100 Years Ago

From the East Oregonian

Aug. 30, 1912

Manager Jesse T. Garrett of the Pendleton baseball team has filed serious charges against Umpire Golden and President Sweet has called a meeting of the directors of the league to take action against Golden or against Garrett if he fails to prove the charges. Garretts charges against Umpire Golden include drunkenness, incompetency and offering to accept bribe money. The Pendleton manager alleges that Golden was drunk several times while officiating here during the Pendleton-Walla Walla series, that he remitted fines levied against Pendleton players contrary to the constitution and that he offered to give decisions in one of the games here which would affect the result and for which he was to receive a stipulated sum. Every fan who has seen him work here will testify to his incompetency and many local people will give evidence to the effect that he was drinking heavily while here.

50 Years Ago

From the East Oregonian

Aug. 30, 1962

The Umatilla Forest no longer will have to depend on general weather forecasts on large fires or to wait long periods for specific information. It received last week one of 14 mobile fire weather units sent to weather bureau offices in the West this summer. The unit, an especially modified camper unit on a pickup, will report vital weather information to Forest Service fire bosses within minutes. In addition to a complete set of weather observing instruments, the unit is equipped with a two-way radio complete with a portable 2,000 watt electric generator.

25 Years Ago

From the East Oregonian

Aug. 30, 1987

Mother Nature has built the picture perfect fire in the North Fork John Day Wilderness about 16 miles east of the U.S. Forest Service Work Center at Dale. The Ryder Creek Fire, which was started by lightning Aug. 13, has been allowed to burn within the confines of the wilderness area. The blaze is not racing through the Ponderosa Pine, Western Larch and Lodgepole Pine; its meandering through the underbrush, leaving a mosaic of black and green. Deer still forage near the edge of the fire, nibbling at the charred grass. This area had a 20 to 30 year fire cycle before man. Low intensity fires did almost the same thing were seeing now, we just werent here to see it, said Forester Slim Stillman.