PIONEER PORTRAITS

Fifteen Years Ago

April 29, 2010

[Photo caption] Outgoing Waitsburg Mayor Markeeta Little Wolf gifts a gavel to new Mayor Walt Gobel.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 4, 2000

Sealed within a common glass gallon jug which was then embedded within a concrete monument for 55 years, 25 pieces of paper bearing the names of Waitsburg Schools students, teachers and other writings about Captain Lewis and Sacajawea, have held up remarkably well. The documents, retrieved April 22 from the time capsule buried within a small concrete tepee which has been at the corner of Coppei Avenue and Willard street since May 2, 1946, were opened and examined for the first time. While the moisture rotted parts of a few of the pages that were probably laying in the neck of the bottle, Larry Dodd, curator at Penrose Library, believes the moisture was also an advantage. "The dryer the paper, the more fragile it is," Dodd commented while working on the delicate documents. "Any paper is destined to deteriorate."

Fifty Years Ago

May 1, 1975

Waitsburg School District No. 401-100 board adopted the affirmative action program at their last meeting, Wednesday, April 23. The following School Board's statement provides the policy upon which the Affirmative Action Program is based and will continue to develop. School Board's Statement of Policy: It is the policy of Waitsburg School District No. 401-100 to recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, marital status, or because of a sensory, physical or mental handicap, unless a bona fide occupational qualification applies. All personnel actions will conform to an Affirmative Action Program, the basic purpose of which is to increase the utilization of minorities and women at all levels necessary in the work force, and to provide equality of treatment to all employees with respect to the terms, benefits, and privileges to employment. It is the responsibility of all personnel to conduct themselves in their daily activities in such a way as to ensure that all personnel actions with respect to compensation, benefits, privileges, promotions, layoffs, return from layoff, training, and social and recreation programs are administered equally. Those decisions account for all valid relevant factors with respect to ability, performance, potential, and real job requirements.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

May 5, 1950

Four Boy Scouts from Waitsburg including Bob Wright, Dick Brunton, George Lloyd and Rodney Dilts and their Scoutmaster Ernest Kison will leave June 19 for the National Boy Scout Jamboree at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

The senior class of Waitsburg High School "sneaked" to the dude ranch at Bingham Springs Wednesday, They were accompanied by Miss Fanny Weller, Mrs. Leland Kessler, Mrs. Harold Roberts, Mrs. Carl Dilts and Supt. Leslie Taylor.

One Hundred Years Ago

May 8, 1925

The contractor on the new Main Street bridge has a crew of men busy this week getting cement delivered and getting ready to start the work of actual construction.

Our former townsman, J. L. Harper of Portland, has been dangerously ill for a time with a case of infection which started from the heel of one foot.

The Boy Scouts of America are making an effort to earn their scout sits. Anyone having jobs that boys can do will kindly call up Scoutmaster Dwight Howell.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 11, 1900

The fishing season is now open and J. B. Caldwell carries the most complete line of fishing tackle ever before seen in the city.

The family of D. L. Cox left Tuesday for Hot Springs, in the hopes of benefiting the health of their son who is threatened with consumption.