Looking Back: A Glimpse Through the Chronicle’s Files October 24, 2004 20 Years Ago, October 24, 1984 Sheldon H. Rich has been named as the staff attorney for the Northern Wasco County PUD it was announced during the agency’s board meeting Tuesday night. The hiring of a staff attorney was approved during the board’s September meeting, but at that time the name of the attorney being hired was withheld until salary arrangements were worked out. Rich, presently a member of an Astoria (Oregon) law firm, will begin duties here on November 19. 40 Years Ago, October 24, 1964 Malcolm W. Fargher Jr., Dufur (Oregon), was re-elected president of the Wasco County Wheat Growers Association at the meeting of the organization Thursday at Ramsey Park Grange Hall near Dufur. Other officers are Wilbur Kelly, vice president, and Jack Thienes, county extension agent, secretary, James Hill, manager of the Pendleton Grain Growers Cooperative spoke on the proposed freight rate reductions on feed grains westbound from the Midwest to the west coast. The scorekeeper had an easy time of it here Friday night and the visiting Maupin (Oregon) Redsides and the Sherman County (Oregon) Huskies battled to a scoreless tie in a non-conference game for both teams. Cy Perkins won the men’s championship at The Dalles Country Club by scoring a 5-4 win over George Stadelman in competition recently. Perkins replaces Al Remlinger in the championship spot. Remlinger won the event the past two years, but was beaten in the first round of competition this year. 60 Years Ago, October 24, 1944 Between 12,000 and 15,000 turkeys will be marketed from Wasco County this year, according to W. Wray Lawrence, county agent who yesterday visited turkey growers of the county in company with Noel Benion, poultry specialist from the Oregon State College at Corvallis (Oregon). Most of the birds will go to the government for shipment overseas, according to Lawrence, and no turkeys will be for civilian consumption until army and navy needs have been met. Consequently, the county agent said, there may be a shorage of turkeys for the Thanksgiving and Christmas tables here. Miss Dorothy Lu Simonsen, a graduate of The Dalles High School, was selected as one of the new members of Phil Theta Upsilon, junior women’s sorority at the University of Oregon in Eugene. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Simonson of Ordnance (Oregon). 80 Years Ago, October 24, 1924 At a special meeting of The Dalles-Wasco County Chamber of Commerce board of directors held Wednesday night, Pat Foley, proprietor of the Hotel Dalles, was elected as a director to fill a vacancy on the board. In announcing the appointment today officials of the chamber stated the selection of Mr. Foley was in keeping with the progressive policy of the organization and that Mr. Foley was picked because of his mainifested faith in The Dalles, shown in the expenditure recently of $10,000 for improvements on the hotel and the plans for an additional story at the cost of about $30,000 next spring. Mrs. Lulu D. Crandall, Mrs. A.W. Manchester and Mrs. Joseph Stadelman were members of a party of Daughters of the American Revolution who went to Rowena (Oregon) this afternoon to present a flag to the public school there. Mrs. Harriet Woolsey, the teacher of the school, is a member of the D.A.R. and through her efforts the flag was given to the school. The flag is the same size as those given the local school rooms by the D.A.R. and will be used inside in the teaching of American citizenship, it was said. 100 Years Ago, October 24, 1904 The city is overrun with wheat, warehouses being packed, she is full and reaching clear up onto the walk from the REGULATOR warehouse stacks of wheat may be seen. Empty buildings are being utilized by private parties. D.P. Ketchum and sons having secured the building south of the TIMES-MOUNTAINEER. We understand that E.E. Allen has disposed of his splendid fruit farm, two and a half miles below the city to J.C. Hostetler, the deal being closed the latter part of last week. Mr. Hostetler expects his brother. A.B. Hostetler, to arrive shortly from Glasco, Kansas and take charge of the place. There is not a more desirable farm property near The Dalles than this ideal place. Mr. Allen expects to return to Mitchell (Oregon). 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