History: Dec. 30 edition

Dec 30, 2020
Dec 30, 2020

Sept 22 1950 Wheat Storage Pile Continentel Grain — Wheat is piled and covered next to the Port of The Dalles Grain Elevator for loading in September 1950. The elevator was located downtown The Dalles. Have more information regarding a photograph published here? Email Mark Gibson at markg@gorgenews.com.

Yesteryears

1920 — 100 years ago

Charbroiled photo — **Charcoal Broiled —** Dalles Fireman Jim Comini plays the part of a waiter behind counter of charred Holiday Café. Interior of the café was seriously damaged by flames, heat and smoke last night when a fire mysteriously erupted in the kitchen area behind Comini. Upstairs area was occupied by three apartment dwellers. They fled the building unhurt when fire was discovered. Café has not been operated for some time.
The Dalles Chronicle/file

VERBATIM

Influenza Takes Heavy Toll Here

Over the past weekend, influenza got in its work, especially in the town area, with the result that, on Monday morning, many reported one or more members of their families under treatment, while several who had appeared for their usual work were home before noon — at doctor’s orders.

Most of the attacks were, according to local doctors, of a mild type, yet severe enough to keep patients in bed for several days and cutting down desire for a Merry Christmas.

— Dec. 27, 1940, Hood River News

Santa Brings Special Doll

A little girl’s unshakable faith in Santa Claus paid off this Christmas, although not before her parents had spent some worried weeks.

You see, the little girl wanted a certain kid of doll for Christmas, a Nancy Ann doll. She had asked for one the year before, too, but Santa Clause didn’t realize the importance attached to this particular kind of doll, and the doll he brought her was a different kind.

She lover her new doll anyway, but soon started talking again about a Nancy Ann doll. It seemed a little girl she had played with had one, and had since moved away from The Dalles, but no other do had won the little girl’s heart like that one.

The only thing was, no one else seemed to know what a Nancy Ann doll was, what one looked like or where one could be purchased. And all the little girl would say, when her mother or daddy asked about a Nancy Ann doll, was, “Oh, you just wait until Christmas Eve, they you’ll see Santa will bring one then.”

All the faith of a million children who believe in Santa Claus and fairies shone in her eyes as she soothed her anxious parents. For true faith this little girl had — she clapped longer and harder than anybody when Peter Pan asked children to clap their hands if they believed in fairies.

Many shopping expeditions — and by then somewhat frantic telephone calls — followed these conversations. Finally, however someone was found who knew all about Nancy Ann dolls.

And so it all happened just the way the little girl said it would — Snata Claus brought the beloved Nancy Ann doll on Christmas Eve, the little girl as dizzy with happiness — and her parents finally found out what a Nancy Ann doll is.

— Dec. 30, 1960, The Dalles Daily Chronicle

Flu Closes Wasco To All Travelers

Fresh outbreak of pandemic met by drastic quarantine

Orders were received at the local office of the O.-W.R.&N. yesterday to sell no more tickets to Wasco, that town being under a strict quarantine because of the prevalence of influenza there. Nobody will be permitted to enter the town without a special permit.

The strict measures taken in the neighboring town follow a fresh outbreak of the epidemic in that vicinity. All public places where people congregate have been indefinitely closed and loafing in all stores and places of business is strictly prohibited. However, the schools were not closed, the idea being that the children were possibly as well off in school, where there is some regulation of their habits, as to be turned loose to run helter skelter and roam the streets at will.

— Jan.15, 1919, The Dalles Daily Chronicle