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September 16, 2015
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100 YEARS AGO
Sept. 16, 1915
Construction work on the
new Record Chieftain build-
ing started this week. Changes
have been made in the plans,
and the building will be of na-
tive stone, much the same as in
the courthouse, Litch building,
and others of the best buildings
in the town. It will have a front
of 50 feet and a depth of 80 feet,
with basement under part, and
heavy concrete Àoor under the
other half.
The assessment roll for the
lateral sewer system was ¿led
last Saturday with City Record-
er Savage. It was prepared by
City Engineer E. M. Billings,
as commissioner, and passed
on by C. E. Funk and S. L.
Burnaugh Jr., as viewers. Mr.
Savage and Attorney T. M. Dill
prepared, from the roll, notices
to all property owners, show-
ing the assessment of each, and
notifying them that the council
will meet Wednesday evening,
Sept. 22, as a board of equal-
ization to hear any protests
and correct any errors. Mar-
shal Clark served these notices
to resident property owners,
and nonresidents were served
through the mail. The city
further noti¿ed all interested
through the columns of this pa-
per in this issue.
With thousands of acres of
hill land northeast of Enterprise
raising grain for the ¿rst time,
and yielding immense crops at
that, the problem of threshing it
has become very serious. One
can ride for miles past ¿elds
where the grain stands thick
in the shock, and no threshing
machine is near. The farmers,
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many homesteaders, have put
their year’s work and money
into their crops, and it is of vital
importance to them to save it
and get it so it can be marketed.
70 YEARS AGO
Sept. 13, 1945
Last Thursday was a happy
one for the J. Dee Walker fam-
ily, for on that day they learned
of the release from a Japanese
prison camp of their son, Keith.
The ¿rst word came early in the
morning from their daughter-
in-law, Keith’s wife, who called
up from La Grande to say that
A. K. Parker had called and
told her of the article appear-
ing in the Oregonian that day:
“Yokahama, Sept. 5 (AP) Two
more Oregonians held prison-
er by the Japanese have been
liberated here. They are Chief
Radioman J. R. Young, Cottage
Grove, and Albert K. Walker,
Enterprise.”
Fire from a Àue which was
burning out destroyed the bun-
galow home on the Fred Wag-
ner farm on Swamp creek Sat-
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urday about noon. The house
with all its contents, and two
smaller outbuildings went up
in smoke. It was occupied by
Mr. Wagner’s brother-in-law
and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Green, and four small boys.
Mrs. Green was alone at the
time. After seeing that her little
family was safe she managed to
get out some household articles,
but they were placed too close
to the burning building and a
strong wind carried the Àames
to the furniture Mrs. Green had
worked so hard to save.
50 YEARS AGO
Sept. 16, 1965
The ¿nal scheduled outing
at Camp Wallowa Boy Scout
camp for the season ended in
tragedy Sunday morning only
hours before the planned clos-
ing of the camp for the sum-
mer. Early Sunday morning
the dining hall at the Scout
camp burned to the ground
claiming the lives of two of
the occupants of the building.
Claimed in the ¿re were 9erne
Harvey, troop committee-
man, 1407 Perkins, Richland,
Washington and Steven Willi,
14-year-old Eagle Scout, 82
Park street, Richland, Wash-
ington.
Wallowa county indus-
try took a big step ahead this
week with the announcement
by Wes Cruikshank and Bruce
Douglas that the vast depos-
it of peat humus which was
discovered on the Cruikshank
farm south of Enterprise will
be developed into a commer-
cial concern. The announce-
ment came as the conclusion
to several weeks of testing of
the deposit and re¿ning pro-
cedures.
Enterprise and Wallowa
county will be honored by a
visit this weekend from Ad-
miral John (Chick) Hayward,
commander of the Paci¿c
anti-submarine patrol. The
visit to this area is something
which the Admiral has looked
forward to since 1962 when
the city of Enterprise present-
ed the nuclear aircraft carri-
er, USS Enterprise, with two
wall murals depicting scenes
of this area. The pictures giv-
en to the carrier were painted
by Gene Hayes and sent with
the compliments of the city of
Enterprise under the adminis-
tration of S. J. Farris.
25 YEARS AGO
Sept. 13, 1990
Last week a Marion Cir-
cuit Court Judge turned down
a motion by Wallowa Coun-
ty District Attorney William
Reynolds to have himself
declared winner of the May
primary election for Wallowa
County District Attorney.
A professional forester
who spends a good portion
of his free time improving his
property to timber, wildlife
and other values is Wallowa
County Small Woodlands
Association’s “Tree Farmer
of the Year.” Larry Aschen-
brenner, 43, who is employed
as a Forest Service logging/
transportation planner and
who owns a 120-acre tree
farm near Ferguson Ridge,
has been singled out by his
peers for good land steward-
ship over the past nine years.
Family and friends of Ka-
tie Bothum, the 14-year-old
seriously injured at Mule
Days Sunday, have set up a
fund in her name to accept do-
nations for trauma care equip-
ment/training at Wallowa Me-
morial Hospital. The fund has
been established in gratitude
for the expertise of Dr. Scott
Siebe and the WMH emergen-
cy staff, credited with saving
Katie’s life. In lieu of Àowers,
those who wish to help are
asked to send donations to the
Katie Bothum Hospital Fund,
c/o Bank of Wallowa County,
Joseph.
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“The impact on the 9il-
lage at the Lake is a lot, that’s
all I’ve got to say,” said Mi-
chael Lockhart, owner of the
Wallowa Lake Tramway and
president of the local busi-
ness association. “We were
expecting about 1,000 riders.
Last time they came here we
had 1,200 riders that day. We
had an entertainment garden
planned to raise money for
the Wallowa Lake Tourism
Committee in the Edelweiss
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
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
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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
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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
(Inn) area and obviously
that’s canceled. The Tram-
way is always a big attrac-
tion, too. If you go down
through the list, it’s not just
the companies themselves
that lose, it’s the waitresses
and the extra labor we would
have hired on, so it gets down
to the little people, too.”
The Lions Club had also
planned a big salmon feed in
Joseph, which was canceled.
“We’ve been scrambling
to decide what to do and we
decided to cancel it,” said
Lions Club president Jerry
Hustafa. “Joe McCormick
(who was supplying the
salmon) will sell most of the
¿sh and we’ve decided to
have a salmon barbecue and
potluck at the workday up at
Ferguson Ridge Ski Area on
Sunday afternoon. Anybody
who shows up to work can
have some of that.”
Terminal Gravity (TG) in
Enterprise was expecting a
large crowd as well.
“We planned for it, obvi-
ously,” said TG Marketing
Manager Kevin Harlander,
“It’s not going to break the
bank, but we’ve purchased
merchandise and invested in
more employees to help pour
beer and Àip burgers. It’s re-
ally a hard thing because we
really look forward to show-
ing off the pub to visitors.
But our concern is really with
the folks affected by the ¿re.”
TG owner Ed Millar was
philosophical. “We will have
a normal day instead of a
huge day selling food,” he
said.
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Candidates
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The councilors and com-
mittee will now develop an
interview script and select a
three-day time period the last
week of September or the
¿rst week of October when
the candidates will be inter-
viewed by a panel.
The candidates have been
asked to plan to spend all
three days of the interview
time-period in Wallowa
County to familiarize them-
selves with the people and
the area.
Police Chief Brian Harvey
of La Grande has offered to
assist in the interview pro-
cess depending on availabil-
ity. Harvey was one of three
police chiefs who made up
the original review task force
from the Oregon Association
Chiefs of Police (OACP).
The OACP task force was
called in to review the histo-
ry and structure of the Enter-
prise Police Department af-
ter former Enterprise Police
Chief Wes Kilgore resigned.