Yesteryears
1924 — 100 years ago
A committee of the various local organizations met on Tuesday evening at the Chamber of Commerce to discuss plans for providing recreational facilities for the children. It was decided to offer prices of $10 and $5 for the best suggestions on the subject “Safety First for our Children.” These suggestions are to be sent to the “Safety First Committee” and are not to be in later than Monday noon, Feb. 2. Wording is limited to 500 words or less; typewritten if possible and on one side of the paper only … Pending the solution of the problem, a motion was passed by the general meeting asking the city council to use its police power for the protection of the children.
— Hood River News
Lively interest was manifested last evening at the Hunderup meetings in the Baptist church when the evangelicals, in response to many requests that were sent in, sang a number of [Black] camp meeting songs. Mr. Hunderup was reared in the southland and is at home with the [Black] spiritual.
— The Dalles Chronicle
1944 — 80 years ago
If the figures issued this week by Information Division of the Office of Price Administration can be accepted as a reliable indication, the population of Hood River County as of January 1, 1944, may be accepted as 10,356, for this is the actual number of Ration Book 4 that were issued to local applicants for themselves and their families. The census as of 1940 gave this county a population of 11,580, but in the following three years, men and women in the armed services and others who had taken up defense work and had left this community totaled at least 2,000. Thus it was not surprising that a sharp cut in population has been disclosed in the past two years.
— Hood River News
Wasco County will receive $285 and the city of The Dalles $310 as their share of the state taxes on manufacturers and distributors of malt and alcoholic beverages for the last quarter of 1943, it was announced today.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Trout Lake Valley, Jan. 19 — (Special) — Last week we made an appeal for news items. This week we are making an appeal for various materials to be used in the Red Cross work. The women, who attend these work meetings, have given their time and effort and now are reaching the end of things. They can give from their homes but we know there must be many women in the valley who could give and be glad to even though they cannot attend the Red Cross meetings. We can use almost any old clothes or material you have laying around — white and light colored cotton rags, no matter how old or ragged, can be used for fracture pillows; old curtains of soft material are ideal filling for the pillows.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1964 — 60 years ago
Voters in the Middle Fork Irrigation District troop back to the polls Tuesday, Jan. 28, to vote for a third time on virtually the same issue. On each of the two previous occasions, the issue has passed solidly. This time a question of financial terminology nullified an earlier favorable vote. On Sept. 24, 1963, the members of the Middle Fork district voted almost unanimously to go into a contract with the US Government through the Farmers Home Association to borrow money for constructing storage facilities for water and improving the distribution system. However, in order to satisfy the loaning agency, the wording on the ballot had to be changed to read “bonds.”
— Hood River News
For the first time this winter, snow plows were operating in areas near The Dalles Friday morning after snow began falling about daylight. The fall was reported heavy on US 197 over Tygh Ridge and also in the Hood River and Parkdale areas. Plows were out in all three sections.
— The Dalles Chronicle
1984 — 40 years ago
The Hood River business community has been anything but sluggish this week with a series of announcements of major changes for several stores. Mode O’Day owner Edna Chandler has sold her building and will drop her chain store affiliation, reopening as an independent women’s sportswear shop in a new location. Sally and Charley LaVEnture have purchased the Mode O’Day building and will move their Waucoma Bookstore into the new location after remodeling. Lorraine Phillips, four-year owner of The GadAbout, is negotiating with prospective buyers that may extend the life of the women’s apparel store that was scheduled to go out of business …
— Hood River News
Followers of an Indian guru warn that denying their police force access to national and state crime information networks could endanger law enforcement officers and the public.
The FBI has stopped the “Peace Force” at Rajneeshpuram, a town founded in central Oregon by guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, from using the National Crime Information Center, SPecial Agent Bill Baker in Portland said Wednesday.
The FBI “looks to the individual states for their recommendations concerning access or non-access” to the national network, Baker said.
— The Dalles Chronicle
2004 — 20 years ago
A round of informal budget forums start next month, as Hood River County School District faces cuts totaling up to $3.15 million from the 2004-2005 budget if Measure 30 fails on the Feb. 3 ballot. Roughly half the cuts would be in licensed and classified staffing, including up to 18 teaching jobs. Even with Measure 30 passage, the district will need to cut back by $339,204 … “We’ll have almost weekly changes in the figures until about August,” said Superintendent Pat Evenson-Brady. “It’s always a moving target.”
— Hood River News
Two major developments involving Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) this week will have long-term consequences for power companies and consumers.
Tuesday at midnight, a deadline for settlement of a $200 million lawsuit against BPA expired without unanimous agreement among the plaintiffs, killing chances for an easy settlement.
And Thursday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission cleared BPA of any charges of electrical market manipulation during the 2001 power crisis.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Although initial reports underplayed the significance of Thursday’s oil spill from The Dalles Dam, the visual evidence suggested a much bigger problem. The oil spill caused a slick as it was carried west and was nearly visible in the Columbia River as far as Bingen by Friday. By 3 a.m. Saturday, the slick had reached the Bonneville Dam.
— White Salmon Enterprise
Global Headlines
1924
MacDonald Turns Official Eye To Foreign Matters
Heartbeat Heard Across Continent
Mexican Rebel Is Wounded By Aide
Thousands Throng To Lenin’s Bier
1944
Allied Troops Drive Inland From Italian Beachheads
Bombers Strike Many Jap Bases Over Week-end
Pushkin Taken By Red Army, as Drive Continues
Big Flying Boat Hops to Hawaii
1964
RFK In London To Talk With PM
U. S., Soviet ‘Satelloon’ Up
Planes Continue Search For Raft
1984
Pope names archbishop
Vatican denies help for Nazis after WWII
Marine killed in Lebanese shelling
Ho, Hum: Congress returns
2004
Bird virus spreading in Asia
Second Mars rover safe, sends postcard
Federal deficit up another $1 trillion
Doubts growing over Iraqi weapons
Bomb targets Iraqi communists
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