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Columbia Gorge News
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
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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