Looking Back: A Glimpse Through the Chronicle's Files June 22, 2003 researched and compiled each week by Elroy King. 20 Years Ago, June 22, 1983 New Judson Baptist College President Dr. Roger Crabbs Tuesday laid out a plan that he and his management team hope will make The Dlles "one of the educational centers of the Northwest>" The management team, which includes Crabbs, presidential academic administrator Dr. Neil Roth, presidential fiscal administrator Rudolph Resnick and development consultant Larson Ross, presented a five year development plan at a press conference. Members of the Jackson Engine Company, No. 1, made a strong showing at the Milwaukie (Oregon) Daze Firemen's Muster last weekend. The company also took some new equipment - a 1918 Americn LaFrance fire truck that had been purchased by city fireman Charles Norris for use by the muster club. The truck won two trophies its first time out and the team took firsts in two categories. The Northwest Open Masters Decathlon will be held July 8-9 at the Wahtonka (The Dalles) High School track. The meet is being hosted by Wahtonka football and girls track and field coach Buck Gent, who is a nationally ranked age group decathelete. 40 Years Ago, June 22, 1963 A panel from which the jury will be chosen for the first degree murder trial of Jake G. Goss will report Monday in Wasco County Circuit Court, Judge Edward H. Howell of Canyon City (Oregon) presiding. The charges were brought against the 66-year-old in Sherman County on May 4 as the result of the death April 14 of Frank Edward Finnegan, 43. Finnegan died in a bunkhouse at the Fred Dormaier ranch, east of Wasco (Oregon) where both men were employed. County Weed Control Officer Grant Mead attacked poison oak areas at three public stair and walkways from the lower to higher levels of town recently in an effort to eliminate the hazard in the city. C. Dean Smith, city manager reports. Amitrol-T was used at the Harrison Street trail, the stairway leading up the Fourth Street grade and at the Washington Street-Scenic Drive trail. 60 Years Ago, June 22, 1943 The Dalles war price and rationing board last night revoked the right of a Clair Brace, a minor, to get any more gasoline for the duration of the war as a result of promiscuous motoring in a car bearing an "A" sticker, the gasoline for which was obtained, it was stated on coupons illegally used. These coupons, board members said today, were taken by the son of a service station operator from his father's stack of used ration coupons, then used by Brace, and it is alleged, other youths who spent much of their time driving hundreds, perhaps thousands of miles with gasoline this illegally obtained, in defiance of all war restrictions on the use of gasoline. 80 Years Ago, June 22, 1923 Friends received word here today that Richard P. Strahl, a graduate of the class of 1916 at The Dalles High Schhol, was graduated from the college of denistry at North Pacific college in June and successfully passed the Oregon State Board examinations. Additional bee licenses were taken out at the office of the county clerk yesterday and include the following apiarists: W.H. Reams, E.C. Beck, E.F. Sharp, G.R. Walton, E.C. Malloy, J. Kaser, D. Cochran and B.H. Hayes. 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.oregonlive.com/cc/genealogy Browse http://historysavers.com/orwasco/ recently updated information regarding Wasco County - Links are at the bottom of page http://searches.rootsweb.com/ "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant." Robert Louis Stevenson _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail