1925 — 100 years ago
Oddfellows will go to big convention; Fishing dispute nearing crisis; Expert to talk at Rockford Grange; Ladies’ Day at Country Club; Regional board is now organized; Legion Drum Corps to have uniform; Grand Jury is now in session; Motor Cycle climbs 9500 feet on Hood; Cornerstone to be laid on Sunday; Schools resume on Tuesday next; All is well for Cloud Cap Hotel
— Hood River News
Joseph McLane was being detained at police headquarters today for railroad officers, following his arrest at the depot last night, where he had leaped from the blinds on a mail train. Homer Clark, a habitual jail-bird was also arrested for drunkenness.
A warehouse without a roof is a situation faced by officers of the Columbia warehouse company, a local independent concern organized by a group of Wasco county farmers which recently purchased the Moody warehouses.
Two buildings are filled to capacity with sacked wheat and the need of additional space for storage has caused the situation presented. Hardly had the floor of the new building, which is being construct west of the old Moody warehouse and office building, been completed when the harvest season opened in full blast and it was found necessary to store wheat on it. So busy where the employees trucking and piling wheat that the construction of walls and roof was halted.
— The Dalles Chronicle
1945 — 80 years ago
Sunday Like Old Times On Highway: Motorcades Celebrate Lifting Of Gas Ban. Last Sunday brought many recollections of pre-war motor [traffic] over the Columbia River and Mr. Hood Loop highways, for not since Pearl Harbor had residents...
— Hood River News
The 14 bins of the concrete grain elevator being constructed by the Port of The Dalles reached the 103-foot elevation at midnight last night, completing this phase of the work.
Three Dalles boys, two aged 17 and the other aged 19, admitted to police officers today that they were participants in the watermelon episode last Saturday evening in which part of a melon was hurled throughout the windshield of the Thomas Tibbets car, inflicting painful face and head cuts on two of the Tibbets children.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Pumper Unit Added to Local Fire Equipment. Trailer Unit Loaned by Government and May Be Purchased Later by City. The White Salmon fire department has received an OCD Pumper unit an trailer equipped with 400 feet of 2 1/2 inch hose ...
Fire Chief Enes on Monday stated the equipment which pumps 500 gallons a minute is being loaned by the government to the town and that it may later be purchased. It had been in use at Yakima and was brought down here by Enrie Hampoon Saturday.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1965 — 60 years ago
Tot Takes ‘Dip’ in Water Ditch: A baby fell into a swiftflowing irrigation ditch, bobbed downstream several hundred feet, then became lodged on a trash grating without drowning here Sunday. His trip down the ditch took him through at least three culverts, and possibly four, according to his family. In the end, 17-month-old Donald Reisner was lying with his head out of water, barely breathing, propped against the grating at the intersection of Belmont Road and Methodist Lane.
— Hood River News
The way seemed clear Tuesday for an early start on city library construction following the award of a contract to the low bidder, Mid-State Construction Co., The Dalles.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Mayor Al Henry was at the head of the hit parade this week — two thieves broke through the back kitchen door to his home and robbed his residence on Saturday. White Salmon police Monday notified The Enterprise that 2 watches, 6 bottles of whiskey, 1 ruby ring, custom jewelry, 3 cigarette lighters and a movie camera were taken ...
However police recovered most of the loot in Bingen at the hotel when Jim Wise of the White Salmon police climbed through a transom.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1985 — 40 years ago
Jantzen joins petition effort. Jantzen workers and administrators show the huge denim petition they’re using to send a message to Washington D.C. The workers are seeking action to help protect the fabric and garments industry in the United States from foreign incursions. Everyone in the Hood River Jantzen plant signed the denim which will be cut and sewn into a huge pair of pants. It will go to the president of the United States. At left is plant manager Brian Colman, and on the same side of the cloth petition is Dale McComas. On the other side, front to rear, are Arthur McArthur, Bob Lawrence, Dave Pimley and Leda Prinzing.
— Hood River News
Klickitat Heights eyed for strategic tower site. The United States Air Force has announced plans to build a series of low frequency radio towers across the continental United States — including one near Appleton — to serve as an emergency transmission system in the event of a nuclear attack. According to a report in the Spokane Spokesman-Review, the towers are part of a Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN), which would relay data through low-frequency radio waves.
The system is designed to counter an “electromagnetic pulse” effect (EMP) theorized to occur if a nuclear weapon were detonated high in the atmosphere.
— White Salmon Enterprise
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