1926 — 100 years ago
Another large-capacity well for municipal use, similar to the shaft now delivering thousands of gallons per minute during the dry season, will be drilled along Mill creek just above the Wicks’ reservoir dam ...
Two lead half-dollars were passed at a local pool hall yesterday, and the similarity of the coins indicates that a counterfeiter is “working” in the city.
Queen Marie of Rumania came, smiled, and left in a swirl of shiny motor cars. Those few of the thousands who were able to catch a glimpse of The Dalles’ first royal visitor were left with the memory of a smiling, pleasant face under a green hat and the pleasant, warm feeling that they had seen a queen.
Robert Cline, 79-year-old inmate of the county farm, died this morning after a three-days stay at the institution.
— The Dalles Chronicle
When Ted Hackett, of the Hackett Radio Co., a few days ago received a request that he bring all the loud speakers on hand to the Hubbard Theater at Klickitat, he wondered what the big idea could be. So he took over six, four of the cone and two of the horn type, and in addition a big power speaker. On arrival, together with the owner of the theater, he worked out a plan for using the loud speakers to diffuse music throughout the theater. By feeding phonographic or radio music into the series of loudspeakers, it was found that beautiful tonal effects could be secured, and at the same time those in the audience could not locate the source ... The experiment was such a success that the owner of the theater now owns all the loud speakers, and Hackett had to place a rush order for more to supply local requirements.
— Hood River News
Large numbers of White Salmon valley were in Hood River Wednesday to see the Queen of Rumania and her party as they passed through that city at 1:30 p.m. on their way to Portland. Queen Marie was met on the outskirts of Hood River by an escort and the Legion drum corps. In front of the Butler Bank Queen Marie was presented by Mr. Butler with a beautiful basket of Hood River apples and a large hand painted picture of a Hood River orchard, the gifts being decorated in the Rumanian colors. School children were given places in front and all got to see the queen who spoke a few minutes.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1946 — 80 years ago
[Nov. 1] “Ghosts and Goblins” haunted the city to their hearts content last night, perpetrating numerous acts of minor mischief, but city police today were on the lookout for vandals who utilized the occasion to break several windows and 30 pains of glass in the greenhouse operated by S. E. Fitzgerald.
Wasco county voted republican by an overwhelming majority in yesterday’s general election ...
“They took everything but the bed,” could well be the report on a robbery that occurred yesterday at The Dalles auto court. A couple that had stopped in ... took the following articles ... six blankets, four sheets, 10 hand towels, two rugs, one shower curtain, a set of dishes, a bedspread, the silverware and a smoking stand. Value of the property was estimated at $150.
— The Dalles Chronicle
The outage of power which occurred in the Lyle, Wn. [sic] area Sunday, Oct. 13 was caused by hunters who shot out three insulators near Dubois lake ...
“For distinguishing himself by extraordinary heroism,” Captain Doyle Murray Coffee (then Commander), USN, has been awarded the navy cross ... Captain Coffee is the son-in-law of Dr. and Mrs. H. D. W. Pineo.
Pioneer grandmothers of the Hood River area will find themselves chuckling when they read the following advertisement, now appearing in the “Too Late To Classify” Advertisements in this issue of the News: For Sale, Homemade Soap, phone 3063. But, in these declining days of the New Deal, it is fortunate that the secret of soapmaking at home as not been entirely lost.
— Hood River News
1966 — 60 years ago
A decree in Federal Court in Portland apparently will end five years of legal proceedings involving 26 Dalles area orchardists and Harvey Aluminum Co. The contest decree in the court ... provides that Harvey pay each orchard owner the appropriate market price for damage fruit and pay for “past or future damage caused by fluorides,” United Press International reported.
In spite of two serious and major setbacks in the game commission’s summer steelhead program at Hood River, the highest number of summer fish ever recorded is reported returning to this fine stream during 1966. From a low count of only 189 summer fish recorded in 1955, this year’s run has already exceeded 700 of the big ocean-going migrants, 65 percent of which are marked showing hatchery origin.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Postmaster Bill Manly reminded this week that now is the time to mail Christmas parcels and greeting cards by surface transportation to our armed forces overseas.
— White Salmon
1986 — 40 years ago
The U.S. Post Office here is looking for a new home and the site decision is expected shortly. Postmaster Stanley Hendricksen says a lack of parking, the size of the building and access for handicapped people are involved in the move.
The Columbia Gorge bill is on President Ronald Reagan’s desk and the deadline for his signature to prohibit a pocket veto is Nov. 17. The U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Forest Service were talking Thursday on how their concerns could be worked out and avoid a veto.
City police arrested three male juveniles in separate incidents involving the use of BB guns on Sunday. In one incident, two juveniles were arrested after a third juvenile was hit in the eye with a BB gun fired from a pistol.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Two recent burglaries have local police agencies comparing notes in an attempt to solve the apparently unrelated crimes ... Approximately $3,500 worth of board-sailing equipment had been taken from a locked storage shed ... In a separate incident, approximately $6,000 worth of equipment was stolen from the Fink Brothers Logging building in Bingen.
— White Salmon Enterprise
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