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

100 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

Nov. 18, 1917

Aroma of whiskey rises as sheriff breaks glassware

Sheriff Roberts has a little hammer. It is a neat little implement, easily adapted to cracking bottle necks. One tap of its slender point and aromatic waters are released from many a quart of forbidden amber liquid which flow over the window ledge in the sheriff’s office into an alley back of the court house, where a heap of broken glassware has accumulated in the past few days.

This morning workmen on the new county jail and chefs in a nearby restaurant sadly witnessed another assassination of 24 quarts of sparkling liquid contributed to the irrigation system in the alley by Sam Woods who was fined yesterday afternoon for having them in his possession.

The cargo which went over the windowsill this morning was minus three quarts of Blue Ribbon, which were destroyed yesterday for the especial benefit of Mr. Wood, who expressed skepticism as to the disposal of the confiscated goods.

Suffragettes are 
sentenced to jail

Thirty-one suffragettes, representing the woman’s party, were sentenced to jail terms varying from six days to six months for picketing the White House Tuesday. Mrs. Mary Nolan, age 73, was given a six-day term of confinement. Miss Lucy Burns, leader of the party, received six months.

Students to debate 
military training

As a subject for the first debate put on by the newly formed high school debating club, the advisability of introducing military training in high schools will be discussed tonight. Gerald McQuire, Robert Hilyer, Stanley Bond and Arthur Norcott, the first two on the affirmative team, will take part in the contest, which will be held at the school. The question reads: “Resolved, That Military Training Should Replace Football in the High Schools.”

Possible invasion being considered

Chancellor of the Exchequer Bonar Law told the House of Commons that the war cabinet is considering the possibilities of a German invasion. Law’s statement was in answer to the rumor that the Germans are digging a tunnel under the English Channel from Belgium to Great Britain, for use in an invasion.

75 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

Nov. 18, 1942

Jimmy Doolittle sees action in Oran fight; battles Nazis

Gen. James H. Doolittle, commander of the 12th Air Force, took over the controls of a Flying Fortress when its pilot was wounded and demonstrated to three German planes that the big Boeing was more than a match for them.

The hero of the bombing of Tokyo was flying near Oran. The plane, flying just a few feet above the water because it had taken off with a small crew, did not sight the German planes until they were about a half-hour’s flight away.

The fortress turned and the Nazis came in to attack. The gunners leaped to their posts. The fortress, flying just above the water, was not in its best fighting position. The three German planes hovered above, then the first one dived and was met with machine gun fire. The others attacked and machine gun bullets ripped into the cabin wounding the pilot who slumped to the floor.

Doolittle went into action and slipped behind the controls. The German planes were damaged and driven off.

Doolittle, whose flying skill dates from before the world war and carried him successfully through the raid on Tokyo, flew the fortress to its destination without further incident.

Captain Eddie Rickenbacker found at sea; rescue ends 3-week hunt in South Pacific

Capt. Eddie V. Rickenbacker, the indestructible man of aviation, has been rescued from the Pacific after one of the greatest sea-air hunts in modern history,

Three weeks after the world was informed that the flying ace of World War I was missing somewhere south of Hawaii, a navy Catalina flying boat found the flier floating with two comrades in a life raft.

Rickenbacker, survivor of scores of adventures in which death seemed just ’round the corner, was in good condition. Rickenbacker and his crew were flying on a mission for Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and radioed that they were low on fuel.

They were flying south from Oahu to a destination in the South Pacific. On Oct. 23 the navy revealed that the plane was missing. A search for the survivors had been underway ever since — a search unequaled since Amelia Earhart disappeared in the same area years ago in time of peace.

The rescue was another chapter in the growing legend of Rickenbacker’s indestructibility.

Rickenbacker was too valuable a man to lose. Stimson said he could not “help clinging to the hope that he will still turn up.”

“You and I know,” he told reporters, “that Capt. Rickenbacker is an exception to all the cut and dried rules.”

In discussing the search for Rickenbacker, Stimson paid him this tribute: “Captain Rickenbacker’s name stands high on the list of American heroes.”

50 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

Nov. 18, 1967

The ‘Great Pumpkin’ is real

The “Great Pumpkin” is real. Just ask Purdue, UCLA and USC.

Johnny McKay and his USC Trojans were the last to discover that there is a “Great Pumpkin.” He resides on the campus of Oregon State University, wears a bright orange windbreaker over his rotund body, strikes fear into the heart of opposing football teams and goes by the name of Dee Andros.

The “Great Pumpkin” worked his magic again Saturday when McKay brought his undefeated, untied and number one ranked Trojans into Parker Stadium but left with a 3-0 defeat on the record.

Everyone at the stadium Saturday was looking for a tough ball game but no one thought it would end the way it did.

The Beavers, who in previous weeks had defeated No. 2 ranked Purdue, defeated the Trojans on Mike Haggard’s 30-yard field goal in the second quarter.

Andros, who picked up the nickname “Great Pumpkin” when the Beavers started beating the giants, said earlier that the men from Troy made mistakes. They did and the Beavers capitalized on them.

A fumble by quarterback Steve Sogge set up Haggard’s field goal and another fumble by All-American candidate O.J. Simpson helped the Beavers retain control of the football game in the second half.

Space available for more names in time capsule

Central Oregon residents and their friends outside the area still may have their names included in the “time capsule” to be embedded in cement at the Pine Mountain Observatory.

Any man, woman or child may have his name included for a minimum contribution of one dollar, according to Roger Skeen and Al Gray, co-chairmen. Contributions should be sent to the University of Oregon Development Fund, Care of Pine Mountain Observatory, Box 432, Bend. The scroll will be completed in the next few weeks.

The time capsule will be encased in a receptacle and embedded in concrete to be opened in the year 2000.

25 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

Nov. 18, 1992

Deschutes County 
third in growth

Deschutes County’s growth rate has slowed over the past year, but the county remains one of the fastest growing in the state.

Bend’s population reached 24,715, up 9.82 percent from last year’s 22,505. Bend Planning Director John Hossick said the city added more than 1,500 of those through annexation.

An increasing trend of California migration probably accounts for much of the region’s growth according to spokesman Howard Wineberg.

Wineberg estimated that 31,500 new residents had moved to Oregon during the year, 23,500 of them from California.

He’s the Lava Bears barber

A tight end who’s all hands? Bend High’s stout-bodied Adam Malinowsky would take it as a compliment.

When Malinoswky throws on the shoulder pads and suits up for a football game, it’s his size and blocking ability that help make him a valuable player for the Lava Bears. Off the field though, when he exchanges his football gear for barber’s shears and his teammates heads are in his hands, his touch with a pair of scissors is all that counts.

For three years now, the Bend High senior has been leaving distinctive marks in the hair of teammates and friends. It started with simple designs — uniform numbers, lightning bolts and the like. Now it’s reached artistic dimensions — witness the bear claws on the scalp of teammate Dathan Brestel.

“Each year,” Malinowsky says, “we get a little more daring.”

Like any craftsman, Malinowsky struggled through the starving artist phase. At first, in fact, “Nobody wanted me to touch their hair.” (But at 6-foot-7-1 and 215 pounds, it’s hard to believe Malinowsky has ever starved for too long.)

As he carved a path to styling success, Malinowsky has had his share of nicks and cuts. And he’s resorted to some colorful ways to cover up some too-close shaves. “To make them look good,” Malinowsky says of mistakes way back in the early days, “we used paint in the center of them.”

But turnabout is fair play, and Malinowsky himself has been on the cutting edge of an unsteady hand — thanks in one instance to his older brother, Aaron, a 1991 BHS graduate who also used to participate in Bend High’s version of the Hair Club For Men.

“One time,” the younger Malinowsky says, “he cut the wrong number in my head.”

Oh, well. What’s a mistaken uniform number among brothers? No sense in splitting hairs.

As satisfied as his customers are, they’re not advising Malinowsky give up his Friday night job. “He’s got a pretty good touch,” says Mike Chambless, a Bend High assistant football coach. “For a tight end.”