Weekend of February 29 - March 1, 2020 A5
The Dalles Chronicle
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HISTORY
History Mystery
Terray Harmon and Ed Olsen contributed to this report.
Last week’s History Mystery, above, was published in a
special section of The Dalles Chronicle May 27, 1967. The cap-
tion reads, “Lumber piles and a part of a sawmill building in
the plant at Maupin are shown when summer clouds added
beauty to the scene. Both the plant at Maupin and the one
at Tygh Valley have modern equipment, including barkers
and chippers. The mill in Maupin has added a packaging and
paper-wrapping machine.”
Ed Olsen said when he was a boy, there was a sumilar mill
north of Old Highway 30, across from the Hi-Way House
restaurant. “I was only five years old, and I remember seeing
it across the highway. That was some 73 years ago. It was
burning sawdust or something at the time—there were lots of
sparks coming out,” Olsen said.
Olsen said said he remembers asking his dad if the burner
had anything to do with the Indians in The Dalles, which he
thought must have been a silly question. But not so silly—the
dark structure was known as a “wigwam burner,” or a “teepee
burner” in the U.S. and as a “beehive burner” in Canada,
according to Wikipedia.
The burners were used to dispose of waste wood in logging
yards and sawdust from sawmills by incineration. As a result,
To guess this week’s photo, above, email Mark Gibson at MGibson@thedalleschronicle.com or call 541-296-2141, ext. 107, and leave a
message. Be sure to spell your name.
they produce a large quantity of smoke and ash, contribut-
ing to poor air conditions wherever they are used. Teepee
burners went out of general use in the Northwestern United
States in the early 1970s, and are prohibited from operation
in Oregon and southwestern Washington State. The wood
waste is now used as a component in various forest products,
such as pellet fuel, particle board and mulch. There are a few
beehive burners still in use in Western Canada.
Treatment plant
In reference to the J.H. Baxter treatment plant discussed
last week, Bill Dodson said he worked there in the 1980s.
There were five “retorts” or long tanks. Trams on nar-
row-guage tracks were loaded and rolled into the tank for
treatement. Sixteen trams of 8-foot rail ties could be treated at
one time. The poles went in on special trams, with side stopes,
and poles 100 feet or maybe longer could be treated.
LOOKING BACK
20 years ago — 2000
Personal relationships, high
quality and niche marketing are
the critical tools local cher-
ry growers must use as they
compete in a global marketplace.
Randy McAllister, administrative
assistant for Oregon Cherry
Growers in The Dalles, emphasiz-
es that strategy as he discusses
the broadening impact of “glo-
balization” on the local cherry
market, where brine products
have long been a mainstay of the
export business.
The equivalent of eight employ-
ees will be cut from 10 depart-
ments as Wasco County braces
for the coming fiscal year, the
county court decided Thursday.
But it could have been worse.
Department heads had to present
“worst-case scenario” budgets
to meet targets assigned by the
county in January. Recommended
personnel cuts to meet the targets
went deeper than the $988,000
worst-case scenario shortfall,
accumulating to about $170,000
in ‘spare change’ that the county
court Thursday redistributed back
to the hardest his departments.
Organizers of The Dalles
Riverfront Trail are nearing their
goal, but it’s going to take a
strong finishing push. Ready to
kick in that extra effort is Chuck
Langley, who worked through
AmeriCorps during the past two
years to help coordinate trail
fundraising efforts. Three key
funding pieces were secured last
year, and the year 2000 will see
major construction.
When it comes to multi-task-
ing, the city’s urban renewal
agency is a master. It has more
than a dozen projects on its
to-do-list, and it is working on
all of them, to some degree, all
the time. But a trio of projects
has top priority status right now.
They are expanding the area of
improvements made to down-
town; doing something with the
Commodore Apartment building;
and creating a pedestrian tie-in
between downtown and the river.
Tina Lee-Cady is a self-pro-
claimed number cruncher. “I’m a
bean counter and I’m very ana-
lytical,” she says. “But this place
inspired me.” “This place” refers
to the historic Granada Theatre,
which Tina has managed for a
year. She along with Anita Payne
of Pacific Marketing Resources
and Granada owner Eldon
Snoozy, recently turned in a new
direction. The Backstage Café
and the “dinner and a movie”
are temporarily on hold as the
theatre seeks non profit status.
40 years ago — 1980
The odds are 100-1 against
quadruplet lambs but the mixed
breed ewe owned by Floyd
Marshes of Foley Lakes beat the
odds Feb. 22 and gave birth to
four healthy lambs. Oregon State
University said Tuesday about
one in 100 births are quads. Sire
of these lambs came from a set
of triplets.
A daughter born here to Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Busick on Jan.
7 carried out a long tradition
as the first daughter of a first
daughter for eight generations
in the family, covering a span of
150 years. The baby was named
Jennifer Kristine. Starting the
tradition was a first daughter
born in 1830, who later gave
birth to a first daughter in 1850.
Subsequent first daughters were
born in 1870, 1890, 1910, 1932,
1953 and the latest one 1980.
MAUPIN—It’s time to break a
bad habit. For the past five years,
Wasco County girls’ basketball
teams have reached the district
tournament as the No. 1 repre-
sentative of the West Division of
the Columbia Basin Conference.
For those past five years, the
Redsides have dropped their first
game, automatically disquali-
fying themselves for a chance
at the final game, the winner of
which earns berth in the state
tournament.
MORO—The seniors on the
Sherman County girls’ basketball
team went out winners as they
downed Stanfield 48-24 in the
final game of the season at home
Tuesday. Coach Gary Shelton
started an all senior lineup and
Rhonda Crews finished with 14
points to take scoring honors.
The win left SC at 9-11 for the
year and 7-6 in league.
The Red Cross Blood drawing
in The Dalles Tuesday netted 127
units. The quota was 100. A total
of 139 persons registered for
the drawing but 12 of these were
deferred.
UMATILLA—Dufur and
Arlington will both try to make
it “old home weekend” here
when they and several other
schools congregate for the Big
Sky Conference district playoffs
Friday and Saturday.
A $1.1 million renovation
of Kah-Nee-Ta Vacation
Resort on the Warm Springs
Indian Reservation is nearing
completion.
The Dalles assistant city
administrator Steve Feldman has
accepted the post of city man-
ager at Independence effective
March 1. Feldman announced
the appointment Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The
Supreme Court today unani-
mously threw out of the tradition-
al privileges of marriage—that a
wife or husband may not testify
against their spouses without
their consent. The justices said
the decision to testify belongs
only to the spouse taking the
witness stand.
60 years ago — 1960
Gene Carpenter has been
named circulation manager
of The Daily Chronicle, it was
announced today by Bob Paulos,
publisher. Carpenter comes to
The Chronicle from California. He
is a former circulation manager
of The Chronicle, as well as for
newspapers in Washington,
Montana, Idaho and California.
LONDON (UPI)—Princess
Margaret, 29, is getting married.
With stunning surprise, the royal
family announced tonight that
the sister of Queen Elizabeth is
engaged to Anthony Armstrong
Jones, a commoner known only
to British society as a photogra-
pher and son of a lawyer. No date
for the wedding was set.
Donnell Smith of The Dalles,
winner in the Area 7 speak-off
held Saturday night at Camas,
will compete in the inter-area
speech contest of Toastmasters
in Portland. Smith, who earlier
ha won the local clubs speak-
off, took top honors at Camas
with his address titled “Strength
Through Growth.”
Three airplanes were lost early
Sunday when flames destroyed
the old Fairfield schoolhouse
that was being used as a repair
shop 12 miles southeast of The
Dalles on the Wrentham Road.
The fire was discovered about
1:30 a.m. Sunday by George
Fax. Flames had advanced so far
there was no chance to check
them, persons in the neighbor-
hood reported.
George Lindsay, publisher of
The Dalles Optimist and active
in civic and other affairs of the
community, today was named
1959 Dalles Man of the Year. The
honor came at today’s forum
luncheon of The Dalles Chamber
of Commerce at Hotel Dalles.
Participating in the selection were
representatives of the Chamber,
of which Lindsay was president in
1958 and 1959, and the Rotary,
Kiwanis and Lions Club.
Harvey Aluminum Company
completed its case Thursday,
following testimony by apprais-
al experts and company and
county officials, as the State Tax
Commission hearing on a 1958
tax dispute continued past the
fifth day, in Salem. The company
contends that the true cash
value of the plant at The Dalles
is $19,748,675 – and thus the
basis for the payable tax.
80 years ago — 1940
A new $7,000 steel tug, the
Charles R., was added yester-
day to “The Dalles fleet” when
the vessel was berthed here
following its construction by the
Albina Machine and Iron works in
Portland.
The question of whether or not
The Dalles wishes to remain on
the aerial map will be tossed into
the laps of local civic-minded
persons and business leaders
Monday night at 8 p. m., in a
public forum sponsored by The
Dalles Chamber of Commerce, it
was announced today.
Fred Shearer was the guest
speaker Monday night when
members of the Camera club met
at Broughton’s studio. Shearer
addressed the group on “Aerial
Photography,” illustrating his talk
with scenes of the eastern and
southern states. Plans were dis-
cussed for a series of field trips.
Robert Henry Jensen, 23,
today was formally charged
with the first-degree murder
of Joseph Dominic Simonalli.
Jensen was bound over to action
of the Wasco county grand jury
by Justice of the Peace Glenn O.
Allen after District Attorney T.
Leland Brown read the informa-
tion which accused the prisoner
of shooting Simonalli on or
before February 28. He was held
without bond.
Robert Henry Jensen, 23, this
morning retraced his steps of the
afternoon of February 8 when,
apparently drawn by the desire
to own Joe Simonalli’s 8-acre
ranch which nestles under the
rocky bluffs five miles west of The
Dalles, he fired two bullets into
Simonalli’s body.
Building permits in The
Dalles for the first two months
of 1940 more than doubled the
1939 total for the same period,
$26075 to $13,850, figures
released today by City Recorder
J. S. Steers revealed today.
SALEM (UP)—Marion,
Jackson, Wasco and Gilliam
counties were division winners
in the 1939 traffic safety contest
among counties, a survey
completed today by Secretary of
State Earl Snell revealed today.
100 years ago — 1920
“Wasco county poultry raisers
outside of the immediate vicinity
of The Dalles do not recognize
the value to them of using
purebred and good quality stock
and very few really know how to
properly feed to obtain the maxi-
mum results,” asserted Professor
C. S. Brewster, formerly of O. A. C.
who is lecturing here at the first
The Dalles poultry school.
The Dalles city council
yesterday afternoon authorized
the sale of street improvement
bonds for $25,123.80 to take
care of certain improvements on
Eighth street, Kelly avenue and
Pine streets. The bonds will be
issued in $500 denominations
except the last one which will be
for $123.80. The bonds bear six
percent interest and mature in 10
years. No opposition was voiced.
The Dalles high school debat-
ing teams won both legs of their
match with Odell high school last
night arguing on the question,
resolved: That the United
States should ratify no treaty by
which China is despoiled of the
Shantung peninsula.
Speaking to a congregation
that filled every seat in the audi-
torium of the Methodist church,
this city, Dr. J. W. Mahood last
night said, “The businessmen of
this city will be the first to fell the
beneficial effects of a revival. No
man, no woman can be touched
anew by the power of good
without thinking of old debts,
forgotten obligations.
NEWS IN BRIEF
D21 announces superintendent finalists
timeline visit the District’s website at www.nwasco.k12.or.us.
North Wasco County School District retained the services
of McPherson & Jacobson, L.L.C. to assist in conducting their
Three candidates for School District 21 superintendent
have been named by the North Wasco County School District search. The consultants reviewed, screened and conducted
Board of Directors. The candidates selected for interviews are: extensive background checks on 15 applicants.
On Monday, Feb. 24, the consultants presented seven
• Jose-de-Jesus Melendez of Tacoma, Wash., who will be in
The Dalles March 9; Richard R. Polkinghorn of White Salmon, qualified applicants to the school board and provided them
detailed background information on each applicant. The
Wash., who will be in The Dalles March 10; and Dr. Dorie V.
board then selected three candidates as finalists.
Vickery of Salem, who will be in The Dalles March 11.
Numerous stakeholder groups will have the opportu-
nity to meet the three candidates and submit input to the
CGCC spring registration ongoing
board. The School Board intends to make their selection by
April 3.
Spring registration at Columbia Gorge Community College
A Candidate Community Forum will be held at the Mid-
started Feb. 24, and classes begin March 30. CGCC offers
Columbia Senior Center in The Dalles from 5 to 6 p.m. on
college prep courses, preparation for the GED, and financial
March 9, March 10 and March 11 (one candidate per night
advising. For information, call 541-506-6011, option 2, or go
is scheduled). For additional information on the interview
to www.cgcc.edu.
CGCC receives tech grant
The CGCC Foundation was recently awarded a grant on
behalf of the Library and Learning Commons by the Tide
Foundation. This Google Data Center Grant was provided to
help update the digital infrastructure available to students
on campus, and will allow library staff to convert an existing
study rooms into a student innovation center. Students will
be able to access digital learning tools, CAD/CAM software,
desktop design tools and virtual learning environments in this
new Leap Lab.
County offices closed March 11
All Wasco County offices will be closed on Wednesday,
March 11, for all-staff training. Essential business should be
taken care of in advance.
WEATHER FOR THE DALLES, OR | FEBRUARY 29 - MARCH 6, 2020
Today
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Updated 2.27.20, 7:30 AM PDT
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