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Fire damages Stanfi eld Cafe 25 years ago
25 YEARS AGO
JULY 28, 1992
• Armed with leather
gloves, sturdy shoes and
wooden pokers, members of
four local organizations have
picked up the gauntlet to col-
lect trash strewn on High-
way 395 from Umatilla to
Interstate 84. First to join the
Adopt-a-Highway Program
in the area was the Umatilla
Kiwanis Club in July 1991.
Club members gather gar-
bage from a 2-mile stretch
of highway, beginning at
Buck’s Corner and ending at
the Umatilla Speedway, “We
might not have chosen the
best section of road to clean
up,” joked Larry Clucas, club
president. “That two miles
gets a lot of trash lost on its
way to the dump. Once the
Umatilla Kiwanis had com-
pleted their second cleaning,
they decided to share the fun
and presented the Hermiston
Kiwanis with a bright orange
bag of trash and challenged
the club to adopt its own
section of roadway. “We
couldn’t let the challenge go
unanswered,” said Hermis-
ton Kiwanis president Steve
Frazier. Meeting the chal-
lenge, and maybe going one
better, the Hermiston Kiwan-
is adopted the remaining four
miles of Highway 395 lead-
ing to Hermiston.
• Golf Central - Kik’s Pic-
ture.
• A late night fi re Sunday
severely damaged a restau-
rant in Stanfi eld and kept
fi refi ghters busy throughout
the night trying to extinguish
the blaze. The fi re, which ap-
parently started in the attic
of the Stanfi eld Cafe, spread
between two roofs and made
it diffi cult to extinguish. The
fi re was reported at about 11
p.m. and fi refi ghters were
battling the blaze until about
4 a.m. Monday.
50 YEARS AGO
JULY 27, 1967
• Inquiries from all over
the United States regarding
Hermiston are being received
and answered daily, Mrs.
Everett Lake, secretary of
the Chamber of Commerce,
told the Chamber board of
directors at their meeting
last Friday noon at the Hong
Kong cafe. Mrs. Lake said
that Hermiston brochures,
maps, travel information and
literature are mailed to those
who ask for them. She has
prepared a mimeographed
supplement to the Hermiston
brochure, giving up-to-date
listings of churches, motels,
service stations and restau-
rants in our community.
• Hermiston Rotary Club
viewed a fi lm, “Revolution
in Our Time”, presented
through the courtesy of Don
Gray, First Federal Savings
and Loan Association. The
picture compared the early
HERALD ARCHIVES
A Stanfi eld fi refi ghter faces large fl ames and heavy smoke
while battling a blaze at the Stanfi eld Cafe. Firefi ghters were
on the scene all night in July 1992 to contain the fi res at a local
cafe, which burned the roof off the building on Highway 395.
depression days when rent-
ing was prevalent with the
present day of homeowners,
pointing out that since 1947
home ownership has doubled
in the United States, with 60
percent of the people owning
their own home; and now 1
million homes are being built
annually in this country.
•Ann Rasmussen, mem-
ber of the Hermiston Swim
Team, won the three-meter
diving championship for
girls 12 and under in Eugene
July 23, in the fi rst Oregon
AAU Combined Senior and
Junior Diving Champion-
ships. She also was second in
the age 11-12 one-meter div-
ing, By virtue of her winning
Ann will go to San Francis-
co, Calif., August 26-27 for
the Far Western Division
Championships.
75 YEARS AGO
JULY 30, 1942
• Members of the Hermis-
ton unit, Co. E., 22nd Battal-
ion, Oregon State Guard and
members of the Hermiston
ambulance corps will stage
a parade along Main Street
Friday evening about 8 p.m.
for the benefi t of those who
are not aware of the fact that
these two groups are in exis-
tence. They will also adver-
tise the benefi t dance sched-
uled for Saturday night at
the Townsend pavilion. The
guard has recently added
fi ve more recruits, bringing
the number well over one
hundred. Another addition to
the local unit is the arrival of
another commission, 2nd Lt.
Rex Moses of Umatilla.
• In case this week’s Her-
ald does not have that ef-
feminate touch it is because
this offi ce has done its bit
towards the war effort by re-
linquishing all rights on the
girls employed here. In oth-
er words, the Misses Joyce
MCulley, Kay Joyce Ritchie
and Anne Sommerer are now
employed at the ordnance
depot in one capacity or an-
other. Some help has been re-
ceived by the able assistance
of Mrs. Ritchie, mother of
Kay Joyce, and Miss Elsie
Rauch who have come to the
rescue.
• At a recent meeting of
the Hermiston city coun-
cil, a deal was made with
Dr. and Mrs. E.A. Marble
whereby the city of Herm-
iston acquires all interest in
the artesian well just south
of the city limits, fi ve acres
and some buildings. A lease
has been in effect for the past
several years but it expired
July 21. A purchase price of
$2,500 has been announced.
The water will be used
at the completion of the im-
proved water system now
under construction. It will
be completed as soon as the
DeBlasio crew fi nishes the
sewer.
100 YEARS
JULY 28, 1917
•J Frank Spinning, a drug-
gist of Echo and well known
in this neighborhood, sure
got the goods on a polecat
one day last week when he
discovered the animal in
the cellar of his residence.
Mr. Spinning did not stop to
make intimate acquaintance
at the particular time, beat-
ing a hasty retreat to other
parts of the house, where in
sober meditation he evolved
a solution to the problem
of getting rid of Mr. Skunk
without being called upon
to become inoculated with
the aroma for which pole-
cats are noted. With plans
well laid, J. Frank returned
to the cellar where he made a
strategic fl anking movement
and placed formaldehyde
and sulfur candles, which he
brought with him, in as close
proximity to the enemy as
he dared. The skunk appar-
ently realized the futility of
trying to compete with such
a combination of bad odors,
and forthwith beat a hasty
retreat, to the great delight
of the inventor of a formula
that, in this case, proved suc-
cessful in making the pole-
cat take to the jungles.
• Not many cities in
the state of Oregon, or in
any other state, either, can
boast of a fair sized reve-
nue from the sale of alfalfa
taken from city property.
This is why Hermiston has a
unique distinction over oth-
er towns. For years money
has fl owed into the treasury
of the city from alfalfa crops
cut four times each season
off a tract of land that it owns
and which is situated along
the east side of the railroad
right in the city. The ground
upon which this commodity
is grown is one of the most
sightly spots in Hermiston,
and some day ere long the
fodder now growing thereon
will disappear, although such
a money maker for the town,
and in its place will spring
up a tree-encircled bluegrass
park that is intended to be
one of the most beautiful and
enticing spots of this nature
to be found between Port-
land and Spokane.
• Lack of rain has been
a great drawback to sheep
and cattle men ranging stock
over the bunch grass area
in this section of the county
this season. Fodder is get-
ting very scarce, becoming
dry and withered for want
of moisture. While this con-
dition prevails in most parts
of Eastern Oregon, it is more
noticeable here this year be-
cause it so seldom happens.
On this account many of
the large owners of cattle
and sheep utilizing the range
hereabouts have been com-
pelled to move their herds
closer in so that green feed
can be secured. One is JD
Watson of this city, who this
week was compelled to move
his fl ock of 450 sheep and 80
head of Angora goats from
the range near his ranch 9
and one-half miles southwest
to a grazing spot on an alfalfa
ranch near Hermiston, which
he rented for the purpose.
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What do you like to do in your spare time?
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What is the last book you read?
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What surprises you about Hermiston?
The traffi c, and the lack of businesses. We used to
have some really neat businesses, but not anymore.
There was an ice cream and pizza place — “Happy
Joe’s” — people would have birthday parties there.
We used to have all that kind of stuff.
What app or website do you use most often?
Nothing.
What is the funniest thing that’s ever hap-
pened to you?
Nothing that I can remember — I’m probably trying
to forget it!
If you could travel anywhere in the world,
where would you go?
Nowhere. I worked all the time, and didn’t have
time to do anything else. So I just like staying home.
What is one of your goals for the next 12 months?
I’d like to retire some time — but it’s easier said
than done.
What is your proudest accomplishment?
I’d have to say my kids — and starting this busi-
ness. It’s been kind of a joint family affair.
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