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HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING The Blue Mountain EAGLE Grant County’s newspaper since 1868 W edNesday , N ovember 21, 2018 • N o . 47 • 18 P ages • $1.00 www.MyEagleNews.com Vogt accused of forcing Idaho teen to leave, faces up to life in prison Mt. Vernon man faces kidnapping and rape charges in Idaho By Richard Hanners Blue Mountain Eagle Contributed photo/Grant County Sheriff’s Office Andy Vogt Idaho law enforcement officials say evidence indicates the 48-year-old U NRAVELING A MYSTERY Answers sought regarding antique tablecloth Mt. Vernon man charged with kidnap- ping a 15-year-old Idaho girl “forced the girl to leave Eagle with him on Oct. 26.” Andy Alan Vogt was extradited to Ada County, Idaho, and faces charges of kidnapping and lewd contact. Both are punishable by up to life in prison, according to a Nov. 8 press release from the Ada County Sheriff’s Office. Grant County Sheriff Glenn Palmer said his office received a request for an agency assist from the Ada County Sheriff’s Office in Boise on Oct. 29. Deputy Brandon Hutchison responded to Vogt’s residence on Ingle Street in Mt. Vernon, where the girl was be- lieved to be, and located her, Palmer said. Vogt was initially charged in Grant County with first-degree rape, first-de- gree kidnapping and first-degree sex- ual abuse, along with a misdemeanor charge of pointing a firearm at the girl. In the information filed Oct. 30 by Grant County District Attorney Jim Carpenter, Vogt was accused of confining the girl in a place where she couldn’t be found “with the pur- pose of furthering the commission of or an attempt to commit the crime of See VOGT, Page A18 Humbolt students gobble up turkey assignment Embroidered signatures date back to 1940 By Angel Carpenter Blue Mountain Eagle A little piece of history remains a mys- tery for Sandra Sutton of John Day. Dozens of brightly colored embroidered signatures fill the approximately 3-by-3 an- tique tablecloth, as well as where each per- son was from and the date signed. The tablecloth was passed down from Myrtle Dexter Moore (1916-1990), who was Sutton’s second cousin, to Moore’s daughter Barbara Achziger and then to Sutton. “Myrtle would have been about 24 when the signatures were collected,” Sutton said. “Her own signature is not on it, which leads one to believe that she is the one who made it.” Achziger received a box with the table- cloth inside before her mother passed away, but Sutton said the box wasn’t opened for “quite some time” after Moore’s death, so information about the cloth wasn’t available. Moore was born in Dayville to George William Moore and Florence Sasser Moore, and later lived on the Moore Ranch south of Kimberly on Highway 19. Her siblings were: Everett (1904-05); Vernie (1905-2001), who was married to Clayton Cork; Martha (1908-1996), who was married to Edward Foree; James (1910-1968), who was married to Wilma Gates; and Georgia (1914-1997), who was married to Rhys Humphries. See TABLECLOTH, Page A18 Eagle photos/Angel Carpenter Humbolt sixth-grade teacher Georgia Boethin holds up ‘turkey in disguise’ artwork as the students try to guess who created it. The multimedia piece by William Shaw shows a turkey persuading people to eat pizza for Thanksgiving instead, hiding behind a Figaro’s Pizza cardboard cutout face. Kids each give Thanksgiving turkey an artful disguise By Angel Carpenter Blue Mountain Eagle umbolt Elementary teacher Georgia Boethin gave her class of 18 sixth-graders a gobbler of a take-home art assign- ment over Veterans Day weekend. “The project was to disguise H the Thanksgiving turkey, partially prompted by something we read that stated that the first Thanksgiv- ing did not have turkey,” she said. The students were asked to add texture to their designs, and they each came up with unique ideas. See STUDENTS, Page A18 Sixth-grader Madelyn Bailey’s designed a Captain America turkey outfit for her project in Georgia Boethin’s class. Remembering a Seneca founding father John Saunders’ life touched all of Grant County By Richard Hanners Blue Mountain Eagle Contributed photo John Hicks Saunders Jr. and his wife, Yvonne, were the grand marshals of the ’62 Days Parade in 2009. Riding with them is great-granddaughter Kynlee Pettyjohn. Anyone who knows the Seneca community and its history is familiar with John Hicks Saunders Jr. He’s been called a found- ing member of the city, and his personal story touched every part of the county for nearly a century. “John Saunders was an in- tegral part of our community both personally and profes- sionally even before the city was incorporated in 1970,” Seneca City Manager Raamin Burrell told the Eagle. “He was Papa to all the kids in Seneca,” his wife of 47 years Yvonne Saunders said. Saunders was born in 1923 in Caverhill, a town that once existed between Long Creek and Fox. He attended high school in Long Creek, where the teacher warned the stu- dents not to race their horses home after school. Of course, they did, Yvonne said. After graduating in 1941, Saunders tried to enlist in the Army but was turned down for bad eyesight. He worked for a time in the Portland shipyards Contributed photo John Hicks Saunders Jr. served in the Navy during World War II. building Liberty ships until he was drafted in 1943. He served with the Navy Seabees in the Philippines and New Guinea during World War II See SAUNDERS, Page A18
