100 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

Nov. 9, 1924

Race For Sheriff Taking Precedence in Bend

Deschutes county was interested in the outcome of the three cornered presidency race today, but only mildly interested in comparison with the feeling that has developed over the sheriff’s triangular contest. How uncertain the outcome is in this is shown by the scarceness of wagers — on anybody, S.E. Roberts, republican, was a slight favorite in Bend, but the silent vote, which never helps in the picking of favorites until after election, was being banked on by N.H Gilbert. Rural precincts were claimed by Gilbert, and were probably pretty well balanced by the logging camp vote, which was generally understood to be better than 80 per cent for Roberts.

In some strange, inexplicable way, R.H. Fox, democratic candidate, seemed to have dropped out of it all. With his duties as mayor of Bend to be discharged, he had made no campaign whatever, and when the independent candidacy of Gilbert was announced, he had been apparently left at third place.

New standard Set By Bulletin Covering Election

New standards in the manner of covering elections and giving out election returns in Bend were set by The Bulletin Tuesday night and today. With United Press leased wire reports coming in constantly from 4 o’clock until after the national election was decided without question, about midnight, and radio returns supplementing them, the people of Bend were kept in constant touch with the latest developments.

To watch the returns flashed on the screen across the street from The Bulletin office, a large crowd of people gathered on both sides of the street, and the screen was watched by many until midnight. The more fortunate watchers were able to park their automobiles in view of the screen and watch from that shelter.

Radio returns were received for The Bulletin by Myron H. Symons, who had his receiving set in the Bend Company building, and were amplified so that they could be heard by the crowds watching the stereopticon reports.

The projecting machine was operated by Warren Wing, sawyer for the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Co. Under his operation the news reports showed clearly on the screen hung on the front of the O.C. Henkle building. Assistance in preparing the slides was given by Charles Glaser.

Both national and local returns were flashed on the screen, over 180 individual reports being given out in this way in the six hours that the machine was operated. The slides were also shown at the theaters.

City Schools Hold Many Fire Drills

Fire drills are held in the local schools a considerable number of times more than is required by the state school laws, reports G.W. Ager, city superintendent of schools, who has just checked up on the number of drills held this fall. The state law specifies that at least one fire drill be held each month. Some parents have expressed a fear that drills were not being held frequently enough for desirable protection.

Invitations Given To Meeting Of Klan

After the fiery cross had burned at the summit of Pilot butte Saturday night, members of the local Ku Klux Klan had a meeting at their head-quarters in Lone Pine labor temple, a number of non-members being present by invitation.

75 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

Nov. 9, 1949

New Redmond School Named

Redmond’s grade school, constructed in the northwest section of the city this past summer, is to be named for Edwin Brown, custodian of Jessie Hill school for the past 22 years, it was announced today.

The name was chosen by the school board at a special meeting Monday evening, but announcement of the choice was deferred until today. Many names were discussed, but “Edwin Brown school” was selected unanimously.

Edwin Brown has been a resident of Redmond for 26 years. He has served as school custodian under five principals: John Tuck, Lloyd Gooding, Miss Mary Thompson, Miss Bertha Lart, Everett Daugherty and Hugh Hartman. All members of the school board were present at the meeting.

Purse Snatcher Active in Bend

City police report that a purse snatcher operated in Bend this week, wit reports of three losses received. The purses were stolen from local stores. Two were taken from behind counters and the third from a counter.

Mrs. Daisy Brown, member of the Wetle store staff, reported that her purse was taken from a shelf behind the counter. It contained a check for $74.95, papers and other articles. Mrs. J.V. Acuff reported that she placed her wallet on a counter in the J.C. Penney Co. store and when she turned to pick it up discovered it missing. It contained about $90 in currency.

Mrs. Mary Ferguson reported the loss of her purse, taken from under the counter in the Bend Mercantile Co. store. Officers believe that the purses were taken by the same person.

New Hospital Campaign To Start Here Monday

Funds to assure erection of a medical center in Bend were coming in today, in advance of a supplemental campaign to be launched Monday by the Hospital Founders’ group. A member of the campaign who contributed a large sum in the first drive volunteered to give half as much in the new campaign. Many members of the founders group have volunteered similar contributions, amounting to half of their original donations.

Officials of the Central Oregon Hospitals foundation today said they were confident the $123,000 estimated as the amount required to erect and furnish the $900,000 structure will be raised. A five-day campaign is planned, with Nov. 19, date of the next meeting of the Oregon state board of health, as the deadline.

The suggestion that Bend “forget” its hospital plans for the present and wait for a period of lower construction costs apparently is meeting a cold response, inasmuch as such action would mean that Bend would not only lose its important priority, but federal and other funds, including a $200,000 loan obtained by the Sisters of St. Joseph.

”We are on the five yard line — we can’t quit now”, one of the hospital founders declared.

William Mayer Named Student Body President

A 1938 graduate of the Bend high school last night was selected the first student body president of the Central Oregon community college, in an election held at the high school. He is 30-year old William Mayer, who is majoring in education. The new president is married and the father of three children. Mayer attends the school under the G.I. bill, having spent some 30 months in the air corps during the second world war. Prior to the war Mayer was a student at Pacific university at Forest Grove.

50 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

Nov. 9, 1974

Cascade school gridders like their girl manager

Some of Leslie Hollern’s girlfriends “gave me really strange looks,” and her eighth and ninth grade male classmates “hassled me some,”

Despite that Leslie, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hollern, collected $2 on a bet she wouldn’t go the season as manager of Cascade Junior High’s seventh grade football team. In mid-September, the team coach, John Sabo, needed a manager because the one he had lined up, Todd Taylor, had recovered from a broken leg and was ready to play, not manage. Sabo advertised the post in the school announcements, saying he was an “equal opportunity employer.”

That was like waving a penalty flag in Leslie’s face. Two girls and three boys applied for the job, but Sabo gave it to Leslie because she was the first applicant.

The day after she was hired, she started work at the team’s first game of the season. She made her debut in a four-sizes-too-big team jersey — number 59 — pulled over her school clothes.

She watched the opening kick-off, and then heard Sabo’s voice above the hubbub. She finally realized he was yelling at her.

“Manager! Get the tee off the field!” Sabo shouted.

The game was halted. Leslie, chagrined at her forgetting to remove the kicking tee, tromped onto the field and retrieved the plastic device.

After the initial awkward moment things went smoothly. Sabo said Leslie “worked out very well for us — the guys really liked it.”

She learned the rudiments of the game, dragged tackling dummies to the practice field, carried the medicine bag, took charge of equipment, and fixed ice packs for players with swollen joints.

She did not, however, hand out towels in the boys’ locker room, a traditional manager’s duty that she was ribbed about a lot.

The boys on the team “were really polite at first,” Leslie said. “Now they don’t treat me like I’m a girl,” the eighth grader said.

As proof of that, the players threw Leslie, fully-clothed into the boys’ locker room showers after the final game of the season — a true symbol of acceptance. She said managing the football team through its 3-2 season was fun but she won’t apply for manager of one of Cascade’s basketball teams.

Without football practice to fill the after school void, she said “I guess I’ll have to start candystriping again.”

Candystripers are young girls who do volunteer work at St. Charles Memorial hospital a far cry from the gridiron’s tumult and shouting.

Mrs. Burleigh, 4 others win commission seats

Ruth R. Burleigh outdistanced eight male candidates in yesterday’s voting to fill five vacancies on the Bend City Commission. Mrs. Burleigh received 3,317 votes. Other winners polled the following; Shepard, 3061; Carlson, 2,850; MacMillan, 2,502; and Traughber, 2,417.

Incumbents Burleigh and Shepard have been elected to four-year terms on the Bend City Commission, by getting the top vote totals of the nine candidates on the ballot. Mrs. Burleigh was surprised by her front-running vote total. She said this morning she had simply hoped to be reelected, and hadn’t thought at all about the possibility of a four-year term.

”I’m really very pleased ,” she said. Mrs. Burleigh, 48, is a medical technologist at St. Charles Memorial Hospital.

25 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

Nov. 9, 1999

Bend debates where bikes fit in on busy streets

A young man rode his bicycle on the sidewalk along Newport Avenue late Monday afternoon as an other cyclist cruised up the center lane waiting for a chance to cross traffic. Some people say bicyclists should not be allowed on busy streets such as Newport. There isn’t enough room for bicycles, the precious space should be given to cars, and the heavy traffic flow is dangerous, they argue.

Yet others — particularly those on two-wheeled, leg-powered vehicles — say Bend’s cyclists must choose for themselves where they feel safe riding.

“It’s not up to the government to protect cyclists from their own stupidity,” said John Collins, a bike mechanic and salesman at Sunnyside Sports on Newport Avenue. Cyclists must have the option of traveling on main roads for faster, more direct access to stores, businesses, public offices, schools and other common destinations, Collins and other cycling advocates say.

And that need is only going to increase, they say.

“As Bend grows, we’re going to continue to attract that kind of population, so demand will increase,” Collins said.

As the city of Bend moves closer to unveiling its state-mandated transportation system plan, public officials and residents have different concerns and expectations about what the plan will offer — or deny — bicyclists. State law requires local governments to design a plan that encourages use of alternative modes of transportation to reduce pollution and traffic.

State law and local ordinances also require the city and Deschutes County to include bike lanes on all new and reconstructed arterials and collector roads, according to Dick Johnson, a county Roads Department analyst who also serves as adviser to the Deschutes County Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee.

Arterials are major local road, such as Newport, and collectors are secondary streets, such as Portland Avenue. Those roads that are old and have on-street parking, such as Portland, may remain as they are, Johnson said.

When Newport was reconstructed, however, it gained a bike lane and lost its on-street parking. Signs along the busy road read, “No parking. Bike lane.” — except in two places. At Fourth and Sixth Streets the signs also state, in smaller print on the bottom, “except Sunday.” Those two signs are in front of churches, and they have some cyclists concerned about safety.

Joanie Jividen attended the Bend City Council meeting last week to ask councilors to remove the signs. Bicycling-as-transportation is a way of life for her family, Jividen said. She would like to travel by bicycle on Newport any day of the week without the danger of puling out into traffic to get around parked cars, she said.

“In Many cases I think that’s inappropriate because of safety,” said Bend Mayor Jim Young of laws that require bike lanes on all arterials. “I think bicycle lanes on many roads are unsafe for cyclists, whether they think so or not.”

Yet the city must and will do whatever it can to provide more bike paths. Young said. “There unfortunately isn’t any room for argument here.”

Another factor Young and his colleagues must consider is cost.

“As custodian of the public’s treasury, I really question whether we should be spending that kind of money on bikeways when we don’t have enough money for streets,” Young said. The mayor said bike lanes account for 20 percent to 30 percent of the cost of a new road. Yet another councilor has questioned that number.

Councilor John Schubert said bike lanes add nothing to the total cost of an arterial, referring to a letter from an ODOT bicycle and pedestrian program director.

Since major roads must have shoulders, marking that shoulder space as a bike lane does not increase the cost, said Schubert, who rides a bicycle as his primary mode of transportation and works as commute options coordinator at St. Charles Medical Center.

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As city officials weigh various factors, such as cost and safety, some councilors said they are optimistic about the future of bicycling in Bend.

”my prognosis is that we are on our way to becoming a city with a balanced transportation system in 10 years,” Schubert said.

one cyclist has a different forecast and said he is concerned about what the transportation plan will bring.

”I doubt that the people making the decision are far-sighted enough to plan well for cycling,” Collins said.