Koberg Beach and the pavilion was a popular destination for swimmers and dancers alike. Many came to swim in the “Finest swimming and recreational resort in the Mid-Columbia” or enjoy time in the pavilion that had dancing upstairs and an open-air picnic area downstairs.
"NEWSPAPERS IN A STREAM were pouring off the new Chronicle rpress when the first offset edition of the 75-year-old daily was published Monday in the plant at Fourth and Federal Streets. Here pressman Don Horton examines ink distribution on the inside pages while Darold Dayley, the circulation manager, grabs a handful of freshly printed papers for distribution to readers." The Dalles Daily Chronicle, April 13, 1965.
The Jr. Ku Klux Klan's add for "A Great Mass Meeting of Boys" 12 to 18 years old, at K. of P. Hall, was advertised in The Dalles Daily Chronicle on April 2, 1925. A field director of the racist organization was to speak on "America's first line of defense." There was no admission fee.
This add was matter-of-factly inserted between those for a country dance and a new cafe.
"NEWSPAPERS IN A STREAM were pouring off the new Chronicle rpress when the first offset edition of the 75-year-old daily was published Monday in the plant at Fourth and Federal Streets. Here pressman Don Horton examines ink distribution on the inside pages while Darold Dayley, the circulation manager, grabs a handful of freshly printed papers for distribution to readers." The Dalles Daily Chronicle, April 13, 1965.
The local sheriff’s office is at a loss to know what to do with five very small boys of Oak Grove who were picked up at the Oak Grove store last week when the officers had hidden themselves in the store to arrest burglars. The officers had received information that the store might be robbed and several entered the building and hid themselves after dark. Some time afterwards, they heard a noise and identified it as a window being opened. Giving the burglars time to enter, the officers suddenly switched on the lights and there, blinking and terribly scared, stood five tiny boys. They confessed they had entered the store to take candy, and one of the boys said he recently bought some candy at a store and “didn’t get all that was coming to him.”
— Hood River News
With the advent of spring and blooming flower gardens, flower thieves have become active again. Thieves last night invaded the yard of Mrs. Carlton P. Williams and clipped virtually all of the hyacinths and tulips blooming there. No clue as to the identity of the thief was left.
— The Dalles Chronicle
The Jr. Ku Klux Klan's add for "A Great Mass Meeting of Boys" 12 to 18 years old, at K. of P. Hall, was advertised in The Dalles Daily Chronicle on April 2, 1925. A field director of the racist organization was to speak on "America's first line of defense." There was no admission fee.
This add was matter-of-factly inserted between those for a country dance and a new cafe.
1945 — 80 years ago
At a joint meeting of Hood River Port commission, county court and the chamber of commerce Wednesday evening, the projected waterfront improvement was discussed from many angles, and both the county court and the chamber of commerce added their support to the plan which the Port commission originated. It was urged that the Port commission obtain the services of an engineer to make a complete survey of the project, the area of land which could be reclaimed, the volume of material which would be required for the fill and the estimated cost of the completed project.
— Hood River News
Several pedestrians had narrow escapes from injury Saturday afternoon at 2:50, when a wooden ladder fell to the sidewalk from the top of the Sprouse-Reitz department store building. The ladder had been placed against a flagpole atop the building while the janitor attempted to catch a broken rope that was permitting the flag to whip about in the high wind.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Mayor Roland R. Peeler of White Salmon, has issued a proclamation designating April 1 to 20 as “United National Clothing Collection Month” in which he calls upon the cooperation of all citizens to donate clothing for the unfortunate people who have lost their homes and belongings in the occupied nations during this war. A nation-wide roundup of 150,000,000 pounds of clothing for the war-stricken people overseas is scheduled for April. It is our hope that his community will shoulder its full share of the load in this urgent undertaking. There will be no other nationwide clothing drive for overseas relief this spring. Let’s face the problem at once. This is not an appeal for hard cash, but for clothes lying unused in your closets. In Europe alone, there are now more that 30,000,000 boys and girls and more than 95,000,000 men and women in dire need of that clothing.
— White Salmon Enterprise
Koberg Beach and the pavilion was a popular destination for swimmers and dancers alike. Many came to swim in the “Finest swimming and recreational resort in the Mid-Columbia” or enjoy time in the pavilion that had dancing upstairs and an open-air picnic area downstairs.
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1965 — 60 years ago
Water users in Hood River and Wasco counties will have average water supplies in 1965 despite two months of severe drought, according to A. J. Webber, State Conservationist for the Soil Conservation Service. Mountain snow cover is near average and watershed soils are extremely wet under the snow. Water content of the mountain snowpack is 90 per cent of the usual April 1 amount and 82 per cent of the last year at this date.
— Hood River News
Now in its 75th year of publication, The Dalles Daily Chronicle today is being published for the first time in a new plant at Fourth and Federal that is one of the nation’s most modern newspaper buildings. It is a building designed for a new kind of newspaper plant, among the first in the nation specially built to house equipment for publication by a process known as offset.
— The Dalles Chronicle
In order that all interested persons, organizations and agencies may be informed of the plan for development and management of the John Day Lock and Dam project for public port terminal, recreational, fish and wildlife and other public uses, public meetings are to be held at Boardman, Oregon and Goldendale, Washington. The meeting in Boardman will be held in the Riverside High School Gymnasium, beginning at 1:20 P.M. on 29 April 1965, and will consider, mainly developments involving Oregon Shore areas … At each of these meetings, the District Engineer of the Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District, will explain the plan for coordinated development of the John Day reservoir and its Shorelands.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1985 — 40 Years ago
A Portland man with 30 marijuana plants and planting paraphernalia in his vehicle was arrested Saturday evening at the junction of Highway 35 and Baseline Road. He was lodged in the Hood River County Jail, according to Oregon State Police reports. OSP Tropper Fred Jette observed a man fishing in the East Fork of the Hood River near the junction. The East Fork is closed to angling, and Jette waited near the man’s parked vehicle as the man continued fishing until after dark. When he finally returned to the vehicle, Jetter noted a dirty shovel, bag of fertilizer and a large, empty plastic planter in the rear of the car. He advised the man of his rights and asked if he had been planting marijuana, according to reports. The man denied that.
— Hood River News
Fourth District Oregon Congressman Jim Weaver said Tuesday at a Salem news conference he has no evidence that anyone from Rajneeshpuram bore any responsibility for causing a salmonella outbreak in The Dalles last September. Weaver also said at the Capitol news conference that he was certain that the food poisoning outbreak that struck 714 people was a “deliberate act of sabotage.”
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