From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

November 20, 2013

The Port of Columbia has scheduled an Open House on December 11 for the public to get a close look at the Artisan Center at the Blue Mountain Station.

The Dayton Cross Fit team members hosted their first competition at the Hammerdown Fitness. Steve Martin, organizer of the event, announced that representative teams from WSU, Walla Walla, Spokane, Lewiston and Dayton will be competing in our first competition for both men and women.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

November 18, 1998

Bob Kraski, Mayor of Arlington, Wash., and Chairman of the Snohomish County Emergency Management Council, recently stated that the coming winter will be the worst winter in 40 to 50 years." This information was clearly reinforced by meteorologist/climatologist Mike McCallister, who analyzed information collected over time relating to the water temperature of the equatorial Pacific. McCallister's prediction of extreme winter is reliable in the 80-90% range.

Lyons Ferry Marina, on the Snake River near Starback, built 30 years ago, was the subject of a two-day heated meeting with the Columbia Board of Commissioners. Many of the boat owners who attended the meeting complained that the facility was in ill-repair and suffering from neglect.

Fifty Years Ago

November 22, 1973

The Washington State Highway Commission approved the lowering of the speed limits on all state highways to 50 mph as part of an effort to meet the current energy crisis. There are 4,562 miles on the state highway system that will be affected.

The Board of Commissioners learned at a special meeting that the county is placed last in three proposed area additions of transmission lines to boost energy demands. Bonneville Power Administration is going to have to build transmission lines from the Snake west, adding the Congress has added three power units to each dam (Little Goose, Lower Monumental and Lower Granite). Due to the present energy crisis, additional power construction has been upped from 1985 to 1978.

In a letter from Orville Vogel to Dick Juris, member and past president of the Washington Wheat Commission, Dr. Vogel, WSU, stated his favoring the one-quarter cent assessment raise per bushel of wheat as necessary to provide additional research to assure wheat growers a constant replacement of varieties of wheat "to offset the ever-changing disease and pest problems accompanying systems of high production of high quality wheat."

Seventy-Five Years Ago

November 18, 1948

Conservation of electricity between the hours of 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., the evening peak demand period, is being asked of all users of power in the Pacific Northwest during the winter weeks, according to K. A. House, district manager of the Pacific Power & Light Company.

The Dayton high school FFA judging team, of George Oliver, Jay Hatfield, Bill Lowe and Carl Rowe, won the second place award in the eastern Washington final potato judging contest.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

November 19, 1898

One thing is certain and sure. Fusion is dead. The News said months ago that it would not carry and its position is fully sustained by the result. The people can stand democracy, but more populism or fusion. The democrats will now come together and form the old party back to where it was before the blight of fusion struck it.