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

100 Years ago

For the week ending

Oct. 14, 1917

Puncture spoils return trip with California cargo

Two men drove into town Saturday morning from Dorris, California. They had a tire puncture and five and a half bottles of whiskey, that was all. Today they appeared before Justice of the Peace Eastes to hear the consequences.

The two motorists were W.R. Graham and Elmer McCullom. They were in a five-passenger Saxon touring car, borrowed for a trip from Dorris to Ashwood, Oregon. They had been in town about an hour working on the tire near the old baseball park when Chief of Police Nixon happened by and, noticing that one man appeared unusually jubilant, stopped on the other side of the street to observe their maneuvers.

A sack in due time confiscated from the back seat of the machine proved to contain the source of the joyous spirits.

Charles Erskine appeared as prosecuting attorney this afternoon when the case was heard. McCollum has been drafted from Madras and is due to report there on October 17.

Nail in auto tire; no patches in kit; motorist uses gum

An automobile tire blowout, a stick of gum and a fertile stock of imagination combined to bring home the Ford service car of the Bend Water, Light & Power Company yesterday morning with an unusual patch on one tube. George Young and P.W. Johnstone, who were in the machine at the time, are receiving congratulations on not having had to walk home from the north end of town.

The two men were out looking over property near the city limits when a nail in the tire made its presence known. The inner tube refused to hold air and the repair kit failed to disclose any rubber patches. Both men were in a quandary until it was suggested by one that chewing gum be tried as an experimental remedy. Johnstone produced a stick and after working it to the proper consistency applied it to the leaky tube. The pump was brought into action and the pair rode back to town. When they examined the tire the gum was still in place.

75 years ago

For the week ending

Oct. 14, 1942

Invasion alert along entire Norwegian coast ordered by occupation officials

News reaching London today said German occupation authorities had ordered an invasion alert along the entire Norwegian coast, proclaimed martial law and rushed reinforcements to the area in order to prevent revolt.

The Germans had taken emergency measures after the discovery of large scale sabotage plans which threatened to wreck the Nazi supply system.

The Germans warned the native Norwegians: “Disobedience will be crushed with all forces,” a Norwegian spokesman said.

Ten Norwegians 
reported killed

Ten prominent Norwegians have died before a firing squad and hundreds are under arrest in the beginning of a ruthless German drive to end sabotage and other patriot activities spreading through Norway, Stockholm reported today.

Vidkun Quisling, arch Norwegian traitor, has appealed direct to Adolf Hitler to modify a ruthless German terror campaign, that was only intensifying patriot activities, reports from Stockholm said today.

Quisling, who betrayed Norway to the Germans, was reported to have said he could not continue to function as nominal head of the Norwegian puppet regime unless Hitler withdrew Josef Terboven, German overlord, from the country and stopped the brutal repressive measures of the gestapo.

British sources quoted a German explanation of the state of emergency as issued at Oslo last night, saying that saboteurs had caused a big explosion at a Trondheim area mine and that a big store of patriot arms had been found.

50 Years ago

For the week ending

Oct. 14, 1967

Pollman, Nehl, Smith get raves from beaver coaches

Oregon State coaches are giving much praise to three former Bend High School athletes currently out for football in Corvallis.

Mike Nehl and Dean Pollman, both off last year’s IMC championship football team and members of this year’s State-Metro Shrine team, are both playing for the OSU Rooks.

Clyde Smith, a former standout fullback for the Lava Bears, is a starting guard for Dee Andros’ varsity unit.

Coach Earl Lunsford has scrimmaged the Rooks several times this season and now has some idea of what he has in camp. Lunsford is very high in his praise of Nehl and Pollman. He said, “Like many others on the team they are playing other positions than they did in high school, but they have the combination of talent, desire and high school coaching that will make the change relatively easy.”

Nehl was a quarterback in high school, while Pollman played fullback.

Both are working on the first defensive unit and the second offensive unit.

Nehl is playing at defensive halfback and is a prime candidate for the team punter. Nehl punted for the Metro team during the Shrine game and was outstanding on defense. He has been switched to split end on the offensive unit.

Pollman has been switched to a guard on offense and is playing at a linebacker slot on defense.

Smith is drawing rave notices from the coaching staff. He has been doing a “sensational job of blocking,” Andros said.

New president on campus to assume college duties

Dr. Frederick H. Boyle, Central Oregon Community College’s new president, today was busy getting settled in his office at the college.

Dr. Boyle will spend the remainder of this week becoming acquainted with COCC faculty members and administrators and familiarizing himself with the operations of the college.

He said the meeting provided “an excellent introduction to Oregon and the Oregon educational scene for a newcomer such as myself.” He was impressed by “the willingness of both board members and presidents to work together for the development of community colleges.”

The new president, who was formerly dean of Rockingham Community College in Wentworth, North Carolina, was chosen by the COCC board in August to replace Don Pence, who resigned as president of the college in May.

He had been at Rockingham since receiving his doctorate in Education from the University of Florida in 1965. Boyle, who began his teaching career at a high school in Lead, South Dakota, in 1955, headed the University of Alaska physical education department from 1958 to 1962.

25 Years ago

For the week ending

Oct. 14, 1992

Residents pitch in on potholes

“There are doers and there are people who complain,” Patty Greening said, wielding an asphalt-laden shovel to put herself in the first category.

Greening and some other Tillicum Village residents took matters into their own hands Monday, patching dozens of potholes on Rae Road south of Bend.

It was the best news for area residents since last spring, when a barricade erected six years ago by the Tillicum Village homeowners association was taken down.

Rae Road was blocked in 1986 to keep cars and school buses from using the shoulderless street to reach Jewell Elementary School. Murphy Road’s later eastern extension to Brosterhaus Road provided a new route.

A fence now blocks vehicle access to the school from Rae Road. But Jim Miller, president of the association board of directors, said maintenance and upkeep of the road is in “real turmoil,” since homeowners across from Tillicum Village don’t have to help pay.

Bend’s recent annexation drive has moved the city limits to within a half-mile. But Tom Gellner, public works director, said annexation of Tillicum is far off.

Last Friday, Greening bought a blacktop material to patch holes in front of her house that were four feet wide and almost a foot deep.

“Everybody on the whole street is like, wow, they can’t believe the holes are filled,” Greening said. “But it’s not going to solve the problem. It’s a Band-Aid.”

Columbus day 
gets mixed reception

Some Americans today celebrated the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival, while others criticized the explorer’s legacy of destruction of native cultures — and occasionally, the two sides confronted each other.

In Columbus, Ohio, the largest city in the world named for the explorer, only about two blocks separated the opposing viewpoints.

An afternoon ceremony celebrating the explorer was planned aboard a full-scale replica of the Santa Maria, one of Columbus’ three ships, docked on the Scioto River.

Nearby in a park, about 100 people showed up for a memorial service held by American Indian groups for those victimized by the European arrival in the Americas.

“We want to get the word out about some of the atrocities committed by Columbus — genocide, slavery … and the taking of women,” said Ken Irwin, executive director of the Ohio Indian Movement and the Ohio Council of Native American Burial Rights.

A few blocks also separated the two sides today in Chicago, where American Indians were invited to join the main Columbus Day parade downtown but an anti-Columbus group planned an alternative parade nearby.