This week in history: Aug. 17, 2022

Aug 17, 2022
Aug 17, 2022

The Dalles history Scene at reservoir, 1951.jpg — Crews from the City of The Dalles water department work on a reservoir May 28, 1951. Scanned from a 4- by 5-inch black and white negative from the archives of The Dalles Optimist. — May 28, 1951/The Dalles Optimist

1922 — 100 years ago

Vice President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge motored over the Highway to the Columbia Gorge hotel on Monday of this week and enjoyed lunch at the famous hostelry. Altho (sic) no formal reception was held, several local residents had lunch at the hotel and obtained a glimpse of the vice president and his wife. Siddie Thomison, 6-year-old daughter of J. D. Thomison, presented Mrs. Coolidge with a bouquet of dahlias, grown by J.G. Ruggles of Hood River. H.C. Dietz, local photographer, secured several pictures of Mrs. Coolidge as she accepted the bouquet. — Hood River News

UO ad 1922.jpg — An ad for the University of Oregon as it appeared in the Aug. 25, 1922, Hood River News.

Lone Pine Fire The Dalles history — CORRUGATED SIDING and other debris remains after fire that destroyed two Indian dwelling units Saturday night at Lone Pine site near The Dalles Dam. Red Cross today was appealing for clothing and other articles to aid those who lost their possessions in blaze. — Aug. 20, 1962, The Dalles Daily Chronicle

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Training School Is Busy Center

Hood River’s National Defense training schools are busy turning out trained men and women for work in the nation’s shipyards and aircraft factories.

A new school for general sheet metal work for men was started recently. At present there are eight students enrolled, but twelve more are needed to fill the class. This training equips one to assist in the installation of heating and ventilating systems in ships.

The women’s class in aviation sheet metal has been discontinued. However, those enrolled at the present time will be able to finish their course.

Six students are urgently needed for the morning electric arc welding class. The training is open to both men and women.

Any individual interested in defense work should contact the United States Employment Service in the Hood River Hotel Building for information on these free government training schools. — Aug. 21, 1942, Hood River News

Speedometers To Be Fineometers In Future, Judge Chambers Rules

Motorists with the desire to speed have but to look at their speedometers in order to determine what their fine will be in the future, as a result of a policy adopted by Acting Police Judge John Chambers.

Thus if a speeder is arrested while driving at 40 miles an hour on the Columbia River highway, where the speed limit is 30 miles an hour, he will know that his fine will be $10.

Inside the city limits where 20 miles an hour is allowed, a speed of 30 miles per would also cost him $10.

J. E. Staer, of the Mitchell, Lewis and Staver automobile company of Portland, paid a fine of $15 in the police court this morning. He was driving at a speed of 45 miles an hour when arrested by Motorcycle Patrolman Bud Crofton. — Aug. 17, 1922, The Dalles Daily Chronicle

Coyote Killed By Auto At Crate’s Point

Barnyard Prowler Trapped In Rock Cut; Winkler Collects Bounty

Somwhere up on the rocks of Seven Mile hill today, a litter of hungry coyote puppies are wondering impatiently why their mother doesn’t come home. Down in the lowlands along the Columbia river, near the Dr. Dutton place, a farmer is looking for the thief that made off with a choice Rhode Island red cockeral.

In The Dalles Asher Winkler and Guy Phetteplace are exhibiting the body of a female coyote as evidence of a remarkable occurrence early this morning when an automobile driven by Winkler ran down on the animal on the Columbia River highway at Crate’s Point.

Phetteplace and Winkler were returning from Mosier about 1 o’clock after having taken friends to their home, following the dance Wednesday night. They were rolling along at a good speed in the deep rock cut just at the point.

Clung To The Chicken

Sweeping around the sharp curve, the spotlight of the car struck the loping form of the coyote. She was holding her head high and her jaws were clasped over the body of a big chicken. Evidently the coyote climbed up the steep rocks from the valley below the highway, and was running along the cliff eastward until she came to a place where she could climb on up the hill.

The animal was in the middle of the highway when the auto swept down upon her suddenly. In a panic she broke over to the inside of the road, but Winkler had just enough time to swerve the car and force her out again to the middle.

Then the coyote swung into high gear, and Winkler had to force the car up to 40 miles an hour before this race ended. Had the coyote dropped the chicken she might have escaped. — Aug. 17, 1922, The Dalles Daily Chronicle

Imagination Needed, Hence Long Skirts, Psychologist Explains

NEW YORK (U.P.) — Attempting to analyze the trends backward toward long skirts, Andre Tridon, noted French psychologist, declared today that women realized that scantily clad feminine figures were not conducive to matrimony, which is declared by Tridon to be the aim of every girl.

“Short skirts did away with feminine mystery. Nothing was left to the imagination and imagination, perhaps, begets marriage. The flappers had to find something to restore their age-old mystery. Presto! long skirts.

“The good old age of feminine mystery is again upon us. Self-revelation through dress is a thing of the past, and in the future something will be left to the imagination,” Tridon asserted. — Aug. 17, 1922, The Dalles Daily Chronicle