The Dalles Chronicle December 9, 2001 21 Years Ago, December 9, 1981 The new assistant chief training officer for The Dalles City Fire Department, Al Jones, started his duties Monday. Jones came to The Dalles from the San Francisco Bay area, where he was with the Sausalito Fire Department for 17 years. His last position there was batallion chief and training officer. Seventeen names have been received by Port of The Dalles whose board of commissioners will select one person to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Dick Hyde on November 21. The applicants are: Donald F. Dunn, Martin Keith Miller, David Maier, Gordon Foote, James Kane, Jeanette Cantrell, Dale Fallon, Donald Bradford, Harriett Lewis, Richard Renken, Gary Kopperud, Robert Connolly, Patricia Miller, Walter Fargher, Judy Cochran, Judith Drescher and Gary Rood. All of the applicants but Fargher are from The Dalles. (Chronicle Editor Note: The file for the last quarter of 1981 has turned up missing, so the year differs on segment of Looking Back.) 40 Years Ago, December 9, 1961 Envoy and Mrs. Nels R. Nelson, formerly of the Portland Temple Corps, Salvation Army, arrived in The Dalles this week to replace Brigadier and Mrs. Clarence Ford who are taking a leave of absence because of illness. Envoy Nelson served as commanding officer for ten months in Portland. He has also served as assistant officer in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Billings, Montana. Minor who bought beer from a 21-year-old Dalles man paid a $50 fine for him here Friday night to get him out of jail. The man pleaded guilty before Recorder's Court Judge Sam Van Vactor to a charge of selling beer to minors and was unable to pay the fine. Police said some of the boys involved in the incident raised the money to bail him out. 60 Years Ago, December 9, 1941 The Dalles high football team will play the undefeated Memphis Tech high school at Memphis, Tennessee, December 19 or 20 according to a statement this morning issued by Chuck McGuinness, local grid coach. McGuinness received the invitation to play claimants to the title honors of the south, with expenses guaranteed, last night by telephone from Early Maxwell, editor of the Commercial Appeal of Memphis. He immediately contacted school board members and said this morning that they had given their approval. 80 Years Ago, December 9, 1921 Fifty of The Dalles most prominent business and professional men learned to call each other by their first name at a luncheon held today at Hotel Dalles. The 50 men, besides rubbing elbows and getting acquainted with the man who sat on either side and across the table, organized the Kiwanis Club of The Dalles. Dr. B.C. Olinger, temporary president of the organization, presided. With automobiles crowded into every available nook and cranny, the steamer Teal left The Dalles at about 8:30 o'clock last night on the return trip to Portland, leaving there 25 peeved car owners who were unable to get their machines shipped because of a lack of space. A total of 35 cars were crowded onto the v essel for this trip. Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Cooper made the first trip since the snow storm from Tygh Valley (Oregon) to The Dalles over the Tygh Grade yesterday. They made the trip in a light car and said the greatest difficulty was in the fact that the outside track was along the edge of the road on account of the snow being deep near the bank. 100 Years Ago, December 9, 1901 Joseph Rupp, a native of Zlabinga, Mahren, Austria, now a resident of the Boyd (Oregon) neighborhood, today took out his new final citizens papers before Judge Bradshaw. Detectives Nevans and Reiley of Portland and Deputy Sheriff Woods and Alisky this morning took Addison Kidd up the road to the scene of Friday's train wreck so as to locate the place where he met the men who had threatened to get even with the company for putting them off the cars. Between now and the first of June 1902, patrons of the Bank cafe will receive with each pint of liquor purchased a card. At the latter date the person holding the largest number of cards will receive a three gallon demijohn of Green River or Harper's whiskey; the second largest, two gallons; the third largest, one gallon; the fourth largest, one half gallon; and the fifth largest, one fourth gallon. Written permission to reprint Looking Back: A Glimpse Through The Chronicle's Files given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, Oregon. Copied and submitted by Earline Wasser