Ten Years Ago

January 18, 2012

Cimmaron Perkins, a Firefighter/EMT for Columbia County Fire District #3 here in Dayton, will be representing the local Fire Department in a fundraiser for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. He will be climbing 69 floors, which is 1,311 stairs or 788 feet of vertical elevation in full firefighting gear, including Self Contained Breathing Apparatus.

The Hospital Auxiliary volunteers presented a check of $3,000 to Shane McGuire, Director of Facilities and IT, and Charlie Button, CEO, of Columbia Count Health System to help fund the replacement of 16 televisions in the hospital acute care area and waiting rooms.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 15, 1997

The Columbia County Board of Commissioners held a public hearing regarding the merging of Senior Informational Services into the Columbia County Services bureaucracy. At the January 6, 1979 meeting the proposal was submitted by Columbia Count Services (CCS) for the purpose of clarifying confusion or misconceptions regarding the proposal of consolidating services between Columbia County Services and Columbia County Senior Services.

Fifty Years Ago

January 20, 1972

Airman T.C. Goff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Goff, is now on duty at McChord AFB near Tacoma serving as an aircraft maintenance specialist.

Lt. Col. D. Gene Turner, USAFR AFB was recently appointed commander of the 313 Military Airlift Squadron, AFRES, stationed at McCord AFB near Tacoma. Lt. Colonel Turner has assumed command of 20 flight crews, 18 C-141 Starlifter airplanes and about 250 support personnel in the squadron.

Mrs. Martha S. Shelley is the first cash prize winner in the Bazaar of Values and was presented a check for $10 by Ray Zastrow on behalf of the bazaar merchant sponsors and Dayton Chronicle.

Alan Harris, 20, employed on a farm in the Starbuck area, suffered an accidental gunshot wound in his lower right side, Wednesday, January 12, while shooting rabbits. He drove himself from the field to Starbuck for aid and was brought to the Dayton General Hospital by Eddie Adams, Starbuck Marshal.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

January 16, 1947

A group of School District No. 2 patrons called on the school board Wednesday evening and told the board they were concerned about the lack of fire escapes, in the Central School where the grade classes are held. Loren Lambert, speaking for the group, said that he noticed fire escapes on other and smaller schools and wondered why they are not supplied for the local school.

Tragedy struck again Saturday at the old Cotterill mill on Eckler Mountain, where a young man, Darrel Guy Adsit, received fatal injuries in an accident. Frank Holtry, his son, Vernon Holtry and his son-in-law Gordon Spearman, and the late Darrel Adsit had taken over the mill and were building an important industry and founding homes on the site. The accident occurred when they were trying to “break out” a log that was frozen to the ground, when a cable gave way,

One Hundred Years Ago

January 21, 1922

Hoover Warns the Public of an impending general strike in the country’s coal industry. Secretary Hoover declared that the public should know what to expect when the national agreement covering wages and working conditions of miners expires April 1.

The coldest weather since December, 1919, was reported from virtually every Oregon and Washington point today. Eastern Oregon and Washington were suffering intense cold. At Kamela and Wallowa, in the Blue Mountain district, thermometers registered an average of 35° below zero, Spokane at 12° below and Goldendale, Wash. 16° below.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

January16, 1897

At the request of Thomas Ronan, J.A. Kellogg, Esq., prepared a bill, which has been sent to the legislature and has circulated a petition asking that the bill be passed, to prevent swine from running a large, providing a way for restraining them; manner of assessing and collecting damages done by swine unlawfully at large, for the sale of swine so restrained, the manner of giving notice and providing that swine need not be fence fenced against.