Looking Back: A Glimpse Through The Chronicle’s Files January 30, 2005 Compiled and edited weekly by Chronicle staff writer Elroy King. 20 Years Ago, January 30, 1985 Five people were named to the Northern Wasco County PUD budget committee by the PUD board at its January meeting Tuesday night. Named to the advisory group were Donna Baldwin, subdivision No. 1; Duane Howell, subdivision No. 2; Barbara Pashek, subdivision No. 3; Hal Howard, subdivision No. 4; and Grant Mead, Dufur, subdivision No. 5. All of the other committee members are from The Dalles. Closure of the hardboard mill at Dee (Oregon) will cost the area a $2.2 million annual payroll, a representative of Champion International said today. The layoffs will begin around February 18 said Eric Beard, public affairs manager for Champion’s Northwest Division. The Dalles High School principal Rich Correa strongly backs a proposed plan to form a new district for small AAA schools, but D-12 Superintendent Ken Kramer is still a little wary of the plan. The Dalles is among 14 schools from the immediate Portland metro area and the Columbia Gorge that are included in the plan to form the small schools AAA league. 40 Years Ago, January 30, 1965 With high temperatures prevailing in the “upper country” even higher Friday night at Wicks Reservoir at 1,700 feet, than in The Dalles, melting snow in the Mill Creek Watershed was threatening to send the stream on the rampage again. City Manager C. Dean Smith said all it would take “is another warm rain.” As the creek continued to rise Friday, sandbagging by city crews were underway at three points: (1) Wicks Reservoir Filter Plant; (2) approaches leading to the bridge to Valle Vista Nursing Home where grade was washed out in December floods and (3) Mill Creek Trailer Court to keep the stream from overflowing low area. Only one thing is holding up early use of the six acre relocated business district for the city of Arlington (Oregon) and that is clear title to the tracts business people wish to acquire. This was the comment Friday by Mayor Les Grant, who took over duties in this troubled river front city of wheat ranchers and tourists the first of the year. 60 Years Ago, January 30, 1945 City police and firemen today were investigating the circumstances of a blaze that did more than $3,000 damage to the house and furnishing owned by Mrs. Flora Bonney, 319 E. Seventh Street this morning. Treated at The Dalles hospital for a severe arm wound and loss of blood was Poe Mixon, 28, an engineer for the Russell Towboat and Moorage company. Mixon admitted, by questioning by city police this morning, that he started the fire, then dove head first through a large front window to get out of the burning dwelling. 80 Years Ago, January 30, 1925 Wallace L. Gibson is under arrest and an unknown liquor dealer is sought today as the result of an unusual seizure last night by Sheriff Levi Chrisman, in cooperation with federal authorities. Gibson is the seventh man to be arrested by county and federal officers since January 1 on liquor charges. Five gallons of whiskey and an automobile were seized by authorities in the raid which led to Gibson’s apprehension. Following the recommendation of Governor Pierce, the joint ways and means committee introduced a bill in the house today which would appropriate $1,500,000 of soldiers’ bonus sinking funds for the relief of eastern Oregon wheat farmers. The money would be available for loans to help to reseed wheat areas where the coming crop was destroyed by cold weather. An effort was made to pass the bill through under suspension of rules, but this was abandoned when opposition developed. 100 Years Ago, January 30, 1905 Joseph Allen closed a big land deal yesterday evening with Joseph Peters and C.W. Emerson of The Dalles. The land sold was a tract belonging to Lesley Matlock of this city, consisting of 2520 acres down in what is known as the sand country. The price was $6.50 per acre and is considered very cheap. Morrow county lands are rapidly increasing in value and the people who are buying now are making good investments HEPPNER GAZETTE Stockholders of the British Columbia Land and Oil Company held their first meeting Saturday evening and elected directors as follows: F.F. Gunning, N. Whealdon, C.W. Emerson, W.D. Richards, S.R. Brooks, E. Kurtz, F. Menefee. Officers were then elected. F.S. Gunning, president; N. Whealdon, vice president; E. Kurtz, treasurer; J.A. Douthit, secretary. Menefee and Wilson were chosen as attorneys for the company. 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