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Wallowa County Chieftain
IN BRIEF
Creating Memories
Camp marks
Founders Day
WALLOWA LAKE —
A Founders Day barbecue is
planned for Saturday, May
29, at the Creating Memo-
ries Camp at Wallowa Lake,
according to a press release.
The camp is there for
disabled children and oper-
ated by the Creating Mem-
ories for Disabled Children
Foundation, a nonprofi t
organization that provides
the disabled with an out-
door experience of hunting
and fi shing, according to its
Facebook page. The results
give the disabled a feeling of
self-worth, the page stated.
The event runs from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and
includes a tour of the camp
property, a hike to a water-
fall, a free lunch from
11 a.m. to 1 p.m., door
prizes, games, face painting,
live music and karaoke.
Those interested are
asked to park at the Wallowa
Lake State Park Marina,
from where shuttle service
to the camp property will
be provided. The camp is
located at 59895 Pollock
Road.
For more information,
contact Jack Burgoyne, a
foundation board member,
at 541-398-0169 or fcloud@
pacifi er.com.
Farmers Market
opens Saturday
in Joseph
JOSEPH — The Wal-
lowa County Farmers Mar-
ket begins its 2021 season
Saturday, May 29. Accord-
ing to a press release, it will
run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
every Saturday until Oct.
9 at its Joseph location on
Main Street, next to Stein’s
Distillery.
“Many vendors are
returning, and we’ll have
some new vendors this year,
too, so the market will be
very full,” Anne Robinson,
Wallowa County Farmers
Market board member and
vendor, said in the press
release.
Crafts, produce and
homemade goods, and
some live music, will be on
tap for visitors. There will
also be fundraisers through-
out the summer, and the
market will be at the Wal-
lowa County Fair on Aug.
12.
SNAP, WIC, Veggie
Rx and senior farm direct
vouchers are accepted, and
anyone with extra produce,
plant starts or fl owers can
sell them at the co-op booth,
the release states.
For more information,
visit www.wallowacoun-
tyfamersmarket.com, call
541- 426-0795 or search for
“Wallowa County Farmers’
Market” on Facebook.
Business classes
being off ered
ENTERPRISE — Tech-
nical support for business
owners in Wallowa and
Union counties is being
off ered on a fi rst-come, fi rst-
served basis through the
Northeast Oregon Economic
Development
District,
according to a press release
from NEOEDD Executive
Director Lisa Dawson.
The services will be
available through June.
The funding comes from
Business Oregon, the Ignite
Center for Entrepreneurship,
the city of La Grande Eco-
nomic Development Depart-
ment and the NEOEDD.
They have contracted with
subject matter experts to pro-
vide assistance with brand-
ing and logos, social media
marketing, website sup-
port, bookkeeping, account-
ing consult, business plan-
ning, video advertisement,
classes in Excel or Quick-
books and other services to
small businesses.
Any small business look-
ing to improve its business
image, social media market-
ing, website, bookkeeping
or business plan is urged to
apply.
Apply at https://tinyurl.
com/NEOEDDbusiness-
classes. Applications will
be reviewed and appli-
cants connected to a service
provider.
Josephy Center
returns to summer
hours
JOSEPH — The Josephy
Center for Arts & Culture
is returning to its summer
hours, beginning Monday,
May 31.
Dubbed “A gathering
place for the arts,” the cen-
ter will be open 10 a.m. to
5 p.m. Monday through Sat-
urday and closed Sundays.
In addition to its exhib-
its, the center off ers youth
and adult art classes, the
Josephy Library, the Print-
ing Press Guild, an art shop
and supports the Wallowa
Festival of Arts, the Mis-
soula Children’s Theatre
and the Youth Arts Festival.
The center is located at
403 N. Main St. in Joseph.
For more information,
call 541-432-0505, email
coordinator@josephy.org
or go online to https://jose-
phy.org/donate.
— Chieftain staff
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Suspect in steer theft not guilty
OUT OF THE PAST
100 YEARS AGO
May 26, 1921
“Not guilty” was the ver-
dict brought in Tuesday
night by the jury trying C.
M. McFetridge, indicted on
the charge of stealing a steer
belonging to F. E. Gilder-
sleeve. The case attracted
a large crowd thruout the
trial, the court room being
fi lled at all sessions days and
evenings.
There was no ques-
tion that a steer of Mr.
Gildersleeve’s was sto-
len and butchered. Deloss
Akins, who worked for Mr.
McFetridge accused the lat-
ter of stealing it, and Mr.
McFetridge said Akins
brought the animal to his
ranch and received the pro-
ceeds of the sale of the meat.
With this confl ict in the
direct testimony there were
other factors which appar-
ently infl uenced the jury in
clearing Mr. McFetridge.
As a matter of fact it
is charged that two steers
were stolen and butchered,
one belonging to Mr. Gild-
ersleeve and the other to
Fred Beaudoin. Two indict-
ments were voted against
McFetridge, one for each of
the two animals. The charge
based on the stealing of the
Beaudoin steer has not come
to trial, but the incidents are
believed to be the same in
both cases.
Fred W. Falconer brought
in a trainload of sheep for
summer pasture in the north
woods of Wallowa county
last week, and remained over
to clean up some business in
Enterprise. At a meeting of
the directors of the Enter-
prise State bank, held Satur-
day afternoon, he presented
his resignation as president
and director, and insisted on
its acceptance.
75 YEARS AGO
May 23, 1946
A fi re broke out last Fri-
day afternoon in the wood-
shed adjoining the Lyle
Foster house on the Flora
highway and did consider-
able damage, spreading to
one bedroom in the house
and destroying bedding and
clothing. No one was at
home when the fi re was dis-
covered. The fi re department
worked fast and effi ciently to
check the fl ames which were
fanned by a strong wind.
Miss LaVera Eads, fresh-
man at Oregon State col-
lege, played in the college
symphony and the co-ed
ROTC band concert during
the Mother’s day week end.
LaVera, who plays alto sax-
ophone, had a solo part with
violin accompaniment in the
orchestra. The symphony
accompanied the “1946
Salute to Rhythm” modern
dance group.
Mrs. G. A. McCubbin
drove to La Grande Mon-
day, taking her son, Jimmie
Hombel, Wade Miller, Mar-
vin Maxwell and Merton
Wallowa County Chieftain, File
Gabe Wishart won Best in Show and a Special Merit Award at
the 1996 Youth Arts Festival in Joseph for his oil painting of
Jesus Christ. Wishart, a senior at Enterprise High School at the
time, is shown with the painting in this May 1996 Chieftain
fi le photo.
Willett that far on their way
to Fort Lewis for their phys-
ical examination to enlist in
the army.
Jim plans to join the para-
troopers and will be sent to
Fort Benning, Georgia, for
training. The other boys will
be in the regular army. Wade
and Marvin graduated from
EHS last week.
50 YEARS AGO
May 27, 1971
The Joseph Chamber of
Commerce expressed con-
cern at their regular meeting
Monday for the quality of
the water in Wallowa lake.
It was reported that an engi-
neer has been retained by the
City of Joseph to study Wal-
lowa lake and make recom-
mendations for retaining it
a state which would enable
it to be used as the Joseph
water supply. It was reported
that the lake is being pol-
luted at a very rapid rate by
the summer homes and the
state park and by some pol-
lution in the water which
fl ows down from the high
mountains. The engineers
estimate that it would take
about 150 years to clean the
lake up if it is allowed to
become polluted.
A circuit court jury was
not able to agree upon a ver-
dict in a trial last week in
which Sam Armon of Wal-
lowa sought damages in the
amount of $6,352.50 from
Union Pacifi c Railroad.
Armon’s counsel contended
that damage in the above
amount was sustained when
the Wallowa river fl ooded
over the Armon property
about two years ago. An
attempt was made to show
that UPRR was negligent in
not keeping debris cleaned
from under a railroad just
below the Armon property,
causing water to back up and
fl ood over the Armon place.
In the mule deer country
of eastern Oregon no per-
mits are authorized for units
in Wallowa County, only 250
in all of central Oregon, and
750 for southeastern Ore-
gon, the result of poor fawn
survival in these areas. Mule
deer herds are good through
most of northeastern Oregon
and only minor adjustments
were made in permit quotas.
25 YEARS AGO
May 23, 1996
D. R. Johnson and Wal-
lowa
Forest
Products
breathed some economic life
back in to the town of Wal-
lowa this week when they
fi red up the sawmill which
has been idle for the past
18 months. Thirty employ-
ees showed up for work on
Monday when the sawmill
started putting out 1,500
board foot units of 2x4 studs
stamped with the new Wal-
lowa Forest Products logo.
Public opinion appeared
to be split at a public forum
held last week to air the pro-
posal of initiating a four-day
school week in the Joseph
School District.
Wallowa County was
placed on the Oregon sports
map in a big way last week-
end as Enterprise and Wal-
lowa High schools cap-
tured the boys team titles at
the OSAA/U.S. Bank Class
2A-1A championships in
Monmouth. Enterprise, built
for speed this year, rang
up 66 points in the over-
all standings to beat a big,
prestigious fi eld of Class
2A teams. Wallowa, the
defending Oregon Class 1A
team champion the last four
seasons, captured its fi fth
straight crown with an iden-
tical, 66-point tally.
