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A6 News wallowa.com April 1, 2015 Wallowa County Chieftain Suspected horse thieves elude sheriff 100 YEARS AGO April 1, 1915 By the end of this week the East Oregon Lumber compa- Q\¶VUDLOURDGZLOOEH¿QLVKHGWR the small sawmill where tim- bers were cut last fall for the large plant in Enterprise. That is, the rails will be laid so that a construction train can pass over. The train has been going over the line every day, push- ing on a third of a mile a day, but considerable ballasting will be required before much freight can be handled over the road. Construction work on the new Enterprise sewer system will begin next Monday, April 5. J.H. Childs, the contractor, sent word to this effect to the Record Chieftain on Tuesday... Several Wallowa county sheep men have gone to the meeting of the Oregon Wool- growers’ association, at Baker today and tomorrow. Fred W. Falconer is president of the association. The primary pur- pose of the gathering is to seek some plan whereby the grow- ers can get the maximum price for their wool. It is felt that if the growers act in unison, and if none break ranks and sell prematurely, better prices can be realized than with individ- OUT OF THE PAST Compiled by Rob Ruth ual selling and without an un- derstanding. ... Recent sales in Idaho would indicate a price of about 22 cents for the Merino wool which predominates in Wallowa county... Sheriff Halsey, after a week’s absence in Wallowa county in search of a couple of young men, ... against whom the charge of stealing three head of horses ... had been lodged and for whom warrants had been issued, returned Tues- day. He recovered the horses, which had been re-branded, over the old brands, and turned loose; and while he had been able to pick up several clues and get on the track of the men he was after, he was unable WR GH¿QLWHO\ ORFDWH WKHP DV friends of the young men evi- dently kept them posted, thus making it possible and easy for WKHPWRHOXGHWKHRI¿FHU 70 YEARS AGO March 29, 1945 Mrs. Delbert Wart has re- ceived word from her husband that he is now in England in a Ariella Rose Wilber, M.A. Whole Heart, Whole Mind, Whole Body Alternative Healing Arts Practitioner Stress, Anxiety, Trauma Resolution Marital Issues, Allergies and More ... and you don’t have to talk about it! CERTIFIED TAT ® PROFESSIONAL Phone: (541) 432-1902 www.ariellawilber.vpweb.com 83365 Joseph Hwy Chieftain archives A hundred years ago, a brand-new Indian motorcycle was readily available for purchase in Wallowa County, as this 100-year-old newspaper ad will attest. Courtesy photo/Wallowa History Center Wallowa’s Main Street was lined with now-vintage automobiles in this 1923 image. concerning the character and extent of wounds or sickness of men in the service. The anxiety hospital. Delbert has been with of the relatives and friends of Gen. Patton’s 3rd army. He a man who has been reported went across Feb. 8, 1944, and ZRXQGHGLQDFWLRQRUFRQ¿QHG landed in Scotland. From there in a hospital at some undesig- he went to England and on to nated spot, with no information )UDQFHZKHUHKHZDVLQKLV¿UVW as to his condition, is so acute battle at Fontainbleau on the as to be beyond description. Seine river. The lack of information builds About 60 Liberty grangers up worry and speculation until and their neighbors gathered at the distraught family could not the Liberty grange hall Sunday be more upset by information to enjoy the pot luck dinner giv- of the most serious injuries. en by the ladies of the grange. ... The dinner was served in the 50 YEARS AGO basement dining room and after April 1, 1965 it was heartily partaken of and Miss Sally Strickler of Jo- thoroughly enjoyed, the group went upstairs to the hall where seph was named “Miss Wal- a short program, prepared by lowa County” at a selection the grange lecturer, Mrs. Vada banquet held at the Chief Jo- seph Hotel Friday night. She Daggett, was given. EDITORIAL: We have ZLOO RI¿FLDOO\ UHSUHVHQW :DO- never been able to appreciate lowa county in the Miss Oregon the validity of considerations pageant this summer. ... Judges which are supposed to make it scores in the contest were very necessary to censor information close among four contestants — Miss Strickler, Annette Ken- nedy, Nancy Wilcox and Jonna Erskine. Mrs. Lucille Miller, sen- tenced to life imprisonment for the murder of her dentist husband, Dr. Gordon Miller (formerly of Enterprise), was denied a new trial last week and was committed to the Cal- ifornia Institution for Women at Corona to start serving a life sentence. ... Mrs. Miller’s attorney served notice that he will appeal to the California State Court of Appeal. ... Re- cently Mrs. Miller’s attorney ¿OHGDVXLWDJDLQVWWKH Volkswagen Werk of Berlin, Germany, the manufacturer of the car in which her husband burned to death, alleging that the fuel system on the car was improperly constructed and that WKLVQHJOLJHQFHOHGWRWKH¿UHLQ which Dr. Miller died ... last Oct. 8. The state maintained WKDW0UV0LOOHUVHWWKHFDUD¿UH and the defense claimed that the ¿UHZDVDFFLGHQWDO 25 YEARS AGO March 29, 1990 A full ten years after the U.S. Forest Service announced its intention to co-locate all its dis- WULFWRI¿FHVLQ:DOORZD&RXQW\ into one facility, moving day for the agency has almost arrived. The new log building on the hill MXVWZHVWRI(QWHUSULVHLV¿QDOO\ ready for occupancy. Personnel, GHVNV FRPSXWHUV ¿OH FDELQHWV and equipment from the Wal- lowa Valley, Eagle Cap and Hells Canyon NRA ranger dis- tricts will be moving into their new home during the week of April 9. An enthusiastic campaign by school boosters in three coun- ty school districts paid off in a big way this week, when the (6' OHY\ SDVVHG E\ over 600 votes with an excep- WLRQDOO\KLJKYRWHUWXUQRXWRI percent in the mail-in election. Club addresses need for new T HE B OOKLOFT AND recliners for WMH patients S KYLIGHT G ALLERY Finding books is our specialty 541.426.3351 • 107 E. Main • Enterprise • www.bookloftoregon.com The Circle 100 Club of the Wallowa Valley Health Care Foundation held its One & Only Annual Meeting March 19 at Wallowa Memorial Hos- pital’s conference room, with 64 women attending to give WKHLU FKHFNV IRU WR MRLQ and to hear about the request IURP &KLHI 1XUVLQJ 2I¿FHU Jenni Word to use this year’s proceeds to purchase new reclining chairs for patient rooms. “The critical need right now is a comfortable reclin- ing chair for all of our patient rooms,” said Word, noting that currently there are only three chairs that have to be moved around to accommodate dif- ferent patients. Medical/surgical manager Wendy George, who has been Church Directory St. Katherine's Catholic Church Summit Church Fr. Roger Fernando 301 E. Garfield Enterprise Mass Schedule Weekdays 7:15am Saturdays 5:30pm Sundays 10:30am (541)426-4008 stkatherineenterprise.org St. Pius X Wallowa Sundays 8:00am All are welcome Gospel Centered Community Service time: 10:30 am Cloverleaf Hall in Enterprise Pastor Mark Garland www.summitchurchoregon.org Joseph United Methodist Church ACROSS 1. Piece attached on one side 5. Flat-bottomed boat 10. Oblong cream puff 12. Czar nation 14. Jump rope fast 16. Ma's partner 18. Ink writing implement 19. Wet spongy ground 20. "Gunga Din" screenwriter 22. Root mean square (abbr.) 23. Strode 25. Former ruler of Iran 26. Provide with a top 27. Chit 28. Actor DeLuise 30. Point midway between E and SE 31. S.E. Asian nation 33. Protein basis of cheese 35. 1976 Music Pulitzer Ned 37. Belonging to Mrs. Parks 38. Tooth covering 40. Satisfy fully 41. Animal companion 42. Fix conclusively 44. 7th day (abbr.) 45. Pouch 48. Employee stock ownership plan 50. Fastened with adhesive or masking 52. Don't know when yet 53. Eagle's nest 55. Early modern jazz 56. Auricle 57. Atomic #81 58. Social class of manual laborers 63. Groups of regional animals 65. Release draft animals 66. Musical notations 67. Bearing or manner DOWN 1. Grippe 2. Scientific workplace 3. Afflict 4. Construction of parts off-site 5. Cut back shrubs 6. Road furrow 7. The Nazarene author 8. Fire residues 9. 3rd tone 10. Excessive fluid accumulation 11. Fellow plotter 13. Inability to use or understand lan- guage 15. 12th calendar month 17. Greek capital 18. Communist China 21. Philadelphia sandwich 23. Neverland's Peter 24. Medical man 27. Domesticates 29. Murdered in his bathtub 32. Dreaming sleep state 34. Drunkard 35. Double 36. Of one 39. Allow 40. Sorrowful 43. Dining hall furniture 44. Partition between 2 cavities 46. Reduce in amount 47. Where passengers ride 49. Sacred fig tree (alt. sp.) 51. Poet Edgar Allan 54. Sea eagle of Europe 59. An awkward stupid person 60. Black tropical American cuckoo 61. Whisky 62. Electrically charged atom 64. Atomic #89 3rd & Lake St. • Joseph Pastor Kaye Garver Phone: 541-432-3102 Sunday Worship Services 8:30 & 11:00 am Child care provided at 8:30 am service Faith Lutheran Church 409 W. Main Enterprise, Oregon Worship 2 nd & 4 th Sundays - 2 pm Bible Study Tuesdays before the 2 nd & 4 th Sundays at 11 am LCMS (Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) Christ Covenant Church Pastor Terry Tollefson Church Office: 541-426-0301 Family Prayer: 9:30am Sunday School: 10:00am Worship Service: 11 am 723 College Street • Lostine Providence Academy Enterprise Community Enterprise Community Church Church Congregational 11:00am Group Worship & Discussion 9:30 AM Worship Service 11:00 Children’s S.S. AM 10:00am Choir 9:30am Adult Education 541.398.0597 Childrens program during service Blog: dancingforth.blogspot.com Lostine On the Hwy web 82, at lostinepc.org Stephen Kliewer, Minister Wallowa Assembly of God 606 West Hwy 82 Wallowa, Oregon 541-886-8445 Sunday School • 9:30 Worship Service • 10:45 Pastor Tim Barton wallowaassemblyofgod.com 301 NE 1St St * 541-426-3044 BigBrownChurch.org Worship at 11:00 301 N. Study E. First Bible at Street 9:30 Enterprise the “Big Brown Church” Sunday Worship 11A.M. with the Open Door (541) 426-3044 Pastor Joseph Donald Newcomer, L. McBride Pastor 541-263-0695 541-263-5319 305 Wagner (near the Cemetery) P.O. Box N, Enterprise, OR 97828 541-426-3751 Church 541-426-8339 School Sabbath School 9:30 - 10:45 a.m. Worship Hour 11:00 a.m. - Noon Pastor Jonathan DeWeber Pastor Steve Gilmore researching and “test-driving” chairs, said, “By purchasing a chair for each room, pa- tients can be moved out of bed throughout their stay, into the chair, which will help with their mobility, comfort and healing.” The state-of-the-art chairs, which offer several different positions, feature “zero grav- ity” technology, the same technology used at NASA for astronauts in space travel, and helps relieve pressure on bones, which can be fragile in the elderly and others re- covering from surgery or in- juries. The chairs can also be positioned to have feet placed above the level of the heart, for those suffering from dif- ferent types of edema. Getting the patient out of bed and into a chair can help prevent pres- sure ulcers as well, according to George. Wallowa Valley Health Care Foundation board vice president Saralyn Johnson WDONHGDERXWWKHEHQH¿WWRIDP- ily members, who often spend extended time in a patient room when caring for a loved one, of comfortable reclining chairs. “Believe me, when my mom was in the hospital for several weeks, I would have given anything to have a com- fortable reclining chair to rest in. Once, I was so desperate, I VWUHWFKHGRXWRQWKHÀRRU´ At the meeting, board member Glenda Underhill shared this year’s goal for Cir- FOH PHPEHUV 3ULRU to the One & Only Annual Meeting, 54 women who were unable to attend had mailed in WKHLU FKHFNV IRU EULQJ- ing the total membership to 128 — and growing. “We are still accepting members,” said Foundation Director Stacy Green. Foundation board mem- ber Gail Swart spoke about the launching of a new club — the Men’s Guild 100. This club will be similar to the Circle 100 Club, but with one key difference: it will be DOO PHQ 7KH ¿UVW PHHWLQJ LV set for Thursday, April 23, at the Lostine Tavern. For more information on either Club, contact the Foundation at 541- 426-1913. “We appreciate everyone’s generosity so much,” said Swart. “We can’t say thank you enough.”