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Oct. 18, 1940 - Blue
Mountain Eagle
Cafe for Fox Valley
It was stated here yester
day that Frank McGirr had ar
ranged to put in a cafe at Fox
which goes to show that Fox is
really going to town.
Oct. 21, 1965 - Blue
Mountain Eagle
Rope Team Slates TV
SENECA The Seneca
Rope Jumpers are slated to ap
pear on channel seven KTVB
Boise at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Oct.
29, announced Mrs. Esma
Reynolds.
Mrs. Reynolds and Mrs.
Dorothy Klabo, directors of
the group, will accompany the
popular rope jumpers to Boise
for the television appearance.
The Edward Hines Lumber
Co. will sponsor the jumpers.
The group will appear on
Periscope with Shirley Mix
as the hostess. It will be the
fourth television appearance
for the Rope Jumpers. The
Rope Jumpers have appeared
Seneca man found after search
Blue Mountain Eagle
SENECA – Early Sunday
morning, after an overnight
search, the Grant County
Sheriff¶s Of¿ ce found a Sen
eca man who went missing
Saturday afternoon.
7he Sheriff¶s Of¿ ce re
ceived an overdue person
report after Michael 'avid
Buck Elliott drives the ‘62 Days float in the Grant
County Fair Parade, 1930.
at many special events, in
cluding the Seattle’s World
Fair, during the past 20 years.
Eleven girls will be mak
ing the trip to Boise for the
television appearance.
Oct. 18, 1990 - Blue
Mountain Eagle
Anti-drug Week Observed
JOHN DAY – The John
Day City Council has pro
claimed the week of Oct.
2028 as Red Ribbon Week,
in recognition of the nation
wide campaign against drug
abuse. The event is sponsored
by the National Federation of
Parents.
Downtown
businesses
have been asked to decorate
their sops with red ribbons,
and Chester’s Thriftway has
ordered enough ribbons for
every student in Grant Coun
ty.
The ribbons symbolize the
commitment to a drugfree,
healthy lifestyle.
Oct. 19, 2005 - Blue
Mountain Eagle
Haunted Hotel
Newsweek magazine, the
New York Times, the Orego
nian, and several books have
This Just
written about the alleged
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ghosts found in the Geiser
Grand Hotel. Is there truth
Ladies jackets,
to the legend? It sure is good
vests & sweaters fun to wonder – especially at
Ladies fashion jeans
Halloween!
The season kicks off Oct.
Now 20% off
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and 28. Paul Warshauer
Men’s Wrangler
returns with another mys
flannel shirts
tery – “Murder at the 1929
Now 20% off
Geiser Grand Masquerade.”
Fall collection of soft Halloween weekend is the
shoes
perfect time, and the Geiser
Now 20% off
Grand the place for a mystery.
Is the hotel really haunt
ed? You be the judge! $49
per person includes your
gourmet four course dinner.
Overnight packages include
the VIP brunch the morning
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year, you be the judge. Oct.
31, there’ll be free treats from
4 to 6 p.m. for all on Main
Find the Perfect Street. Stay overnight and
watch the scary movie rat
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234 NW Front St. • Prairie City
PG party complete with
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015
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Here to help,
even before the
smoke clears .
son, 72, went for a drive
to looN for ¿ rewood left in
hunting camps after the re
cent deer season, and didn’t
return.
At about 3 a.m. on Sunday,
southeast of Seneca, Sheriff’s
deputies found Davidson’s
vehicle, which was stuck,
but not Davidson. Search and
Rescue was activated.
At about 8 a.m., Sheriff
Glenn Palmer came across
Davidson, who was walking
back to Seneca.
Davidson, who reported
ly has medical issues and a
form of dementia, had walked
through the night and sought
shelter under a tree for a
while.
He was returned to Seneca.
Barrel, small ¿ re burning OK’ed
Blue Mountain Eagle
According to Chief Ron
Smith of the Grant County
Fire Defense District, effec
tive Oct. 20, burning is al
lowed in barrels and small
piles, with permits, from the
hours of 6 a.m.10 p.m.
The effort is to stay in line
with Oregon Department of
Forestry’s ¿ re regulations.
People are encouraged to
check with their local juris
dictions for permits and more
information.
Lawmakers haven’t raised gun initiatives
By Hillary Borrud
Capital Bureau
SALEM ² 7he mass shoot
ing at Umpqua Community
College renewed the debate
over gun control and on Oct. 8,
Senate Democrats announced
plans to close loopholes in the
federal background check sys
tem and crack down on straw
purchasing.
But in Oregon, lawmakers
have yet to propose any new
measures aimed at preventing
gun violence.
“I think people are just
coming out of shock right now,
and we did a big push for the
background checks in the 2015
session,´ said state Senate Ma
jority Leader Ginny Burdick,
DPortland. “I just need to have
some conversations with peo
ple ... my caucus members and
people on the other side of the
aisle, to see if there’s a path
way for something to happen
in 2016. It’s a short session. It’s
not meant to be a major policy
issue session.”
The Legislature has already
closed some of the background
check loopholes that remain
at the federal level. Earlier
this year, legislators passed a
law that requires background
checks for nearly all private
¿ rearm transfers. The state also
began last year investigating
people who failed background
checks when they attempted to
buy weapons at gun shows and
licensed dealers. That policy
change came at the request of
Senate Minority Leader Sen.
Ted Ferrioli, RJohn Day, af
ter Ferrioli learned the Oregon
State Police had not been inves
tigating the incidents.
It is illegal in Oregon for
someone prohibited from pur
chasing a ¿ rearm to attempt to
purchase one.
Some of the state’s efforts to
prevent shootings, or improve
the response, are still unfolding.
The day before the Umpqua
Community College shooting,
Oregon State Police Superin
tendent Richard Evans gave an
update to state lawmakers on
what Evans said was “my pas
sion, school safety.”
Evans is part of a 1mem
ber state task force on school
safety, which lawmakers cre
ated in 2014 in response to
the December 2012 shootings
at Clackamas Town Center
and Sandy Hook Elementary
School in Newtown, Conn.
A couple months after the
bill to create the task force be
came law, there was another
shooting in Oregon, at Reyn
olds High School in Troutdale.
Evans told lawmakers on
Sept. 30 the top priority for the
task force is to create a tip line
where people can report threats
of school shootings, plus a
broad range of other issues in
cluding bullying, potential sui
cides and abuse.
“What we’ve learned in
our research is 81 percent of
the time, somebody else knew
that that school shooting was
going to occur,” Evans said.
“And what we’re ¿ nding is that
there’s no way, really, in Ore
gon to report that.”
Forest Service eases public use restrictions
Blue Mountain Eagle
JOHN DAY – Because
of recent and forecast wet
weather patterns, the Mal
heur National Forest changed
public use restrictions to sea
sonal restrictions, effective
Oct. 20, with an Industrial
Fire Precaution at Level I.
Debbie Ausmus
245 South Canyon Blvd.
John Day, OR 97845
OPEN WED. & THUR.
9 am - 5 pm
541-575-1113
24 hrs/7 days wk
debbie.ausmus@
countryfinancial.com
Public use restrictions
pertaining to chainsaw use,
smoking and offroad trav
el will be lifted. Firewood
cutting is permitted all day,
with a onehour fire watch
following chainsaw shut
down. Seasonal campfire
restrictions will remain in
place until Oct. 31. For de
tails on restrictions, call
the Blue Mountain Ranger
District at 515753000,
Prairie City Ranger District,
518203800, or Emigrant
Creek Ranger District, 51
573300.
For more information, vis
it www.fs.usda/gov/malheur.
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