1925 — 100 years ago
Efforts of the state of Washington to bar Japanese from controlling land were blocked on Wednesday by the state supreme court. The lower court at Seattle held that a 60 year lease of J. T. Kusumi on ten acres and possession by Ryoto Kurita of eight acres were invalid, and ordered both tracts which are near Seattle, to escheat to the state.
The higher court denied the state contention that a series of transfers on each tract, having been effected through dummies, made the claims invalid.
— Hood River News
Wasco County is well up in honors in the land products show of the Pacific International Livestock exposition, now being held in Portland...
An innovation in preparation for road surfacing will be introduced in the Lapine-Coral Springs gap of The Dalles-California highway, according to C. W. Wanzer, division chief of the highway department. Carl Nyberg, to whom the contract was let last week, will install two crushers on the 28-mile stretch and will operate them continuously through the winter months, unless hampered by snow, running the finished product into stock piles by means of conveyors.
— The Dalles Chronicle
1945 — 80 years ago
Want to be Victory Queen? It there is any young woman in Hood River county who would like to enter the Victory Queen contest, sponsored by the Oregon War Finance committee at Portland, with the possibility of a free trip to Hollywood and a screen test which, if successful, will bring her a one-year screen contract and the title of “Western Bond Queen,” she should present herself at the Rialto theater in Hood River before 6 p.m., Saturday, November 10.
— Hood River News
Plans for the reception of Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, who will be in The Dalles November 15 during his tour of the Pacific Northwest in support of the Victory loan campaign, were outlined yesterday evening at a meeting of various civic organizations ... General Wainwright has requested heroes of Bataan especially to attend the ceremony, as he wishes to talk with them personally.
— The Dalles Chronicle
1965 — 60 years ago
Better each year, To the Editor: I have discovered the ingredients for a rewarding Halloween confection. You take 180 eager kids, add a pinch of work and a poke full of fun, roast them lightly with the thrilling story of UNICEF, and turn them out into the Hood River community. An hour later they delight your palate with goodies totaling $783. If you want to take the time to figure it out you will discover that these goodies will provide 391,500 cups of milk for children who suffer from chronic malnutrition, or protect 78.300 kids from tuberculosis.
— Hood River News
Two men, one armed with a revolver, held up the owner of the recently remodeled Lucky Cuss Cafe and Bar and five of her customers early Wednesday and escaped with about $220, said Sheriff Leo Roberts, whose office was called within a few minutes.
A Circuit Court Jury at Hood River this week awarded $35,828.66 to a Dalles woman, a former Hood River resident, in a personal injury case growing out of a traffic collision on Highway 35 more than four years ago.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Two new driver training cars expand instruction in popular Columbia Hi Course: Gene Kari, local Ford deal-er, has presented to the Columbia High School Driver Education Program the use of two free-loan, dual-controlled automobiles for the 1965-66 school year. These cars, valued in excess of $6,000 are 1966 Ford Fairlanes completely equipped for driver education purposes.
Because of the expanded program and increased student participation in Drivers Education courses at Columbia High School, these automobiles represent an extensive Investment on the part of local dealers towards the training of young drivers.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1985 — 40 years ago
Ray T. Yasui, longtime civic and fruit industry leader in Hood River has been singled out for recognition from the Emperor of Japan for promoting friendly relations between Japan and the United States.
In a notice from the Consulate-General of Japan in Portland, Yasui was listed as one of three Americans of Japanese descent to be tapped for the honor. Both of the others are from Portland.
— Hood River News
A federal judge today dropped a charge of unlawful flight against jailed guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh because federal authorities arrested him under an improper statute. U.S. Magistrate Barbara Delaney dismissed the government charge that Rajneesh was trying to flee to Bermuda to avoid prosecution on immigration violations because the Indian guru had not actually left the country and was charged under laws dealing with interstate, not international, flight.
The women disciples of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, including the one who flew home from England to surrender to authorities, pleaded innocent Thursday to charges of immigration fraud.
An attempt was made to kill Wasco County Commissioner Jim Comini during the summer, but in a press conference held this morning, Comini said he was unable to say anything about the specifics of that attempt. The existence of a hit list compiled by leaders at Rajneesh commune in southern Wasco County was made public during the weekend and Comini, who, along with county planner Dan Durow, was on that list, said he had known about the list for several weeks.
— The Dalles Chronicle
A joint radiation sampling effort of the Columbia River undertaken this summer by state and federal agencies and the environmental organization Greenpeace has concluded, but the parties involved disagree on the results … Buchanan said the tritium levels were a violation of EPA standards and should require special permits from the EPA and the DSHS. “The state is not being responsive,” he said. “Those seeps should be licensed.”
“It’s a license to pollute, but they (the federal Department of Energy) haven’t even applied for the license.” He said licensing would allow long-term monitoring of the seeps at Hanford.
— White Salmon Enterprise
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