Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten years ago

June 27, 2012

A long line of people in pink swept up Main St. during last week Wednesday’s The Color is Pink Walk. The event in sin conjunction with the annual Susan G. Komen Foundation campaign to create awareness and attention to breast cancer and its prevention. Garfield County Health District reported over 130 participated in the walk and later enjoyed a hamburger barbecue at the city park.

The Bike for Books program sponsored by the local Masonic Lodge continued this spring at Pomeroy Elementary School. Winners receiving bikes presented by lodge members Steve Kazda and Ron Kessler are Natalia Larios and Gabriel Watson. Pomeroy School District superintendent Kim Spacek said students who reach their weekly reading goal are given a ticket to place in a drawing at the end of each semester. One boy and one girl are drawn to receive a bike. This year, smaller bikes were awarded to students in kindergarten through second grade.

Twenty-five years ago

July 2, 1997

A group of Garfield County residents have formed the Field of Dreams Committee to construct “a safe and consolidated area for the local youth ball teams.” The committee will submit a grant application on July 9 for funds jointly sponsored by Boeing Company and the Seattle Mariners major league baseball team for construction of a youth baseball field. The organizations grant a total of $75,000 to one community per year in the state to build regulation ballfields.

Pomeroy Pony Punchers’ Second-of-the-Summer Play-day will be held Wednesday, July 9, at the Rodeo Arena at the fairgrounds. The play-day is for all levels of riding ability are welcome..

Fifty years ago

June 29, 1972

Shomo Rutenberg and Joseph Ziv, farm managers from Israel, were among a small group of farmers, and others who were on the county cereal tour Monday. The two men, who have been touring United States wheat farming operations for the past several weeks came along with Dr. Orville Vogel and Ken Morrison from Pullman, who make the tour annually. Ziv, of the community farming operation, or Kibbutz, Mahabei Sadeh and Rutenburg of Kibbutz Messilot, had won the tour of U.S. operations because their operations produced the highest wheat yields in their respective parts of the country.

Marcus Morgan, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Morgan and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Oldenburg of Pomeroy, was the winner of the American Creed Contest at the state Future Farmers of America convention held June 13 at WSU. He’s is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Morgan Jr, of Tekoa, and attends Tekoa High School.

Seventy-five years ago

July 3, 1947

Losses to the public from counterfeit money during 1946 more than doubled those in 1945, the secret service disclosed. It was the first year-to-year increase in several years-the 1946 loss was $47,129, sharply up from $18,125, but still trifling compared with the mid-30’s, when counterfeiting took the public for as much as one million dollars a year. The secret service struck back. Chief James J. Maloney, in a report to Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, said the service doubled its 1945 arrests for counterfeiting, taking in 85 persons last year.

The average patriotic citizen of this country who knows his is living in the best country in the world and is proud of it, is apt to not take the threat of communism in this country seriously. He thinks everyone is patriotic like himself and that there is nothing to worry about. The truth is there is a surprising number of people, who, while enjoying benefits of this country, don’t seem to have any more gratitude or sense than to take up with an ism that is opposed to everything that makes this country the great country that it is. Communism is a worm gnawing at the heart and life of this nation.

One hundred years ago

July 1, 1922

A high price record in the sale of horses at auction was made on the Lambie farm Wednesday, when according to the figures of H.I Chard, who clerked the sale, an average of a little more than $168 for each animal was received, including two saddle ponies, one of which sold for $35 and the other at a similar low price.

For the purpose of obtaining united action among people of southeastern Washington and norther Idaho in perpetuating the memory of the late Chief Timothy and his wife Tema, a meeting will be held at the Charles Davis place on July 3. Now that the Inland Empire highway road between Pomeroy and Lewiston has been completed, people can reach this point easily by automobile.