The Dalles Chronicle August 18, 2002 20 Years Ago, August 18, 1982 Wasco County's 114th annual fair is geared up and ready for family day on Thursday when the daily program begins. Fair officials have announced that E.M. (Al) Nelson, The Dalles, will be the grand marshal for the fair this year. Nelson came here 38 years ago as county agent. Two local men who have 64 years of water distribution experience between them were co-winners of the 1982 water operators of the year for the newly created North Central Oregon subsection of the American Water Works Association. Ernest H. Rhodes, who has been manager of the Chenowith Irrigation Cooperative for 35 years, and Clifford Wilds, of The Dalles City Water Department, shared the award given at the annual AWWA meeting for Eastern Oregon held over the weekend. The Dalles office finished fourth in the Oregon State Police state softball tournament played in Bend (Oregon) over the past weekend. Bob Ewen of The Dalles socked four home runs to lead the tournament in that category. 40 Years Ago, August 18, 1962 The Salvation Army s tarts a four day moving sale today. Brigadier Clarence Ford said the sale is made necessary by the Army's moving it Thrift Store to a new location in the former Mauser Lumber building at Third and Madison. The Thrift Store's present location in the former Sprouse Reitz store at Second and Federal is being remodeled for another use, forcing the Army to move. 60 Years Ago, August 18, 1942 Keith DeCoursey and Duane Potter, two members of The Dalles High School football team which won the state championship in 1941, are scheduled to leave tomorrow for Hanover, New Hampshire, to enroll in Dartmouth University, it was learned here today. Both DeCoursey and Potter plan to turn out for football at the eastern university where freshmen are eligible for varsity teams and may compete in regular Ivy League schedules. 80 Years Ago, August 18, 1922 A campaign to stamp out fire blight in Wasco and Hood River county orchards in now underway, under the direction of C.L. Hazen and F.W. Green, Wasco and Hood River county (Oregon) agricultural inspectors, and county agent C.W. Daigh. Hazen, Green and Daigh spent yesterday near the county line west of Mosier (Oregon), inspecting a number of abandoned orchards which were found to be afflicted with fire blight. These orchards will be condemned and the trees pulled, County Agent Daigh said this morning. Fire blight is a bacterial disease which attacks apple, pear, quince and other trees, entering through leaf and flower buds and causing the small branches and eventually the whole tree to wither. Work of remodeling the old court house into a modern home for Friendship Lodge, Knights of Pythias, is now nearing completion. Carpenters were laying the hardwood floors this morning and painting and plastering were finishing up on the interior of the building. Plans for the alteration were drawn by C.B. Burget and the work is being done by the Baldwin-Swope contracting company of Hood River. 100 Years Ago, August 18, 1902 We have heard of tomato can tramps many a time, but the latest is the tomato thief. They made their initial bow in these parts Saturday night, when they raided A.Y. Marsh's tomato patch and did about $30 worth of damage. It is evident from the tracks made that there were four in the "swiping party" and that they came down on a hand car; tracks being clearly visible right up to the railroad. You may be assured that Buffalo Bill (Cody) will be here with his show and that the entire show will be brought to the city, said John M. Burke, one of the advance agents, to this reporter when in the city yesterday. Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, Oregon. Copied and submitted by Earline Wasser "Don't judge each day by the harvest your reap, but by the seeds you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson Researching WASSER, GOAR, JOURNEY, HAMM, VINZANT, McNEAL, MATHIESON Member of Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society c/o The Dalles/Wasco County Public Library 722 Court Street The Dalles, Oregon 97058