A10 THE SPOKESMAN • TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2022
COFFEE BREAK
FLASHBACK
Chamber goes meatless once a week in 1947
The Spokesman
100 Years Ago
Nov. 2, 1922 — Prineville yard fea-
tures a million bricks
The brick yard recently established
near Prineville Junction is working a
large crew of men now and fire has
just been put under a kiln of 1,000,000
bricks.
This new institution bids fair to be
one of the important supply centers of
this part of the country, as we are in-
formed that the quality of their output
will be of the very best grade.
75 Years Ago
Nov. 6, 1947 — Chamber cuts meat
but doesn’t agree on why
Meatless Tuesday is to be observed
by Redmond Chamber of Commerce
in the menus of its regular Tuesday
luncheon, it was decided this week.
But members weren’t in agreement as
to why.
In the discussion leading to formal
action on the subject it was pointed out
that the quickest way to save grain for
shipment to Europe is to eat the ani-
mals that are eating the grain. It’s no
hardship on the general public to have
to stop eating meat and poultry one
day a week, it was argued, but why ask
the cattlemen and poultrymen to foot
the bill? The weak conditions of the
turkey market was a factor brought into
discussion.
The group finally decided, how-
ever, that as long as President Truman
had issued the request, the thing to
Redmond Historical Commission/ Spokesman files
R. Roberts, right, poses with the winning pennant from an early 20th-century baseball tournament.
do, as far as the chamber and its Tues-
day meal is concerned, would be to go
along with him.
50 Years Ago
Nov. 8, 1972 — L.B. Day optimistic
over Bend, Redmond grants
The state director of Environmental
Quality says he’s optimistic about sewer
construction money, provided Bend
and Redmond control new develop-
ments.
“As far as I am concerned all signals
are still go,” DEQ director L.B. Day
said in an Oct. 27 letter to Bend Mayor
Richard Gervais. Copies went to Mayor
Gerold Barrett of Redmond, county
commissioner Joe Peden, Sen. Mark
Hatfield and local newspapers.
Day said he believed financial assis-
tance could be found, but federal, state
and local governments and individual
citizens would all have to do their part.
“It just doesn’t make sense,” he com-
mented, “that the cities and county
should allow unrestrained subdivision
development without sewers such that
even more state and federal assistance
will be required.”
Day said he was encouraged by the
Bend City Commission’s Oct. 4 de-
cision to require individual planning
commission review of sewerage needs
for major new development projects.
He urged similar requirements by the
county. The City of Redmond has since
taken the same action.
25 Years Ago
Nov. 5, 1997 — Suicide repeal re-
jected
Deschutes County voters agreed
with a majority of Oregonians who
decided Tuesday to keep the state’s
controversial physician-assisted sui-
cide law.
Although outspent by opponents of
1994’s “Death With Dignity” initiative,
supporters of doctor-assisted suicide
won a major victory in Tuesday’s mail
election. Three out of five votes were
cast against Measure 51, which would
have overturned the law. Sixty-one
percent of voters in Deschutes County
said no to Measure 51. The count was
22,826 no to 14,263 in support of it.
Voter turnout was 57.5 percent in
the county.
The Catholic Church, one of the
staunchest critics of 1994’s Measure
16, issued a statement calling Tues-
day’s vote “a tragedy for all Ameri-
cans.”
“Most of all it is a tragedy for seri-
ously ill patients, who deserve better
care for their real needs, not an invita-
tion to suicide,” said Cardinal Bernard
Law, Chairman of the U.S. Catholic
Bishops’ Committee for Pro-Life Ac-
tivities.
Oregon Right to Die, which cam-
paigned against Measure 51, said
Tuesday’s results represented a clear
mandate for making assisted suicide
legal. While supporters of the repeal
effort focused on clinical issues, oppo-
nents turned the debate into a ques-
tion of personal choice.
Measure 52, asking permission to
use Oregon lottery revenue for school
construction projects, was approved
by a wide margin statewide, 73 per-
cent to 27 percent. In Deschutes
County, 74 percent of voters favored
the one-time spending program.
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