Local officials visiting Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla was the top front page story for the Oct. 7, 1998, edition of the East Oregonian.

100 years ago

When prizes are awarded in the swine division of the Pacific International Livestock exposition at Portland Nov. 3-10, the judges will have to consider the merits of at least four carloads of hogs from Umatilla county. A survey made during the holding of the Hermiston Dairy and Hog show leads Fred Bennion to the conclusion that this number from the county, chiefly from the Hermiston district, will be entered in competition.

Members of the boys’ and girls’ pig clubs will require one freight car to transport their stock to the show. Twelve of the members are in the pig feeding contest sponsored by the stockyards company of Portland.

Of the pug club members 10 will have Duroc Jersey pigs, and two will have Poland Chinas. Those who will have the red hogs include Lowell, Leon Norquist, Walter Norquist, Leroy Guisinger, Tom Lenhart, Alton Hooker, Billy and Jimmy Waugman, Bryce Robinson and Summer Robinson. Tilford Stillings and Wayne Swaggart will enter Poland Chinas. All of the boys except Wayne Swaggart are from Hermiston.

75 years ago

Officers and board of directors of the Pendleton Civic Music association will meet at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the chamber of commerce rooms to elect officers for the coming year and plan next week’s membership campaign, Milan D. Smith, president, said today.

The campaign, Oct. 11-16, will be launched with a 6:30 kick-off dinner Monday, at the Veterans club. All volunteer workers participating in the drive are asked to attend.

Preparations for the campaign are proceeding according to plan at headquarters in the Pendleton Music House. Division chairmen are now developing complete divisions of volunteer workers which, when completed, will embrace a complete cross-section of Pendleton’s organizations and social groups.

25 years ago

A newly completed audit of Oregon’s Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program shows the program has spent more than $25.4 million over the past 10 years, including at least $500,000 in overruns.

The Oregon Emergency Management office inPendleton released news of the audit results late on Tuesday. A copy of the full audit report was not available this morning. But Tom Worden, spokesman for the Oregon Emergency Management and CSEPP, said the report generally was favorable to the state’s spending for the program.

“They were critical of some of the accounting practices. But overall, they said these were all reasonable costs,” Worden said.

According to CSEPP officials, the audit was requested and completed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which distributes funding for the state program. CSEPP’s mission is to prepare the area in case of a chemical agent leak from the Umatilla Chemical Depot west of Hermiston. FEMA wanted to know whether the state “maintained an accurate account of CSEPP funds” and used the funds “according to the approved budget.”