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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 3 0 , 1934 - THREE Jim Farley sees different Europe during 50th anniversary It was the same place, the same people, but the the scene was drastically dif ferent. W hen Jim Farley o f Heppner was in England and Europe during W orld W ar II, the landscape had been d e v a s ta te d . F ifty years later, during the an niversary celebration o f D- Day, Farley encountered a totally different Europe.“ It was hard to recogn ize,” said Farley, "because when I was there it was war torn. It’s was all w ar then. Now it’s just beautiful." Farley said that instead o f being greeted with guns, this tim e his reception was warm. “ W e were really ac cepted," he said. "W e were treated first class. Th e food was good and we had all you could eat.You got all the wine you wanted, but you couldn't get a drink o f w ater or a cup o f coffee." H ighlights o f his tour, which was from May 31 to June 15, included a visit to the h e a d q u a rte rs of General George “ Old Blood and G uts” Patton in L u x em bourg, where, he says, they were treated "ro y a l ly ” . " T o the delight o f everyb od y,” said Farley, Walter Cronkite, who was a prominent news correspon d en t d u rin g W W II, in troduced President Clinton to the crowd at the D-Day c e le b ra tio n . A m an in F arley’s tour group from Pendleton, Jiggs Fisk, was a friend o f Lt. Gen Talburt w ho introduced him to Clinton. Fisk sat in the sam e booth as Clinton, shook his hand and was even on television. Besides, Clinton and Mrs. C lin to n , d ig n ita r ie s at v a rio u s c e re m o n ie s th ro u g h o u t the D -D ay celebration included the Queen o f England. Prince Charles, Princesses Anne and Margaret, the Duke o f Y o rk . E n g lis h P rim e Minister John Major. Polish P residen t Lech W alesa, French President Francois Mitterand. the king o f Nor way, the queen and prime m inister o f The Nether lands, the king, queen and prime m inister o f Belgium, the p rim e m in isters o f France. Australia. Canada, L u x e m b o u rg , and N ew Zealand and presidents o f the C ze c h and S lo v a k republics. F a rley and the oth er v e te ra n s a tte n d in g the cerem ony received a letter o f w elcom e from French P resid en t Fran cois Mit- terand. "F ran ce is happy and proud to w elcom e the veterans o f the W estern Allied troops, who 50 years ago, cam e to m ingle their blood w ith that o f her son s." w rites Mitterand. "W a r was raging through out Europe: to the east where the Russian offen sive was about to start up a g a in a lo n g a 1,500 k ilo m e te r fron t: to the south where the fall o f Rom e on 4th June set the armies o f Italy free for other tasks. However, as soon as O peration O verlord (the code name for the D-Day of fensive) was launched, all eyes turned to five Norman dy beaches, where the fate o f the w ar would be sealed, w here several thousand mean succeeded in lan ding, soon to be followed by tens o f thousands o f others; but what anguish during the first hours, the vfjrst days, what prodigious acts o f bravery and tenacity were accom plished by men to succeed in an undertak ing that no-one had ever at tem pted before 6th June 1944.” " T o those who, 50 years later, have com e to pay their espects at the graves o f their fallen com rades, or to see again together the theatre o f so much glory and so much suffering, I ex p ress the g r a titu d e o f France. W elcom e!” signed, F ra n co is M ittera n d , Le President de la Republique. Millions o f people were on hand for the anniversary celebration, said Farley, in cluding m any sons, daugh ters and grandchildren o f W W II veterans. One inci d en t w as p a r tic u la r ly touching, he said, when a w om an in his group took a picture o f the grave o f her father who had been buried at th e O m ah a B each cem etery. She had never seen her father and had never before visited his grave. “ It was pretty em o tional,” said Farley. F arley’s tour o f W W II battle sites was extensive and took him to m any places he had visited dur ing the war. His itinerary included two days in L on don. highlighted by tours of Parliam ent. Big Ben, Pic cadilly and Oxford circuses, the T o w e r o f L o n d o n , St.Paul’s Cathedral: Stone henge, Salisbury and the seaside resort o f Bourne mouth; a ferry ride across the English Channel to F ra n ce; a d riv e a lo n g Omaha Beach to Vierville- sur-Mer, Pointe du Hoc. Ste. Mere Eglise and C her bourg and Utah Beach; Paris, including the Arc de Triom phe, where he at ten ded a w re a th -la y in g cerem ony at the T om b o f the Unknown Soldier, the Eiffel Tow er, Sacre Coeur. N o tre D am e an d the Louvre. Then it was onto Battle o f the Bulge sites, in c lu d in g L u x e m b o u rg , where he visited the burial site o f General Patton, St. Vith, Losheim Gap, Mal- m edy, T ro is Ponts and Parker’s Crossroads, Bas- togne, Liege, Boppard. C ol ogne; a trip up the Rhine River, visiting the Remagen Bridge Museum (he had crossed a pontoon bridge shortly after the destruc tion o f the Rem agen Bridge during the war); and even tually to Frankfurt before heading home. Farley, a 24-year-old first lieutenant in the 955th field artillery, was in Exeter, • England, on D-Day, before being shipped out in an ocean landing ship tank. He was on the ship five days and eventually landed on Om aha Beach w here he went into com bat w ith the field artillery. At one point during the war, he was in the Bastogne area in the M em orial at B astogne middle of winter, in two feet o f snow in 10-degree-below- zero weather with only K- rations to eat. Also during the war fie was at a site just outside Buchenwald, the infamous death camp. He was in Europe "a short two y ea rs. T h e G ood L o rd helped me make it through it,” said Farley. "M an y had a rougher tim e than I. But some didn ’t have it rough at all.” Mary Goheen attends convention Mary Goheen o f Heppner has returned from C incin nati where she represented Soroptim ist International C lu b o f H ep p n er as a delegate to the Soroptim ist In te rn a tio n a l of the Am ericas Biennial Conven tion, July 1-5. "O u ts ta n d in g and in spirational speakers, vis itors and panelists included Bella A b zu g who spoke on “ W om en ’s Role in P eace” ; M arie Jeanne Bosia- Beberat, Lugano, S w itzer land; and Maureen Reagan who m oderated a panel of five experts in areas of health, education, environ ment, econom ic and social developm ent and human rights,” said Goheen. There were over 1000 at tendees from U.S.. Canada. M exico. South Am erica. The Phillipines and Japan. An optional event that Goheen said was m ost en joyable was a dinner cruise on an Ohio R iver boat follow ed by an outdoor sym phony "p o p s " concert which included m em bers o f the Cincinnati Ballet Society and Th e Studio Cloggers. G oh een re p o rts th at some o f the rewards o f the trip were renew ing friend ships with friends from J u n ea u , A la s k a , In glew ood, California, and Tokyo, Japan. A city tour included The M useum C en ter at the form er Union Station and its O m nim ax Theater cur rently show ing the film " A fr ic a T h e S e re n g e ti” with some scenes she saw in Kenya last year. C incin nati is the location o f head quarters o f m ay companies such as the Proctor & Gam ble w orld headquarters, also ethnic areas with huge m ansions built by the ear ly settlers who accumulate great wealth. Goheen says tem pera tures o f 94 and 95 degrees here do not seem too bad since in Cincinnati the temperature was the same but also with high hum id ity. 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Italy, CIS (formerly the Soviet U nion), and England need fam ilies w illin g to host them for the coming school year Mountain Ryder SE 35 Bridge at R em agen HOST FAMILIES NEEDED! F.nrich your family and make a lifelong friend of a young. overseas visitor. Call now to qualify and select your own exchange student (single parents may apply): Local area rep Cathy Halvorsen at 503/422*7107 M ic h e lle a t 1-800-733-2773 (T o ll F r e e ! CARRY OUT Mountain Ryder Gas Trailbuster 1 il lF f T t M f W ARN ANTY) 676-9481 CARRY OUT Fi 1 P T h e m o rro w C o u n ty Talent Show w ill be held Wednesday. August 17 at 7 p.m. at the outdoor stage in the fairground picnic area. T o sign up to perform con tact th e fa ir o ffic e , 676-9474. Jim Farley FuUy Insured' I >irn \ /H ’H d i n y M itrici' ASS F In te rn a n t m al Student I x i hange P n y n t m in t p u h lu I h tn hi n o n p r»m t ’ "V i "» ;n ' " n symbol since 1944. The slogan "O nly you can pre vent forest fires" was first used in 1947. This slogan is still used as the theme each year for the contest. lone Garden Club m em bers announce district w in ners from the lone elemen- tarv school. Th ev are: fifth grade: Molly Barrow-first. Chris Peck-second and Kathryn Jones-third. Third place winners were Amellia Peck, fou rth grade. Sheena Christman, third grade and Cvde Tullis second grade. At the state level Chris Peck won third place for the fifth grade and Am ellia peck third place for the fourth grade levels. lone Garden Club has cooperated with the Forest Service for a number of years to p ro m o te th is educational contest for the youth of the area under the supervision o f Pat P etty john. youth contest com mittee ehairman.
