1926 — 100 years ago
Hood River is the gate of the Skyline Trail and in a few years will be the mecca of thousands of tourists who will enter the sportsman’s paradise which will be opened by this trail and the hundred of lakes which it will bring within easy reach of the sportsman, declared State Game Warden Averill, before the Chamber Lunch Club.
— Hood River News
With an even 500 votes cast, disclosing a ratio of approximately four and one-third to one in favor of modification to permit legal sale of light wines and beer, The Chronicle’s city and county poll on the national prohibition law closed this afternoon.
Gus Graves, Clarence Nutway, Wm. Jones and Frank Tinsman, were lodged in the city jail between yesterday evening and this morning on charges of intoxication from drinking denatured alcohol.
Charles Irvin Tooley, 9-months-old son of F. V. Tooley of Rowena, is alive today after undergoing an operation yesterday afternoon for the removal of an open safety pin swallowed by the youngster. ... attending nurses and Dr. Morse held their breath when the baby stopped breathing for more than two minutes following the removal of the offending object, but the crisis passed and the youngster was declared on the road to recovery today.
Drilling has been stopped at the 301 foot level in the Chamber of Commerce well, it was stated today by Manager W. S. Nelson.
— The Dalles Chronicle
To the water users. The town has no absolute assurance of having more water than last year, and we must be governed accordingly. We have hopes of having a little better supply, but this is not assured; hence I would advise not to count on irrigating too large a territory.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1946 — 80 years ago
Monday afternoon, April 1 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the City Hall on Second street, city and county health officers will give smallpox vaccinations to adults of Hood River at a fee of but 50 cents.
— Hood River News
The uncompensated selective service personnel from six Mid-Columbia counties last night were honored guests at a banquet held at Hotel Dalles, in which their wartime services were recognized by presentation of medals and citations.
— The Dalles Chronicle
1966 — 60 years ago
A chain reaction started last year may soon resolve the powerline duplication question involving Pacific Power and Light Co. and the Hood River Electric Co-operative. PP&L started it by filing for exclusive right to serve the areas it now serves, and reserving their land. This filing was done under a state law designed specifically to end costly duplication of power lines by competing utilities.
— Hood River News
Leo Alexander, Yakima Indian secretary of the recently created fish commission of the Yakama Indian Nation, had the “last word” in an argument over legality of the new commission the other day, but likely not the final word. That is expected to come from a federal court.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Save old frames. Do you have a 90-year-old portrait of a 32nd cousin twice removed, gathering dust in your attic? Or maybe one of your grandfathers? Now we of the Art Club realize that these priceless heirlooms are the pride of the family and that you would never part with them, but maybe the 24 kt. solid gold frame is getting tarnished and you haven’t the energy to polish it.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1986 — 40 years ago
Climber to join K2 expedition. Before the year’s out, Brian Hukari plans to set food on the second highest point on earth. He’s been thinking of it for two years or more, now an expedition by eight climbers and a base camp ranger has reached the point that they’re talking dates instead of generalities in the assault of 28,253-foot K2 in a remote corner of Pakistan.
— Hood River News
A woman who admitted she took part in the illegal wiretapping at Rajneeshpuram was placed on fire-years probation by U.S. District Judged Edward Leavy today.
A Portland man who has been accused of kidnapping two young men in Portland and bringing them to Wasco county where they were beaten and dumped alongside a county road has been arrested and will be returned here later today.
Ma Anand Sheela, the former personal secretary to Indian Guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, has been indicted on a charge of trying to poison people at The Dalles where a salmonella outbreak made 619 people ill in 1984.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Morrison visits tonight. Tonight (Thursday) marks the Town Hall visit of US Rep. Sid Morrison in Lyle, and local residents are invited to attend. The meeting fasts from 7-9 p.m. in the multipurpose room of Lyle High School. It follows another public meeting held by Morrison in Stevenson Wednesday night.
— White Salmon Enterprise
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