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Ten Years Ago

December 2, 2009

Chairman Steven Woolley announces that the 2009-10 Study facilitated by Community Council is scheduled to begin December 8 and invites all interested to participate. The study will explore how the region’s economic viability can be improved through the creation of businesses that add value to agricultural resources not currently being utilized to their fullest economic potential.

First annual Christmas Kickoff parade a bright success with the events drawing a large crowd.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

November 30, 1994

The Dayton football team is the 1994 B-11 Champions by beating Toutle Lake 35-22 on Saturday. The Kingbowl fever that wracked Dayton for the past two weeks will slowly fade as Christmas, basketball and wrestling will soon replace those looks at the instant replay screen in the Kingdome and the euphoria of winning a State Championship.

Fifty Years Ago

December 4, 1969

Miss Cindy Culbertson, 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Culbertson of Prescott, added another star to her crown Tuesday evening, December 9, as she was named Washington State Wheat Queen for 1969-70.

Miss Carol Jean Massey and Miss Anna Marie Boyd, both of Dayton, have been selected as Outstanding Young Women of America for 1969 and will appear in the annual biographical compilation, “Outstanding Young Women of America.”

Sp/5 Bill Laughery returned to the United States on November 20 after a year’s tour of duty with the U.S. Army in Vietnam. He is the son of Mr. And Mrs. Bill Laughery Sr. in Richland, and the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Laughery.

William A. Silvey, 53, Hermiston, Ore., became Columbia County’s third traffic fatality this year in an accident December 2, 2.7 miles north of Dayton on Highway 12, while driving the mail truck and trailer enroute from Clarkston to Pasco.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

November 30, 1944

Mrs. Raymond Berry, Junior Red Cross chairman for Columbia county, has received the following congratulatory letter from Miss Marian Hansen, supervisor of the enrollment unit of Junior Red Cross in the Pacific Area, regarding the 100% enrollment for 1945 just achieved in local schools.

German civilians are being marched through Kunrade, Holland, to work on Dutch roads. They were formerly German guards over Dutch workers, who were forced to work for the Nazis. Now the Dutch do the guarding and the ex-masters do the working.

One Hundred Years Ago

December 3, 1919

After lying around police headquarters since May, Chief of Police Hussey has received notice from the U.S. Revenue Department to destroy the still taken from the basement of Charles Berg. Chief Hussey is up a stump how to go about destroying copper utensils.

Lincoln, Neb.-With the coal shortage become acute, more drastic rules for conservation were issued. Tomorrow all schools will be closed and the regents will decide whether to close the state university.

Master Jimsie Walls, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Walls was badly scalded by a quantity of hot chocolate which he dragged off stove where it was boiling. Very severe burns were inflicted upon his face and arms and body received the most of the scalding liquid.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 1, 1894

How the Women Voted; The experiment of admitting women to full suffrage in Colorado seems to have worked on the whole satisfactorily. The majority of them voted the Republican ticket is evident from the fierce assault made by the wife of Gov. Waite upon the members of her sex for their recreaney to “principle.”