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

100 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

Feb. 1. 1914

Optimism is returning

W.C. Wilkes, assistant general passenger agent of the S.P. & S. Railway system spent yesterday in Bend calling on the business men and ascertaining the general business conditions.

“There is a strong feeling of optimism everywhere now,” he said, “and everybody seems to feel that the period of dullness which has prevailed for some time is about over. In Portland during the past ten days there has been a very marked change in the conditions — a decided improvement in every line. Here in Bend, too, it seems that there is a similar reawakening, nearly all the business men with whom I have talked speaking very hopefully.”

Mr. Wilkes returned to his headquarters in Portland last night.

Eggs sent to Portland

After having had to send out for years for its egg supply, to a large extent, Bend is beginning now to turn the tide. Sunday night two cases of the poultry product were shipped to Portland by O’Donnell Bros. The sunny weather that has prevailed this month has given the hens in this vicinity encouragement, with the result that they have been laying briskly. The price of eggs has dropped from 40 to 25 cents and the market became oversupplied, hence the exportation. It is expected that this first shipment will be followed by others.

Wage ruling in effect Feb. 7

A state-wide ruling made by the Industrial Welfare Commission, under the General Laws of Oregon, Session of 1913, affecting the wages of adult women workers will go into effect Feb. 7. There will be few persons affected in Bend by the ruling. The order is as follows:

(1) No person, firm or corporation shall employ any experienced adult women in any industry in the State of Oregon, paid by time rate of payment, at a weekly wage rate of less than eight dollars and twenty-five cents ($8.25) a week, any lesser amount being hereby declared inadequate to supply the necessary cost of living to such women workers and to maintain them in health.

(2) Nor shall and such person, firm or corporation employ women in any industry in the State of Oregon for more than fifty-four (54) hours a week.

(3) Nor shall any such person, firm or corporation pay inexperienced, adult women workers employed by time rate of payment, at a rate of wages less than six dollars ($6.00) a week.

(4) No person, firm or corporation owning or conducting any mercantile, manufacturing or laundry establishment shall employ women workers in such establishment later than the hour of eight-thirty (8:30) o’clock p.m. of any day.

75 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

Feb. 1, 1939

O’Donnell Field workis planned

Work on the recreational center of Bend located at O’Donnell Field will be started Monday with a crew of six men employed through WPA to move two houses owned by the city from the grounds to property on East Second and East Third streets, C.G. Reiter, city manager, said today.

The work is preparatory to enlarging the Elks ball park into a field which will be used not only for baseball but for a race track. Erection of corrals and stables is also planned at the field. The south end of the property will be landscaped before the work is completed.

The houses to be moved are located on the left outfield of the ball diamond.

The Works Progress Administration has allotted $13,065 for the project which will cost approximately $17,330. The city, sponsor of the project, will furnish $4,265 of the total cost of enlarging the grounds, building new grandstands and bleachers, fencing and landscaping.

Lindbergh criticism unjustified (Editorial)

The criticism of Charles Lindbergh that swept the country when it was reported that he was about to take up his residence in Berlin for the winter and that he was advising the Germans on their aviation program now appears to have been entirely unjustified. Instead of Berlin, Colonel Lindbergh has taken a residence in Paris and instead of advising Germany he is helping the democracies, England and France, in their air preparations against the dictatorships and giving valuable information to his own country. The facts have been slow in developing but they are out now and tell an entirely different story from that at first current.

Lindbergh has been subjected to rather cruel treatment by his countrymen. These latest unfounded reports that suggested he was turning his allegiance away from the land of his birth were one more sample, and the chances are that if all the facts were known, his acceptance of a German decoration would be found to be something where criticism did not lie.

For the future we offer the suggestion that the right and kind thing to do would be to let Lindbergh alone.

50 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

Feb. 1, 1964

Brogan’s book shootsto top place on list

“East of the Cascades,” Phil F. Brogan’s first book, was the best selling nonfiction volume in the Pacific Northwest this past week, a survey of retail bookstores shows.

Announcement that the Brogan book heads the Northwest list was made from Portland today, where sales were reported outstanding.

Brogan autographed scores of books Saturday at the Eriksen store in Redmond, and will be in Prineville on Friday afternoon.

The third order of books by the Eriksen store in Bend was nearly exhausted today. More are being ordered.

Transplant of hearttried on dying man

Surgeons transplanted a heart into the body of a man dying of heart failure Thursday night. The transplant heart beat for an hour before the patient died.

Physicians here said it was believed to be the first heart transplant in a human.

Surgeons said they were gratified to confirm that procedures previously worked out in the experimental laboratory with animals also are effective in man.

University surgeons have transplanted hearts in more than 200 animals over a period of several years.

The university said the patient had been rushed to the operating room in shock, dying of terminal heart failure.

“Unfortunately, the dimensions of the only donor heart available at the time of the patient’s collapse proved too small for the requirements of the considerably larger recipient,” the university said.

Surgeons said this disparity must be minimized in future operations of this nature.

25 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

Feb. 1, 1989

Bachelor to host pros

Two of the biggest names in U.S. ski-racing history — Phil and Steve Mahre — will compete this week in the Post Grape Nuts Pro-Ski Race at Mount Bachelor.

Both the 31-year-old Mahre twins claimed Olympic medals during their World Cup careers. They came out of retirement to join the North American Professional Tour as part of the Coors Light Pro Racing team.

On Friday the top 32 racers will compete in the giant slalom and on Sunday in the slalom.

Professional racing is different than World Cup or amateur events. Two courses are set up side by side and as identical as possible. In qualifications the pros are assigned to either course by a drawing. The fastest eight skiers from each course qualify. Then the remaining racers ski again, and as in the first heat, the fastest eight from each course advance to comprise the round of 32 pros.

Skiers are then put in brackets and race their opponent twice. The skier with the greater time advantage after two runs advances.

The pros accumulate points in each round, with 35 points going to the event winner. The racer who earns the most points at the end of the season is named the U.S. Pro Team Champion.

Phil Mahre won the gold medal in the slalom at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics, and he won a silver in the slalom in the 1980 Lake Placid games. He was three times the International Skier of the Year and five times the U.S. Skier of the Year. He also was the World Cup overall champion from 1982 to 1983.

Steve Mahre won a silver medal in the slalom at Sarajevo. He was the world alpine giant-slalom champion in 1982 and is a three-time U.S. national champion — twice in the slalom and once in the giant slalom.

The pro racers will compete for $50,000 in cash prizes.

Teamwork helps ducks

The Moon Country Snowmobile Club teamed up Saturday with a group of Boy Scouts to complete a labor of love that will benefit the many wood ducks that live at Davis Lake.

The scouts who were under the leadership of 16-year-old Bend resident Lonnie Damon, hitched rides with volunteers from the snowmobile club in order to construct a series of wooden duck dwellings in trees around the lake.

Damon, a sophomore at Mountain View High School, organized the project to help him win a promotion to the rank of Eagle Scout, which is the highest rank a Boy Scout can attain.

The day’s efforts resulted in the installation of 20 new homes for some fortunate wood ducks. The bird houses were placed 12 feet high in the trees to provide the ducks with a safe abode as well as a birds-eye view of their habitat around the lake.

The snowmobilers offered them a helping hand by transporting them across more than 10 miles of rugged terrain that lies between the lake and a snow park along Highway 58.