HISTORY
MyEagleNews.com
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
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OUT OF THE PAST
75 years ago
Disappearance of Little Hin-
ley Girl still a mystery
The fate of little Ann Hin-
ley, 4-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Hinley who has
been missing for over a week,
still remains a mystery, and local
offi cials and searchers have been
unable to uncover any clues as to
her whereabouts.
The little girl was last seen by
her mother at their trailer home
in the Hill Auto Court about
11:30 a.m., Thursday of last
week. A few minutes later Mrs.
Hinley missed the little girl. A
search was started and a few of
her playthings were found along
the bank of Canyon Creek behind
the auto court, which led the
searchers to believe that she had
fallen into the water which was
very high and swift, but a thor-
ough search of the creek failed to
reveal any sign of the body. Nets
were placed at the mouth of the
creek, also at several points in the
John Day River and every eff ort
during the past to fi nd the little
girl’s body has been unsuccess-
ful. It was thought by some that
the tiny tot might have wandered
off to the hill east of the court, and
searching parties have combed
every foot of ground as far as Dog
Creek. A search of this area was
also made by airplane fl ying low
— but not a sign or trace of the
little girl has been found.
50 years ago
Naval Academy accepts
Leach
Earl Thomas Leach has been
accepted at the U.S. Naval Acad-
emy to join the class that will
graduate in June 1975. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Leach
of Prairie City. He is a senior at
Prairie City High School.
25 years ago
Operation ASVAB
Seven students and four teach-
ers and counselors from Grant
County schools, along with a
teacher and two students from
Burns, were fl own in a CH-47
Chinook helicopter to and from
La Grande April 18 so they could
attend a day-long “Operation
ASVAB” symposium at East-
ern Oregon State College, which
included the Armed Services
Vocational Aptitude Battery, col-
lege admissions requirements,
college fi nancial aid process, mil-
itary assistance for college and
the Guard Offi cer Leader Detach-
ment (GOLD) program off er at
EOSC.
Eagle fi le photo
From 25 years ago: The people who attended included: from Grant Union, Regina Cooper, Nick Warren and counselor Matt
Thatcher; Dayville, Shilo Hettinga and teacher Skip Inscore; Monument, Heather Cooke, Mequasah Russell and teacher Ralph
Brown; Prairie City, Drew Vonlintel, Rian Adams and counselor Jim Vonlintel.
O utlook
SENI
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Aha! We finally got
our April Showers!
I don’t recall having
to irrigate the bulb
beds this early.
(‘Course, I have
Rose Coombs
trouble recalling
last week, so…)
Anyway, I decided to water them only a couple of days each
week to encourage the roots to grow down to search for
moisture. Being on top of dredge tailings doesn’t help either.
The only vegetation that seems to thrive are the wild roses
and bouncing bettys. The poppies that I transplanted from
around the power pole have responded to care, however, with
production of thirty, sixty, and a hundred fold! Then there
is the extremely deep-rooted button weed. I can usually get
to the bottom of its taproot with vigorous exercising of the
spading fork. The two plants that seem to defy all attempts
to dislodge them are – drum roll please – morning glory and
alfalfa/clover. These two have penetrated to the lowest level of
rooting by wrapping around the boulders at the bottom of the
dredging. To excavate involves a lot of work. There must be an
easier way!
Ob to business: The meal was a cheeseburger with lettuce,
tomato, onion, and of course, a slice of cheese. It was great! To
go along with it was a pasta salad, and a rice crispies bar with
chocolate drops on it. Super-duper meal. Thanks to cooks
Pam and Laura, and helper Tom. Carla was at the registration
Prairie City
Seniors
desk and Ginger supervised (That’s what she wrote!) the
delivering of the food to homes and those who came to the
Hall. Thanks to you, too, for patronizing our meal site. May
your tribe increase!
The lilac bush at the SE corner of our Center is awash with
buds. Isn’t it amazing how you can prune them to the ground
and they come back stronger than ever the next year? And we
certainly don’t provide it with any other extra care i.e. water
or fertilizer. Just keep whacking it off when it gets too bushy
next to the building. When you see abandoned homesteads
out in the boonies, there will usually be iris and lilacs gamely
surviving. And apple trees. Takes a lot of neglect to kill them.
I receive an early birthday gift from son #1 – a record
turntable. The first problem was to get it out of the box.
Interesting carton. Finally found the ‘key’ and got it opened
after a day. Put it on the shelf. Oops. To big. Had to make
room on an adjacent space. Then the directions – all
pictures. That takes care of pages and pages of print in 14
different languages! Discovered that I need to buy a different
connecting cable. OK. That should be no problem. I have
about 100 albums that I would like to listen to, so I am
excited to get the machine all organized and working. The
machine even has an automatic device to set the stylus on the
record. Very helpful fo us oldsters! Thank you, son.
Job 19:23,25 “Oh, that my words were recorded,… I know that
my Redeemer lives, and that in the end He will stand upon the
earth.”
1 Corinthians 13:5 “… {Love} keeps no record of wrongs.”
reserve a lunch for yourself.
What did you think of that wonderful turkey pot pie
Monday? Yummy yummy! And what about that bean salad?
Soo GOOD! Hope you enjoyed it all including the fruit
salad and the hummingbird cake.
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH Thursday and NEXT Monday?
Thursday will be Philly Cheese Steak Sub, Potato Wedges and
Apple Pie Bars. Wow!! That sounds wonderful.
Monday May 3rd we will have Pork Loin roast with
dressing, Crazy corn casserole, and Pear brown betty cake.
Does that ever sound tasty. My taste buds want it RIGHT
NOW!!
Have you gotten your covid19 vaccination yet? (I got my
1st one, as well as my husband and son)
The maderna is available here in John Day.
Call 541-575 0429. You also can go online to vaccine@
ccsemail.org and ask for your appointment.
The sooner we all get this the sooner we will be able to meet
in person again.
Even though Covid is causing us to live differently, do you
find yourself too busy or overwhelmed. I know I do, and it is
aggravating. Are you sleeping well and tired all day? Hmmm
Here is an idea: Try one of these to help your feelings
be healthier. The Oregon warmline at 1-800-698-2392,
available 7 days a week, 9 am-11 pm to speak with a trained
peer. Also: SAMHSA’s Disaster Distress Helpline at 1-800-
985-5990 or text “talkWithUs to 66746 to speak to a trained
crisis counselor to help people experiencing distress related to
natural or human-caused disasters. You are not alone so help
yourself feel better. It does help to just speak these things
out loud. I tried this only I just talked to myself and I didn’t
have an answer, just ideas but it did help to talk out loud.
Give it a try. Am I weird? May be, but it is life and this is
where we are.
Matthew 23:12 KJV Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be
abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.”
We were served
yummy, delicious
food for our meal
Tuesday, April
20. Yes, Terry Cade
and Carrie Jewell
Soo Yukawa
made us stroganoff,
carrots, garlic bread,
and peach cobbler for our dessert. My food was gone in an
instant. We thank our cooks for their faithful service and
their fabulous meals.
Kristi Guimont filled out the paperwork. Bob Cockrell
and Jan Ensign counted the money. Sylvia delivered the
meals to the patrons at the door. A shout of thanks to all our
volunteers. We are grateful for their service as well.
We got some rain. Praise the Lord! Thank you prayer
warriors out there who helped to pray for rain. Let us keep
pounding on heaven’s door and presenting our case before
the Lord God Almighty. We sure could use at least a week’s
worth of steady rain for our parched land here right now.
Surprisingly, even though we have not had too much rain,
the grass has been growing nicely. So, I decided to bring up
Davey and one of the new nanny goats I had gotten recently,
to eat the weeds and grass around the house and my garden.
Ginger was a little nervous but Davey was fine. Ginger
was wandering around nibbling the weeds until she heard a
sound, got spooked, and started heading down the driveway.
I start to go after Ginger in pursuit. She started running
faster, then I started running, then Davey started running.
Next thing I knew, we three were all running down the
driveway. Ginger ran all the way down to the goat pen and
then decided she wanted to eat the grass that was on the
outside of the goat pen. Needless to say, I had a heck of time
trying to catch the wily goat. I probably ran back and forth
trying to catch her for 15 minutes. I finally caught her and
plopped her back into the goat pen.
I think I got my exercise for that day. I was tired so I sat
in the goat pen to rest from chasing Ginger around. Davey
decided he wanted to come over and sit on my lap. Well,
that would have been fine and dandy, only he is too big now
so he half fit on my lap. I sat there with Davey half on my
lap, resting from chasing silly Ginger around, trying to catch
my breath. That was when Darla decided to come over and
jumped on my head, twice! I had to shove her off of my head
and then she decided she wanted to sit on my lap too. Well,
Davey didn’t take too kindly to that and tried to butt her. It
was a pretty funny fiasco.
When Darla realized she could not sit on my lap because
of Davey, she decided she was going to rest on my back this
time. She succeeded until I threw her off. I then decided,
I had had enough and got up to walk back slowly up the
driveway.
Proverbs 28:5 Evil men understand not judgment: But they
that seek the LORD understand all things.
John Day
Seniors
Dusty Harris
Monument
Seniors
Lunch is available
for pickup every
Monday and
Thursday at 11:30
a.m.. $5.00 for
Seniors, $6.00 for
everyone else. Call
by 8:30 a.m. to
BIOSMILE
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165 NW 1st St., John Day
541-575-0363
Open
Monday-Thursday
DrJ@BiosmileDental.com
We offer a wide range of primary
care and medical treatment.
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DO • Emily
DO
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FNP • Sickler,
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• Caitlin MacCoun,
MD
Clark, DNP
• Nora Jennings,
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MD • Shawna
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MD
Available Monday - Friday
180 Ford Road, John Day • 541-575-0404
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