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The Dalles Chronicle TheDallesChronicle.com Weekend of February 8-9, 2020 A5 HISTORY History Mystery Sherrin Ungren and Gary Conley contributed to this report. Last week’s History Mystery, above, was scanned from a glossy print labeled “Seufort Fishwheel #3” from the archives of The Dalles Chronicle. Gary Conley noted it looked like the one on the river just above where the Shilo Inn is now. At one time, there were 51 fish wheels on the river, but they were outlawed in 1927 and “that was the end of that,” he said. To guess this week’s photo, above, email Mark Gibson at MGibson@thedalleschronicle.com or call 541-296-2141, ext. 107, and leave a According to Wikipedia, “A fish wheel, also known as a message. Be sure to spell your name. salmon wheel, is a device situated in rivers for catching fish which looks and operates like a watermill. However, in ad- dition to paddles, a fish wheel is outfitted with wire baskets designed to catch and carry fish from the water and into a nearby holding tank. The current of the river presses against the submerged paddles and rotates the wheel, passing the school bus slid into the ditch on 20 years ago — 2000 underground from the Whittier notes in its monthly report. baskets through the water where they intercept fish that are Shannon Becker joined the Five-mile Road near the Dennis junior high school to The Dalles Employment at the dam rose to swimming or drifting. A strong current is most effective in staff of The Dalles Chronicle Haener orchard Wednesday high school. The line, electrically 120. Two hundred are expected spinning the wheel, so fish wheels are typically situated in as a news writer on Monday, morning and a wrecker was to be on the job by March 1, 500 operated through a transform- shallow rivers with brisk currents, close to rapids or water- Feb. 7. An outdoor enthusiast called to get the bus back onto by May 1 and 600 by July. er that cut the voltage down falls. The baskets are built at an outward-facing slant with the road. There were no injuries with a love for hiking. Becker Snowpack remains less than considerably, was used to ring a an open end so the fish slide out of the opening and into the brings a new insight to the or damage to the bus, which one-third normal in Wasco bell in the high school boiler room holding tank where they await collection. Yield is increased was operated by Marvin Jones, local area. Although born County and Hood river Valley when something went wrong in the if fish swimming upstream are channeled toward the wheel in Hood River, Becker spent school transportation superin- watersheds, W. T. Frost, super- Whittier heating plant, Mohr said. by weirs.” her formative years in Essex, tendent Paul Sandovol said. The visor of snow surveys, reports 100 years ago — 1920 A fishwheel can be viewed at the Columbia Gorge Conn., while returning to the area where the incident occurred in his latest appraisal of the The Northwestern Interpretive Center Museum in Stevenson, Wash. Mid-Columbia each summer to was very slippery, and the bus 1960 water outlook. Frost, who Transportation company will The fish wheel has become a culturally-embedded tool for spend time with her maternal had stopped to pick up students serves the U. S. Department of start regular service between The self-subsisting communities and Indigenous peoples of the grandparents. and when starting up again slid Agriculture, Soil Conservation Dalles and Portland, running the Northwestern area of North America, and on the Columbia Oenophile’s Delight: Any onto the left shoulder of the road Service, Agricultural Experiment fast steamer Olympian, formerly River there has been discussion of revising their use for their time you can put the words and then into the ditch. Station and the state engineer, the Telegraph, beginning March ability to live-catch salmon, allowing for retention of only “Ross Bailey” and “wine” Karen Buchanan of Moro is said water content of the snow is 2. The steamer will cater in the hatchery-raised fish. together in a sentence, you’re ranked among the leaders in only slightly better than it was at summer months to passenger LOOKING BACK After hours History After Hours with the Wasco County Historical Society is 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13 at the historic St. Paul’s Chapel, 601 Union St., The Dalles. The event, in its seventh year, is intended to be an informal way for people who are on the various boards and committees of historical organizations in The Dalles and Wasco County to get to know each other and give an update on their activities and future plans. Appetizers will be served and there will be a cake to celebrate Oregon’s birthday. History forum The army camp in Rufus is the topic of the third Regional History forum Saturday, Feb. 15, at the Original Wasco County Courthouse. Presenter Cal McDermid is director of the Fort Dalles Museum and a Sherman County native. He explores the unique settlement in Old Wasco and later Sherman County, and the role of Camp Rufus in developing technology for bridging the Rhine in a presentation titled “Rufus and the Army Camp that Helped End World War II.” Program begins at 1:30 p.m. in the upstairs courtroom of the 1859 courthouse, 410 W. 2nd Place, The Dalles. Admission is free, cookies and coffee will be served. Additional forums are Feb. 22 and 29. All Together The Dalles Stories about the many buildings featured in “All together The Dalles” an art print future mural downtown The Dalles, are being compiled and shared on a related blog: Visit www. alltogetherthedalles.com, click on “blog” at the top right of the page, and you will currently find entries on the Neon Museum, Baldwin Saloon, Chinese Building/Wing Hong Tai Building and many others. Each entry includes a photograph and a short descrip- tion of the building’s history. Entries are planned through March 21. Future entries include Quinton Street Ball Park, the second Wasco County Courthouse, Columbia Gorge Community College, The Dalles Art Center, the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and others. Quinton Street Ballpark Do you have information about Quinton Street ball park in The Dalles? The All Together The Dalles researchers are seeking input about the facilities origins and history. Email contact information to mgibson@thedalleschronicle.com. Lecture series The Oregon Historical Society’s Mark O. Hatfield Lecture Series has three lectures scheduled. For over 20 years, the Society has presented the nation’s top scholars and award-winning authors for thought-provoking evenings of history. The events are ticketed, visit OHS.org to learn more. Lectures include: • Joanne B. Freeman on Tuesday, March 17. Freeman is an expert on early American politics. Her newest book, “The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War,” explores the impact and legacies of physical violence in the U.S. Congress leading up to the Civil War. • Erika Lee on Tuesday, April 28. One of the nation’s leading immigration and Asian American historians, Erika Lee is the author of four notable books, including “America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States and The Making of Asian America.” • Evan Thomas on Tuesday, May 19. Evan Thomas is the author of ten books including New York Times bestsellers “Being Nixon, John Paul Jones, Sea of Thunder,” and “First: Sandra Day O’Connor.” For 33 years, Thomas was a writer, correspondent, and editor at TIME and Newsweek. A fourth speaker, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, host of Finding Your Roots, and author of Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. His program, “Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow,” will be rescheduled in the fall. Images needed Do you have photographs from the 1950s through the 1980s that can help tell the story of the history of your community? The Dalles Chronicle is seeking images from those years for future History Mystery columns. Prints can be brought to the Chronicle office, or electronic scans or reproductions can be emailed to mgibson@thedalleschroni- cle.com. Include as much information as possible. doing well. Best news in a long time is that Ross will be offering his famous wine tasting class again, every Wednesday night for six weeks starting on Feb. 23. Cost for the course is $85 a person, which includes samples from a wide variety of wines and instruction from the Gorge’s leading oenophilist. The Dalles Planning Commission approved an appli- cation Thursday night for a pole building on Chenowith Water PUD’s property in the 700 block of Pomona. The 24-by-84-foot building, which will be 20 feet high, will be used to house vehicles and equipment owned by Chenowith PUD. Slow but steady. That’s the story of Wasco County’s recent economic growth, which lags behind both state and national trends but still represents solid improvement over the past decade. Regional economist Dallas Fridley of the Oregon Employment Department ad- dressed the county’s economic picture during a Rotary Club luncheon last week at the Lone Pine Restaurant. A new tour company is offering a chance to experience the Columbia River Gorge, not just see it. Julee’s Gorge Tours and Retreats, LLC, was started by Julee Wasserman, a Mosier area resident. “I feel this business was needed out here. I don’t think anybody’s doing this kind of business,” Wasserman said. After a couple of months without a veteran’s service of- ficer, Linda Adams now serves Wasco and Hood River counties in that role. “My position here is just to assist veterans and families in making them aware of benefits and helping them with forms – there’s a lot of paperwork,” Adams said. Although NORCOR regional jail was built to keep criminals off the street, it fights disease as well as crime. That’s because as the jail was build last year, Wasco-Sherman Public Health Department director Kathy Schwartz saw the new facility as an opportunity for outreach. “We have a lot of programs that target high-risk populations,” she said. “Since these people come back into our community, I thought it would be a good idea to take these programs out to the jail.” SALEM—The state law that has provided marijuana to more than 400 medical patients suffering from diseases such as cancer and AIDS could be expanded if an advisory group decides that smoking pot helps ease anxiety, depression and sleep disorders. 40 years ago — 1980 The Dalles High School foot- ball coach John McCormick has resigned. In a letter written to principal Rich Correa and athletic director Art Bull, McCormick stated that he was stepping down after four years as the Indians’ head coach primarily because of personal reasons. Though he would not comment on those reasons in a Wednesday interview, he did amplify his decision. An inbound District 12 the Northwest Cup Series as of Feb. 1, according to the Pacific Northwest Ski Association. Buchanan, who competes out of Mission Ridge, Wash., is ranked sixth in the women’s downhill with 20 points, trailing leader Linda Phalen’s 45 points. An amateur motocross race scheduled for Sunday; Feb. 12 at the Seattle Kingdome has attracted three local entries. Brent McKinney of Wasco will be competing in the event for the second time. He placed 39th out of a limited 150 rider field in his first try at the event. WASHINGTON (UPI)— President Carter today asked Congress to approve the man- datory military registration of American women and men aged 19 and 20 this year. Eighteen- year-olds would have to register beginning in 1981. A bitter fight is expected in the House and Senate over the un-precedented U.S. registration of females even though Carter stipulated today that women must continue to be barred from combat. ORLANDO, Fla (UPI) A jury of seven women and five men today convicted condemned coed killer Theodor Bundy of the 1978 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Lake City school girl Kimberly Diane Leach. 60 years ago — 1960 Dalles city is presently in the process of looking for employ- ees to fill two city positions. Applications are being accepted and interviews scheduled for the job of meter maid and that of director of parks and recreation. Mrs. Helen Care, the police department’s current meter maid has resigned to await the arrival of an expected child Police Chief Robert Brower said. A Dalles man was remanded to the custody of Multnomah county deputy sheriffs yester- day morning and returned to Portland to face hit and run charges. The man was taken into custody by Wasco County Sheriff’s Deputies Don Martin and Vic Peterson Saturday night at his home after a bulletin for his arrest was issued at Portland Saturday. The Wasco County court has been asked to block moves to close Terminal avenue between Sixth Street and U. S. Highway 30. In a petition filed recently at the county clerk’s office 35 signers have asked the court not to con- sent to closure of the road should such a proposal be made by the State Highway Commission. Wasco County growers attending the annual Cherry Institute Saturday in Yakima heard stern warnings of trouble that lies ahead unless extreme care is practiced in the use of organic phosphate insecticides. Dr. James E. Zimmerman of the Yakima Valley, who describes himself as a “country doctor,” pointed out that people vary greatly in susceptibil- ity to organic phosphate poisons and susceptibility of any person also varies from day to day. Although cold and snow weather boosted total unemploy- ment in The Dalles area, the work force at John Day Dam increased during January, the local office of Oregon Employment Service this time last year. Port of The Dalles expects an inbound cargo of approximately 150,000 tons annually to Harvey Aluminum Co. and a minimum of at least an equal amount of grain outbound. This estimate was contained in a letter written yes- terday by Charles Tait, director of port development, to the Corps of Engineers in Portland in reply to a Corps inquiry. 80 years ago — 1940 Plans for revamping The Dalles school system, made necessary by destruction of the high school building early Tuesday morn- ing, were announced today by Superintendent Paul R. McCulloch. Members of the Celilo fish committee yesterday favored a building program at Celilo but left plans and details in the hands of a four-member sub-committee which will meet at Celilo next Thursday. The Wasco County court this morning heard County Agent W. Wray Lawrence describe the presence of approximately 10 acres of white top weeds as one of the most serious menaces to county farmlands. Tidewater Navigation compa- ny’s only all-steel wheat barge was berthed today in Celilo canal after water seeped into two front bins after the vessel struck a rock in the Umatilla rapids, it was learned yesterday. Men Transferred— Approximately 35 WPA workers will be transferred Monday to the Mill Creek project from various other work relief programs, H. R. Landfare, resident engineer, said today. The transfers will increase the number of men working on this project approximately to 85, Landfare said. Trial of Roscoe Herman Wilson, indicted for stealing a calf from the ranch of George Bourland near Dufur last November, will take place before a jury in Circuit Judge Fred W. Wilson’s court Wednesday, February 14. The defendant pleaded not guilty to the indictment at his arraignment before Judge Wilson yesterday afternoon. Fire Chief L. L. Mohr today was investigating a “remote possibility” that the local high school fire could have been started by a short circuit in an electric line that stretched and light freight and will make the round trip daily when the tourist travel opens. On Sundays the vessel will ply between Portland and Cascade Locks only. Four children are orphaned, two of whom are ill of influenza at the hospital, following the death Saturday of the father, Wilfred Ernest Davis, who in turn succumbed a few days after his wife, Alphretta Davis. The dual deaths of the couple who lived at Emerson station presents one of the saddest cases in the history of Wasco County. Definite assurances that there would be no change in the pol- icies of Dodge Brothers, Detroit automobile manufacturers, as a result of the recent death of John F. Dodge, president, was given to dealers at a meeting in the Blackston Hotel, in Chicago, during the automobile show there in January. Children who have been out of school because they refused to submit to vaccination against smallpox in conformity with the health laws of the state of Oregon may return to classrooms Wednesday morning, according to announcement today of Dr. Fred Thompson, city health offi- cer. This return rule does not ap- ply, of course, to those children whose homes are quarantined for influenza. Following telegraphic commu- nications from Hillsboro, Oregon, announcing that her sister Pearl Spinning was seriously ill with double pneumonia, Miss Mable Spinning, nurse at the local hospital, left this morning to attend her bedside. Miss Pearl is a student at Pacific University. WASHINGTON—The senate today by a vote of 63 to 9 declared suspension of rules for the purpose of reconsidering the Versailles treaty. Lodge later moved to recommit the treaty to the foreign relations com- mittee with “The reservations as adopted by the senate and a resolution of ratification with instructions to report the treaty back immediately.” The allies; demand upon Germany that she renders up a big list of persons guilty of cruel- ty in the late war and the refusal of Germany to deliver these war criminals opens possibilities of grave importance to the world. Art from an advertisement that reads, in part, “Crystal Washers are in some of the best homes in The Dalles.” The Dalles Chronicle, 1920.
