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Home for elderly
Time runs out for gang
By LINDA KRAMER
Associated Press Writer
SHANIKO, Ore. (AP) - How
ard Lane slowly draws his gun
and looks down the streets of
Shaniko where once 13 saloons
overflowed with cowboys and
dancing girls.
Lane, 66, is the city’s self-ap
pointed sheriff. He has a shiny
badge to prove it and the gun,
which is plastic.
He lives here with other
members of the ’‘Shaniko
gang,” a group of elderly, men
tally retarded folks who have
had the run of this virtual ghost
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town in the central Oregon
desert.
The gang was brought togeth
er by Sue Morelli Widmark, a
registered nurse who 20 years
ago decided to buy the city’s 95-
year-old hotel and turn it into a
foster care home.
Last month, Mrs. Widmark
decided to pull out and auction
off the hotel and its relics of
Shaniko’s heyday. She says she
was sad about the decision, but
could no longer bear up under
state pressure to bring the
building up to sanitation and
fire code requirements.
She sank SIO,OOO of her own
into improvements, but said she
can’t raise the money to re
vamp the city’s whole water
system. The present system
can’t generate the pressure
needed for a fire sprinkler sys
tem required in the hotel by the
state.
“We had a real happy home
and everything was going fine,
and all of a sudden according to
the state’s standards we
weren’t a good home any
more,” said Mrs. Widmark.
“I just feel compassion and
the rights of my people were not
considered,” she added. “It just
didn’t seem right being here so
long and because of some rules
someone comes up with, they
had to be moved out.”
At one time there were 30
members of the Shaniko gang.
Most had spent the majority of
their lives in institutions. All the
survivors are now in nursing or
foster homes, except for four
the state has agreed to let Mrs.
Widmark take with her.
“The state paid me $167 a
month,” she said. “The same
people go in a nursing home —
and I don’t think they’ll get bet
ter care — and the state pays
a month. It doesn’t
make sense to me. Why not give
me the extra money so I could
comply with the state codes?”
In the early 1900 s Shaniko was
the terminus of the Columbia
Southern Railroad and resi
dents called it the largest inland
wool shipping center in the
world.
The sign planted where High
way 97 runs through Shaniko
now says “Pop. 70.” According
to Mayor Julie Robinson, that’s
an exaggeration.
Mrs. Widmark, despite her
regrets over the hotel’s demise,
said she is looking forward to a
new life on a farm with her
husband. And she’ll still be car
ing for some of the old Shaniko
gang, including Lane because
“I can’t be without my sheriff.”
The others going with her are
Richard Reynolds, 69, Bill Dan
iels, 69, and his wife, Fayette,
62. They were married a year
ago in the hotel lobby amid old
west memorabilia and walls
crowded with moose heads,
deer heads and stuffed bobcats.
There was nothing unusual
about the gang’s last day in the
historic brick hotel. The lobby’s
black and white television was
tuned to “The Flintstones” and
the old folks watched quietly, at
times chuckling.
Sheriff Lane stoked the wood
burning stove. John Martin, 78,
puffed on his pipe. Charlie
Parker, 77, stood on the wood
sidewalk in front of the hotel
and tossed bread crumbs to the
birds.
A woman from a Methodist
church in Madras, at 40 miles
away one of the nearest towns,
arrived with going away gifts
for the gang — shirts for the
men and scent for the women.
The next day Sue Cowherds,
an adult services worker for the
state, came to take the resi
dents to a Hood River nursing
home and a foster home in The
Dalles.
“We have something better
for those people now,” said Mrs.
Cowherds, who has visited the
Shaniko gang regularly for six
years. “They need to have the
benefit of all the state can do for
them with activity centers and
shelter workshops. Shaniko was
too remote.
“I think they got along okay
and they had a lot of freedom
out in the country,” she added.
“It was the only place of its kind
I knew of. But nothing lasts
forever. It’s the end of an era.”
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Hanleiter
gets new
pastor
The Rev. Howard E. Bledsoe
becomes the new pastor of the
Hanleiter United Methodist
Church today.
The Rev. Elvyn McDonald,
who has pastored the Hanleiter
Church for the past five and
one-half years, is being trans
ferred to the Bums Memorial
United Methodist Church in
Augusta. Rev. Bledsoe was
transferred from the East Point
Avenue United Methodist
Church in East Point.
Rev. Bledsoe was bom in
McDonough and has been in the
pastoral ministry for 13 years.
He and his wife, Marilyn, have
one daughter, Haley, 9, and two
sons, Shannon, 7, and Chad, 5.
Mrs. Bledsoe attends Clayton
Junior College where she will
graduate this quarter. She will
be then enroll at Georgia Tech
for the winter quarter.
Rev. Bledsoe and family will
make their home in the
Hanleiter United Methodist
Parsonage, 127 North 13th
street.
Rev. Bledsoe will deliver his
first message on Sunday, Nov.
6. The pulbic is invited. The
church is located at 732 West
Broad street.
Monroe Wasson
is in exercise
Navy Engineman Third Class
Monroe P. Wasson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ellis D. Duke of 105
Circle, Griffin, is
participating in the major allied
Exercise “Ocean Safari ’77" in
the Eastern Atlantic Ocean.
He is serving as a
crewmember aboard the
destroyer USS Dupont,
homeported in Norfolk, Va.
Wasson joined the Navy in
February, 1971.
Dwayne Jones
graduates
An official at Lowry AFB,
Colo., has announced the
graduation of Airman Dwayne
L. Jones from the U. S. Air
Force’s weapons mechanic
course conducted by the Air
Training Command.
Airman Jones, son of retired
U.S. Air Force Technical
Sergeant and Mrs. Bobbie J.
Jones of 1340 Herndon St.,
Griffin, is now trained to load
and inspect weapons used in Air
Force aircraft, and will serve at
Langley AFB, Va.
The airman is a 1977 graduate
of Griffin High School.
Different treat
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -
Lots of people give candy to
trick-or-treaters. Dr. Jerry
Evans gives toothbrushes.
Evans and his wife, Joan,
make up dozens of Halloween
decorated packages, each of
which holds small toys, a tooth
brush. But no candy.
“We preach to the kids all
year long to brush their teeth
and avoid too much candy,” he
said. “So we felt it was better
not to give candy.”
The Evans’ effort is not al
ways appreciated by costumed
kids.
“I’ve found a couple of tooth
brushes in the street the next
morning,” Evans admitted.
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Elevator exacts revenge in Capitol
By DONALD M. ROTHBERG
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - This
is the story of an elevator dub
bed Lyndon’s Revenge and how
four senators learned of its un
predictable ups and downs.
The elevator, one in a bank of
six just inside the entrance to
the Senate wing of the Capitol,
was installed when Lyndon B.
Johnson was majority leader of
the Senate. It is reserved for
members of the press and Sen
ate staff aides.
An automatic elevator, it
earned its nickname by occa
sionally skipping floors, some
times going down when riders
pushed buttons they thought
would send it up, and on a few
frightening occasions, it has
plunged three floors to the
Capitol basement.
Next to it is a far more re
liable elevator reserved for sen
ators. It always is manned by
an operator.
Unfamiliar with the unpre
dictability of the press elevator,
four senators, rushing from the
energy conference committee
to the Senate floor for a roll call
vote on the energy tax bill,
stepped on board with a report
er.
The newsman pushed the but
ton for the second floor, where
the Senate chamber is located.
The elevator went to the base
ment.
Curtis Adams
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Pvt. Curtis A. Adams, son of
Mrs. Annie M. Adams, 1411
Spellman Ave., Griffin, has
completed a tracked vehicle
mechanic course at the U.S.
Army Armor School, Ft. Knox,
Ky.
During the course, students
were trained to repair engines,
transmissions, and the fuel,
electrical and hydraulic
systems of the Army’s tracked
vehicles. They also learned to
perform recovery operations
for abandoned, damaged,
disabled or mired vehicles.
Pvt. Adams entered the Army
in March of this year.
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The senators looked startled
but the reporter assured them
the elevator could only go up
from there. Once again he
pushed the button marked
“two.”
The elevator headed up. It
reached the second floor. It
didn’t stop. On up to the third
floor where it halted and the
doors slid open.
Four senators hurriedly left
the elevator.
“I think it’s safer if we walk,”
said Sen. Clifford Hansen, R-
Wyo.
Jimmy Carter has ruffled the
Texas-size regional pride of the
state’s Republican Sen. John
Tower.
Tower has complained to
Carter about the president’s re
sponse to a questioner in Den
ver, Colo., who asked about
sovereignty over the Panama
Canal. ,
Responded the president:
“There is no semblance be
tween the status of, say, the
Panama Canal Zone and Texas
or Alaska that were bought and
paid for and over which we have
always had sovereignty.”
In a letter to the president,
Tower said, “The independence
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of the Republic of Texas was
purchased with the red blood of
patriots... and not U.S. dollars.
“Texas existed as an inde
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when she voluntarily sur
rendered her sovereignty to be
come one of the United States.”
Sen. James Abourezk, D-S.D.,
leaned back in his seat in the
back row of the Senate cham
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between his teeth.
Was that a thin wisp of smoke,
rising from the cigar, contrary
to Senate rules which forbid
smoking on the floor?
It could have been, said
Abourezk who explained that,
occasionally, there’s a flicker of
fire left in his stogie when he
enters the chamber. But, he
added quickly, he never defies
the rules by smoking on the
floor.