Looking Back: A Glimpse Through The Chronicles Files April 11, 2004 The District 9 school board Thursday approved $2,018 to hire an engineer to design a new press box and a retaining wall at Sid White Football Field at Wahtonka High School [The Dalles]. Two representatives of the Chenowith Boosters Club, Rosemary Lutz and Bill Getz, appeared at a special board meeting Thursday night and asked the board to approve a change of plans for the new facility. More than 80 units including 30 floats have signed up for the 1984 Northwest Cherry Festival Parade Chairman Walt Ericksen reported today. The new cherry sweetheart will be grand marshal of the parade and she will be accompanied by her court. Finalists for the cherry sweetheart are Kelley Delaney, Wahtonka High School; Kelli Weatherbee, Dufur [Oregon] High School; Tiffany Snow, Wasco Union High School; and Amy Nelson, The Dalles High School. Brandi LaRoque, who has already compiled a list of bowling accomplishments, became the youngest female bowler ever to win the Oregon State Coca-Cola Classic Bowling Tourney. She competed at the Walnut City Bowl in McMinnville [Oregon] this past weekend and averaged 190 the first day and 184 the second day. 40 Years Ago, April 11, 1964 A woman whos service to the community has extended over several decades is The Dalles First Lady of the Year for 1963. She is Mrs. Wes (Lillie) Tindall, Rt. 4 [The Dalles], who was cited for her work in the field of early history, as a hospital Gray Lady, with Chenowith Grange and the BB Club and with the Home Extension office. Mrs. Tindall will be honored by the sponsoring organization at a public reception and tea Sunday at the Wasco Electric Cooperative Building. An unusual set of circumstances combined Thursday to cause the death of a highway construction worker in the bed of a dump truck. Algie Joseph Poschen, 44 of Eugene [Oregon], died of massive crushing injuries when 12 tons of rock were loaded in the bed of a dump truck into which he had been thrown as he was working at a rock crusher seven mile east of Arlington [Oregon]. State police said he had been employed on the job for only four days. 60 Years Ago, April 11, 1944 Members of the Junior Citizens organization at The Dalles High School took over all of the city offices yesterday in the annual Junior Citizens Day. The positions filled by the students were: Bob Brown, mayor; Jack Cooley, councilman-at-large; Dan Bowen, water commissioner; Ailene Young, health officer; Laurence Phillips, city attorney Bud Tibbets, city engineer; Thelma Kinchloe, city recorder; Eileen Winnett, treasurer; Ed Hastings, chief of police; Ed Murray, Bob Kaseberger, Lester Hazen, Howard Jewell, policemen; Ted Van Buren, Bill Gibson, Bill Marshall, John Clearwater, councilmen; Chuck McGuiness, dog catcher; Hank Locy, fire chief; Ross Nelson, Suzanne Farrington, Barbara Corey, Ava Neal, Patricia Eddins, Betty Stanek, Imogene Webber, Bernice Johnson, Amy Lou Woodworth, Duff Young, Jack Follmer and Max Selisch, firemen. The Veterans of Foreign Wars, Willard Anderson post, are purchasing Ye Old Mill and Cellar property on the highway east of The Dalles from Mr. and Mrs. Edward Seufert as the location for their new and permanent servicemens center to ensure a home for existing veterans organizations as well as for returning servicemen. 80 Years Ago, April 11, 1924 Joe Rutzik will be given a chance to go straight. Rutzik, the father of three children who admittedly made moonshine to keep them in school, while he and his wife scrimped and saved, going with barely enough clothes to cover their backs as they attempted to wrest a scant living from their rented farm on the divide between Three Mile and Five Mile Creeks, yesterday afternoon was given his liberty for the next 30 days when arraigned before justice of the peace J.W. Allen. If, after that time he appears and proves to the court he has not backslid he may be permitted to continue at liberty. 100 Years Ago, April 11, 1904 Saturday the senate passed the house bill donating four lots in the Fort Dalles Military Reservation to the Oregon Historical Society, who in turn will place them in charge of the Sorosis. Last night Fred Evans and Mrs. Carey came up from Mosier [Oregon] bringing Harley, the 15-year-old son of Mrs. J.J. Gray of this city, who was badly injured last evening by coming into contact with a barbed wire fence. The young man had started for church about 7:30 on horse back and in the dark his horse ran into a fence, which had been newly built and of which the boy was not aware. He was thrown on the wire, which cut a deep gash along the right leg above the knee. He was brought to the hospital where Drs. Ferguson and Reuter dressed the wound. 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