“Made entirely in natural colors! Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky Present Zane Grey’s Wanderer of the Wasteland,” read this Nov. 13, 1924 ad in The Dalles Daily Chronicle. Jack Holt, Kathlyn Williams, Noah Beery and Billie Dove starred in the Paramount Picture.
A caption at the bottom of this ad suggests: “How good are the children with water colors or crayon? Try them on this.”
“Made entirely in natural colors! Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky Present Zane Grey’s Wanderer of the Wasteland,” read this Nov. 13, 1924 ad in The Dalles Daily Chronicle. Jack Holt, Kathlyn Williams, Noah Beery and Billie Dove starred in the Paramount Picture.
A caption at the bottom of this ad suggests: “How good are the children with water colors or crayon? Try them on this.”
Fire, of undetermined origin, at 11 a.m. yesterday morning, broke out in the projection room at the Rialto theater, and quickly spread to the lobby. The fire department was quickly on the scene, and the blaze was under control in less than fifteen minutes, but not before the projection room, the lobby and box office had been badly damaged. Charles Gamble, who had been oiling the projectors and had left the projection room for only a few minutes, returned to find the projection room roaring with flame. In his efforts to close the door of the room he was burned across his forehead. The Rialto theater will be closed intendedly, but programs will be maintained at the Cascadian theater, announces Gamble.
— Hood River News, 17 Nov. 1944
Deadly Game Played—
A dispatch from the public relations office of the U. S. marine corps tells an arresting story about Pfc. Jackson M. Douthit, 21, of The Dalles, who for half an hour played a deadly game of “catch” with a Japanese who was entrenched in a deep coral hole in the Peleliu-Palau islands area. Instead of balls they used live hand grenades. “I was trying to blast him out of his hole,” said the Oregon marine, “and every time he threw out a grenade I threw it back at him. I got two back in his hole but couldn’t blast him out for some reason. Then I missed a third strike.”
He was evacuated, though his wounds were not considered serious. Douthit is the son of Mr. Ida G. Helyer of The Dalles, and has three brothers in the service. They are Pfc. Harry Douthit, U. S. marine corps, a prisoner of the Japs in the Philippines; and two brothers in the army, one in California and one in the South Pacific area.
— The Dalles Daily Chronicle, Nov. 17, 1944
Assessor resigns position
Klickitat County Assessor Lowell Johnson first walked through the assessor’s office in August 1956 as a staff member. When he shuts the door behind him at 5 p.m. Dec. 31, it will bring to a close a 28-year career. The 62-year-old Johnson, who had been toying with the idea of retiring prior to his reelection in 1982, officially announced Monday his intention to resign in a letter to county commissioners.
Johnson was elected to his sixth four-year term in 1982, and when he retires in December he will cap a 22 year stint as assessor. He will qualify for his pension when his 40 months of Navy duty are added.
“In reflecting upon my years as elected official for Klickitat County, it is with a feeling of some nostalgia but also with a sense that the time has come, that I submit to you official notice of my retirement,” Johnson said in the letter … his successor will be chosen by the board of commissioners from a list of three nominees recommended by the county’s Republican Central Committee.
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