100 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

March 1, 1925

Governor’s Approval Is Needed for Flag

SALEM — Oregon will have a state flag — all it needs now is the approval of the governor to senate bill 195, introduced by Senator Klepper and Representative bailey, passed by the house today and passed by the senate yesterday.

The bill provides: “A state flag is hereby adopted to be used on all occasions when the state is officially and publicly represented, with the privilege of use by all citizens upon such occasions as may be fitting and appropriate. It shall bear on one side on a navy blue field the state escutcheon in gold, supported by 33 gold stars and bearing above said escutcheon the words ‘State of Oregon’ in gold and below such escutcheon the figures ‘1859’ in gold and on the other side on a navy blue field a representation of the beaver in gold.

Sheriff Stops Prisoner’s Try At Jail Break

With 11 hack saws, smuggled into the jail in some manner, in their possession, five prisoners in the Deschutes county jail sawed out one bar of a cell to which all had access, and were planning to saw their way to freedom when they were caught in the act by Sheriff S. E. Roberts and his deputies shortly after 7 o’clock Sunday evening.

The officers heard the sawing from the alley, and crawled upon a building at the rear of the jail, from which they could look down to where the jail breaking activities were going on. They saw one man using a saw.

Investigation with a view to finding out how the saws got into the jail was begun today by the sheriff. This was the second jail break attempt in Bend in three days, the other, at the city jail, being successful.

City’s Schools Are Given Site Of Playground

Bend’s first real playground, Harmon field, was presented to the school board, which will have charge of equipping and conducting it, in formal exercises held Sunday afternoon in the outdoor court at the Kenwood school, in the presence of a vast army of Bend school children, the entire membership of the Kiwanis club, through whose efforts the field was secured, and a large crowd of other citizens.

A parade was led by the Shevlin-Hixon band. Next in line were the school children, practically all of the grade and junior high pupils of the Bend schools, in charge of their teachers — the first graders leading, and the higher grades following in order. The Kiwanians followed the children. The boy scouts were standard bearers.

Bend was the first city in Oregon to receive a check from the Harmon Fund. The conditions of the donation are that $400 must be expended annually on improvement of the property as a playground.

Bend Quadrangle Name Approved by U.S.G.S

The United States geological survey has given the name “Bend” to the quadrangle covering approximately 800 square miles of the Deschutes country according to a telegram received from Congressman N. J. Sinnott, now in Washington, D.C. The suggestion was approved by Congressman Sinnott and submitted to George Otis Smith, director of the geological survey.

Change of the name of the quadrangle, known as the Cline Falls quadrangle from the early days of topographic survey work in the Deschutes region, meets with the approval of engineers and persons interested in geology in this part of the state. It is explained that the change comes just in time to get the new name on the topographic map now being completed by the geological survey.

75 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

March 1, 1950

KBND to Receive Official Permit

The management of radio station KBND has received word from Washington, D.C., that the federal communications commission is forwarding a permit authorizing construction of a 1,000 watt station to operate both day and night on 1270 kilocycles. The commission granted the application to KBND early in January.

Construction will be started at once, Frank H. Loggan, manager, said today. A transmitter building will be constructed on a site north of Bend, just off the Butler road. Two towers, phasing and technical equipment will be furnished by the Graybar Electric company, of Seattle, Wash. Erection of the tower will be handled by the Sigler Construction company of Portland.

In the past two weeks buildings have been removed from the site in preparation for construction and operation of the new station. Studios will be maintained at the Pilot Butte inn. It is estimated that it will take from four to six weeks to make the installation and change over to 1,000 watts. KBND is a full-time affiliate with the Mutual Broadcasting system.

New Fire Law Affects Four Bend Buildings

Four Bend buildings occupied for sleeping quarters come under the state law which provides that all unprotected openings shall be effectively closed to prevent the spread of fire, smoke, heat or gas to corridors leading to fire escapes, it was passed at the 1947 session of the state legislature, with July 5, 1950, set as the compliance date.

The law applies only to buildings consisting of three or more stories. Bend structures in this list include the Pilot Butte inn, the Alpine lodge, the Klein apartments and the Minnesota rooms, fire officials said. Private residences are not affected by the ruling.

Deschutes Test Tube Twins

Deschutes county’s first test-tube twin calves are attracting considerable attention these days on the George Rastovich ranch east of Bend. The twins’ sire is Commander of Prairie Bloom, kept on the Oregon Dairy Breeders’ association farm at Corvallis. The sire is a guernsey and the dam is a grade cow. In Deschutes county, the artificial insemination program is sponsored by the Central Oregon Dairy Breeders; association, with Earl Thompson as manager-technician. Commander is the sire of some 5,000 test-tube calves.

50 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

March 1, 1975

Women playing an increasing role in Kah-Nee-Ta resort’s management

Long hours, including weekends and holidays, are just part of the job for Charlene White, 25, the mother of two preschoolers and member of the Confederated Tribes at Warm Springs.

Mrs. White is the front desk manager at the Kah-Nee-Ta Village, part of this tribally owned resort.

“It is very demanding, challenging … and I enjoy every minute of it,” reports Mrs. White. She first went to work at the Village three years after its 1964 opening. A 17-year-old high school student then, she worked part-time in the Village Snack Bar. According to Mrs. White, her now-deceased grandmother inspired her to work at the resort.

“If we put this in, it is up to the younger generation to make it go,” she recalls hearing her grandmother, Matilda Stacona, say at the time the tribal members were discussing the possibility of developing the resort.

Now, in addition to her duties at the Village office, Mrs. White is involved in planning a program of almost daily summer season demonstrations of Indian crafts, food preparations, dancing and other traditions for guests and visitors at the resort.

“It is something I have always wanted to do,” she explains.

Mrs. White’s enthusiasm for the project appears to be shared by most of the other heads of the resort’s departments and offices. Just over half of the 23 positions are held by women.

Recently, relaxing over lunch after a three-hour staff meeting, six of the women discussed their reasons for working with the tribally owned resort.

“It is an exciting, fast moving business. It is never the same two days in a row,: explained Leslie Johnson, catering and convention manager.

“It is a service business. If that motivates your lifestyle, then that’s your type of business,” stated Elizabeth “Liz” A. Stump, director of sales.

“It is a family type organization. We live and work together,” suggest Mina Jorgenson, director of personnel and wife of the head of the Village maintenance department. Many of the resort employes life in Kah-Nee-Ta Hamlet, a housing area located between the Village and the Lodge.

“It is a real creative business,” added Miss Johnson, an employe at the resort for a number of years who was appointed to her present position late last year. “The Hotel business allows you so much creativity … putting together a package that will sell the resort.”

The conversation continued enthusiastically over the sandwiches and coffee until an uneasy pause that followed a question about the comparability of the salaries of men and women in management.

About half the dozen women managers are self-supporting (widowed, divorced or single) and several are the single wage-earner in a family.

Because each position is unique, they appeared to have difficulties in making income comparisons.

Sheldon C.T. Randall, III, general manager of the resort, however, had little difficulty in responding to the question of comparability.

“I do not draw any line … a woman is making the exact salary a man would in the same position,” if the woman can do all work required in a job, she will receive equal pay, he indicated.

According to Miss Johnson, the increasing participation of women in the management at Kah-Nee-Ta is due in large part to the guidance and direction of Randall, who was appointed resort manager last summer. “He is enthused about women in management,” Miss Johnson said.

“Women seem to lend themselves more to the guest oriented operations,” Randall explained this week. “By and large I expect to be putting more women in the higher caliber positions here.”

Randall also said that he feels that career-oriented women, including divorcees and others who are not anticipating marriage, are “willing to put up with the problems encountered in the industry more than many men.” They also tend to be “intensely loyal to the organization and … give more than men.”

25 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

March 1, 2000

Library’s bookmobile rolling back into town

Deborah Hogan has fond childhood memories of waiting excitedly on summer days for a special weekly neighborhood visitor: the library bookmobile.

Hogan said she always was out waiting at least 10 minutes before the bookmobile pulled up in her Los Gatos, Calif., neighborhood. “And you guys know me — I’m not 10 minutes early for anything,” she joked recently to fellow Bend- La Pine School Board members. Now she is glad that children in Deschutes County will soon be able to have the same experience.

Jo Caisse also knows just how exciting the rolling library can be for children — and parents, too. More than a decade ago, she was behind the wheel of a Salem Public Library bookmobile. She expects to be driving the new Deschutes Library System’s first bookmobile this fall, decades after the then-county library system parked its rolling reading room.

A $150,000 grant from the federal Library Services and Technology Act will be used to build a specially-built bookmobile.

Bids will be sought in a few weeks, based on specifications now being drafted, said Caisse. She serves as the library system’s outreach services manager and the children’s librarian in Sunriver and La Pine.

Bookmobiles fell into disfavor decades ago as interest grew in creating neighborhood library branches instead. But Caisse has seen a resurgence in bookmobiles, especially ones with specialized roles, like Jackson County’s “Storymobile” and a “Reading Rover” in Northern California.

The new bookmobile will be 22 to 25 feet long, about 5 feet shorter than the rig Caisse used to drive. It will carry about 2,500 books, mostly for children, with bright bulletin boards and a bit of space set aside for story times and other such programs. That’s close to 2,000 volumes stored in the old bookmobile, phased out in 1973.

”It will be going out and connecting children who don’t have the ability to connect with libraries, for whatever reason,” Caisse said. “It’s mostly aimed at children, but as the collection evolves, there will be parenting information as well.”

While the bookmobile is built, library staff will plan what routes and schedules it will use. She said she expects the bookmobile to roll only during daytime hours, at least initially. Caisse expects to feel right at home behind the wheel.

”It’s like riding a bicycle. You never forget,” she said.

A bookmobile driver/librarian can’t read and drive at the same time, of course. Still, she said, “You always have something to read on breaks.”