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Ten Years Ago

January 8, 2014

After submitting an estimated 250,000 signatures in early October, sponsors of a gun-control measures and another 95,000 signatures to our Elections Division, one day before Friday's submission deadline for initiatives to the 2014 Legislature.

Dayton is challenged with how to manage growth with a projected 180 or more employees of the anticipated Columbia Pulp plant. Columbia County Planner Kim Lyonnais suggests a building land analysis be performed. While some vacant lots appear available, especially in the "buffer zones" along the City Limits, not all are available or marketable, he said.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 6, 1999

Jonathan Suffield, 1997 graduate of Dayton High School and the son of Al and Carolyn Suffield, graduated from Universal Technical Institute of Phoenix, Ariz. He completed the program "Certified Automotive and Diesel Technology," earning an Associate of Occupational Studies Degree. Suffield plans to continue is education by taking night classes in welding at Glendale Community College.

Marc Hodges of Dayton was certified by the American Society of Agronomy's Certified Crop Adviser Program (CCA). The program is designed and intended for anyone who makes nutrient pesticide crop or environmental recommendations to growers. The CCA training is a nationally recognized certification program. Marc is manager of the Columbia County Farm Bureau, and one of 800 persons certified in Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Washington.

Fifty Years Ago

January, 1974

Watson A. "Tod" Davis was named Dayton Green Giant Co.'s "Suggestion Award Winner" of 1974, receiving a certificate worth $400 for implementation of two ideas aiding the performance of pea combines. Davis has worked 17 years for the company, the last five as a machinist.

Fish Enhancement May Be Curtailed. Concerned Dayton residents and representatives of the State Game Department Bureau of Sport Fishery and Wildlife, Bureau of Reclamation and Touchet and Dayton irrigation officials held a meeting on the proposed Touchet division of the Dam and Reservoir on the East Fork of the river, six miles upstream from the city.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

January 6, 1949

Grupe School Last Frontier. Mrs. George Douglas, describing her first year of teaching at Grupe School, located in a section of country, a part of, or just off Eckler Mountain; it's very near the end of a mountain road, that when winter snows come, becomes near as isolated as when there was a smallpox epidemic in 1880. Mrs. Douglas was replacing Rachel Cochran who taught at Grupe for twenty years and is now teaching at Columbia school.

Three members, Ronald Douglas, Dorothy Oliver and George Oliver, of the Columbia County 4-H judging team, were awarded third place at the state fair in Yakima. C. B. Polly and Doug Johnston are local representatives of the bankers' association, an organization which supplies the pennants for the contest.

Max Boone, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Boone of Dayton, received a noteworthy promotion from the Fuller Brush company and was recently promoted as branch manager, one of only three in the United States. His new position makes him responsible for five field managers and 150 salesmen.

One Hundred Years Ago

January, 1924

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 7, 1899

A new discovery in electro-therapeutics which promises to create a tremendous sensation in the medical and electrical world. Glass is the conductor of an electric current, by means of the intervention of glass plates, a process to be patented, 1,000,000 volts of electro-motive force may be diffused and evenly charged to all parts of the human body, without any physical sensation to the patient, but bring sure death to all forms of bacilli, including tuberculosis.

A big shipment of powder (24 tons) was received in Starbuck consigned to the contractors and will be used in the construction of the Snake River Valley Railroad.