THE BULLETIN • SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 2021 C7
YESTERYEAR
Old Mill timber site sees new beginning in 1996
Compiled by the Deschutes
County Historical Society from
the archived copies of The Bul-
letin at the Deschutes Historical
Museum
100 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
March 6, 1921
Early period design picked
Plans are being drawn, and
committee is working to secure
a site, for a wooden building,
of rustic design, the architec-
ture to conform with that of
the Norwegian period of sev-
eral centuries ago, to be used
as headquarters by Bend lodge,
Sons of Norway.
A fund is being set aside for
the purpose and it is hoped
that construction work will
be started in order to have the
building completed before win-
ter, according to R.H. Loved, a
member of the committee.
Arrangements are being
made by the lodge for the ob-
servance of May 17, upon
which date in 1905 Norway se-
cured her freedom.
Letter writers asked for help
Cooperation from all letter
writers of Bend, particularly
from the business and profes-
sional men of the city, is asked
by Postmaster W.H. Hudson in
connection with the campaign
inaugurated by the National
Federation of Postoffice Clerks
to distribute work in the office
more evenly over the working
day.
In the neighborhood of 7000
letters a day are sent out from
the Bend office daily, Mr. Hud-
son says and of these, more
than half are mailed between
the hours of 5 and 7 o’clock
in the evening. Practically the
same amount of east-bound
mail as that directed to western
points is sent out.
To eliminate the rush hour,
Mr. Hudson endorses the sug-
gestions made by the federa-
tion of clerks, chief of which is
the request to letter writers to
mail in the morning instead
of allowing the mail to pile
up during the entire day. An
hour’s delay in mailing, if this
delay comes at the rush period,
might result in a day’s delay in
delivery, it is pointed out. Fre-
quent depositing of mail matter
is suggested.
Price of gasoline
goes up one cent
The new state gasoline road
tax means one cent a gallon
more on purchases in barrel
lots, W.R. Speck, manager of
the Standard Oil company’s in-
terests here, announced today.
The company’s price now in ef-
fect is 36 1/2 cents.
The 158,000-gallon tank re-
cently installed here is being
filled, lacking only 18,000 gal-
lons of having reached its ca-
pacity, Mr. Speck states. It will
be full in another month. The
other tanks, bringing the total
storage facilities up to 217,000
gallons, are kept constantly
filled. There will be no gasoline
famine in Bend this summer,
Mr. Speck predicts.
Farmers ask big U.S. loan
Applications for federal farm
loans which have been held up
in Deschutes county pending a
decision by the Supreme Court
total at least $100,000, was the
estimate given today by H.C.
Ellis, secretary of the Deschutes
National Farm Loan associa-
tion. In his own organization
applications on file amount to
more than $24,000, and with
the applications made by mem-
bers of the four other associa-
tions in the county, will easily
pass the $100,000 mark.
Money will not be available
for 30 days, but at the end of
that time sufficient will be pro-
vided to take care of all applica-
tions already on file, according
to the latest information re-
ceived. New applications will be
handled in their turn.
75 YEARS AGO
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For the week ending
March 6, 1946
Parallel parking
plans approved
Parallel parking is coming to
Bend. Within two weeks, mo-
torists on Wall Street between
Greenwood and Franklin av-
enues, and on parts of the lat-
ter two thoroughfares will find
that they are to park alongside
the cubs instead of at the pres-
ent angle.
This announcement was
made today at the city hall as
street department employes
had almost finished the task
of removing the old parking
lines on Wall Street. As soon as
Greenwood and Franklin av-
enues have been made ready,
W.O. Widdows, in charge of the
sign division for the state high-
way department, will be noti-
fied and a state crew will mark
the streets for parallel parking.
In order to assist persons
unfamiliar with this type of
parking, City manager C.G. Re-
iter said that a brief period of
schooling will be given.
Reiter said that he did not
anticipate that drivers would
have much trouble parking
parallel, because this has been
in vogue for years in the resi-
dential districts and on Minne-
sota, Louisiana and Greenwood
avenues, Brooks street and
other downtown thorough-
fares.
Frenchman thanks Bend
woman for Red Cross gifts
As the second day of the
Deschutes county Red Cross
campaign got under way here
today, word came from France
telling of the French people’s
appreciation of the work of the
American Red Cross. This grat-
itude is expressed in a letter re-
ceived by Mrs. E.M. Thompson
from Monsieur and Madame
Marciano of Chateau Thierry.
It read:
“Dear Mistress — A nice
woolen stuff, you made up, has
been attributed by the French
Red Cross to an eight family
living in the Champagne, a
French province 100 kilometers
east of Paris, who thanks you
very much for your generosity.
“We looked on the map
for your country. We know
an American who lives in the
South Carolina just at the op-
posite of you.
We
hear
you.
“The Americans left us a
very good remembrance. We
owe them very much and be-
fore all the liberty.”
Mrs. Hemingway said that
what the Frenchman refers to is
material made here by the civil-
ian workers for the Deschutes
county chapter.
Hospital adopts Blue Cross plan
The St. Charles hospital
in Bend has become affili-
ated with the Blue Cross plan
of hospitalization, it was an-
nounced here today. Under the
affiliation, which numbers 86
member hospitals over the na-
tion, the hospital contracts to
treat members of families, em-
ployed groups or individuals at
a nominal monthly cost.
Persons interested in the
plan may obtain full informa-
tion at the hospital, or literature
may be procured through the
mail, according to Q.S. Nelson
and W.H. Shively, Portland rep-
resentatives of the organization
who are in the city this week in
connection with forming the
local office.
The Blue Cross plan, a non-
profit organization, was con-
ceived about 15 years ago by
a group of teachers at Baylor
university Dallas, Tex., and
now boasts a national enroll-
ment of 20 million subscrib-
ers, it was stated. Plans already
in operation permit residents
of 20 states to budget medical
and surgical, as well as hospital
costs on a convenient group ba-
sis, while future plans will like-
wise serve six additional states
before the end of 1946. Ala-
bama, Ohio and Virginia now
claim the most recently set up
medical organizations coordi-
nated with Blue Cross.
50 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
March 6, 1971
Twelve-month school year
study launched
Teachers in the Bend
school system have launched
a study into the feasibility of a
12-month school year.
Zola McDougall, co-chair-
man of a special steering com-
mittee, said “We’ve talked in ab-
stractions about such a plan for
several years. The Bend Educa-
tion Association felt it was time
for a study to see if it’s feasible.”
Members of the steering
committee are Gary Cruik-
shank, co-chairman with Miss
McDougall, and Orval Boyle,
Larry Davis, and James Ariail.
The committee was namd at a
general meeting of teachers in
Mid-February.
“We decided to take the four-
term approach,” Miss McDou-
gall said, “which would involve
dividing the school year into
four quarters of equal length.
A student would be required to
attend three of the four quar-
ters.”
The steering committee is
presently gathering informa-
tion from teachers at all schools
in the system to determine
their feelings about the four-
term proposal and how such a
plan could be implemented.
The steering committee is
scheduled to report on its find-
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blueprint, work will begin this
summer on $6 million to $9
million in improvements, in-
cluding two new pedestrian
bridges across the Deschutes
River, a paved River Walk trail,
three ponds and a temporary
outdoor amphitheater. The
work is slated for completion
by May of 1997.
“I think it’s going to be a de-
sign that fits in with the com-
munity and with the buildings
already down there,” said H.
Bruce Miller, a spokesman for
the developers. “The style of
architecture, with some modi-
fications, is going to be a pretty
close replica of mill architec-
ture.”
First phase plans call for a
riverfront plaza with clusters of
retail shops, restaurants, cafes,
offices and even second-floor
apartments. They also call for
an artisans design center, where
sculptors, woodworkers, metal
casters and other artists could
share work space with retailers.
A cluster of office buildings is
being considered near the High
Desert Beverage outlet as well.
Subsequent development de-
pends on demand. But in all,
the Phase 1 blueprint calls for
retail space which, when to-
taled together, would be equiv-
alent to Costco. Office space
would equal more than four
Bend Title buildings. Homes,
apartments and condos would
run 50,000 and 100,000 square
feet. Total Phase 1 costs could
reach $65 million and take 20
years to complete.
The Bend Planning Com-
mission must review the mas-
ter plan. Key issues include
road connections and traffic,
along with the riverside walk-
way, riverfront plaza and other
development close to the river’s
edge.
“The riparian areas, where
they exist, will be maintained
and in some cases enhanced,”
Miller said.
He said the developers won’t
put a “hard edge or curb” along
the river. “We’re looking for
something with a much more
natural feeling to it, which I
think is appropriate to Bend.”
25 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
March 6, 1996
A new beginning
for Old Mill site
When timber was the
lifeblood of Bend, the old
Brooks-Scanlon sawmill car-
ried the city’s economy on
its shoulders. It defined what
Bend was all about.
Time changes. Now Bend is
about tourism, shopping and
business services. But the old
Brooks-Scanlon sawmill site
hasn’t disappeared. In fact it’s
muscling up to become a key
player in the local economy
again.
River Bend Limited Partner-
ship, headed by Bend devel-
oper Bill Smith, submitted an
ambitious Phase 1 master plan
to city officials today for devel-
oping 50 acres of the 212-acre
sawmill site, now called The
Old Mill District at River Bend.
The master plan could have
sweeping implications. Many
speculate that The Old Mill
District will become a new
downtown, a focal point for
the city.
Bend city councilors last year
passed a new zoning law, called
the Mixed-Use Riverfront
Aone, specifically to regulate
development of the site.
“We believe this master plan
is in harmony with the letter
and spirit of Bend’s mixed-use
riverfront zone ordinance,”
Smith said. “It’s a design that’s
sensitive to the environment
and history of the site, and will
mesh and strengthen the fabric
of our downtown area.”
Developers don’t plan on
building the entire first phase
at once. But if the city okay the
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