Looking Back: A Glimpse Through The Chronicle's Files page B2 November 25, 2007 Edited and compiled by Elroy King 20 Years Ago, November 25, 1987 A police officer fatally shot a 48-year-old man who authorities said robbed the Hood River McDonald's restaurant and took a 17-year-old girl hostage shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday. The girl escaped with minor injuries. The man was identified as Glenn Walter Raney whose last known address was in the Pendleton area, District Attorney Sally Tebbet said. A new Bible-based church is beginning in The Dalles. Columbia View Bible Church has begun meeting at Mid-Columbia Senior Center on Sundays at 11 a.m. Pastor Randy Turner and his wife, Janet, will be there to greet new comers to their nondenominational church. Sunday, Nov. 29, will be the farewell Sunday at Life in Christ Center for Ron and Shirley Keyser, former pastors at the Cherry Heights Road church. The Keysers, who have pastured in The Dalles for 12 years, will leave in January for a new assignment in Africa. Their new assignment will be for one year initially as teachers in the Liberian Assembly of God Bible College. 40 Years Ago, November 25, 1967 Homer James, the almost legendary figure in port commission development affairs in the Mid-Columbia and a long time member of the Port of Klickitat commissioners, died suddenly in Lyle [Washington] on Friday. He was born May 1, 1884 in Indiana and had lived in Lyle since 1905. One of the first high school bands in the region to wear caps designed in dramatic shako styling is that of Wahtonka High School. The uniforms, which just arrived, are for the 40-piece concert and marching band. Reversible jackets will make possible use of the same uniform for both functions, said the designer, Bruce Bothwell, the school's band director. Wasco County Livestock Association will hold its first winter cattle feeder sale next Jan 16, reports Larry Ashley, association president. The sale will be held at The Dalles Auction Yard. The association has sponsored a fall sale for nine years, but has had demand for a sale after the first of the year Ashley said. 60 Years Ago, November 25, 1947 The proposed Dalles zoning ordinance drew strenuous objections from several persons at the public hearing held by the city planning commission in the council chambers of city hall last night. Restrictions contained in the ordinance, which comes up for final reading at the next meeting of the city council December 8, were attacked primarily on the grounds that they would discourage construction of additional apartment buildings. Dalles City will seek to avoid involvement in a court test of the ruling that pinball machines paying off in slugs or free games are illegal, Mayor Howard Dent Jr. declared at Monday night's meeting of the city council. Two new directors are helping shape policies of the Columbia Fruit Growers, local producers cooperative, as the result of an election held at the organizations 11th annual meeting. Emery Thompson and Frank H. Becker were named to the board, other members of which are H.C. Nielsen, Roy C. Hill and Leona A. Newbill. 80 Years Ago, November 25, 1927 The Dalles high school football team accomplished three things on Amotan Field yesterday by drubbing Albany 19-0. It established a superiority over every Willamette valley football team played this year, it swept away every doubt as to its right to play Milton-Freewater for the eastern Oregon title and it broke the tie of three years standing with the Albany eleven. The sale of Christmas seals in The Dalles this year is expected to exceed the record made last year, according to a report reaching Mrs. N.A. Bonn, seal sale chairman for The Dalles. Mrs. Bonn stated that in less than 24 hours after mailing letters and seals he had received returns. 100 Years Ago, November 25, 1907 The longest drawn-out wrestling contest yet seen in this city was the struggle for supremacy on the mat between Billy Dalrymple, of The Dalles Athletic Club, and George Miller of the Moro Athletic Club, which was only brought to an end on Sunday morning by the intervention of Night Officer Gibbons. Had this not been done the two men might yet be on the mat. That the two athletes were well matched is shown by the length of the second bout, which ended when Sunday came after one hour and thirty-one minutes of struggle. It was a genuine skidoo surprise that the Colombians gave the South Portlanders here yesterday afternoon. It was even a severe drubbing the visitors received for the locals easily rolled up a score or [sic] 23 while the victors went home hugging a huge goose egg. Earline Wasser Soldiers' Angels www.soldiersangels.org Incoming and Outgoing messages protected by Trend Micro Pc-cillin program