1926 — 100 years ago
Local Topers Use Weird Concoctions To Produce Wallop: Local alcohol addicts are drinking almost every known concoction from which a “kick” can be obtained, a survey of bottles confiscated by city and county officers today indicated. Some of the more particular imbibers even go to the labor of distilling the alcohol from various fluids, records disclosed.
Leading the list in amount consumed is denatured alcohol. This is a comparatively inexpensive drink, purchasable anywhere under the guise of a need for household purposes. Last month, 18 persons were arrested and fined ... a comparatively small amount of moonshine whiskey is found, although probably as much is consumed as the denatured kind ... The coast is glutted with various concoctions manufactured and advertised palpably for medicinal purposes but readily quench the thirst of the anti-Volstead enthusiast. Some of the kinds drunk locally include various wines and bitters, hair tonics, scalp massages and health building preparations with as high as 92 percent alcohol content.
Instead of landing any of the finny inhabitants of Fifteen Mile creek, Arthur Groehler, employed at Seufert’s cannery, landed himself in the local justice court and today faced a fine of $25 on the charge of fishing with a snag hook.
— The Dalles Chronicle
American Forest Week. Forest Service to start road work June 1. The Forest Service will start work in the Columbia National Forest on June 1st according to Ranger Harvey A Welty, who was here last week from headquarters at Guler.
About 4 ½ miles of road will be built to complete the Carson Guler road, the stretch to be improved running between the Indian Race track Ranger station and Goose Lake.
— White Salmon Enterprise
Pendergast had only one idea, and that was to shake off the pursuing officer, and the race was on. Right through the business district of Oak St, the car speeded at better than 52 miles per hour. Then Officer Morrison discarded his usual courtesy, reached for his gun and, driving alongside the car, covered Pendergast and ordered him to stop. Pendergast tried to reach for a gun, but Morrison warned him to keep his hands away from his pockets. “Don’t try to run, for you’ll get hurt if you do.” At the jail, Pendergast confessed that he deserted from the navy at Los Angeles and stole the car.
— Hood River News
1946 — 80 years ago
As a result of several conferences between Oregon state and Hood River county war finance leaders, it was decided, Monday of this week that the coming convention of all county chairmen of Oregon will be held in Hood River, with the Hood River war finance committee officiating in the role of hosts.
— Hood River News
Mid-Columbia turkey raisers and dairymen will be principally affected by the mass movement of grain from the Pacific Northwest, in keeping with foreign relief requirements, according to an analysis of the situation made today by W. Wray Lawrence, county agent.
Traffic at The Dalles ferry was tied up for almost an hour yesterday evening when a portable dredge loaded on a St. Johns Transfer company truck and trailer proved too heavy for the ferry Rogue to handle.
Control or eradication of noxious weeds in Wasco County, more or less held in abeyance during the war because of the manpower shortage, will be brought to the fore at a meeting of the Wasco county weed council...
— The Dalles Chronicle
1966 — 60 years ago
Thieves make off with radiators. Thieves made off this last week with two radiators from two TD 40’s parked near the old Claude Ackley home on Snowden road.
The cats [sic] were owned by John Nichols. Nichols surmised that copper cores in the radiators were what the thieves were after.
— White Salmon Enterprise
Dalles City officials are proudly displaying two state certificates that recognize the city’s ability to meet prescribed standards for both fire safety and building inspection.
— The Dalles Chronicle
A bombshell: Portlanders win Hood River Ski Area. Mt Hood Meadows, Ltd., a Portland-based group organized by contractor Franklin Drake, has been picked to develop on the southeast face of Mt. Hood.
The area some 37 miles south of Hood River was designated as a major recreation area after a group from Hood River searched out and developed the basic layout that is now the pattern prescribed for construction of buildings and tows.
— Hood River News
1986 — 40 years ago
Royalty visits Maryhill. Maryhill Museum received a royal visit last week to help it mark the 60th anniversary o the year of its dedication by Queen Marie of Romania.
King Michael, a descendant of Queen Marie, and the present queen of Romania arrived at Maryhill to an official reception by members of the museum’s board of trustees, Director Linda Brady Mountain, and a flood of newspaper and television reporters and cameramen.
The king and queen, who live in exile in Switzerland, seldom find themselves the subject of such publicity, but took the entire affair with aplomb as they and their entourage entered the museum and toured the current special exhibition on Queen Marie, which will be on display this month and next as an introduction to the 60th anniversary.
At left, King Michael (who led a resistance movement against the Nazis in World War II only to lose his throne to the Communists) studies one of the displays.
— White Salmon Enterprise
Dentist assailed by armed men. An apparent attempted burglary turned into armed robbery Friday near Dukes Valley when at least two suspects tied and gagged a local dentist at the victim’s residence. The crime set off a search by Hood River County sheriff’s office and the Oregon State Police. One suspect was arrested in Gresham Saturday after attempting to make a purchase with a credit card belonging to the victim, Dr. Harvey Wixman.
Wixman has been ill and sleeping on his couch. Two suspects forced their way into Wixman’s house, waking him. The subjects tied and gagged Wixman at gunpoint.
— Hood River News
Commented