Looking Back: A Glimpse Through The Chronicle's Files page A3 January 6, 2008 Edited and compiled by Elroy King 20 Years Ago, January 6, 1988 A petition seeking the merger of School Districts 9 and 12 goes to a meeting tonight which may determine how it is handled. The Wasco County ESD {Education Service District] boundary board will consider the petition in a meeting that begins at 7 p.m. Under the new law the boundary board has 100 days from the filing of a merger petition to act. The District 12 school board continued to try to find a path out of the financial problems of the state's safety net law and the anticipated shortfall for the 1988-89 budget at a second of three special meetings held at The Dalles High Resource Center Tuesday night. Latest calculations show the district may be looking at a shortage of $547,000 if it is forced to fall back on the $5,304,440 that it would be allowed to levy under the safety net law. Wahtonka high school sophomore Jennifer Turner, who won the Veterans of Foreign Wars Voice of Democracy Speakoff of Post 2471 and District II will attend the Voice of Democracy statewide runoff in Springfield. She will leave Friday, Jan. 8, and return Sunday, Jan. 10. She is the daughter Randy and Janet Turner. 40 Years Ago, January 6, 1968 Three men of the year and the woman of the year for The Dalles Community will be honored at the annual awards banquet scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17, at the Elks Lodge. Plans for the event were announced by Don Thorstenson, acting as general chairman for sponsoring The Dalles Jaycees. Forty eight members and visitors were seated at a potluck supper Wednesday evening held by World War I Veterans and Auxiliary. Visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tate, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Peterson of Hood River and William Gardner of Mosier. Charles I. Andrews of Echo was admitted to membership. The Dalles put on their best offensive show of the year and won handily over Estacada 62-48 in a Wilco League game played in Estacada Friday night. The Indians, led by Dean Wilcox's 25 point burst, led by more than 20 points at times in the games, although they did trail in the early moments of the contest. Jim Slusher added 10 points for The Dalles. 60 Years Ago, January 7, 1948 The Chronicle did not publish on Jan. 5 or 6 due to the press being dismantled to move into the new building on Madison Street. Publication resumed on Jan. 7. Subscribers were urged to listen to "The Chronicle on the Air" over Radio Station KODL Monday and Tuesday evenings at 7 p.m. where a local news broadcast would bring them up to date on local events. One of the heaviest sustained downpours in the city's history damaged streets, flooded a number of basements and washed mud into yards in various parts of The Dalles yesterday. City road department crews were making repairs on Brewery Grade, which again was damaged by the torrent sweeping down the hill and tearing up pavement as it did during the cloudburst last June. The rain continued steadily until early this morning and brought the week's total to 2.48 inches. Falling rocks blocked the Columbia River Highway at the west end of the Mosier tunnels for six hours during the night. 80 Years Ago, January 6, 1928 Archdeacon F.W. Creasey and Mrs. Creasey will come to The Dalles to make their home here while the archdeacon fills the office of rector pro tem at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, it was learned today. Their former headquarters were in Pendleton, from which point Archdeacon Creasey visited the parishes of Eastern Oregon after his appointment as traveling missionary by the Rt. Rev. William R. Remington. Mr. and Mrs. Creasey will reside at the rectory at Fourth and Court streets while here. Most of the county schools are open and operating at full efficiency, according to a report from the school superintendent's office this morning. Only one school, that in the Columbia District, is known to be closed. The teacher, Mrs. Frank McCord, lives in The Dalles and drives to and from the school, and while it would be impossible for her to remain in the district until the snow disappears, directors of the school preferred to postpone opening of the classwork. 100 Years Ago, January 5, 1908 Considerable excitement was caused on the street last night by a run made by the fire department. An alarm was turned in from the brewery and that was probably the reason for such a large crowd gathering in that vicinity. Shortly after 8 o'clock some of the employees noticed fire coming through the roof of the pitch house. One of them hastened to send in the alarm and others attached the hose and had the fire out before the department and the crowd arrived at the scene. The charge of assault with a dangerous weapon was preferred against the man Morton who stabbed Eustace Barber on Friday afternoon. This reporter finds that the men who were principals, Barber and Morton, were not intoxicated. There was a previous provocation that has not been traced, but both were at the Railroad Saloon, operated by Owen Matthews on First Street, where the trouble took place. Earline Wasser Incoming and Outgoing messages protected by Trend Micro Pc-cillin program