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HoodRiverNews.com • TheDallesChronicle.com • WhiteSalmonEnterprise.com Columbia Gorge News Wednesday, September 23, 2020 B7 HISTORY Historic changes VERBATIM 12th St. project continues Crews from Canby Construction were fully engaged in widening 12th Street in the Heights as part of the Pacific Heights development off Pacific Avenue. For the next four weeks, traffic will be routed in one lane southbound, though 12th Street northbound will remain two lanes. Developer Dave Nelson said workers have finished the fill needed to add a left turn lane southbound onto Pacific, and are now moving the storm drainage basins to the east side. No work will be done on the west side of 12th. Over the next four weeks, crews will add the base rock and curbing, then cover the lane with asphalt and install a new six-foot sidewalk. Nelson said construction is started on four homes and four more are set to go. Work will also start soon on an Alzheimer’s care facility and 70-bed assisted living facility. The road work is privately funded under an agreement with the City of Hood River. — Sept. 23, 2000, Hood River News Poison Stressed as Child Peril Another peril for children who play in abandoned or unused old buildings came to light yesterday with disclosure that youngsters had found and spread poisonous insecticide in a basement near The Dalles. Mrs. Ed Coles reported that children had broken into an old house across The Dalles-California Highway from The Dalles Livestock Commission yard. She said no one had any idea the house, which has since been reoccupied, contained paris green, an arsenic insecticide. She said it was another danger, along with dynamite caps, that should be stressed by parents in warning their children to keep away from old buildings. — Sept. 23, 1960,The Dalles Chronicle A set of aerial photographs show the progression of The Dalles Dam, which was completed in 1956. The images help bridge the vi- sual gap between a Columbia River flowing free and the Columbia as it is today. Above, the completed dam structure, mostly built on dry land, is broken only by a single channel. At right is the site prior to construction, seen from the same direction. Below left, the remaining channel is seen prior to creation of the rock dam. That work is just getting underway in photograph below right. Contributed photos/John Miller file Advertisement from Sept. 24, 1920, The Dalles Daily Chronicle. YESTERYEARS 100 years ago — 1920 If there was one feature more than another that dis- played itself in the exhibits at the County Fair Friday and Saturday, it was the tenden- cy of ranchers here to look more to diversify farming than ever. And the great percentage of the exhibits proved that those ranchers are getting away from the policy of pulling all their eggs in the one basket is proving to be right. — Hood River News Local dealers do not antic- ipate any immediate drop in the price of automobiles due to the cut made by Henry Ford on his cars. Several of the local men have Fords on hand and they state that the margin allowed for profit will assist in protecting them against the drastic cut. F.H. Gannoit, local Ford dealer, said he was protected on every car in his shop except two and that the loss on those would not be great. — The Dalles Chronicle 80 years ago —1940 For the first time in many years, it is reliably stated that a group of local men were, early this week, heard audibly praying for an east wind. The reason? Well, large quantities of pears had been dumped into the Columbia River north of the railroad tracks and the prevailing west wind had backed them up to the city mole in such quantities that more than one onlooker had to be re- strained from making an ef- fort to walk across the slough on top of the floating fruit. Those who were praying had faith that an east wind would carry the fruit away from the mole to a point at which it would be less conspicuous to either eyes or noses. — Hood River News 60 years ago — 1960 A sign of one local business firm’s faith in the future of Hood River is the formal opening Saturday of the Hood River Stationer’s new lower level store to the public by Mr. and Mrs. Forest Bellus, proprietors. Renovation of the basement in the Second and Oak building has been complet- ed to make an attractive floor for the shop’s line of office furniture and equipment, art and engineering supplies, and other items. — Hood River News City councilmen may have to consider an ordi- nance to solve a problem confronting the recently completed city sewage plant. Although out of commission the last two weeks because of a broken main, the plant was encountering diffi- culties with fruit peelings before operations were shut down. Plant Operator Stan VanDerZanden said a large number of peach peelings from local canneries pass into the clarifier where they settle and block the outlet. — The Dalles Chronicle 50 years ago — 1970 It will not be a typical school afternoon at White Salmon High School on Thursday, Sept. 17, 1970. The Spokane Chamber Orchestra will arrive, bringing students in this area the magnifi- cence of a live orchestral experience. The 33-piece Spokane Chamber Orchestra and Conductor Donald Thulean will be joined on the program by a special guest group, the Eastmont High School Swing Choir from East Wenatchee. The orchestra and choir will be near the end of a one-week tour of school in Central Washington The series of school performances is made possible by the Washington State Cultural Enrichment Program. The statewide project provides school districts with curric- ulum-enriching performing arts events few could ar- range themselves. — White Salmon Enterprise 40 years ago — 1980 Not too many miles from the spot where Dorsey Crapper established his Oak Grove farm, descendants gathered recently to hold a family reunion. There were about 15o persons on hand for the Labor Day weekend get together that included a Saturday evening potluck at Viento and a Sunday picnic at Westside School. Relatives came from Washington, California and Georgia, but most of them reside in the Hood River area. The family A September 1920 advertisement lists post-war price price decreases adopted by Ford. founder crossed the prairie The Dalles Daily Chronicle by wagon train, finally set- tling in the Oak Grove area lottery dollars. Last Friday, Monday. — The Dalles enforce starting Sunday, of the Hood River Valley. It the Mt. Hood Economic Sept. 17. Yakama tribal was on his land that the Oak Chronicle Alliance awarded a $50,000 (1979) White Salmon will leaders aren’t saying how Grove School, now a private matching grant for the be a stopover point Friday the alcohol ban will be residence, was constructed. business for research and evening for a mock nuclear enforced and who will — Hood River News product development that waste transport caravan en be expected to comply. A new landfill will be would produce and deliver route from Bremerton to However, if tribal officials allowed to open in Klickitat Richland. The caravan is part “ready to eat” winter pears don’t have answers for state County next month, but of a region-wide educational to the food service trade. officials soon, the Attorney it won’t operate at the Steve Acquafresca, execu- campaign now underway in General’s office said it would regional level it was origi- Washington, Oregon, Idaho file a federal lawsuit against tive director for the Grower nally designed for, a Clark and Montana, sponsored by Shipper Association, said the the tribe next week. Gary County judge ruled Friday. the Hanford Conservation Larson, a spokesman for project is still two or three Clark County Superior Project. Caravans will be years from completion but it the Washington Attorney County Judge Robert Harris proceeding along known is expected to help the ailing General’s office, said a letter ruled the Rabanco Regional waste transport routes in is being drafted and will be winter pear industry. — Landfill Company dump each of the four states for sent to tribal officials this Hood River News near Roosevelt can open by a rendezvous in Richland week. Tribal officials and It’s not a done deal yet. Oct. 31 but not as a regional the Attorney General’s office Still, the Northern Wasco facility. Harris, who served as Saturday. The transport team will include flatbed County Park and Recreation have struggled over the a visiting judge in the case, and pickup trucks dressed legal issues surrounding the board took another step nullified Klickitat County’s up as waste transport rigs, proposed alcohol ban for toward creating smoke free Solid Waste Management six months. Yakama Tribal parks at Wednesday’s meet- Plan Update which called for according to spokesman Bob Burnett. He said they councilman Jack Fiander a regional landfill. — White ing. — The Dalles Chronicle will carry 55-gallon drums, said Federal law and the Salmon Enterprise The Bureau of Indian like the ones used to carry Treaty of 1855 show that Judson Baptist College Affairs plans to send out radioactive wastes, only the the ban on alcohol applies officially came to The Dalles letters of interest to the caravan drums will contain throughout the reservation, at 8 a,.m. today when the mineral extraction commu- even on private land owned first students for the fall term balloons that will be released nity to explore the possibil- periodically along the route. by non-Indians. The Yakama registered. — The Dalles ity of aggregate mining on — White Salmon Enterprise Indian Nation considers the Chronicle Indian lands in and around town of Glenwood as part of A recommendation to the Columbia River Gorge 20 years ago — 2000 its reservation, while state establish minimum stream Scenic Area sometime this The Hood River Grower and Klickitat County officials flows on Fifteenmile Creek fall. — The Dalles Chronicle Shippers association was the believe they have proof the drew mixed reactions at The town of Glenwood 12th county business chosen may be affected by the town is located outside the a public hearing held in this summer to receive The Dalles by the state alcohol ban that the Yakama boundary of the reservation. a share of $1.3 million in — White Salmon Enterprise Water Police Review Board Indian Nation planned to
