A6 THE SPOKESMAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2022
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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
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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.
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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
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