“Surveys in commercial orchards indicate that the apple aphids will be more numerous this season,” says A.L. Lovett, entomologist of the Oregon Experiment Station. The early hatching of the aphids is favorable to the orchardist, so the success of the delayed dormant application of nicotine sulphate should be satisfactory this season. The standard application for the delayed dormant spray is commercial concentrated lime-sulfur 3 ¼ gallons, nicotine sulfate solution 3-4th pint to the hundred gallons of spray solution. — April 4, 1924, Hood River News
Make Moonshine To Keep “Wolf” From Cabin Door: Joe Rutzik, Sick All Winter, Jailed After Raid In Mountains: Pitiful Story Is Told: Woman And Children Half Clothed, Family Heavily In Debt.
Joe Rutzik, a middle aged man is in the county jail this afternoon while his wife is tearfully awaiting the arrival home of three children from school—and in the hand of the county authorities is a still and a quantity of moonshine whiskey.
The circumstance is the result of a raid at Rutzik’s farm, known as the old Frederikson place on the divide between Three mile and Five mile creeks, about 15 miles south of The Dalles. With several deputies Sheriff Levi Christman went to the ranch this morning armed with a warrant.
What at first appeared to be a flagrant violation of the law—by mountain people who felt secure behind the long range of hills between them and the “revenuers” turned out to be a pitiful story of a sick man, a crippled woman and three children whom they were trying to keep in school while they eked out a lonely existence, faced by overwhelming debts.
It was a solemn-faced posse of men that turned back toward The Dalles shortly before noon, Joe Rutzik in their midst and the doleful lamentations of his wife ringing in their ears as they left the ranch. — The Dalles Daily Chronicle, March 9, 1924
Klickitat Heights People Fight First Brush Fire In Major Creek Canyon
KLICKITAT HEIGHTS, April 5 — Quite a brush fire gave us some excitement Sunday afternoon when a fire swept up Major creek canyon back of Vernon Cochenour place (known as the old Gus Myhr farm). By quick action of our neighborhood people the fire was brought under control and little damage was done. However, this shows how dry it is for this time of year and how very careful everyone should be … — April 7, 1944, White Salmon Enterprise
State To Get Horsethief Lake
Horsethief Lake Park, developed by the U. S. Corps of Engineers in the Washington area just east The Dalles Dam, will be taken over by the Washington State Parks Department shortly before opening of the fishing season on Sunday, April 19, W. S. Nelson, manager of the Chamber of Commerce, reports.
Most other state parks in Washington opened March 20, about 10 days before the usual April 1 opening time, Nelson said he was informed.
Development of an overnight trailer parking area at Horsethief Lake Park is planned, Nelson said.
... Nelson was pessimistic about early development of the area at lower end of the Deschutes River for picnicking and other uses. The state parks department, he said, is in a position to acquire about 30 acres of the land needed in Sherman county, but available land is difficult of acquisition in Wasco County, he indicated. — The Dalles Daily Chronicle, April 1, 1964
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