A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum.
- 100 years ago
Roy Sheadel announced plans to develop a new industry in Clark County: pickle packing. Sheadel, a “pickle packer of wide experience” and the Oregon director of the National Pickle Packers Association, had set up pickling tanks in the city and hoped to acquire 25 acres of cucumbers. About a month later, he shelved the pickle plan due to a severe illness in the family.
- 75 years ago
The Columbian highlighted the work of Jan Green, cartoonist for Vancouver High School’s newspaper and yearbook. Green’s cartoons were “one of the main features (of the paper) and (were) awaited with keenest anticipation by the students.” Featuring the foibles of high school life, Green was “constantly on the alert for amusing situations at school that (could) be woven into her cartoons.” She continued with her art in later years, producing a syndicated cartoon called “Hey Swingy” in the 1960s and ’70s. Green went on to become an animator, eventually retiring from Disney in 1985.
- 50 years ago
Clark County commissioners adopted the Bikeways Plan for the county on March 26, 1974, and would officially sign the ordinance the following week. Developed by the Regional Planning Council and “a large number of cycling enthusiasts,” the plan set standards for bike lanes on all new roads in the county. The lanes would be built “as money becomes available,” with interim routes designated for use as bikeways by the county. Commissioners announced they would convene a bikeways advisory committee to help administer the plan.
