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History
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
SQUINTS AND GLANCES
A look back on news from Grant County over the past 100 years this week, pulled from issues of the past.
The Blue Mountain Eagle
in cattle and horses went to
50 years ago
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100 years ago
Sep. 16th, 1915
Grant County Journal
Malheur Forest
The records of the Mal-
heur National Forest show
that during the seasons of
1914 and 1915 the following
number of cattle, horses, and
sheep grazed on that forest:
Year; 1914 cattle and horses,
22,207, sheep, 124,493; 1915;
cattle and horses, 24,312,
sheep, 103,122.
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crease of 2,105 head of cattle
and horses and a decrease of
21,371 head of sheep. The
greater part of this increase
local ranchers in the John
Day, Bear, Silvies and Harney
Vallies. The large decrease in
sheep this year would indicate
rather clearly that the cattle
ranges are not being depleted
by outside sheep.
The regulations under
which grazing within the
National Forests is adminis-
tered provide that any owner
of improved ranch property
within or near a National
Forest shall be entitled to
graze stock on the ranges
of such Forest, and no such
owner has been or will be
denied the use of the rang-
es of the Malheur National
Forest.
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Sep. 16th, 1965
Blue Mountain Eagle
Nydia Queen Schedules
Grant County Nile Visit
Mrs. Carl W. (Doris) Hopp,
Queen of Nydia Temple No.
4, Daughters of the Nile, will
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the Grant County Nile club
Sept. 28. A dinner meeting at
Mt. View Golf club will mark
the occasion.
Accompanying the queen
will be the Princess Royal,
Mrs. Leib L. Riggs.
Mrs. Hopp will tell of her
special project for the year
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preme Temple’s convalescent
endowment fund. This is a
permanent trust fund from
which the interest is used
for prothesis for the crippled
children out-patients of the
Shriners hospitals. One dol-
lar of dues of Nydia Temple
members will be sent to assist
in meeting the ever-increasing
needs of orthopedic equip-
ment for the children.
Nydia Temple was orga-
nized in Portland April 23,
1919 and has the largest mem-
bership, 4,276, in the Nile.
Four Nydia past queens have
become Supreme queens,
Mrs. Winifred G. Lea, 1926;
Mrs. Wm. R. Boone, 1934;
Mrs. Thomas Luke, 1953; and
Mrs. Hal E. Simpson, 1964.
Mrs. Hopp is the 47th to
head Nydia Temple and has
been a member for 19 years,
holding many important as-
signments.
The Grant County club
was organized in 1950. Its
past presidents are Rosella
Prophet, Lilian Mascall, Elda
Way, Dorothy Sproul, Minnie
Dale, Freida Organ, Dorothy
Wright and Bessie Patterson.
Edith Traux is the present
president and serving with her
are Lois Lee, vice president,
and Elsa Boyer, secretary
treasurer.
All sewing and money
raised by the group goes to the
Shrine Hospital for Crippled
Eagle file photo
Friday, September 29, 1950 - Officials of the newly installed John Day Elks lodge
as they were pictured at the close of installation ceremonies. In the back row,
from the left are: Dow Wilson, Joe Officer, Sam Keerins, trustees; E.H. Howell,
inner guard; Theron Knox, chaplain; Howard Lohf, esteemed loyal knight; Bob
Hill, treasurer; Finley McRae, tyler; Don Boyer, esteemed lecturing knight;
Johnnie Farley, esteemed leading knight; Lloyd Ogilvie, exalted ruler; Carl
Driskill, esquire; Earl Van Voorhis, trustee; and G.L. Herburger, secretary. Edgar
Deardorff, trustee, was not present for the picture.
B RIDGE BUST
Eagle file photo
Thursday, September 16, 1965 - GOING DOWN? The
driver of this car was undoubtedly surprised late
Saturday night when the bridge broke underneath him.
The car was discovered Sunday morning on the Guy
Sproul property on Canyon Creek south of Canyon
City. The car was owned by Larry McClough, Izee.
Children at Portland.
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dinner arrangements for the
visit of the queen are: Enter-
tainment - Frances Meyers,
Evelyn Ogilvie and Arlene
Oliver; decorations and tables
- Lily Ogilvie, Freida Organ,
Zada VanVoorhis, Irene Scott,
Esma Reynolds and Dorothy
Sproul.
patched its helicopter to drop
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tected by John Day Rural Fire
District, but quickly spread
outside the district onto other
private lands protected by the
state Department of Forest-
ry. Crews were on the scene
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three acres in size, but strong
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along the ground and crews
raced to keep up.
The state also responded
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north of Prairie City Friday.
District Forester Frank Vetter
said the small blaze was ap-
parently started by lightning.
The Forest Service assisted in
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by lightning storms that swept
the area Thursday and Friday.
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Friday, although a few went
undetected until Monday, ac-
cording to Jennifer Bush, a
dispatcher for the Malheur
National Forest.
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a one-acre blaze along the
Middle Fork John Day River.
10 years ago
Sep. 14th, 2005
Blue Mountain Eagle
Relief from here to there.
Residents open hearts,
25 years ago
wallets to help survivors in
Sep. 13th, 1990
the Gulf Coast.
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JOHN DAY– Hurricane
Accident, lightning spark
Katrina hit the Gulf Coast
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by juveniles playing with il- wake it left death and destruc-
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Less than two weeks after
35 acres of sage- and juni-
per-covered rangeland just Katrina left New Orleans un-
north of the John Day city GHUZDWHUPRQH\ÀHZRXWRI
Grant County pockets with
limits last Thursday.
Crews from the John Day hurricane-like velocity, and
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Rural Fire Department and it’s heading to Louisiana and
the Oregon State Department Mississippi to provide help
of Forestry, along with a num- and hope for the survivors
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ber of private citizens, worked of what many are calling the
112 E. 5th St., Prairie City
to contain the blaze. The Mal- worst natural disaster in the
heur National Forest also dis- country’s history. Katrina
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came ashore Aug. 29, busting
levees and putting 80 percent
of New Orleans under water.
A joint effort of Grant
County emergency services,
employees at the Old West
Federal Credit Union and
KJDY, the local radio station,
pulled in $29,828.80 in dona-
tions, much of that in a single
day.
Not just money is heading
from here to there.
The families of county law
enforcement banded together
to pack 13 boxes with cloth-
ing, uniforms and toiletries,
including one box with chil-
dren’s items, and sent them
Sept. 7 to the Madison County
Sheriff’s Department in Mis-
sissippi.
“Those boxes were stuffed,
fully packed,” said Dawn
Gray, who help(ed) coordi-
nate the effort. She is the wife
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Richard Gray.
Law enforcement from
throughout the county, includ-
OTEC has replaced 160 poles and 60,000 feet of wire
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in the Canyon Creek Complex Fire.
nated to the cause.
“All the families got in-
We are your local electric cooperative.
volved, and we are just so
grateful,” said Dawn Gray,
Where you need us. When you need us.
the secretary at the Baptist
Church in Prairie City.
And people, too. At least
400 Patterson Bridge Rd. • John Day, OR
six nurses from the county
(541) 575-0161 • www.OTECC.com
Giving excellent care 24 hrs a day
Rebuilding history
one power pole at a time.
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