Ten Years Ago

February, 2010

The Columbia County Farm Bureau, Inc. (CCFB) Annual Meeting will convene at 10 a.m. in the Seneca Activity Center. A vote will be taken among regular (voting) members regarding the recommendation by the Board of Directors to sell Columbia County Farm Bureau, Inc. to Ag Link, Inc., another farm cooperative headquartered in Reardan, Wash.

Multi-Hazard mitigation plan and salmon recovery open houses will take place to discuss priorities that have been identified in Columbia County.

Reps. Maureen Walsh and Terry Nealey voted against Senate Bill 6130, the bill that would suspend most of voter-approved Initiative 960.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 22, 1995

In southeast Washington’s Blue Mountains, elk and deer damage-control or “hot spot” hunts are used less and less as a last resort to kill game that is causing crop damage. Last year, in the all Blue Mountain game management units, only 13 antlerless elk were killed by 15 hunters drawn from the hot-spot applicant pool.

The Chase-Spangler trail Network Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact has been signed jointly by Walla Walla District Ranger Thomas K. Reilly and Pomeroy District Ranger Dave Price.

Fifty Years Ago

February 26, 1970

U. S. Army Vietnam Army Private First Class Robert G. Wilson, 23, whose wife, Mary, lives in Dayton, was assigned December 21 to the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) in Vietnam as a field wireman.

Fort Clayton, Canal Zone, U.S. Army Specialist 4 Raymond “Bud” Burke, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. James P. Burke, was recently promoted to his present rank. Burke, who is serving as a cartographic draftsman with the Inter American Geodetic Survey, Burke received a B.A. degree in geology in Western Washington State College.

William G. Eslick, a February graduate of Washington State University, received second lieutenant bars in a recent joint ceremony for 24 Army and Air Force ROTC cadets at WSU and will be stationed at Sheppard AFB at Wichita Falls, Tex., were he will begin 55 weeks of training as a jet pilot.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

February 22, 1945

Ration Board Issues Edicts: Gasoline, tire, automobile and rubber footwear panels meet Tuesday and Friday morning at 8:30. Price panel meets on Thursday evening at 8:00. In making an application, it usually takes from five to ten days for the issuance of non-highway gasoline and fuel oil for tractors; and from two to five days to issue supplemental or special gasoline rations on trucks and passenger cars.

H. C. Hudson received a message card from his brother, L.C. Hudson, who has been a prisoner of the Japs since they took the Philippines and he was being held at Prison Camp No. 2 on the island of Cebu. He had been located for some time before Pearl Harbor as a miner.

One Hundred Years Ago

February 21, 1920

James Hutcheon, who has been aiding the health officers since the flu and small pox made their appearance, concludes he will be out of a job in a day or two because the flu has nearly disappeared. Twelve cases reported in Tumalum, in the Donahue, Martin, Evans and Ogden families, Mr. Donahue is in very serious condition. The cases were traced to Pomeroy where the epidemic is very bad.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 23, 1895

A novel spectacle was furnished the younger generation yesterday. It was the wale by public auction of two colored women, Sara Hackson and Bettie Fishback. They were convicted of vagrancy in the circuit court and ordered to be sold into slavery for a period of six months. They were bought by two colored men, Henry Jackson and Richard Coleman, and brought $1.05 and $2, respectively.