Yesteryears
1924 — 100 years ago
At a meeting of residents of Dee, held at the Dee Hotel last Friday night, to discuss projects for an all. weather road between Dee and town, it was decided after debate, to appoint a committee to be empowered to study the entire problem with a view to naming the project which will be at once the most practical and least expensive, but at the same time to select a route which will be open twelve months of the sear. The committee named are: Leroy Childs, R. A. Collins, E. H. Green, C. F. Stoutter, J. J. Krumenacher, J. H. Crenshaw, R. H. Haseltine and Luhr Jensen. Several members of the local Chamber of Commerce were present at the meeting. — Hood River News
Company “H,” The Dalles machine gun unit of the 186 Infantry, temporarily assigned to the 162nd Infantry, Oregon national guard, was mustered into the service of the state and the United States in the gymnasium of the civic auditorium last night, 75 members strong.
Tomorrow will be “Pioneers’ Day” in The Dalles and Wasco county. — The Dalles Chronicle
Work started on the ninth pier of the White Salmon-Hood River bridge across the Columbia River Tuesday. This is a larger pier than the others as it is one of the two that will support the overhead span under which the streamers will pass. Eight piers are now 40 to 50 feet above water and the construction company is hurrying to complete the remaining three piers before high water. A night crew is also working on the bridge. — White Salmon Enterprise
1944 — 80 years ago
Roy Webster, sales promotional manager of the Oregon-Washington-California Pear Bureau, will be the principal speaker on the afternoon program of Hood River county Pomona Grange on Tuesday, May 2, at Odell Grange hall. Other numbers on the program will be solos by Mrs. W. Sherman Burgoyne and Mrs. George Coe.
Mrs. Burgoyne will sing The Jewel Song, from Faust, My Heart At Thy Sweet Voice, from Samson and Delilah, with Mrs. Chas. Kerr accompanying at the piano. Following a report on the Grange Supply, by Dick Wilcox, manager, there will be a monologue by Mrs. Walter Sandercock and a talk on the blood donor mobile unit by the county chairman of this Red Cross committee. — Hood River News
A small colt that swam the Columbia river here recently, was claimed yesterday by a small Indian boy from Dallesport, C. T. Smith revealed today. Smith said the boy told him that the colt had been tied with a 50 foot rope and broke loose when an airplane flew over low and scared the animal.— The Dalles Chronicle
The Junior-Senior banquet held at the school gym on April 22, proved to be a very gala affair. The Juniors gave the largest banquet ever given by a school class, inviting not only the Junior and Senior classes but also the parents of the two classes. The Junior Sextet girls waited on table and also sang three lovely numbers during the dinner. Walter Wang, president of the Junior class, acted as toastmaster and Mrs. Sue Morehead was speaker of the evening. The dinner was carried out in a baseball theme. Catchers mitts held the program, baseballs were used as nut cups and each speaker held some position in the game. Leonard Schmid read the Senior class will and George Woodruff gave the class history. The dinner was very much enjoyed and the guests enjoyed an hour of dancing afterward. — White Salmon Enterprise
"JUST TO SEE how it would work, team captain Bob McDonald of The Dalles Jaycees conducts an interview of Dalles Fireman Kevin Widener on downtown fire station pole as the Community Attitude Survey progressed here Tuesday. Questionnaires to sound out residents of the area on likes, dislikes and community improvement ideas will continue through Sunday. Response of the public is good, say the Jayvees." — The Dalles Daily Chronicle, May 6, 1964
The Dalles Chronicle/file photo1964 — 60 years ago
Republicans closed the gap on Democrats slightly in Hood River county this year, according to voter registrations tallied after the April 14 deadline. The Democratic majority shrank from a 415 edge to 322. It was a negative sort of thing, because both parties lost in registration between 1962 and 1964. The Republicans just lost fewer than the Democrats. Registrations at deadline time for the May primary showed 2,877 Democrats, 2,555 Republicans, and 133 others, for a county total of 5,565. In 1962, there were 3,104 registered Democrats, 2,689 Republicans, and 196 others for a 5,989 total. — Hood River News
Sheriff’s officers who investigated vandalism during the weekend in the Chenowith-Brown’s Creek area said approximately 80 mailboxes were knocked down or otherwise disturbed.
Annexation of slightly more than 80 acres lying between The Dalles city limits, Pak and Snipes streets and Interstate 80N Freeway, west of the city was asked in a petition to the city council filed by Dave Larsen, representing the development group, at the council meeting Monday night. — The Dalles Chronicle
1984 — 40 years ago
It was a funeral cortege like none that’s been seen here when his fire department friends carried out a last wish of Tyrone “Ty” Taylor on Monday.
His casket was loaded onto the Hood River department’s restored 1920 LaFrance fire truck for his last ride to Idlewild cemetery.
Taylor, 46, was struck down unexpectedly by a malignant brain tumor last year, and doctors couldn’t reverse the progress of the destructive growth. While his irreversible condition gradually deteriorated, he was still able to communicate and he let it be known how he’d like to make that final trip.
That time arrived Monday. He died April 26 at the Hood River Care Center and after a service at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, pallbearers carried his flag-draped casket to the bright red LaFrance and slid it onto the bed.
Then with engineers and volunteers walking behind, it made its way slowly up 18th to Belmont, then out to Idlewild Cemetery. That truck was a focal point because it was Taylor who had been instrumental its inspiring its restoration — a job that is nearing completion. — Hood River News
The Senate Energy Committee broke a troublesome stalemate with the House of wilderness legislation today, passing five bills, including an Oregon measure adding 935,500 acres for national preservation. ... Map shows Badger Creek wilderness area, south of Camp Baldwin in Wasco County. — The Dalles Chronicle
About 40 people arrived at White Salmon’s United Methodist Church Monday for a Mt., Adams Chamber meeting, which featured state representatives Dennis Keck and Dean Sutherland. The number one item on the agenda, and the basic reason for the representatives’ attendance, was discussion of an April 19 community meeting which identified four areas of community concern — basic community needs, economic development, the state sales tax and the cost of local government — and saw the beginnings of four groups to deal with these issues.
“The idea was to build on existing industries” to further local economic development, said Charles Henderson, co-chairman with John Blake of one committee. He noted the importance of advertising the area’s investment potential, and stated the need for support of a bill that would allow port districts to build tourism resources — a point seconded by Bill Hemingway, manager of the port of Klickitat. — White Salmon Enterprise
2004 — 20 years ago
The Port of Hood River has stepped forward to pay about $6,000 for a specialized study of riparian zones along the waterfront. That offer was made last week to stave off the latest challenge to potential development along the shoreline. The port decided to take action after staffers from the City of Hood River recommended a uniform, and less expensive, approach for meeting a state landuse planning rule. Port officials objected to “Safe Harbor,” an ordinance that would have imposed a 75-foot setback along both the Columbia and Hood rivers. That baseline model allows only new uses dependent upon water such as a boat dock and a complex process must be followed to gain an exception.
The port board believed that level of protection was excessive since the waterfront is comprised of fill materials that is held in place largely with rip-rap banks.
Of particular concern to the port was the potential restriction on expansions or modifications to buildings located in the setback, including the port offices, Department of Motor Vehicles, and even the dining room of the Hood River Inn. — Hood River News
In a highly-charged spirit of community solidarity, over 400 citizens of The Dalles met on Thursday evening at the Gateway Presbyterian Church to condemn the presence of the city’s new sexually-oriented business, The Adult Shop, in a formative meeting of CCAP or Concerned Citizens Against Pornography.
Riverfront Trail will see a new section ready for use at the end of June, stretching from the Chenowith Creek Bridge to Taylor Lake. — The Dalles Chronicle
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