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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2017
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Hermiston makes treaty trip to Portland
25 YEARS AGO
baskets so that there will be
plenty to go around. A truck
will leave from the Tum-A-
Lum corner at 7 a.m. sharp
each morning and will stop
at the Texaco station for
free transportation to the
hop yard and back.
AUGUST 25, 1992
• From an editorial: A
three-hour drive west on
Interstate 84 can some-
times seem like a trip to
another world, but a few
hearty souls led a voyage of
exploration Friday, which
could reap untold rewards.
Representatives from East-
ern Oregon — and Hermis-
ton in particular — set off
on a journey to negotiate a
treaty of sorts with Portland
city offi cials. The Hermis-
ton area ambassadors car-
ried gifts to give to leaders
and residents of Portland
in a gesture of good faith
and friendship. The party
carries products common
to our native soil — water-
melons, onions, potatoes,
carrots and other produce.
The group was warmly
received in that some-
what foreign land known
as Portland. The trip was
purely a promotional tour,
and that is nothing to be
ashamed of because there
are many people west of
the Cascades who remain
ignorant of the people,
places and products pro-
duced in Eastern Oregon.
Hermiston Mayor Frank
Harkenrider is to be com-
mended for successfully
capturing the attention and
interest of Portland Mayor
Bud Clark, city employees
and metropolitan media.
With two pickup loads of
produce donated by local
area farmers and business-
es, Harkenrider, Clark and
their colleagues have done
more to educate the mass-
es in the Willamette Val-
ley then a hundred press
releases and promotional
pamphlets could ever hope
to achieve.
50 YEARS AGO
AUGUST 24, 1967
• A burglary at the Uma-
tilla County Fair offi ce be-
tween 5 p.m. Aug. 17 and
8:45 a.m. Aug. 18 was re-
ported to Hermiston police
by Barbara Estoup, fair
board cecretary. At the fair
offi ce, an envelope with a
check for $90 was opened
but the check was not tak-
en, but another envelope
was opened and $10 taken.
The new 4-H building also
was entered but apparently
nothing taken. Upon inves-
tigation police ascertained
that entry was gained by
breaking a hole 14- by
26-inches in the north
window of the Fair offi ce,
sliding open the window
and entering. The person
then went into the main of-
fi ce an tore open the check
envelope and the also tore
open the other envelope
that was in a desk drawer
and took the $10 cash.
• A mass of twisted met-
al and darkened posts is all
100 YEARS AGO
AUGUST 25, 1917
HERALD ARCHIVES
TOP, Members of the Hermiston-area delegation take over
the Portland mayor’s offi ce during a trip to Portland to
pose for a photograph. Hermiston Mayor Frank Harkenrider
sat at Portland Mayor Bud Clark’s desk (Clark is behind
him) while other members of the delegation fl ank the two
mayors. ABOVE, A blazing show barn at Northwest Livestock
Commission facilities on Highway 30 is part of the fi re that
destroyed a horse barn, weighing offi ce, a restaurant on Aug.
18. Estimated losses due to the fi rst totaled $75,000. One
Hermiston fi refi ghter, Dusty Harris, was injured during efforts
to save offi ce equipment.
that remains of $75,000
worth of Northwest Live-
stock Commission facili-
ties after an intensely hot,
quickly spreading fi re raced
through a weighing offi ce,
a restaurant, a horse barn,
a horse parlor and a pigpen
area Friday evening, Aug.
18. Don Wink and Everett
Snyder of Hermiston are
the owners of the North-
western Livestock Com-
mission, located about six
miles west of Hermiston,
on Highway 30.
75 YEARS AGO
AUGUST 20, 1942
• Umatilla County’s
population, growing by
leaps and bounds, is now
estimated at 37,254, an in-
crease of 11,275 over the
1940 census of 25,979.
This fi gure, computed
by the county rationing
board, is the result of fi nd-
ings reached through the
board’s industrial land in-
stitutional setup, reports
Mrs. Anna Crago, head of
the sugar rationing regis-
tration. Such registrations,
considered a reasonably
accurate method of deter-
mining population, include
the following totals in the
sugar sign-up: Pendleton
16,825; Hermiston 8,897;
and Milton, 6,107. Regis-
trations were taken at these
points and represents both
city and rural residents.
• Picking operations at
the LW Dixson hop yards
four miles east of Herm-
iston will get underway
Tuesday, Aug. 25, accord-
ing to Mr. Dixson who re-
ports a bumper crop. Ap-
proximately 250 pickers
will be needed to harvest
the 1942 crop. Pickers and
other laborers should reg-
ister for work immediately
so that activities can begin
with full speed ahead. Mr.
Dixson stated that he has
obtained a number of new
• Word was received
here the fi rst of the week
to the effect that the sec-
ond of the two robbers that
burglarized the Hermiston
Post Offi ce on the night of
March 22 last had been ap-
prehended and that his trial
would take place in Port-
land on Thursday or Friday
of this week. It will be re-
membered that one of the
robbers was captured by a
posse a day or two follow-
ing the looting of the local
post offi ce, the other elud-
ing the hunters in making
his escape. For the crime
the one who was captured
is now serving a term of
six years in the federal
prison on McNeill’s is-
land, and it is likely the
one recently taken will re-
ceive a like sentence.
• Replacement of the
old planks by installation
of new ones in the railroad
crossing near the depot was
an improvement ordered
by the company that took
place in this city the latter
part of last week. For years
upon years — nearly as log
as the oldest “old timer”
can remember — the cross-
ing had been an eyesore
and a nerve wrecker to au-
toists and drivers of vehi-
cles having occasion to use
it. So thin has the planking
become worn, in fact, that
from the time a vehicle or
auto struck the tracks on
either side it was a series of
“bump the bumps,” to the
utter disgust of those who
used it, whether on busi-
ness or pleasure bent. But
the long suffering public
has at last been relieved
to some extent, though it
is far from being an admi-
rable crossing yet. After
such a long wait for this
improvement the people of
Hermiston extend heartfelt
thanks to the railway com-
pany.
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