C8 The BulleTin • Sunday, January 31, 2021
YESTERYEAR
Bend wins the National Clean-Up Contest in 1971
Compiled by the Deschutes
County Historical Society from
the achieved copies of The Bend
Bulletin at the Deschutes Histor-
ical Museum.
100 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
Jan. 30, 1921
New logging grade ended
Completion of a 15-mile
grade for a later extension of
the Brooks-Scanlon logging
railroad system has been made
this week, but there is a strong
likelihood that no steel will
be laid, except on the first two
miles, for at least a year, it is
stated.
The new grade taps the al-
ready existing line which
crosses The Dalles-Califor-
nia highway a few miles out
of Bend. It extends through
country which has as its chief
landmark the Arnold ice caves,
passing, in fact between two
of the caves. The construction
completed will make logging
possible from a greatly ex-
tended territory. Cost of laying
steel on the grade just finished
has not been computed. Anton
Aune was the contractor.
Head and hide of buck sold
For the use of the Red Cross
in alleviating suffering in Bend,
the head of the buck recently
seized by District Game War-
den Earl B. Houston brought
$119 when sold at auction at
the close of the home products
banquet at the gymnasium last
night. The venison was sold
last week for $44.90, the money
being devoted to the same use,
making a total of $163.90 for
charitable purposes. The last
bidder, C.S. Hudson, presented
his newly acquired property to
the Civic league. This organiza-
tion sold the head and hide to
the Emblem Club.
Last night’s auction was
conducted by Carl A. John-
son, who declared that the
“Holland” system of bidding
should be used. According to
this, each bidder, whether suc-
cessful or not, said “good-bye”
to his money after making
his offer. Bids were not neces-
sarily greater than preceding
ones, but the placing of any
bid, whether smaller or larger,
eliminated all earlier proposals
from consideration.
Mrs. V.A. Forbes, home ser-
vice secretary for the Red Cross
here, expressed the gratitude of
the organization to all individ-
uals and firms whose assistance
in disposing of the buck made
passible the substantial addi-
tions to the fund for charitable
work.
Honeymoon delayed 9 years
After closing out the stock
of the Warner store, Mr. and
Mrs. C.A. Warner will start
late in the spring on a honey-
moon trip nine years delayed.
They will visit relatives in the
East and Mr. Warner expects
to attend the annual six weeks
summer school merchandising
course in Chicago.
The closing out sale is now
under way and will probably
take about three months. The
eastern trip on which Mr. and
Mrs. Warner will start will take
as much longer, and after that
no definite plans have been
made. Mr. Warner hinted how-
ever, that he might reappear in
Bend next fall or winter.
Mr. Warner has been in busi-
ness in Bend for the past seven
years and his visit with relatives
in the East will be the first in
double that length of time.
11-11-11
An 11-pound boy, the 11th
to be born to Mr. and Mrs.
P.H. Cosner of Tumalo, arrived
at the home at 11 o’clock this
morning. Nine of the Cosner
children are living.
75 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
Jan. 30, 1946
Store building will be erected
J.L. Christoson, former
owner of the Westside tavern,
today obtained a building per-
mit for the erection of a $9,500
store building at the northwest
corner of Greenwood avenue
and Hill street. Construction
is to begin at once, with R.P.
Syverson, local contractor, in
charge, it was reported. George
Lynch holds the plumbing con-
tract.
The building will front 50
feet on Greenwood avenue, and
extend 80 feet on Hill street,
and is to be divided into two
sections to be used for store
purposes. The building will
also house living quarters.
Christoson said that the
building will be stuccoed on
the Greenwood avenue and
Hill streets sides, and will be
10 feet high with an arch-type
roof. There will be no base-
ment, but plans call for a fur-
nace room with oil heat for the
building.
Chipmunk finds travel
difficult in snow of park
Spring is just around the
corner, Charles Bishop, Bend
park gardener, announced
this morning, and in proof he
reached into the deep pocket
of his leather jacket and pulled
out a frisky and hungry chip-
munk.
The chipmunk was awak-
ened from its hibernation in
a stump in Shevlin park this
Supporting our community’s
most vulnerable families,
now more than ever.
morning, by woodcutters. It
jumped out of its “nest”, leaped
into the snow, failed to make
headway and gave up.
Bishop took the chipmunk to
his home at noon. “I will feed it,
and if Mrs. Bishop isn’t looking,
I’ll slip it into a bird cage, with a
canary”, Bishop confided.
2 new hydrants added
Through the installation of
two new fire hydrants, added
fire protection has been af-
forded two different sections of
Bend, it was reported today at
the fire station.
One of the new hydrants has
been installed at the northeast
corner of East Eighth street
and Norton avenue. This is
an extension of four blocks
from East Eighth and Quimby
streets. The other new hydrant
is located at the corner of West
Second street and Portland av-
enue.
Commission sells beaver pelts
Portland — Sale of 606 bea-
ver pelts by the Oregon state
game commission here recently
established a new record for
the fur that first attracted white
men to Oregon, the commis-
sion announced today.
After brisk bidding, the en-
tire lot of pelts went for a total
of $32,307.59, an average of
$53.40 per pelt. The highest
single bid for a blanket was $69.
Under the new plan of sale
price distribution, a third to
owner of the land on which
beaver trapped, a third to the
trapper and a third to the state,
landowners received $7565.19;
the Trappers $6549.39 and the
commission $18,192.61. It was
pointed out that many beavers
were taken from streams on
undeeded land and also many
were taken by regular employ-
ees of the commission.
Bidders for this crop of pelts
came from New York and Se-
attle as well as from within the
state.
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50 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
Jan. 30, 1971
Bend wins clean-up award
Bend’s extensive civic im-
provement activities in 1970
paid off handsomely today with
the announcement from Wash-
ington, D.C., that the city has
been named a first place winner
in the 1970 National Clean-Up
Contest.
In recognition of its achieve-
ments, Bend will be one of 10
trophy winners among cities of
under 25,000 population to be
honored at an awards ceremony
in Washington on Feb. 23. The
trophies will be presented by
Mrs. Richard M. Nixon.
The 10 winners were se-
lected from among hundreds
of entries from throughout the
United States.
Each city entering the con-
test was required to submit a
scrapbook showing evidence of
improvement activities during
1970. Bend’s entry, a giant two-
by-three-foot volume, was pre-
pared and submitted by the
Bend Parks and Recreation De-
partment.
Vince Genna, director of the
department, said he was “over-
whelmed” when informed of
the award today.
“It’s great. It shows the kind of
community spirit that made our
improvement and beautification
programs possible,” he said.
The scrapbook, which num-
bers some 70 pages, was filled
with evidence of many different
approaches taken by the city
in the field of civic betterment.
Among these Genna men-
tioned litter pickups by stu-
dents and townspeople, various
landscaping projects, efforts by
service and other civic groups,
Bend’s distinctive summer
flower basket program, juve-
nile work projects and park im-
provements.
Also shown, he said, were
“before” and “after” pictures of
problem areas that had been
removed as a result of coopera-
tive efforts by local groups and
persons.
Genna said he did not know
yet whether it will be possi-
ble to have a Bend representa-
tive at the awards program in
Washington. He said when the
scrapbook is returned it will
be placed on display and later
will be used for programs at
schools and in other ways that
will encourage the community
to continue its improvements
programs.
The award is the second time
in the past five years that Bend
has received national recogni-
tion involving the parks and
recreation department. In 1966,
the city received a Gold Medal
award for excellence in the field
of parks and recreation man-
agement.
25 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
Jan. 30, 1996
Youth club finds a home
The squatty, gray bus barn
at the corner of 11th Street and
Deschutes Avenue doesn’t look
like much.
Inside, it’s cold and dark.
Rusty wires hang from the wa-
ter-damaged ceiling and the few
windows it has are covered in
red and yellow paint or grime.
To some, the building might
look downright ugly. But to a
group of about 20 adults and
youngsters that old bus barn is
one of the most beautiful build-
ings in Redmond.
“It’s 4,000 square feet of pure
beauty,” said Laurel Variel, her
voice echoing in the building’s
concrete emptiness. Or at least
it will be once the new Boys and
Girls Club, which is also part
of the Redmond Community
Action Plan, sets up house in
the building this spring. That’s
when the group hopes to open
its new youth center, the first of
its kind in Redmond. But, be-
fore the club can open its doors,
it needs some cash — $250,000
to be exact.
The group figures it needs
that much to refurbish the old
bus barn into a youth center,
and have enough left over for a
two-year operating budget, in-
cluding salary for a full-time di-
rector, said Amy Cavallaro, the
organization’s president.
“We don’t want to constantly
fund raise to keep the doors
open,” Cavallaro said.
When finished, the
4,000-square-foot center will
feature a kitchen, game rooms,
activity center, computers and
room for 80 to 100 youths. All
activities will be supervised and
take place indoors.
The group hopes to gather
the $250,000 it needs from area
businesses and individuals, Ca-
vallaro said. Volunteers have
already removed walls and pre-
pared the building for renova-
tions. Area youths plan to make
sure the center becomes a real-
ity by doing some fund raising
of their own. Two dances are
planned at the middle schools,
which will benefit the center
and other projects are in the
works.
“It’s going to be a very im-
portant place for kids to go
— an everyday thing,” said
13-year-old Andy Lane.
And while $250,000 may
sound like a lot of money, it’s
not much compared to the cost
of the place many youths are
ending up today: jail.
“You know how much it costs
to incarcerate a kid for a year?
Fifty-thousand dollars,” Variel
said. “Boys and Girls Club spon-
sorship costs two-hundred-fifty
per kid.” And the actual cost for
youth membership is even less:
no more than $5 annually.