THE BULLETIN • SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 2021 C7
YESTERYEAR
St. Charles Memorial Hospital eyes new site in 1971
Compiled by the Deschutes
County Historical Society from
the achieved copies of The Bend
Bulletin at the Deschutes His-
torical Museum.
100 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
Jan. 16, 1921
Cause of fire in auto shop
unknown
Fire of unknown origin de-
stroyed the vulcanizing and
battery-charging shop owned
by Louis Doonar and James
Dean at the north end of Bond
street, early this afternoon. The
equipment lost was valued at
approximately $1500, and was
without the protection of in-
surance.
Flames came into being sud-
denly and without apparent
cause as Dean was outside the
building, changing a battery
for a customer. The fire depart-
ment answered the alarm and
had the fire under control in
a short time. From the arrival
of the engine, until water was
being pumped on the burning
structure was only 40 seconds,
according to several spectators,
who held watches on the fire-
men.
The department use for the
first time in this city a four-way
valve, which permits pressure
to be used through the first line
of hose laid from the hydrant
to the fire without shutting off
the water to make a new con-
nection.
Women’s work explained
to Civic league
Called for the purpose of
placing before the public the
facts concerning the work of
the women’s protective divi-
sion of Bend, the meeting of
the Women’s Civic league, held
yesterday afternoon, resulted
in a lengthy discussion of the
work and of the action of the
city council in so far refusing
to continue it. Several hundred
women and a score of men,
including Mayor Gilson and
Councilmen Gilbert, Baker
and Leverett showed their in-
terest by attending, every seat
in Sather’s hall being taken and
many standing on the side and
in the ante room.
Following a short business
session of the league, the sub-
ject of the afternoon was in-
troduced by the reading of
a written reports from Mrs.
Stockwell of the work she has
done since the protective divi-
sion was created in April of last
year. The report showed that
in the past eight months there
have been 150 girls and women
cared for in various ways at a
total cost of $1586.85.
Speakers included Mrs. V.A.
Forbes, Robert W. Sawyer, Dr.
A. Lessing, Rev. J.Edgar Purdy
and A. Whisnant, of whom Mr.
Purdy and Mr. Whisnant made
especially able addresses con-
cerning the work that had been
done and the importance of
going forward with it.
Deschutes county
to get new nurse
To take the position for-
St. Charles Bend
in 1974.
merly held by Miss Margaret
Brems as public health nurse,
Miss Clara Clock has been as-
signed to this county, accord-
ing to a letter just received by
J.D. Donovan from Miss Helen
Hartley, acting state advisory
nurse.
Miss Clock is expected to
arrive in Bend before the end
of the week and Miss Hartley
intends to visit this city Sunday
or Monday to plan the organi-
zation work in connection with
installation of the new nurse.
75 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
Jan. 16, 1946
Three Bend soldiers
win awards
Bend’s Three Musketeers,
boys who fought together
from the sands of Africa to the
Alps of Europe and won pur-
ple hearts and other awards en
route, are back home, civilians
again They are Pte. Rolin H.
Thompson, bronze star and
purple heart winner, Pte. Byrl
Shellhart, purple heart and Pte.
Adelbert A. Skaggs, bronze star
and purple heart. Each of the
boys has four battle stars and
an arrowhead for participation
in the Riviera D-day invasion,
and Rolin and Adelbert shared
in a presidential unit citation.
Byrl was in an army hospital,
recovering from wounds when
his buddies won their bronze
stars.
Seven-room house in Bend
to be moved to new site
Steps to remove the house
at 239 Louisiana avenue, said
to have been built in 1910 or
1911, recalled today one of the
earliest real estate transactions
in Bend. The house, now the
property of Mrs. Ira Cram, is to
be moved to the southeast cor-
ner of Wall street and Georgia
avenue, where it will be remod-
eled as a home.
A perusal of the records of
the Deschutes Federal Savings
and Loan association today
showed that the property, lot
6 block 5, of the original Bend
townsite, belonged to the Pilot
Butte Development company
in 1905.
This company, with L.D.
Weist as vice president and
A. L. Goodwillie as secretary,
sold the lot on Nov. 7, 1905,
to John Bloss for the sum of
$350. It was reported that Bloss
erected the house of the lot
several years later. The builder,
on Oct. 6, 1914, sold the home
to Charles Bloss of Ashland
county, Wis.
On July 31, 1919, Charles
Bloss sold the property to S.E.
Morgan and his wife, Margue-
rite. This couple then trans-
ferred the title to Joseph J.
Klein on Oct. 3, 1925, and he
in turn sold to Elizabeth Read
on Nov. 19, 1929.
The most recent owner
before the purchase by Mrs.
Cram was Robert Hill of Bend.
The building is being moved
by Albert Wright, Bend Mov-
ing contractor, who estimates it
will take about a week to trans-
fer the structure up Louisiana
avenue to Wall street, and on to
its new location at the corner
of Georgia. Mrs. Cram has ob-
tained a $1,000 permit for the
building of a concrete founda-
tion on which the seven-room,
two story dwelling will rest.
Reason for removal of the
building is said to be plans of
the Bend Garage company,
which is buying the property,
for the construction of an an-
nex to its present building.
Central Oregon’s
turkeys get spot
Turkey raising as an indus-
try in Central Oregon, and a
picture of a large flock of the
birds on the Owens turkey
farm near here are featured in
the December issue of “The
Northwest,” publication of the
Northern Pacific railroad. The
publication reports that tur-
key growers around Bend and
Redmond raised in excess of
100,000 turkeys in 1945, add-
ing,
“The climate and soil con-
ditions are ideal and there are
other advantages which should
make turkey growing perma-
nent in that area.”
50 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
Jan. 16, 1971
St. Charles eyes new site —
plot east of Bend
A 68-acre plot east of Bend
in all probability will be the
site of the new St. Charles Me-
morial Hospital, Sister Kath-
ryn, hospital administrator,
said today. Preliminaries for
purchase of the property were
completed when an option
was exercised last night.
Under terms of the agree-
ment, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E.
Triplett will sell the property,
which is bounded by Neff and
Denser roads, for $74,500. The
purchase includes rights to 19
acres of water in the Central
Oregon Irrigation District.
“The decision to build is
still tentative,” Sister Kathryn
said. “The scales definitely
are tipping in that direction,
however, but a final report
by Steinle Associates of New
York, who have been making
an in-depth study, will be a de-
ciding factor.”
The option was to expire
on Jan. 15, and could not be
renewed, Sister Kathryn said.
For that reason, it was de-
cided to purchase the property,
which had been the front-run-
ner among several suggested
sites.
The purchase involves two
parcels: 65 acres at $60,000,
and three acres improved with
a house and other buildings at
$14,500.
The three sisters and a for-
mer president of the governing
board of the Sisters of St. Jo-
seph arrived Jan. 7 from Indi-
ana to view the property and
assist in making the decision.
The Indiana nursing order
owns the hospital, long located
north of Franklin Avenue on
Lava Road.
The option was exercised
on the recommendation of the
hospital’s lay advisory board,
the Central Oregon Hospital
Foundation, the medical staff’s
executive and hospital plan-
ning committees, and the ad-
ministration.
A long-range plan calls for
construction to begin some-
time in 1973, with 1975 as the
target date for occupancy.
The Portland architectural
firm of Skidmore, Owings and
Merrill has been engaged for
the project. Bertis Crawford
Rasco, project manager and
Bill Rouzie of the firm were
present for last night’s action,
as were John Steinle of the
New York hospital consult-
ing firm and Sheldon Martin,
West Coast manager.
Recommendations to ex-
ercise the option were made
preceding a luncheon meeting
of the boards and committees
yesterday. Some 35 persons,
including the four sisters from
Indiana were present.
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Fashion designer perfume
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25 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
Jan. 16, 1996
Developers move to next
phase of east-side project
Safeway’s done. What’s next?
Developers of The Forum
shopping center on Bend’s east
side aren’t revealing the names
of merchants. But they’re ap-
parently up to something.
Grading work began
Wednesday on a section of the
40-acre shopping center near
Purcell Boulevard in front
of Costco, said Mel Getz, co-
owner of The Forum.
In addition, developers have
submitted land-use plans for
five retail buildings and three
restaurants on the site.
In all, these buildings total
more than 80,200 square feet
and would essentially com-
plete the retail center at High-
way 20 and 27th Street.
“We’re not able to confirm
the names of things,” said Judy
Getz, co-owner of The Forum.
“we’re dealing with people on
all but one of the buildings,
but we don’t have signed leases
yet. These negotiations tend to
go back and forth.”
Negotiations must be get-
ting close with at least one
tenant — given that site work
got under way Wednesday.
“We promised a building for
this summer,” Mel Getz noted.
“If we don’t get started we
won’t get done.”
The Forum has been the
centerpiece for a surge of
commercial development on
Bend’s east side in the past
three years. The shopping cen-
ter already contains Costco
Wholesale, Ernst Home Cen-
ter and Safeway.
Costco purchased its site
outright and constructed its
own building. But other re-
tailers in The Forum are leas-
ing their structures from Getz
Properties, which appears to
be the plan for the proposed
new structures as well.
Buildings in coming phases
won’t be as large as Costco,
Ernst and Safeway. Land-use
plans call for a 31,350-square-
foot building in front of
Costco divided into two parts-
one 23,500 square feet and the
other 7,850 square feet.
The size of this building
alone indicates a fairly large
merchant. As a comparison,
United Furniture Warehouse,
which recently opened on
Bend’s east side, occupies only
18,000 square feet.
Other retail buildings in
Getz Properties land-use plan
include a 14,700-square-foot
structure in front of Ernst
Home Center’s parking lot,
and a 22,700-square foot
structure between Safeway and
Highway 20.
In addition, three restau-
rants sites line Highway 20.
On the west side of The Fo-
rum’s Highway 20 driveway,
plans call for a 2,700-square-
foot restaurant, a size typical of
fast-food outlets.
On the east side of the drive-
way, two larger restaurants are
planned, one 5,400 square feet
and one 6,000 square feet.
The time frame for con-
struction depends on when
lease agreements are signed.
Mel Getz wouldn’t speculate
on when negotiations with
prospective tenants might be
wrapped up. “It’s like trying to
call a home run,” he said.
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