Lucile Stephens, Bill Johnson, Steve Wilson and Terray Harmon contributed to this report.
Last week’s History Mystery was scanned from a print, which was labeled, “1920 box factory.”
Bill Johnson, who once lived on Clark Street with a view of the rail yards, said the photo showed The Dalles Lumber Manufacturing Company, today Les Schwaab would be on right. You can see the railroad roundhouse and the flour mill in the background, he added. “You could see all that from the bluff where I lived,” he said.
Steve Wilson, who lives in Bend, heard about the picture from his son, a subscriber who lives in Hermiston. “This is an ODOT picture from 1958 that shows the box factory east of the turntable,” he said. “The pictures were used to help locate the freeway. In this picture they had added a wigwam burner to get rid of the sawdust.”
20 years ago – 1998
Post incident analyses of the Rowena fire this week will give agencies in this area a chance to determine what kind of a job they did fighting the fire and what they might be able to do better in similar incidents.
MORO — The Sherman County Historical Society invites the public to join in some extraordinary toe-tappin’ music with the Mill Creek String Band of The Dalles in the Moro City Park on Saturday, Aug. 22, from 8 to 10 p.m.
Rock’n music. Black lights. Fog machines. Sounds like a typical dance hall. But add glow-in-the-dark carpet and bowling lanes, updated pin-setting machines and electronic scoring, and you’ve got the remodeled Columbia Recreation bowling alley on East Second in The Dalles. “We’ve still got a lot to do. We’re not nearly done,” says Don Moss.
Members of the Columbia River Gorge Commission will meet Tuesday, Sept. 1, in Stevenson to determine their next course of action regarding a controversial home construction project in Skamania County. Harpreet Sandhu, Skamania County’s planning director, contends the Gorge Commission reviewed and approved the Beas’ plans prior to county approval.
Contentiousness, confusion and concern seemed to be the themes at an informational meeting Tuesday on urban renewal.
40 years ago – 1978
A two-year-old Goldendale girl received a broken leg when she was run over by a car operated by her mother in the parking lot of a local market Friday afternoon.
Registration for fall classes begins in three Oregon area school districts next week.
The laser may seem like the best thing that’s happened to rock music staging since the Joshua Light Show, but the Food and Drug Administration is not one of its biggest fans. The FDA is cracking down on rock groups and art shows that are using powerful laser beams to stage shows, which may be dangerous to the eyes of those watching and participating. There is fear some may even suffer blindness.
SALEM, Ore. (UPI) — Jim Whittenburg, original sponsor of Oreogon’s 1½ percent property tax limitation measure, Friday proposed a “new, cleaned up version of Measure 6 that we can all feel good about.”
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House Assassination Committee Friday introduced surprise testimony from a British policeman who claims James Earl Ray boasted he killed Martin Luther King but the only crime he could be found guilty of was conspiracy. The allegation drew an immediate denial from Ray and an angry denunciation from his attorney, Mark Lane, who countered by announcing dramatically he has evidence Ray’s accuser was “dismissed in disgrace” from the British police force on charges of perjury, robbery and other crimes.
60 years ago – 1958
The Dalles hasn’t become a missile base although some people might have gotten that idea from the fact that a Navy missile, the Talos, has been parked along the Columbia River Highway at the west end of the city since Sunday. M. C. Hudock of Washington, D. C., driver of the truck on which the surface-to-air missile is bolted, said a valve in the truck engine broke Sunday, resulting in a major engine failure near Arlington.
Indians have been denied their request to catch eels at dams on the Columbia River but their request to take sturgeon by use of set lines has been authorized to Nov. 15 by Oregon and Washington commercial fish agencies.
The acts of “borrowing” the small lifeboat from the 65-foot Coast Guard boat moored at Port of The Dalles dock have resulted in the Coast Guard’s turning the information over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for possible action. Coast Guard Chief Thomas Watkins said the five-foot long boat, which is kept on the deck of the “Lollypop,” has on a number of occasions been taken and later recovered under the dock.
Logging activities in Washington and Oregon were restricted further today as dry weather continued with no prospect of substantial rain.
80 years ago – 1938
The death of Mose Broncheau, an Indian whose body was found submerged face-downward in a stagnant slough near the Union Pacific depot Tuesday night, continued to mystify officers today as three other Indians clung tenaciously to their stories despite questioning that extended far into the night.
A hearing that ultimately may determine whether The Dalles will have two additional miles of harbor-line went forward this afternoon at the city council chambers with United States Army Corps of Engineers in charge. Should the division corps approve of the Hungry Harbor project, which Charles Hageman estimates can be accomplished for approximately $300,000, all testimony and records taken at the local meeting would be forwarded for approval to Washington.
PORTLAND, Aug. 19. (UP)—The first step in a program to link Bonneville dam with the huge Grand Coulee project was taken by Administrator J. D. Ross last night when he called for bids on steel towers for the 246-mile circuit.
SALEM, Ore., Aug. 19. (UP)—The state hydroelectric commission today branded as “feasible” the proposed forming of a people’s utility district at Hood River provided certain conditions are met. “Should the proposed district secure a distribution system of the quality contemplated in the estimate at a cost of $507,000 and secure the estimated market, the system could be operated at a profit.”
100 years ago – 1918
To compete with six other states in a canning contest, three members of the Wasco county canning team, who were state prize winners last year, and who have also captured a northwestern championship, will go to Spokane, September 1 to 7, under the leadership of Exie Morgan, the whirlwind 19-year old county organizer. The other states in the contest will be Idaho, Washington, Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—General March has told the military committee of the house of representatives that 80 divisions of Americans in France, under the new man power bill, can end the war successfully in 1919.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Spain is nearer the brink of war today. Diplomats are pointing to the recent Spanish note announcing that German ships interned in Spanish ports will be seized as compensation for U-boat sinkings. This is regarded here as in effect an ultimatum and may lead to an open rupture between Germany and Spain.
ZURICH, Aug. 19.—A bomb was thrown at the chief of the German secret police in Warsaw, but the attempt failed, according to a city dispatch.
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