100 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

Feb. 22, 1925

Dairymen Ask Law To Force Test For T.B.

REDMOND — Urging the passage of a bill making it compulsory for dairymen in Deschutes county to test annually all animals used for dairy purposes, a resolution bearing the signatures of representative dairymen will be forwarded to the Central Oregon legislative delegation in Salem today.

The resolution is the result of a well attended meeting of dairymen from all parts of the county, held here Saturday evening, with W.T. McDonald, county agriculturist, presiding. The dairymen were unanimous in opinion that every dairy animal in Deschutes county should be tested for tuberculosis.

Not a dissenting voice was raised in objection to the proposed compulsory testing measure, the only differences in opinion being in regard to the cost of testing, which will be 3 cents for each cow, if the measure is approved by the legislature. The bill provides that the veterinarian shall be paid $10 a day by the county when engaged in testing work. The 35 cent fee goes to the county.

Oregon Stands Firmly Against Child Labor

SALEM — Oregon was lined up definitely today against the child labor amendment to the federal constitution.

The Oregon senate last night defeated 20 to 10 a proposal to ratify the amendment. Previously the senate rejected a house bill which would have submitted the question to a popular advisory vote in 1926.

The house resolution for a popular vote was defeated by a line up of 18 votes against it.

Carlon Favors Move To Build Central Bridge

Should people living in Bend west of the river decide to petition for the construction of a bridge across the Deschutes to reduce traffic danger, they will be taking an important step reduce fire hazards in the city. This was explained today by Fire Chief Tom Carlon when discussing the risk taken every time Bend’s one pumper is driven across the Newport avenue bridge.

In answering fire alarms from West Bend, the pumper is always taken across the Newport avenue bridge, unless the blaze is south of Galveston. This necessitates the pumper being driven through the congested business district of Bend — a drive which likewise endangers traffic and the pumper, which if damaged, would leave the fire department virtually helpless.

The most desirable site for a bridge which could be used to the best advantage by the fire department would be where the present footbridge is, just below the Tumalo avenue wagon bridge, according to Carlon. This could be reached easily by the pumper, avoiding the congestion of the business section of Bend. Also, it is explained that such a bridge would be the most direct route from the fire station to any part of the city west of the river.

Park Improvement Plans Considered

Extensive improvements in all of Bend’s parks are being planned for this year, $4,500 being provided in the budget for the purpose, city officials stated today. This amount is to be divided between the city park, Shevlin park and the municipal camp ground.

Details of the work which will be done in each of the parks have not been worked out completely between the public property committee of the city council and the park board, but it is likely that the program will include the extension of the road to the upper end of Shevlin park, construction of two bridges there, and a considerable amount of clearing and cleaning. In the city park it is planned to put more land in grass and flowers, and an important part of the work this year will be the planting of shade trees. Another fountain may be built, the officials planning to locate it so that the run off water will subirrigate a considerable are lawn.

Additional accommodations are expected to be provided at the camp ground, possibly including the installation of shower baths.

75 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

Feb. 22, 1950

Yew Lane School Children Enjoy First Train Ride

Tuesday, February 21, 1950 was a memorable day for 31 third graders from the Yew Lane school in Bend. They were taken aboard a train and given a ride from the Bend stations to the roundhouse in the south part of town, then back to the station.

And, believe it or not, the train in that short trip turned completely around. Third graders know that a train can’t just turn around in the middle of a street, or track, like an automobile and head back to the starting point. They found it difficult to understand the manner their train first headed toward Klamath Falls, stopped and started a number of times, then moved north toward Redmond. The evolution, Conductor J.T. McKay explained, was very simple. The train was turned around on the “Y” in the roundhouse area.

Seven of the 31 children were taking their first ride on the train, and one of the little ladies who had been on a train before volunteered the information she had not been for a ride on steel tracks “since I was a baby.” Girls outnumbered boys. All had a good time.

Low Rent Houses For Bend Area Topic Tonight

Representatives of business, unions, civic organizations, and service clubs this evening will convene at the Bend chamber of commerce office for a discussion as to whether or not the community should apply for federal low rent housing.

In recent weeks the matter of low rent public housing has been the subject of discussion by a number of city councils, including The Dalles and Redmond.

Rodeo Grounds Sold By Water Pageant Group

The Bend Stampede and Water Pageant association sold its 40-acre rodeo site for $5,500 at a special meeting of the directors last night and cleared the way for the presentation of a Mirror pond fete over the Fourth of July holidays.

The prospective rodeo site, just south of town and west of Highway 97, was sold to W.V. (Jack) Hamby, who had submitted a check for $500 as earnest money with his bid. The balance will be paid on transfer of the title to Hamby. The tract, obtained by the pageant association in pre-war days when development of a rodeo arena and race track were being considered, has a water right just south of the full acreage. The land is under the Arnold ditch.

Hamby said he is not yet ready to announce his plans for the use of the grounds. When the land is formally transferred to Hamby, the proceeds will be distributed to creditors by a special finance committee, members of which are A.J. Glassow, Arthur A. Rix and Carl B. Hoogner. Some of the creditors are checking off their bills as contributions to the 1950 show.

50 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

Feb. 22, 1975

Birthday bus line to give free rides

Bend residents will receive a present to celebrate the first birthday anniversary of the city bus service.

Free rides will be given all day tomorrow. Any individual may board and exit as many times as desired. There is no age limitation.

The bus leaves on its first run from the Senior Citizens Referral Center, 217 Greenwood Ave., at 10 a.m. The last run starts at 3.55 p.m. The bus stops at any point on its route for riders to disembark.

The bus went into service on Feb. 19, 1974. It is owned by the City of Bend and operated by the Senior Citizens Council on a lease arrangement. Usual cost is 25 cents a ride or five tickets for a dollar.

Short growing season not a barrier

Despite a shorter growing season in Central Oregon than in many parts of the nation, area residents are joining a current national boom in home gardening.

Carl Oberst, an employe of Bend Feed and Garden Supply, reported today that the fir last year sold more garden seed than in the previous 20 years combined.

“We’re putting our garden seed racks out early this year,” Oberst said.

Ken Johnson, who operates Scotty’s Feed Store in Redmond, reported he, too, was getting garden seed on the shelf early this year. Home gardening, Johnson said, is getting to be a “big thing” as food prices continue to soar.

The Associated Press reported today that officials of the nation’s largest seed a nursery companies say the boom in home gardening that was seen in 1974 is bigger than ever in 1975 and that they can hardly keep up with the demand.

”We’re facing an intense demand in our vegetable lines,” said Jerry Kantor, assistant to the president of the Burpee Seed Co. of Philadelphia.

”We’re running 20 per cent or more ahead of last year and we don’t expect to hit our peak until late February or March,” Kantor said.

Locally, Oberst said, corn and tomatoes are especially popular, despite the relatively short growing season.

“We also sell an awful lot of radishes, carrots, onions, lettuce and beets. They can make it,” Oberst noted.

Oberst said he thought many persons in Central Oregon were buying seeds ahead of the planting season for fear of shortages later. One company, he said, has informed Bend Feed and Garden Supply that it can’t promise to replace seeds when supplies become depleted on racks.

One of the best growing areas locally is the northeast section of Bend. Among the successful gardeners in that area is Mrs. Barney Duberow, NE Butler Market Road.

“I’ve had good luck with nearly all the root vegetables,” Mrs. Duberow said. “Normally, I plant them in mid or late May.”

She said she has also had good success with string beans and corn, which she plants about the first of June.

For beginners, Mrs. Duberow suggested “starting with the simple things, like carrots and beets.” She also cautioned that it was essential in Central Oregon to “know the frost times,” which normally continue into June.

In some instances, she said, it is helpful to grow “bedding plants” ahead of time in the home or sheltered areas.

25 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

Feb. 22, 2000

City, county try to defuse Welcome Center flag flap

Neither the Canadian nor the Mexican flag will fly over the Central Oregon Welcome Center, Deschutes County and city officials have decided, trying to defuse a flap that arose year.

The U.S. flag will continue to fly on one of the three 40-foot poles in front of Welcome Center.

The Oregon flag will remain on a second pole and a “Welcome to Central Oregon” flag will stay aloft on the third, Deschutes County Commissioner Tom DeWolf said in a letter sent Tuesday to Melba Christopher, director of the Human Dignity Coalition.

“There will be no flags from other countries or organizations flying at the Welcome Center,” DeWolf wrote. He said the “decision is final” and is backed by his two county commissioner colleagues and the five Bend city councilors he had been able to reach.

The city and county own the building.

Last year, Elli Work, a former Democratic candidate for state representative, asked Bend Chamber of Commerce officials, whose offices are in the building, why the Canadian flag was on the third pole, beside the Oregon and U.S. flags, and the Mexican flag was not also flown there.

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But DeWolf said city design rules dictate that new flagpoles can be no taller than 25 feet, so it would have been 15 feet lower.

DeWolf said City Manager Larry Patterson asked him to try to mediate the dispute.

Christopher said today that the Human Dignity Coalition had suggested that the Oregon flag fly under the American flag, beside the Mexican and Canadian flags.

“For us, it seemed like such a positive thing, but we’re encountering this resistance,” Christopher said. “I do not wish to label this as racist or anything else, but something is going on.”