Wallowa County Chieftain
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January 31, 2018
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‘Paint Your Wagon’ to be filmed in the area
OUT OF THE PAST
Compiled by Hanna Brandt
100 YEARS AGO
Jan. 31, 1918
Enterprise and Wallowa
were the winners of the first
round between the four high
schools of the valley in the
state debating league. Con-
clusions between Enterprise
and Wallowa will be reached
Friday night of this week.
Each school will send its neg-
ative team to the other town.
The winner will meet a team
from Union County and the
victor in that contest will
compete for the champion-
ship of eastern Oregon.
On Christmas Eve, Mr. and
Mrs. S.T. Daggett celebrated
their 50th wedding anniver-
sary at their home in Joseph.
Their sons and daughters to
the fourth generation gath-
ered for the occasion, num-
bering more than 50.
The thermometer regis-
tered 16 degrees below zero
in Enterprise this morn-
ing, bringing the first touch
of winter this season. Many
locals welcomed the sharp,
cold weather, which ensures
hard ground for logging
timber.
70 YEARS AGO
Jan. 29, 1948
Several hundred acres of
the lower end of Wallowa
Lake were frozen over this
week. School was dismissed in
Joseph on Tuesday morning to
allow the students an opportu-
nity to go skating.
B. Bohna has sold a reg-
istered Brown Swiss bull to
Evergreen Breeders Associ-
ation of Chehalis, Wash. The
animal weighed 2,200 pounds.
Mr. Bohna also recently pur-
chased three registered Brown
Swiss heifers. One of the heif-
ers is a daughter, another a
granddaughter and the third a
great-granddaughter of a grand
champion at the Pacific Inter-
national Livestock Show.
Wallowa County 4-H club-
bers grossed $18,413.46 in
their 1947 4-H club year. Dairy
club members made the great-
est profit with $2,239.97, while
beef club members came sec-
ond with a total of $2,083.14.
Members in clothing projects
made 28 dresses and 184 other
handmade articles, while cook-
ing club members prepared and
served 760 meals for their fam-
ilies and friends.
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 1, 1968
Gov. Tom McCall and the
Chieftain file photo
This undated photo shows the former Enterprise Hotel Motel (yes, the signs indicated it had
two names) on the corner of River and Main in downtown Enterprise. The facility remains in
use today, home of the Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness “Annex.”
Baker County Chamber of
Commerce announced today
that Paramount Pictures will
film the $10 million bud-
get motion picture “Paint
Your Wagon” in the Wal-
lowa Mountains. Location is
a mountain meadow area in
East Eagle Valley northeast of
Baker.
The Wallowa County din-
ner for former residents and
those who have interests in the
area but who are now in the
vicinity of Los Angeles was
held as scheduled Jan. 21. The
committee first estimated a
Theatre group plans ‘Belle of Bisbee’
Auditions will be
held on Feb. 4-6
Looking to give the county
an early taste of summer, Mid-
Valley Theatre Company is
holding auditions for “Belle
of Bisbee,” a Fourth of July
melodrama set in the wooly
west in the late 1800s.
The action of the rollicking
two-act centers on Belle Wal-
laby, an Arizona teacher who
is about to lose both her school
and her home. Tom Good is an
ordinary miner turned hero,
intending to rescue Belle as
well as the local children, who
desperately need the school.
Naturally, a dark secret and a
dastardly villain stand in the
way.
“It’s a great follow-up to
the full-length very struc-
tured classic murder mystery
we did in the fall,” said direc-
tor Kate Loftus. “This is going
to be fun, short and playful;
it includes more young peo-
ple and it invites audience
participation.”
The Tim Kelly play
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includes parts for four men,
five women and two teen girls,
plus extras for townspeople
and ensemble parts. Loftus
plans to augment the action
with music and dance num-
bers, and include an intermis-
sion that evokes a festive out-
door picnic mood central to the
plot. The play will also feature
period costumes.
“Exaggerated ‘good ver-
sus evil’ and ‘black hats ver-
sus white hats’ plays have
been around for a long time,”
Loftus said. “Guilds did this
style of play even back in the
middle ages. It’s very cathar-
tic and definitely all about
entertainment.”
MidValley Theatre also
recently received a grant from
Open auditions for
“Belle of Bisbee”
will be 6-8 p.m.
Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday, Feb.
4-6 at the Lostine
Presbyterian Church
in Lostine.
Info: Kate Loftus,
541-569-2302
the Wallowa County Cultural
Trust Coalition. Continuing
with the warm-weather theme,
the group plans to use those
funds to stage an original adap-
tation of Shakespeare’s “A
Midsummer Night’s Dream”
later this year.
The nonprofit is in the pro-
cess of forming an advisory
board with plans to explore
the possibility of establishing
a dedicated performing arts
facility that will act as MidVal-
ley Theatre’s home and pro-
vide a venue for other groups.
Info:
Kate
Loftus
541-569-2302.
possible attendance of 35, but
a total of 98 showed up.
A sportsman can lose hunt-
ing or fishing privileges for up
to 90 days if convicted of lit-
tering any of the shorelines or
waters of the state. Accord-
ing to the Oregon State Game
Commission, this is on of the
provisions of the new anti-pol-
lution law now in effect. The
law provides that it is unlaw-
ful to discard any glass, cans
or other trash, rubbish, debris
or litter on land within 100
yards of the ocean or any other
water area except in recepta-
cles provided for holding such
material.
25 YEARS AGO
Feb. 4, 1993
The Burnaugh building in
Enterprise will be among pro-
posed sites to be considered
for nomination to the National
Register of Historic Places at a
meeting of the State Advisory
Committee of Historic Pres-
ervation Feb. 11-12 in Salem.
The Bowlby-stone structure,
commonly referred to as the
old Masonic building, was
purchased in 1990 by Doug
and Carol Terry and currently
houses their canvas goods and
art gallery business.
After a long hearing last
week, the Wallowa County
Planning
Commission
approved, with many condi-
tions, the preliminary plat of
the proposed Elk Trout Sub-
division south of Joseph and
north of the Chief Joseph mon-
ument property and the foot
of Wallowa Lake. Among the
conditions were the require-
ments that the applicants,
WGK Development Inc. and
Gary and Ramon Parmenter,
settle their differences with
Joseph and the Nez Perce
and the National Historic
Nez Perce Park representa-
tives, who have unsuccessfully
negotiated for the eight acres
adjacent to the Chief Joseph
monument.
The growth in amateur dra-
matic production in Wallowa
County, both community the-
ater and in the schools, has
created a need for a registry
of persons who enjoy design-
ing, sewing or collecting cos-
tumes. A new “costume guild,”
calling itself SeamAntics, is
proposing to provide oppor-
tunities for individuals to vol-
unteer to be in charge of cre-
ating costumes for specific
school and adult productions.
WEDDING ENGAGEMENTS
Stein-Childers
Juan (John) Stein of
Imnaha
announces
his
engagement to Emily Childers
of Milton-Freewater, Ore.
Stein is the son of Mike
and Katia Stein of Enter-
prise. Graduated from Joseph
High School in 2015, he now
attends Eastern Oregon Uni-
versity and is planning to
become a nurse.
Childers is the daughter
of Terry and Laurie Childers
of Milton-Freewater. Gradu-
ated from McLoughlin High
School in 2011, she now
attends George Fox Uni-
versity in Newberg and will
graduate with a doctorate of
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December 2018 in Hawaii. A
local reception will follow in
the summer of 2019.
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