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HERMISTON HISTORY
25 YEARS AGO
DECEMBER 1, 1992
CORRECTIONS
•Snow, wind and freez-
ing rain combined to cause
more than 10 reported
crashes and countless
unreported fender bend-
ers as holiday travel-
ers returned home from
Thanksgiving on Friday.
•Nothing goes better
with turkey than mashed
potatoes, but members of
the Oregon Potato Com-
mission and Boardman’s
Oregon Potato Company
went a step further in Port-
land last week when the
two led a list of state food
producers to feed 10,000
people at a community
dinner. Oregon growers,
looking for a way to share
their potato production
with others in the state,
jumped at the chance to
join ex-Trail Blazer Ker-
mit Washington’s Sixth
Man Foundation, a non-
profi t group, sponsors of
the annual Thanksgiving
Community Dinner. The
promise of 3,000 pounds
of potatoes to be processed
by Oregon Potato Co. into
fl akes would eliminate the
ordeal of hours of peeling
and early preparation, the
Portland Foundation was
able to gather more than
$28,000 in donated Ore-
gon food products for the
dinner.
•The future, — well, at
least part of it — is here in
Hermiston in the form of
11 new debit machines at
the local Safeway Store.
Customers can use the
machine to automatically
pay for purchases at the
store, without any checks
or cash leaving their hands.
The new gadgets are one
of the latest examples of
electronic money spread-
ing across the nation. Elec-
tronic money — which
uses computers and data-
bases to pay bills instead of
hard currency — is reach-
ing into even rural areas.
“I think we are on the out-
skirts of electronic money
here,” said Steve Wil-
liams, branch manager at
U.S. Bank in Hermiston.
“Stores in California have
been using these machines
and cards for years, and it’s
slowly coming up the West
coast.”
•A few construction and
remodeling problems have
continued to haunt Blue
Mountain Community Col-
lege’s new West Campus
building on the southeast-
ern side of Hermiston. The
biggest headaches have
been getting the fi nal elec-
trical problems corrected
and insuring the new car-
pet will meet the spec-
ifi cations set in the bid,
said Ron Daniels, presi-
dent of the college. Colum-
bia Hall, the new building
housing BMCC’s Hermis-
ton branch, was originally
set to reach completion on
Sept. 1, but early problems
pushed it back to Sept. 15.
At that time the staff moved
in the building and worked
around the contractors for
about a month. The Oct.,
14 open house happened,
however there were some
fi nishing touches still to be
completed.
It is the policy of the Hermiston Herald to correct errors as soon as they
are discovered. Incorrect information will be corrected on Page 2A. Errors
commited on the Opinion page will be corrected on that page. Corrections
also are noted in the online versions of our stories.
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CORRECTIONS: In the “Home
for the Holidays” special sec-
tion published Nov. 21, incorrect
dates were given for the Herm-
TRAVIS LOVELL
Co-owner, Cozy’s Tavern
When and why did you move to Hermiston?
I moved here to be closer to family, about three
years ago. I bought the Cozy Corner Tavern from
my father, who owned it for 20 years.
What is your favorite place to eat in Hermiston?
Stetson’s. (Editor’s note: The restaurant, renamed
Stet’s, closed earlier this year)
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Fish, hunt, ride horses and spend time with my
family.
What surprises you about Hermiston?
The growth. I was born in Enterprise, but went to
school here.
What was the last book you read?
My wife reads all the books.
What app or website do you use most other
than Facebook?
I’d say ESPN or the weather app. I like football and
baseball.
If you could travel anywhere, where would
you go?
Alaska. I’ve never been but would love to go.
What is the funniest thing that’s happened to
you?
Once, I was rewiring the light on a pool table (in
Cozy’s). When I got done, I plugged it in, and the
power went out — with people in the bar. Everyone
laughed at me.
What is one of your goals for the next 12
months?
To stay busy and make it through the holidays.
What is your proudest accomplishment?
Probably my family — my boys are 11 and 14.
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HH FILE PHOTO
Drivers were skidding around Hermiston in November 1992
after an early winter storm layered about an inch of ice on
area roads.
100 YEARS AGO
DECEMBER 1917
HH FILE PHOTO
Robert Bernard Adams, 37, became Hermiston Police
Department chief 50 years ago.
50 YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 30, 1967
Hermiston city police
received an anonymous
call over the fi re phone at
8 a.m. Wednesday. The tip-
ster, believed to be a 15 or
16 year-old boy, stated that
a bomb had been placed in
the Hermiston Senior High
School and would explode
sometime between 10 a.m.
and 1 p.m. City police con-
tacted Corporal Rothermel
of the state police and both
city and state police started
an immediate search of the
school. Under the direction
of Hermiston Police Chief
Robert Adams and State
Police Corporal Rother-
mel offi cers from both
iston Christmas Market. It will be
Saturday, Dec. 16 from 2-6 p.m.
and Sunday, Dec. 17 from 8 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
75 YEARS AGO
DECEMBER 3, 1942
•An extreme high and
an extreme low was experi-
enced by Hermiston service
station operators this week.
Monday saw hundreds of
motorists awaiting their
turns at the fi lling stations,
many fi lling not only their
tanks but loading up with
50 gallon barrels and other
containers. The picture was
entirely different Tuesday,
with gasoline sales practi-
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departments began exten-
sive search. By 9:30 a.m.
the entire school had been
carefully scrutinized and
police were unable to fi nd
any evidence of explosives
in the school.
•The telephone played
an important part in secur-
ing a representative meet-
ing of good roads boosters
here last week, when a hur-
ry-up call was sent to Uma-
tilla, Stanfi eld and Echo by
the Hermiston Commercial
Club secretary. The meet-
ing was for the purpose of
selecting delegates from
the four towns to wait on
the county court and urge
them to at once begin lay-
ing base for the Columbia
highway between Uma-
tilla and Echo, so that there
would be no obstacles in the
way when the state high-
way awards contracts early
next spring for hard surfac-
ing the highway along the
water grade route from The
Dalles to Pendleton.
•Better send in your
money now to Secretary
of State Olcott and avoid
trouble by getting your
auto license by the fi rst of
the year, for that gentle-
man has sent out a gen-
eral warning to automobile
owners in this section that
they will not be allowed to
run their machines on pub-
lic highways after January
1 unless they have the 1918
license tags attached with-
out subjecting themselves
to prosecution. Payment in
time may save a fi ne in this
instance.
•The First National Bank
of this city is in a healthy
and prosperous condi-
tion as shown in the state-
ment of its fi nancial condi-
tion printed in the columns
this week. Its resources
have increased amazingly
within the past year, and in
this showing is refl ected the
ever increasing stability of
the Hermiston valley.
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dant stated that he did not
sell one drop of gasoline
while others reported sales
of eight, sixteen and twenty
gallons. In another station
the attendant waited until
10 o’clock for someone to
come in then gave up in
disgust, locked his pumps
and went home. Beginning
Tuesday, when a motorist
drives into a service station,
besides cash, he will have
to dig up ration coupons.
These must be endorsed
by the holder before they
are valid in order to protect
books from misuse in case
of loss or theft. However,
the worries of the motorist
and service station atten-
dant are far from over. Gas
rationing was primarily
launched to save tires. Peri-
odically each motorist must
have his tires carefully
inspected by an approved
tire inspector.
•The
Presbyterian
church at Stanfi eld suffered
$1,000 damage, covered by
insurance, in a fi re Sunday
morning between seven
and eight o’clock. The fi re
evidently started from an
overheated stove with most
of the damage held to the
basement. Dr. J.M. Cornel-
ison, supply pastor, reports
that next Sunday services
will be held in the high
school auditorium.
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