Yesteryears
1924 — 100 years ago
All the talk of springlike weather conditions came abruptly to an end last Sunday night and the month of December, a veritable lamb as compared with some of the other Decembers we have known, went out like a lion, with the thermometer low enough to suit all who think a little winter is good for the valley. The abrupt change made the cold weather of Sunday night and after more keenly felt. For several weeks the days had been similar to those of early spring.
— Hood River News
Water in the new city well is “safe for drinking purposes” according to a report received from the state board of health on the chemical analysis, which was announced this morning.
The report was received here by Dr. Fred Thompson, city health officer, following the dispatch of a test tube of the water to the state board of health. The information means that in case the water is turned into the city mains in time of an emergency, the consumers can be assured that it is free from contamination.
— The Dalles Daily Chronicle
1944 — 80 years ago
The Hood River area is in the midst of an epidemic of a mild type of influenza and to avoid any feeling of panic it is well to point out that uncomplicated influenza of the present type is of short duration and that great advances have been made in making available effective treatment for cases in which serous complications occur. The Hood River County Health Department stresses the importance of persons who are sick going to bed as early as possible after the onset of the disease and of careful home nursing.
— Hood River News
Will Discuss Salvage — Continuance of all salvage programs, with special emphasis on the waste paper and waste fat drives, will be discussed at a meeting of the Wasco county salvage committee, to be held Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock in the Chamber of Commerce building. An effort is being made to obtain enough paper for shipment of a carload from The Dalles, according to W. Wray Lawrence, general salvage chairman for this area. Means of shipping out the scrap iron already assembled here also will be discussed. Salvage of tin cans and old rags will be continued during 1944.
— The Dalles Chronicle
1964 — 60 years ago
Cascade Locks Lumber Co., shut down about four months because of a labor dispute, will open Monday, Jan. 6, according to owner Merl Seitzinger. A full crew for the mill is 85 employees, the owner said, but this week he couldn’t say how many would be on duty when the big mill goes back into operation. “All former employees who want to work will be hired,” said Seitzinger. In normal production, the plant operates on two shifts. The lumber mill, a key factor in Cascade Locks’ economy, closed down when union-management negotiations reached a stalemate last summer.
— Hood River News
The Dalles will be a cleaner city in 1964 if a New Year’s resolution of the city officials achieves the desired result.
City Manager C. Dean Smith issued a statement Thursday morning resolving that “all reasonable steps” will be taken to minimize the trash problem. City officials are appealing for a voluntary community effort but they also have a new ordinance, adopted Dec. 16, that gives them additional enforcement powers.
— The Dalles Chronicles
1984 — 40 years ago
Terms like “hog pen,” “filth” and “disrepair” punctuated the conversation when District Attorney Hugh Garrabrant led county commissioners on a walk-through inspection of the Hood River County Courthouse last week after a special meeting. Garrabrant was imploring the county to change its system for cleaning and maintenance of the building, which he said was a public trust placed by the people on the commission. He also included other county buildings that house the health department and the county library — although he didn’t focus either on those or the county shops in his recent presentation.
— Hood River News
The Dalles City Council will review its snow removal ordinance with an eye to a more liberal approach to sidewalk shoveling and fines.
Tuesday night the council acted on a letter from Mark Roth who said that the ordinance (751):
“. . .leaves no room for the ill, elderly or the working person. The city itself cannot even comply with its own ordinance so how can the public?”
The ordinance requires owners or those responsible for property to shovel snow off the sidewalks not later than two hours after snowfall or daylight.
— The Dalles Chronicle
2004 — 20 years ago
In a coats-on hearing in the venerable, but chilly, Hood River Middle School Monday, a split Hood River County Board of Commissioners denied Wal-Mart Corp.’s site application. Citing hazardous traveling conditions, Wal-Mart representatives were not present for the hearing on the county Planning Commission’s conditional approval application for a 186,000-square-foot supercenter in the county urban growth area west of Hood River.
— Hood River News
It was anything but a day of rest for many Mid-Columbia residents, as a New Year’s Eve snowstorm continued through the morning and into late afternoon. Final accumulates reached from six inches to well over a foot in some locations.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Global Headlines
1924
Mellon Tax Plan Causes Squabble Among Democrats
Wreck Of Dixmude Is Found In Sea
Obregon Plans New Attack On Rebels
Paris Threatened By Flood Waters
Majestic Buries Nose In Mud Bank
Three Die In Dust Explosion And Fire
Earthquake Shocks Are Felt At Rome
Tomb Guards Ordered To Shoot
1944
German Lines Collapsing Along Entire Russian Front
Americans in New Landing on New Guinea
Berlin Receives Terrific Damage In New Attacks
Prisoner Has Change of Heart
1964
Red Wheat Sales Consummated
Berlin Wall Closes Sunday
Pacific Search is Intensified
Thousands Welcome Pope Paul IV In Holy City
1984
Jackson, Goodman homeward bound: Syrians call
release step to encourage U.S. to withdraw
Rumsfield to return to Syria
France shuffles UN force
2004
Iran quake toll reaches 30,000
Spacecraft enters comet halo
Croc hunter draws fire
N. Koreans agree to inspection
Haitian celebration troubled
Bomb hits Indonesian club
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