Looking Back: A Glimpse Through The Chronicles Files February 22, 2004 20 Years Ago, February 22, 1984 A proposal to generate more motel tax money for tourist promotion went to negotiations today as city council members sought to balance their fund raising effort. A five percent tax on hotel and motel rooms and The Dalles area Chamber of Commerce gets seven percent of that for promotion. Last year the tax collected $96,000 and the Chamber got $6,780. Jerry Bush, marketing chairman for the Chamber, said his group had secured the support of motel operators for an additional one percent tax to be collected for tourism promotion. 40 Years Ago, February 22, 1964 A feature of the district meeting of the National League of Postmasters, including not only Postmasters but other postal employees and guests from a five-county area, was the presentation to Postmaster James Sandoz of his commission for the first office in The Dalles. Following the dinner meeting Friday night at the Eagles Lodge, Postal Service Officer Joe Kerr, of Pasco [Washington] made the presentation to Sandoz. Officials of this small Columbia River community (Cascade Locks) [Oregon] 40 miles east of Portland said Friday they would circulate initiative petitions in an attempt to secede from Hood River County and join Multnomah County. City Manager Herbert Wenzel said petitions have been prepared in Portland and will be presented March 2 to a citizens committee for approval. The secession movement began when about 300 citizens attended February 3 meeting and overwhelmingly approved the idea. 60 Years Ago, February 22, 1944 With a record attendance of more than 200 members and patrons, the Wasco County Grain Growers Cooperative association yesterday held its annual meeting at the civic auditorium here [The Dalles]. At a directos meeting held after the business session, Leon Hammel was elected president; Miles Leabo vice president; and Delany Schanno, secretary. Previously the membership had elected S.M. Hix of Kingsley [Oregon]; Miles Leabo of Eight Mile [The Dalles] and Harry Whitten of Dufur [Oregon] as directors, replacing C.A. Harth, C.F. Emerson and J.R. Fleming, whose terms had expired. 80 Years Ago, February 22, 1924 Whitman colleges basketball team, led by R.V. Nig Borleske, was held up in The Dalles Sunday en route to Walla Walla [Washington] from the Willamette Valley while Borleske pleaded guilty over the telephone to a charge of speeding and was fined $40 and a companion, E.J. Morrison, also stood trial over the wire and was assessed a like amount. Two cars, loaded with members of the basketball team returning to college from games in the valley was stopped by traffic officers Jay Salzman and Hans Blaser on the Columbia River Highway. Ted Mandronas, known to police as Ted the Greek was freed from the county jail this morning on a $3,000 cash bail put up by friends of the accused who came here today from Portland. Mandronas was being held under a $5,000 bail bond in connection with the Mosier Valley bank robbery in November. Judge Fred W. Wilson of the circuit court reduced the bail. Charles R. Williams, who has confessed a participation in the crime, implicated Mandronas and Roy Vincent, alias Alabama who has been since killed by the sheriff of Tulare County, California. Williams is still held in the county jail pending the trial of Mandronas. 100 Years Ago, February 22, 1904 Flags floating over public buildings in this city, closed offices, banks and school doors reminded one this morning that there was something unusual about the day and recalled to them that 172 years ago the father of his country was born. [George Washington]. By afternoon other business houses of the city found it out and closed their doors, until this afternoon newspaper people find out that they are about the only ones not celebrating the birth of him who was first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen. Not that we revere his memory less, but a newspaper usually has its Delaware to cross while the remainder of the community is resting on their oars. Seldom are the new distributors expected to lay down the pen, and never to celebrate a birthday, not even their own. 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