Looking Back: A Glimpse Through the Chronicles Files March 7, 2004 40 Years Ago, March 7, 1964 A keen race for positions on the Port of The Dalles Commission developed Friday with last-minute filings that raised to nine the number of candidates for the three vacancies. Seeking nomination at the primary election for the two-year term the unexpired portion of the term of R.C. Hampton who resigned are Democrats Harry J. Wickman, incumbent Henry J. Maier and Ernest C. (Bob) White. Del Goss, Democrat, seeks nomination. Republicans filing were Dr. Raymond L. Koch, incumbent Wilber F. Kelly, Calvin P. Horn, Dr. John Zapp and William E. (Bill) Taylor. 60 Years Ago, March 7, 1942 A delegation of 18 women from Wasco County today were honored at the launching of the tanker The Dalles, 36th from the Swan Island shipyard. The women, headed by Mrs. Francis Seufert, The Dalles, won the trip for being the first to put their county over the quota in the fourth war loan campaign. They conducted a door-to-door canvass. The main feature of a program to be presented to the public Wednesday evening a 8 oclock at the high school auditorium, will be the presentation of wings and commissions to members of the Silver Wings club, it was announced today by W.S. Nelson, manager of the Chamber of Commerce. The Red Cross campaign has been completed in the Boyd [Oregon] district, with a total of $700 turned in to campaign headquarters, it was announced today by Mrs. E.L. Hickok. Every person in the Boyd community was contacted, or a total of 35 families. That makes the $700 fund exceed from each family, Mrs. Hickok explained. 80 Years Ago, March 7, 1922 The political mill wheel was given an extra spurt late yesterday when E.C. Fitzgerald, after stating that he might file on the Republican ticket for the nomination as county judge to oppose Judge J.T. Adkisson, officially announced his candidacy for the office. Mr. Fitzgerald has been a resident of Wasco County for the last 26 years. Robert L. Murray, popular football coach of The Dalles High School, was last night elected exalted ruler of The Dalles Lodge No. 303, Benevolent Protective Order of the Elks. Murray will take the chair in which Dr. Thompson Coberth has presided over the organization for the past year. 100 Years Ago, March 7, 1904 Five pair of Chinese pheasants arrived Thursday from the Willamette valley, consigned to County Judge W.W. Hoover who sent them over by Ce Bernard to West Fork today. It is hoped that malicious hunters will not disturb these birds until they have had a good opportunity to propagate, as they are probably the best game birds known, and they would furnish a great sport to our hunters a few years from now. Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, Oregon Copied and submitted by Earline Wasser Member of Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society c/o The Dalles/Wasco County Public Library 722 Court Street The Dalles, Oregon 97058 http://community.gorge.net/genealogy [Note: new website address] Browse http://historysavers.com/orwasco/ recently updated information regarding Wasco County - Links are at the bottom of page http://searches.rootsweb.com/ "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant." Robert Louis Stevenson Incoming and Outgoing mail protected by Trend Micro PC-cillin program _________________________________________________________________ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee® Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963