Looking Back: Through The Chronicles Files February 13, 2005 20 Years Ago, February 13, 1984 A heavy yes vote in absentee and challenged ballots on Monday pushed the Lyle (Washington) School District levy request over the top school superintendent Bob Garrett reported Monday. The final tally in the $93,000 levy was 232 yes and 148 no. That gave the levy request a 61.1 percent yes vote. When Kevin Bailey gets it into his head to do something he does it. And you can confirm that with the Barlow Bruins Tuesday night scored a career high 27 points off the bench lead The Dalles Indians in a 61-56 win over the Bruins in a Mount Hood Conference boys basketball game in Kurtz Gymnasium (The Dalles). With the conclusion of the 1965 March of Dimes campaign for funds for fighting a variety of ailments, including birth defects and disease such as arthritis, the official report by the Wasco County effort shows net proceeds of $4,210.42, reported Earl Curtis, general chairman for the campaign. Coins were picked up from places of business in The Dalles, Dufur, Tygh Valley and Maupin and comprise the final income items included in the Friday compilation, Curtis said. 60 Years Ago, February 13, 1945 Booked at the city jail today as a straggler was Ray Bell, held for action by naval authorities. He is a three time straggler and may face severe penalties, city police said. Members of the Cherry Park grange turned out en masse Sunday to work on the recently adopted project of redecorating their grange hall. Members of the Harmony club served a potluck luncheon at noon and a potluck dinner in the evening. The large oval ceiling was sprayed with special paint, which the members of the Harmony club had purchased and an electric spray gun outfit which Roy Johnson had obtained from Tygh Valley (Oregon). The walls were painted by hand. Hugh Starkweather, golf professional at The Dalles Country Club before enlisting in the marine corps at the start of the present war, now is professional and manager of the Eugene (Oregon) Country Club. He received an honorable dischares from the marines several months ago. 80 Years Ago, February 13, 1925 The jinx of Friday the thirteenth fell with the crash of a broken crystal ball at the feet of John Deo Alburtus and Charles E. Couche today, when Harry Cue, one of the publishers of The Dalles Optimist, filed at (sic)$10,000 slander suit against the mystic entertainer, naming Couche as a codefendant. According to a complaint in the circuit court Alburtus, whose one week stand in The Dalles aroused more interest than a presidential election, called Cue a drunken sot, a contemptible pup and a lot of other unsavory things before an audience on the night of Saturday, January 24. The justice court judgment in the case of Arthur Pack, sentenced to six month term in the county jail and to pay a fine of $1,000 upon a plea of guilty to a liquor charge that was sustained today by Circuit Judge Fred W. Wilson, before whom the case had been brought upon a petition for a writ of review. Pack sought to have annulled the justice court sentence. 100 Years Ago, February 13, 1905 For some days past, a rumor has been afloat that the Wasco Warehouse and Milling Company has sold its holdings in The Dalles. A positive denial of the statement was made by Manager McCoy this morning. Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, Oregon Copied and submitted by Earline Wasser Member of Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society c/o The Dalles/Wasco County Public Library 722 Court Street The Dalles, Oregon 97058 http://community.gorge.net/genealogy [Note: new website address] Browse http://historysavers.com/orwasco/ recently updated information regarding Wasco County - Links are at the bottom of page The Dalles Chronicle http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/ http://searches.rootsweb.com/ "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant." Robert Louis Stevenson Incoming and Outgoing mail protected by Trend Micro PC-cillin program