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A6 News wallowa.com September 2, 2015 Wallowa County Chieftain B-24 bomber crash site found 100 YEARS AGO Sept. 2, 1915 Last Sunday was the hot- test day of the season in eastern Oregon. The ther- mometer ranged at 100 or over in the lowland districts generally, and in the up- lands of this county it ran up to 94, the maximum at Enterprise. Sunday night was very warm in the low- er altitudes, but here it was delightfully cool, with the freshness of the mountain climate. The great flywheel of the East Oregon company’s sawmill was placed in po- sition yesterday. This was something of an event, and many from town went to the plant to see how the job was done. The wheel is 18 feet in diameter, with a 47-inch face and weighs 30 tons. It came in two sections. Mrs. J. N. Anderson of Whiskey Creek killed a coy- ote last Wednesday morning after she and the family dog had fought the animal for some time. Mrs. Anderson and daughter Leota were home alone over night. In the morning Mrs. Anderson went to the spring to get the milk for breakfast. The spring is a short distance from the house and on the creek bank. As she reached the spring the coyote came up the creek to within two rods of her. Seeing the woman, the animal turned, went up the other side of the creek and then crossed back and approached the gate of the yard. Mrs. Anderson GARAGE D00R Also specializing in INSTALLATION AND REPAIR Call Paul Vlietstra 541-263-1247 Licensed Bonded & Insured CCB#200036 OUT OF THE PAST Compiled by Elliott Seyler called dog, and at sight of it the coyote started down the creek, having made a complete circuit of Mrs. Anderson. The two animals met beside the creek and as they fought Mrs. Ander- son called to Leota to bring a gun. There was only one shell, and in her excitement Mrs. Anderson discharged this accidentally. She then sent Leota for an axe and followed the coyote, which was trying to get away, and killed it. 70 YEARS AGO Aug. 30, 1945 The Wallowa Nation- al Forest had its first seri- ous fire of the 1945 season the past weekend when a “sleeper” lightning blaze swept over about 640 acres on the Cow Creek water shed Friday night and Sat- urday morning. The fire was spotted shortly before 4 o’clock Friday evening. Jack Titus and other local fire fighting cooperators and a crew of forest service men under the direction of ranger Grady Miller were on the spot in a few hours. A call was also sent to the Payette, Idaho National for- est and planes from McCall brought over four parachute fire fighting jumpers Fri- day evening and another ten Saturday morning. By 8 or 9 o’clock Saturday morning the fire had been checked, T HE B OOKLOFT AND S KYLIGHT G ALLERY Finding books is our specialty 541.426.3351 • 107 E. Main • Enterprise • www.bookloftoregon.com Chieftain archives Enterprise Lions members and other Lions officials Included in this 1935 photo taken at the Enterprise Golf Course are, from left, Tom Ratcliff, Ira Snyder, Ben Taylor, International Director Ed Shay, District Governor Ted Gillenwater, and Dave Reavis. Ratcliff, a car salesman at the time, supplied the car, which was already an antique in 1935. but crews still worked on to keep it under control, the last man not leaving the scene until yesterday. The B-24 bomber re- ported down Saturday night somewhere in the moun- tains in this vicinity was found about 4 o’clock Mon- day afternoon near Alpine spring some seven miles southeast of Langdon lake on the Tollgate road. Elev- en members of the crew and four other army personnel were killed. The plane was en route from Sioux City, Iowa, to Walla Walla when the crash occurred. Another plane making the trip and flying somewhat above the plane that crashed saw the accident and radioed the information to army head- quarters. Endorsement of the state park at the head of Wal- lowa lake proposed to the state highway commission was made at a meeting of Joseph Commercial club held Monday evening at the Sweet shop. Opinion was unanimously in favor of the action. A report from the state game commission reveals that there is no harmful pol- lution of the Wallowa river as the result of the dumping of small quantities of whey from the local cheese facto- ry into the Wallowa river. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 2, 1965 Walter James Witten, 50, La Grande, was found dead last Thursday morning, end- ing a three-day search for the man in the Cook Creek area northeast of Enterprise. Wit- ten had been the object of a search led by Sheriff Mark Marks in which 30–40 per- sons participated. Witten reportedly went to the Cook Creek area on Sunday to in- spect a proposed trail job. When he did not return to his home at Perry near La Grande by Monday evening he was reported to the Union County Sheriff’s of¿ce as missing and the search was formed. Wallowa County will be one of 57 counties in Oregon and Washington to share in the receipts of the National Forests in ¿scal year 1965. About $21 million, an all- time high, is being paid to these counties with the Wal- lowa county share being $102,976.33. Twenty-three school board members represent- ing six of the seven district school boards in Wallowa county met Monday evening at Enterprise High School to discuss county-wide school issues. Only the Flora district was not represented at the county school board associ- 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 DOWN 1. Actor Damon 5. Resort 8. Low continuous tones 11. Cape Verde capital 13. Abbreviation for clean 14. Shoe retailer 15. Dashery 16. Head covering 17. Canadian flyers 18. A plant fiber used for making rope 20. Prime Minister __ Hirobumi 21. Hani 22. Nonexistences 25. Mexican victory holiday 30. Avowed 31. Ref 32. 2013 Philip. volcano eruption 33. Beard lichen genus 38. Tennis player organization 41. More saline 43. New York City 45. A ship’s cheapest fare 47. A winglike part 49. At the stern 50. Oral polio vaccine 55. Tatouhou 56. In addition 57. Baltic flat-bottomed boat (alt. sp.) 59. Search for 60. Gray sea eagle 61. Music timings 62. Make a mistake 63. Root mean square (abbr.) 64. Sleeveless Arab garments 1. Speedometer rate 2. Turkish/Iranian river 3. Japanese socks 4. Drawstrings 5. Formal separation over doctrine 6. Tableland 7. Word with opposite meaning 8. Cabs 9. 45th state 10. Matakam 12. Macaws 14. Scottish hillside 19. Load for shipment 23. Sleeping place 24. Linking verb 25. Br. University punting river 26. Marsh elder 27. Horse noise 28. Contract research organization (abbr.) 29. Excessively ornamented 34. Engine additive 35. Small bite 36. Snakelike fish 37. They __ 39. Performance arena 40. Enact before an audience 41. Special interest group 42. Grows old 44. Conductor’s implements 45. A heavy cavalry sword 46. Tropical ship’s wood 47. A domed or vaulted recess 48. Lascivious look 51. Mentally quick and resourceful 52. La __ Tar Pits, Hollywood 53. Unstressed-stressed 54. Celery cabbage 58. Wrong prefix 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 Congregational Congregational Church Church 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 United Church of Christ Worship at 11:00 The Big Brown Church Bible Worship Study at 9:30 Sunday 11A.M. 301 N. Brown E. First Church” Street the “Big Enterprise with the Open Door (541) 426-3044 Pastor Donald L. McBride Pastor Joseph Newcomer, Pastor Don McBride 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 ation meeting. Consolidation of the Omaha and Joseph dis- tricts was discussed. At a recent conference conducted by the State De- partment of Education, called for the purpose of ac- quainting school administra- tors with the provisions of the Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it was revealed that, according to the requirements stated in the Act, Wallowa County Schools will receive little, if any, bene¿t from this source. 25 YEARS AGO Aug. 30, 1990 Noted experts in a wide range of disciplines shed new light on old issues about nat- ural resource management from an unusual vantage point last week during a tour of bug killed timber, burn areas, and other points of interest. Electricity to a new dor- mitory complex at Wallowa Lake was ordered shut off last week after state and county of¿cials discovered the facility was built without necessary zoning or building permits. The mayor of Lostine had to personally call Bend to be counted in the recent 1990 census,so it’s easy to see why he’s skeptical of the preliminary figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau last week. They show Los- tine’s population has shrunk from 250 to 173 in 10 years. “I can count 17 new peo- ple without leaving my easy chair,” mayor George Gwinn said Tuesday. He ad- mits that some people may have moved away (“but not many”) or died, but can’t see how the city could have lost so many residents. Musicians invited to join WVO The Wallowa Valley Orchestra is preparing for its next season and invites more musicians to join. Beginning Sept. 8, the orchestra rehearses Tuesday evenings, 6:30 - 8 p.m., in the Enterprise High School music room. All area mu- sicians, student and adult, are invited to participate. Orchestra members should have the ability to read mu- sic and must furnish their own instruments. Orchestral strings are especially needed, includ- ing violin, viola, cello and string bass, but percussion, woodwinds and brass are needed as well. The orchestra is planning a fall concert and a spring concert, performed locally, with the opportunity of par- ticipation in a larger ensem- ble for a summer concert. For more information, contact Associate Conduc- tor Randy Morgan, 541- 426-3593, or the Inland Northwest Musicians of- fice, 541-289-4696. More information about the WVO and the INWM can be found on these groups’ Facebook pages and at inlandnorth- westmusicians.com.