1925 — 100 years ago
Last Saturday night the Hood River High School basketball team did themselves and this city proud when they won the Mid-Columbia and Central Oregon Championships, and qualified to represent this section of the state in the big league events at Salem. The game which put them in the lead of all others was that played against Bend. Seven teams entered the tournament: Bend, Madras, Redmond, Prineville, Mitchell, Sisters, Wasco and Hood River.
— Hood River News
Fingerprints of Earl Juret, 30 years old and a vagrant who boasts of many arrests, were taken yesterday afternoon by Police Commissioner Ed. Kurts and Juret began a 30-day sentence of hard work on the Second Street fill, as penalty for being drunk and without any visible means of support.
— The Dalles Chronicle
1945 — 80 years ago
With temperatures ranging from 10 to 22 above in various sections of valley and town, Monday morning of this week can lay claim to having been one of the coldest of the 1944-45 winter. An easterly wind prevailed in the early hours of the morning, and what surprised many residents as they looked at their thermometers, was the almost complete absence of hoar frost. However, ice more than half an inch thick formed on puddles and ditches, and the soil in orchards was frozen so hard that a shovel could not pierce it.
— Hood River News
With approximately $14,090 raised thus far in the Red Cross war fund drive, collections are slowing down appreciably, with the possibility that extra effort will be needed to meet the local committee’s goal of $20,000, it was reported today by Eric Johnson, drive chairman.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Chuck Ackley has purchased the Charters tie mill and will start cutting ties on Burdoin Mt. He will cut timber on the T. Wyers holdings on Burdoin. Logging operations started Tuesday. Mr. Ackley stated Monday that the mill has a capacity of 600 feet per day and that the first job will be to improve the old Burdoin road so that the output of his mill could be taken to the railroad.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1965 — 60 years ago
Four break-ins were reported to sheriff’s officers Monday night, but there were no extensive losses listed. Apparently the break ins were aimed at obtaining cash, and only about $4 in small change was missing from all four places. Sheriff R. L. Gillmouthe said entry was made at Pine Grove Texaco, Harry English and Cliff Whitten tire store building, the Standard and Mobil Oil bulk plants. In all cases, a window had been broken out to gain admittance, the sheriff said.
— Hood River News
Half-way point in the trestle type footbridge under construction by men of Company B, 162nd Engineers Battalion, was reached Sunday evening. After a fill is put in on the west side of Mill Creek by the city, another weekend of work will be required for completion of the project by the National Guardsmen, likely in plenty of time for the city moratorium this summer.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Representatives of the press from sixteen Washington State counties toured the Washington Public Power Supply system’s Handford Nuclear Steam Plant Project on Friday of last week. The tour started officially at 8:30 Friday, but the night before the press and PUD met for a banquet held in the Tri City Country Club on the heights in Kennewick … the tour took the press past the nuclear waste by-products storage bins, over into the 9 reactor area. Eight of the reactors are scattered about the huge 10 mile wide plain, and where the Columbia makes a bend, the new 9th reactor is in operation just about 50 yards from where the steam plant will be located.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1985 — 40 years ago
Hood River News general manager Rod Stollery this week announced the addition of two new employees to the newspaper’s staff. Kimberlie Krummel joins the News as an advertising account representative; Davinne McKeown-Ellis will work part-time as a staff writer. “We are pleased to have both Kimberlie and Davinne join our staff,” Stollery noted.
— Hood River News
A bill to mandate the use of seatbelts was narrowly defeated in the Oregon House of Representatives Wednesday, but backers of the measure vowed to seek reconsideration of the action as quickly as possible.
Citizens and public officials testifying at a hearing here Monday night asked the state to delay issuing a permit for the PCB incinerator at Arlington until more safety data is gathered. A representative of ChemSecurity, the proposed operator, said he felt that if the same scrutiny were applied to pesticides and fertilizers, many of them would not be in use.
A 25-year-old man arrested here Sunday night in a simple traffic stop has become the subject of police activity in four states on cases involving rape, robbery, attempted murder and assault.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Bacterial gill disease, a common ailment for most hatcheries but one normally found only in small amounts, took its toll on the Spring Creek Fish Hatchery on the Columbia River near Underwood Thursday and led to the deaths of 1.9 million salmon fingerlings. “It’s a very common disease to a lot of hatcheries, but it’s very seldom seen to the degree it was seen here,” said Jerry Rogers, acting manager of the hatchery. He said while the 1.9 million figure is no small number, it was only about 14 percent of the total lower fall Chinook salmon fingerlings at the hatchery.
— White Salmon Enterprise
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