1926 — 100 years ago
A millinery school under the direction of Miss Esther B. Cooley of the Oregon Agricultural college extension department opened today at the Chenowith Grange hall.
Harry Zahniser rancher on the Emerson-Roberts road, eight miles south of The Dalles, is dead, his wife, Grace Pearcy Zahniser is recovering at the Mid-Columbia hospital from two bullet wounds, and Dewey A. Simons, trapper living near Endersby, is in the county jail on a murder charge as the result of an alleged premeditated on the Zahniser home at about 9 o’clock last night.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Tommy Playle of Bingen owes his life to his dog, who pulled him out of the lake Sunday when he and two Japanese boys fell from a raft. The two other boys were drowned. They were Hirod, 9, and Sunio, 7, the sons of T. Tautsumi, Japanese farmer.
— White Salmon Enterprise
Residents and others are notified that Third Street, between State and Railroad streets, is from now on absolutely closed to the parking of cars, wagons or trucks. This street will remain in the non-parking zone during the apple harvest. Officer Morrison has received instructions to tag all car or truck owners who disobey this ruling. No parking signs will be exhibited on this street, and no excuses will go, says the traffic officer.
— Hood River News
1946 — 80 years ago
Four Indians posted bail of $100 each in the local justice court this morning, after arraignment on a charge of malicious and wanton destruction of personal property. The arrests were on warrants sworn to by Ernest F. and E. R. Cramer, white commercial fishermen, and charge that on August 26, 1946, five Indians overturned the scaffold erected by the Cramers at the Celilo falls fishing ground and dumped into the Columbia river a tent house and its contents...
— The Dalles Chronicle
With a virtual famine in fresh meats prevailing in Hood River, a number of complaints are being heard from workers in the fruit harvests, who find it impossible to meet conditions imposed by hard work with beans and OPA promises. For several days this week local markets have been almost bare of fresh meats, especially beef. A number of Hood River residents and some fruit growers who do not have meat supplies in lockers have gone over to The Dalles in hopes of securing supplies, and most of them have been able to obtain at least part of the meat they require. Naturally, many are recalling the recent empty promises of the OPA officials of which expressed the opinion that, with the resumption of price controls, ample supplies would be available.
— Hood River News
1966 — 60 years ago
A planning study report prepared for Mid-Columbia Planning Council recommending specific uses for 163 miles of Columbia riverfront will be explained... at a meeting of the Mid-Columbia Board on Thursday.
Gunfire in an apartment at 509 1/2 Federal Street left one man dead Monday evening and seriously wounded his companion.
The largest rural telephone service improvement program ever undertaken in The Dalles area is now under way, according to C. P. Horn, local manager for Pacific Northwest Bell.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Nine counties split a $1.4 million financial pie as a result of land management activities by the Department of Natural Resources.
A Portland mountain climber died Saturday night on Washington’s Mt. Adams...
— White Salmon Enterprise
Delayed effect of a rifle shot blackened homes in two Hood River County areas for half an hour Saturday night. Willard Johnson, Hood River Electric Co-operative manager, said the lights went out throughout the Co-op system and in Cascade Locks for 28 minutes because of a broken insulator on a Bonneville Power line. He said someone had apparently broken an insulator on the main source between Cascade Locks and Bonneville Dam sometime during the summer. When the rain began to fall, it caused the power to flash over the insulator break. Remaining insulators broke, and the lines went out.
— Hood River News
1986 — 40 years ago
Residents covered by the Klickitat County Fire Protection District No. 3 who are counting on an immediate drop in their property insurance premiums are in for a letdown. Because of the process which must be followed, it will take at least a year before FPD No. 3 gets its fire rating upgraded by the Washington Surveying and Rating Bureau... Nine counties split a $1.4 million financial pie as a result of land management activities by the Department of Natural Resources.
— White Salmon Enterprise
The Mid-Columbia got an early Christmas present Thursday when Northwest Aluminum announced it will take over the idle Martin Marietta aluminum smelter plant later this year. The action, involving what was once The Dalles’ biggest employer, is expected to put 175 people back to work by the end of December. The reopening plan calls for starting one of the smelter’s two lines, or about 150 cells. From the standpoint of Hood River, White Salmon and Bingen, the Martin Marietta plant’s projected reopening is a local story. Judith Gildley, who heads the Mid-Columbia Training and Employment program, said 196 persons from the Hood River and White Salmon areas were among those who filled out interest applications with her agency by Friday, and more were coming this week.
— Hood River News
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