Social and club news leads Page 2 in the Oct. 12, 1948, edition of the East Oregonian. The EO’s coverage of local social happenings continues to this day, usually on pages for community news.

100 years agoIn the interests of the University of Oregon-Whitman college football game in Pendleton next Friday afternoon, John Murray, chairman of the football committee and Bert Jerard, director of publicity for the big game journeyed to La Grande and Baker yesterday. They also made stops at Union and Haines. The two men report a world of enthusiasm for the big grid contest and state that at least 1,000 people will come to Pendleton to see the collegians mix it up in Round-Up park.

Unexpected pep over the prospect of viewing a real inter-collegiate “big league” grid game was found not only in Baker and La Grande but also in Haines and Union by football boosters. In La Grande they questioned Bruce Dennis proprietor of the La Grande Observer as to his intentions in regard to attending the big game. “I’d like to come,” said Dennis, “but everybody in this establishment has voiced their intention of going so it looks as though I’d have to stay home and keep the house.”

75 years agoEmployment is at a peak in Umatilla county, according to the September report issued today by Cliff Long, manager of the Pendleton office of the Oregon state employment service.

He estimated unemployed available workers in the Pendleton district at about 205, compared to 285 the previous month.

“Many of these persons,” he added, “are elderly and limited in the type of work that they can perform.”

Although the need for agricultural workers eased off considerably, the processing of frozen foods required 100 additional workers in Pendleton alone. Also, a slow but steadily increasing need for workers at the McNary dam project is occurring and is absorbing unemployed, especially in the west end.

Lumber, logging, wholesale and retail trades all indicated a slight increase in employment during September.

25 years agoOne of Pendleton School Board’s mainstays will end more than a decade of service tonight.

Bob Reese is resigning from the board for personal reasons that “I’m not ready to reveal yet.”

“Its been important for me,” Reese said Friday. “I think it’s a great school system; a system the community can be proud of.”

Reese began serving the district in the 1987-88 school year, and has been a part of education here since. District Executive Secretary Rusty Fisher described him as “very, very hard working and someone who really has the welfare of the district at heart.”

She and the district director of secondary services, Paul Curtis, said they were not surprised by Reese’s Oct. 7 letter of resignation, which said, “I regret not being able to fulfill my current term on the board, but I feel I must do so in order to pursue another opportunity.”

His term ends in 2001.