Columbia Gorge News
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Wednesday, July 28, 2021
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HISTORY
VERBATIM
Steals Canoe
For Long Trip
Joe Burman Wanted
Vacation On Columbia;
Held In Jail
Joe Burman’s “first at-
tempt” in crime may be his
last attempt for some time to
come. Burman was arrest-
ed in The Dalles last night
by Patrolmen Crate and
McClaskey.
The policemen merely
picked him up on suspicion,
but when they searched him
in the city jail they found
a big army revolver and a
black scarf, such as is com-
monly used by highwaymen
as masks, in his hip pock-
et. He was held pending
investigation.
This morning he told a
strange tale of adventure to
Chief of Police Heater. He
“borrowed” a canoe from
the Kellogg boat house in
Portland July 4, he said,
shipping it to Lewiston,
Idaho. He then made the
trip to Lewiston by train,
launching the canoe in the
Snake river and heading
downstream.
“I wanted to make a trip
down the Columbia in
a conoe and didn’t have
enough money to buy one,
so I simply borrowed a good
one from the boat house,” he
naively told the chief.
“It’s the first time I ever
had anything that didn’t
belong to me,” he added.
He went on to tell how
he had come through the
Snake River into the upper
Columbia and then on
An early view of Maryhill Museum of Art, perched above the Columbia River, photographer unknown.
YESTERYEARS
1921 — 100 years ago
As a result of a number
of watch night parties held
near Oak Grove recently,
there are several guesses,
each as good as the other, as
to the nature of the animal
that is playing havoc with
the chickens of that neigh-
borhood. Those who have
seen it fired at it and missed
it, are assured it is a cougar,
timber wolf or coyote, but
another says he believes it
might be a skunk if it had a
smell. One fact is assured,
something is taking the
chickens and walks on four
legs. — Hood River News
Alleging that he has been
defrauded out of approx-
imately $29,000 in a land
deal, Ralph E. Butler today
filed suit in the circuit court
against W. A. Woods and
the United States National
bank of La Grande, asking
for a complete account-
ing. The workings of the
land deal, which involved
extensive holdings in Union
and Wasco counties, are of
an extremely complicated
nature and a big legal battle
is anticipated when the case
comes up for trail. — The
Dalles Daily Chronicle
1961 — 60 years ago
The Goldendale office
of the Oregon-Washington
Telephone Company
received extensive damage
Thursday evening, July 20, as
a result of fire in a store ad-
joining the telephone facil-
ities. None of the telephone
equipment was burned, but
smoke, water and tar cov-
ered all equipment, causing
it to become useless. Pacific
Northwest Bell sent in a mo-
bile switchboard until with
temporary facilities, which
were used for emergency
calls until Thursday, when
it was possible to return to
normal service. — Hood
River News
Surviving some of the
bloodiest battles of the
Pacific during World War
II without a scratch, Wasco
County Juvenile Officer John
Cain Wednesday night failed
to negotiate a low drive-way
fence and broke his right
elbow. During World War II
the county juvenile officer —
a naval medical aid man —
served in such bloody bat-
tles as Iwo Jima and, though
sometimes in the thick of it,
escaped unscathed. — The
Dalles Daily Chronicle
1941 — 80 years ago
Just about the time
residents of Hood River
County were biting hard as
a result of the news that the
aluminum plant had been
politically shunted from
Cascade Locks to a site near-
er Portland, word reached
Hood River that a serious
fire was out of hand at the
Oregon Lumber Company’s
plant at Dee, and there
was more gloom — and
action. Within a remarkably
short time, one Hood River
pumper was on its way to
Dee and, as the fire steadily
grew in dimensions and
threatened to involve the
mill and other property,
arrangements were quickly
made for firefighting equip-
ment and men to come to
this city from White Salmon
and The Dalles to be ready
for any emergency during
the absence at Dee of all of
the Hood River equipment,
the two large pumpers and
the emergency pumper. —
Hood River News
With the Wasco county
quota of $700 for the current
United Service organiza-
tions drive attained, Paul R.
McCulloch, co-chairman
of the local drive, today
announced that final contri-
butions will be received this
week ... Maupin was the first
town to exceed its quota.
A.W. Gust is in charge of the
Maupin drive. — The Dalles
Daily Chronicle
1981 — 40 years ago
It’s the 60th time around
for the Hood River County
Fair. Theme for the fair this
year is “Look to the Future,
but Remember the Past.”
Fair Manager Percy Jensen
said the theme is especially
significant because next
year the fair will have a new
building. Looking to the
past, Jensen is keeping the
best of what people have
enjoyed for decades, and is
adding to it. The Wednesday
schedule called for a boxing
tournament an hour after
the official opening and start
of the barbecue. — Hood
River News
A team of surveyors work-
ing on the Scenic Highway
through the Columbia River
Gorge have finished their
first three stages of work
and will discuss findings
Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. and
take public comment. The
survey team was formed to
catalog the resources of the
highway with prospects of its
preservation. — The Dalles
Daily Chronicle
Gov. John Spellman
stopped in White Salmon
on his tour of the Gorge
Tuesday, and got the chance
to visit with some local
residents. “We couldn’t have
asked for better weather. It
was a great trip,” Spellman
said as he and his party
came ashore at the Bingen
Marina Tuesday afternoon.
The “BJ,” a 45-foot yacht
owned by John Hounsell
of Hood River, was used
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Fire At Oregon Lumber Co. Mill Claims 4 Million Feet: Four “cold
decks” were not so cold last Thursday night as fire destroyed ap-
proximately 4 million feet of logs belonging to the Oregon Lumber
Co. at Dee. Three pumpers from Hood River together with the
mill pumps threw an enormous quantity of water into the blaze to
prevent a fire that no doubt would have burned the entire town.
Lower picture was taken in the company restaurant about 2:30 in
the morning after it was thrown open to firefighters for food and
refreshments.
— Hood River News, July 25, 1941
for the trip from Cascade
Locks. Gov. Spellman was
also accompanied by Rep.
Bob Chamberlain, a White
Salmon Republican, who
later took the governor and
his entourage of a walking
tour of downtown White
Salmon. The governor visit-
ed with businessmen, pur-
chased a few items and met
Mayor Cecil Jaksha. A dinner
at the Erik Karlsson resi-
dence capped the evening
for the governor and his
family. The group spent the
night at the White Salmon
Inn. Back in Vancouver
later that week, Spellman
announced his appoint-
ments to the Governor’s
Select Committee on the
Columbia River Gorge,
including counselor to the
governor Edward J. Devine,
Sen. Hal Zimmerman, Rep.
Denny Heck, and Fred
Holly, Klickitat County
Commissioner. “The Gorge
is a priceless resource
that must be preserved,”
Spellman said in a press
conference. — White
Salmon Enterprise
2001 — 20 years ago
A group of 10 Community
Education art students
have given the Hood River
Chamber of Commerce
a lesson in cooperation.
The students produced a
mural based on the theme
“Working Together,” which
was dedicated at a recent
chamber board meeting.
The colorful mural will
remain on permanent
display in their board room.
The mural depicts as many
aspects of the Hood River
Valley as students could
cram in its 8-by-4-foot
frame. — Hood River News
Electricity customers of
Northern Wasco County
PUD can expect their elec-
tricity rates to take a jump
Oct. 1, but the question of
how much is still a few days
away from a final answer. —
The Dalles Chronicle
The proposed state budget
approved by the Washington
Legislature last week con-
tained some bad news for
Klickitat County Mt. Adams
Transportation Services. If
the budget is not amended
it could spell the end for the
newly created bus service
that connects White Salmon
and Bingen with Hood
River, Dallesport, The Dalles,
Goldendale, and points in
between. That service began
April 9. According to Roger
Gadway, director of the
transportation agency, the
budget shortfall was only
a few hundred thousand
dollars. “The current budget
has $3.5 million for rural
mobility, and we needed
them to provide $3.9 million
to get funded,” Gadway said.
“We’re trying to figure out
what to do from here.”—
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1921
Wheat Growers’ Sales Agency Moves To Oregon
Famine Crazed Russians Strip And Loot Land
Knives Wielded In Waterfront Rioting
Civil War Looms Between Chinese
1941
Japan Supports Market As Panic Threatens
London Attacked By Nazi Bombers
Another Tax Bill Declared Likely
1961
Senate Questions TV Writers on Violence Scenes
Welfare Meeting Has Much Talk, Little Else
Buildup Aim To Prevent Berlin War
1981
CIA Chief Investigation Puts Reagan Man On
Grill
Reagan Takes To Air Waves To Plug Tax Cut Proposals
Castro Accuses U.S. CIA Of Dengue Fever Crisis
2001
Washington to assess penalties at Hanford
Drought counties gain disaster status
Bush honors Navajo ‘code talkers’
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down. He “shot” all rapids
along the route with the ex-
ception of the Celilo rapids,
passing through the Celilo
canal instead.
“I had planned taking the
canoe back to Portland, pad-
dling up to the boat house
some dark night and leaving
it there,” he explained.
Burman carried a com-
plete camping outfit along
with him, inlucidng a supply
of food. He also had and
expensive cornet, which he
practiced while floating with
the current, he said.
He only carried the
revolver for protection, he
claimed, and the black scarf
was only a coincidence. The
police believe, however, that
he had planned to stage a
hold-up in The Dalles to
recoup his finances. He had
35 cents in his purse when
arrested.
A diary, giving his expe-
riences along the trip, was
found in one of his coat
pockets. He tells of “buck-
ing the wind,” and other
hardships encountered on
the trip. Quotations from the
Scripture are interspersed
freely among other remarks
in the diary.
He is being held pend-
ing information from
the Portland police as to
whether or not there are any
charges against him.
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