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1955 fair rises out of the ashes
By GARY L. WEST
Herald editor
The front page of the
Hermiston Herald on Aug. 11,
1955, said “Raging Blaze De-
stroys Fair Buildings Here.”
One story told of the
devastation, under the sub-
heading “All Major Wooden
Buildings Burned In 20-Min-
ute Blaze.” The ¿ re broNe
out on Monday, Aug. 8 and
wiped out the horse barns,
e[hibit buildings, À ower
show buildings and the Co-
lumbia Grange concession
stand. Two other concession
stands, those for the Disabled
American Veterans and Ea-
gles Lodge, were damaged
beyond repair.
Two tin buildings for com-
mercial and livestocN e[hibits
were spared.
At the press deadline for
the Aug. 11 edition, the cause
of the ¿ re
be-
HISTORY was
lieved to
be sparNs
from a controlled burn to get
rid of weeds, which spread to
the horse barn. The barn was
in the midst of being painted
at the time.
A temporary school on the
grounds in 3arN Hall was also
damaged and 00 feet of ¿ re
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hose was also destroyed.
Another story on the page
was headlined “Bigger, Bet-
ter Fair 3romised.” As ¿ re-
¿ ghters were still mopping
up the smoldering À ames Fair
manager Bennie HicNs and
D.R. “6am” CooN, a county
judge (what we would today
call a county commissioner in
8matilla County were worN-
ing the phones to arrange for
tents and other equipment so
the fair could still taNe place
as scheduled, a little over a
weeN later, Aug. 1-20.
Portable buildings were
borrowed from the Umatilla
Ordnance Depot.
“Less than 24 hours after
the ¿ re, the grounds was clear
and the portable buildings
were being set up at the rate
of three an hour,” the Herald
reported. It went on to say, “a
public worN party to put the
¿ nal touches on the grounds
probably will be necessary
one day early ne[t weeN ....
Carpenters Local 933 and the
junior chamber of commerce
have volunteered to help in
any way needed.”
In the Aug. 18 edition, it
was reported that the fair did
start on time, but not without
some mixed reviews.
“You can’t get away from
it. The setting of the 1955
Umatilla County Fair is an
improvement,” the Herald
reported. The on-grounds
parNing, which had not been
utilized previously, was quite
popular and the tight arrange-
ment of 65 small ammunition
shelters from the Umatilla
Ordnance Depot as tempo-
rary structures saved fairgo-
ers a lot of walNing and were
said to be cooler than the old
wooden buildings.
But there were some
snags. Commercial exhibi-
The front page of the Hermiston Herald on Aug. 11, 1955, reports that all the wooden buildings on
the 8matilla &ount\ )airgrounds were destro\ed b\ À re, a little oYer a weeN before the fair was
scheduled to start. With some borrowed temporary buildings from the Umatilla Ordnance Depot
and a lot of Yolunteer labor, organi]ers were able to still hold the 1955 fair as scheduled.
tors were still building their
booths when the fair opened
and many were not ¿ nished
until the second day of the
fair. There were also some
communication problems be-
tween volunteers and fair of¿ -
cials as volunteers were wait-
ing to be called to help and
the fair of¿ cials just expected
them to show up. The carni-
val owner also threatened to
leave when forced to wait to
set up because the parNing lot
was being graded. Some tents
also didn’t show up.
This will be the ¿ nal year
of the fair in what is now the
middle of Hermiston. Next
year, the fair is scheduled to be
held at new, as-yet-unbuilt fa-
cilities near the Hermiston air-
port. LooNing at the grounds
of the Eastern Oregon Trade
and Event Center today, it
taNes more than a little imag-
ination to believe all will be
ready for the 2016 Umatilla
County Fair. But if Hermiston
and Umatilla County of 1955
could turn mostly bare ground
into a fairgrounds after a ¿ re,
then the 2015 version, with
more people and 21st century
engineering, ought to be able
to turn the weed patch near
the airport into a fairgrounds,
rodeo arena and event center
in one year’s time, right? After
all, we have 51 more weeNs to
do it in than the community
had 60 years ago.
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