Compiled by Don Hoiness from archived copies of The Bulletin at Deschutes County Historical Society.

100 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

April 14, 1918

Unique wedding well attended

Since wedding smokes are quite the thing: And smokes for soldiers so comforting — I have decided it’s fair and square, to spend our wedding money in smokes for the boys “over there” — Gladys Brandenburg Gilson.

In truly patriotic fashion did Edgar Leroy Gilson and Gladys Brandenburg plight their troth before a big assemblage in the Liberty theatre last night. Before two huge flags caught back at the center of the stage to form an arch and surrounded by a group of tiny girls garbed in dainty white and carrying small flags, the couple and their attendants, the young women costumed as Red Cross nurses and the men in khaki uniforms, took part in the unique wedding.

After a program of patriotic films, scarf and flag drills, songs and an address on war savings by L. J. Simpson, candidate for governor, the stage was cleared and the wedding procession came down the aisle. First were a dozen little girls in white carrying flags, which they held at the front of the house to form an arch through which the rest passed. Then came Mr. Gilson and Miss Brandenburg, followed by Everett Brandenburg and Miss Florence Gilson and Byron Gilson and Miss Frances Steidl. Last was the little ring bearer, Rosine Forrest, with the ring on a flag-covered cushion. She led with red, white and blue ribbon streamers the two small daughters of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Greiner.

When the couple had been made man and wife, Mrs. C. V. Silvis completed the program with a song from behind the scenes. The money, $59.60 in all, taken in at the door was presented by the bride to The Bulletin tobacco fund.

Americans put pep into Army

General headquarters of the American army here are the scene of the greatest activity, necessitated by the presence of a fighting instead of training army. No confusion has occurred despite the rapidity of the movements of troops.

Miles of roads are choked in all directions with moving Americans. Solid miles of American fighters and machinery are coming from all directions. New snap and vim is being put in the fighters.

The army is proud of General Pershing’s statement. The only question that has been asked is conveyed by the song “Where Do We Go From Here?”

75 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

April 14, 1943

Pupils sell enough bonds to buy jeep

Students of Kenwood school not only sold enough war bonds in a recent campaign to buy a jeep, but many of them got a ride in a “real live jeep” yesterday afternoon.

The jeep was one used by the military police of Camp Abbot and was brought to Kenwood school by Lt. H. W. Elgin and Corp. Daryl Butters. Lt. Elgin talked to the assembly on the value of war bonds in winning the war and showed the girls an army gun.

Corp. Butters, whose army citations for service in the North Africa campaign include the order of the Purple Heart, was the driver for students chosen to ride the jeep. Corp. Butters has five German planes to his credit in the African theater.

In their campaign the past few weeks, Kenwood school has sold more than $500 worth of bonds.

Japanese may have Amelia Earhart

President M. L. Brittain, of Georgia Tech, who was on a battleship that searched for Amelia Earhart Putnam in the south Pacific, today revealed his “unofficial suspicions the long missing flier might have fallen into Japanese hands.”

The college president said he had previously remained silent “as a matter of honor because our relations were somewhat strained with Japan even on July 2, 1937.”

Alcatraz break ends with two listed as dead and two back in prison

Two desperadoes were accounted for as dead today and two others were back in prison after the most sensational attempt in the history of Alcatraz, the grim and foreboding “rock” from which tradition says there is no escape but death.

Warden James A. Johnston said Floyd Hamilton and James Boarman were shot while swimming in the treacherous waters around the prison.

Johnston said both were wounded and drowned in the bay. Hamilton, a brother of the late Raymond Hamilton of the Clyde Barrow-Bonnie Parker gang, was described “probably” shot to death or drowned. Boarman was “certainly” dead, Johnston said.

The two prisoners recaptured were Fred Hunter, friend of Alvin (Old Creepy) Karpis and Harold Brest, kidnapper and bank robber.

Hunter, the last man to be accounted for, was found hiding in a cave. He injured his back and chest and cut his hands getting down the side of the rock.

Warden Johnston described the attempted break as the “most sensational” in the history of Alcatraz.

Hunter apparently gave up trying to swim and returned to the island where he found a cave.

Johnston said neither of the recaptured men would say who their leader was. Each said he “just got in on it a couple of days ago.”

Johnston said “we will probably never find the bodies of the other two.”

50 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

April 14, 1968

School board picks Olson as new BHS head football coach

Gary Olson will hold down two head coaching positions next year at Bend High School.

Olson was named as the new head football coach. He replaces Cliff Allen who is taking over as the head football coach at Parkrose High School.

The young coach will also keep his job as head baseball coach.

Although Olson has been an assistant coach in Bend for three seasons, the coming year will be his first as a head football coach. He came directly to Bend upon graduation from Linfield College in 1964. Olson received his master’s degree in 1965.

Olson lettered four years in football at Linfield, three in baseball, one in basketball and was an assistant coach at Linfield for one season.

He was also a starting guard on Linfield’s 1961 Camelia Bowl football team. The Camelia Bowl is the NAIA championship game.

“As for what we are going to do next season,” Olson said, “it is too early to tell. We will have a young ball club but we will have people who like to compete. I am still undecided as to who my assistants will be because until today I haven’t had the authority to do anything.”

Olson was named as the line coach for last year’s State team in the annual State-Metro Shrine game. He replaced Allen, who couldn’t be on hand because of studies at the University of Oregon. Two Bend players, Mike Nehl and Dean Pollman, were on the squad, which defeated Metro 13-7.

One of Olson’s linemen, Pat Korish, will be a member of this year’s squad.

Dr. King changed history by force of his spirit, by Louis Cassels

In the days and years ahead, Martin Luther King Jr., will be numbered among that small but honored company who have changed the course of history by sheer force of spirit.

That this apostle of nonviolence should die by violence seems the supreme irony.

Yet, in that flicker of time before death came, Dr. King could not have been surprised when the assassin’s bullet struck him. He had lived for years in daily — even hourly — expectation of just such a fate.

The two men he most admired — India’s Mahatma Gandhi and Jesus of Nazareth — also taught nonviolence. Both of them were slain by hate-filled men.

A reporter once asked Dr. King whether he did not fear for his own safety when he walked, unarmed and unprotected, through the hostile streets of Selma, Birmingham, Montgomery, Chicago and scores of other cities and towns where he led civil rights demonstrations.

“No,” he replied. “I have learned not to think about what the personal consequences might be. I believe with all my heart that God has called me to lead my people in their struggle in this hour And that is what I must do.”

25 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

April 14, 1993

Concern about Russian future (editorial)

Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton are back in Moscow and Washington, respectively, having departed Vancouver the best of friends. Clinton was warm and gracious and generous to Yeltsin. But we must not think the gifts promised by Clinton guarantee Yeltsin’s survival.

Nor is his survival as an individual political force in Russia absolutely necessary to the interests of the United States. Our needs can be met by anyone with popular support in Russia who is committed to the reforms begun by Gorbachev and continued and enlarged by Yeltsin.

But Yeltsin now is the only game in town. Whether or not he survives will be determined later this month in a plebiscite. Our worry is that a potential successor would try to turn back the Russian clock, and there still are thousands of nuclear missiles in Russia, almost all aimed at the U.S.

“We stand with Russian democracy,” President Clinton said in Vancouver. “We are with Russian reforms. We are with Russian markets. We support freedom of conscience and religion. We support respect for ethnic minorities. We actively support reform and reformers and” — addressing Yeltsin directly — “you in Russia.”

We do all those things, but we cannot count on all of them remaining under the control of the single man now in charge. That’s unfortunate. But it’s realistic.

Million-dollar shot: Gotta be the shoes

An average fan found out Wednesday night how it feels to earn $1 million for making a basket.

And how did he get his once-in-a-lifetime shot? It was the shoes.

Don Calhoun, 23, of Bloomington, Ill., got the money by sinking a 76-foot shot during a fan promotion at the Chicago Bulls-Miami Heat game at Chicago Stadium.

Under rules of the promotion, Calhoun launched his shot from the opposite free-throw line — more than three-quarters of the length of the court.

His baseball throw hit nothing but net.

Calhoun, an office supply salesman who plays basketball at the Bloomington YMCA, said he was picked to take part in the promotion when he walked into the arena.

“As soon as I walked in the door, a young lady came up to me and said it was the shoes,” he said. “She liked the shoes I was wearing.”

Calhoun’s shoes were bright yellow.