Compiled by Don Hoiness from archived copies of The Bulletin at the Des Chutes Historical Museum.

100 Years ago

For the week ending

Nov. 30, 1913

County high school grows

That Crook County has an efficient and a growing high school is apparent enough to one who takes the trouble to get acquainted with its equipment and its work even in a cursory way. The present enrollment is 112. As seems to be customary with most schools, the quarters are practically outgrown. It is because of this fact, in a great measure, that the budget asked for by school authorities seems large. While there is no doubt that the per capita expense of the Crook County school is considerably higher than the average for the state, there also appears a reasonable excuse for the comparatively high figures in that the institution is growing rapidly, and that new quarters have been added recently and must be added during the coming year.

One of the best features of the school, from a layman’s standpoint, is the manual training and domestic science departments, where practical carpentering and allied training is given the pupils, and cooking and housekeeping taught to the girls.

With Mrs. Evelyn Lane Walker in charge, the domestic science and normal departments have increased greatly in popularity, until their present quarters are woefully inadequate. A feature of the schools which apparently is not generally appreciated is that girls from all over the county may live at the comfortable dormitory for only $14 a month, this covering all expenses and providing everything except linen. Effort is being made to establish employment for would-be boarders at the dormitory so that girls who want the advantages of the school may be able to earn their way with light work outside of school hours.

Miller chosen mayor of Bend

After January first, 1914, H.A. Miller will be the mayor of Bend. Theodore Aune, J.D. Davidson and Martin D. Knutsen councilmen, and Miss Mary E. Coleman treasurer.

That was decided at yesterday’s municipal election, which was the quietest held here for years. H.A. Miller, who had no opposition for the mayorality, led the field by 175 votes. Miss Coleman, who wins the distinction of being the first feminine official in Central Oregon, polled 172 votes. In all 202 votes were cast, of which 56 were women.

75 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

Nov. 30, 1938

Bend Ski Patrol to be organized

Plans for the organization of a Bend ski patrol, to be affiliated with the National Ski Patrol association were discussed by members of the Skyliners rescue squad at a meeting last night at the home of Chris Kostol, who has been delegated to take charge of patrol organization work in Bend, Klamath Falls and Medford.

When the local patrol is organized, the local rescue squad, organized for emergency work in the high Cascades, will be merged with the national organization, but will not lose its identity. Present members of the rescue squad are to serve as patrol leaders and, augmented by several new members, will stand by for emergencies.

Members of the rescue squad are Jere Gillis, Olaf Skjersaa, Nels Skjersaa, James Jenson, Cliff Blann, Chris Kostol, Paul Hosmer and Norman Symons.

Jewish children leave Germany

The first contingent of hundreds of German Jewish children started for a welcome exile abroad today while new Nazi decrees brought closer the ghetto.

One hundred left Schlesischer station for England. They will be joined by 100 more from Hamburg. They are to arrive at Harwich, England, Friday and will be housed in a camp for three weeks or a month until absorbed by British families. They are between 10 and 17. Before Christmas it is hoped that an additional 600 children may be taken out of Germany and Austria.

There was a scene of great confusion as the children scrambled into a special car to a regular train. Several scores of mothers and fathers wept with mixed emotion — joy and heartbreak. The children for the most part were too excited to fully realize the significance of the parting.

To the children the trip was adventure. To the parents it meant a parting, but also escaped from a doomed future.

The children had received permission from the Reich to immigrate. More privileges were withdrawn from Jews today by a decree published in the official gazette. It empowered provincial authorities through the Reich to: Impose restrictions on German Jews without passports who will not be permitted to enter certain areas or show themselves publicly at certain times.

The law probably will be imposed in connection with parks, playgrounds and other public places. It was expected to be used for provincial and national holidays such as Saturday’s “day of German solidarity.”

50 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

Nov. 30, 1963

He wanted to take that flag home to his Daddy

“I want a flag to take home to my daddy.”

Those were the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. who is 3 years old today.

The little boy was seen by millions of people clutching the tiny American flag in his fist as he walked down the 36 steps of the Capitol Sunday.

He got the flag in the speakers office for the tall man with laughing blue eyes who used to love him and pet him and take him on helicopter rides. The President who is no more.

John-John, as his father affectionately called him, was taken there when he got restless in the Rotunda where he had to be so still and couldn’t break loose from his mother’s firm hold.

His father, who was rarely still, would have understood.

John Jr., is expected to go to Arlington Cemetery today when the daddy he adored is laid to rest with other Americans who served their country. He has been there before and has heard the sound of taps.

The President took his son to Arlington on Veterans Day, only two weeks ago, to honor the war dead. The youngster charmed the nation by saluting the men in uniform and attempted to fall in step with his father.

Today when there should be rejoicing for John Jr., there is sadness for him. He was to have a little birthday party Tuesday to celebrate with his playmates. He may still have that, his father would have wanted it.

His sister Caroline, who will be 6 years old on Wednesday, got most of the attention. She was the apple of her daddy’s eye.

But in the last six months, a bond of mutual affection and mutual joy had sprung up between the President and his son. John Jr. used to walk him to the office in the West Wing in the morning, talking a blue streak about his toys, mostly about helicopters. He liked to crawl under the President’s desk, beg chewing gum from receptionist Dave Powers and rock fast in his daddy’s famous rocker.

The little boy saw his father alive for the last time Thursday when he jauntily boarded a helicopter with his parents for a ride to Andrews Air Force Base. They went on to Texas and to a tragic fate.

The fallen President gave his son a White House beginning and a love that knows no end.

25 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

Nov. 30, 1988

Despite setback, search on for Cooper’s loot

Richard Tosaw said Saturday his disappointment that a parachute remnant found in the Columbia River is not from the one used by legendary air pirate D.B. Cooper is matched only by his determination to find nearly $200,000 in loot taken during the skyjacking.

In an interview he discussed the next place he will look for the ransom money.

“I bet it’s at Sauvie Island” in Portland, he said. “There are places there it could have gotten caught up. I know it’s there somewhere. I just have to find it.”

Earl Cossey of Woodinville, Wash., who packed the parachute used by Cooper when he bailed out of a Northwest Airlines jet in southwest Washington on Thanksgiving eve in 1971, examined the chute piece found Monday and announced it was not from the one used by Cooper. “It looks like one of those G.I. Joe parachutes,” Cossey said. He said there was “no way” it was the same parachute he packed 17 years ago.

Cooper leaped from the plane and into American folklore on that stormy November evening with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been seen since, although a boy found $5,800 of the ransom money on a riverbank near Vancouver, Wash., in 1980.

Tosaw, a retired attorney, had thought the 18-inch section of parachute found about five miles downstream from Vancouver was part of a “pilot chute” that triggers the opening of a larger parachute.

Tosaw wrote a book titled D.B. Cooper, Dead or Alive chronicling the event.

The plane landed in Seattle, where Cooper received the ransom money and four parachutes after letting all the passengers leave.