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A6 News wallowa.com August 12, 2015 Wallowa County Chieftain Enterprise winding up annual street repair By Kathleen Ellyn Wallowa County Chieftain Enterprise Public Works Director Ronnie Neil and his crew are winding up their an- nual repair work on city streets, but a couple more projects will broaden the scope of their work this year. Two of the projects already completed and within Neil’s $80,000 budget for 2015 were the paving of the alley behind the EM&M building and half of the alley between the Odd Fellows Hall and the Public Library — both notorious dust bowls. Another highly visible re- surfacing was the block on SE 1st Street by the courthouse. Additional projects were com- pleted in two locations on NE 2nd; a block was resurfaced behind Milligan Motors and a block behind the old hospital. “We’ll be working up on East Greenwood up to Leone Street and across 5th Street, now,” Neil said. The money for the annual roadwork comes from state tax funds, Neil said. “We had $80,000 this year and right now I’m at $35,000,” he said. “I’ll ¿nish out this year at about $40,000. I like to save a little and roll it over into next year’s budget so we can do a little chip seal.” Several of the streets in the worst condition, such as NW 3rd, will be further torn up as the city’s water project moves forward. The start date for that project is Aug. 17. “We try and keep ahead of the worst roads,” Neil said, “But we’re not doing near as much as we’d like to because of the water project. NW 3rd will have new water lines, curbs and surface when we’re done.” Another area of street in poor condition is the portion of Greenwood by the city park bathrooms. “We’ve put in for a grant to ¿nish that out like we did for Depot Street,” Neil said. Courtesy photo/Edsel White collection Enterprise was founded in 1884, and this very old photo, dated 1887, shows what the city looked like just three years later. City council dismisses sewer system protests 100 YEARS AGO Aug. 12, 1915 Wallowa County Chess Club Welcome Tourists and Players of all levels! Thursdays 4 to 8 PM FREE! JOSEPHY CENTER FOR ARTS AND CULTURE 403 Main Street Joseph, Oregon August 2015 Puzzle. Black to move Six protests against cer- tain parts of the lateral sew- er system were received by the city council at its special meeting last Friday after- noon. All were laid on the ta- ble at that session and were definitely disallowed by the council Monday night. This leaves the lateral system to be constructed as original- ly outlined by the council. Sewers will be laid to serve practically all the improved property in town. An inter- esting fact at the meeting last Friday was that more property owners were pres- T HE B OOKLOFT AND S KYLIGHT G ALLERY Finding books is our specialty ent to ask assurances that they would get sewers than were there to object. Still others came just for infor- mation, to ascertain in what streets or alleys the sewers will run and to learn how they will make connections and how the payments will be collected. Wallowa County has the best crops in the northwest, in the judgment of Floyd W. Rader, former county agri- culturist. He is now county agriculturist of the richest county in the Pacific north- west, King of Washington, in which Seattle is situated, and is here with his wife on a vacation trip. Mr. Rader has been greatly impressed with the uniformly heavy crops he has found here, and says he has seen nothing to equal them. He also noticed that considerable of the so-called scab land in the hills is in reality the choicest of farm land. When the few surface rocks are removed, a rich, deep soil is left which pro- duces very abundantly. 541.426.3351 • 107 E. Main • Enterprise • www.bookloftoregon.com 70 YEARS AGO Aug. 9 1945 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hall received word Sunday that their son, William Ken- neth Hall, aviation radioman OUT OF THE PAST Compiled by Elliott Seyler second class, was missing in action since July 24. Bill was a radioman-gunner on a torpe- do bomber. He was stationed aboard a carrier operating in the vicinity of Japan. For the part they played in the historic series of ¿ve low level incendiary attacks on Ja- pan during an all out offensive, S-Sgt. James D. Harrison and Cpl. Carl S. Meyer of Enter- prise and vicinity, and many other enlisted men at B-29 bases in the Marines have been commended by the command- ing general of the Twentieth air force. Grain harvesting got under way in Wallowa county the past week and the deliveries are now being made at the lo- cal elevators. First to bring in grain at the Enterprise elevator were Larkin Staggs and Wel- don Makin. Hershel Fleshman has also been hauling in winter barley from Flora. 50 YEARS AGO Aug. 12, 1965 Mayor Ab Daisley of Jo- seph stated this week that the Joseph airport construc- 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. Molten rocks 7. More (Spanish) 10. Artists' workrooms 12. Radiant light around an object 13. More threadbare 14. Moses' elder brother 15. Become aware of 16. Exclamation of relief 17. Swiss river 18. Mimics 19. Colored fabric 21. A bunch of bills 22. Despised 27. "Today's" Roker 28. 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Microgram 47. Make imperfect 3rd & Lake St. • Joseph Pastor Cherie Johnson 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: 9am Worship Service: 10am 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 tion work has been com- pleted and that the field is now ready for use by pilots desiring to land there. He indicated that the only work remaining to be done is in- stallation of lights along the strip. The lights which were previously used on the field will be adequate but they must be rewired, Daisley said. On Wednesday night last week, Ferman War- nock was awakened by a sound which he described as a rumbling like an iron tired wagon going down the road, but the sound of roll- ing rocks convinced him it was a rock slide on the hill. The next morning the slide was plainly visible, coming from a rim on the hill above his premises. It cut a swath some forty feet wide, large rocks crashed down the hillside and Warnock found it had somehow cut off his water supply. Examination revealed that the reservoir was drained dry and further observation showed that a huge rock hit a glancing blow on a tub of a washing machine which he kept over the water hydrant. This had sheared off the faucet caus- ing the water to drain from the reservoir on the hillside. 25 YEARS AGO Aug. 9, 1990 Several young men from Wallowa County are among the thousands of troops Pres- ident George Bush is send- ing to Saudi Arabia to help stabilize the Persian Gulf, in the wake of the (Aug. 2) invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. Fire danger is high and will remain so for the next two weeks, according to Howard Strobel, unit forest- er for the Oregon Dept. of Forestry at Wallowa. State Forester James E. Brown or- dered the regulated closure of 430,000 acres of privately owned timber and range land in four northeastern coun- ties, effective on Wednes- day. A dozen groups and in- dividuals, mostly from Wal- lowa County, appealed the Wallowa-Whitman Compre- hensive Management Plan, the Forest Service announced this week. The plan was re- leased by the Forest Service last November, and appeals were accepted through Aug. 2. The forest plan was writ- ten to guide all activity on the Wallowa-Whitman Na- tional Forest for the next 10 years. Resource groups have attacked the plan for reduc- ing timber offerings to 141 million board feet (mmbf) annually from a historical volume of 159 mmbf at an estimated loss of 120 to over 400 timber jobs. Congressman Bob Smith (R.-Ore.) will meet with his Wallowa County constitu- ents in a visit scheduled for Saturday. The fourth term congressman from Burns will be the guest of the Wal- lowa County CattleWomen at a luncheon which begins at noon at the Joseph Com- munity Center. Keynote speaker for the luncheon will be Jackie Lang of the Oregon Lands Coalition.