East Oregonian Days Gone By for Nov. 14, 2023
Published 5:00 am Tuesday, November 14, 2023
- 1998 — Kari Baulig, of the Homestead teachers, works with students on what it means to make a budget.
25 years ago this week — 1998
There are many things Homestead Youth Lodge is. There are also some things it definitely is not.
That message is one Executive Director Lyle Fuller has worked to get across to community members.
When he first started working at the private, non-profit adolescent care center dedicated to serving at-risk youth from across the state, people knew little about it, Fuller said.
“If people know of us, they think we;re a detention center,” he said. That confusion could be due in part to Homestead’s across-the-road proximity to the county juvenile detention center.
Meanwhile, in its 30-year history, “what we were and what we are has changed, because of quantum leaps in programs and credentials,” Fuller said.
Homestead Youth Lodge provides mental health care and a positive alternative detention to teen-aged boys who are considered beyond the control of their parents, according to officials. It is licensed for 35 teens.
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it was hard to say “Bah, humbug” this weekend.
The Christmas bazaar season started with a roar – or maybe that was the tingling of many tiny sleigh bells – as hundreds of shoppers flocked to area bazaars, antique shows and craft fairs.
At the Pendleton Convention Center, holiday shoppers, browsers and those just out for a social event jostled down crowded aisles lined with 80 tables.
Vendors offered Yuletide treats ranging from handmade candles, hames and jewelry to evergreen wreaths, decorations and ornaments. Frames art, wooden furniture and printed T-shirts shared space with wool rugs, Native American art and an array of food.
Business at the annual Altrusa event was “Wonderful!” declared bazaar chairwoman Pamela Johnston Duso.
“It’s been busy all day,” and people were lined up before the opening, she said. “It has just been a real good turnout.”
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It’s official. There was no winner in the election for the mayor of Hermiston.
It was a tie!
Incumbent Frank Harkenrider and write-in challenger Rusty Brewer both collected 833 votes, according to a recount completed at about noon today by the Umatilla County Elections Division.
The results of the recount will be sent to the Hermiston City Council, which must certify the election before resolving the tie. The procedure, the elections division reported, will be for the council to schedule a public forum, at which time the tie will be decided by chance – such as by the flip of a coin or drawing straws.
The recount started at 9 this morning at the Courthouse in Pendleton. It was not a simple matter of just recounting the write-in votes.
“Basically, the whole process done on electric night will be done again,” Patti Chapman, elections manager for the county, explained beforehand. That included counting each ballot by hand and totaling up all the votes, not just for the two front-runners, but for all five candidates in the race.
75 years ago this week — 1948
Miss Grace A. Gilliam, former treasurer of Umatilla county and later employed for 18 years as teller in the office of the Oregon state treasurer, died Saturday at the historic Gillian home on Birch creek where she was born 71 years ago.
She had suffered a long illness. Miss Gilliam, after serving two years as Umatilla county treasurer, went from here to Salem and was known in the county and state for her efficiency and service.
A graduate of Willamette university, she was ever interested in education, and, prior to becoming county treasurer, she taught in the Umatilla county schools for many years.
Her family was a prominent one, she being the daughter of E. Gilliam and Nancy Jane Robbins Gilliam who crossed the plains in 1847 and settled on a donation claim at Birch creek, this still being the family home.
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James W. High, 34, of Umatilla, held in the county jail since July 3, charged with first degree murder with the death that night of Lee Thompson, Umatilla card dealer, in an argument concerning payment of a small sum of money, this morning entered a plea of guilty to a charge of manslaughter.
He previously pleaded innocent to a first degree murder indictment returned by the grand jury in mid-September.
The plea was heard by Circuit Judge Homer I watts and then attorneys for the prisoner, John Kilkenny and Charles A. Peterson, and deputy district attorney Geroge H. Corey, representing the state, began an explanation of their respective cases, presumably to acquaint Judge Watts more thoroughly with the case before passing of sentence.
These presentations were incomplete at the noon hour and the judge adjourned court until 1:30 p.m., when they were to continue. No testimony of record was being taken, however.
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A system of junior fire patrols has been established in Pendleton schools, both in the public schools and in St. Joseph’s academy and the Seventh Day Adventist school, Art Holmes, chairman of the chamber of commerce committee on fire prevention, and city fire chief William Batchelor announced jointly today.
Holmes gave a brief report of the move at last night’s chamber of commerce dinner.
So far as is known, this is the first program of its kind in the Pacific northwest, the plan originating here. It is modeled for safety patrols, which have been operating in many schools over the nation for years.
The program as set-up, and which was completed only yesterday, established fire patrols of students in senior high school, junior high school, Washington, Lincoln and Hawthorne schools, and the two church schools mentioned above.
100 years ago this week — 1923
Over $10,000 representing the profits of the 1923 Round-Up, are to be devoted to the improvement of present parks in Pendleton, including Round-Up park, and the establishment of a new park in the city block between Court and Webb and Clay and Market streets, according to announcement made last night at a meeting of the Pendleton Round-Up Association.
The gift, looked upon by local citizens as a means for the beginning of great improvement to the city, will in round numbers amount to $10,617.29. The work will begin this winter so that by next year Pendleton’s parks and playgrounds will show decided gains in the way of beautification.
For Round-Up park, elaborate plans have already been prepared by Howard Week, landscape architect. Additional trees, shrubbery and grass will be planted. This grass will extend in the region of the east bleachers and the entire improvements will do much to beautify the Round-Up grounds. The track encircling the Round-Up arena is to be repaired by the addition of a new layer of soil.
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A wholehearted endorsement of the Red Cross Roll Call was given this morning by Commander Hames Sturgis of the local Legion post. His statement follows:
“I am glad to heartily endorse the annual membership roll call of the American Red Cross. Certainly all Americans desire to support an institution which without respect to race, creed of color, is dedicated to the service of suffering humanity everywhere at all times. The American Red cross is an American institution which has made good in every emergency and of which every member is proud. It is known the world over by its good works and deserves the loyal and generous support of all true citizens. I sincerely hope that every Legionnaire will do his best to make successful the membership roll call this year.”
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The Pendleton Woolen Mills has subscribed an amount equal to $1.00 for each employee in the establishment, and in addition 60 per cent of the employees have enrolled on their own account as members of the American Red Cross.
“This splendid record should serve as an example to other local business firms,” says City Chairman George Hartman.
“We are encouraged by the large response of reenrollment by $1.00 membership,” says Mr. Hartmen. “But if the program of local relief work is to be continued, those who are able must make additional contributions in proportion to their means.”
Those business houses who feel that they have not contributed as much as they wish will save the solicitors considerable time and effort by calling directly upon mr. Hartman at the First National Bank, (telephone 100) with their subscriptions. Otherwise it will be necessary to resolicit parts of the business district.