100 years agoThat everyone can’t be pleased by the brand of weather handed out by the weather man is a fact made plain by the reception accorded to the rains that have visited the Inland Empire within the past week or so. Some farmers are happy, and others would rather see sunshine and a surcease of showers.

The farmers who have wheat on the heavier soils are willing to call it quits so far the rain is concerned, and they would be willing to give a reception to sunshine, On the other hand, the farmers who operate in the so-called lighter oils are not kicking about rainfall. Every drop makes them chuckle with a vision of a few more bushels to their crop.

The benefits far overshadow the slight losses that have resulted from lodging, according to the opinion of Fred Bunnio, who has seen a big part of acreage in the wheat belt during the past week. Present indications are that the soils in the lighter area will have one of the biggest yields this year for several seasons. The prospects for yields in the heavier soils are expected to be something like normal.

50 years ago

The Pendleton School Board Tuesday night deferred until a later meeting a decision to providing an area for student smoking at Pendleton High School.

Mark Danner, PHS student body president for next year, said a poll of PHS students found 60 per cent favored an area for smoking. He estimated half the students smoke.

Danner admitted, in answer to a question, that “I don’t think the people of Pendleton would go for it.”

Some school districts do have areas set aside for students who want to smoke.

PHS principal Don Peterson questioned whether the board should sanction smoking by students.

25 years agoHours before President Clinton arrived here for a whirlwind Oregon visit Friday, two explosive devices were found in a culvert at the Eugene airports where Air Force One is scheduled to land today.

Eugene police responding to an anonymous call found and detonated two bombs in a culvert near the airport, where the president is to arrive for his visit to nearby Springfield to console victims of last month’s school shooting.

The culvert is on the airport grounds about a quarter mile from the terminal.

There are several other buildings in the area, including an air and space museum and an airport gas station.

The caller who phoned shortly before 3 p.m. also told police there were bombs at Eugene’s Greyhound bus terminal, but after it was evacuated and searched for seven hours no bombs were found.