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July 15, 2015
Wallowa County Chieftain
Pilot Stan Farris downs enemy plane
100 YEARS AGO
July 15, 1915
Heavy rains last week
caused some grain in the coun-
ty to lodge, but the damage was
con¿ned to patches in ¿elds
here and there. On irrigated
land, where the ¿eld had been
watered just before the rain the
grain went down in places. In
the hills also winter wheat that
was far advanced fell in scat-
tered cases. Heavy barley also
suffered a little. The damage is
believed to be slight compared
with the good done by the rains,
particularly to spring grain. All
classes of non-irrigated land
were in need of moisture, and
some winter wheat was show-
ing signs of turning prematurely.
The days immediately follow-
ing the rain were cool and with-
out wind, so the wetting came
with a minimum of harm.
Preparations for ¿ghting for-
est ¿res in the next two months
have been completed by the
forest service, the timber own-
ers, farmers and stockmen.
Although a heavy rain fell last
week in much of the forest, the
ground dries Tuickly and ¿res
will be a possibility soon if the
weather is hot. Last year a soak-
ing rain fell on July 7, and the
next good rain was September
7. Many small ¿res broke out
during the interim.
In the best ball game of the
year, Wallowa defeated Jo-
seph last Sunday 2 to 0. The
game was played at Wallowa.
This makes Joseph and Wal-
lowa even in results to date this
Stan Farris was
a member of the
Wallowa County
Court when this
photo was taken
during a mule
pack trip along
the Snake River
in September
1966. As a Marine
pilot during World
War II, Farris was
credited with
downing an enemy
Japanese aircraft
before it could
complete a suicide
mission against
U.S. warships (see
today’s 70 Years
Ago section).
This photo was
provided to the
Chieftain by
the late Dick
Hammond, who led
the 1966 pack trip.
Courtesy photo
summer. Culver pitched a pret-
ty game for Wallowa and was
well supported. Shutt pitched a
steady game for Joseph.
The old county high school
property was leased last week
by the county to the Enterprise
district, No. 21, for a period of
two years. It is a straight lease,
without any strings or condi-
tions to it, and the rent is $80
a month for the nine school
months of the year. Two days’
negotiations between the county
court and the district directors
were necessary to arrive at this
conclusion. The directors knew
exactly how far they could go,
but were not committed to any
particular settlement inside of
that. They wished to rent the
property with an option to buy.
70 YEARS AGO
July 12, 1945
A clumsy attempt by a Jap-
anese suicide pilot to ram an
American warship helped Ma-
rine Captain Stanley Farris, 23,
of Enterprise, shoot down his
¿rst enemy plane. He intercept-
ed the Japanese dive bomber
over the China sea, Àying less
than 50 feet above the water
headed for a ship several thou-
sand yards distant.
The apparent paradox of an
inadequate water supply in a
land with water running every-
where is again in evidence in
MCDOWELL: Reiner tops again
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McDowell competed against
208 other riders from around
the U.S. and countries as far
away as Japan and Portugal.
McDowell placed 3rd in
the Level 2 Open and 6th in
the Level 3 Open at the event.
“It’s the most elite and biggest
show of the year for 4-, 5- and
6-year-olds. It was the ¿rst time
I’d made the ¿nals at the derby,
and I made both of them and
won $13,226. It was exciting,”
McDowell said.
More than exciting, it was
actually a testament to McDow-
ell’s determination and drive to
maNe the ¿nals. Just before the
derby McDowell was helping
his daughter catch a 4-H sheep
and tore the tendon that anchors
the bicep muscle to the bone.
“It was a little hard because it
was my reining hand, and it was
a little weak, but it’ll heal up,”
McDowell said.
McDowell had nothing but
praise for his horse. “He’s a
great horse and I’m fortunate to
be able to show him. We really
click together — I know what
he’s going to do, and he knows
what I’m going to do,” McDow-
ell said.
Thankful for the opportunity
to ride the horse, McDowell had
words of thanks for Lorenzo’s
owner. “There’s a lot of great
showmen who’d be happy to
show that horse, but Suzy’s put
a lot of con¿dence in me to get
the job done.”
Another point of pride for
McDowell was that his son, Ma-
son, accompanied him on the
trip, driving down to Oklahoma
with him. On the drive back,
both father and son competed in
a reining show in Nampa, Idaho.
Matt McDowell did well with
some colts in training, while
Mason won the 13-and-under
reining division. “He’s really
into the horses,” McDowell said
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with obvious pride.
He also said that his entire
family gives him the con¿dence
to compete at the highest rein-
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was going to Ày down if I
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calling and asked if her and
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OUT OF THE PAST
Compiled by
Elliott Seyler
Enterprise. Virtual exhaustion
of the water in the city reservoir
has made it dramatically neces-
sary to drastically restrict the use
of water for irrigation. On the
north side of Greenwood street
Àat rate water users are restrict-
ed to the use of water for irri-
gation from 6-9 p.m. on Mon-
day, Wednesday and Friday,
while meter users may irrigate
throughout these days.
Results of the farm census
taken this spring show that the
number of farms in Wallowa
county is steadily decreasing
while the size of the average
farm is mounting.
Modern methods of ¿ghting
forest ¿res by dropping men
and equipment from the air
right at the scene of the ¿re were
demonstrated to members of the
Wallowa National forest staff
here Monday. The demonstra-
tion was made by a crew who
Àew here from McCall, Idaho,
near Payette lake.
council members met Tuesday
evening at the high school with
Ted Hunter of the Farm Home
Administration. Mr. Hunter
outlined a program whereby the
golf club, as a corporation, could
obtain a loan from FHA for in-
stallation of an irrigation system
and grass greens at the local golf
course.
With only a few weeks left
before the opening of the Wal-
lowa County Fair, knitters and
crocheters who plan to use their
needle or their hook to win fame
by entering the 1965 National
Wool Needlework Contest, are
urged to let their ¿ngers Ày. To
be eligible as a contestant, de-
signs must be submitted to the
Fair not later than Monday, Au-
gust 9, with judging of the knit-
ted and crocheted entries sched-
uled to begin immediately after
the Fair has opened. The contest
is being jointly sponsored by the
National Hand Knitting Yarn
Association and the American
Wool Council for the third suc-
cessive year.
25 YEARS AGO
July 12, 1990
Circuit Court Judge R. T.
‘Tom’ Gooding is dropping his
suit to prevent Wallowa County
attorney Ron Schenck from suc-
ceeding him as circuit judge for
Union and Wallowa counties.
The decision for Gooding to
dismiss his complaint charging
Schenck with violating election
laws by making false statements
in the campaign leading up to
Schenck’s narrow 174-vote
victory in the May 28 election,
came a day after an amended
complaint had been ¿led by the
plaintiff and in the wake of other
legal maneuvering.
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50 YEARS AGO
July 15, 1965
Several members of the
golf club at Enterprise and oth-
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