1926 — 100 years ago
Demonstration sale of Montag Colonial Ranges. Over forty years Montag has been building ranges and today, in thousands of homes throughout the West, Montag Colonial Ranges are giving absolute satisfaction in service and in economy.
Montag Colonial Ranges are designed and built in the West to meet Western fuel conditions. Only the very best materials that money can buy go into them and they are built complete by Montag’s own experts.
See the new French plate top which looks better, hears quicker and holds heat longer. Can be used for cooking hot cakes, etc. just as done in restaurants.
—White Salmon Enterprise
A. E. Crosby, local druggist, was recovering today from an injury sustained yesterday when his wrist was broken in attempting to enter a moving vehicle. The accident occurred when Crosby and a friend succeeded in starting a stalled car, and the druggist attempted to get into the vehicle after it was under way.
Two automobile thieves were being sought by traffic officers today, and a new light touring car belong to Louis J. Zorn, 704 Fair street, was in need of repairs as a result of a running gun fight indulged in by State Traffic Officer Jay Saltzman and County Traffic Officer Hans C. Blaser early Saturday evening.
A total of 37 arrests were made during May by the local police force, a report filed with the city recorded today indicated. ... Twenty-one arrests were made for drunkenness on denatured alcohol, two of drunkenness on moonshine, three for possession of liquor, two selling denatured alcohol to Indians, one arrested on suspicion of the same crime, two drunk while driving cars, one disturbing the peace by profane language, one for shooting a fellow Chinese and one for passing bad checks, later released.
— The Dalles Chronicle
With work as yet not started on the improvement of the old ferry road to the interstate bridge, there is now every prospect of this work being delayed until the coming fall. It is pointed out, there are a number of valid reasons why no effort should be made at this time to proceed with the big job.
— Hood River News
1946 — 80 years ago
As might be expected from the past history of so civilized a part of the world, the Scandinavian countries are recovering from the war more quickly than the rest of Europe. This is true of occupied Norway and Denmark as well as “neutral” Sweden. Everywhere are encouraging signs that the peoples of these lands are turning their attention away from the tragic events of the war to constructive solutions of problems that lie ahead.
— Hood River News
The Chenowith migratory labor camp being constructed by the Wasco County Fruit and Produce league will be open to workers by the beginning of the cherry season in the middle of June, though it will not be completed by then, W. R. Bailey, vice-president of the league, said today.
Repainted inside and out, and with many improvements in facilities, the municipal natatorium [swimming pool] will be open Saturday at noon...
The Columbia River again stood at 44.1 feet this morning, when the official measurement was taken at the port dock.
— The Dalles Chronicle
1966 — 60 years ago
The Dalles area telephone users will enjoy new, lower long distance rates for station-to-station calls within Oregon, beginning Wednesday, June 2, according to C. P. Horn, local manager for Pacific Northwest Bell.
The West Side trunk sewer project ran into a storm of opposition at an informal public meeting Wednesday night, principally because of high costs.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Chunk by chunk the old dam at the U.S. Plywood Dee plant is yielding reluctantly to dynamite. Strings of reinforced steel jut out to show how much cement has been jarred loose.
— Hood River News
This is remains of signal control blown up Friday at about midnight. Relay controls block signals between Lyle and Bingen, could have caused terrible train crash.
—White Salmon Enterprise
1986 — 40 years ago
The first crew members have arrived in The Dalles to set the groundwork for the production of “The Penalty Phase,” a made-for-television movie. Directed by Larry Kostroff, the movie’s production manager, the crew has set up its office in the old John Heisler office, across the street from the Wasco County Courthouse. Much of the movie will be filmed at the courthouse.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Phones of media and law enforcement agencies rang off the hook with messages “St. Helens has blown again!” Everyone was noting the irony of an eruption nearly six years when the mountain originally blew. Then the reality came. Source of the plume was more like it came from the Underwood Mountain, not St. Helens, which would be farther inland. It soon became known that the eruption was actually a massive slash burn behind underwood. It created its own windstorm and developed a cumulus plume, but soon faded as the slash was consumed, and the eruption excitement when up in smoke.
— Hood River News
Adoption by the county commission of a nuclear free zone ordinance, said Commissioner Swann, would be a positive statement by the county. “It’s saying that we value life more than we value building a few arms and weapons.”
—White Salmon Enterprise
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