The Dalles Chronicle May 19, 2002 20 Years Ago, May 19, 1982 William L. "Bill" Hulse and Rick Cantrell won the contested Republican races for county judge and commissioner Tuesday. Hulse will face Democrat Jim Comini and Cantrell will face Democrat Maxine Cobb in December's general election. They both ran unopposed, although Hulse had mounted a write-in campaign and pulled 253 votes. Comini also ran a write-in campaign and pulled in 57 votes. 40 Years Ago, May 19, 1962 Wasco County followed the prevailing trend in most ballot contests in Friday's primary election giving an edge to Sig Unander in the Republican race for the U.S. Senate nomination and endorsing Robert Chandler for U.S. Representative. In the top contest of local interest, Dan P. McLoughlin in effect won the new district judgeship by defeating Vernon L. Burda. The unofficial vote in 38 of 39 Wasco County precincts was McLoughlin 2,273; Burda, 1,631. McLoughlin's name will appear on the fall ballot. Eugene Myers was elected president of The Dalles Lions Club this week and will take office along with other new officers on July 1. Myers, 1961-62 First vice president will be Walter Long with Gordon Miller and Tom Manful to fill the second and third VP posts. Re-elected secretary-treasurer will be Hubbard Day; New tail twister will be Ray Tupper and Robert Clark will serve as the lion tamer. Elected in director spots were John Byers and Frank Adams. 60 Years Ago, May 19, 1942 With Dr. Paul J. Raver, Bonneville administrator, as the principal speaker, public power advocates of The Dalles and Wasco county will assemble at Mack's cafe on Thursday of this week for a banquet commemorating the arrival of Bonneville power in this area. Itinerant farm labor will receive necessary gasoline to travel during the harvest season, J.J. Miller, manager of The Dalles Cooperative Growers, reported today after receipt of a telegram from Senator Charles McNary. Miller, in cooperation with Walter R. Bailey, manager of the Columbia Fruit Growers, had wired Senator McNary asking clarification of the gas rationing laws on this particular point. Local growers had expressed concerns over a possible shortage of farm help during the harvest season if itinerant laborers were not allowed gas for their cars. 80 Years Ago, May 19, 1922 An audience that packed all of the lower floor of the municipal auditorium and partially filled the balcony section listened last night to a diatribe against Catholicism delivered by R.W. Sawyer of Portland, lecturer for the Ku Klux Klan. The lecture was followed by a motion picture entitled "The Face at the Window" described as picturing the truth about the much discussed Klan, and upholding that organization as an apostle for law, order and Americanism. The program was under the auspices of the local Klan branch, but the identity of any local people with the affair was carefully hidden by the shrouding uniforms of the Klansmen. The Dalles King's Food Products company will probably reopen its local plant on the dehydration of spinach Monday morning manager C.C. Ross said this morning. A considerable acreage of spinach has been contracted for the dehydration plant this year. 100 Years Ago, May 19, 1902 It strikes terror to the heart of Dalles people to think what a close call we had yesterday and how near we came to having a repetition of the 1891 disaster. About 9 o;clock in the morning employees in the Bully feed yard discovered fire within two feet of the hay barn and at once extinguised it. It had been set by a drunken sheepherder, who had disappeared but was captured later near Moody's warehouse. He was taken to the city jail and gave his name as Woolsey but was too drunk to realize what he had done. Last night he was released on $8 bail. With a hurricane like we had yesterday, there would have been little hope of controlling the flames. Note: The 1891 fire destroyed 20 blocks of residental and business establishments. 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.