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).
Universal Crossword
Edited by David Steinberg August 10, 2019
ACROSS
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“Bolero” star
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One may be sworn
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Squiggly letter
DOWN
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perhaps
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“SOUND QUINTET” By Christopher Adams
sudoku answers
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Wilson
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kitchenware brand