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March 8, 2017
First ‘bootlegging’ conviction
OUT OF THE PAST
Compiled by Steve Forrester
100 YEARS AGO
MARCH 8, 1917
• An election to vote on
bonds to erect a school build-
ing in Enterprise will be held
at the grade school building
Saturday, March 10. Every
citizen of the state, 21 years
old, who has resided in the
district 30 days and who has
property – real or personal –
which is taxed in the district,
can vote.
• The fi rst arrest and con-
viction for “bootlegging” in
Enterprise under the state
prohibition law was recorded
this week. “Hank” Wright was
found guilty by a jury and will
receive sentence this morning.
The penalty is a fi ne of from
$1 to $500, and a term in the
county jail up to six months.
• R.L. Day brought 87 head
of sheep in from Paradise this
week, spending 4 days on the
road, with one wagon for feed
and one to carry the sheep and
lambs that could not keep up.
It was a very hard trip over
roads drifted full with new
snow, and when horses got off
the old track they had trouble
enough getting back.
• The Lapwai Lumber
company is constructing a
large lumber yard on North
street, west of the Majestic
hotel. This makes the third
lumber yard in town.
70 YEARS AGO
MARCH 6, 1947
• Mack Birkmaier was
elected president of the Enter-
prise chapter FFA on Monday,
Other offi cers elected include
he fi rst
arrest and
conviction for
“bootlegging”
in Enterprise
under the state
prohibition law
was recorded
this week in
1917
T
Wallowa County Chieftain
Railroad
has a
bridge
problem
‘All the bridges
on the line are
100 years old’
By Kathleen Ellyn
Dale Evans, vice president;
Dick Rawlinson, secretary;
Earl Falconer, treasurer; Jim
Stubblefi eld, reporter; and
Berton Bailey, sentinel.
• The oldest business
in Enterprise (except The
Chieftain) was terminated
this week when Mrs. Byram
Mayfi eld sold the stock and
fi xtures of the Mayfi eld Drug
store to C.E. Bingham, owner
and operator of the Economy
Drug store.
• Wallowa: The Assembly
of God held their fi rst services
in their new church Sunday
with an attendance of 64 in
Sunday school. Rev. John-
ston is pastor of the Wallowa
church.
• Mr. and Mrs. Harley
Tucker arrived home Saturday
from Arizona where they pur-
chased two carloads of rodeo
stock.
• Pvt. Dale B. Lindsey,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Lindsey of Wallowa, is now
serving overseas with the oc-
cupational forces in Japan.
Lindsey has been assigned to
the famous 188th parachute
infantry regiment of the air-
borne division. He graduated
from WHS in 1946 where he
was senior president of the
Wallowa County Chieftain
Chieftain archive
The Fishing Wall of Fame in an area restaurant, with an unidentified man.
student body.
50 YEARS AGO
MARCH 9, 1967
• Photo caption: These four
junior high students submitted
the best four essays out of 110
entries in the American Le-
gion Auxiliary contest on the
subject “Equal Justice Under
Law”: Peggy Reid, 1st place
winner, $8; Jana Denney, 2nd
place winner, $6; Tom Wells,
3rd place, $4; and Steven
Gibbs, 4th place, $2.
• Imnaha: A nice crowd
enjoyed the benefi t dance for
Mike Stein Saturday night
with music by Don, Vadna
and Donna Norton, and Dan
Reid. Approximately $200
was donated by those attend-
ing.
• An outstanding basket-
ball victory was posted last
Wednesday when the En-
terprise Varsity defeated the
T HE B OOKLOFT
AND
Skylight Gallery
faculty Broken Arches 81 to
41. The Broken Arches team
consisted of Mr. Haines, Mr.
Victor, Mr. Schuldt, Mr. Hen-
drickson, Mr. Blanchard, Mr.
Courtney, Mr. Nelson and Mr.
Quinn. Bob Clegg served as
coach.
• Uley McGinnis has sub-
mitted his resignation from
the position of water superin-
tendent with the city of Enter-
prise after completing almost
38 years of service.
• Four Wallowa County
boys received word this week
that they have been selected to
receive the State Farm degree
in FFA. Those chosen were
Don Marks, Joseph; Tom
Frazier and Scott McCrae,
Wallowa; and Bob Andrews,
Enterprise.
25 YEARS AGO
MARCH 5, 1992
• Fruit trees are already
blooming in the Imnaha coun-
try, early even for Wallowa
County’s banana-belt.
• The EHS boys basket-
ball team reached yet another
milestone in its quest for an
Oregon Class 2A Champion-
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CLUES ACROSS
1. “ER” actress Leslie
5. Hebrew name for Babylon
10. Newts
14. Leaf angle
15. Dravidian language
16. Ridge on nematodes
17. Monetary unit
18. Determined the tare
19. Unfreeze
20. Merits
22. World’s oldest broadcasting organization
23. Vacation spot
24. December 25
27. Ottoman military command
30. Resin-like substance secreted by insects
31. A.C. Comics female supervillain
32. Insect linked to honey
35. Opinion
37. In the middle of
38. Basketballer Yao
39. Remove lid
40. Pressure wound therapy
41. Fabric
42. Witnessed
43. Defunct European economic organization
44. “Hotel California” rockers
45. When you expect to arrive
46. “Sleepless in Seattle” actress Ryan
47. Danish airline
48. Insecticide
49. Scientific instrument
52. Type of seal
55. Israeli city __ Aviv
56. Cavalry sword
60. Ottoman title
61. Gurus
63. Cold wind
64. Predatory reptile (abbr.)
65. New Jersey is one
66. Divulge a secret
67. Finely chopped mixture
68. Actress Zellweger
69. Romanian city
CLUES DOWN
1. “Dark Knight” actor
2. S. African plants
3. Castle in County Offaly, Ireland
4. White (French)
5. Morsel
6. Semitic language
7. Areas outside cities
8. Crackling
9. Cub
10. Landmark house in Los Angeles
11. Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist
12. Mineral
13. Late night host Myers
21. Pull along
23. Not good
25. British Air Aces
26. Upset
27. Maltreatment
28. Nocturnal, cat-like animal
29. Hollyhocks
32. Shelter
33. Finished
34. Discharge
36. “X-Men” actor McKellen
37. Beloved dish __ and cheese
38. Holds coffee
40. Languish
41. Quenches
43. Electric fish
44. Consume
46. Type of school
47. Erase
49. Educate
50. “Transformers” actress Fox
51. Spiritual leader
52. Every one
53. Site of the Taj Mahal
54. Welsh village
57. Weapon
58. Geological times
59. S. Asian crops
61. Soviet Socialist Republic
62. Witness
ship last weekend, taking fi rst
place at the District Tourney
held in La Grande.
• A referendum seeking
to overturn the approval of
a housing subdivision at the
north end of Wallowa Lake
is legal and may be placed
on the ballot, under a ruling
handed down last week by a
Malheur Circuit Court judge.
• Austin Himes, 7, Enter-
prise, was this year’s winner
of the bicycle given away
annually by Dr. Gary Under-
hill’s dental offi ce.
• Enterprise wrestler Chad
Nash emerged as state cham-
pion in the 168-pound weight
division at the Oregon Class
2A fi nals held last week.
• Wallowa Cougar boys are
slated to appear in this week’s
Oregon Class 1A tournament
in Baker City. The league
champion Cougs open play
with Ione.
• Troy: Winners of the
Shilo Lodge fi sh derby were:
1st, Mike Gibbs of Troy with
a 31” steelhead; 2nd, Deane
Dean of Troy with a 27” steel-
head; and 3rd, Larry Bauck of
Wallowa with a 25” steelhead.
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Enterprise, Oregon
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Enterprise
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Evening Worship at 6 p.m.
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Family Prayer: 9:45am
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Enterprise Community
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Reestablishing a train
station and bringing rail
tourism into Wallowa was
always a part of the re-
vitalization plans for the
city. Friends of the Joseph
Branch now hope to have
their train deadheaded in
Wallowa by July 22. Just
parking the train in Wallowa
is not all of the plan, how-
ever.
“As a board we are work-
ing on extending Wallowa
Union Railroad Authority
(WURA) train service to
Wallowa and beyond,” said
Garrett Lowe, Wallowa
City Councilor and WURA
board member. “We have
two problems with Elgin to
Wallowa route for passen-
gers in the summer: we have
a bridge problem in Water
Canyon about fi ve miles
out of Wallowa substantial
enough that we can’t bring
passengers across it from
Elgin to Wallowa. However,
we can bring just the train to
Wallowa and run passengers
on our line from Wallowa to
Joseph. There are still main-
tenance problems to resolve
on that route, but they are
not expected to be as expen-
sive as bridge replacement
in Water Canyon.”
Deadheading the train in
Wallowa, also takes the train
off the Minam route during
the months of the year when
there is the most fi re danger
in the canyon.
“Any time you have met-
al to metal contact, like train
track and wheels, there is a
fi re danger,” said Lowe. “A
fi re started by a spark from
the train might run straight
up the canyon in a hard to
reach area.”
The problem of bridges
along the line is due to the
age of the railroad.
“All the bridges on the
line are 100 years old,” said
Ed Spaulding, President of
the Friends of the Joseph
Branch, which owns the
train engines and cars, “ide-
ally, all of them would be
replaced.”
WURA will be doing
some number crunching in
the next few months to see
what can be done about re-
pairs to the line.
Bipartisan legislation in-
troduced by Ron Wyden in
February could also make a
track maintenance tax cred-
it for short rail permanent.
That would eliminate any
uncertainty about taking ad-
vantage of that, Lowe said.
The tax credit allows
short line and regional rail-
roads such as WURA – a
50 percent tax credit for
railroad track maintenance
expenses, up to $3,500
per mile of track owned or
leased by the railroad.
If all of the planets align,
Lowe said, and WURA
has all of the volunteer and
maintenance completed, the
Federal Railroad Adminis-
tration will send out an in-
spector.
“If our inspection is
clear, our goal is two runs
from Wallowa to Joseph by
August of this year,” Lowe
said.
“We’re working on that
together,” said Spauld-
ing. “First, we’re getting
our maintenance man Jim
Seifert and WURA board
member Mark Davidson to
examine the track from Mi-
nam and Wallowa now that
the snow isn’t an obstacle.
We’ll see what WURA will
need to repair.”
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