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May 13, 2015
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100 YEARS AGO
May 13, 1915
A coyote undoubtedly suf-
fering from rabies appeared
among Jay H. Dobbins’ sheep
in Tulley creek two weeks
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middle of the night in a band
of sheep in the charge of W.A.
Stanton ... The animal had
a lamb down, and was not
at all scared at the sound of
Mr. Stanton’s shouting. Mr.
Stanton sent his dog after the
coyote, which ran away after
a tussle in which the dog was
bitten. A few minutes later the
large coyote ran into another
band of Mr. Dobbins’ sheep. It
killed two lambs and chewed
up a ewe considerably. Two
dogs went after it and only af-
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it away. Shortly afterward it shot and killed it. The lamb in GD\VKLVGRJEHFDPHYHU\VLFN
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symptoms of hydrophobia,
and the herder killed it.
The two large grizzly bear
skins
E.M. Pratt brought to
Tiara has been a solid
town last week were sold to
student at Enterprise
Mrs. S.D. Taylor, the price
since kingergarten.
paid for these rare specimens
being $50 each. It will cost
She has taken every
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Ag class offered and is
properly made into rugs.
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Tiara Huffman
Enterprise High School
an active member of
the FFA. As a busy
senior, she also raised
money for breast
cancer. Best of luck in
the future, Tiara!
The Student of the Week is chosen for
academic achievement and community
involvement. Students are selected
by the administrators of
their respective schools.
A short
piece of text
submitted with
this photo
declares this
to be the
“first train
for Wallowa
County,”
crossing the
bridge at
Minam at the
junction of the
Wallowa and
Grande Ronde
rivers, Sept. 20,
1908.
Courtesy photo/Jerry McCully
OUT OF THE PAST
Compiled by
Rob Ruth
Pfc. Kenneth F. Green, de-
scribing the operations of
the task force to which he
is assigned some 30 miles
south of the junction of the
Ledo and Burma roads. The
Mars task force to which
Pfc. Green is attached has
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70 YEARS AGO
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May 10, 1945
to be used for transporta-
A VII Fighter Command tion and the accounts tell of
Base on Iwo Jima — Pilot- mules which were lost slip-
ing a P-51 Mustang fighter ping off the trails into the
plane, Second Lt. Keith H. GHHS UDYLQHV DQG FDQ\RQV
Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. With reference to one march
Carl N. Miller of Enterprise, the account states, “some
participated in the first 7th marched by linking hands
fighter command attack as they crossed treacherous
against Japanese mainland bogs, swamps, creeks and
installations.
precipices.”
Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Green
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clippings from their son, Downing of Enterprise, is a
member of LSM group 14,
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for the work performed in the
Iwo Jima campaign. Ross sent
his citation home to his par-
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the part he played at Iwo Jima.
WANTED: To buy or rent
baby carriage. Mrs. L.L. Hall,
c-o Geo. Dawson, Joseph.
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Finding books is our specialty
541.426.3351 • 107 E. Main • Enterprise • www.bookloftoregon.com
50 YEARS AGO
May 13, 1965
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for the proposed gondo-
la project to the top of Mt.
Howard would be approxi-
mately $400,000. The oper-
ating company, High Wal-
lowas, Inc., also sent their
organizational structure and
financing plan to the Small
Business Administration and
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tion.
A Recreational Use Plan
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to be created behind the
multi-purpose High Moun-
tain Sheep dam in the scenic
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Idaho and Oregon has been
filed with the Federal Pow-
er Commission by Pacif-
ic Northwest Power Co ...
The basic PNP Recreation-
al Plan is estimated to cost
$577,000.
The Stitch and Chatter
Club met last Thursday at
the home of Rowena Sha-
fer, with 19 ladies present.
Refreshments of angel food
cake with topping, coffee
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member, Reta Thornburg,
was initiated, after which
a number of games were
played.
LOSTINE NEWS: Berk
Lathrop entered the hospital
last Friday and had a tonsil-
lectomy. Mrs. Linda Carper
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rolet Biscayne.
25 YEARS AGO
May 10, 1990
The Small Business Ad-
The Wallowa-Whitman
ministration in Boise re-
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loan from Wallowa Scenic ment Plan, 10 years in the
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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. Library furnishings
10. A major N. Am. river
12. Music for a narrative poem
13. A set of steps
15. Shooting stars
16. Keenly perceptive
18. -__, denotes past
19. "3:10 to Yuma" actress
Gretchen
20. Old English
21. Sami
24. Brake horsepower
27. Interlocks
30. Twofold
31. Green, iced and Earl Grey
33. Maddie and ___, singers
34. Bridge-building degree
35. Flat-topped flower cluster
37. A waterproof raincoat
39. A way to ingest
41. Tayra genus
42. Birds
44. 3.26 light years
47. Confederate soldier
48. Body fluids
49. Atomic #35
50. Seize
52. In event that
53. Grassy plain
56. Enzyme in milk
61. Rags
62. Actress May
63. In a way, aided
65. Humilities
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1. Digestive fluid
2. Capital of Norway
3. Plural of os
4. Young goats
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5. "Peanuts" creator's initials
6. State in NE India
7. Type of TV program
8. Shoulder adornment
9. Meat-roasting rod
10. Protective floor pad
11. Anger
12. Spread over
14. Blackthorn fruit
15. Commingle
17. Affirmative
22. Horse used to set the pace
23. Appeals
24. British thermal unit
25. Complex red organic pigment
containing iron
26. Bura
28. Languages of Sulu islands
29. Raise with great force
32. Dried-up
36. Scientific research workplace
38. Purplish red
40. NYSE symbol TEN
43. Secure
44. Commercial-free TV station
45. Macaws
46. Open and sincere
51. Oldest Swiss Un. (alt. sp.)
54. Very high frequency
55. Name for ancient Syria
56. NFL's "The Big Cat" Leon
57. Jai __, sport
58. Actress Blanchett
59. Cords
60. Not or
64. Constitutes
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
the printers on Monday —
all 2,500 pages of it ... The
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the new plan according to
Regional Forester John But-
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decision to reduce the annu-
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for sale by about 10 percent
— from 159 million board
feet (mmbf) a year to 141
mmbf ... Perhaps more sig-
nificant, according to Erick-
son, is that timber offerings
would contain less than half
of the amount of ponderosa
pine that had been offered
for sale on an annual basis
during the recent past — 30
mmbf as compared to 60
mmbf ... “Whereas pondero-
sa pine once constituted half
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now makes up only about
20 percent,” Butruille con-
tinued. “Therefore, there is
little doubt that the annual
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be reduced.”
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agers and other interested
county residents attended a
youth issues forum in En-
terprise last Wednesday and
offered dozens of construc-
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help approach youth-relat-
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of concern ... Youth issues
under discussion were drug
and alcohol use; conflicts
with parents; peer loyalty;
reluctance to get profession-
al help; the feeling there’s
nothing to do; prejudice and
discrimination among and
toward youth; and poor rela-
tionship with police officers.
FOLLOW-UP ON PHO-
TO: On April 22 we published
a photo that had appeared in
the newspaper in 1915 of
a sheep camp on Downey
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additional information about
that site from Enterprise resi-
dent Don Tippett, who recalls
that Tippett Ranch Inc. pur-
chased it from his dad, Jidge
Tippett, around 1958. He
thinks Jidge Tippett acquired
it around 1949. The cabin in
the photo burned in 1988. (A
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the area in August 1988.)
According to Don, the ranch
sold the property to the U.S.
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ly, Don spotted two errors in
names in the caption we ran
on April 22: Blane should be
Blanc, and Yarnell should be
Yandell.
Group
offers
scholarship
for arts
In an effort to encourage
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Wallowa County, the Cre-
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ship is being offered for the
second year. Sponsors of the
$1,000 award include the
Wallowa Valley Arts Coun-
cil, Beecrowbee, Community
Bank, Stewart Jones Designs,
and Bob & Helene Hipple.
The deadline for entry is
May 15. Applications can be
found online at www.wallo-
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igible, a student must be a
senior attending any school in
Wallowa County. The student
must be eligible to graduate
but does not need to be plan-
ning a formal education at a
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