Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

February 26, 2009

Two of Waitsburg-Prescott’s quick guards were honored as selections to the Blue Mountain Conference All conference First Team. Stacy Potter of the WP Lady Cardinals, and Jeff Hofer of the WP Cardinals were among the top five selections name b Blue Mountain Conference coaches recently.

Crews were busy in the frigid cold last Friday, installing a new surface-bypass temporary spillway weir (TSW) in Spillway Bay 1 at Little Goose Lock and Dam. The modification to the spillway increases survival rates of anadromous fish passing downstream via the spillways.

Twenty Five Years Ago

February 17, 1994

The Harlem Globetrotters will play in Walla Walla at the community college campus on Friday, Feb 25 at 7; 30pm . The world famous Globetrotters basketball team is beginning its 68th season of entertaining crowds with their on-court antics and basketball skills..

There are two things Mogens Lassen of Denmark likes-traveling and agriculture. So when 27 year old Lassen was given the opportunity to come to the U.S. to learn about the agriculture chemical industry, he jumped at the chance. Since the end of November, Lassen has been working for the McGregor Company at the Waitsburg plant. He will return to Denmark later this month.

Tom Foley, the 5th Congressional District representative and Speaker of the House, crossed generational lines Tues, Feb 15, in Dayton by first meeting with a group of high school students and later addressing Dayton’s Kiwanis Club

Fifty Years Ago

February 20. 1969.

Photo Caption: The 1969 WAITSBURG CARDINAL BASKETBALL TEAM-South Eastern Washington Class A Champions, left to right-Martin Huffman, Jim Leid, Frank Reser, Marc Zuger, Gary Pierson, Scott Cresswell, coach Mel Cox, Andy Maib, Jerry Miller, Mike John, Jack Roberts, George Bodman, Dan Henze

Photo caption: Jack McCaw was harmonizing when he should have been watching hotcakes on the griddle last Sunday, and the result was a set of hotcakes suitable for patching shoes, or even for use as a navel protecting armor as modeled here by Bob Patton. Those four hotcakes made excellent “Frisbees," too.

Older persons would receive greater out-patient drug coverage in the Medicare program through legislation co-sponsored today by Senator Warren G. Magnuson D, Wa, and Joseph Montoya, D. New Mexico. “This has proved to be one of the worst oversights in the original Act.: Magnuson pointed out. And a special Tasks Force has recommended that Congress fill this need for Medicare recipients without delay”. “Making the matter worse, our older Americans must meet markedly higher drug expenses with markedly lower income and resources. I am convinced that something simply must be done”

Seventy-Five Years Ago

February 25, 1944

The Progressive Cub gave it annual guest day party at the home of Mrs. Marcus Zuger on Feb 22. Over 50 members and friends were greeted at the door by club officers, Mrs. Clyde Florea, Mrs. Wes Lloyd, and Mrs. Frank Danielson.

The bright sun of the last few days is bringing to life the early spring bulbs which are already showing above the ground.

The war food administration has announced plans to import from 12000 to 15000 Mexican nationals to overcome farm labor shortage this year in the Northwest.

One Hundred Years Ago

February 28, 1919

Shooting in a whistling wind and flurries of snow, the local scattergun artists broke 110 targets in Sunday’s Spokesman Review event, defeating Odessa in the team match, their score being 99 out of 125 targets.

Wanted – A good wife, between the ages of 35-40 years, must be good cook and good worker. Can give best reference. Good home for the right woman. Inquire J. Lacey just outside city limits.

Chas. Leid reports that the directors of the Huntsville school district are making some noticeable improvements around the school property just now. A big garage is being constructed so that the pupils who drive to school in an auto will be able to put them in out of stormy weather.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 2, 1894

The Ladies Aid of the Christian Church held their monthly meeting at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Brown on Thursday afternoon and evening and made clothes for the orphan Hupp Children. Such acts are true Christianity and will be rewarded by the great Judge above.

The proposition to leyy a tax of $10 a year on bachelors between the age of thirty and sixty years is meeting with general favor throughout the U. S. Delinquents would be sold for taxes at public sale and old maids could there bid for them at ten cents each, or three for a quarter.

J. M. Currie made this office a pleasant visit on Monday. He said he wished somebody would whisper to the editor of the W. W. Union that there is nothing to be gained by so continuously abusing the Democrats.