A6 News wallowa.com June 24, 2015 Wallowa County Chieftain Former Enterprise resident murdered 100 YEARS AGO June 24, 1915 Machinery for the East Or- egon Lumber company is now arriving every day. The largest single machine that has come to date is the loader. This weighs as much as a locomotive. It will run on railroad tracks with its own power. When it arrives at a place where logs are to be load- ed, it puts down its huge feet upon the ends of the ties and lifts up its body so that a rail- road car can pass under it. Then the crane starts work and places the logs upon the car. The county road gang, with the traction engine and scrapers, under the direction of Commis- sioner Newby, went up the Ant Flat road late last week, and will remain on this highway for some weeks. The men will go as far north as they can, cutting better grades, leveling and gen- erally making improvements. 7KLVLVWKH¿UVWURDGZRUNGRQH by the county on this highway for years, although it is one of the main arteries of travel. Of late the north end farmers have been complaining loudly of the need of some improvement. Improvements in the local E#(>=B9BC6=C#(>>:9=7#16=61.#)9A64C#,63C#(>>:9=7#'A63# E#0C39=;6BB#0C66;#(>>:9=7# +A3C6B E#(>;5#0<>:6A#9B# BC3=53A5#6@D9?<6=C E#&%#/>D=5#,>??6A# Main Street, Joseph 541-432-1917 OUT OF THE PAST Compiled by Rob Ruth lines of the Enterprise Electric company will keep Superin- tendent R.L. Forsythe and his assistants busy all summer. Taller poles with wider arms are being put in, particularly on the branch lines leading out of town. The purpose is to sep- arate the high and low voltage wires to conform to the state commission requirements. 70 YEARS AGO June 21, 1945 Summer camp plans of the Boy Scouts in the Blue Moun- tain council are shaping up for another large season. Camp Wallowa at the head of Wal- lowa lake will open July 1 and extend until Aug. 19. Advance registrations in the neighbor- hood of 200 are now on hand and more coming in daily ... The camp has a capacity of 80 scouts and 20 leaders, a total of 100. It has been enlarged this year from the total of 80 it would accommodate last year. A 50 per cent increase in gasoline to “A” card holders and a higher ceiling for “B” card holders has been announced by OPA. Starting June 22 “A” card holders will automatically get six gallons per coupon instead of four. The pending increase in rations for “B” book hold- ers will be given those drivers “whose essential occupational driving needs exceed the pres- ent 400 mile ceiling.” Word has been received here that Pvt. Ivan R. Roberts was wounded recently on Okinawa. He received a leg wound, but T HE B OOKLOFT AND S KYLIGHT G ALLERY Finding books is our specialty 541.426.3351 • 107 E. Main • Enterprise • www.bookloftoregon.com ACROSS 1. Suns 5. Bog 10. Woodcutter hero Ali 14. Aquatic reptile (abbr.) 15. Cape Verde capital 16. Chemical compounds 17. Maple genus 18. "All _____ on deck" 19. Roman public squares 20. Leavened rum cakes 22. Quilting gathering 23. Large hero sandwich 24. Oprah's BFF 27. London radio station 30. Downwind 31. Frosty 32. Brake horsepower 35. In a way, removes 37. Bridge-building degree 38. Mother of the Titans 39. Nostrils 40. ___ choy: Chinese cabbage 41. A.K.A. rose-red spinel 42. Blue goose genus 43. Take in solid food 44. Speak incoherently 45. Chop with an axe 46. 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Medieval circuit courts 51. Muslim shrine in Mecca 52. Former ruler of Iran 53. Fungal spore sacs 54. Baseball team # 57. Stringed instrument 58. Geological times 59. Sandy piece of seashore 61. Sino-Soviet block (abbr.) 62. Drunkard Chieftain archives Three members of the Wallowa County Jaycees who have their “whisker gardens” coming well along by the middle of June in 1965 are, from left, Jay Potter, Leonard Lombardi and Roger Makin. Wallowa County Jaycees annually sponsored a beard-growing contest to promote the upcoming Chief Joseph Days. that the Wallowa river which is boiling into the lake will continue its trend to rise as it did early this week. With the ¿UVWUDLQDZHHNDJR+XUULFDQH creek rose to a very high level causing some washouts along the irrigation ditch which sup- 50 YEARS AGO plies upper Hurricane creek and June 24, 1965 Alder Slope with water. More than two inches of 7KH RI¿FHUV RI WKH -RVHSK rain during the last week and Chamber of Commerce an- warm temperatures this week nounced this week that plans sent high mountain waters are well underway for a regis- plummeting toward the Wal- tered horse show to be held in lowa valley early this week to conjunction with Chief Joseph ¿OOQHDUO\DOOVWUHDPVWRFDSDF- Days this year. They stated the ity and some to more than ca- show will be open to all breeds SDFLW\IRUVRPHPLQRUÀRRGLQJ of registered horses and will be of the area. With Wallowa lake open to any resident of Wal- now at its capacity and water lowa county. still plunging from the high The Enterprise Penney store mountains it seemed likely will discontinue operations of no details have been learned. He is now in an army hospital there. Pvt. Roberts is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Roberts of Enterprise. His wife also re- sides here. its local store at the end of the day on Saturday, thus ending a forty-eight year span of contin- uous operations in this area. 25 YEARS AGO June 21, 1990 Residents of the Wallowa Valley were shocked and sad- dened at the news a young man raised in Enterprise was murdered last weekend in Lew- iston, Idaho. Logan Holling- sworth, 30, was stabbed to death in his Lewiston apartment last week. Police have charged a 17-year-old, who was arrest- ed in Hollingsworth’s car near .ODPDWK)DOOVZLWK¿UVWGHJUHH murder in conjunction with the death. In the aftermath of one of the most controversial Wallowa County primaries ever, Union and Wallowa County Cir- cuit Court Judge R.T. “Tom” *RRGLQJ KDV ¿OHG VXLW WR SUH- vent attorney Ron Schenck from succeeding him as judge. Schenck won a narrow 174 vote victory over Gooding in the May 28 election after a hard fought campaign. In two docu- PHQWV¿OHGLQ:DOORZD&RXQW\ Circuit Court — a complaint charging violation of election ODZV ¿OHG -XQH DQG D SHWL- WLRQRIFRQWHVW¿OHG-XQH² Gooding charges his opponent “with knowledge or with reck- less disregard of their falsity” in his campaign publicity. Wallowa County voters will be going to the polls Tuesday, June 26, to decide only one issue — a one-year levy total- ing $99,000 (including taxes estimated not to be collected) to support the operation of the Wallowa County Nursing KRPHIRU¿VFDOZKLFK begins July 1. Wyden town hall scheduled for July 3 U.S. Senator Ron Wyden will be back in Wallowa Coun- ty for a town hall meeting, Fri- day, July 3, at 2 p.m. at the Jose- phy Center for Arts and Culture in Joseph. Wyden, a Democrat, made a pledge when he became a U.S. Senator 19 years ago to visit each of Oregon’s 36 counties every year for town halls. The meetings provide Wyden with an opportunity to both hear directly from the people about their concerns DQG DQVZHU VSHFL¿F TXHVWLRQV about what is going on in the Senate. “Our democracy works best when people can ask question GLUHFWO\ RI WKHLU HOHFWHG RI¿- cials,” Wyden said. “And that’s why I go to each of Oregon’s 36 counties every year for town halls. These community meet- ings allow us to have conversa- tions geared toward achieving our common goal as Orego- nians — making our state the best possible place for all of us to work and live.”