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CLEARWATER TRIBUNE
Volume 102, Number 8 Thursday, February 19, 2015
Two Sections
Published every Thursday at Orofino, Idaho 83544 - Clearwater County - Second Class (USPS 117-340) Section One
Fran and Ken Harvey of Orofino
“Grandpa & Grandma
rural county lobbyists
in Idaho”
not wishing to be annexed, have to
By Ken Harvey
The last three years you might
have read some of my letters
to the editor in the Clearwater
Tribune opposing city annexations
over rural county residents. My
opposition has not changed.
We have attended over 100 city
council and city planning and
zoning meetings. When all has
been said and done, I decided
that Fran and I could attend all
the meetings we wanted to, speak
before the council or zoning
commission, but nothing was
going to change until the Idaho
State Statute 50-222 was amended
and was re-written to help protect
the rural county residents from
forced annexation.
There are three ways for a city to
annex private property (parcels)
in Idaho: People can volunteer
their property to be annexed into
a city.
1. If 100 or more parcels are to
be annexed the property owners
have a say in the annexation by
voting yes or no.
2. The most popular way is if 99
or less parcels are being annexed,
the city will annex the properties
and then the property owners, if
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a high near 53. Southeast wind
around 5 mph becoming calm in
the afternoon. Wednesday
Night: Partly
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Calm wind. Thursday: A 30 percent chance
of showers, mainly after 4 p.m.
Partly sunny, with a high near 50.
Calm wind. Thursday
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Partly sunny, with a high near 48.
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of showers. Partly cloudy, with a
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Sunday: Sunny, with a high
near 48 and a low near 32.
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a
high near 48 and a low of 34.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a
high near 49.
This weather forecast is provided by the National Weather Service
in Missoula, MT.
hire an attorney and object to the
annexation if they are unable to go
through the process on their own.
3. Number three is what Fran
and I have worked very hard to
get changed. The word annexation
is a very hot topic at the capital.
Many cities in Idaho are dealing
with annexation issues now. This
is very stressful and costly for
the rural county residents. Fran
and I decided to be the citizens
that speak out for the rural
county residents that live in close
proximity of a city with 8,000 or
less population.
Our eight-page draft to change
forced annexation reads something
like this in one sentence: A city
with less than 8,000 population
that is attempting to annex 99 or
less private properties and if 25%
or more of the private property
owners sign a petition to state
they do not wish to be annexed, it
would allow the private property
owners a chance to vote on the
proposed annexation.
There are 200 cities in the state
of Idaho. Twenty-three cities have
more than 8,000 people, which
(See: “Grandma and
Grandpa”......pg 10A)
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Classifieds - 4B
Shown in this photo is the 1949 log drive crew working at Dick’s Creek. (See a photo of the bateau
on page 10A.)
What happened at the 1949
log drive drownings, as told
by someone who was there
By Ione Kingen Smith, as told to to Lenore so the men in the tree cut the rope and the bateau made
could be taken to shore. When it it to shore.
John Bradbury
There
have
been
several
accounts of what happened on
the 1949 log drive, when three of
the loggers drowned. The most
repeated story is that of the drive
foreman that year. He said the
men panicked and jumped from
the bateau (a shallow-draft flatbottomed boat).
That could not be further from
the truth. He wasn’t there. I was.
This is how it happened.
It was May 15, 1949. The
Clearwater River was raging
because of the snowmelt from the
huge snow fall that winter. And
when I say raging, I mean raging.
The water took out the Peck Bridge
that I saw pushed upside down
under the Lenore Bridge. Stumps,
trees, buildings and countless
other types of debris were floating
down the river. The Kooskia dump
was even flooded and contributed
to the mess.
My 29-year-old husband, Al
Smith, was in the drive crew
at Lenore that morning. I was
standing alongside the road with
my two-year-old daughter and
Mary Kiskilla, known as Finn
Mary. Her husband, Tom, was in
charge of the bateau at Lenore,
where some logs had jammed
up against some trees that were
jutting out of the water 10 to 12
feet out from the bank.
Tom had told the foreman that
morning he didn’t think they
should be on the river with the
water like it was, but was told to
get to work. The crew didn’t like
the drive foreman, who they called
Doe-Doe.
Frenchy Dupee, Michigan Bill,
and a third man were on the shore,
and the rest of the crew were in the
bateau. They were Walt Anderson,
Leonard Chase, Ray Fitting, Ben
Larson, Oatie Oatman, Tom
Kiskilla, and my husband, Al. The
bateaus were not yet mechanized;
they still used oars for power. Tom
was at the bow and Al was at the
back helping steer with a pike
pole. I forget who was working the
oars.
All of a sudden the current
pushed a large, uprooted tree that
was submerged, called a sweeper,
under the boat.
As quick as a flash the limbs
of the sweeper tipped the bateau.
Tom and Al were thrown off each
end of the boat and the other men
were flipped into the river toward
the main current. Tom, Al, Ben
Larson, and Oatie Oatmen made
it to a tree that they climbed to get
out of the water. Walt Anderson
and Ray Fitting didn’t make it to
the tree.
I last saw Walt flailing in the
water like he didn’t know how to
swim, and Ray was trying to shed
his heavy work clothes, but almost
immediately they were pulled
under the water. Leonard Chase
was hanging on to the bateau as
it went downriver. I never saw him
again.
It took an hour and a half to get
the bateau from Cherry Lane up
Obituaries - 6A
arrived the drive foreman told the
crew to use a 100 foot three-inch
diameter hemp rope to pull the
bateau to shore. Tom told Al to cut
the rope or it would tip again. He
When the men got off the boat
the foreman told Al he was fired.
Al told him he was too late—he
had quit while he was waiting for
him in the tree.
The story of the Maniac
By the late Kester Hanson
Resource of information:
OHS Maniac Alumni Association.
Not actually discovered by the
Orofino High School student body,
our beloved Maniac Mascot continues to be a great source of pride
and uniqueness sometimes causing unsolicited “controversy” by
uninformed outsiders who have
no real idea regarding the origins
of the Maniac.
The 1927 OHS basketball team
is credited with being dubbed the
“Maniacs” while on an away game.
Orofino, not having the resources
to provide the players with basketball uniforms at the time, was the
subject of the opposition’s teasing.
Despite the ridicule, our players
got out on the court and played
a hard game – so much that the
other team decided the Orofino
players played and looked like “a
bunch of maniacs.”
The name stuck with the Orofino boys calling each other “Maniacs” from then on.
Our present-day mascot “logo”
came along in 1972, with great
credit and thanks to the late Jim
Johnston (1941-2001, former
OHS Teacher, Football Coach and
Athletic Director). Mr. Johnston
contacted the art teacher who
drew the original Maniac, who had
moved on to work as an artist for
the F.B.I. in Washington D.C. From
(See: Maniac............
pg 10A)
Cayuse Haynes-Miller, five-years-old, found a buttercup on Valentine’s Day at his home on Dent Bridge Rd. His parents are Hugh
and Amber Hanes-Miller. A close-up photo of Cayuse’s buttercup is
shown in the upper right corner. Myrna Grasser also found a buttercup (shown bottom right) last week on Upper Fords Creek Road.
Court News - 3B
Sports - 7-8A
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