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Columbia Gorge News
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
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HISTORY
VERBATIM
Fiesta Fun — Sixth grade pupils in Gordon Miller’s room at Colonel
Wright school wound up their study of Mexico yesterday with a fi-
esta complete with costumes, displays and a candy-and-cake sale
that netted money for a class project. Bob Krein (left), Vicky Calkins
and Kenny Shannon appear above in south-of-the-border attire.
Booze “Jam”
Unites Son
And Father
Mill Creek
Noted by the Lewis and Clark expedi-
tion as a brisk stream named Quinnette
creek, suitable for running a mill, Wasco
County’s Mill Creek, pictured above in the
1890s, once joined the Columbia River just
west of downtown The Dalles. In the un-
dated photograph at right, the creek delta
is being filled. The creek was redirected
into an underground tunnel 852 feet long
and 16 feet in diameter in 1934. Seven
acres of fill were created for railroads,
highways and buildings, all in the vicinity
of Union Street. The tunnel entrance is
located at Thompson Park.
Separated 30 Years
Father Proposes
To Stand By Boy
And Son’s Wife
YESTERYEARS
1921 — 100 years ago
Contracts involving
expenditure of $1.5 million
were let by the state highway
department on Wednesday.
The largest paving contract
was on the Columbia River
Highway from Hood River
to a point beyond Mosier.
When completed, this will
give a continuous pavement
on the Columbia River
Highway from Astoria to Hog
Canyon, between Mosier
and The Dalles, with the
exception of a small strip
west of the city of Hood
River, which will be taken
care of by the council this
year. For the 10.5 miles of
paving between Hood River
and Mosier, the contract was
awarded to the A.D. Kern
Co., and the cost is estimated
at $350,915, or $33,000 per
mile, the paving calling for
being bitulitic (sic). — Hood
River News
The Dalles-Wasco County
chamber of commerce will
hold “open house” Saturday
evening at the temporary
campaign headquarters,
Second and Washington
streets, in which the entire
county is invited to sing,
lunch and be entertained.
The program will start
promptly at 7:30 with a gen-
eral community sing. — The
Dalles Daily Chronicle
1941 — 80 years ago
Proud of the new Texaco
station which they are
operating, at the corner of
12th and Pine streets on the
Heights, Jo and Dick Roth
report that business is good.
This Texaco station is about
the last word, up till now, in
stations designed to meet
the requirements of motor-
ists and is, withal, a most at-
tractive building in attractive
grounds. Phil Galluzzo, local
Texaco distributor, urges all
motorists to see this station.
— Hood River News
Spring officially will arrive
in The Dalles this week, de-
spite differences of calendar
or weather, according to
downtown merchants, who
have arranged for The Dalles
annual spring window open-
ing at 7 p.m. Thursday night.
Spring opening activities and
special displays will be fea-
tured in all principal stores
Friday and Saturday, follow-
ing the window opening. —
The Dalles Daily Chronicle
1961 — 60 years ago
John Noble, one of the few
Americans ever to return
from a Russian slave labor
camp, will tell of his expe-
riences on March 14 at the
Hood River High School
auditorium.
Mr. Nobel received the
1959 Freedom Book award
for his book, “I Found God
in Soviet Russia.” Mr. Nobel
will be introduced by Wilmer
Brown, regional director for
the National Association
of Evangelicals, the orga-
nization who sponsors his
appearance. He will also
speak to the Lion’s Club at
their noon meeting. — Hood
River News
District 21 school board
adopted a teachers’ salary
schedule Thursday night
calling for increases which,
on the basis of present staff,
would add approximately
$40,000 to the total cost for
1961-61. Under the sched-
ule adopted, $4,300 is the
beginning pay for a teacher
with a BA degree and no ex-
perience. — The Dalles Daily
Chronicle
1981 — 40 years ago
Blossom Weekend has
been set for March 26, and
the Pine Grove Boosters
have once again made plans
for a flea market to be held in
the Pine Grove School gym.
Those desiring to rent tables
to sell arts, crafts, antiques,
collectibles or other articles
are asked to reserve a space.
— Hood River News
Fruit processor and ship-
per George “Bun” Stadelman
said Monday that within the
past 10 years, fruit export
from the Northwest had
hit 20 percent, and more
exports are needed to meet
production. “They tell us
we can’t feed the world, but
we can,” Stadelman told
The Dalles Area Chamber
of Commerce. — The Dalles
Daily Chronicle
A tree planting program,
funded by the state legis-
lature earlier this year, has
commenced in Western
Klickitat County. One
hundred and fifty thousand
tiny Douglas Fir trees were
unloaded into freezer trailers
at the State Department of
Natural Resources com-
pound in Husum this week.
Groups of DNR workers will
soon be planting trees across
multiple sites in the county.
— White Salmon Enterprise
2001 — 20 years ago
Hood River County has
been awarded a $13,920
solid waste grant to establish
recycling depots in rural
Hood River Valley commu-
nities. The depots should
be established by June or
July, said County Recycling
Coordinator David Skakel.
“We’re now searching for
locations, and working with
residents of the two com-
munities, in Mt. Hood and
Odell,” he said. The biggest
benefit of the grants is likely
reduction of the solid waste
rate increase that is antici-
pated in June. — Hood River
News
Three The Dalles classic
car enthusiasts took the prize
in their classes last weekend
at the prestigious Portland
Roadster Show. Don Budd,
Terray Harmon and Steve
Hudson — the only three
The Dalles entrants, in their
first showing — each took
Best of Class in their partic-
ular category. — The Dalles
Chronicle
No injuries or property
damage were reported in
the area following the Feb.
28 earthquake, which was
Capricious fate ordained
that Norman Hogan of The
Dalles should go to jail for
six months before he could
find the father for whom he
had been searching for more
than 25 years.
Hogan was fined $500 and
sentenced to six months in
jail by Justice of the Peace
Allen Tuesday when he
pleaded guilty to a charge of
manufacturing whiskey. He
was arrested at the Umatilla
house with other men on
March 3.
Russel Hogan, a ranch-
er who resides in the Five
Mile district, read in The
Chronicle of the conviction,
and after discussing the mat-
ter with friends who knew
his intimate family history,
went to the county jail to see
if the prisoner could by any
chance be his son.
The father quickly recog-
nized Norman Hogan, and
the reunion was an affecting
one.
Norman Hogan’s young
wife is in The Dalles hos-
pital where she has been
confined during the birth of
Day At The Auction — It wasn’t clear whether the pet goat was go-
ing to be auctioned off at the Pine Grove Fire Department benefit
auction Saturday, but Brenda Sohler, Debra Meyers, Randy Sohler,
Annie Meyers and Amy Sullivan gathered to inspect the merchan-
dise just in case they had a chance to put in a bid on a new pet.
John Moore took a careful look at a grass collector as a crowd of
500-600 gathered for the auction, which had sales of $25,000-
$30,000 in donated and consigned merchandise. The highest bid
of the day was $2,400 on a 1970 truck, and net proceeds from the
sale will be used to by gas masks and extra hose replacement for
the department.
— March 12, 1981, Hood River News
a son. Russell Hogan went
to see her, and is making
arrangements to take the
young mother and her infant
to his ranch, there to reside
until Norman is released.
Almost 30 years ago, it is
said, Rullell Hogan and his
little family, consisting of a
wife, two sons and a baby
daughter, resided near Grass
Valley. One day the little
girls drank a concoction of
concentrated lye. The effects
of the fluid were not imme-
diately fatal. The child was
very ill, however, and Russell
Hogan is said to have sent his
wife and children to Idaho,
where her mother, it was
thought, could give the baby
better treatment.
This was the last that
Russell Hogan saw of his
family, until the reunion this
week with Norman.
For the first Mrs. Hogan
secured a divorce from
Russell Hogan, and the boys
were placed in an orphan-
age. Eventually the brothers
became separated...
March 10, 1921,
The Dalles Daily Chronicle
County
Hunting
New X-Ray
Center Site
The Wasco County
Tuberculosis and Health
Association has received
official notice to vacate its
X-ray Center from its present
location at the corner of Fifth
and Court streets.
In a letter to association
Chairman P. Everett Curtiss,
the Wasco County Court has
indicated its intentions to
dismantle starting July 1 the
house in which the center is
located.
“Due to the extremely
crowded condition of our
parking area and the con-
tinuing demand for more
parking space, we are forced
to go ahead with plans to
remove the building to com-
plete our parking area,” the
court explains in the letter.
The old wooden two-story
house is the last of three on
the west courthouse lot to be
torn down for a courthouse
parking lot.
Chairman Curtis con-
firmed this morning the
association was informed of
the court’s plans over a year
ago. He said a new location
for the X-ray Center had not
yet been picked.
March 10, 1961,
The Dalles Daily Chronicle
GLOBAL HEADLINES
Karl Wilkie readies the ground to plant one of about 100 tiny
trees he’s carrying in the bag over his shoulder for planting on
one of several Department of Natural Resources sites in western
Klickitat County.
— March 12, 1981, White Salmon Enterprise
centered in Pierce County,
although residents reported
feeling dizzy in response to
the quake’s motions. “We
had time to look at each
other, and then the blinds
started shaking,” said Henkle
Principal Mary Alice Walker.
“I got on the intercom and
yelled, ‘Duck and cover.’ We
talk to them about earth-
quakes, so everyone knew
what to do.” — White Salmon
Enterprise
1921
Russian Revolution Is Becoming Big Coup
Indian Speech Is Made In House
Crew Riots, Six Men Are Missing
1941
France May Use Warships To Break Blockade
Army Flier Killed In Forced Landing North Of Coos Bay
House Expected To Pass British Aid Bill Tuesday
1961
Reds Clash On Value of Dog Recovery
Problem: Will Religious Issue Kill School Plan?
Daughter Jailing Parents Jailed
1981
Reagan Chops More Funding
Hijackers Give Time On Demands
2001
Fiber project would boost connectivity
BPA plans less dam spill
Space Shuttle crew pays first visit to new home