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September 21, 2016
Wallowa County Chieftain
Homes planned for north lake shore
Tucker, Flora High School,
and Miss Charlotte Frazier,
Lostine High School.
OUT OF THE PAST
Compiled by Cheryl Jenkins
100 YEARS AGO
Sept. 21, 1916
50 YEARS AGO
Sept. 22, 1966
• Twelve men swore alle-
giance to the United States
government in the Circuit
Court on Monday and there-
by became citizens of the
republic. It was the largest
class of initiates in the his-
tory of the court. Five of the
new citizens are British, three
are German, three are Swed-
ish and one Italian.
• To make it possible to
put permanent bridges in
when West First street is
improved, the city Monday
night entered into agreement
whereby the property owners
will pay part of the cost and
the city will pay the remain-
der. The permanent bridge
decided on will cost nearly
$500 and will be there for
years.
• O. S. Hamilton went to
the Imnaha a few days ago
with his new 2-ton automo-
bile truck and brought out a
capacity load of fruit from the
farm of the Olmsted brothers,
four miles below the bridge.
Mr. Hamilton says he will not
repeat the trip until the roads
are widened. In some places,
particularly below the bridge,
the grade was so narrow that
one wheel of the great truck
was on the very edge.
• Style tip: That skirts are
to be longer will be a great
relief to many and a sad blow
to the woman with trim an-
kles. Yes, they are to be but
a paltry ive inches from the
ground, and after the ten we
• Checking and testing
were underway at the Cruik-
shank ranch south of En-
terprise last weekend when
Chuck Kirkpatrick was kept
busy digging holes in various
spots throughout the peat bog.
It was hoped that an average
depth and quality of the peat
could be determined from the
diggings. Preliminary reports
show that high quality peat
humus is found to an average
depth of about eight feet on 70
acres of the ranch.
• Enterprise Police Chief
E.E. Johnson disclosed this
week that vandals broke 32
windows out of used cars at
the Milligan Motors used car
lot. As near as can be ascer-
tained the vandals used BB
guns to break the windows.
• S/Sgt. Don Stein, son
of Mr. and Mrs. John Stein
of Enterprise, was honored
as Non-Commissioned Ofi-
cer of the Month at his post
in Camerana Bay, Viet Nam
where he is serving with the
14 Aerial Port squadron of
the Air Force.
• Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Barklow were two of several
couples to receive gifts from
Mr. and Mrs. John Steele for
a record of 1,000 days with-
out a lost-time accident at the
Boise Cascade Joseph mill.
Steele, as foreman of the
crew, presented each mem-
ber of his group with a Zippo
lighter and Mrs. Steele pre-
sented each wife with a new
Chieftain archives
Brownie troop — date, location and names unknown.
have grown accustomed to
they will make us all appear
most unusually modest.
• Lots for sale in River
Park Addition, facing new
(Enterprise) city park: $20
each, $5 down, will trade lots
for automobile.
• Lost between Enterprise
and Lostine: Radiator cap of
automobile. Return to Del-
bert Mitchell, Prairie Creek.
70 YEARS AGO
Sept. 19, 1946
• One of the most ambi-
tious home construction proj-
ects conceived in the county
in years is being planned at
the north end of Wallowa
Lake. The plan calls for sub-
dividing most of the hillside
This week’s athlete of the week is
Cayden DeLury, a Joseph Charter
School senior.
DeLury, 17, led the Eagles to a whop-
ping 70-32 victory over the Republic
Tigers of Northeastern Washington on
Sept. 10.
Roaring from the Eagles backfi eld,
DeLury racked up an amazing 500
yards rushing on 17 carries during the
contest, averaging nearly 30 yards per
carry.
Not content with gridiron heroics,
DeLury also plays a leading role
on the school’s basketball
team and appears regularly
on the school’s honor roll.
DeLury is the son of Dan DeLury and Sarrah Crist of Joseph.
Cayden DeLury
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fronting the lake into large
lots upon which some dozen
or more substantial homes
are already planned.
• Farm for sale – 320
acres, 165 acres irrig., 35
acres non-irrig. wheat land,
good imp. on good road,
school bus, free irrig. from
Wallowa river, a good dairy
and hog farm, milk check
now around $750 per month.
Price $21,000, $8000 will
handle it.
• J. N. Daugherty of the
Lewiston-Enterprise stage,
reported that the cloudburst
and storm centering on Shoe-
maker canyon on the Grande
Ronde and eastward to Couse
creek, washed out the road on
the Grande Ronde river be-
tween the Rays Ferry bridge
A Non-Proit Community Health Center
OHSU Resident
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Sept. 7 — Oct. 14, 2016
Hours:
Monday-Friday
7:00am to 7:00pm
Saturday
9:00am to 1:00pm
603 Medical Parkway
Enterprise, OR 97828
and mouth of Deer creek. He
managed to drive around it,
but the road was really rough.
• All men are reminded
that the fair committee would
like to have them blossom
out in their western outits
starting tomorrow and con-
tinuing through until the end
of the fair.
• Miss Edna Mae Allard
of Joseph has been chosen
to reign as queen of the 1946
Wallowa County Fair. Miss
Allard was chosen as a candi-
date by her fellow students at
Jo-Hi. Candidates chosen by
the other high schools who
will serve as princesses are
Miss Blanche Lermeny, En-
terprise High School, Miss
Betty Holloran, Wallowa
High School, Miss Sarah
Josephy schedules
local International
Day of Peace event
A lively discussion of
hot spots and cooling spots
around the world will take
place at Wallowa County’s
annual International Day of
Peace from 4 to 7 p.m. Sun-
day, Sept. 25, at the Josephy
Center for Art and Culture.
The program will empha-
size reconciliation in North-
ern Ireland as local actors
will demonstrate nonviolent
communication strategies to
build a peaceful community.
Admission is free.
Music will be provided
by local artists Ted Hays,
John McColgan, Randy
Morgan, Jessie Borgerding
and others.
The event includes a pot-
luck dinner. Organizers sug-
gest a dish with an interna-
tional lavor.
The International Day of
Peace is a project of the Ro-
tary Club of Wallowa Coun-
ty with co-sponsors Bank of
Eastern Oregon and Com-
munity Bank.
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• Photo caption: Shown
above are Captain Dale Pot-
ter, Joseph, and T/Sgt. Fred
Tippett, Lostine, who met for
the irst time during the war
in Viet Nam. Both men were
raised in Wallowa county but
had never met until they were
both stationed at Bien Hoa,
Viet Nam.
25 YEARS AGO
Sept. 19, 1991
• Named to the 1992 Chief
Joseph Days Court at Sun-
day’s tryouts were Jessica
Olson of Enterprise, Kristil
Botts of Joseph and Jodi Ba-
con of Flora.
• This month Leo Goebel
and Bob Jackson were named
as recipients of the Wallowa
County Small Woodlands
Association “tree farmer of
the year” award for their ef-
forts on their Alder Slope tree
farm.
• The Wallowa County
intermediate 4-H livestock
judging team won the state
livestock judging contest
this year at the Oregon State
Fair. Members of the team
are Amber Follett, Christy
Stitzel, Reid Wynans, Clint
Johnson and Travis Jones.
• Six Wallowa County res-
idents will be among a dele-
gation of over 370 persons
from around the U.S. who
will be participating in the
“Fly-in for Freedom” cam-
paign next week in Washing-
ton, DC. Local participants
include Mike Wiedeman,
Judy Wortman, Mack Birk-
maier, Tim Gilbert, Larry
Christman and Rick Swart.
Cabral to lead
service club
Sierra Cabral, a senior at
Wallowa High School, has been
elected president of the school’s
Interact Club, a service club for
teens spon-
sored by the
Rotary Club
of Wallowa
County.
Cabral,
will lead the
club during
Cabral
this school
year as it
produces service projects. Oth-
er oficers elected at the club’s
initial meeting Aug. 30 are Jor-
dan Ferre, vice president; Kris-
tin Craig, secretary; and Stacy
Douglass, treasurer.
The Interactors started plan-
ning projects at their Sept. 13
meeting. In recent years, the
club has been known for its an-
nual Christmas Bazaar, where
members solicit donations of
gifts that are sold at minimal
cost to students who can’t af-
ford to buy holiday presents at
retail price.
Interact Clubs are spon-
sored by Rotary Clubs for stu-
dents aged 12-18 to guide them
in lives dedicated to service.
Clubs typically produce school,
community and internation-
al projects. While there are
13,000 Interact Clubs around
the world, Wallowa’s is the
only one in eastern Oregon.
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