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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
COMMUNITY
HERMISTON HISTORY
THREE MINUTES WITH ...
DAVID MCCARTHY
Account Executive, KOHU & The Q Radio
HERALD ARCHIVE
Twenty-fi ve years ago, Lori and Don Armstrong, owners of the McDonald’s Restaurant in Hermiston, played host to 73
Oregon Rotary exchange students on their way to the Pendleton Round-Up. Young people from 17 countries including
Slovenia (Yugoslavia), Ukraine, Argentina, Sweden, Finland, Colombia, India, Mexico, Brazil, Denmark, Germany and the
Philippines called ahead to order McDonald’s hamburgers and colas. Shown are, left to right, Charlotte Londoff, 17, of
Denmark, Corlos Barbieri, 17, of Argentina, and Lara Radonjie, 18, of Slovenia (Yugoslavia).
Art Prior of
Eagle Ranch
of Echo
pulls vines
from carrots
climbing
the digger’s
boom in this
1992 fi le
photo. The
carrots were
being loaded
into a truck
headed to
Hermiston
Foods,
where they
will be diced
during
processing
in the plant.
25 YEARS AGO
SEPTEMBER 22, 1992
• A year ago, the Herm-
iston Bulldogs began their
fi rst football season under
head coach Ray Braun by
routing Class 3A Mac-Hi,
edging Class 3A power-
house Hood River Valley
in overtime, and edging
crook county 17-16 in
overtime en route to their
fi rst 3-0 start since 1965
— to lay the foundation
for what proved to be the
most successful football
season in HHS history up
to that point. The Bulldogs
went on to fi nish 1991
with a 7-2 regular season
record, good for second
place in the Inter-mountain
Conference standings. Af-
ter qualifying for the state
Class 4A playoffs for the
fi rst time in school history,
the Bulldogs fi nished 7-3
overall, losing 16-6 in the
fi rst round to Lake Oswe-
go — a team that tacked
on two more playoff wins
to earn a berth in the state
semi-fi nals. The 1992 Bull-
dogs, despite some heavy
graduation losses, have
their sights once again set
on a berth in the state Class
4A playoffs.
• Less than 30 people
turned out last week for
the fi nal public hearing on
clean-up efforts at three
sites on the Umatilla Army
Depot. The Wednesday
night hearing, which end-
ed with no input for the
record, dealt with two is-
sues — efforts to dispose
of lead-contaminated soil
around deactivation fur-
nace and with two landfi ll
sites. The U.S. Army pro-
poses leaving two on-site
landfi lls as they are today
while disposing of con-
taminated soil in a land-
fi ll still being used at the
depot. Clean-up efforts at
the Depot have been con-
sidered for many years.
But when the installation
was placed in the Base Re-
alignment List in 1989, the
Army intensifi ed its study.
Dr. Chuck Lechner of the
Corps of Engineers toxic
and hazardous materials
agency said once the Army
decides which course of
action is best, a waiting
period for public comment
is required. “What we re-
ceive from you may be an
idea or modifi cation we
can incorporate into our
solution to make the whole
project better for everyone
concerned.
50 YEARS AGO
SEPTEMBER 21, 1967
• Legal voters of Herm-
iston School District 8R
will cast ballots Monday,
September 25, between 8
a.m. and 8 p.m. at Herm-
iston Junior High school
on the question of con-
tracting a bonded indebt-
edness of $1,385,140 for
the purpose of construct-
ing, improving, repairing,
equipping, furnishing and
making additions to each
of the fi ve schools in the
Hermiston system. Of
this $1,345,140 is for fi ve
building
improvements
and additions and the bal-
ance of $40,000 is to ren-
ovate the swimming pool
at the high school, which
is open to the public use
during the summer. Voters
are reminded that hours of
election will be 8 a.m. to 8
p.m. in compliance with a
new state law, instead of 2
p.m. to 8 p.m., which has
been custom for school
elections in the past. Be-
fore submitting the bond
proposal to the voters the
board of directors named a
lay committee of 18 local
persons, headed by Law-
rence P. Gray, to study the
needs for improvements
in the schools’ physical
structure, and this group
has worked during the past
year with periodic meet-
ings, named Robert Smith
of Smith and Keys, Ontar-
io, as architect. Smith has
attended several meetings
of the committee and di-
rectors and has plans ful-
ly prepared. These plans
are shown in diagrams in
a booklet, “Sea of Faces”
which also describes in
detail the reasons why the
board and committee are
submitting the bond issue
to the people. A total of
2,000 copies of this bro-
chure were distributed to
residents of the area.
• A total of 785 people
received infl uenza immu-
nizations Tuesday after-
noon at the CRC, Mrs.
Lelia Hodge, chairman for
the West End of Umatilla
County, reported. This ex-
ceeded last year’s number,
when 700 fl u shots were
given at the clinic. Dr. Al-
ton H. Alderman, Umatil-
la County Health Offi cer,
with the aid of nurses,
administered the shots to
both those who were tak-
ing new immunization and
those who took the shots
last year, who required
only boosters.
75 YEARS AGO
SEPTEMBER 24, 1942
• Oregon’s 1942 fl ax-
seed production should
bring no less than $2.40 a
bushel, Portland, for No.
1 seed, the Oregon USDA
War Board reports. Com-
modity Credit Corporation
is arranging to make loans
to crushers on 40 percent
of the linseed oil produced
by each company from
the 1942 crop. Only those
crushers paying growers
the announced support
price of $2.40 a bushel
will be eligible. While Or-
egon’s acreage of fl ax seed
is small, the state’s 18,000
acres of fi ber fl ax should
yield around 270,000
bushels of seed.
• “Where do they all
live” has been partly an-
swered in this survey of
the Hermiston vicinity
and school district. Actu-
al count was made of the
housing facilities within
the city limits and of the
main camps adjacent and a
reasonable estimate made
of the farm districts with-
in a 4-mile radius. In ad-
dition to the 200 houses,
tourist cabins and apart-
ments in Hermiston built
prior to September 1940,
there are 353 new housing
units of lumber construc-
tion. Of these, there are
about 185 two-, three- or
more-room dwellings of
permanent construction;
85 one-room cabins and 88
houses comprising Tertel
town. In addition to these,
there are about 50 apart-
ment and living rooms
reconstructed in former
homes in town and about
100 housing units added
on farms through remod-
eling of ranch homes and
reconstruction and build-
ing of other structures.
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There are also numerous
single rooms rented in the
larger houses in town and
country. The serious mat-
ter shown in this survey is
lightly constructed board
shacks, tents and small
poorly built trailers, which
can be heated with diffi -
culty for the comfort and
health of the occupants,
particularly when children
must be cared for. These
facts are borne out by the
enrollment in the Hermis-
ton schools larger than last
year and in the increase in
all the other schools in the
vicinity. Also the sugar ra-
tioning report reveals near-
ly 11,000 people in this
defense area.
What is your favorite place to eat in Herm-
iston?
That’s a tough one, there are so many great options
here I would never tire of food. But my favorite is
probably Delish Bistro.
What do you like to in your spare time?
I seem to have less lately so that’s a tough question.
I prefer to stay busy. But when I have no commit-
ments, I enjoy catching up on my favorite TV shows.
What surprises you about Hermiston?
Not sure, when you move from a larger city I guess
most things do. I’d consider it a nice surprise if I
ran into someone I knew in Spokane, I’m surprised
if I don’t here.
What was the last book you read?
“Dear Luke, We Need To Talk, Darth: And Other
Pop Culture Correspondences” — There are so
many little hilarious treasures in this it’s hard to
stop reading.
What app or website do you use most other
than Facebook or Google?
I stay pretty closely connected to all of Google and
Facebook family of apps so even if I don’t visit their
respective .com sites I’m using something like Goo-
gle calendar or Facebook pages manager. Other
than that, probably Spotify.
If you could travel anywhere, where would
you go?
Venice, Italy. The concept and architecture of that
city always impresses me.
What is the funniest/most embarrassing thing
that’s ever happened to you?
Faceplanting into a free-standing wall while I was
in a performance. Then having to “act” like it
didn’t hurt.
What is one of your goals for the next 12
months?
I’m always looking for new skills or ways to better
myself, and I’m thinking some physical training is
in order.
What is your proudest accomplishment?
I love performing, and I think the fi rst time someone
said I was their favorite really made me want to
keep doing it.
100 YEARS AGO
SEPTEMBER 22, 1917
• The Herald will pay
one dollar to the farmer
who shall produce at this
offi ce the largest and most
perfect potato of this year’s
growth. We have made a
wager that this valley will
produce tubers with more
weight and more perfect
shape than any other irri-
gated section in this state,
and to back up our judg-
ment that is why we offer
the above premium.
• As to athletics, Herm-
iston High School will
probably play some foot-
ball, but basketball is the
big noise. We intend to start
basketball about the fi rst of
October. In addition to the
four old heads of last year,
we have plenty of new ma-
terial. With this material to
start with and the effi cient
coaching, which has been
offered by Mr. Carl Voyen,
we will give the towns of
Eastern Oregon a run for
their money. The girls ex-
pect to do equally as well.
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