1926 — 100 years ago
One of the problems which the city council will shortly be called upon to solve is the local of the outfall of a projected new sewer which is to serve residents and the new high school at the west end of town.
The many friends of Miss Hazel Pflughaupt, 16 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pflughaupt, were grieved to hear of her death last Sunday. Miss Pflughaupt, two weeks ago stepped on a rusty nail which pierced her foot ... Infection set in, and though medical attention was secured it was impossible to save the unfortunate girl.
Miss Celia Gavin, city attorney of The Dalles, as a most interesting speaker at the Women’s Club at its regular meeting Sunday of last week at Library hall, with her discussion of “Women and Legislation.” Her discourse covered the history of women’s part in legislation since the beginning ... She said at the beginning of constitutional government, women were ignored, perhaps from the prevailing idea of chivalry and property rights and laws were in complete charge of men, thus creating among women the original inferiority complex, and that the condition of the present day, with women voting, owning property and holding public office is the first real democracy the world has known. The presence of women in politics secured new legislation favorable to children, schools and women ... men had so different an idea of the world’s needs and so opposing a viewpoint, that it required women voters to show the need of female police officers and school nurses ...
— Hood River News
Completely submerged in the swirling waters of the Columbia river at Vantage Ferry, near Ellensburg, Wash, for 15 minutes yesterday afternoon, Jack Pomeroy of the contracting firm Booth and Pomeroy, steel contractors at the recently completed Crooked river bridge, was on his way to Portland to see his wife and children, thoughts of whom kept him clinging to a steel cable across the rushing river when his strength seemed to fail. Pomeroy and a fellow workman were thrown into the river from a scow on which they were crossing... The workman grasped one cable while Pomeroy was swept downstream to the other.
European royalty, especially Britain’s, frowns upon Marie’s activities in the United States and is scandalized over the reports of the commercialization of the trip.
A controversy regarding the right of a franchised voter to mail his ballot to the clerks of the city election should he be absent from the city on election day, was settled yesterday through reference to the city election law. The persons entitled to this privilege are distinctly classified.
— The Dalles Chronicle
1946 — 80 years ago
More than 250 individuals are now taking part in the various projects sponsored by the Hood River Music Association ...
Congressman Lowell Stockman is to be in Hood River Tuesday, Oct. 22, according to a letter in the hands of Dr. L. R. Alexander, president of the Lions club.
The USES office reports, as of October 15, that plenty of jobs are available in the Hood River area for those who wish to work.
Forest Service men have been engaged in taking up the climbing ropes on the south side of Mt. Hood and stowing them away until next season.
— Hood River News
The powerful tug Winquatt of the Inland Navigation company completed handling what may have been the largest upstream tow ever made in the Columbia river Tuesday when it arrived at The Dalles with 11 barges, observers said today.
The Tygh Valley general merchandise store that was destroyed by fire Sunday morning will be rebuilt as soon as priorities and materials are available, it was reported today by Arthur Muller. In the meantime he said business will be conducted from the hardware and electrical supply shop ...
Consideration of The Dalles as the location for a seaplane base, for use by commercial and private craft, will be taken up at a meeting ... at the Chamber of Commerce building.
— The Dalles Chronicle
1966 — 60 years ago
Prodded by figures showing enrollment is now at an all-time high, the District 12 school board Thursday took another step toward construction of a new high school.
An estimated three-week job of shutting down of The Dalles orchard irrigation district and draining pipes got under way Saturday morning.
Voters of The Dalles will decide Tuesday, Nov. 29, whether the city should bond itself for $630,000 to pay for its share of a large-scale water system improvement project. ... at Wicks Reservoir on the South Fork of Mill Creek.
— Hood River News
The story of her grandfather George R. Snipes, who was born in North Carolina in 1832 and came from Iowa to Oregon in 183 in “pursuit” of the girl he later married, Martha Imbler, was told by Mrs. Leslie M. (Jeanette Snipes) Martin, of the Wasco County Historical Society.
— The Dalles Chronicle
1986 — 40 years ago
The Columbia Gorge Scenic Area bill is headed for President Ronald Reagan’s signature ending two years of bitter congressional infighting and lobbying. In a unanimous consent vote in less than two minutes, the Senate on Friday reaffirmed its Oct. 8 passage of the bill with Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., shepherding it through on a spending bill.
School policies that led to a walkout by students at Wishram High School last week will be discussed when the Wishram School Board meets tonight at 7 o’clock ... The students staged their walkout on Tuesday, citing several policies including a requirement that students must have passes to go to the restroom during class hours... the students called off the walkout the next day but then were suspended...
Reps. Jim Weaver (D-Ore.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) on Monday released the results of a congressional investigation showing the U.S. Department of Energy systematically adjusted and manipulated information to force the Hanford Reservation in Washington state into the top three category for the nation’s first high-level nuclear waste repository.
Nature is quickly reclaiming much of Rancho Rajneesh in southern Wasco County and the thousands of followers of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh that used to populate the commune have dwindled to only about 25.
— The Dalles Chronicle
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