In 1941, this small tugboat breaks ice. Gary Elkinton noted this may have a towline to a fuel barge, and looks to have a makeshift wooden blade attached to the bow. The area, he said, looks like west of Hood River.
Photo by Zoe Williams, courtesy her grandson Gary Elkinton
In 1941, this small tugboat breaks ice. Gary Elkinton noted this may have a towline to a fuel barge, and looks to have a makeshift wooden blade attached to the bow. The area, he said, looks like west of Hood River.
Photo by Zoe Williams, courtesy her grandson Gary Elkinton
New High School is Foreshadowed. School board plans to call special meeting. A number of important matters were disposed of by the board of directors of School District No. 3 at the meeting last Monday night. Among the subjects which came up on that of the projected building of a new senior high school on the new tract on May St., which was originally acquired for a union high school site. This question is one which at a later date will probably be submitted to the taxpayers of this district for consideration and decision.
— Hood River News
Dr. T. E. Griffith, chairman of the local Kiwanis “Big Brother” movement, stated in a recent report that 11 boys, ranging in age from 11 to 17, have been adopted by “big brothers” locally.
— The Dalles Chronicle
White Salmon gets publicity over K.G.O Radio. K.G.O General Electric Co. Oakland, Calif. will put a little story on the air between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. Thursday which deals with an outing in the Mount Adams foot hills several years ago. The characters being taken from real life Goose Lake and the lava caves the scenes of “action”.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1946 — 80 years ago
Chief Tommy Thompson of the Celilo tribe is ill and desires assistance from his white friends in The Dalles. He accordingly has written a letter to the local Chamber of Commerce, asking permission to solicit aid here. Chamber directors, meeting Tuesday, approved the solicitation...
Sheriff Harold Sexton and state police officers today were investigating the circumstances of a fatal fire that occurred about midnight last night, near Shaniko. According to Frank Wagner, who telephoned the report to Sheriff Sexton this morning, an itinerant sheepherder whose name was believed to be “Haynes” was burned to death in the fire. One other sheepherder, whose name was not immediately available, is said to have escaped from the burning shack, with minor injuries.
— The Dalles Chronicle
1966 — 60 years ago
Toll Bridge Park, a 69-acre county owned tract, moved to the top of the county’s priority list this week. This year, under the Land and Water Conservation Act of 1965 there is $7,627 in Federal matching funds earmarked for Hood River County. An interior agency advisory committee met last Thursday and issued top priority deadline for applying the money at Toll Bridge Park, a large area near the Mt. Hood Community which has seen only limited development.
— Hood River News
A senior from The Dalles High School, Gloria Lacey, tied for third place Saturday in Portland in the finals of speaking competition on “Democracy, What It Means to Me” under auspices of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Peace corp test set for Feb. 12. White Salmon area residents interested in putting their skills to use in developing nations around the world are invited to take the Peace Corps placement test at 9 a.m. on Saturday, February 12 at Vancouver in the basement conference room, Post Office building.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1986 — 40 years ago
When it rains, it pours for the Port of Hood River. The most recent drenching from the heavens created a sea of muck on the Wasco Street project, threatening to call a work halt if conditions don’t improve. And if that happened, a domino-effect will ripple through a tight time-line for Diamond complex projects waiting for completion.
— Hood River News
The derailment of an eastbound Union Pacific freight train this morning led to the temporary evacuation of most of the community of Biggs, but there was no spillage of toxic materials and no one was injured in the accident. ... Sherman County Sheriff Gerald Lohrey said at first it was feared some tanker cars filled with chlorine gas had ruptured and the hotels and private residences in the western end of town were evacuated.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Bluff project study enters second phase. Port of Klickitat commissioners last week approved initiation of the second phase of a feasibility study for possible future uses of its property on the White Salmon bluff. Commissioners met last Wednesday in regular session. They have already reviewed a draft version of the study’s first phase, and discussed this and the second phase with representative of the Seattle firm responsible for both parts of the study.
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