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This week in history: May 3, 2023

May 3, 2023
May 3, 2023

Bradford Island, Bonneville Dam — An undated aerial publicity photograph shows Bradford Island at Bonneville Dam, viewed from the west. On March 17, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency added Bradford Island to the National Priorities List, making it a Superfund site. The listing comes after DEQ, Washington Department of Ecology and the Yakama Nation wrote joint messages in 2019 and 2021 to the EPA seeking to have the site placed on the National Priorities List. From 1942 until 1982, the Army Corps of Engineers used the east end of the island as a landfill and dumped electrical components and other debris in the river near the northeast corner of the island, according to an Oregon Department of Environmental Quality report.
— The Dalles Chronicle archives

1923 — 100 years ago

Only Two High Schools At Meet: The other High Schools of the county failed to appear at the track meet on Gibson Field last Saturday morning but the Stevenson team came up and gave the Hood River High boys some good competition. This was a preliminary event for practice only before the Mid-Columbia Track Meet to be held here next Saturday. — Hood River News

“The Caterpillar Fordson, A Marvel of Power and Performance,” begins this advertisement in the May 3, 1923, The Dalles Daily Chronicle.

This R.O. Sche’s Jewelry Store ad in the April 30, 1943, Hood River News suggests the business cut back its hours of operation due to staffing shortages.
April 30, 1943

Proof Positive — Boys Are Just As Good At Cooking As Anyone. Young chefs turn proceeds of a cooky (sic) sale to Mrs. Muriel Hunt, special education teacher at Park Street School. The tray the boys hold contain the $12.80 they earned through their 4-H cooking club bake sale. From left, the boys are Phillip May, Randall Lee, Donald Goss, Robert Loomis, Randy Franz, Dwight Fillmore, Steven Reynolds and Joe Wampler. Not pictured is Allen Short, another baker. Mrs. Rollin Fillmore is club leader.
— May 2, 1963, Hood River News

Verbatim

Oregon Travel Bureau Puts Out Postcards

The Travel and Information department of the Oregon State highway commission is making available 500,000 postcards covering in color Oregon scenery, for the use of men and women of the armed services.

Up to the present time these postcards have been distributed only through the USO at Salem, where they have proved to be very popular, but they are to be made available through the USO and post exchanges in Oregon in the immediate future, writes Oscar Cutler, acting director of the Travel bureau. — April 30, 1943, Hood River News

Hood River To Dedicate Power Plant

9,000 Horsepower To Be Generated; Tied In With The Dalles

HOOD RIVER, May 3. (Special) — The dedication of a new $1,250,000 hydro electric plant of the Pacific Power and Light company scheduled for next Thursday, will bring a notable delegation of heads of north western power and allied concerns to this city. Crews are now engaged in putting the final touches on the great plant, one of the largest initiated in the northwest in 1922, and when water is turned into the 10-foot pipe line, almost three miles long, and the huge turbine is started, the generator will add to the northwest’s electrical energy 9,000 new horsepower.

The new plant, constructed by the Phoenix Utility company ... was begun last June. In face of constant delays caused by snowstorms and freshets last winter, the construction company has made rapid progress. A maximum crew of 800 men was engaged on the works for a time last fall.

Already Tied In

The new plant has already been tied in with the distributing lines supplying The Dalles and connected with the powerhouse of the Northwestern Electric company on the White Salmon river in Klickitat county. Through the Northwestern company a bulk of the energy will be sold in Portland. The new plant will have a daily earning power of approximately $500.

The powerhouse of the new plant is located only about a quarter of a mile south of this city on Hood river. The building is entirely fire proof. Construction throughout is of steel, tile and concrete. The intricacies of its “bus” room, where great switches are operated from the main room of the structure by the mere pressing of buttons no more fearsome looking than the switch buttons of a private residence, the rhythmic singing giant generator, and the array of dials and simple looking levers and gauges, all of these things require unlimited explanation before the layman comprehends their means and uses. The new structure, however, is like an opened and interesting book for the skilled electrician ... — April 3, 1923, The Dalles Daily Chronicle