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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2018
COMMUNITY
THREE MINUTES WITH ...
HERMISTON HISTORY
RICHARD SCARLETT
Retired
When and why did you move to Hermiston?
I grew up in Hermiston from 1950 to 1962. My family
moved to Tacoma and I always wanted to move back.
Moved back in 2004 at age 54 to help take care of my
wife’s mother who had terminal cancer, and loved it
so much we stayed.
What is your favorite place to eat in Hermiston?
Lawan’s Thai Garden
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Hike?
What surprises you about Hermiston?
How fast Hermiston is growing and the new imple-
mentation of agricultural technology
What was the last book you read?
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
What app or website do you use most other
than Facebook or Google?
I only have used Google.
If you could travel anywhere, where would you
go?
Around the world, and I’m planning that in 2020.
What is the funniest thing that’s happened to
you?
We had invited a group of dear friends from Herm-
iston to go to the Grand Canyon. Leaving Flagstaff,
the van’s back doors flew open and all the bags came
tumbling out into the middle of the street. That is the
funniest thing I can report for the paper...
What is one of your goals for the next 12
months?
Get in shape to do the 500 mile El Camino Santiago
in Northern Spain with my wife — April of 2019.
What is your proudest accomplishment?
Marrying my first grade sweetheart from West Park
— I proposed to her in our first grade classroom.
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As the waters receded in Echo in 1993, students rode their bikes through the high water. “It’s wet, but it’s fun,” one
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25 YEARS AGO
MARCH 30, 1993
While most Echo resi-
dents looked to the Uma-
tilla River for signs of
flooding, the flood of ’93
came from a most unex-
pected direction. More than
20 homes were flooded by
up to seven feet of water
as a portion of the Hermis-
ton Irrigation District canal
east of the city collapsed.
The canal, which is
owned by the Bureau of
Reclamation, broke in Bud
Tefft’s backyard. Tefft,
who was outside working
at the time, said the only
sound he heard was the
water running through his
horse pen. “I looked over
and saw the canal had col-
lapsed. I ran in the house to
call 9-1-1,” he said.
Tefft said it was more
than 45 minutes before
any emergency person-
nel arrived on the scene,
and another hour after that
before the water was shut
off in the canal.
“I’ve never seen any-
thing like it. That damn
water was running all over
the place and it took them
so long to get over here. I
don’t understand what’s
going on around here.”
Hermiston
Police
Department reports show
that the first 9-1-1 call
came in at 11:18 a.m. Echo
Fire Department and Uma-
tilla County Sheriff records
show that both began
responding less than 15
minutes later.
By the time water flow
was stopped, most of the
area from East Main to the
northern edge of town had
flooded. The water reached
as far as the Union Pacific
Railroad tracks before
being stopped.
While crews evacuated
the houses and shut off the
electricity, district officials
summed up the damage
and tried to figure out what
happened.
“We may never know
what actually happened,
but it was probably a
gopher hole,” said Bill
Porfily of the Hermiston
Irrigation District.
Water in the canal was
flowing at 250 cubic feet
per second for nearly two
hours, meaning that nearly
35 million gallons of water
flooded the town.
50 YEARS AGO
MARCH 28, 1968
A car driven in the mid-
dle of the night in the vicin-
ity of Good Samaritan Cen-
ter nursing home and the
Hermiston Medical Center,
also the burglary and ran-
sacking of the office of Dr.
Roy P. Rasmussen, Jr. plus
theft of a medical bag from
Dr. Rasmussen’s automo-
bile have set police on the
trail of a possible narcotics
addict.
A report was given to
Hermiston police by Dr.
Rasmussen March 20
that medical supplies and
equipment had been sto-
len from his motor vehi-
cle in the parking area of
Good Shepherd Hospital at
the time he discovered the
theft. He placed the value
of the bag and contents at
$150.
Police have linked this
with the investigation in the
vicinity of the 900 block of
W. Orchard and W. Juniper
Avenues of a car without
lights moving about 2 a.m.
and a man running from
the vicinity of the doctor’s
offices, entering the vehi-
cle and driving away. The
75 YEARS AGO
APRIL 1, 1943
Mrs. H. W. Grim of
Route Two, Hermiston, was
greatly honored recently
when she received a Purple
Heart, signifying that her
son, Eldon L. Allen, was
killed while performing a
heroic feat with the armed
forces. Eldon, who was
killed on Christmas Day,
was fighting with the U.S.
troops in New Guinea.
Eldon joined the army
January 7, 1942, and was
sent overseas April 20,
1942. He saw considerable
action from that date until
Christmas of the same year
when he was listed among
those killed. He was well
known in this community.
It is believed that this is
the first token of honor of
this nature received locally
during the present conflict.
• Rev. M. B. Ballinger,
who has served as pastor
of the Hermiston Method-
ist church for the past two
years, wired the Herald
office Wednesday from San
Francisco as follows: “Just
had examination and since
no objections voiced by
anyone, assume have been
accepted.”
Rev. Ballinger left here
Monday to appear before
a Methodist committee on
Army and Navy chaplains.
It is not known exactly
when he will leave Herm-
iston but it is assumed that
he will remain until after
Easter.
100 YEARS AGO
MARCH 30, 1918
A new manufacturing
industry will soon be in
operation in the Hermiston
valley, for the first of this
week witnessed the break-
ing of ground preparatory
to the construction of an
alfalfa meal plant in this
city. This long-sought and
much-needed acquisition is
to be launched by the C.S.
McNaught Co., and it is
hoped by that corporation
to have everything ready
and the plant in perfect
operation to hand the first
cutting of the new crop of
alfalfa early in June.
The plans and specifica-
tions call for the construc-
tion of a building located
on the vacant ground on
the railroad right of way
at the head of West Main
Street. The building will be
substantially constructed
from corrugated iron on
a cement foundation and
there will be installed mod-
ern machinery for the man-
ufacture of alfalfa meal
for stock and chicken feed
packed in 100 pound sacks.
It will store 100 tons of
baled hay and 100 tons of
sacked alfalfa meal.
POLICE LOG
TUESDAY, MARCH 20
6:57 a.m. — A death investigation
took place on Northeast 10th Street,
Hermiston, of a 64 year-old male who
was unresponsive.
9:41 a.m. — A woman reported
her sister as a missing person, at
Southeast Sixth Street, Hermiston.
She hasn’t been seen for three days.
5:01 p.m. — A caller said someone
at the South Highway 395 and Air-
port Way overpass looked like they
might jump.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21
4:22 p.m. — On Northwest 11th
Street, Hermiston, a caller said some-
one stole two bags of cans from her
yard, but left the biggest bag that
would have made the most noise.
7:22 p.m. — A female on West
Highland Avenue in Hermiston was
vomiting in the parking lot of the
Christian Center. She had a seven
year-old child with her, and the Chris-
tian Center does not want them there.
THURSDAY, MARCH 22
6:14 p.m. — A male assaulted a
female on West Jennie Avenue. A
baby was in the house.
FRIDAY, MARCH 23
10:51 a.m. — Someone found a
large dagger in the street next to
some apartments on West Highland
Avenue, and brought it to the Hermis-
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11:09 a.m. — A woman said she
found a concerning note in her son’s
drawer, given to him by another stu-
dent, at Southwest Ninth Street,
Hermiston.
11:19 a.m. — A caller said his ex is
violating her own restraining order
against him, and has created a fake
Facbook page and making it look like
it’s his.
8:22 p.m. — A fight was reported
at North First Place and West Marie
Drive, Hermiston.
SATURDAY, MARCH 24
1:26 a.m. — A fight was reported
at North First Street, Hermiston.
2:28 a.m. — A runaway was
reported on Southwest Desert Oak
SUNDAY, MARCH 25
1:11 p.m. — A complaint about
loud music was reported at North
First Street, Hermiston.
MONDAY, MARCH 26
4:40 p.m. — A female subject at
East Hurlburt Avenue was continually
trespassing on the caller’s property,
and has broken into the RV parked on
the property six times.
4:52 p.m. — At Southwest 16th
Place, Hermiston, a caller reported
that her ex-partner has been abusive
to her and her children.
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10:41 a.m. — Someone was
arrested for child abuse and neglect
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witness did not wish to be
identified.
In checking the physi-
cian’s offices, police found
a front door unlocked in the
office of Dr. Rasmussen,
discovered a storage room
light on and cabinets and a
refrigerator open. Dr. Ras-
mussen came to the office
when called and said noth-
ing was missing. Narcotics
kept at the office were hid-
den and intact.
Echo police chief Tex
Wilson brought a doc-
tor’s bag found by Henry
Tefft Sr. of Echo on High-
way 32, about a mile and
a half north of Stanfield,
and Dr. Rasmussen identi-
fied it as the missing bag.
Medical supplies had been
removed, including 12
syringes and some drugs.
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