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HISTORY
Press Room
The press room at The Dalles Chronicle, date and photographer unknown. The newspaper was printed at the time with a letterpress, an
early form of the printing press which used movable lead type to reproduce text and engraved blocks of various metals to reproduce
graphics and, in later decades, photographs. Pictured below are engraved metal plates mounted nailed to wooden blocks, from the letter-
press used by the Hood River News prior to conversion to modern offset presses, the photo mechanical process currently used to print the
Columbia Gorge News. Pages were laid out and secured in a “forme” which was rolled with ink and squeezed or pressed against each sheet
of paper. High points transferred ink to paper, low points remained white. Text and art was composed in reverse, reading left to right, and
can be viewed as printed in a mirror.
Letterpress blocks, both three inches wide, advertise coffee, at
left, and the Hood River Apple Growers Association, above.
National Newspaper Week is celebrated in the Oct. 13, 1960, Hood
River News.
Hood River News file photo
YESTERYEARS
1920 — 100 years ago
Members of the Immanuel
Lutheran Church decided
Saturday to dedicate their
new church, which was pur-
chased from the Unitarian
ssociation, on Sunday, Oct.
24. The church is located at
Ninth and State streets. This
service will be conducted
in English. Louis Plog is in
charge of the disposition of
the old church and reports
that he las already had sever-
al inquiries for the property.
— Hood River News
The manufacturing
industries, in The Dalles and
Wasco county, bring into
this district some $7,000,000
every year, according to
figures gathered from the
local chamber of commerce,
and (according to) the office
of County Agricultural Agent
E. R. Jackman, agricultural
produce including wheat,
vegetables, fruits and live
stock add some $6,000,000
a year, figures show. It can
thus be seen that, by totaling
the money from the manu-
facturing industries and the
money secured for produce,
Wasco county is richer by
$13,000,000 every year. —
The Dalles Chronicle
If you are one of those
who drove over to Moro
yesterday to attend the
Sherman county fair, you
are probably toasting your
toes today and still blowing
your fingers. It was surely a
cold voyage for Dalles-ites
who essayed the grades and
ruts and chuckholes of the
road between here and the
Deschutes, enjoying with
keener exhilaration the
excellent roads of Sherman
county because the bumps
that had gone before. — The
Dalles Chronicle
1940 — 80 years ago
Contrary to rumors circu-
lating in town last weekend,
to the effect that last-minute
Democratic registrations had
turned the tide in favor of the
Democrats, an incomplete
tally yesterday revealed that
Republicans are at least 200
ahead, and their lead will
be further extended when
returns are complete. It is
also reported that a number
of former registrants, who
have not voted in the past
two years, will be struck off
the list, as their whereabouts
are not known. — Hood
River News
Fire of undetermined
origin broke out at the home
of Mrs. Agnes Brown at 1111
Elm St. this noon, when the
fire department was called
out to quench a blaze which
destroyed a mattress and
a pillow. Inasmuch as no
one had been home during
the morning, Chief Leon
L. Mohr reported that the
department was at a loss to
know how the fire started. It
GLOBAL HEADLINES
Headlines around the world, from the archives of The Dalles
Daily Chronicle.
1920 — 100 years ago
More Credit To Farmers Will Boost Necessities
High Court Refuses To Again Hear Dry Cases, Prohibition
Stands
1940 — 80 years ago
Italy Admits British Attacks
Berlin Suffers Heavy Damage In Night Raid
1960 — 60 years ago
Cuba Takes Over Most Business
Russians Await Nikita’s Version of UN Routine
Gunmen Flooded Floor of UN During Dictators’ Visit
1980 — 40 years ago
Iraquis Invade Oilfield
Cuba To Free U.S. Prisoners
Car Sales Showing Gain For First Time In 1980
2000 — 20 years ago
Mideast fighting escalates as Palestinians start ‘day of rage’
New York markets shake off Middle East tensions
is estimated that the
damage did no exceed $15.
— The Dalles Chronicle
An ordinance “granting to
the Northern Wasco county
Public Utility district the
right and franchise to con-
struct, maintain, and operate
an electric transmission and
distribution system in Dalles
City, Ore.,” was presented as
a “surprise” move before the
city council last night. — The
Dalles Chronicle
1960 — 60 years ago
More than 40 dignified
Portland businessmen spent
a busy Wednesday in Hood
River this week, examin-
ing the remarkable reality
that was once a vision for a
handful of valley pioneers.
Main point of interest for
the Portland Chamber of
Commerce delegation is
the valley fruit industry,
about 105 years old now, if
Nathaniel Coe really planted
the first fruit tree in 1855,
as recollection and records
claim. From those experi-
mental trees and the vision,
the hopes of men like Coe
and E.L. Smith (first com-
mercial orchard, 1876) are
in explosive and dramatic
evidence this week as the
valley swings through anoth-
er heavy harvest season. —
Hood River News
Speculation about the
future of the Court Street
school property took several
new turns today follow-
ing disclosure that School
District 12 doesn’t even own
the land on which the old
brick structure is located.
The school, taken out of ser-
vice this year for the second
time, is the most antiquated
building in the district’s
physical plant. But because
of surging enrollment in
the local school system, the
Court Street building prob-
ably will be put back in use
again next year. Dalles City,
however, has much to say
about this: It owns the land.
— The Dalles Chronicle
A fire on which pass-
ersby sounded no alarm
completely destroyed an
implement shed and ware-
house at Parklawn Memorial
Gardens on Three Mile Road
lat Thursday. — The Dalles
Chronicle
1970 — 50 years ago
The Dow Chemical
Company announced today
that it is delaying the instal-
lation of the Magnesium and
Chlorine plant at Dallesport.
During the next few months
the company plans to assess
adjacent engineering devel-
opments affecting the plant
design and to review the im-
pact of general inflationary
increases for operation and
capital costs of the project.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1980 — 40 years ago
A major industrial ex-
pansion that will increase
production capacity by more
than a third is starting into
the construction state at
Hanel Lumber Co. Permits
have been cleared for a 100
by 160-foot structure at the
present mill site that would
eventually house a small
log processing operation.
Harley Horn, a spokesman
for Hanel Lumber, said the
new mill will manufacture
lumber ranging from two-
by-fours to two-by eight
sizes. — Hood River News
An ordinance “granting to
the Northern Wasco county
Public Utility district the
right and franchise to con-
struct, maintain, and operate
an electric transmission and
distribution system in Dalles
City, Ore.,” was presented as
a “surprise” move before the
city council last night. — The
Dalles Chronicle
Wasco County CowBelles
are searching for contes-
tants for the 1980 Beef
Princess contest scheduled
to end Dec. 12. Debi Ashley,
Maupin, won the contest last
year and is the first princess
selected following institu-
tion of the contest by the
CowBelles last year. — The
Dalles Chronicle
(1979) Rose Wilson turned
85 Thursday, but it didn’t
slow down her bowling …
at least not too much. After
finishing her birthday cake,
Rose rolled games of 139,
122, and 102 — not half bad
for a bowler half her age.
But for Mrs. Wilson, who
is sporting a 140 average
as a member of the Millers
HiLifers, it was a sub-par
night. “I was too excited,”
she said of her surprise party
put on by her fellow bowlers.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1990 — 30 years ago
Recently, the Mayor and
Mrs. Charles Long were
please to receive a phone
call from Chamber of
Commerce President Chuck
and Foye Webster request-
ing an appointment with
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of Cascade Locks, which was
approved for a $180,000 loan
for its entrance road/land
development. — Hood River
News
Intuition figures strong-
ly in the life of William O.
Gregg, who was ordained
Sept. 23 as the sixth bishop
of the Episcopal Diocese
of Eastern Oregon. Bishop
Gregg succeeds Bishop Rusty
Kimsey in that position,
which is based in The Dallles
but covers a wide-ranging
territory comprising 60,000
square miles. — The Dalles
Chronicle
The Paul G. Allen Forest
Protection Foundation has
awarded the Columbia Land
Trust a $1.25 million grant to
purchase and conserve 203
acres of forest and agricul-
tural lands in the Little White
Salmon River watershed. In
a unique partnership, the
Columbia Land Trust will
acquire and own the land
for conservation, and the
Cold Spring Conservancy
will accomplish its goal by
creating the Little White
Salmon River Biodiversity
Reserve. “This partnership
will protect, maintain and
help us learn more about
our natural environment in
the region,” said Jody Allen,
executive director of the Paul
G. Allen Foundations. —
White Salmon Enterprise
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Dieter and Renate Maurer
from Bingen, Germany, who
were visiting Mike and Pat
Frahler of Frahler Electric
in Portland. Frahler, an
avid windsailer in the area,
told the Maurers abount
Bingen, Wash., being a sister
city to Bingen, Germany.
When Mayor Erick Naujack
became aware of their
pending visit to this area, he
appointed them as goodwill
ambassadors and request-
ed them to present Mayor
Charles Long with a per-
sonal letter and copy of the
latest published history of
the Bingen, Germany, area.
The letter expressed Mayor
Naujack’s greetings and best
wishes to the mayor, council
and citizenry of the City
of Bingen, Wash. — White
Salmon Enterprise
2000 — 20 years ago
On Wednesday, President
Bill Clinton signed off on
nearly $2 million in long
awaited economic develop-
ment funds for the Columbia
River Gorge National Scenic
Area. The fiscal year 2001
Interior Appropriations bill
includes $1,878,000 for eco-
nomic development in the
Gorge, money authorized
in 1986 when the Scenic
Act was signed into law by
President Ronald Reagan.
Other local businesses and
agencies that have received
the funding include the Port
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