THE SPOKESMAN • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 2021 P3
FLASHBACK
Calf shops antiques at downtown thrift store in 1996
100 years ago
June 2, 1921 — Accidental
Pistol Discharge Wounds Red-
mond Athlete
Kenneth Buckley, football
and basketball player last year
on Redmond union high school
teams, was accidentally shot in
the leg Sunday while fishing at
Cline Falls.
Buckley was carrying a 45
caliber army revolver in his leg-
gin and it is believed the trigger
caught on brush as he walked
down the river to a new fishing
hole. Entering his leg just above
the ankle, the bullet passed sev-
eral inches through his flesh
and came out at the instep.
It was feared the accident
would cost Buckley the loss of
the use of the ankle joint but,
according to Dr. J.F. Hosch, the
bullet did not hit the ankle joint
as first thought, and he is recov-
ering rapidly.
When the revolver was dis-
charged into his leg, Buckley
was separated by a half mile
form other members of the
fishing party who were at the
Cline Falls power house. He
walked back the entire distance,
carrying his fishing equipment
and basket containing his catch
of twenty trout.
Buckley was taken to Red-
mond for medical attention by
S.N. Weisgerber. When Weis-
gerber returned to the party, he
found his wife had slipped on
the river bank and sustained
a severely sprained ankle. She,
too, was brought to Redmond
for medical attention.
75 years ago
June 6, 1946 — Government
Goes City One Better
The Federal Public Housing
administration is preparing
now to go the City of Red-
mond one better on its plans
for a temporary housing proj-
ect--instead of fixing up the
buildings at the air base, the
federal agency intends to move
in some additional buildings
Spokesman file photo
Details of the daily air freight service that would be coming to Roberts
Field were reviewed in June 1961 by the Redmond Airport Commission
Chairman Curt Lantz, second from right. Air Pacific officials on hand
were, from left, Gene O’Shea, general sales manager; Dick Meyers,
chief pilot, and Bill Downer, president.
and fix them up instead.
The Seattle FPHA office con-
tacted Mayor Maurice Roberts
by telephone this week and
asked if he could find room for
three buildings to be moved
from Portland, the dimensions
of each being 236 feet 3 inches
by 20 feet 8 inches.
It was explained to Roberts
in a telephone call that the Se-
attle office had looked over the
construction details of the pres-
ent buildings on the air base
and had decided that in order
to meet specifications set up
by the government for tempo-
rary housing units it would be
cheaper to move and convert
the Portland buildings than it
would to alter those now on the
base.
These buildings from Port-
land, it was explained, are also
of military type, but of sturdier
construction, and standard
plans call for dividing each
of them into eight dwelling
units—four two-room and four
three-room apartments per
building, a total of 24 dwelling
units in all.
Original plans of the city
were to convert as many as pos-
sible of the barracks buildings
now on the air base into dwell-
ing units. Construction men
had looked them over and con-
cluded that very satisfactory liv-
ing quarters could be made out
of them by salvaging some of
the buildings for materials to be
used in the others.
50 years ago
June 2, 1971 — Daily air
freight service begins in Cen-
tral Oregon
Daily air freight service, link-
ing Redmond with 13 other Or-
egon cities, will be initiated June
15 by Air Pacific, Inc., which for
1 1/2 years has been operating
a charter passenger and freight
service out of Aurora Airport in
the greater Portland area.
Air Pacific officials received
tentative approval for use of
Roberts Field Tuesday from
Redmond Airport Commission
Chairman Curt Lantz, with rat-
ification expected at the June 14
meeting of the commission.
The corporation, which op-
erates with leased aircraft to af-
ford customers a greater choice
of late model planes, will initi-
ate the daily flights with a Piper
Cherokee Six, capable of carry-
ing up to 800 pounds of freight.
Also available for immediate
usage will be 16 other aircraft,
including the larger Piper Co-
manche and Aztec.
The daily flights, which of-
ficials plan to supplement with
an additional round-robin in
mid July, will depart Aurora
each morning for Hood River,
The Dalles, Madras, Prineville,
Redmond, Bend, Klamath Falls,
Medford, Grants Pass, Rose-
burg, Eugene, Albany, and Sa-
lem. Arrival time at Roberts
Field will be around noon, with
the entire flight projected to
take seven hours.
President Bill Downer
stressed that charter service, for
both freight and passengers,
would be available on a basis
competitive with other modes
of transportation. He said pick
up and delivery services would
be provided, as will arrange-
ments for tie-ins with other
transportation lines, including
those operating out of Portland
International Airport.
Accompanying Downer to
Redmond Tuesday was Chief
Pilot Dick Meyers, whose flying
experience goes back to 1951,
and commercial aviation back-
ground to ’64. Prior to joining
Air Pacific, he had flown as an
executive pilot for several Port-
land firms, ran flight schools
in the Portland area and was
chief pilot for Aurora-based Sky
Tech.
Also in Redmond was Gene
O’Shea, general sales manager,
who views his job as selling
“fast service and convenience”
to manufacturers, distributors
and others whose business can
benefit from the new airfreight
service.
O’Shea pointed out that the
company’s service would be
available either by contract or
on an individual one-time basis,
with shipping either prepaid or
COD. The company, which is
fully bonded and insured and
flies fully-instrumented planes,
operated under Part 135 of Fed-
eral Aviation Administration
flipping his tail around, and
he knocked a few items off the
shelves and broke them.”
But before the two startled
store workers, Brenda Eyres and
Audrey Lane, could think of
what to do with the unexpected
four-legged visitor, the brief bo-
vine rampage was curtailed.
“His owner came charging
in with a rope and lassoed the
calf and hauled him out,” said
Kanski, who was in her office
when she heard the commotion
and shattering of glass.
The man with the rope didn’t
identify himself as he herded
his calf out of the store. The esti-
mated damage in broken knick-
knacks was $10.
“Evidently the calf got loose
somewhere in the vicinity of
Dairy Queen, so he ran three
blocks to get to us,” Kanski
said. “We thought it was kind
of ironic that he chose the Hu-
mane Society store to run into.”
If the calf was a bargain
hunter chasing a sale, she noted,
he was out of luck. “The bag
sale was the day before.”
regulations as a certified air taxi
operator.
Downer said regular custom-
ers, who wanted to expand their
business to another city on Air
Pacific’s route, would be offered
personnel transportation with-
out cost as part of the corpora-
tion’s effort to “do all we can to
help local people expand their
business.”
25 years ago
June 5, 1996 — Stray calf
goes shopping
It wasn’t quite a bull in a
china shop, but the scene at the
Humane Society Thrift Shop on
a recent afternoon came amus-
ingly close to that image.
The downtown store’s front
door was open last Wednesday, a
warm day, when a stray calf that
got loose from its owner found
the doorway and charged into
the store at 339 SW Sixth St.
“He ran into the collectible
and antiques room,” store man-
ager Jamie Kanski said. “He was
running around the room and
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