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COFFEE BREAK Saturday, August 10, 2019 East Oregonian C5 OUT OF THE VAULT Drunken joyride ends in justice court By RENEE STRUTHERS East Oregonian A garage employee who borrowed a car from his employer in October of 1916 ended up in jail with a companion after a drunken fracas that left three men injured and the car a wreck at the bottom of Wild Horse grade. Harry Emory, an employee of the Independent Garage in Pendleton, bor- rowed a car from his employer early on Oct. 15, 1916, picking up companions Bert Mansfield, Orville Coffman, Ed Hayes, and a young man named Par- rott for a jaunt through the country- side east of Pendleton. Several hours and much alcohol later, the carload of inebriated men rolled up to the Wyrick ranch just as the hired man, Joe Camp- bell, was hitching up a team to travel into town. Emory was a former employee on the ranch, and stopped in to talk with Campbell. A rumpus started almost immediately, according to the ranch’s hired men, because Emory and others in the car accused the ranch employ- ees of absconding with Hays. Unbe- knownst to Emory and his friends, Hayes and Parrott, tiring of the orgy of drinking and troublemaking, had set out on foot for town. Emory and Mansfield burst into the ranch bunkhouse where William Painter and Walter Cole were still in bed. Cole, who suffered from rheuma- tism, wasn’t able to defend himself and ended up badly beaten about the face. Coffman finally convinced Emory and Mansfield to leave the ranch after they tried to break into the ranch house. On the drive back to Pendle- ton, Coffman was thrown from the car. As Emory and Mansfield reached the rocky grade at the entrance to the Wild Horse cut, Emory lost control of the car and rolled it down an embankment where it landed upside down. Both men were thrown from the vehicle but miraculously escaped injury. They had just extricated themselves from the wreck when Sheriff Til Tay- lor arrived, having been called by Mrs. A.A. Kimball during the break-in attempt. Emory and Mansfield were arrested, and after driving several miles Sheriff Taylor also picked up Coffman, who was sitting on the side of the road with his face skinned up from his fall from the car. Emory and Mansfield appeared before Justice of the Peace Parkes the following morning. Both pled guilty to the complaint lodged against them and paid a $50 fine in lieu of 25 days in jail. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 10-11, 1919 The First Church of Christ Scientist of Pendleton, by a deal completed this morning, purchased the Failing property, 901 Main street, from Mrs. Jesse Failing, exercising an option taken on the property three weeks ago. The purchase of the prop- erty is with a view to building a church next year, according to members. The church does not own its present home on Webb street and the contemplated structure will fill the need for a church and a reading room. The new building will be of the type used for Science churches and will add to the appearance of Main street. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 10-11, 1969 Two Twin Falls, Idaho, men were held in the county jail in Pendleton today on charges of burglarizing a bank and tavern at Ione. In jail, under $50,000 bail each, were Clarence Wil- liam Byrd, 48, and Danny James Francis Ward, 24. They were charged with breaking into the Bank of Eastern Oregon and Ed’s Tavern. They were arrested at 4:30 a.m. Sunday by offi- cer Gary Sheridan of the State Police office at Arlington. He was on routine patrol, returning to Arlington from Heppner. All that was taken from the bank and tavern was recovered, police said. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 10-11, 1994 Area football should have a big impact on the outcome of the Shriners Hospital East-West All-Star Football Game at Baker City High School Saturday. Five players and one coach from the area will be on the field for the East team during the 42nd East-West game. The East team will include three players from the Columbia Basin Conference — Heppner’s Rick Koffler, Weston-McEwen’s Chet Mills and Umatilla’s Brian Pursifull — plus Eric Olsen of Mac-Hi of the Greater Oregon Confer- ence and Aaron Heideman of Ione of the Big Sky Conference. They’ll be joined by Scott Dean, head coach of CBC champion Weston-McEwen, who is an assistant coach for the East team. THIS DAY IN HISTORY On August 10, 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1861, Confederate forces routed Union troops in the Battle of Wilson’s Creek in Missouri, the first major engagement of the Civil War west of the Mississippi River. In 1945, a day after the atomic bombing of Naga- saki, Imperial Japan con- veyed its willingness to sur- render provided the status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged. (The Allies responded the next day, say- ing they would determine the Emperor’s future status.) In 1988, President Ron- ald Reagan signed a mea- sure providing $20,000 payments to still-living Jap- anese-Americans who were interned by their govern- ment during World War II. In 1995, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were charged with 11 counts in the Oklahoma City bomb- ing. Norma McCorvey, “Jane Roe” of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. Thought for Today: “A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a ques- tion he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, author (1809-1894). 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