1926 — 100 years ago
The efforts of a number of local garage men, together with Ted Baker, of the chamber of commerce to break through the snow barrier between hood River meadows and White River bridge proved to be unavailing, and the party of tired men returned last Thursday evening, convinced that the job was too big for a small crew of men without suitable equipment.
The men above led a way through the snow banks over a distance of about half a mile, while one of their members drove his car into the banks to break through the crust. Finally, the car embedded itself so deeply in a bank that it had to be dug out.
— Hood River News
While skeptics continued to look with pessimistic mien on clouds gathering in the west, The Dalles prepared today to open the straw hat season in an appropriate manner Saturday morning. Circuit Judge Fred W. Wilson and Rex Miles, Chronicle telegraph operator, were among a number who rushed the season by donning the hay headgear during the first hot days of the week. Miles “got by” with the statement that his hat was new until an observing acquaintance discovered a cobweb between the brim and the crown.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Be sure to get the first worms. To the fruit growers of Washington, American growers rely on British markets as an outlet for 10% of their crop. During the past season a large number of shipments were condemned by the British health officials and retailers were prosecuted and fined. The attendant publicity associating arsenic poising with American apples resulted in a severe slump in the market and demands were made on the British Ministry of Health for an absolute embargo.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1946 — 80 years ago
Pomona Grange will be held at Odell Grange hall this coming Tuesday, May 7, when the session will be called to order at 10 a.m.
Arthur C. Scott, professor of chemistry at Reed College, will be the principal speaker, and his subject is to be “Atomic Energy.” The Odell High School Glee club will furnish musical numbers, the students being under the direction of Mr. Reed, a member of the Odell faculty.
— Hood River News
Additional improvements to the Columbia river channel between Vancouver and Bonneville, which will be included in the next rivers and harbors bill, were approved yesterday by the rivers and harbors board of the war department, according to a telegram received from Sen. Guy Cordon.
The commercial salmon fishing season, which opened at noon today, will be one of the poorest in recent years, in the opinion of local fisherman and fish buyers.
— The Dalles Chronicle
1966 — 60 years ago
Norm Glenn, central figure in the proposed Hood River Village motel-restaurant development, said down a “definite timetable” for construction here Thursday night.
“Eddie Mays signed the leases Monday for the motel and restaurant,” he said.
Mays, a tall, greying operator of 10 restaurants in the Northwest, was sitting right beside Glenn during the “updating” session where Glenn told the Hood River Port Commission the latest developments.
— Hood River News
Dalles City Council decided informally Thursday night to go ahead with the comprehensive general planning project here. The council also indicated it favors immediate action by the City Planning Commission in laying groundwork for a downtown are parking district project.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Mexican Mixture talk of Mexico will be topic. “Mexican Mixture, from the Ridiculous to the Sublime” will be her subject when Mrs. Mortimer Hartwell speaks in the Pioneer Room of Riverside Church, Hood River, May 11 at 10 a.m. The talk is based upon a very recent Mexican tour and is reported to be even more delightful than the four previous ones given for the benefits of the Hospital Auxiliary’s Nursing Scholarship fund.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1986 — 40 years ago
It happens almost every spring. Hood River, thanks to its lower rainfall and excellent, well drained field, became a regional baseball center Monday. Instead of going back to the Banks, in the soggy Willamette Valley, the fame was moved to Hood River; then LaSalle and Gladstone arrived for a game. Western Oregon and Oregon Institute of Technology scheduled a game here, but didn’t show.
Earlier baseball teams from Lewis and Clark and Whitman College, and Grant and Milwaukie high schools have sought out the drier eastern climates for spring games this year.
— Hood River News
The state received half of the $75,000 fine imposed for electrical code violations on 640 huts erected in 1984 on the central Oregon commune founded by followers of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. The other half of the payment is due within two weeks...
The scheduled May 5 trial of Ma Anand Sheela, ex-personal secretary to Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, on immigration fraud charges has been delayed while the federal government seeks expansion of a West German extradition order.
Biologists under contract with the Bonneville Power Administration have been injecting young salmon with computer chips. They were ready to release the fish into the Columbia to see how well the detection system works under natural conditions.
— The Dalles Chronicle
The old Whitcomb cabin near Glenwood is the subject of a preservation study by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Gorge Heritage Museum in White Salmon.
Museum President Bob Blumenstein entered a discussion over the building’s fate at the behest of the Klickitat County Centennial committee. Blumenstein subsequently contacts US Fish and Wildlife officials, who have jurisdiction over the building and were already considering its future. The former post office is considered a public safety hazard, but feelings within Glenwood and elsewhere favor its preservation.
— White Salmon Enterprise
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