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50 YEARS AGO
Compiled by Cheryl Jenkins
18-year old John Lepp,
of Canada, was critically
injured while climbing with
friends in the high Wallowa
Mountains. He lost his foot-
ing and tumbled for about
100 feet through rocks. Fel-
low climber, Russ Oster-
loh, a member of the EOC
cross country team, ran sev-
eral miles down the trail to
get help. Eventually a heli-
copter was able to reach
the 8500 foot level of the
mountain and fl ew the boy
to the hospital.
After nearly fi ve years
of operation the Wallowa
County Abundant Food
center is closing and is to be
replaced by the food stamp
program which is in use in
many areas of the state and
nation at this time.
This year’s rodeo was
the biggest show the Jay-
cees have ever attempted.
Nearly
2,000
people
attended Saturday night’s
event. The Sons of the Pio-
neers put on two shows
over the weekend, drawing
excellent crowds.
By MAX EGENER
Oregon Capital Bureau
July 13, 1972
100 YEARS AGO
July 13, 1922
As Arthur Cuzzins was
driving his team west in
Wade gulch, a large auto-
mobile whizzed past, graz-
ing his horses so closely
that the end of a double
tree was caught and the
harness torn to pieces and
the horse mauled about
and considerably injured.
Dr. C. T. Hockett has
rented the hospital build-
ing on Main Street from
Dr. Taylor. Dr. Hockett
will move into the Taylor
hospital this fall and will
occupy it as an offi ce and
residence.
After making a few
horse-and-wagon trips on
the Imnaha stage route, S.
M. Lovell has found that
means of travel inadequate
and has put on a Chevro-
let truck which he got out
of H. R. Maxwell of the
Imnaha store.
75 YEARS AGO
Voters in Multnomah
County will see a ballot mea-
sure this November that
would expand voting rights
to residents who aren’t U.S.
citizens.
Last month, a group tasked
with reviewing Multnomah
County’s charter — eff ec-
tively a local constitution —
unanimously recommended
adding language that would
extend voting rights to more
groups, including people
who are not citizens.
If voters pass the mea-
sure, Multnomah County
would be the fi rst jurisdiction
in Oregon to grant the right
to vote in local elections to
“noncitizens.”
The county would be one
of only a handful of jurisdic-
tions in the United States that
allow noncitizens to vote in
local elections. Eleven cities
in Maryland, two in Vermont
and San Francisco currently
allow voting by noncitizens.
The Multnomah County
Charter Review Committee
is expected to vote on spe-
cifi c charter language for the
recommendation during its
meeting Tuesday, July 5. The
county convenes a charter
review committee, compris-
ing 16 appointed residents,
every six years.
Expecting controversy,
committee members chose
broad language for the char-
ter amendment to maximize
who could gain voting rights
as well as to avoid potential
July 17, 1947
25 YEARS AGO
Orval Willcox sus-
tained a compounds frac-
ture of the leg when he
was caught in a powder
blast at the pole bridge on
the South Fork.
Lust and Lee, paint-
ing contractors, will open
a paint store in their new
building located between
the Rowe building and
the post offi ce. The store
will be called the Brighter
Homes store.
James Jackson was
killed in a logging acci-
dent at the Roy Daggett
logging site near the Ever-
ett Cannon place at Flora.
Merrill Bird and Wil-
liam Huff man, sentenced
to a year in the county jail
on a charge of larceny of
lambs from Louis Audet,
were released, apparently
on the authority of a par-
don from the governor.
July 10, 1997
With surprising lit-
tle debate, the Enterprise
School Board voted unan-
imously to immediately
discontinue the traditional
use of “Savages” as EHS’s
mascot and logo. It was
decided that the students
of the school will select
their own mascot at a later
date.
The new 53-unit Best
Western motel is sched-
uled to open its doors
this weekend reports part
owner Arnold J. Fredrick
of Enterprise.
For the second year in
a row, John Bowen is the
overall champion of the
Wallowa County Rotary
Club’s Lostine River Run.
He fi nished the 10K race
in 35:16, a minute better
than Aaron Randall.
Wolves also strike
in Grouse Flat area
Chieftain staff
www.eomediagroup.com
WALLOWA COUNTY
— A 2-year-old male wolf
was removed from the
Chesnimnus pack Monday,
July 4, under a kill permit
issued June 17 by the Ore-
gon Department of Fish
and Wildlife, according to a
press release.
The pack has been
legal troubles.
“If we were to pursue one
narrow declaration of who
we would like to expand the
vote to, if a court were to say,
‘No, you can’t do it that way,’
then there’s not as much
recourse to really move this
idea forward,” said Samantha
Gladu, who helped draft the
charter change and co-chairs
the subcommittee that started
discussions about it.
The language under con-
sideration says the county
shall extend the right to vote
for county offi cers and mea-
sures “to the fullest extent
allowed by law.”
At least one jurisdic-
tion that tried to extend vot-
ing rights to noncitizens —
New York City — saw the
eff ort quashed by a court rul-
ing. On June 27, a New York
State Supreme Court jus-
tice struck down the measure
approved by the city council
last December, saying it vio-
lated the state’s constitution.
Noncitizens used to
be able to vote
Juliet Stumpf, a profes-
sor at Lewis & Clark Law
School who studies immi-
gration and criminal law,
was skeptical about the con-
cept of noncitizen voting at
fi rst.
“I thought that (citizen-
ship) was such a bedrock
principle of our voting,”
Stumpf said.
She had an open mind
about it because, she said,
everyone who has a stake in
the community should have a
voice in the political system.
It wasn’t until she and her
students started researching
the history of voting laws in
Oregon and other states that
she began to favor nonciti-
zen voting.
Two of her students pub-
lished an article in the Lewis
& Clark Law Review last
year that delves into the his-
tory of voting rights through-
out the United States and
deemed responsible for
numerous livestock kills this
year despite nonlethal eff orts
to ward off the attacks.
The wolf killed July 4 was
removed under a kill permit
that is good until July 17.
The wolf was caught in a
foothold trap set by ODFW
and then tranquilized before
it was euthanized.
Traps had been set as
part of eff orts to radio-collar
members of the pack (pref-
erably a breeding adult) as
there were no active collars
in the Chesnimnus pack.
A yearling female was
trapped, collared, and safely
released on June 29. ODFW
has suspended its trapping
eff orts in this area.
Another possible attack by
wolves from the Grouse Flat
pack was reported Wednes-
day, July 6, when agents of
a livestock producer in the
Grouse Flat area north of
Troy discovered the carcasses
of three yearling cattle.
Two of the cows were
estimated to have died about
a week earlier and only
bones remained. The third
carcass was mostly intact
and ODFW estimated that it
died approximately 36 hours
prior to the investigation.
The fi rst two deaths
were classifi ed as possible/
unknown, but the last was
classifi ed as a confi rmed kill
by the Grouse Flat pack.
Another update will be
posted about the permit
only if an additional wolf
is removed or the permit is
re-issued.
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Ballots returned to the Multnomah County Clerk’s Offi ce.
makes a case for chang-
ing Oregon law statewide to
allow voting by noncitizens.
Many states, including
Oregon, allowed nonciti-
zens to vote when they were
founded. Racism and sex-
ism were very explicit in the
laws, Stumpf said.
Early Western states
allowed noncitizens to vote
as a way to encourage set-
tling specifi cally by white
European immigrants, the
students found. In Oregon,
white men who had resided
in the state for six months
prior to an election and
declared an intent to become
U.S. citizens could vote.
People have long applied
measures of groups’ con-
tributions to society as a
means to decide whether
they should be able to vote,
Stumpf said. Literacy tests
and proxies of taxation such
as property ownership or res-
idency were common quali-
fi ers historically.
Charter review com-
mittee members cited mul-
tiple reasons for expand-
ing voting rights, including
reducing taxation without
representation.
Undocumented people
in Multnomah County pay
an estimated $19 million in
state and local taxes annu-
ally, according to a report by
the Oregon Center for Public
Policy. About half of those
taxes are property taxes and
the other half are income
taxes and excise taxes on
goods like gas and alcohol,
the report shows.
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