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HISTORY
VERBATIM
Eby Store Windows
Reflect Yuletide
Sub-freezing temperatures
outside and condensation of
moisture inside the windows
furnished Willis Eby with a
real problem, to keep the col-
ors from running. However,
he secured a big electric fan,
draft from which has kept
moisture on the windows
down to a minimum. The
window decorations are only
part of the Yuletide picture,
as a visit to the interior of the
Eby Food Store will convince
all.
— Hood River News,
Dec. 13, 1940
The unusual in Christmas
decoration is drawing much
attention to the windows of
Eby’s Food Store, corner of
State and Second Streets.
Norman Tucker, well-
known young artist, has used
the windows of this store
as backgrounds for two of
the best-known Christmas
themes: “Shepherds
Watched Their Flocks By
Night” and “The Journey of
Santa Claus.” The pictures,
incisor, are of broad design
and testify to the pictorial
ability of Norman.
Witness Chair In
New Location
An electric train occupies a loft in this Dec. 22, 1948 newspaper photograph by George Lindsay of The Dalles Optimist. The image was
scanned by from a 4-by 5-inch black and white negative. Information on the envelope included the date and the name “Gap Woodworth.”
YESTERYEARS
1920 — 100 years ago
In order to secure an ap-
propriate name for the new
tourist hotel now being built
on the highway at the edge
of Hood River, Henri Thiele
is offering prizes of $50 and
$25 for the two best names
submitted. Rules governing
the contest require that the
name shall be brief and de-
scriptive. Only American and
Indian names will be con-
sidered. Foundations of the
building are now complete
and builders expect that it
will be open to the public
by May 1 next year. — Hood
River News
The long expected “pro-
test” to the board of control
of the State Athletic associ-
ation by the Salem football
team over the game won by
The Dalles on the local field
Nov. 25, has finally eventuat-
ed, but in an entirely differ-
ent form than was expected.
Instead of claiming the game
on the grounds that The
Dalles players walked off the
field without completing the
game, as Salem high school
officials had announced they
would do, Salem makes what
is considered a far more
serious charge; that The
Dalles players displayed an
attitude in the game ... which
is “prejudicial to the interests
of clean and sportsmanlike
athletics.” — The Dalles Daily
Chronicle
1940 — 80 years ago
The problem of what
to give for Christmas to
distant friends can be
solved through the medi-
um of Gift Boxes of Apples
and Pears, now available
through the Apple Growers
Association. These boxes,
of most attractive design,
each containing 18 specially
selected Delicious, Ortley
and Spitzenberg apples and
D’Anjou pears, are 95 cents
per box, but the Association
will ship these gift boxes to
any destination for the addi-
tional express cost. — Hood
River News
From 585 paid subscribers
in 1916 to an accredited sub-
scription list of 2,652 in 1940!
Such is the march of progress
of The Dalles Chronicle since
the ABC audit of circulation
first was incorporated within
its business policies some
24 years ago. —The Dalles
Chronicle
1960 — 60 years ago
Carol Marchbank slapped
the chill from her bare arms
and cocked a bright grin at
the long ribboned rows of
candy canes that fenced in
brightly decorated rows of
homes down the street past
her Seventh and Montello
Street home. “Golly, since
we started this thing, I
know everybody who lives
within three blocks of
us — before I bet I didn’t
know half of them!” It was
a happy thought as it must
be to the 17 families whose
unique idea and initiative in
follow through effort created
Candycane Lane, Hood
River’s brightest Christmas
idea in recent memory. —
Hood River News
“No blood in the bank”
is bad news that can be
avoided by heavy turnout
of donors at Friday’s blood
drawing here, the spon-
soring Dalles Ministerial
Association pointed out
today. — The Dalles Daily
Chronicle
As Dalles City’s recently
completed sewage treatment
plant prepares for an official
open house, the Oregon
State Sanitary Authority has
added another step to its op-
eration. Since the sparkling
new plant is near the lower
Columbia, it must, by May 1
be able to treat with chlorine
daily plant effluent drained
into the river. — The Dalles
Daily Chronicle
1970: An Open House will
be held at the Dallesport
Restaurant for county resi-
dents to meet the new chief
for the restaurant, Howard
Woodward. Word from
the Dallesport Restaurant
Wednesday said the open
house doors will be open
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with
coffee and donuts for the
guests coming in during
the day. — White Salmon
Enterprise
one person to fill a vacancy
caused by the resignation of
Dick Hyde on Nov. 12. — The
Dalles Daily Chronicle
(1979) Monica Smith
spends many of her days
sitting in area classrooms
observing students. Smith
is called in by teachers who
encounter a student with
disabilities, varying from a
student’s inability to read at
their grade level to emo-
tional problems that can
hamper classroom learning.
Smith administers a variety
of written, oral and ma-
nipulative tests to students
in grades one through 12,
which help determine an
area of learning disability.
“Then I will recommend
materials or approaches that
should be taken with the
student to assess what their
strengths are. We try to find
solutions that will strengthen
those weaknesses.” — White
Salmon Enterprise
2000 — 20 years ago
Lynn Mitchell’s chemistry
classroom at Hood River
Valley High School was a
clutter of dye bottles and
soggy t-shirts this week.
Students wearing plastic
gloves milled around the
room advancing their scien-
tific knowledge by … making
tie-dyes? “It’s good chem-
istry,” said teacher Lynn
Mitchell. He should know
because he just received the
Outstanding High School
Teacher award at the annual
Oregon Science Teacher’s
conference in Newport. The
award is given only to one
high school science teacher
in the state. “It was a com-
plete surprise,” Mitchell said.
“I didn’t even know it was
happening.” — Hood River
News
Annexation of portions
of Hood River County
into the Columbia Gorge
Community College District
saw a key advance Friday
in Salem, with conceptual
approval by the Oregon
State Board of Education.
Board members approved a
resolution to cooperate with
a citizens’ advisory commit-
tee in Hood River County
toward the goal of annex-
ing parts of the county not
already served by a college
district. — The Dalles Daily
Chronicle
Construction of the
White Salmon in-lieu
fishing site is in high gear
on the Columbia River
shore west of the Hood
River Toll Bridge. Colville
Tribal Services is overseeing
the project, with support
from the Army Corps of
Engineers. The site will fea-
ture a new boat ramp, camp
sites, and a fish drying shed.
— White Salmon Enterprise
preparation and completion
of first contracts had been
approved under the super-
vision of County Judge A. E.
Lake, Commissioner C. H.
Stoughton and H.C. Rooper,
and Judge Fred W. Wilson,
then district attorney for the
Seventh Judicial District. The
Hon. W. L. Bradshaw, circuit
judge at that time, also assist-
ed with the supervision.
Total cost of the court-
house when completed on
Oct. 3, 1914, was published
as $188,600 wile jail and
equipment amounted to
$8,955. Another $12,654
went toward the installation
of furniture and fixtures.
— The Dalles Daily Chronicle,
Dec. 2, 1920
Transfer of the witness
chair in the circuit court-
room from behind the bench
to an elevated platform
facing the assembly hall was
completed Saturday. Shifted
for the purpose of facilitating
the work of the court report-
er in recording testimony,
the relocation also will make
such testimony more clearly
audible to members of the
jury and others assembled at
court sessions.
The alteration, one of the
first effected in the court-
room in many years, today
brought reminiscences of
how and when the court-
house was originally con-
structed. Actual work on the
building was commenced in
May 1912, after preliminary
New Bridge Repair
Costs $43-Thousand
Dethman Ridge Road and
the Loop Route with all-steel
supports and railing.
The bridge has been
condemned “for about two
years” and will be renovated
during this fiscal year.
— Hood River News,
Dec. 8, 1960
Judge Harris Higgins said
West Coast Steel Co. is “pro-
ceeding without problems”
on the $43,000 bridge repair
project at Fike’s corner on
Highway 35.
The firm has contracted to
replace the shabby wooden
structure at the crossing of
Editorial cartoon from a 1980 The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
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1980 — 40 years ago
The lumber industry
in Hood River County is
Fashion detail from a 1960 The
vacillating with the current
Dalles Daily Chronicle.
recession and one local mill
is operating with a skeleton
work force this week while
another is at 60 percent re-
duction, and the third major
1920
mill is running at 100 percent
Textile Worker’s Wages To Be Slashed
capacity. The Dee Hardboard
Jap Agitation Will Breed War
Plant is operating with a
Insurgents May Pass Peace Bill
skeleton crew this week
Irish Municipal Buildings Seized By English Troops
during a temporary shut-
1940
Tents Serve As Hospitals When Flu Strikes Army
down of production, plant
Japan Will Fight If America Enters War Against Axis,
manager Dick Davis said
Wednesday. He said workers Matsuoka Reveals
Greeks Capture Italian Base, Continue Drive
were sent home for the week
Danish Policemen Battle Nazis
in a downturn of production
1960
that was similar to what
Shell Desires Exclusive Offshore Oil Exploration
occurred in the recession of
U.N. Security Council Awaits ‘Disturbing’ Congo Reports
1974. — Hood River News
Castro Scream ‘Plot’—Again
Seventeen names have
1980
been received by Port of
Motive Unknown In Death Of Famed Beattle Leader
The Dalles whose board of
CIA Says U.S. Leaks Fueled Israeli Missile Job
commissioners will select
Lenin Death Suspect Said An Avid Fan
2000
Vote Counters race clock; Bush asks courts to halt count
Putin says he will pardon businessman
American states review drug battle`
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