THE BULLETIN • SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2021 C7
YESTERYEAR
Gambling in Deschutes County is banned in 1946
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
Feb. 5, 1921
Famous hound lives,
obituary premature
Sportsmen and dog lovers
who have grieved in silence
ever since the account of the
death of Bounce, famous bear
hound, was published in a lo-
cal paper early in December,
may dry their tears. Bounce is
not dead, declares the owner of
the hound, W.P. Vandevert, in
Bend from his ranch on the La
Pine road. It isn’t a case of res-
urrection; Bounce never died,
Mr. Vandevert says.
A supposedly cancerous
growth in the mouth prevented
the dog from eating, and Mr.
Vandevert sent in to Bend for
some chloroform. That was
Bounce’s nearest approach to
death. Before using the anes-
thetic, Mr. Vandevert decided
to try forced feeding. It worked,
the tumor dried up, the chlo-
roform was put on the shelf,
and now Bounce is looking for
more bears to conquer.
Six-year-old makes
long journey alone
A seasoned traveler arrived
in Bend last night in the per-
son of six-year-old Leonard
Adcock, who made the trip
alone from his home in Ranger,
Texas. The youngster left
Ranger last Wednesday night,
coming by way of Denver, Salt
Lake and Ogden, arriving at
The Dalles Tuesday morning,
leaving in the afternoon for
Bend.
He was met at the station
here by his uncle, E.C. Eberly
of the Fair store, with whom he
will make his home.
New boilers placed
at Shevlin plant
The last boiler of five being
installed at the Shevlin-Hixon
plant was hoisted into place this
morning and work has com-
mence bricking in the ovens. It
is expected that the new boilers
will be ready for use in 20 days.
Changes made at mill plant
The Brooks-Scanlon Lum-
ber Co. has taken advantage of
the recent shutdown by mak-
ing several improvements in
the electrical equipment of the
plant.
Noticeable among these is
the changing over of the 220-
volt motors, used in operat-
ing the resaws and other small
machines, to 440-volt capacity,
which will enable them to give
better service than formerly
and will also allow for the quick
changing from one to another
should any of the motors burn
out or be put out of commis-
sion in any other way.
The work was in charge of
F.E. Bechtold of the Skeen Elec-
trical works, Portland. Electri-
cians are also engaged in re-
pairing all broken wiring and
replacing temporary fittings
with permanent ones.
75 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
Feb. 6, 1946
All gambling in Deschutes
is under ban
In a quick and unheralded
move authorities last night
clamped a lid on all forms of
gambling in Deschutes county.
Not only did the police order
affect so-called men’s resorts,
but all clubs and fraternal orga-
nizations with club licenses, it
was reported.
Slot machines, amusement
devices suspected of “payoffs”
and card games were banned
in the order. Revelation that the
games of chance were halted
came today after The Bulletin
received an anonymous tele-
phone call late yesterday from
a man inquiring: “is it true that
all gambling is closed in De-
schutes county?”
Advised of this query to-
day, City manager C.G. Reiter
said that “everything is closed
in Bend, including the clubs,”
and when asked why, he added:
“Because they were gambling.”
Reiter then said that chief of
Police Ken C. Gulick late yes-
terday summoned all operators
in the city to the city hall, and
gave them “their orders.”
Meantime, today it was
learned that Sheriff Claude L.
McCauley took similar steps in
the county area, halting games
at Sisters and Redmond and at
outside clubs. It was reported
from one source that the action
was prompted in the county
because one devotee of cards
had lost $3,500 in the past eight
months from his earnings as a
truck gardner.
Mrs. Goodwillie writes to Bend
City manager C.G Reiter
today was in receipt of a letter
from Mrs. Arthur L. Goodwil-
lie, wife of the first mayor of
Bend, enclosing a newspaper
clipping of mr. Goodwillie’s re-
cent death in Charlottesville,
Va., Mrs. Goodwillie wrote that
the early day mayor had often
spoken of Bend and expressed
the wish to revisit “his city.”
Reiter said that he planned
to acknowledge the letter, and
send Mrs. Goodwillie a copy of
The Bulletin carrying the story
of the first mayor’s death.
Homes in Bend being tagged;
mystery is finally cleared
Homes of Bend were being
tagged this week, but not for
over parking. The tags, it ap-
pears, are being attached to ga-
rages, in some cases — not cars.
They also are being found on
fences, gates, clothes-line posts
and back porches.
All this week the bright red
tags were sources of mystery,
and also sources of many ru-
mors. New street surveys are
under way, believed some res-
idents. The neighbors must be
quarantined, decided many
whose premises were skipped.
“Our property is being set aside
as possible location for indus-
trial sites,” said others. The ex-
tremists suspected their houses
were marked because they were
push-overs for sales talk, or be-
cause they were ear-marked for
looting by a gang of thieves.
The more conservative
thought they were on the itin-
erary of a Gallup reporter.
Others were completely con-
founded and offered no expla-
nation. “they’re red and white,
probably some new-fangled
Valentine,” said one.
Gradually, the secret became
known. In first one section
of the city and then another,
an alert resident would see a
strange ceremony after their
garbage had been collected by
a local contractor. The business
recently changed hands, and
the new owners were marking
their customers with the assis-
tance of the former manager.
50 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
Feb. 6, 1971
Prefontaine Oregon’s
best — Athlete of the Year
PORTLAND — Steve Pre-
fontaine, 19-year-old sopho-
more distance runner from the
University of Oregon, Monday
night was named Oregon’s Am-
ateur Athlete of the year at the
23rd annual Bill Hayward Ban-
quet of Champions in Portland.
Prefontaine, who a year ago
as a freshman won the NCAA
three-mile run, won the NCAA
cross-country championship
last fall. He is a native of Coos
Bay.
Prefontaine succeeds Jess
Lewis, Oregon State wrestler,
who won the award last year
and also was one of nine final-
ists this year.
Warm Springs project started
Work has started on the new
$4.3 million Kah-nee-ta lodge
and convention center to be lo-
cated 1 mile east of the present
Kah-nee-ta resort. The project
will be completed by summer
of 1972. Breaking ground in
ceremonies recently were Grant
Waheneka, chairman of the
tribal council, and Ed Manion,
manager of the resort.
HEADLINES: Apollo 14 speeding
on course; defects threaten
moon landing — Soviets claim
South Vietnamese invading
Laos — Ground hog takes peak
scampers back into hole —
Oregon unemployment reaches
10-year high
25 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
Feb. 6, 1996
Dry Canyon plans take shape
REDMOND — The people
have spoken, the designer has
listened, and now it’s just a mat-
ter of time — and money, of
course — before a plan is devel-
oped for a community park in
the central Dry Canyon.
“I think we’ve finally come
around to where it’s acceptable
to start planning and dreaming
for this community park,” said
Canyon Development Com-
mittee member Carrie Cara-
mella. “It’s going to be really ex-
citing for Redmond.”
Caramella and a group of
about 14 others were on hand
this past week for a meeting
with park plan designer Hal
Beighley, who drew up the
original canyon plans. Beighley
took comments from a public
forum in which residents gave
suggestions for the park.
Caramella said Beighley
should be back with a working
plan in about a month. He will
coordinate his plan with an-
other plan for a 10-foot-wide
paved bike path that is also in
the works for the canyon. From
there, the plan will be circu-
lated around for more public
comment before a final plan is
drawn up, Caramella said.
“He’s going to get it into de-
tail enough so that local organi-
zations can say this is what they
want and this is how it’s going
to look,” Caramella said.
Whatever Beighley comes
up with, the park, which is to
be located in the same general
area as Sam Johnson Park, will
focus on mixed and multi-use
areas. For instance, rather than
ball fields, the park would have
open space that can be used
as ball fields, Caramella said.
“We’d like to have a place for
everyone to go,” she said. “But
we are still in the dreaming
stage.”
Already, the Kiwanis have
expressed interest in building
a covered picnic area or pavil-
ion. Camramella and others
hope the park plans will inspire
other groups to take on similar
projects.
Once the plan is ready, she
said it will also be easier to get
state and federal grants to fund
the park development.
“One obstacle is just getting
more people involved,” Car-
amella said. “It’s still going to
take a real community effort to
get what we want in there.
Although little has happened
the way of development so far,
the city has steadily been ac-
quiring land in the north end. It
purchased about 58 acres from
St. Thomas Catholic Church in
1994 and another 26 acres from
Nations eyes Oregon’s
Vote-By-Mail
Oregon’s trail-blazing vote-
by-mail special election for
the U.S. Senate was the envy
of elections officials struggling
to hold down costs and boost
voter turnouts.
“When you see results of a
special election in the middle of
winter at 60 percent, how can
you be against that?” Minne-
sota Deputy Secretary of State
Elaine Voss said Wednesday.
“We have a special election
next Tuesday, and we know our
turnout will be very low, espe-
cially with our weather situa-
tion the way it is.”
“I suspect this is the open-
ing of the door,” Montana Sec-
retary of state Mike Cooney
said. “Barring some unforeseen
problems that call into question
the integrity of the process, I
suspect this will be examined
very closely and possibly ex-
panded into other states.”
The 65.8 percent turnout in
Tuesday’s election of Democrat
Ron Wyden to fill the U.S. Sen-
ate seat vacated by Bob Pack-
wood was a record for a special
election in Oregon. The state
figured it saved $500,000 from
the normal $1 million cost of
holding an election by elimi-
nating polling places.
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