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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2018
COMMUNITY
THREE MINUTES WITH ...
HERMISTON HISTORY
JEFF SNELL
Eastern Oregon Physical Therapy
When and why did you move to Hermiston?
We moved to Hermiston in 1997 when I was employed
at Eastern Oregon Physical Therapy.
Umatilla children David Has, Brian Morris, Josh Pine, Jeremy Lee and Katelyn Lee enjoy a snow day in February 1993.
What is your favorite place to eat in Hermiston?
It depends on what I’m in the mood for but at the top
of the list would be Delish Bistro and La Palma, with
a shoutout to Ruty’s and YOPS.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Spending time at our kids’ events, reading, serving
the community.
What surprises you about Hermiston?
When I moved here, I was amazed at the kindness
and generosity of the people.
What was the last book you read?
Currently reading The Long Walk. Excellent true story
of a trek to freedom by Slavomir Rawicz. I love it.
What app or website do you use most often
other than Facebook or Google?
Amazon.com, unfortunately.
If you could travel anywhere, where would you
go?
Good question. So many places to go. I think I would
start with New Zealand and Australia and go from
there.
What is the funniest thing that’s happened to
you?
High school pranks, but I can’t talk about them here.
You can ask me when you see me.
What is one of your goals for the next 12
months?
Attain a quality found in the Sermon on the Mount,
Matthew Chapter 5.
What is your proudest accomplishment?
Being happily married for 33 years and my 5 children.
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FEB. 23, 1993
•Eyes are riveted to the
television screen as gallons
of hot, yellow wax run into
molds while the narrator
explains how crayons are
made, wrapped and boxed
for sale. The television stu-
dents at Rocky Heights
Elementary are watching is
not regular programming,
but part of a pilot program
using laser disks and com-
puters to make learning a
more visual experience.
“We watched it 15 or
20 times,” said Debbie
Freeman. “That’s one of
the beautiful things about
the program, it just brings
out more interest and dis-
cussion about what we’ve
seen.”
Laser disks, comput-
ers, big screen televisions
and LCD overhead dis-
plays are all part of a pro-
gram designed to bring
today’s technology into
classrooms. Freeman uses
the system in her classroom
every day to develop les-
sons in social studies, sci-
ence, health and a myriad
of other topics.
“When we had a unit on
weather, we watched a tor-
nado in class one day, and
the kids just said ‘wow.’
They were enthralled,” she
said.
•Slowly snaking its way
across dozens of miles of
Eastern Oregon sagebrush,
Pacific Gas Transmission
Company’s pipeline is now
visible along many area
roadways. Workers are cur-
rently digging trenches,
grading surfaces and weld-
ing pipeline along sections
of Highway 395, I-84 and
Butter Creek Highway.
PGT is looping more than
300 miles of pipeline in
Oregon in a two-year proj-
ect that began in South-
ern Oregon last summer.
It is expected to cost $1.6
billion.
A Hermiston High School choir class practices in 1968. Those pictured are members of the
school’s music groups, “Shades of Blue,” “Footnotes,” and “Hermiston Men of Song.”
tives of the nation’s space
program. Clothier will
show films on Saturn V,
the Apollo spaceship, and
the Lunar Orbiter, accord-
ing to Smith. The Boeing
Co. is the contractor for
the first stage of the Saturn
V, the largest space engine
ever constructed, and it is
the Saturn which will boost
the Apollo into space car-
rying the first astronauts
bound for a soft landing on
the moon sometime late in
1968.
The Space Age Indus-
trial Park Development
Association was formed in
1961, and consists of indi-
viduals and groups mostly
within Umatilla and Mor-
row counties interested
in the development of the
Boardman Space Age Park.
•Hermiston-area resi-
dents are being encouraged
today to take advantage of
the Hermiston Hustlers’
George Washington Birth-
day Sale here with the
promise that merchants will
be selling outstanding mer-
chandise at reduced prices.
Duane Alexander, chair-
man of the Hustlers, said
that since one of George
Washington’s
primary
goals in life was the uniting
of the American public into
one distinguishable char-
acter for the betterment of
all Americans, it is befitting
for the merchants to make
every effort to unite them-
selves as closely as pos-
sible with residents of the
city.
50 YEARS AGO
FEB. 22, 1968
•The annual meeting
of the Space Age Indus-
trial Park Development
Association here on Feb.
27, beginning at 8 p.m. in
the Civic Recreation Cen-
ter will feature a speaker
noted as an authority on the
nation’s space program.
W.E. Clothier, assistant
public relations manager,
aerospace group, the Boe-
ing Company, will speak
about the overall objec-
75 YEARS AGO
FEB. 25, 1943
•Restaurants and other
public eating establish-
ments were put under a
new rationing formula
for canned and other pro-
cessed foods Wednesday.
The formula gives them
six-tenths of a ration point
in March and April for
each meal served during
the month of December,
1942. On the same basis,
householders are receiv-
ing about five-tenths of a
ration point, but OPA has
ordered that a slight differ-
ential is necessary because
of higher waste and fluc-
tuating patronage in pub-
lic eating places. The new
formula for public eating
places will apply to board-
ing houses only if 50 or
more persons are served
regularly. Smaller boarding
houses will pool the resi-
dents’ individual rations.
•The Hermiston city
council, at its regular meet-
ing Friday night, made
plans for the forthcoming
irrigation season. Consid-
erable improvement in the
various lines are contem-
plated in order to speed up
the system as much as pos-
sible. Several new ditches
will be necessary to care
for new residences. The
council also voted to raise
the irrigation tax from 6c
per front foot to 10c, with
an average lot of 50 front
feet costing $5.00 per year
instead of $3.00.
100 YEARS AGO
FEB. 23, 1918
•While land seekers
have been invading Herm-
iston in large numbers for
some time, none of the
deals assumed very large
proportions. But this was
all changed when one day
last week a home seeker,
Eli Winesett from the state
of Virginia, dropped off the
train and announced that
he was in the market for a
good-sized alfalfa ranch.
No, he didn’t want no
orchard — alfalfa was his
hobby, and in his droll
southern brogue he stated
what he was willing to pun-
gle up in coin of the realm
if this was secured for him
pronto. He said he did not
want to look at no insig-
nificant tracts of alfalfa —
he was halter broke and
desired to be led right up
to the choicest large alfalfa
ranch on the project that
could be purchased.
In his perambulations
he ran across E.P. Dodd of
the Umatilla Farm Lands
Co., and there and then and
incidentally secured what
his heart most desired —
a simon pure alfalfa ranch.
The two wandered off to
the Ross Newport ranch
east of town, and after mak-
ing a careful scrutiny of the
place the gentleman asked
the price, came back to
Hermiston, paid the money,
said to be around $18,000,
and the deal was closed.
•While the cry of a
shortage of freight cars was
going on all over the coun-
try some time ago, Hermis-
ton had no cause for worry,
as this point on the O.W.
has nearly always had an
adequate sufficiency in
which to ship the produce
grown here to market.
But now, the shortage
of cars is becoming shorter
every day. C.S. McNaught,
extensive shipper of baled
and chopped hay to Port-
land and other markets, has
been compelled to ship the
product in gondolas now,
it being impossible to get
box cars for that purpose.
This change in the proce-
dure of loading cars has
been quite expensive, but
Mr. McNaught says he will
supply his customers with
alfalfa even though he is
compelled to put a boat on
the Columbia and ship by
water in place of by rail.
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