This day in history: Councilwoman demanded apology. Father Cataldo headlined trip to Cataldo Mission. Siblings manage 17-day trip in scow across Idaho
From 1976: A feud was developing between Spokane City Council members James Chase and Marilyn Stanton. Stanton was upset at a remark made two weeks earlier when Chase said that he had seen some items under discussion for two hours – but after 15 minutes, nothing new was added to the discussion. “Mr. Chase, I will be waiting for your apology two weeks from tonight,” said Stanton. “I’m not going to apologize,” replied Chase, who would later become mayor. “Now, you can forget about that.” This dispute was a bit baffling, since Chase’s original remarks did not blame anyone by name. Neither Stanton nor any other council member was singled out. Yet Stanton said she believed that remarks by Chase and other council members were aimed at her, and possibly at some of her allies on the council. The original subject under discussion was about the council’s public image, and Chase had said their meetings were too long. He said they sometimes took on a subject and “just beat it to death and rehash it.” From 1926: A caravan of 1,000 people was on the way to the historic Cataldo Mission, about 65 miles east of Spokane – and one of those people was the Rev. Father Cataldo himself. The expedition was organized by the Spokane Chamber of Commerce’s publicity-tourist subcommittee. The caravan of autos would leave downtown Spokane in the morning and arrive in Cataldo in time for an 11:30 a.m. mass. Many would gather on the grounds for an afternoon program. “The Rev. Father Cataldo arrived Friday and spent the night at Gonzaga,” said The Spokesman-Review. “Although he is 89 years old, he was feeling fine Saturday morning.” In other news, Glenn and Jeanne Hyde, brother and sister who grew up in Spokane, travelled 350 miles from Salmon to Lewiston on the Snake and Salmon rivers in a 16-foot, flat-bottomed scow that they built in Salmon before embarking. Their father was Rollin C. Hyde, who built the Fernwell Building in Spokane. “There were several small falls in the river. Jeanne said the highest one she judged to be 8 to 10 feet. She said the boat would seem to stand still for a moment then hop over and scoot out on the rapids below,” Rollin Hyde wrote in a letter about the trip. He said the 17-day trip was life-changing for his daughter. Glenn and his new bride would go missing two years later while on a honeymoon trip on the Grand Canyon in a scow. Jeanne, a Lewis and Clark High School graduate, died in 1970.