THE SPOKESMAN • WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2021 P3
LEFT: Cars driven by Redmond
High School students Miranda
Snyder (front) and Kristy Fanelli
(behind, right) motor around
the PGE Electron Run course in
1996 in the RHS parking lot. High
school students built their bat-
tery powered cars to compete in a
series of statewide competitions.
The car making the most laps in
an hour won. Snyder finished sev-
enth and Fanelli 12th.
Spokesman file photo
FLASHBACK
SULPHUR COSTS, JOBLESS CLAIMS
AND CLINE FALLS CAMPING
100 years ago
May 5, 1921 — Farm Bureau’s
Buys Declared to Be Unfair
Figures on sulphur costs
from the office of Mrs. B.H.
McMickle of the Redmond
Lumber and Produce company,
were given a committee of Bend
and Redmond business men
not to insinuate any graft in
the office of the county agent,
but simply to prove a conten-
tion that sulphur advertised by
the farm bureau to be sold at
cost for $60, did not cost that
amount of money.
Mrs. McMickle gave this
statement to the Spokesman
Tuesday morning after the ac-
tivity of some business firms in
the matter had been construed
to be an attempt to prove graft,
and a committee from the farm
bureau, appointed to determine
at once if there was any basis for
such a charge, had brought in
a report showing Jamison’s re-
cords in the sulphur shipments
to be clear in every detail.
The fact that sulphur did not
cost $60 per ton, although ad-
vertised as selling at a cost price,
was cited, Mrs. McMickle said,
to show an instance of the un-
fairness of cooperative buying
through the county agent, inso-
far as local merchants are con-
cerned.
These are excerpts from
The Spokesman’s archives
from this week in history. To
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imum 1946 benefits, at least
15,000 will draw their last check
this month, 5,000 in June, 4,000
in July and probably 5000 more
by the first of October, the com-
mission estimates.
The study, which did not ex-
tend to out-of-state claimants or
to those drawing readjustment
allowances under the GI bill of
rights, also showed about 37 per
cent of all groups were women.
Of the Portland war workers,
over five per cent were colored,
while among others in the met-
ropolitan area only 2.5 per cent
were of other races.
About 69 per cent of the male
claimants are past 45 years of
age, while among war workers
the proportion runs still higher.
Scouts Select Permanent
Site Near Cline Falls
Redmond’s Boy Scouts have
selected a permanent camp site,
the spot chosen being near the
Cline Falls pumping station on
the Deschutes river west of Red-
mond, says Scoutmaster Gor-
don Stromberg.
The site will be improved and
will be available at all times to
the Scouts for day hikes or over-
night trips.
Troop 26 is planning an ex-
tensive camping season this
summer. Ernest M. Wilson,
who has been appointed camp-
ing and activities chairman for
the district, will assist the Scouts
in arranging the trips.
50 years ago
May 5, 1971 — Personnel or-
dinance initiated by city
For the first time, effective
May 27, the City of Redmond
will have a personnel ordinance
of a position classification and
compensation plan, adoption of
employee rules and regulations,
and specification of employee
benefits.
The ordinance, adopted
at last week’s meeting of City
Council, will be supplemented
by detailed rules and regula-
tions, including the establish-
ment of the classification plan,
according to City Administra-
tor Ed English.
Anti-nepotism provisions
specify that when another
75 years ago
May 9, 1946 — State Unem-
ployed Use Up Benefits
About 18,000 of Oregon’s un-
employed probably will have
exhausted their 1946 benefit
rights by the end of May, ac-
cording to results of a special
study just completed by the
State Unemployed Compensa-
tion commission.
Nearly five-sixths of those
claimants live in the metropoli-
tan area, declared Chairman T.
Morris Dunne, in making pub-
lic the figures, and 70 per cent
working in the shipyards last
year. In the Portland district 80
per cent had principal earnings
in war industries.
Out of about 58,000 Oregon
residents who have valid claims
against unemployment com-
mission this year, nearly half
are drawing checks each week.
In addition to the 2,500 who
have already reached their max-
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25 years ago
May 8, 1996 — Fairgrounds
move up for September vote
Supporters of a $25.3 million
bond issue to construct a new
fairgrounds facility face a big
selling job.
Last week the Deschutes
County Commission approved
placement of the county-wide
bond issue on the Sept. 17
mail-in ballot.
The cost to taxpayers is es-
timated at $22 a year for the
owner of a $100,000 home. The
figure could be lower, however,
if the Deschutes County Fair
Association decides to make the
bond issue run for 30 years, in-
stead of 20.
Plans call for construction of
a 9,000-seat outdoor amphithe-
ater, rodeo arena and livestock
complex with 3,000-seat indoor
arena, an RV park and 2,900
parking spaces on a 90-acre site
south of Redmond Airport.
The facility would replace
the current 33-acre fairgrounds
near downtown Redmond.
Costs to move the fairgrounds
are estimated at $28 million,
with sale of the current property
to a large retailer making up the
$2.7 million difference.
Fred Meyer Stores has shown
an interest in the property, but
no deal has been signed.
In addition to the facilities
proposed for construction with
funds from the bond measure,
additional facilities, such as a
race track, convention center
and ice rink, could be built by
private investors.
The new facility would allow
Central Oregon to play host to
major shows and conventions
that are now turned away for
lack of seating, fair officials say.
In addition, the Deschutes
County Fair could increase the
number of exhibits and attrac-
tions, and provide plenty of
parking for exhibitors and fair
visitors. With the added space,
the fair could become the state’s
largest county fair, officials have
said.
Redmond
Police warn
of scam calls
The Redmond Police De-
partment issued a press re-
lease warning of a scam in-
volving a person claiming to
be Redmond Police Depart-
ment Captain Devin Lewis
calling about a “confidential
legal matter.”
According to the press
release, the number shown
on the caller ID is the RPD
fax line phone number, 541-
504-3490 and when leaving
a voicemail, the person on
the scam call has left their
number as 541-348-3843,
which is not a number as-
sociated with the police de-
partment.
RPD advises not to call
the person back. Any per-
son who has received such
a call is advised to make
a report to RPD through
non-emergency dispatch,
541-693-6911 or file an on-
line report at redmondore-
gon.gov/reportacrime.
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