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YESTERYEAR
Shevlin Park presented to city of Bend in 1921
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. 23, 1921
Shevlin Park presented
to city of Bend
Shevlin Memorial Park,
the gift of The Shevlin-Hixon
Company to the city of Bend,
is now formally recorded as
the property of the munici-
pality with the filling of the
deed, signed by F.P. Hixon as
president, and R.W. Wetmore
as secretary. The deed, with a
map of the property in Tumalo
canyon, more than 350 acres
in extent, was placed on record
with the county clerk by Mayor
E.D. Gilson.
The deed provides that the
tract shall always be known as
Shevlin park, and that it shall
always be used and maintained
by the city for park purposes,
and shall be open at all times as
a public playground. The right
is reserved by the donor to
cross the park, if this should be
necessary in future logging op-
erations, but is not considered
probable that such a necessity
may occur.
Fine follows booze charge
One hundred and fifty gal-
lons of corn mash, a still minus
the worm, and three gallons
of whiskey were found in the
George Taylor home in Hast-
ings addition late Saturday af-
ternoon, when Deputy Sheriff
August A. Anderson and State
Agent L.A. W. Nixon entered
the place, armed with a search
warrant. Taylor was surprised
in the act of transferring some
of the liquor to a neighbor’s
house.
Taylor pleaded guilty in jus-
tice court before Judge E.D.
Gilson to the charge of having
liquor in his possession and
paid a fine of $200.
An extra supply of moon-
shine and a quantity of used
mash, which Taylor had stored
in the basement of a house on
West Third street, owned by
G.L. Belden, was found the
same evening by Nixon and
Deputy George Stokoe.
Measles spreading in city
Nineteen cases of measles
are now under quarantine in
Bend, and it is possible that
there are other cases not re-
ported, due to the fact that no
physician has been called in
attendance, it was learned this
morning from the office of the
city physician. However, those
knowing the disease to exist in
their homes, and failing to re-
port the fact, are just as much
law violators as a physician
would be if he did not make
a statement of similar cases,
it was mentioned by Dr. C.A.
Fowler, city health officer.
That the quarantine regula-
tions are not fully understood,
and are consequently being
violated to some extent, was
the belief expressed last night
by H.E. Allen, chairman of the
health committee of the Bend
council. To prevent such pos-
sible misunderstandings, the
rules of limited quarantine
which the law prescribes for
measles, chicken-pox, mumps
and whooping cough were ex-
plained today by the city phy-
sician.
The limited quarantine
means that adults living in the
home may go to their work as
usual, providing they do not
enter the sick room, or come
into contact with articles of
food used in the treatment of
the patient. Children living in
the home who have acquired
immunity by having had the
disease are permitted to attend
school if they observe the same
rules.
75 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
Jan. 23, 1946
Bend skiers join in fun at bowl
Bend skiers from three
counties, Deschutes, Lane and
Benton, joined in a snowy re-
union at the Hoodoo ski bowl,
high in the Santiam Cascades
yesterday, and so spectators re-
port, just about stole the show,”
in presenting some skiing exhi-
bitions that amazed visitors.
The occasion for the re-
union was the designation of
the Bend Ski patrol to take
charges of safety at the bowl
Sunday. From the University of
Oregon came Gene Gillis. Phil
and Same Peoples reported
from Oregon State college.
Cliff Blann, Olaf Skjersaa, Jim
Parr and sterling McGarvey
were present form Bend.
The seven Bend skiers rode
their “slats” from timberline
to the bottom of the bowl, and
cut many slalom capers en
route. One of their most spec-
tacular feats was a descent on a
“seven man front.”
Incidentally, the Bend skiers
did not spend all their time in-
play. As a result of the group’s
careful preparation of the
course, the safety record was
the best of the season.
Hundreds of skiers used the
snow-blanketed bowl through
the day. Two inches of new
snow made the surface fast.
Aiding the “seven flying ski-
men” were other regular mem-
bers of the Bend patrol.
Flight inspectors
coming to Bend
Two inspectors for the U.S.
civil aeronautics administra-
tion will be in Bend on Jan.
29 for the purpose of giving
examinations for private and
commercial flying lessons, it
was reported here today. The
inspectors are Ed Leach and
Miles Ruggenberg of Portland,
and they plan to spend all that
day at the municipal airport, it
was announced.
A.J Tilse, airport manager,
said that a number of service-
men had been awaiting exam-
inations, and that if they would
communicate with him he
would advise them of the steps
Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin file
In a 2017 aerial photograph looking toward the east shows the nearly 330 acres that is planned to be added
to Shevlin Park near Bend’s water treatment facility and the Tree Farm development.
to be taken before the inspec-
tors arrive.
New legion post plans program
Members of the John L.
Chute post No. 162 depart-
ment of Oregon, will meet next
Monday night in the assem-
bly room at the courthouse, at
which time membership cards
are to be presented, it was an-
nounced today by Alva C.
Goodrich, commander. The
meeting is set for 7:30 o’clock,
and all members, as well as
veterans of world war II, were
urged to attend.
Commander Goodrich
pointed out that veterans not
yet members of the post may
become charter members by
attending this meeting, as such
membership will be issued un-
til the charter is received from
the national organization. Go-
odrich announced that the
new post now has 201 mem-
bers.
Formerly known as post No.
2 of Bend, the John L. Chute
post has now been given the
Oregon department number of
162. Bend’s other legion unit is
the Percy A. Stevens post No. 4.
HEADLINES: Seven hundred
thousand steelmen to strike
Monday — Communists make
bid for French power —
Records show ‘Desert Fox’
Rommel took poison —Radar
may reduce plane collision —
Mass grave holds bodies of
40,000 allied prisoners
50 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
Jan. 23, 1971
Mrs. Grubb crowned
Pioneer Queen
Ruling as queen of the
700-member Deschutes Pi-
oneers’ Association through
1971 will be Mrs. Ole W.
Grubb, crowned Queen Agnes
I at the annual winter meeting
and reunion Saturday. A din-
ner preceded the coronation
rites.
George Hostetler presided as
retiring president of the group.
Stanley Scott is the new pres-
ident, with Miss Carol Boyd
named vice president; Laura
Wonser, secretary; Edith Hol-
linshead, treasurer, and Mrs.
Del Mattson, museum trustee.
Hostetler continues on the
board of directors.
Activities of the association
this past year were centered on
establishing a pioneers’ mu-
seum. Formal opening will
take place this year.
Despite a cold driving rain,
a large group attended the din-
ner and coronation in the Pine
Forest Grange hall.
Identity of the new queen
was a secret until she was in-
troduced by Lowell Jensen. She
entered the hall wearing a pur-
ple robe. She was escorted by
Scott, and received a standing
ovation as she took her royal
chair on the stage. Seated in
front were six former queens,
Nora McMeen, Flossie Smith,
Isa Freeman, Florence Stout,
Viola Logan and Georgia
Thom. Three other ex-queens,
Belle Reed, Rose Gibson and
Minnie Helphrey, were not
able to attend.
The story of Queen Agnes I
was presented by Jensen. Fol-
lowing the coronation, the
stately queen, wearing her
crown, joined in a dance with
her husband an ex-member of
the Oregon State Legislature.
A native of Holmes City,
Douglas County, Minn., where
she was born Oct. 4, 1899,
Queen Agnes attended her
first school in Burke County,
North Dakota. With her older
sister, she walked three and a
half miles to school over roll-
ing prairie.
She recalls that North Da-
kota pioneers at times had to
resort to burning twisted hay
to keep from freezing to death
because of heavy storms that
blocked trails and roads. The
future pioneer queen helped
her father handle horses and
worked in the field.
In 1913, she met Ole Grubb.
They were married in 1917
following a four-year court-
ship. The young couple came
to Bend in 1920 with their
baby girl, Luella. A cabin at the
Shevlin-Hixon Camp II south
of Bend was their first home.
After leaving camp, they
lived for two years in the Bend
Amateur Athletic Club quar-
ters, now the Cascade Junior
High School gymnasium.
Eventually a home was pur-
chased in Bend, and later this
was traded for 80 acres north
of Bend.
Over the years, Queen Ag-
nes, mother of nine children,
served as foster mother for
165 children. The largest num-
ber cared for at one time was
11. Later Queen Agnes pro-
vided room and board for col-
lege students. Mr. and Mrs.
Grubb sold their ranch home
last August and now live in
a double-wide mobile home
on Highway 97. They have 21
grandchildren.
25 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
Jan. 23, 1996
Virtual professors
becoming a reality
In the beginning, learned
men and women passed
knowledge directly to others.
At some point soon after, those
others passed the knowledge
on to someone else during
their travels.
Such was the genesis of dis-
tance learning. Eventually,
teachings were written down
and shared more efficiently.
Postal delivery, the printing
press and libraries eventually
made possible correspondence
schools. As this century pro-
gressed, teachings were put on
audiotape and, later, videotape.
Today, there are live classes
via two-way teleconferencing.
Brought to you by the same
technology that entertains you
on television, teleconferenc-
ing gives a professor in Port-
land the potential to lecture to
students in Bend, La Grande
and Klamath Falls — all at the
same time. When signals go
both ways, it allows students
to interject comments or ask
questions of their professors,
just like they would in a regular
classroom.
Unlike a traditional learning
environment, however, “tech-
nical difficulties” do happen.
“With a power failure it be-
comes a wild scramble,” said
Jim Obert, coordinator of me-
dia operations at Central Ore-
gon Community College.
In seven years, the 37-year-
old Obert has gone from
carting televisions and VCRs
around campus to running
a control booth and depart-
ment that beams classes from
ground-floor classrooms in the
Boyle Education Center to sites
around the state.
The primary classroom next
to the technician’s booth has
three remote-controlled digital
video cameras, a computer that
professors use to make multi-
media presentations to classes,
and video screens that show
far-off students and the profes-
sor what’s happening at each
end of the transmission.
Inside the booth, comput-
erized joystick devices point
cameras where needed and
recording equipment makes
it possible for students who
can’t attend the session to see
and hear it later. “When I came
here, there were seven VCRs
for the campus- they were
fairly high-cost items then,”
Obert said. “We’ve made quite
a jump.”
As Obert’s job description
has changed with the times,
so has use of teleconferenc-
ing. In the 1991-92 school
year, COCC logged about 200
hours of teleconferencing. This
school year, the traffic is ex-
pected to top 1,000 hours.
Driving much of the growth
is the University Center
housed at COCC. The coali-
tion of eight four-year colleges
and universities offer many
of their classes via teleconfer-
ence or videotape from feeds
outside the region. This allows
students who live in Central
Oregon an opportunity to earn
degrees without leaving their
hometown.
Meetings also are held that
way, easing travel hassles for
agencies like the Oregon De-
partment of Transportation,
which has used the teleconfer-
encing center on several occa-
sions.
“More and more people are
realizing that traveling for two
days to and from a meeting is,
if nothing else, certainly costly,”
said Don Laws, dean of in-
struction at the school.
For COCC itself, the long-
term goal boils down to effi-
ciently getting courses out to
students. “We’re trying to get
our product off campus to the
rest of the district,” Laws said.
“We’d like to get credit offer-
ings to the outlying areas and
also to reach businesses.”
Although professors have to
make a few adjustments when
teaching in the classroom/stu-
dio, Laws said the college has
no plans to turn professors into
video stars.
“We’re not trying to replicate
the Discovery Channel,” Laws
said. “In effect we just want to
take our classroom and extend
it out.”
Laws said COCC’s focus is
on the goal of extending the
campus, not the pipeline that is
being taken to reach that goal.
“It’s the instruction that drives
the technology,” Laws said,
“not the technology that drives
the instruction.”
As technology changes, dif-
ferent methods of delivering
instruction almost certainly
will crop up. “We keep dis-
covering the future as we go
along,” Laws said.