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From: "Dan M" <>
Subject: [OREGON] Re: Looking Back: A Glimpse Through the Chronicle Files
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:10:18 -0700
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> The Dalles Chronicle August 4, 2002
>
> 20 Years Ago, August 4, 1982
> Tuesday will be an election day for residents of the Big Muddy Ranch
who will select five council members for the proposed city of Rajneeshpuram.
An attempt to have the election set aside failed in circuit court on Monday
when Judge John Jelderks ruled in favor of Rajneeshpuram as he dinied a
request for an injunction against the election. 1000 Friends of Oregon
sought the injunction.
> The Dufur School District will try for a third time on Tuesday to get
a tax levy passed, with the latest request of $541,506 pared back
considerably from the two levies that failed previously. Dufur has no tax
base and the state school support would be around $180,000 to $190,000
Superintendent Earl Schaefer said.
>
> 40 Years Ago, August 4, 1962
> The Dalles Paul Krueger won the 110-yard-freestyle for boys 11-12 at
the Seattle Seafair meet today with a time of 1:09.4, only seven tenths of a
second under the national record. He was second in the backstroke. Tammy
Maier and Carol Bailey of The Dalles also qualified for the finals.
>
> 60 Years Ago, August 4, 1942
> Members of The Dalles city council today were deliberating on a plea,
presented to them by John Inman, manager of the Inman Flying Service at
Dallesport, Washington, to build a hangar on the new municipal airport and
allow him (Inman) to open a school for the training of army pilots. Inman
went to the council last night to inform them of the hazardous conditions at
the old airport, where he is now located.
> Subcommittee chairman of the local Red Cross disaster relief committee
met last night in the county courtroom and named Max Kaseberger, Eugene
Courtney, Glen Corey and Miss Ruby Thompson as the new central purchase and
supply subcommittee.
> Collection of rural scrap metal was assured yesterday with the arrival
in The Dalles of Thomas Rood of Hillsboro, (Oregon) foreman in charge of the
WPA (Work Projects Administration) truck pick up of scrap items from
outlying county districts. Rood will be accompanied on his runs by Peter
DeLange, Route 4, The Dalles, who will help him in the hoading of the metal.
>
> 80 Years Ago August 4, 1922
> Eastern Oregon has only a 60 percent wheat crop this year. Such was
the declaration today of E.R. Jackman, former Wasco County agent who is now
extension specialist in farm crops at Oregon Agricultural College. Jackman
was in The Dalles today, after having completed a tour of most of the
eastern Oregon counties, during which he was engaged in wheat and potato
certification.
> Roy Taylor, past exalted ruler of The Dalles Lodge No. 303, B.P.O.E.
(Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks), returned early this moring from
Atlantic City, where he attended the national convention of the Elks'
lodges. On his return home he visited in Chicago and Denver.
>
> 100 Years Ago August 4, 1902
> It is not often that we have to chronicle an accident by rattlesnake
bite; but yesterday afternoon the 7-year-old daughter of Jessie Simonson,
who lives about eight miles out of town on Chenoweth came near to losing her
life from the fangs of a rattlesnake. She was bitten on the finger of her
right hand while picking turnips in the garden. She was brought to a doctor
in The Dalles for treatment.
> The Board of School directors has selected the following corps of
teachers for Antelope (Oregon) school for the ensuing year: Principal, Miss
Mella White of Hood River; Intermediate, Miss Louise Goodnow; Primary, Miss
Elise McAllister of Dufur (Oregon).
> The new livery stable at the corner of Second and Laughlin streets has
changed hands. J.W. Henry having disposed of it to Charles L. Smith of
Tillamook (Oregon). Mr. Henry will return to McMinnville (Oregon) where he
has business interests.
>
> Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle,
> The Dalles, Oregon.
>
> Copied and submitted by Earline Wasser
>
> "Don't judge each day by the harvest your reap, but by the seeds you
plant.
> Robert Louis Stevenson
>
> Researching WASSER, GOAR, JOURNEY, HAMM, VINZANT, McNEAL, MATHIESON
>

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