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Columbia Gorge News
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
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HISTORY
VERBATIM
Columbia River
Rapidly Rising
Storms in Eastern Oregon
last weekend and a heatwave
over the entire watershed of
the Columbia River resulted
in a rapid rise of floodwater
and the Columbia is now
at its highest point here in
several years.
During the first rise, the
Columbia remained fairly
clear, but is now very muddy
since the stormwater began
to run into it from the various
tributaries further east.
On Monday, Harry
Munemato, who has the big
truck garden on the Button
place east of the city, surren-
dered his farm to floodwater
after pumping continuously
to keep out seepage for near-
ly two weeks. It is believed
that a gopher opened up a
way for an inrush of water
sometime during Sunday
night and on Monday, the
entire tract was under water.
Much sympathy is expressed
for this unfortunate farmer,
inasmuch as it is not the first
crop of early vegetables he
has lost through flood.
On Tuesday night, the
shack below the depot had to
be vacated owing to the ris-
ing waters and the transients
who had been occupying it
were forced to camp out.
The White Salmon auto
ferry is now landing at the
foot of the slope below the
depot.
— Hood River News, June
10, 1921
River Fighters
Hope Crest
Under 25 Feet
PORTLAND (UPI) — Dikes
Items from the cornerstone of the old Methodist Church are removed after completion of a new church building May 9, 1953. Image was along the Columbia River
scanned from a black and white, 4-inch by 5-inch negative.
were reinforced today as the
The Dalles Chronicle photo/file stream continued to inch
upwards toward a crest that
floodfighters hoped would
not reach 25 feet. A herd
of dairy cattle was moved
from the Ridgeport Dairy
in the Vancouver, Wash.,
area to the Meadowland
Dairy southeast of Portland
as the Columbia encircled
the barn of dairyman Jonas
Kommings.A dike nine miles
north of Vancouver was being
reinforced. A Clark County
road department spokesman
said anything over a 24.5 foot
YESTERYEARS
1921 — 100 years ago
Another landmark in the
development of Hood River
County will be available
for all to see when the
Columbia Gorge Hotel, built
by Simon Benson and to be
operated by Henri Thiele,
will be open to the public.
It is expected that the hotel
would be ready to receive
guests this weekend, but it
was decided to wait a few
days and have everything
in readiness. One of the big
features of this hotel will lat-
er be its beautiful grounds.
Today, the surroundings do
not harmonize with the han-
som building but they will
soon transform into a park
worth of the finest tourist
hotel. — Hood River News
Barring the possibility of
a hot east wind, the dread
of all eastern Oregon wheat
ranchers, Wasco county will
this year have one of the
biggest harvests of wheat in
its history, according to E. R.
Jackman, agricultural agent,
who has just completed a
general survey of the situa-
tion. The county’s 1921 crop
will probably yield 1,400,000
bushels of wheat, as com-
pared to 1,200,000 bushels
grown last year, Jackman
estimates. A hot east wind
will materially reduce this
estimate by causing the
wheat to burn. — The Dalles
Daily Chronicle
1941 — 80 years ago
The board of directors
of the County School Unit
System, Wednesday night
of last week, awarded the
contract for the building
of the new grade school at
Frankton to a Hood River
firm of contractors, Bald-
win & Wheir. The bid was
$34,634.97, $2,634.97 in ex-
cess of the sum provided for
in the recent bond election.
Work is to start immediately,
it is stated. — Hood River
News
Residents in this area may
obtain driver’s license re-
newals at temporary offices
established at the city hall
in The Dalles, according to
an announcement from the
office of Earl Snell, secretary
of state. The office will be
open here daily beginning
Thursday, June 12, from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m., for the con-
venience of local residents
who wish to renew their
driver’s license, due before
July 1 of this year ... Persons
who hold current licenses
and are under 70 years of
age may renew their licenses
by filling out the application
form and paying the fee of
$1.50, it was said. — The
Dalles Daily Chronicle
1961 — 60 years ago
Fresh off their success-
ful assault on a townful of
cracked sidewalks, Hood
River City Councilmen
claimed Monday they may
have to use the same tough
tactics to clear city vacant
lots and cubing areas of
unsightly weeds. The council
membership decided to
make a public plea this
week, asking all property
owners check their vacant
lot areas and curbing areas.
They backed that up with
the reminder that a city
ordinance forbids weeds
that become a “nuisance” in
those areas. — Hood River
News
Base price for cherry pick-
ing in The Dalles area during
the coming harvest season
will be four cents a pound,
the same as in 1960. — The
Dalles Daily Chronicle
1981 — 40 years ago
Eugenio “Pepe”
Quintanilla became the first
non-pitcher in Hood River
Valley baseball history to
be named to the Oregon
Journal’s All State team. The
Journal revealed its picks for
the first two teams and hon-
orable mention Saturday,
and Quintanilla was one of
16 players from around the
state to be honored as a first
team selection. — Hood
River News
Wasco County should
capitalize on the fact both
the Lewis and Clark and
Oregon Trail come through
The Dalles. That is the
message from Dr. Eldon
Chuinard, a physician from
Portland who has spent
his life researching and
writing about the famed trail
blazers. — The Dalles Daily
Chronicle
A year and a half of
mental and physical training
helped 10-year-old Chase
Duback of Trout Lake take
third place in the Oregon
State Karate Championships
in Portland. Competing in
the Peewee (10 and under)
division at the Memorial
Coliseum, Chase won four
of five matches in free-fight-
ing competition against
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level would present a critical
situation and if the river got
to 25 feet “everything would
break loose.”
The Columbia reached 24
feet in the area Thursday and
was forecast to rise to 24.7
Sunday. Many dikes from
Vancouver to the Pacific give
protection to 30 feet.
Water spilled into a low
200-acre grazing field north
of Burlington on the Lower
Columbia River Highway.
Several cattle had to be
moved to higher ground.
— The Dalles Chronicle,
June 9, 1961
Fireman
Dunked
SCHOOL’S OUT! — These Coe primary students received no grad-
uation ceremonies or diplomas this week, but the traditional end
of school ride aboard the Hood River Fire Department’s gleaming
red trucks was obviously a more delightful reward. Aboard the
ladder truck to help the youngsters on and off were Firemen J.B.
Coffey, left, and Police Chief Francis Woolston, right.
— Hood River News, June 1, 1961
competitors from around
the northwest. The compe-
tition was his first. Chase
is a first-degree blue belt
in tai-kwon-do who will be
trying for the purple belt
soon. He already has pro-
gressed through the yellow
and second-degree blue
belts as a student of Gary
Muma of Hood River. In
the semifinal round, Chase
faced a brown belt and lost
in sudden death overtime. “I
was really pleased with his
performance,” Muma said.
“Chase is really cooperative
and really dedicated.” Chase
enjoys his lessons and is
looking forward to progress-
ing to more advanced levels.
“I like to free-fight,” he said.
“I like to do things that are
exciting.” — White Salmon
Enterprise
2001 — 20 years ago
The City of Cascade Locks
is undergoing a face lift to
attract new businesses and
improve the quality of life
for its residents. “We want to
spruce up the first impres-
sion visitors get when they
drive into Cascade Locks,”
said Robert Willoughby, city
manager. The downtown
plaza was revamped by the
construction of a terraced
rock wall that is landscape
with flowering plants and
shrubs. The city spent
$20,000 from its tourism
coffers for that work, which
accompanies a $60,000
state-funded repaving of the
sidewalk at the eastern end
of town and fabrication of a
decorative retaining wall. —
Hood River News
Return on investment,
or lack thereof, was one
concern shared during a
discussion at Wednesday’s
Wasco County Court
session to a potential golf
course on property at The
Dalles Municipal Airport
in Dallesport. — The Dalles
Chronicle
The final approval for
PacifiCorp to remove the
Condit Dam, located on
the White Salmon River,
three miles upstream from
the river’s confluence with
the Columbia River, is
waiting on an OK from the
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC). That
was expected to be a formal-
ity, but now process appears
to be snagged a “procedural
problem.” After an informal
visit to the dam by several
members of the FERC staff
on May 16, representatives
of the agency unexpectedly
raised some new issues
regarding the agreement
PacifiCorp signed to remove
the dam. According to one
observer, the problem arose
because the utility was
originally asking for a license
to renew operating the dam
as an electrical generating
facility. Later, they signed
a deal to remove the dam
altogether. PacifiCorp
spokesperson Dave Kvamme
said the current techni-
cality would not change
anything in the utility’s plan
to remove the dam. — White
Salmon Enterprise
Jack Brown Tumbles Into
Columbia, Clothes and All
Jack Brown, member of
The Dalles fire department,
proved to the eminent satis-
faction of his mates Saturday
afternoon that he may be an
A-1 land-lubber but that wen
it comes to water . . . bring on
the inhalator.
Brown trekked down to the
foot of Union Street Saturday
to see a couple of boys on a
boat. The boat was somewhat
beyond the reaches of the
shoreline so Brown started
a tight-rope walk on a log.
A wet, oil-soaked log, if you
please.
All went well until Brown
reached that portion of the
log where the water was the
deepest. Then “Brownie” fell
in, thoroughly dousing his
clothes, self and enthusiasm.
His bedraggled appear-
ance at the fire station not
long after brought many
expressions of regret and
concern from his cohorts —
no doubt.
— The Dalles Daily Chronicle,
June 6, 1941
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1921
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Machineguns Used On Toledo Bandits
Relief Agencies To Be Investigated
1941
Troops Take Over Strike-Bound Plane Plant
British Armies March Against French
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1961
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Pro Reds Blamed For Blocking Cease Fire Try
Committee Ready to Send Castro Tractors
1981
Hospital Orders Vets Out, 7 Arrested
Israelis Spurn World Reaction
Reactor Fuel Good For Making Bombs
2001
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