From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

October 24, 2012

Micki Literal recounted her Honduras medical missionary trip, saying the landscape is so rich with beauty, yet the people are so poor, summarizing her two week, medical missionary trip. Literal was one of 22 individuals, and the only one west of the Rockies, to be accepted for the trip sponsored by Global Ministries, the international “arm” for the United Brethren Church.

Dayton General Hospital celebrated the completion of the Emergency Department with a ribbon-cutting and open house. Modern demands, coupled with outdated and needed changes to the infrastructure, for additional space for equipment, the addition of computer systems for the electronic medical record system, improved lighting, and material/facility upgrade to reduce infections.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 25, 1997

Monte Fulbright, 35, son of Don and Winona Fulbright, graduating from Dayton High School in 1978, was sustained as Bishop of the Dayton Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bishop Fulbright, his wife Michelle and their four children, live in Dayton and he works for the Columbia County Hospital District as a Medical Technologist.

Fifty Years Ago

October 26, 1972

Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho motorists overwhelmingly oppose the imposition of sales tax on gasoline, strongly favor more stringent bicycle standards and laws, and are divided on the question of banning the use of studded tires, according to a survey of its 38,000 members by the Inland Automobile Association.

Columbia County Law & Justice Advisory Committee’s Number 1 priority recommendation is the construction of a public safety building for Columbia County and the City of Dayton. The building recommendation resulted from the federal revenue sharing program which has been signed into law by President Nixon.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

October 25, 1947

Bulldogs Defeat Highly Rated Wa-Hi Blue Devils 13-7. History repeated itself for the fourth time in twenty-two years. Hundreds of Wa-Hi fans return home in a daze and dejected as Bulldogs outplay Imps in every department of the game. Locals remain undefeated. Those who displayed their talents were David Cadman, Gerald Wilson, John Clague, Jack Campbell, Alan Delp, Dick Jones, John Stedman, Wayne Hawks Bill Larson, Don Bales Mickey Koch, Duane Kitterman, Denny Golliher, Benny Turner, Dick Laughery Bell Eades, George Daniels and Dick Agee.

One Hundred Years Ago

October 25, 1922

More than five thousand persons, leading citizens and loyal residents of three important states of the great northwest gathered, at Pasco and Kennewick, to celebrate the formal opening of the Pasco-Kennewick inter-county bridge. The bridge is the first of its kind spanning a major stream ever constructed in the United States.

With the death of Mrs. Priscilla Ann Starr, removed one of the early pioneers of the northwest, arriving at Lebanon, Oregon in 1852, after crossing the plains with an ox train. She married William Henderson Starr in 1853. The Starr Bridge, which spans the Touchet near Huntsville, derived from the name in the early days from the Starr family.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 23, 1897

The Africans of South Carolina have established a training school for colored nurses. A charter was obtained from the state, the institution was opened October 4, the only school of the kind in that part of the country, naturally in the nature of an experiment.

Ghost dancing has its penalties. It is reported that the quarterly allowance of

$50,000 doled out by the government to the Cheyennes and Arapahoes is to be stopped.

The largest mass of pure rock salt in the world lies under the province of Galicia, Hungary. It is 550 miles long, twenty broad, and 250 feet in thickness.