THE BULLETIN • SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2021 C7
YESTERYEAR
New homes in Bend needed 100 years ago
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 13, 1921
Bend payroll in two months
nearly $200,000
From five leading Bend
industries, nearly $200,000
was put into circulation here
the first two months of the
new year, figures secured to-
day show. This despite de-
pressed industrial conditions.
The exact total of the payrolls
of the Shevlin-Hixon and
Brooks-Scanlon mills, the
Bend Juniper Products Co.,
the O.W. and Oregon Trunk
railroads, and the Bend Iron
Works, for the two months was
$186,505.55.
January total of $95,174.44
is in reality less than the appar-
ently smaller $91,331.11 of the
month just past. The fact that
wages are for the most part
on a day basis, with February
three days shorter than the first
month of the year, more than
accounts for the seeming dif-
ference. This gradual increase is
borne out by information that
plans are under way for greater
production in the near future.
Announcement to this effect
has already been made by The
Shevlin-Hixon Company, and
today it was learned that na
increase in output, and conse-
quent advance in total payroll,
might be expected shortly at
the plant of the Juniper Prod-
ucts Co.
New homes in Bend needed
That a healthy demand for
houses exists in Bend today is
the declaration of H.J. Overturf,
local representative of the West-
ern Building & Loan Co. which
now has more than a quarter of
a million dollars loaned on 152
buildings in Bend. Mr. Overturf
believes that the coming season
will see the erection of many
new homes, but that construc-
tion will be by the home owner,
with the speculative phase
noted last summer removed.
Plenty of money will be avail-
able for building from now on,
Mr. Overturf considers, as the
result of the recent Supreme
Court decision upholding the
constitutionality of the farm
loan act. While farm loans were
tied up unusual demands were
made on loan companies, but
the court decision will mean the
reduction of this excess burden.
New location for library secured
More centrally located head-
quarters for the Deschutes
county library have been se-
cured, it was announced last
night by Mrs. R.S. Dart of the
library board. A lease is being
secured from H.C. Ellis for the
use of the north storeroom in
his new brick building on Bend
near Minnesota, and between
April 1 and 10, the library will
be moved from its present loca-
tion in the gymnasium. Moving
will probably necessitate closing
the library for a day, but until
that time the usual hours will
be observed in the athletic club
building.
Although the library is to-
day one of the busiest places
in Bend, the members of the
board believe that in the new
location, on the edge of the bus-
iest business section of the city,
the number of subscribers will
grow rapidly and the institu-
tion’s service to city and county
will be greatly increased.
75 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
March 13, 1946
1 thousand seek nylons in Bend
Between 800 and 1,000 Cen-
tral Oregon women were in line
today for the nylons offered by
the Wetle store of Bend, with
the queue taking shape long
before opening time and still
in evidence long after the noon
hour today. Extending north on
Wall Street from the Wetle store
to Oregon avenue, the line dou-
bled back on itself.
Those who waited for hours
in the line passed the time in
various ways, with a number
taking the opportunity to catch
up on reading. In passing a
restaurant, various women had
cups of coffee, “on the run.”
Police for a time patrolled the
street, to provide entrance into
other stores, and at one time
an officer appeared and an-
nounced warningly, “All women
who have locked their children
in automobiles must call from
them at once.”
The line was orderly through
the morning and noon hour.
One woman fainted. Clerks in
the store felt the strain as the
day wore on. “The Oklahoma
land rush could never have
been like this,” one said.
ing which the road is to be hard
surfaced.
Because of the dangerous
conditions existing due to slides
of lava rock and cinders, Craw-
ford urged that motorists re-
frain from trying to drive to the
top of the butte. He said that
already cars have become stuck
in the soft and shifting cinders,
and it was with difficulty that
they have been extricated.
One of the tractors being
used on the work is of special
design, and is on a three week’s
test run. If found satisfactory,
additional tractors of this type
will be acquired by the forest
service for road work and in
the construction of fire breaks
through the timber, it was said.
Warm Springs opposing valley
authority
Madras — The Warm
Springs Indian council has for-
warded a resolution against a
Columbia valley authority to
the Oregon congressional dele-
gation, it was announced today.
The Indians expressed fear that
provisions of the measure, the
Mitchell bill, senate bill 1716,
would abrogate a treaty negoti-
ated by the confederated tribes
of Warm Springs Indians in
1855.
One section of the bill pro-
viding that “the corporation
may exercise any of its powers
under this act, including the
power of eminent domain, on
Indian lands, irrespective of the
manner in which title to such
lands is held.”
Park theater plan brings
protests
Bend City Parks and Recre-
ation Director Vince Genna,
confronted with opposition to
his plan for erecting an amphi-
theater in Shevlin Park, said
today he is “willing to give up
the project if public sentiment is
strong enough.”
But he still thinks the idea is a
good one.
Objections to the proposal
were expressed by Dwight B.
Newton and Phil Philbrook in
The Bulletin’s “Letters to the
Editor” column and by Mr. And
Mrs. Newton and Mrs. Mar-
ion Poor at a meeting of the
Parks and Recreation Depart-
ment advisory board this week.
A number of other local resi-
dents reportedly have joined in
a crusade to halt the project, on
the grounds the development
would mar the natural beauty of
the park and create traffic and
litter problems.
Members of the advisory
board, however are almost
unanimously in favor of the
theater. In a poll conducted by
The Bulletin, only one member,
Chester MacMillan, opposed
Work started on Lava butte road
Employing two tractors, De-
schutes national forest crews to-
day began the work of building
the new roadway to the top of
Lava butte, it was reported by
Ralph W. Crawford, supervisor
of the forest. He estimated that
it would require about a month
to complete the grading, follow-
the idea. He was unable to at-
tend the board meeting.
“What’s wrong with putting
it in Juniper Park?” MacMillan
asked. “It seems to me Shevlin
is too far from town (five miles)
for something of that nature.
Downtown, older people and
others who don’t drive cars
could enjoy it.”
Board Chairman Clarence
Bells said he thinks outdoor
theaters would be great at both
locations — but they would
serve different purposes.
“I would like to see Shevlin
preserved in its natural state
as much as anyone,” Bells said,
“But I think that increasing its
use would cut down on vandal-
ism. It isn’t used enough now to
justify a full-time caretaker and
maintenance man.”
Most members of the board
said they weren’t aware the proj-
ect was in the works until they
“read about it in the paper” last
week.
“The frightening thing is that
the board took the attitude that
it’s all settled.” Mrs. Poor com-
mented. “Are there other plans,
too, for making Shevlin just
another manicured park? We
have plenty of those in the city
— and they’re lovely — but too
much development in Shevlin
could unbalance the ecology.
We don’t want to crowd out the
birds and wild animals.”
50 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
March 13,1971
Headlines: Frazier drops Clay in
15th win decision — Paris riots
leave 73 policeman hurt —
Scientists seek 5 year nuclear
power plant ban — Ladies
enter sky marshal service
25 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
March 13, 1996
Area wins ‘Tree City’ awards
Bend, Madras, and Sunriver
are among 27 cities to receive
“Tree City USA” designation
for 1995, the Oregon Depart-
ment of Forestry announced on
Friday
The national award program,
sponsored by the National Ar-
bor Day Foundation, recognizes
cities and towns that have ad-
opted community forestry pro-
grams. More than 2,000 cities
nationwide are being awarded
Tree City USA status for 1995.
Eight of the 27 cities, includ-
ing Madras, also are receiving a
special “Growth Award,” a rec-
ognition the cities can earn by
developing innovative projects
that improve their community
forestry programs.
To obtain Tree City USA sta-
tus, a community must adopt a
tree ordinance, appoint a board
or department to advise the city
on tree issues, spend $2 per resi-
dent on community forestry ac-
tivities, and hold an Arbor Day
celebration. Arbor Week is des-
ignated as April 7-13 in Oregon.
As the program marks its
20th anniversary, Salem is one
of 17 cities nationwide to win the
honor for the 20th straight year.
Market affects forest health
A year ago, timber compa-
nies were competing fiercely for
logs that once were considered
rubbish.
The price of chips used to
make paper pulp and parti-
cle board, as well as for fueling
boilers, had climbed to an all-
time high. Some outfits were
even chipping trees that could
have been used for lumber.
All that has changed. The
chip market has nearly col-
lapsed, with prices falling from
a high of about $170 per “bone
dry unit” last summer to $100
to $125 now. “It’s less than what
we can ship for,” said Tucker
Williamson, a forester for Wil-
lamette Industries in Bend.
The low prices could be a
limiting factor in how much
work the U.S. Forest Service can
do to improve forest health in
the Metolius Basin, or anywhere
else. USFS officials have said
more than half the trees that
would be logged in the Metolius
drainage may be good only for
chips because the wood there is
so decayed.
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