1924 — 100 years ago
A street light was ordered installed across from the pump house on the pole near Charters garage in order to light up the alley back of the stores on the south side of Jewett Avenue. A light is also to be placed at the intersection of the Dock road and North Bank highway. — White Salmon Enterprise
Two different attempts to wreck O. W. R. & N. mail trains recently came to light when railroad officers arrested a hobo known as Pendleton at the Dalles on Thursday of last week. On the night of September 16, a push car was struck and thrown from the right of way near Rooster Rock by train No. 6, eastbound. Fortunately the engine held to the rails. The second attempt was on Tuesday night, Sept. 23, when a mail train, westbound hit what was believed to be several ties at a point near Hood River and again no damage was done. From a description furnished railroad officers by a track walker, the man “Pendleton” was arrested. He denied being the culprit, but admitted that at times he is mentally irresponsible, and might have placed obstructions on the track during one of his spells. — Hood River News
George C. Williams, one of the veterans in the Walla Walla government hospital, expresses appreciation of the git of jelly and jam from the people of The Dalles and Wasco County in a letter received at the office of the local chapter of Red Cross, which collected the sweets of the patients at the hospital and recently shipped three barrels of the confections from here. The ex-service man states that the patients are now using the jellies and jams and that they add much to their pleasure. — The Dalles Chronicle
The Dalles-Bend stage line is made the subject of a complain in the justice court by State Traffic Officer Jay Saltzman, who yesterday filled a charge that B. C. Brown and Charles Brown, partners, operating this line, carried passengers on the Columbia River highway without filing a bond with the public service commission of Oregon, as required by law. — The Dalles Chronicle
1944 — 80 years ago
Four White Salmon soldiers and navy men, who are a long way from home in far-off South Pacific, are now getting The Enterprise sent them via air mail. This means that the “home paper” will reach them within two weeks where before it took them over two months to reach them. They are PFc. Ronald Miller in New Guinea, Thomas E. Heyl, M 1/c, somewhere with the Seabees in the South Pacific, Corporal Roy Stephenson , on Saipan, and Herold W. Lehmann in New Guinea. — White Salmon Enterprise
Completion of navigation guides between Celilo Falls and Pasco was announced today by the coast guard. Range towers and lights marking the Columbia river channel numbering more than 150 have been installed, according to announcement, and the work has required more than a year and a half to complete. With the installation of the present navigation guides 125 miles of additional river have been marked. Orders were received yesterday, by Boatswain J. L. Woodworth for the installation of a number of additional beacons. Woodsworth has been assisted in the work by a crew of nine carpenters and eight technicians. — The Dalles Chronicle
With the completion of an airport at Wasco, students under the direction of Pat Cody and Forest Taylor are now busy making use of the new field, it was learned here today. Plans for hard surfacing of the landing strip in the near future have been made, according to report, and a club has been organized of those individuals at Wasco and vicinity who are interested in flying. — The Dalles Chronicle
Deeply tanned, but wearing the same old, friendly smile, Bob Butler, son of Truman, dropped into the News’ office yesterday, for the first time in nearly three years. He didn’t have to explain his absence, for he was in Army uniform and on a 30-day furlough from New Guinea. Bob is Technical Corporal in the Signal Corps and has been in the service nearly three years. He, in company with Miles Bresaw, another member of his unit, came home together on a Navy transport, and did the non-stop run from New Guinea to San Francisco in 14 days flat. He is rejoining his outfit at the end of his furlough. — Hood River News
1964 — 60 years ago
Mrs. Margarat Tubbs, 27, overturned her car, a 1957 Ford Station wagon, on the bad curve a half mile south of the county rock pit, about 4 miles north of White Salmon Tuesday afternoon at 3 P.M. on Sept. 29. Mrs. Tubbs had four or five children in the car with her, the State Patrol reported. No one was injured. Mrs. Tubbs and the children were taken to Skyline Hospital for observation. The State Patrol said that the slick road conditions caused by rainy weather, was the contributing cause of the accident. — White Salmon Enterprise
About 150 Hood River Electric Co-operative customers were without power for a short time Saturday after a dusting plane clipped some small distribution lines south of Hood River about 7:30 a.m. Willard Johnson, co-op manager, said the service was out from 15 minutes to 1 1/2 hours throughout the area of the mishap. He said the wheel on a place caught two wires in the Alfred Guignard orchard behind Central Sales, causing the outage. The Aero Spray, Inc., plane owned by Mel Lingren was not damaged. — Hood River News
1984 — 40 years ago
Every person who seeks to register to vote in Wasco County after 10:20 a.m. today will face a hearing on their qualifications. County clerk Sue Proffitt announced the decisions at 10:20 a.m. when 19 men from Rancho Rajneesh appeared to register. Proffitt read a statement which said: “Because I have reason to believe there are organized efforts to fraudulently register people in Wasco County to vote in the November general election, I have decided to do a blanket rejection of all new voter registrations in Wasco County as of now. The rejections will constitute an automatic request for a hearing,” she said. — The Dalles Chronicle
Those requesting assistance from a city ambulance after Nov. 1 will see a significant hike in the ambulance rates over the present costs. That was made official Monday night when city councilors voted to approve a fire committee recommendation to up the rates for city ambulance services. The rate hikes were stirred when one of the city ambulances needed an engine replacement and the cost of replacement completely drained the ambulance maintenance fund and then some. City Administrator Pete Harris said at the time the fire department was scratching for dollars to replace the engine that new rates must be considered. He said the new rates were long overdue, and the matter was referred to the city’s fire committee. — Hood River News
2004 — 20 years ago
A new column of steam emerged from Mount St. Helens on Sunday, a lazy plume that rose from the crater for several hours and reminded scientists of the volcano’s dome-building activity 20 years ago. “It’s a view very, very reminiscent of the year in the 1989s during dome-building and a few years after when the system was hot and vapor was rising and steam clouds were forming,” said Willie Scott, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. — The Dalles Chronicle
Two months ago, fisheries biologist Darcy Morgan was studying fish ecology in a streambed near the Gibson Prairie Horsecamp when she spotted something she knew should not be there: A trail. She contacted Ken Kollas, trails manager for Mount Hood National Forest’s Hood River Ranger District, who then began mapping the sprawling trail system, which parallels Surveyors Ridge to the west. Over time, he noticed the trail system was growing, spreading with its users’ own ambitions. Since then, Kollas has been trying to make the trails unrideable with boulders, dead trees and branches, which has left Karen Donahue “heartbroken.” — Hood River News
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1964
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1984
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2004
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