1924 — 100 years ago
Hens in Wasco County can do anything.
Big eggs, small eggs, eggs of all shapes and sizes, are laid each year.
But Mrs. W. E. Crawford has a Plymouth Rock that springs a new one—a perfectly monogrammed egg with the letter “C” embossed in the light shell structure of the egg on one end.
The egg was produced this morning. The monogram is as perfect as the design on the top of a chocolate cream dipped by an expert candy maker.
Mrs. Carwford resides in the Chenowith district. — The Dalles Chronicle
Late Wednesday night thieves forced their way into three downtown buildings, and made away with cash to the amount of $55. The work was apparently that of boys, and due to the denominations of moneys stolen, it is thought by local police that the culprits will speedily apprehended. Gaining entrance, in some unknown manner, to the Chamber of Commerce billiard room, the thieves forced open a cash drawer from which they procured about three or four dollars, receipts from charges for playing billiards. From there they apparently went to the Star grocery where a back basement window was broken and entrance gained thought it. 40 cents was secured from the till there. Nothing else was touched. After leaving Perigo’s the crooks broke a window in the basement of the Hood River Drug company, where they entered and made away with about $50 in silver, mostly of small denominations, which had been left in the three cash tills. — Hood River News
1944 — 80 years ago
The river tugboat Keith is in drydock at the Columbia Marine shipyards, undergoing complete renovation and the installation of more powerful engines. Welders are cutting away sections of the Keith’s hull, in order to provide additional room for the larger engines. The Keith was pulled up the temporary marine railway at the dock by the powerful crane at the shipyard. A second steel barge at the local shipyard is near completion. The first barge was launched several weeks ago, and is now in service on the Columbia river. — The Dalles Chronicle
Too many bends in the Lake branch and too many good fishing holes around each bend, were main reasons why R. E. Steele, secretary of the chamber of commerce, spent last Sunday night over a small fire on the rock above Laurel creek, wondering what Ernest Samuel and Nelson Emry, his two fishing companions and the folks at home in Hood River would be thinking. At dawn, Monday, he again hit the trail and later met Samuel and Emry who, after waiting for him at the car Sunday night, had decided to search for him Monday morning.
Steele readily admits it was the old, old story, of trying and just one more hole before quitting and then suddenly realizing that it was already too dark to attempt to travel over a little known trail in a dangerous canyon, and then a wise decision to park for the night and taking no further risk. — Hood River News, 1944
1964 — 60 years ago
In a wind measured at nearby The Dalles Municipal Airport station at 34 miles per hour, a member of the Washington State Parks commission Wednesday accepted transfer of Horsethief Lake Park on the Washington Shore of The Dalles Dam from the Corps of Engineers. — The Dalles Chronicle
A rigid wooden structure will replaced the plastic dome that formerly housed Bonneville Power Administrations’ direct-current test facility at Big Eddy substation east of here.
The air-supported “bubble” installed in 1963 collapsed last May 20. Some of the equipment it covered was damaged when the $29,000 vinyl-coated nylon dome ripped and sagged, though held partly in place by supporting cables overhead. — The Dalles Chronicle
Two men were arrested here Tuesday after a hobo jungle brawl in which a third man suffered a head gash. Sheriff R. L. Gilmouthe said the two men were at the scene, and investigation was underway to determine if they were implicated. They were being held on drunk charges. The victim suffered what the sheriff described as “an injury from being hit or cut on the head.” He was not in serious condition. Officers were dispatched to the hobo jungle near Union Pacific tracks just eat of Hood River when a companion of the injured man reporter the incident. — Hood River News
1984 — 40 years ago
When the Royal Lipizzans appeared here on Sunday night the rodeo arena was nearly filled with spectators who enjoyed a royal show. Picture are from performance and from grooming of stallions before the performance. — The Dalles Chronicle
A photo of the wreck, described in an excerpt below, which ran in The Dalles Daily Chronicle on July 9, 1984.
Two truck crewmen ran to safety as a freight train slammed into a special heavy duty truck involved in moving a 200-ton piece of electrical gear over the Madison Street crossing at 6:30 a.m. today. Both the train crew and the truck crew tried to avoid the collision. — The Dalles Chronicle
RAJNEESHPURAM The “lovers” of Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh used airplanes to bombard their master’s RollsRoyce with thousands of rose petals on July 7 on the final day of his third annual world festival.
“It’s been absolutely perfect in every possible way,” said Rajneesh spokeswoman Ma Prem Sunshine.
“The weather is gorgeous, Bhagwan is gorgeous, all of his lovers are ecstatic and everyone’s having a wonderful time,” she said. “We have had absolutely no problems. I haven’t seen any sadness — only tears of joy.”
The week-long festival on the guru’s central Oregon ranch was favored with perfect weather and not a drop of rain, prompting the 15,000 assembled followers from among his 350,000 disciples around the world to make good use of man-made Krishnamurti Lake, built two years ago. — The Dalles Chronicle
Wells Island will have neither hotel nor restaurant if the Port of Hood River adheres to a recommendation from its Wells Island Advisory Committee. The group voted last week to accept the first three alternate plans presented by the port consultant Al Benkendorf. The committee, in a split vote, gave a stamp of approval to a plan using ferry access from the west cove area, which is designated as a site for a hotel and restaurant as well as a ferry terminal and a 112-car parking lot. A Columbia Gorge interpretive center, including conference hall, interpretive display, outdoor amphitheater and botanical garden is sited on the eastern third of the island in the plan accepted by the committee. A controlled swim beach, camping and picnic area, boat dock and storage are included in the plan. — Hood River News
2004 — 20 years ago
Mosier’s newest public art work, a tall “obelisk” or totem on the east side of town ,is now in place and will be dedicated this Sunday.
State Sen. Ted Ferrioli (R-John Day) will be attending the ceremony.
The totem was created by Jeff Stewart, a carver from the Dufur area, where the large piece has been in process for almost three years. — The Dalles Chronicle
They use gravity as their engines, shoes as their brakes and haybales for seatbelts. They can go as fast as 70 miles per hour, screaming on four wheels and a board, just inches above a road that would shred their leather gear the same way a cheese grater grates cheese. They race like Nascar drivers — without the metal shield — swerving through hairpin corners and fellow competitors, separating the winner from the last place finisher by hundredths of seconds. Today, eight of the world’s best street lugers will race down the Historic Columbia River Highway, descending 400 feet in less than a miles distance. — Hood River News
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1964
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1984
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2004
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