One of the most interesting expositions ever seen here has been on view the past week at the Hood River Drug Co.’s store. It consists of a very complete display of the various forms of “dope” and the impedimenta of the dope fiend. The exhibit was loaned by Chief of Police Jenkins of Portland and was arranged here by A.S. Kolstad, of the Rialto, in connection with the picture, shown at the theater in which Mrs. Wallace Reid portrays the temptation and fall of the dope fiend. In the collection are needles, from the straight hypodermic down to a needle fitted to a fountain pen filler, opium pipes, from the genuine Chinese type down to a very crude medium for inhaling the fumes of opium, curious scales for weighing dope, and specimens of opium, morphine and cocaine; also, the various types of packages in which it is peddled. The exhibit, together with the picture, is one of the strongest indictments of the traffic in narcotics that has ever been shown and provides that the federal authorities have a big problem on their hands to suppress this destructive vice, introduced into the United States from foreign countries. — Hood River News, Oct. 12, 1922
Plans for Ship Launching Rites Now Completed
Plans were virtually complete today for The Dalles’ part in the launching of a tanker, “The Oregon Trail,” in Portland Saturday, October 16. It is expected that close to 50 Dalles and Wasco residents will participate in the ceremonies. Miss Valerie Bolton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Gatch Bolton of this city, will be the sponsor.
All active participants in the parades to be staged Saturday in downtown Portland and at Swan Island, together with the pageant at the Multnomah stadium later the same day, will be attired in costumes reminiscent of 1843—sun-bonnets and early-day dresses for the women, and pioneer and trappers’ clothing for the men. A number of little girls form The Dalles will ride in the covered wagon throughout the parades and pageant.
American Legion members gathered at the Old Fort Dalles historical grounds Sunday morning, washed and greased seven of the ancient vehicles stored there, for shipment by barge to Portland. These were The Dalles - Prineville mail and express stage, the Umatilla house bus, Ward & Oakes livery stable cab, Smith French buggy, George Cooper surrey, a pheaton, and The Dalles fire engine pumper, which latter was hauled downtown to fire headquarters, where the city firemen polished it up.
— The Dalles Chronicle, Oct. 11, 1943
AG rules Rajneeshpuram illegal
SALEM, Ore. (UPI) — The incorporation of Rajneeshpuram, a central Oregon city founded by an Indian guru’s followers, violated state and federal costitutional guarantees of separate of church and state, state attorney general Dave Frohnmayer ruled today.
The opinion, requested by state Rep. Mike McCracken, is based on a series of known and assumed facts concerning the community founded in 1981 by disciples of Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the attorney general said.
“After nine months of study, we have come to the inevitable conclusion that on the facts presented to us, Rajneeshpuram cannot be a city,” Frohnmayer said.
“The constitutional prohibition against intermingling of church and state is so basic to our system of government that we feel a responsibility now to determine whether the facts are as we believe, and if so, to take appropriate legal action,” the attorney general said.
The request by McCracken, D-Albany, questioned the legality of the city to receive state revenue-sharing funds. Frohnmayer concluded in his opinion that the city could not receive those state funds.
... “The intrusion of religion into city government affairs is pervasive and unavoidable,” he said. “There is, in effect, a total fusion of government and of religious functions. In short, as presently constituted, this city is fundamentally incapable of behaving as a city.”
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