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Thousands join in Jefferson fete welcoming
Deschutes water to North Project in 1946
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
May 22, 1921
Fast time is made with car
Returning from Portland, a
car driven by T.H. Foley made
the distance from Terrebonne
to Bend in 45 minutes, accord-
ing to Tom Beasley, who made
the trip. The Dalles-California
highway, which was the route
followed, was in excellent con-
dition, Beasley stated, making
possible the fast time. The dis-
tance is 24 miles, according to
the state highway official map.
The travelers left Terrebonne
at 5:55 in the evening, reaching
Bend at 6:40 o’clock. No sign of
the alleged soft spots and faulty
construction was seen, Beas-
ley stated. Through Jefferson
county the road was good, as
a rule, but there is one stretch
where the road is covered with
crushed rock which has not
been rolled, making travel dif-
ficult, Beasley reported. This
extends from Madras to south
of Metolius. The part that is
finished was the best road en-
countered, he said. Thigh grade
was the only really bad road
seen.
New York Tribune
uses Bend photo
One of the best known pic-
tures of the Deschutes river,
one taken more than a decade
ago at Benham Falls, showing
Frank Robertson standing on
a rock overhanging the river, a
fish spear poised in his hands,
made its appearance in the art
section of the New York Tri-
bune of last Sunday. Robert-
son left Central Oregon several
years ago.
Northern Lights
illumine heavens
For the first time in a year,
the aurora borealis was seen in
Central Oregon Saturday night,
and reports from Portland in-
dicate that the phenomenon
was generally visible in Oregon.
The aurora was first noticed
about 10 o’clock, and lasted for
more than half an hour.
Streamers of pale light hung
in a canopy from an open space
near the center of the heavens.
The light wavered, at times
dimming the stars, and fre-
quently changing in color. The
chief variation came when a
rosy pink glow, starting in the
open space — apparently the
source of light — traveled along
the streamers and tinted the
entire sky. Faint flashes came at
times, but the crackling sound
often attending the aurora was
not heard.
Four records are smashed;
Redmond wins
Four records were broken
Saturday in the high school
track and field events of the
Central Oregon School day.
Marks made in all events were
good. Redmond carried off the
track meet, with 56 points to
38 for Madras, 18 for Prineville
and 10 for Bend. Burns entered
a team but did not place. A re-
cord crowd witnessed the meet.
Redmond’s victory in track
and field sports is the fourth
that school has won during the
nine years that the tri-county
meet has been held.
The individual point victory
was won by R. Young of ma-
dras, with 29 points to 25 for
Gillette of Redmond, his near-
est competitor. Gillette broke
two records to Young’s one.
75 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
May 22, 1946
4 tulips bloom on one
stalk in Bend garden
Tulips, which normally pro-
duce one flower on a stately
stalk, are just a bit different this
year in the garden of Mr. And
Mrs. Frank Perceval, 432 Lava
road. One stem produced four
fine blooms, each branching
from the main stalk. the four
red blooms were of normal
size.
Earlier in the year, Mrs. Per-
ceval found a tulip in her gar-
den with three blooms on one
stalk. Possibility that the tulips
may be an aberrant type that
have commercial value was
considered by Perceval. The
four-bloom plant grew from a
bulb that also flowered last year.
Portland float plans drawn
Plans are now being drawn
up for the Bend float to be en-
tered in the Portland Rose fes-
tival June 5 to 9, according to
Wilfred Jossy, chairman of the
chamber of commerce com-
mittee in charge of the entry.
The float will be built around
a floral model of the Three
Sisters and will have “Central
Oregon Vacationland” as its
theme. “Bend, Gateway to the
Oregon Cascades” will be let-
tered in flowers at the top of
the float and the front and back
will have the word “Bend.” Four
local girls will be chosen to ride
the float in the parade, with ap-
propriate costumes to designate
hunting, riding, fishing, and
skiing.
Thousands join in Jefferson
fete welcoming Deschutes
water to North Project
MADRAS — Water soaked
into new ditches and spread
over fields of the North Unit
project today as this Central
Oregon town attempted to get
back to normal following Sat-
urday’s water fete, attended by
some 8,000 people. Highlight-
ing the fete was the ceremony
on the pioneer George Rod-
man ranch, just south of Cul-
ver, in which Deschutes water,
moved more than 100 miles in
a river channel and a winding
canal, was released into lateral
M-41, then diverted into a farm
ditch.
As the water was turned
into the lateral a cheer went up
from the huge crowd, spread
over acres of still dusty land.
Goodrich W. Lineweaver and
Clyde H. Spencer of the United
States bureau of reclamation
turned the wheels that lifted
the gate on lateral M-41, then
S.D. Anderson, representing
the settlers, lifted the gate that
released the flow into Rodman
ditch. Newsreel men recorded
the event, and the Mutual-Don
Lee radio network of 22 sta-
tions carried the program over
the northwest.
“Water has at long last come
to the North Unit of the De-
schutes project,” Governor
Snell said. “It brings to a climax
many years of struggle and ef-
fort. Today marks the begin-
ning of a transformation of a
vast area of Central Oregon’s
dry and arid land into a garden
spot of rich agricultural pro-
ductivity.”
50 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
May 22, 1971
Hardy loggers, spectators
have a ball
Loggers are traditionally
bearded six-footers who are
oblivious to the weather. At Sat-
urday’s Central Oregon Tim-
ber Carnival in Prineville, the
tall wood-choppers lived up to
their reputation but the specta-
tors outshone the limb clippers
in toughness. Four hundred
spectators made it through the
dusty windstorm to observe the
team hand bucking competi-
tion, which led off the events,
and most were still on hand for
the presentation of the trophies
at 5 p.m., four hours later.
Mike Prinika of Pine Prod-
ucts, who served as field direc-
tor, believed the program, held
for the first time this year, suf-
fered from a lack of planning.
“Holding the registration
during the competition resulted
in confusion, but next year
we’ll start planning it sooner,”
he said.
The crowd apparently did
not notice the confusion and
quickly divided into cheering
sections for their respective fa-
vorites.
Bob Waibel from Sweet
Home and Mike Forrester of
Idleyld Park looked the log-
ger type, complete with bushy
beards, and attracted their
share of followers.
The underdog favorite,
however, was Curt Demaris
from Prineville. Demaris,
four inches shorter than most
of the field, light haired and
beardless, took on hero statues
when he battled the big boys
in every event and won one,
the power-bucking event.
Waibel won the chipping
contest and finished in the top
three in all of the men’s events
to take the all-around logger
trophy.
Forrester won the hand-
bucking and axe-throwing
contests and was the run-
ner-up for the all-around log-
ger award.
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25 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
May 22, 1996
Crown Pacific buys
timberlands east of Cascades;
timber to go to regional mills
Crown Pacific Partners has
bought 207,000 acres of tim-
berlands in Oregon and Wash-
ington from Willamette Indus-
tries for $205 million.
The purchase includes
124,000 acres in Central and
Eastern Oregon and 83,000
acres on the Olympic Pen-
insula of Washington, said
Crown Pacific spokesman
Fletcher Chamberlin. The pur-
chase brings Crown Pacific’s
holdings to 738,000 acres of
timberland in Oregon, Wash-
ington, Idaho and Montana.
Chamberlin refused to di-
vulge how much federal tim-
ber Crown Pacific buys, but
acknowledged that the timber-
lands will increase the compa-
ny’s self-sufficiency at a time
when a federal timber supplies
are low due to environmental
concerns.
Started in 1988, Crown Pa-
cific operates eight mills. The
Oregon timber will go to mills
in Prineville and Gilchrist and
the Washington timber will go
on the log market, Chamber-
lin said. The timberlands were
among the 1.1 million acres
Willamette Industries had ac-
quired recently from Caven-
ham Forest Products.
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