The record for the trip from Mt. Hood Lodge to Cloud Cap Inn still stands to the credit of the Buick car, which did the journey in 14m. 40 2-5 secs. The first effort was made by another car and the figures were of such a nature that even local residents did not believe it was possible for a car to cover the rough steep grade in such a low time. Then the Buick got busy and finally cut the figures down to the remarkable time given above. Last Friday and Saturday, Portland distributors of the competing car had a crew of men on the Cloud Cap Inn toll road, getting it into shape for the trials on Sunday. Two trials were made on Sunday, but both were several minutes longer than the time set by the stock model Buick, which will probably stand permanently.
— Hood River News, 24 Oct. 1924
No Substitute For Sheepherder, Speaker Notes In Kiwanis
Oregon sheep men are confronted on the one hand by destructive competition from imports, primarily from Australia, and by a shortage of good sheepherders, said Bill Barratt of Heppner, member of the district Farm Credit Board of Spokane, in a talk last week to members of The Dalles Kiwanis Club.
As a result, some big spreads have gone out of business the past few years and a number of small one-man operations have started up, Barratt said.
A good mechanical substitute for the sheepherder has yet to be found, he said, but he pointed out that lending agencies “can afford to lend a man $27,000 if he can show this will enable him to eliminate one hired man.” The speaker traced the history of the Production Credit Associations in the Northwest, which started in 1934 “just 30 years ago” with $7 million in government capital and 400 employees, he said.
Today the PCAs are capitalized at $175 million, with no government funds, and are operated by 236 employees, he said.
— The Dalles Daily Chronicle, Oct. 24, 1964
Donations prove more than duty
In March of 1983, White Salmon resident Elmer Loose was stricken with a rare blood condition, whereby his bone marrow quits manufacturing red blood cells.
“My health started going downhill and I started passing out from weakness. Then I kept getting weaker and weaker,” the 73-year-old said.
It was about that time that he opted to visit a local doctor who sent him to one of the best specialists in the Northwest at the University of Washington Medical Center. “They (doctors at the center) are well-known for their treatment” of the condition, Elmer said, adding that persons worldwide go to U of W for treatment of the rare condition … Elmer said he doesn’t know what caused his condition, but his doctors claim that it was caused by some type of toxic poisoning. As it is, “if I had to go 60 days without a transfusion nine times out of 10 I would be dead,” he said.
Since that time, Elmer has received blood transfusions once a month or sometimes sooner depending upon his physical state. “The blood will only last that long since rebuild it before I start getting weak,” he said … because he is now able to receive blood transfusions, Elmer said he can lead a normal life as long as he doesn’t overexert.
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