December 13
20 Years Ago-1995
A Portland architecture firm has been selected to plan and develop a 12,000 square foot addition to Calvary Baptist Church in The Dalles. The two-level addition will include a sanctuary/auditorium with seating for 500 with additional seating for a 36-member choir. Classrooms will be added on the second level of the addition. Pastor Jim Bull of the local church on Columbia View Drive said the addition will be placed in the enclosure on the north side of the current building, which was built in 1986-87. The first service was held there in the spring of 1987.
For years, officials have focused on releasing $10 million in federal money for the Skamania Lodge and the Discovery Center. Perhaps little know is that twice that amount of money is authorized in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act for recreation and economic development. The 11986 act authorized $10 million apiece for each of those efforts.
40 Years Ago-1975
Hugh Delzer has raised the bid to $12 on the Courthouse Goose. Bids on the goose should be called, mailed or left at The Dalles Chronicle. The goose is being auctioned to promote a bigger auction of general items later this month. The Dalles Area Jaycees will handle that auction at the Civic Auditorium.
Wahtonka High School students have turned their pottery class into a Christmas gift activity. Many of them have made special items which they plan to give to relatives and friends at Christmas. “It has turned out to be a little more exciting than ordinary classwork, but the students have a lot of fun while working with pottery anyway,” Jack Snyder, Wahtonka high teacher for the work said.
60 Years Ago-1955
A.C. Grindle, 39, former Dalles City Clerk-treasurer, pleaded guilty in Circuit Court yesterday afternoon to embezzlement of $2,678 in city funds, and court-appointed counsel William Dick requested a two-day delay in sentencing to give him time for further investigation and presentation of mitigating evidence. The shortage was first discovered on Aug. 24 when Portland auditors checked city books.
Friday is the last day Dalles City firemen can accept toys for the Christmas toy project, Fire Chief Charles Roth announced today. “We must have all toys in then so we can get them to the Salvation Army and the Wasco County Welfare Department for packing Monday,” Roth said. Response to the plea for more dolls, made Sunday in The Chronicle, has been gratifying, the fire chief said.
80 Years Ago-1935
Twenty men representing the Port of The Dalles commission Wasco County, Dalles City, the state highway department, U.S. army engineers, The Dalles chamber of commerce and the O.W.R. & N. Company met in the Peacock room of Hotel Dalles this noon for a round table discussion of traffic problems to be raised by port development here. Foremost in their minds was the projected belt highway serving the port area and connecting with the main highway by overhead railroad crossings east and west of the city.
A $10 bill used as part of a window display in the J. C. Penney Company store was too much of an enticement for a man who saw it yesterday afternoon, so he simply walked into the store, entered the window compartment through a small door, took the bill and departed. Store employees did not notice the man, and did not know of the theft until this morning when police informed them of it.
100 Years Ago-1915
A Sunday school teachers institute was opened in The Dalles today at the Methodist Episcopal Church. The first lecture was given this afternoon, beginning at 4 o’clock by the Rev. Miles B. Fisher, of San Francisco, whose subject was “The Pupil.”
Melvin J. Ward, the young man who gave himself over to the local officers following his issuance of several fictitious checks on the Mosier State bank, will probably have to suffer punishment for his offense. Ward told the local officers that his father, E. E. Ward of San Francisco, would reimburse W. P. Murray, to whom the checks were issued. Young Ward said he was willing to be confined in the county jail until word could be received from his father.
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