletor
30 Muse of love poetry
31 Indian prince
33 App component
sometimes
pronounced like
“gooey”: Abbr.
34 Go wrong
37 Cunning trick
41 Idiots
43 Early Germanic
people
45 Idiot
47 Closet pests
48 “Aladdin” co-star ___
Scott
49 Angler’s target
50 Rihanna album with
the hit “Work”
51 Beehive State natives
52 Ran away
53 Besides
54 “Subject” or “object,”
at times
55 Transmit
57 Pronoun for a jenny