From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

July 10, 2013

Parade Marshals graduated in the early to mid-1940s, giving honor to the Classes of 1944 and 1945, the Dayton Alumni Association selected two long-time Alumni supporters to be co-Parade Marshals for the 2013 Dayton Alumni Association. Robert Johnson and Elsie Robins shared the honor for the upcoming July 13 parade.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 8, 1998

The St. Mary Nursing School Alumnae Association donated the first $2,500 toward the establishment of a monument on the St. Mary Medical Center campus honoring the school and its graduates. St. Mary's School of Nursing graduated 411 nurses during its five decades of operation, the last class in 1958.

Next year a new turbine will be installed at Bonneville Dam's number one power house, and it will be a new design. These turbines, in tests, have eliminated fish kill due to power generation. The newly designed units virtual eliminate carination (carbon of air and gas bubbles) making the water safer for the young fish.

Without professionals like Dayton's Bodie J. Brown, 1991 DHS graduate, the Navy's fleet of high-tech helicopters would never get off the ground. Navy Petty officer 3rd Class Brown, the 25-year-old grandson of Leota Laughery, serves with Anti-Submarine Squadron 41 (HSL-41). Brown and more than 250 squadron mates keep about 10 helicopters in top working order.

Fifty Years Ago

July 12, 1973

Vyrl McQuary, ten years the auditor here in Columbia County, will be leaving his desk in the court house for good. McQuary worked for Inland Motor Freight in Spokane, Coulee Dam and Moscow as office manager from 1934 to 1939. He returned to Dayton where he established McQuary's Grocery, with his father Joe. McQuary ran and was elected to the auditor's position in 1963.

David H. Nichols, a 1966 Dayton High School graduate, recently passed both his oral and written examinations with dissertation, for his Ph.D. in Philosophy at U.C.L.A. Nichols graduated with highest honors from Eastern Washington State College in Cheney. Nichols was selected for the Chancellor's Intern Fellowship in history at U.C.L.A., which is the highest distinction the university may bestow on a graduate student.

Mary Sue Evers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Evers, was recently informed that she will be included in the upcoming edition of Who's Who among American High School Students 1972-73.This is the seventh annual edition of this publication and is the largest student award publication in the nation.

The End of an Era. This is your last issue of the Chronicle to be printed by the hot metal process. Starting next week, amid a lot of moving, shifting and cleaning, we will begin to use the two new electronic type setters, and with the aid of a new waxer, paste up the pages to be photographed and run through an offset press.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

July 8, 1948

Winning Essay By Jr. Hi Student. An essay on the historical Lewis and Clark expedition to the Northwest, written by Larry Higley for the Daughters of the American Revolution contest. The essay won first prize.

Joi and Joan Fanciullo, twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Fanciullo, showed a pair of purebred bull twin calves on the A. D. Radebaugh farm on South Touchet. Mr. Radebaugh recently complaining about run of bull calves he was getting from his purebred Shorthorns and Holsteins.

Mrs. Cecil Black received a letter from Germany in which she was thanked for cases of canned food the Blacks had sent to overseas relief through the United Church.

The Dr. Ezra H. Van Patten chapter of De Molay has received its charter from national headquarters and will be in operation shortly after school starts this fall, according to Don Rogers, chairman of the board of advisors for the new chapter.

One Hundred Years Ago

July, 1923

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One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 8, 1898

The annexation of Hawaii is now accomplished, so far as legislative branch of the government is concerned. Quite unexpectedly the resolution providing for the annexation of the islands was brought to a vote in the senate this afternoon and passed.

The Portland Flour Mill Co.'s Dayton Mill is shipping flour to China via Seattle. Two car loads were shipped over the Northern Pacific.