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March 15, 2017
Wallowa County Chieftain
Residents vote for school building bond
OUT OF THE PAST
Mystery man
identifi ed as
‘Red’ Sargent
Compiled by Cheryl Jenkins
100 YEARS AGO
March 15, 1917
Several changes in the Or-
egon game laws were made
by the legislature which just
adjourned. Among the pro-
visions effective May 21 are
the following: Both men and
women are required to take out
a hunting license altho women
are exempt from purchasing a
fi shing license.
By a vote of 126 to 46, res-
idents of district 21 last Satur-
day approved the issuing of
$60,700 of bonds to build and
equip a new school building in
Enterprise.
The new locomotive or-
dered by the East Oregon com-
pany last fall, left the Baldwin
Locomotive works at Philadel-
phia March 10, and is expected
to arrive at Enterprise about the
fi rst of April.
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Spirella
Corsets. Training course taken
in Portland and corsets fi tted
to any fi gure. Mrs. S.K. Clark,
Corsetiere.
The dangers that are run by
a person dealing in liquor in Or-
egon at present were illustrated
in cases before Justice A.B.
Conaway during the week.
He imposed a fi ne of $250 on
“Hank” Wright in the case in
which he was found guilty last
week. The money was paid.
Chapman: School closed for
a period of fi ve to six weeks last
Friday, owing to the spread of
measles and also due to roads
breaking up.
70 YEARS AGO
March 13, 1947
In competition with thou-
sands of high school seniors
throughout the United States,
Gerald Perrin of EHS has won
a high place in the navy cadet
examination.
Playing a fast checking
game, the Wallowa basketball
From the Chieftain archives
Shearing plant located on Swamp Creek
team beat a determined Enter-
prise team by a score of 37 to
28 last Friday to win the county
championship.
The Wallowa County Health
association urges all who can to
send assistance to needy fam-
ilies abroad. The number of
people suffering from cold and
hunger is said to be almost un-
believable.
A special meeting will be
held at the Alder Slope school
house, District No. 2, March
14 for the purpose of discuss-
ing the question as to whether
the school should be continued,
or suspended and the children
transported to Enterprise.
The statement made in The
Chieftain last week that May-
fi eld’s was the second oldest
business in Enterprise has been
challenged. The Ratcliff Furni-
ture company was purchased
in 1899. Mayfi eld’s was estab-
lished in 1903. The Chieftain
was established in 1884 in Jo-
seph and moved to Enterprise
in 1893.
50 YEARS AGO
MARCH 16, 1967
Stella Mastrude, who has
retired as librarian at the Jo-
seph city library after 20 years
of service, was honored by
the Joseph Chamber of Com-
merce. She was presented with
an electric blanket and a bath
robe, gifts provided jointly by
the chamber, the city and the
library board. Mrs. Bill Wil-
liams is now serving as librar-
ian.
Joanne
Snyder
was
crowned Sports Queen at EHS
Saturday night. Brian Stock-
dale was crowned Sports King.
Wallowa made a gallant
bid to win the State B Basket-
ball title, but were defeated by
Powers in the championship
game.
Miss Ruth Rowbury, by
fi nishing fi rst in a written
homemaking knowledge and
attitude examination for se-
nior girls, became JHS’s 1967
Betty Crocker Homemaker of
Tomorrow.
25 YEARS AGO
March 12, 1992
A 2-passenger helicopter
that crashed into the Snake
River below Hells Canyon
dam on Friday was pulled
out of the water Monday by
a team of rescuers headed by
the Wallowa County Sheriff’s
Department. The aircraft was
recovered without the pilot,
Jean-Jacques Goetz of New-
burg, Oregon, who authorities
believe died in the accident.
County cub scouts, parents
and fans turned out for the an-
nual Pinewood Derby at Clo-
verleaf Hall Saturday. A total
of 59 cubs participated in the
popular event.
Wallowa wrestler Joel
Steele placed fi rst in the
191-pound weight division at
the Oregon Class 2A Wrestling
fi nals.
Chris Gomes of Enterprise
High School and Ray Soto of
Enterprise Junior High each
brought gold medals home to
Wallowa County from the 9th
Annual Oregon Special Olym-
pics Winter Games held at Mt.
Bachelor.
In its fi rst outing to the re-
cent district basketball tourna-
ment in La Grande under mu-
sic instructor Norma Wetzell,
the JHS Pep Band was named
1992 Wapiti League Cham-
The
“unidentifi ed
man” in your March 8
Out of the Past section
has been identifi ed.
His name is Eugene
“Red” Sargent. Red, with
his wife Mary, owned and
operated the Troy Resort
in the late 1950s through
the early 1970s. The busi-
ness had a restaurant and
a country store stocked
with the main staples of
life for the area residents.
He also had fi ve white
little rental cabins along
the Grand Ronde River
which are still there to-
day. Red’s business also
included a fi lling station
so that all of the hunters
would have an adequate
supply of petrol in order
to hunt whatever beast
they were chasing.
The picture, in your
March 8 edition, was
taken on the “store” side
of his business as all the
fi shing pictures shown in
the photograph were nor-
mal everyday fi shermen,
most of them from Wal-
lowa County, that were
successful in landing a
steelhead. Red was al-
ways able and willing to
take a photograph, have it
developed in Enterprise,
and then post the 8x10
black and white photo on
his store wall. The photos
were seldom labeled with
pion as best pep band. Band
members: Nicole Duncan,
Josie Botts, Catriona Fraser,
Jesse Peterson, Paul Vliets-
tra, Dan Burns, Jamie Collier,
the names of the fi sher-
men.
Red was a character.
He put a sign up outside
the restaurant that read
“Help Keep Troy Green,
Bring Money.” He was
a mentor to me, teaching
me the fi ne intricacies
of elk hunting. One of
his notable quotes when
hunting was “You only
get two bullets, one to
shoot the elk and the oth-
er to shoot yourself if you
miss.”
It was Red’s trade-
mark to have and enjoy
a cigar complete with a
fi lter tip as shown in your
photograph. In the store,
restaurant and outdoors
he would carry that cigar
between his lips, even
if it wasn’t lit. He also
sported a fi ne mustache
with long waxed ends that
curled up on the ends. He
would twirl the ends from
time to time throughout
the day to keep it well
groomed.
Red was an icon of
Troy for many years. I
am sure there are many
people who couldn’t help
but recognize the uniden-
tifi ed man standing in
front of the Fishing Wall
of Fame.
Jon E. Erwin
Enterprise
Brent Latta, Steve Dolbin,
Leah Salmon, Jared Williams,
Erin Lunde, James Schmeck,
Clint Williams, B.J. Hamil-
ton.