History
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
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O UT OF THE P AST
75 years ago
Sept. 11, 1942
County Defense Council
surveying tire situation
The Grant County Defense
Council is undertaking a sur-
vey of the tire problems of this
county in order that they may
present a brief, setting forth
the present and future needs
of the county, to the State Ra-
tioning Office, according to
Jess Allen, county judge and
chairman of the council. It is
the belief of the council mem-
bers that Grant County has
many special tire problems
that have not, to date, been
called to the attention of the
state rationing officials.
Judge Allen pointed out
yesterday that it is obvious
that many of the peculiar prob-
lems of Grant County’s stock-
men and lumbermen have not
been taken into consideration
in setting tire quotas. For this
reason, the Defense Council
feels it is the duty of the peo-
ple of this county to present
their problem and to back up
this presentation with facts
and figures. In this way, the
county should be assured of
its fair share of such tires as
there may be available in the
future.
The Defense Council de-
sires to have everyone who is
eligible for tires communicate
with Judge Allen, setting forth
the number of pieces of rub-
ber-tired equipment they own,
the number of tires they have
at this time and their antici-
pated tire needs for the next
six months. It is particularly
important that the livestock
operators of the county pro-
vide this information, Allen
said.
50 years ago
Sept. 14, 1967
Panthers nail lopsided
win over Falcons, 45-0
PRAIRIE CITY — In the
opening moments of the first
quarter, Dennis Flippence,
190-pound center, picked off
an enemy aerial and raced
70 yards for a touchdown.
That was the beginning of
the end for Fossil and the
beginning of a scoring exhi-
bition for Prairie City as the
Panthers romped to an easy
45-0 triumph over the visiting
Wheeler County high school
Falcons of Fossil.
The Falcons could match
the Panthers in size, but that
was all. The fired up Panthers
scored twice in every quarter
but the fourth while holding
the Falcons scoreless. “It was
a team effort,” commented
Coach Carl Mirich on the sur-
prisingly easy win over the
Falcons. Mirich praised his
team for fine blocking and
From Sept. 10, 1992: Bill Davis (left) presents a belt
buckle to Steve Miller of Seneca. Miller won an “Old
Working Cowhands” contest sponsored by Patrick’s
Saddlery and Fashion Crossroads.
From Sept. 14, 1967: SWEEPSTAKE WINNER – The Grant County Bank float with the
theme “Little Miss Muffett” was the sweepstake winner of the annual grand parade
Saturday of the Grant County Fair. Riding the beautiful float as Miss Muffett was Mary
Sproul, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Sproul of Bear Valley.
good defensive effort. The
Falcons never could pene-
trate the stout Prairie City
line. Wheeler gained only 65
yards rushing. Prairie City de-
fensive secondary was even
tighter.
Wheeler completed only
one pass in nine attempts for
25 yards. The alert Panthers
scored two touchdowns on in-
terceptions. The fleet Panthers
piled up 234 yards in 30 rush-
ing plays and added 106 yards
passing for 340 yards total of-
fense. Wheeler, co-champions
last year, was no match for
the determined Panthers. Mo-
ments after Flippence scored,
Russell Ricco broke loose for
this first of three touchdowns
on a 41-yard run.
Allen Periman intercept-
ed a Wheeler pass and ran 62
yards to the end zone. Ricco
scored again on another 41-
yard run. Ricco scored his
third TD of the evening on a
3-yard run to open the scoring
in the third quarter. The Pan-
thers took to the air and quar-
terback Pat Voigt connected
an aerial bomb to Periman
on a swing pass for 85 yards
and a touchdown. Periman is
an all conference end transfer
from Harper.
In the final quarter, Voi-
gt hit Mike Phillips with a
20-yarder. As usual, Ricco
enjoyed a banner night. The
hard-running back packed the
ball on 11 trips for 154 yards,
which was more than half of
the total rushing yardage for
the Panthers. Voigt gained 41
yards on six carries and Fred
Winegar picked up 38 yards
on seven attempts. Winegar
led the Panthers’ defense with
10 tackles. Phillips caught two
passes for 21 yards, Workman
one for 10 yards and Periman
one for 75 yards. Periman
had a touchdown on an inter-
cepted pass mollified on an
unnecessary roughness pen-
alty. The Panthers will meet
the Baker jayvees at Prairie
City at 2 p.m. The Prairie
City jayvees will host Ukiah
at 8 p.m. Friday. On Monday,
the freshmen and sophomores
will meet Grant Union High
School freshmen at the Three
Flags field at 7 p.m.
mud and water from the Sil-
vies River, which had flood-
ed. They had been fed on a
knoll of about four acres for
10 days or so. The railroad
had cut a levee to release
the water, which went out
through the sagebrush and
greasewood. It was a bog
hole, and when the cattle hit
it they bogged down and we
had to pull them out with a
team and horseback, eventu-
ally getting them to Buchan-
an and then onto Van.
“The best all-around
horse I ever had was a sorrel
horse named Rusty. He was
good at anything you want-
ed him to do. You could rope
calves, cows or whatever
on him. He was also a good
horse to cut cattle on.
“The worst horse I ever
owned was a big sorrel horse
that was just plain mean. He
would bite, kick and buck
you off at the drop of a hat,
and make you drop your hat
to do it. The worst dog I ever
had was a dumb greyhound.
He didn’t have sense enough
to eat when he was hungry.
Once he took after a bird
and went over a rim rock
when the bird flew over it. I
thought it had killed him, but
no such luck — he lived.”
25 years ago
Sept. 10, 1992
Seneca man wins “Old
Working Cowhand” contest
SENECA — Who is the
best of the old working cow-
hands? Well, Steve Miller,
75, of Seneca won the con-
test recently sponsored by
Pat and Shirley Lee of Pat-
rick’s Saddlery and Bill and
Bev Davis of Fashion Cross-
roads. Entrants filled out an
application that included
questions about their hardest
cowhand job and their best
and worst dogs and horses.
The prize was an ornate belt
buckle.
Here are excerpts from
Miller’s winning applica-
tion:
“The hardest cowhand
job I ever had was I was
working for Ernest Larson
when he bought 250 head of
cattle from Percy West at the
lake west of Lawen. West
was supposed to deliver
them to Buchanan, but failed
to do this, so I had to drive
them to Buchanan through
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