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PAST
S AFETY IN ‘ NEW ’ NUMBERS
Continued from Page A10
Eagle file photo
Thursday, September 30, 1965 - Emergency phone
numbers for John Day police and fire departments,
Canyon CIty Fire Department, and the Grant County
Sheriff will change at 12:01 a.m. Sunday. Displaying
their new numbers are (from left kneeling) police
chief Larry Schnider and fire chief Stan Phillips;
(standing from left) sheriff Tom Negus and fire chief
Bill Wall. The new emergency numbers also appear
on the inside front cover of the John Day and
Canyon City directory supplement.
M ILES AND MILES OF WIRE
left Sept. 4 for the Gulf Coast.
Kellie Reid, Karen Westmo-
reland, Muffett Ricco, Linda
Sprouffske, Erin Workman and
Carol McDonald left on a Lear
jet, courtesy of D.R. Johnson.
They are expected back Sept.
16. There are tentative plans to
send another group of nurses.
At least one military man
with a connection to Grant
County is down there. Mike Ad-
ams, son of James and Sherry
Adams of John Day, is a petty
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ington.
“The Navy is being shot at,”
Mr. Adams said his son told
him. “Don’t understand how
people who are trying to help
are getting shot at.”
The relief effort by the coun-
ty and the credit union pulled in
$18,000 Sept. 7, the day credit
union employees manned a ta-
ble in the parking lot.
“Pretty proud of Grant Coun-
ty,” said Bruce Carey, who was
there to donate $100 from he
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Many of the credit union’s
employees spent time at the ta-
ble, taking donations while sit-
ting under an umbrella provided
by Bryan’s Lawn Care, includ-
ing Jeanne Day, Lenore Saul,
Christie Dahlen, Kim Wall,
Trista Cox, Rhonda Moore and
Carol Waggoner. Dahlen and
Moore were the lead organizers
of that group. Local residents
brought the group cold drinks.
John Boynton, head of the
county’s emergency manage-
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Palmer helped coordinate the
overall effort.
People of all ages donated.
One little guy, Taylor, 3, put $25
in the jar.
Kathy Johnson, wife of John
Day Fire Chief Ted Johnson,
was there to put in her family’s
share.
“What if it was us, and we
needed help,” Johnson said.
Local schools are involved
in the relief effort, too. Grant
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war, and Dayville School was
putting jars in area businesses,
including Dayville Mercantile,
the mini mart, RV park and the
antique store, and in John Day
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restaurants.
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who is playing there put all of
his tip money in the donation
jar.
Maurice Thorne, Dayville’s
principal, donated money, and
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donated $50 from their jars to
Stacie Holmstrom’s relatives
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
who were displaced by the hur-
ricane. The class is also writing
letters for the family’s children.
Holmstrom works at the Educa-
tion Service District in John Day.
“It’s become a ritual, with
students coming with pennies
from home and they can’t wait
to put the money in the jar,” said
Lori Smith, Dayville School
secretary.
The plan was to collect the
jars by the end of this week, then
send the money next week.
The money collected at the
credit union is going to Red
Cross, the Salvation Army,
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and police departments in Lou-
isiana and Mississippi, and to
one school in the area.
Student
representatives
from county schools will
get together to decide which
Gulf Coast school the money
should be sent. The money
E YE DOC
COMING TO VISIT
Eagle file photo
This ad, from the Friday,
Sept. 13, 1940, issue of
the Blue Mountain Eagle,
announces the services of
Dr. Mae Booth Jones of the
Jones Optical Company
in Spokane, Wash., at the
John Day Hotel.
was expected to be sent by the
end of this week.
Eagle file photo
Thursday, September 23, 1965 - WIRE AND MORE
WIRE - Some of the nearly eight miles of wire installed
in Pacific Northwest Bell’s central office can be seen
here as Richard R. Carlson, Western Electric Co.
installer, pulls dial phone wiring into an equipment
frame. Before John Day and Canyon City phone users
start dialing their own local calls on October 3 more
than 120,000 wire connections have been made.
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