July 7, 2002 Looking Back is compiled by Elroy King 20 Years Ago, July 7, 1982 More than 200 people became disciples of an (East) Indian guru Thursday in the next to last day of the "first annual world celebration" that has attracted some 5,800 people to visit a ranch renamed Rajneeshpuram. The latest outpouring of support for the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh came on Guru Purnima Day, the traditional meeting time for Gurus with disciples. The Bhagwan changed his usual pattern by appearing twice before the crowd instead of just once as he had on the three previous days of the celebration. 40 Years Ago, July 7, 1962 A 1958 graduate of The Dalles High School, Joe Doolin, who was recently ordained into the ministry of the Christian Church, has accepted a call to serve as the full time minister at the Corbett Christian church at Corbett (Oregon). Doolin has spent four years at Northwest Christian College of Eugene (Oregon) and will receive his degree next year. Taiwan will be the future address of Mr. and Mrs. Cavour E. Redfield (Dorothy Schilperoot) former teachers at Dufur (Oregon) High School in 1950-51, who were recently appointed as missionaries by the Conservative Baptist Foreign Society in Wheaton, Illinois. In Taiwan the Redfields will serve as principal and teacher at the Morrison Academy, located in Taichung. Diane L. Cosby, who has been attending Navy hospital corpsman school at Great Lakes, Illinois, is home on leave visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.P. Cosby, 401 W. 11th Street. Miss Cosby, a graduate of The Dalles High School, enlisted in the Navy last December. She completed her recruit training at Bainbridge. Maryland. 60 Years Ago, July 7, 1942 The gas mask - which was passed around at last night's city council meeting - was in no way a slam either at the business being conducted or at the cigar smoke which most people seemed to enjoy. It was simply one of 62 gas masks which were received yesterday afternoon by Fire Chief Charles A. Roth Jr., who had been designated by the defense counsel as war gas mask training instructor. Of the 62 masks, 18 went to the Oregon Women's Ambulance Corps, eight went to the rescue squad under W.L. Kirk, 14 went to the air raid wardens, 15 went to the police and 15 went to the fire department. The Dalles city fathers went on record last night at the city council meeting as being 100 percent behind the civilian defense effort. The motion was made by councilman Virgil Kelly and passed unanimously by the rest of the council. The council then made good the pledge by granting the request of Fire Chief Charles A. Roth Jr. for one dozen hard helmets to be used by the rescue squad whose job it is to enter wrecked buildings and rescue trapped or injured persons. 80 Years Ago, July 7, 1922 Initial dividends payment of 25 percent to commercial accounts and 70 percent on savings accounts to creditors of the French & Company bank will be made within the next few days, if Circuit Judge Fred W. Wilson approves of the petitions asking permission for the distribution. Announcements to this effect were made today O.B. Robertson, deputy state superintendent of banks, who is in charge of the liquidation of the affairs of the bank. Robertson said the petition is being filed today. Injuries suffered on June 8 while riding an unruly horse on a stock ranch near Arlington (Oregon) proved fatal to Henry Horst, 63 years old. Horst died at The Dalles hospital. Horst, together with Arthur Wheelhouse, owned one of the largest stock ranches in Gilliam county. The contract for the plumbing and heating plant at the new Dalles Country Club building has been let to John Milne. Mr. Milne will also do the plumbing in the Knights of Pythias building while John J. Sumner will install the heating plant. 100 Years Ago, July 7, 1902 It was not surprising that most of our people thought the town was a goner again when they looked out of their window at the sound of the fire alarm yesterday morning at 2 o'clock and beheld a blaze which seemed to have sprung from Mt. Pelee so quickly did it flash up and so fierce was it burning. It was not encouraging either when they discovered the locality and saw the start it had, with the European House all ablaze and smoke pouring out from the eaves of the court house. John Pease, who is an employee of the Wind River saw mill, met with a fearful accident this morning by catching his right arm in the machinery of the mill. He was brought up on the noon train and taken to the hospital. Written permission to reprint Looking Back: A Glimpse Through the Chronicle' Files given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, Oregon. Copied and submitted by Earline Wasser. Researching: WASSER, GOAR, JOURNEY, HAMM, VINZANT, McNEAL, MATHIESON