The Pendleton Used Car Exchange touts a variety of automobiles in its ad from the Nov. 21, 1923, edition of the East Oregonian.

25 years ago this week — 1998

Frank J. Harkenrider will be mayor of Hermiston for four more years.

At least that’s how it appeared after the completion of a recount this week. Friday’s continued recount of the votes swung the outcome by two votes, breaking the previously apparent tie between the incumbent and challenger Rusty Brewer. Harkenrider said it was an “unbelievable” outcome to an incredible election.

“I cannot believe it. I absolutely cannot believe this whole thing,” 71 year-old Harkenrider said from his home Friday where he was recovering from minor surgery. “But it’s a great relief. I’m real pleased.”

Brewer said he is not giving up quite yet.

“They disqualified a number of my votes. I think that deserved an explanation,” he said.

Jim Burrow, director of Umatilla County Administrative Services, said this may not mark the last chapter in the drawn-out mayor’s election. But the elections office has completed its recount. There will not be another, he said.

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It’s not taking the first drink or using drugs the first time – it’s where that road could lead if you follow it. That was the message the Rev. Joe Meyers presented to Pilot Rock students Wednesday.

Meyers, a motivational speaker from Tacoma, told a rapt audience of high school and middle school students the story of his adopted son’s untimely death at age 30 from AIDS, after having lived a lifestyle that could have been far different if the right choices had been made.

Meyers and his wife, Ruth, adopted a son who they named Lance in Oakland, Calif., when the boy was two days old. Meyers and his wife were missionaries and lived with their son in Europe and Africa.

“My son and I were best buddies. We toured the world and did everything a father and son could do from skiing in the Alps to keeping snakes as pets when we lived in the Ivory Coast in Africa,” Meyers said. “In spite of me being so busy with my work we took time out to talk every day, but somewhere, something went wrong.”

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Building positive self-esteem is an important process toward the successful raising of children.

That was the message delivered by Margaret Hansell at Tuesday’s Teen Parent Power Lunch at the Umatilla-Morrow Head Start offices in Pendleton.

The power lunch, attended by about 15 teen parents and soon-to-be parents, was the first one held in the Pendleton area. It was part of a series of lunchtime events sponsored by Head Start and Adult Family Services, with support from the Umatilla County Reducing Adolescent Pregnancy Project Committee.

“It is important that teen-age parents think good things about themselves, even though it is sometimes easier to think negative things,” said Hansell, a member of the Umatilla County Commission on Children and Families and a court-appointed Special Advocate.

A child’s self-esteem begins at an early age, and young parents must work on building a positive self-image so they will be able to project that image to their children.

75 years ago this week — 1948

Seven persons were injured in two automobile crashes near here over the weekend.

Heavy fog and icy roads were blamed by state police for the head-on collision early yesterday on highway 30 near Umatilla. In that accident Mr. and Mrs. George Kellogg, of Walla Walla, were injured and sent to a Walla Walla hospital.

State patrolman Roy Carstensen said this morning that W. A. Moser, of Los Gatos, Calif., driver of the other automobile, attempted to pass another vehicle and crashed into the Kellogg car which was heading in the opposite direction. The patrolman said that Moser was arrested for passing without a clear view but that he was released on bail. He was not seriously injured.

A car-truck collision in Ordnance last night sent four people to St. Anthony’s hospital: Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Zimmerman; their son, Bobby, 12, and Teddy Veal, 16.

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Dr. Chester C. Maxey, dean of the social science division of Whitman College and a member of the faculty since 1925, is Whitman’s new president, succeeding the late Dr. Winslow S. Anderson.

It is the first time in the 90-year history of the school that an alumnus has been named to the office.

The appointment was announced Monday by Frank Baker, board chairman, after memorial services for Dr. Anderson. The late president died Nov. 13 at Rochester, Minn., where he had gone for treatment of a brain tumor.

Dr. Maxey was born at Ellensburg in 1890. After receiving his master’s degree in political science at the University of Wisconsin in 1914, he served as an associated professor at Oregon State College from 1914 to 1917.

He received his doctor’s degree at Columbia in 1919 and served with the New York bureau of municipal research for two years.

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On school days Mary always had her little lamb, but on Thanksgiving she ought to get the bird. That’s what the lady said.

Though literary researchers still are hurling scholarly invectives at one another in attempt to prove the authorship of “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, 19th-century lady editor, generally is credited with writing this children’s poem.

There is no doubt, however, that the late Mrs. Hale primarily is responsible for Thanksgiving being celebrated as a national holiday.

To the 19th-century citizen Mrs. Hale, editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, was supreme authority on matters pertaining to dress, etiquette, and domestic science. Through the editorial column of her widely distributed magazine she also championed the rights of women and pleaded for national unity.

In a November, 1859, editorial she asked:

“If every state would join in Union Thanksgiving on the 24th of this month, would it now be a renewed pledge of love and loyalty to the construction of the United States which guarantees peace, prosperity, progress and perpetuity to our great Republic?”

100 years ago this week — 1923

Hermistonians are indignant over the claim from The Dalles that the Hermiston high school football team did not play The Dalles high school first team and defeat it.

The contract with The Dalles was for a game with the first team it is reported from Hermiston and the game was played upon that basis. The visitors were given their share of the receipts and had they not brought their first dream they would have broken their contract and not been entitled to such pay it is asserted at Hermiston. It is also declared by the Hermiston football players that at least five of The Dalles team had played in the game between The Dalles and Pendleton. If The Dalles did not use all their best men the blame is placed upon them for they were slated to play their first team .

Consequently Hermiston folk resent the claim now made by The Dalles that Hermiston has no right to championship honors.

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To secure a canning factory to locate in the east end of the county, a greater acreage in several fruits and vegetables will have to be grown, according to figures in possession of Fred Bennion. There is a sufficient tonnage of prunes, apples and sweet cherries there now, but in other lines an increase will be necessary.

If a factory is secured, and negotiations looking toward a realization of this ambition are reported to be under way at present, the peach acreage in the Walla Walla valley will have to be increased to between 500 and 1,500 acres. The same acreage of apricots will be wanted and pear orchards to the same amount will be necessary.

Tomatoes are already produced in the valet on a considerable acreage, but the canning concern that is negotiating now to locate in the east end of the county has expressed a desire to have a total acreage devoted to the crop of between 400 and 600 acres.

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A minimum of 200 Knights of Pythias are expected to be here tonight for the district convention of the order which will convene at 7:30 o’clock for the meeting which will not be brought to a close until after a banquet. The banquet is scheduled to begin at 10:30 o’clock in the Quelle restaurant following the convention proper.

Claude W. Barrack of Tillamook, grand chancellor and W. F. Hardesty of Portland, past grand chancellor, arrived this morning to participate in the activities of the evening. All the lodges in the county and district have expressed an intention to be represented. Candidates from several of the lodges in the page rank will be present.

Walter R. Gleeson, grand keeper of records and seal, is ill and was unable to come for the meeting, and Mr. Hardest is his personal representative. E. J. Clark, Pendleton attorney, will make the address of welcome.