District selling is mistaken idea. One of the most interesting talks given here in a long while, was heard at Dee last Saturday night, when the Apple Growers Association brought to an end a very successful series of meetings between members and prospective members and officials of the association. [Dr. Nelson] decried the efforts of farmers toward direct selling of their produce and said that many a farmer, who is skilled in producing his crop, lacks the education necessary to be able to sell directly to the consumer his products. Too often the farmer overlooks the necessity for putting his produce in an attractive package, for he does not know that the consumer buys, to a large extent on the external appearance of a container.
— Hood River News
Albert Haynes, Mill creek rancher, found guilty after 30 minutes of jury deliberation of the manufacture of intoxicating liquor, was late today sentenced to six months in the county jail and ordered to pay a fine of $2,000 ... James Stirweis ... was found guilty by a grand jury Saturday afternoon after less than two hours deliberation.
Plans for reconstructing two old block-houses at upper Cascades, now known as Stevenson, are progressing ...
Workmen digging the rock cliff between G and H. on Pine street to make way for a sidewalk broke through the top of a natural cave at 2 o’clock this afternoon, revealing a circular pit approximately 20 feet deep and four to six feet in diameter. Through the bottom of the natural well, a considerable stream of clear water was flowing, and matches thrown in indicated an underground air current.
County Agent C. W. Daigh and Roy Fugate, the latter of the federal biological survey, conducted a poison mixing meeting at Mt. Hood flat today, in the campaign for rodent control in this county.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Apple trade may be affected. London Buyers object to spray residue. The agitation in the British apple markets, particularly in London, against the sale of Pacific coast apples because of the alleged presence of arsenic used in spraying, may have a serious effect on the export trade in the coming season, according to dealers here, but they see no way by which to overcome it. The spraying methods in the northwest last year were the same as in previous years, and heretofore no objection has been found to Pacific Northwest apples abroad.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1946 — 80 years ago
Many Rotarians who have been reading of the spread of democratic ideas in China has every reason after hearing a most interesting talk by Dr. J. M. Rockmness, instructor in Chinese at the University of Washington, to wonder just how far propaganda in our own country will be used to keep Americans in ignorance of the true condition of affairs on the Asiatic mainland.
— Hood River News
A resolution condemning gambling in the city and county, and asking authorities to take steps to check it, was passed by the Wasco county Pomona grange, in session this week.
Dr. J. M. Odell, superintendent of the Eastern Oregon state hospital at The Dalles, today said that he was not one of the objectors to a migratory labor camp on the back portion of Sorosis park, although some persons had erroneously assumed this to be the case.
— The Dalles Chronicle
1966 — 60 years ago
Rental policy draws challenge. Should homeowners in Hood River’s R-2 residential zones be allowed to take in paying roomers? City law, according to one interpretation, says “no.” A simmering issue on the rental question may soon come to a boil because of a case now being pondered by the city council, and there’s a chance that it could go to court.
— Hood River News
The two major fruit corporations in The Dalles area have united to form a single organization known as The Dalles Cherry Growers.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Mrs. Leona Scofield, representing the V.F.W. auxiliary, is shown presenting the DuBarry Charm course to Mrs. Alma Watson of the Junior High school faculty. This is a national program of the V.F.W Auxiliaries who donate to schools six lessons for girls ages 11 to 20 with a kit containing beauty and skin care preparations, enough for a class of 25 girls.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1986 — 40 years ago
Trailer falls, scattering pears. A truck and double-trailer rig loaded with pears from the Stadelman packing house in Odell and headed for Yakima, had not even reached Interstate 84 Monday morning when disaster struck. A truck driven by Mike Heath, 33, 1418 C St., was northbound on Highway 35 when its brakes failed coming down the hill, according to Oregon State Police reports. The tractor and one trailer ended up on their sides against the guardrail on Button Bridge, which spirals over Union Pacific Railroad tracks to a junction with I-84.
— Hood River News
Two people aboard a twin-engine airplane headed for the Rajneeshpuram airport were killed when the plane crashed and burned Tuesday night near Antelope ... The victims were tentatively identified by officials at Rajneeshpuram as Hasya, a pilot of the commune, and Vadan, another commune resident.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Northwestern Lake is a sea of tranquility in winter, and area residents hope that will be the case year-round thanks to passage of an ordinance in Skamania Co. which prohibits discharge of firearms in the general vicinity of the lake.
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