The appearance of a number of uninvited guests, including Sheriff Edick and Marshal Hart and their deputies, brought to a sudden termination a house party in progress on Sunday night at the home on State St. Liquid refreshments, of a kind which does not coincide with the Volstead law was being served, and the officers secured sufficient evidence to justify, in their opinion, the making of a number of arrests. On Monday, it was proved to the satisfaction of Justice Blagg that several of those present who were gathered in by the officers had chanced to call at the home and had not been there long enough to partake of the forbidden liquid refreshment, and they were released without fine.
— Hood River News
Wallace L. Gibson is under arrest and an unknown liquor dealer is sought today, as the result of an unusual seizure last night by Sheriff Levi Chrisman, in cooperation with federal authorities. Gibson is the seventh man to be arrested by county and federal officers since January 1 on liquor charges. Five gallons of whiskey and an automobile were seized.
— The Dalles Chronicle
1945 — 80 years ago
According to Will Gamble, who was in Hood River last week, there is every prospect that the Rialto theater, now being remodeled, will be completed in six weeks and when it is reopened it will easily be one of the most beautiful and uptodate moving picture theaters in Oregon. The new front of the building is to provide two entrances, with a small store building on the east and west front. Above will be built a marquee of modernistic type, eight feet high, with two large bent glass panels each five feet high and 14 feet wide.
— Hood River News
Wasco county still is short $1,500 of reaching its $3,000 quote in the current “march of dimes” campaign, it was reported today.
— The Dalles Chronicle
The “Successful Farm Demonstration” exhibited last Saturday at the high school by the State Extension service was attended by a crowd estimated to exceed 650 people. In spite of the “slushy” weather a fine crowd turned out to see the show which is now on tour throughout the state. White Salmon was eighth in a series of 35 stops. Individual exhibits consisted of utility room for the home; food preservation display; farm resettlement display; horticultural display; rat extermination display; model milk house; farm refrigerator unit; a model hay drier for the barn; model poultry farm, and other models of poultry building and feeders.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1965 — 60 years ago
Mick Nichols, a junior at Cascade Locks High school, and Barbara Crane, a Hood River High school senior, will represent Hood River county at the 10th annual Oregon 4-H club conference February 7 thru 9 at Salem. The three-day session is a program sponsored by Oregon State University’s 4-H phase of education in cooperation with the executive branch of government. There for the conference is “Know Your State Government,” and of the 12 applicants among Hood River county 4-H members, two were selected.
— Hood River News
Mad Rushing Waters of Jewett Creek, add to that the broken dam at the Gryce Read ranch and you have this scene near hiway [sic] 830. Road was blocked by police as safety precaution at noon. Power poles swayed. All traffic was shut down between White Salmon and Bingen. Dock Road was closed, so was Underwood cut-off. Spring Street near trailer court in north end of town. At Ray Yarnell home where son was due at wedding, at 2 o’clock, bride to be got safely across ahead of rushing water, groom was kept at home for hour as waters rushed through yard, road and field.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1985 — 40 years ago
A trail of blood drippings led to the arrest of a 22-year-old Hood River man early Sunday morning in connection with the burglary of Cliff’s Market, 1801 W. Cascade St. Arrested and taken into custody Sunday morning was a man who lives on Columbia St. He was charged with first degree burglary after he allegedly punched through a window at Cliff’s and stole four half cases of beer from inside the business.
— Hood River News
A proposal in President Reagan’s budget to cut the share counties receive from the sale of timber on public lands would have a drastic effect on the Wasco County budget. Wasco County received $1,500,630 as its share of timber revenues.
— The Dalles Chronicle
White Salmon is proposed as the future home of a multi-million dollar scientific research and development laboratory, in an announcement made this week by the Klickitat County Port District and Gentronix International, Inc., a private company based in Rockville, Maryland. The news is being hailed not only as a tremendous boon to the local economy but as a development with state-wide implications … The Gentronix International, Inc., facility will investigate the completely new field of “molecular electronics,” utilizing microscopic molecular structures to carry out the computer functions currently performed by silicon chip technology … “It’s high tech,” Smith noted. “It’s the leading edge of high tech – it’s right on the cutting edge. We’re dealing with pure research. The immediate goal will be the biochip, but this is only the start of a new technology. We’ll probably be here for 150 years.”
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