A14 Wednesday, March 25, 2020
HOOD RIVER NEWS | Hood River, Ore.
YESTERYEARS
County ‘clean up week’
announced in 1920
Verbatim is available online
at hoodrivernews.com.
1910 — 110 YEARS AGO
Lack of room has forced O.P.
Dabney, the furniture man,
to rent the Hood River opera
house. This will prohibit any
further theatrical entertain-
ments here for a year unless
a new theater is built. The
property which Mr. Dabney
has been doing business has
just been sold and will be torn
down to make room for a brick
block. As no other place was
available, he leased the opera
house for a year and will turn it
into a furniture store.
1920 — 100 YEARS AGO
Hood River News archives
The first week in April is to
be Clean-Up Week. May we
not, each and every citizen of
Hood River, make a special
effort to clean his premises of
all rubbish and by so doing
make our town the cleanest
and most sanitary in the state?
Let us begin now to beautify
our grounds. Plant window
boxes and porch boxes. This
will aid very materially in mak-
ing Hood River beautiful and
attractive to many tourists who
will visit her this summer.
— Civic Committee of Wom-
en’s Club.
1930 — 90 YEARS AGO
Wednesday of this week
was the first clear, calm day
and many fruit growers were
out bright and early with
their spray wagons, applying
lime-sulphur (sic) or oil sprays.
The rains, followed by warm
weather, have combined to
swell the buds, especially of
Bartlett pear trees, and in the
lower valley, sprays must be
rushed on as early as pos-
sible or else abandoned for
this spring. As far as can be
learned, the damage from cold
last winter is almost negligible
and growers generally concede
that Hood River Valley will
produce a “whale” of a crop
this season.
1940 — 80 YEARS AGO
Notices are being posted
announcing the change in
designation of what recreation-
alists have known as the Mount
Hood primitive area, according
to a statement by Regional
Forester Lyle F. Watts. The
area affected is 14,800 acres,
lying north and west of Mount
Hood, and it will be known as
the Mount Hood wild area.
The annual cleanup of the
pioneer Butte cemetery at
Pine Grove will be Saturday,
with work commencing at 8
a.m. Dinner will be served in
the basement of the church at
noon.
1950 — 70 YEARS AGO
M ARCH 30, 1910
The biggest turn in city property yet announced took place
Tuesday when negotiations were open for the transfer of the
Hall block to Capt. C.B. McCan for $57,000. The announce-
ment caused considerable stir in city realty circles.
come from trees in protected
areas or from branches cov-
ered by the deep snow of this
last winter, when temperatures
dropped well below the minus
20 degree mark.
1960 — 60 YEARS AGO
Japan, for the man who was
responsible for Hood River’s
association in the international
sister city friendship program.
Tsuruta Mayor Kenji Nakano,
who arrived Sunday to par-
ticipate in a youth visitation
to Hood River, told a banquet
audience that his city will
dedicate a Hood River room
in a new community build-
ing and at its center will be a
bronze bust of Ray Yasui, who
was instrumental in founding
and energizing the sister city
program in Hood River County
more than a dozen years ago.
The Yasui family was consulted
and said they felt he would
have been touched by the
honor.
Hood River’s common
council passed the first reading
of an ordinance that will dras-
tically alter city boundaries last
Monday evening. A hearing on
the matter was held with no
parties appearing to oppose
the move. Approved without
comment, the ordinance will
bring into the city the property
of Robert and Vada Vaughn
and the Port of Hood River
commission located north and
east of the town. The move 2000 — 20 YEARS AGO
brings under city care the main
industrial site of the port, near
Timber sales on Hood River
the Hood River and White County forest land involving
Salmon bridge.
downed trees won’t grow dra-
matically without the county
commissioners’ knowledge.
1970 — 50 YEARS AGO
The county forestry depart-
Cowboy artist Joe Breck- ment is amending its timber
enridge may be 73 years old, sale policy to put the commis-
but he’s still claiming to be sioners on notice when salvage
the “fastest brush in the West” sales exceed their original
— or the nation, for that mat- estimated yields. The change
ter. Dressed in cowboy boots, is one of several proposals to
jeans, shirt and hat, Breck- come out of a thorough review
enridge set up shop at the recently conducted by the for-
Lakeside Tavern, where he’ll be estry department of its timber
painting at a fast clip until time sale policies and procedures.
to leave at the end of the week.
For anyone who challenges his 2010 — 10 YEARS AGO
speed-painting title, Brecken-
The lower Hanel Lumber
ridge not only can whip out
an oil painting in one or two Mill site in Odell is going
minutes, he can leaf through a through a transformation and,
sheaf of press clippings to tell after many years of sitting fairly
lifeless, a portion of the prop-
about his exploits.
erty is turning into something
beautiful. Artist Lauren Marie
1980 — 40 YEARS AGO
Hagner finds inspiration in
Step two of a long-awaited transitions of nature and, like
transformation of the Heights a butterfly about to spread its
business district is slated for wings and take flight for the
completion this year, accord- first time, her new studio at
ing to Hood River City Engi- 3015 Lower Mill Drive is near-
neer Jerry Branton. In a 220 ing the end of its metamor-
page annual report submitted phosis. When completed this
to the city council, Branton spring, Glassometry Studios
described the major street will be both an industrial glass
projects designed to widen and metal workshop and an
13th Street between Taylor art studio.
Street and Belmont Road. The
project will eventually lead to
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construction of a one-way cou-
Compiled by Trisha Walker
plet through the traffic clogged and Emily Fitzgerald, News
staff writers
Heights district.
The full extent of damage
to fruit buds and fruit trees in
Hood River Valley is a matter
of conjecture among local
experts with the only sure con-
clusion that the coming peach
crop will be extremely low.
Around 150 acres of orchards
have been planted to peaches
in the valley, according to
Arch Marble, retired county
agent. In addition, many fam-
ily orchards have peach trees
for home consumption. It is 1990 — 30 YEARS AGO
the general consensus among
experts that few peach trees
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