History
Blue Mountain Eagle
Can you name these
items from years past?
(Answers at the bottom)
Trivia 1
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
B3
Area to be
eclipsed
Monday
Forecast not
too good for
sunny skies
From the Grant County Historical Museum, Canyon City.
Feb. 22, 1979
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Trivia 2
From the Grant County Historical Museum, Canyon City.
Trivia 3
From the Long Creek Historical Society.
Trivia 4
Residents of the Northwest
will be treated to one of na-
ture’s rarest and most spectac-
ular phenomenon next Mon-
day morning when the region
will be blacked out by a total
solar eclipse.
WARNING: Serious and
permanent eye damage can
result from directly viewing
the solar eclipse on Feb. 26,
warns the Oregon Optometric
Association. Looking directly
at the eclipse for as little as
10 seconds can permanent-
ly injure the eye’s retina. It
happens without pain, but a
person can suffer a permanent
blind spot that eliminates the
central point of vision.
The solar eclipse will be
total in most of Idaho, Mon-
tana, North Dakota, Wash-
ington and Oregon. Starting
shortly after 7 a.m. Monday,
the moon will begin to creep
across the sun’s face — not
literally — and for the next 50
minutes there will be nothing
to see safely with the naked
eye as the moon moves on.
Only a shadow box, con-
structed and used properly,
will afford safe viewing of the
partial stages of the event. It
will be the region’s first total
eclipse since 1918 and the
last one of the century in the
country. The next eclipse in
File photo
From March 1, 1979: The Northwest marveled Monday
morning at the total eclipse, but you had to travel out of
the valley to catch a glimpse, as did Mt. Vernon teacher
and photographer Steve Merrick. From Hermiston,
Merrick was able to record the moon swallowing the sun
in the last total eclipse of this century in North America.
Dayville teachers Ken Light and Norm Hoffman took 26
students on a search for a view of the eclipse and found
clear skies about 25 miles west of Goldendale. Light said
the sky became dim, then took on an orange glow before
turning dark at totality.
the Northwest will be 2068.
About 10 minutes before
the totality, the light will be-
gin to fade. Barnyard animals
will begin to act confused and
perhaps a rooster will start
to crow, thinking dusk is ap-
proaching.
One of the most fascinat-
ing aspects about the eclipse
will be the “speeding shad-
ow” that reportedly will come
hurtling out of the west at
2,000 miles per hour just prior
to totality. If you can get on a
hillside with a view of 50 or
more miles, it will look like
a black speck for a moment
before it races across the face
of the earth. This will be the
moon’s shadow.
At that point, totality is
complete and if the skies are
clear, stars will emerge from
the heavens and planets Ve-
nus, Mercury and Mars will
be visible.
While the John Day valley
is out of the path of totality,
the moon will block out the
sun’s rays for a few brief sec-
onds before moving on.
By 9:30 the happening
will have passed.
Editor’s note: This article
was published as it appeared
in 1979, not correcting for the
Aug. 21 eclipse.
Monument School gymnasium burns
Jan. 24, 1957
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From the DeWitt Museum, Prairie City.
Trivia 5
Trivia 6
From the Grant County Historical Museum,
Canyon City.
From the DeWitt Museum, Prairie
City.
for the remainder of the season.
The building was covered
by insurance, and a new gym
will be constructed as soon as
possible.
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Trivia answers:
1. Carpet stretcher
2. Huckleberry pickers
Monument residents were
awakened early Friday morning
by the fire, which completely
destroyed the high school gym-
nasium. The blaze had gained
so much headway before it was
discovered that it was impos-
sible to save anything of value
from the building. Through the
concentrated efforts of the fire-
fighters the school itself was
saved.
All of the sports equipment
that was housed in the build-
ing, including the new football
equipment that had never been
used, was destroyed. Three
movie projectors, a new screen
and speaker and some musical
instruments were also lost.
Spray High School issued
an invitation to the Monument
basketball squad to use their
floor for the Friday night game
with Dayville and the Long
Creek High School invited the
players to use that court for
practice sessions twice weekly
3. Iron
4. Mouse trap
old fashioned hospitality.
5. Toaster
6. Bung tool
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