4 The Bend Bulletin, Wednesday, August 24. 1955
English Actor
By Hollywood
I By A LINK MOSIIV
I'nitcd I'rvhH II'iIIvhimkI WriliT
IIOLLYW(XD IUI'i Kntjli.sii ac
, lor Michael Wilding admitted today
h?8 "stunrufl" by the nld Holly
wood prncticc Hip gossip mills
I Story Told
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Irrigatifin Co. eowrivi-d the idea
; of establishing a desert town, lo
caled on the main irrigation ditch
. leading south from the Deschutes
river at Bend.
That town would be in the heart
pf the largest ingle bodies of ir-
rigahle land in the northwest at
that time.
Chanei DIcIali'H Site '
The exaet location of the new
town of Redmond was by chance
There happened to he in the area
a vacant section of school hind
, not included with the tract that
was segregated for' reclamation
under terms of the Carey net
It also happened thai this school
I section adjoined the Redmond
farm, established in 1905. As an
J appropriate tribute to the pioneer-
ing qualities of the teachers from
! North Dakota, tin- desert town
that was a mere tent In 1905 was
3itm(,d! Redmond.
i Central Oregon Irrigation Co
leaders organized the Redmond
t Townsite Co.
When news of the possibilities of
i the newly opened land that was to
i be watered from the Deschutes be
1 can to spread homesteaders wen
attracted. Soon there was a dc-
mand for a trading place. Red
i mond, being in the center of the
rfclmmed acreage in western
J Crook county lu'camo the logi-
Jcal place.
Town Plaited
I The new town was platted, and
J In the summer and early fall of
190ti the first buildings were erect-
ed. They consisted of a general
I merchandise store, a hotel, n
J hardware store and the Townsite
i company's office.
.In 1907, a well was drilled and
a pump installed that supplied wa-
ter for the city. However, only a
' fiw pipe lities were laid and most
I rt the people came to the well
4 with pails to get their water.
Hy 1910, the ones who had
I fcolted forward to seeing Ri'd-
tnoud an organized factor in I he
! development ot Central Oregon
j saw their dream come Iruemd
f fhc City of Jiedmond was incur
i porated.
Population Snail If
' There wen1 only 'JHi people there
i when the incorporation look place.
That was about (he same ntim
a her that resided In Mend when the
I upper Deschutes town was incor-
porated in 1005.
However, the 216 people were of
i Hie progressiva, energetic type.
' They conceived of a town that was
i not only to seive their part of a
; big irrigation district, but wnuld
he develofied into a city serving
! a large region.
divoiui:s sottiitr
.Two divorce suits were fih-d at
the circuit court last week. They
Jre: Victor Hrnwn vs. Hen t rice
Hrown and Leigh Rice vs. HanUl
W. Rice.
At Fair
As Lumbermen We Realize
The Greatness of Oregon's Forests
Just one ol the many vacation spots in Central Otegon that attract thousands
of tourists annually. Protect our forests, use common care when vacationing,
and you'll have them for years to come. Wc aio proud to be pait of the lum
ber industry of Central Oregon.
Congratulations, Redmond. On Your 50th Birthdayl
BE SURE YOU SEE THE 36th ANNUAL
DESCHUTES COUNTY FAIR
P0NDER0SA M0ULDK, M.
is 'Stunned'
Gossip Mills
whispering aUmt his niarria',e.
As is usual in the film colony,
columnists have been speculating
whf'lher the marriage of the suave
actor lo one of HollywofKl's most
beautiful women, KliznhHh Taylor,
is on solid ground. Items have fil
tered from luscious I,iz' s't of
"Giant" at Warn, r Sluiio that all
is not well with the Wildings' love
nest.
Hut the lull, sophisticated Wil
ding insisted "the marriage is
fine, thank you, just fine." (
"If you have a good marriage
you ignore the gossip columns anil
just enjoy the marriage, make the
most of it," he said in his clipped,
fast-talking British way. "We've
been married three years iviw, and
they slifl say if our marriage
cateln s on "
Tired of (inssip
Wilding sat in the living room of
the couple's hilltop home in lien
edict Canyon. The house, of ex
treme modern design, features a
long living room wilh one wall of
stone and another of glass. The
actor presided over a gin-and-tonic
surrounded by three cats,
three dogs, a cook and assorted
secretaries. He. was surprisingly
informal and friendly so informal,
in fact, he prefers lo walk over
his coffee table and couch instead
of around them.
"These fan maga'lies!" he went
on. "I see titles on the covers
like, 'Will Liz Baby Save the
Marriage?' nr. 'Will l.iz Lose Her
books'? I have to buy the mag
azines so I can read them and
find out.
"Actually, I find those gossip
stories immensely dull. They writ
about the same people goiw
ng hi
i ilar
gel a divorce, going to get
ried, or going lo stay thai way. I
am tired of reading about lony
i'1-IIiiiir nut nf :iiid .lunol irtti.
nK nim
, i i lit
When he and Liz traveled to
Kuropo two years ago, Wilding
mi, in niui I m.-i '
limp." One' pk-lun- 'shoivrd h',.r
nrrivinK al..m- in onn rily.
Onr Irii-nds novcr sind Ihnl nml
I wns n Ihc pl;mp wilh l.iz Lul
thoy t nu. out. of Ihc picliin-,"
he laughed
... .
Marriage omes Mrst
"Liz gels upset over these
mese imngs nut I get ipnie a Kiel;
.)VU Ol It. One Columnist Said l.lZ
was a bore and couldn t grow up.
Nothing could be farther from the m u, il(,0 o R.lVngi'ry almost un
truth. It' a bit of a rum, y'Unow, ,Piovatile.
tn say mat land or tiling, or to say
she's behaving badly on the set
01 i iiani . noe s line.
Wilding also regarded wilh de-
Inched amusement the cry of
"fay-December". He is -II, Liz
"I'm mentally reiarded so we been burned, cattle by the thou
une lo the same age," he grinned, sands- butchered. Hatreds have
Wilding was signed by MtJ.M af- In-en inflamed that will take dec
r he and the MUM star were hides to' cool.
wed. Recently, after ihree picture..
he left the studio "because they
Irail no good roles for me." (tribesmen ami their cousins in the
"I would like to do some li ;ht j Merit and Kmbu reserves disap
comedies," he said. "Noel Coward ! pea red mysteriously. Then, in iso
also wants me to do a play in l,nn-lated places, African families were
don but I don't think f s good for found butchered in their huts. They
a marriage lo be apart. j had refused to join Mau Mau.
"And my m i r r I a g e comes The terrorisls were encouraged
first
oml.'
he said. "Acling comes sec-1
Time
REDMOND
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NAME THIS MID-OREGON TOWN Old imerj would hav some difficulty in naming fhis Central Oregon town, as viewed
from an airplane. It is Madras, "Green Spot" of Jefferson county. The view is north, and the black "street" down the center is
route of U. S. Highway 97.
Mau Mau Group Slowly Being
Hy IM'DI.KY HAWKINS
i in leu rrest iaii l airrcspoiweiu
.M)r,T ,, .,.,,
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l'l""Kod this once-idyllic British
colon-v. ""' h"'c bloody yt'a,s 1S
"V" , , . .
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P!""''', '"':"'"! " r Sl t0
,i;,y mere are a lew uiousaou mini-
eel, (tesperaie outlaws niuing in
jh(, ((,ns(! nimint:iin jlinKlcS.
I To them now, fooil is fhr more
s 1)).,.uU 1han Vet 1 1 i r 1 white set-
f (h. Aft-l'n n:itivi wlin
f.i.,n ... rhriiUmniiv :n(i invnliv
,,,,t w.n n(,V(,.. 1onvx
0vnr i.nno lnpn. ..-omen and
children have been killed. Mori
than one hundred million dollars
1iVO n(,PM SM,nt t(l prevent mass
murder. Macnifimit mountain
I ludces. sernm farm homes have
Man Mau began almost un-
noticed 10 vears aeo. Kikuvii
by the stiff-necked complacency of
British eoli inn I alm imstr.it in
lamKt&h W WBBTrWIf
The Madras High School can be
These civil servants still lived in
the rosy glow of hunting, incom
ing motion picture safaris and
whiskey and soda.
Trail of Death
By 1!)')2 the well-armed terrorist
gangs, made nravc ny moonsnine
liquor, blood oaths and promises
of taking land from the whites,
had left a ghastly trail of death
through the reserves.
Razor-sharp pangas cut down
anyone who refused to cooperate.
Oath - taking ceremonies incredi
bly filthy orgies of sex and super
stition to initiate recruits were
held openly just outside Nairobi.
In October, 195'i, British para
troopers landed by air and a state
nf emergency was declared. But
the barn door was being shirt after
the horse was gone. On a pre-ar
Serving
A Great
Agricuttura!
Today, electricity is a versatile "chore boy" on the modern farms of Des
chutes, Jefferson and Crook counties, helping to get more done in snorter
hours. Your Central Electric Cooperative is proud to serve part of the farm
homes of this great agricultural area.
The county fair which we celebrate here in Redmond this weekend is a won
derful testimony of the modern agricultural advances being utilized by our
local farmers, for at the Fair will bo lined row upon row of their most prized
products.
We urge you to attend your fair this weekend and examine the products
that make Central Oregonians proud of thoir agricultural industry.
CENTRAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE
IN OUPOIIATKI)
"OWNED BY THE PEOPLE IT SERVES"
DESCHUTES JEFFERSON CROOK
WW"" n.iJ1. iim Jtn. wuuwllh mm ami ,
seen in the lower left corner.
Beaten Down
ranged plan, Mau Mau leaders
fled the city, leaving a few unim
portant "generals" behind to face
the music and leave the impres
sion the crisis had ended.
In the dense jungles and moun
tain country, the Mau Mau organ
ized an intricate, efficient system
of "cells" on Communist lines
which stretched to every Kikuyu,
Embu and Mcru tribesman.
Among the whites, guns ap-
peared on every hip and in every I
woman's handbag. On the farm
the settlers' homes became fort
resses, somo, wilh watchtowers
and machineguns.
But it was not enough. The Mnu
Mau were sworn to kill the whites
and they did.
James . MacDougall, who came
to Kenya in 1906, trusted his native
Region
(Ilend Bulletin ricture)
servants. He never locked his doors
and windows. Nine killers broke
and surrounded him in his
wheelchair. Arthritis prevented his
moving. In cold blood, they hacked
him and burned his body.
Family Killed
The Meloncellis, an Italian fam
ily, lived in a house surrounded by
bush country. Meloncclli was at i
the saw mill one morning when 20
Mau Mau attacked the house. His
wife was shot and chopped to
pieces. The terrorists searched
the house and killod their 15-year-1
old daughter and lO-year-old son.l
The children had arrived only 10
days before. J
Only this April, two schoollmys,
Geoffrey Dahy and Christopher
Twohey, innocently 'but foolishly
strolled through the veld on the
outskirts of Nairobi hunting pig
eons. Their airgun attracted the
Mau Mau. The boys were sur
rounded and butchered.
V"
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County Fair
Plans Shaped
By Veterans
A veteran board will again be
in charge of Deschutes county's' would adequately be served by
IffiB inir in Rorimnnd on Auff. 26.IUw realized that two arterial
27 and a. Fnday, Saturday andj
Sunday.
R. J. Carpenter, Redmond bank
er, is again ciuirnian of the 11
memher Deschutes County fair as
sociation, and Roy Newell a n i
George McKinnon are co-managers
of the fair.
M. A. Lynch, who in earlier
years was "head man" of the
county fair, still remains as a
member of the association and is
not a mere "elder statesman." He
is one of the busiest members ofRcdmond piace mr meals as they
the group as fair days near. j rode over the "low desert" were
Howard Mavfield, board mem- always welcome, pioneers point
ber who will head up the rodeo out but those same pioneers ad
program, is not only a member ofimit they did not realize that the
the Deschutes fair board. He was! weary travelers of 1905 marked
active in the presentation of the; the beginning of an important
Crooked River roundup and of a I industry sen-ice for tourists who
western show on the other side of! annually bring millions of dollars
the Cascades. ' in, Central Oregon.
General Contracting
4-M CMJB Atlivitfes
Congratulations Redmond on Your 50th Birthday
Redmond Fuel & Construction Co.
Melvin Cyrus
Phone 129 1346 So. Sixth Redmond
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Optimists
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north, aci-oss Crooked river, a
Sli.OOO.OOO federal irrigation proj.
fcet would bring 50,000 acres of
land under water.
The Redmond pioneers were
confident that their new town
- , butew in
would cross
the center of
town.
PossMily some of the early day
residents who watched the first
flimsy planes of a new age cir
cle in the mid - Oregon sky
dreamed of the time when the
city could serve those planes
wilh a "landing field"
but certainly none pictured a
multi-million dollar airport near
Redmond's city limits.
Those first stockmen and way
fnrrc u-hn stoDDcd at the Frank
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