Looking Back: A Glimpse Through The Chronicle's Files page A7 November 5, 2006 Edited and compiled by Elroy King 20 Years Ago, November 5, 1986 Voters replaced a city, county and PUD incumbent Tuesday, re-elected others running and strongly turned back marijuana and tax measures in Wasco County Democrat Scott McKay unseated Republican Ray Matthew 4,803 to 4,116 on the Wasco County Court. Hazel Phillips defeated incumbent Bill Ward 2,272 to 1,841 for councilman-at-large in The Dalles and Howard Gonzer beat incumbent Bill Johnson 807 to 635 on the PUD board. Rep. Wayne Fawbush, Democrat; County Judge Bill Hulse, Republican; County Clerk Sue Proffitt, Democrat won. Sherman County voters re-elected the county-wide incumbents, rejected the tax base requests on the ballot and went along with most statewide trends in Tuesday's general election. In the county-wide races, only treasurer Nancy McCoy, a Democrat, had any opposition. She got 437 votes and holds a 10 vote lead over Independent Arla L. Melzer, who had 427. Republican Laurie A. Williams got 182 votes. 40 Years Ago, Nov 5, 1966 A decree in federal court in Portland apparently will end five years of legal proceedings involving 26 Dalles area orchardists and Harvey Aluminum. The contest decree in the court of Judge John L. Kilkenny was that Harvey pay each orchard owner the approximate market price for damage to fruit and pay for "past and future damage caused by fluorides" United Press International reported. Wasco County United Fund reported today that 62 percent of the 1966-67 goal has been reached. Response has been excellent in all divisions in the past week and there is every indication that the goal figures of $33,600 will be met, United Fund officials say. Sherman concluded its first winning football season in several years by downing Madras 20-13 in a Greater Oregon League contest. The win gave Sherman a 5-3 record for the year. Dan Jensen led Sherman to the win by tossing two touchdown passes. 40 Years Ago, Nov 5, 1946 With one exception, all officers of the Wasco Electric co-operative were re-elected at Saturday's annual meeting, it was announced today. The exception was the position of secretary in which Lester DePriest replaced K.V. Benson. W.E. Davis will serve another term as president of the cooperative and S.M. Hix was re-elected vice-president. W.O. Hopper, formerly with the Springfield clinic at Tulsa, Okla., arrived in The Dalles recently to take the position as head of the laboratory at The Dalles hospital. Mrs. Hopper, who has been visiting in Moline, Ill., is expected to arrive here tomorrow. Pvt. Ronald Clark and Pvt. Samuel Barker were graduated on Oct. 18 from the airborne school in paratroop training at Ft. Benning, Ga. And now are stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C. according to word received here by their parents. 80 Years Ago, Nov 5, 1926 The Fred Tooley property near Rowena was transferred from school district 9 to district 56 as a result of the boundary meeting before the county court Wednesday. Another boundary question involving two Maupin districts were ordered held over to the next meeting of the court, although discussion took place Wednesday. The Dalles American Legion football team will taper off practice tonight in preparation for the contest Sunday against the Sons of the Desert from Lexington. Mrs. John Chastain, who is teaching in the Pine Grove school district, directed an entertainment by her pupils, assisted by some of the patrons of the district in the hall in Wamic Saturday night. 100 Years Ago, Nov 5, 1906 "No wonder the penitentiary is full of prisoners from Wasco County if that's the kind of deal they give a feller," said Ray Cameron this morning as he stood at the bars of the county jail after receiving a sentence of three years for obtaining money under false pretenses. Cameron thought by pleading guilty he would get off with about a year and a half and was not slow in showing his displeasure when Judge Bradshaw pronounced the three year sentence. Saturday evening there arrived in The Dalles a woman by the name of Kate Schrieber, who had left her husband and four children in Portland, to meet a paramour. She was not aware that on the same train was her husband, J.C. Schrieber, who, accompanied by a detective, was watching her movements. They followed her to the Yellowstone Saloon, and with a skeleton key, opened the door to a back room and found her with Gust Jackson, who runs the saloon. Her husband swore out a warrant for her arrest and they were brought up in Recorder Filloon's court, charged with a statutory crime. Incoming and Outgoing messages protected by Trend Micro PC-cillin program