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About The Redmond spokesman. (Redmond, Crook County, Or.) 1910-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 2022)
A6 THE SPOKESMAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2022 FLASHBACK Co-op purchases potato warehouse in 1947 The Spokesman 100 YEARS AGO August 3, 1922 — Red- mond girls pass teachers’ ex- aminations Mrs. Lottie Mead, Kathryn Gideon, Eugena Gideon and Izelle Ridgely are graduates of Redmond Union High School who took the teachers’ exam- ination at Bend last month. County superintendent J. Alton Thompson reports that, while the examination was un- usually hard, only one teacher in the county failed to pass out all of those examined and sev- eral made grades of above 90 in all but two subjects. 75 YEARS AGO August 7, 1947 — Co-op purchases potato warehouse Deschutes farmers co-op, lo- cal organization affiliated with Pacific Supply cooperative, has purchased all facilities of Deschutes Potato Warehouse Company. It was announced Archived Photo After being tossed in Lion’s pond dripping wet, Redmond fire chief Hoy Fultz is hoisted high by fel- low fireman jubilant over having come within one tanker load of pumping 50,000 gallons of wa- ter in one hour. today by Arthur Stevens, pres- ident of the Board of directors of Deschutes farmers co-op. The warehouse, 90 x 250- feet in size, was constructed about three years ago by the Weigand brothers, Kenneth Duling and Frank McCaffery. Included with the sale of the warehouse was a tract of land owned by the company. The warehouse will be con- verted into a modern potato packaging and grading plan, in addition to storage, said Phil Farrell, manager of the co-op. New equipment will be SOLUTION Crossword on A2 installed and the facilities will be ready for the 1947 potato harvest. Deschutes Farmers Co-op is taking immediate possession. Acquisition of the ware- house will give the farmers co-op more trackage, in- creased space for handling and storing potatoes and the advantages of trackable oper- ation, it was pointed out. The co-op will handle all potatoes through a pool marketing pro- gram this fall, Farrell said. 521. Previously the budget had been defeated on May 1 and June 1. All five voting precincts except Cloverdale approved the budget, reduced by over $100,000 since the last elec- tion. Terrebonne, which tra- ditionally has cast negative votes, came through with a tie vote. SOLUTION Sudoku on A2 50 YEARS AGO August 9, 1972 — School budget passes On the third try with moderate balloting, the Red- mond school district Thurs- day won voter approval of its $1,624,560 operating budget for 1972-73 by a tally of 860 to Worship Directory Adventist Roman Catholic Seventh Day Adventist 945 W. Glacier Ave., Redmond, OR St Thomas Roman Catholic Church 1720 NW 19th Street Redmond, Oregon 97756 541-923-3390 541-923-0301 Sabbath School 9:30 am Worship 10:45 am Baptist Highland Baptist Church 3100 SW Highland Ave., Redmond 541-548-4161 Lead Pastor: Lance Logue Sunday Worship Services: Blended – 8 & 9:30 AM Contemporary – 11 AM (Worship Center) Father Todd Unger, Pastor Mass Schedule: Weekdays 8:00 am Saturday Vigil 5:00 pm First Saturday 8:00 am (English) Sunday 8:00 am, 10:00 am (English) 12:00 noon (Spanish) Confessions on Wednesdays From 4:00 to 5:45 pm and on Saturdays From 3:00 to 4:30 pm hbc Español - 10:30 am (Youth Room) *9:30 AM & 11 AM live- stream at: www.hbcredmond.org Advertise your worship listing today! How can hbc pray for you? prayer@hbcredmond.org Call 541-617-7823 to place your ad today! New advertisers get 2 weeks free.
