The BulleTin • Sunday, June 20, 2021 C7
YESTERYEAR
Garden of pot plants suffers in police lockup in 1971
Compiled by the Deschutes
County Historical Society from
the archived copies of The
Bulletin at the Deschutes His-
torical Museum
100 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
June 19, 1921
Fire alarm blows during drill,
teaching several lessons
Bend’s public spirited fire
fighting corps were yesterday
morning doing the city a valu-
able service in flowing Wall
street with two streams of wa-
ter from the pumper, a strictly
voluntary act, when the alarm
was sounded. Thereupon a
number of things occurred
which, the firemen say, taught
them several lessons.
All but one of the men hold-
ing one of the nozzles let go
and ran for the truck. Mean-
while the other crew had shut
off their nozzle, throwing 140
pounds of pressure on the lone
man and tearing the hose from
his grasp. The nozzle writhed
from one side of the street
to the other, but nobody was
struck. Engineer Houston soon
stopped the flow, and the en-
gine was quickly uncoupled
from the hydrant.
A fireman dashed into the
Windmill to learn over the
phone the location of the fire,
but could not for some reason.
The truck started for the fire
hall, there being told that J. B.
Heyburn’s house was burning.
A whirlwind run was made
back to Wall street and a line of
hose laid down Oregon, to find
not a trace of smoke.
The Heyburns had called the
fire station for a bonfire per-
mit, it was stated and the alarm
had been rung by mistake, it
developed later. However it
was noted that Chief Carlon
was exceedingly cool during
the whole affair and he is sus-
pected of leaving orders for an
alarm to test the speed of the
department under new con-
ditions.
Hereafter, the firemen state,
they will not leave the house
for a drill unless a fireman who
can drive the auxiliary truck
remains to answer alarms.
Lumber shipping and literal
horsepower increase at the mill
Twice as many thou-
sands of feet of lumber were
shipped during May by the
Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Co.
as was produced, according
to H. E. Allen, office manager.
The shipments amounted to
5,500,000 feet.
J. P. Hennessey, assistant
general manager for The
Shevlin-Hixon Company,
stated that the Bend mills are
doing a larger percentage of
business in proportion to their
capacity than any other mills
in the northwest pine district,
with a few possible exceptions.
Production is closer to annual
capacity, both in production
and shipping, than that of the
great majority of plants in the
northwest, he said.
Except for a few extensions
which may be built, the track-
age system for transporting
lumber in the Brooks-Scanlon
Lumber Co. yards has been
completed and is declared to
be a great improvement over
the old system. One horse now
does the work which formerly
required eight. Horses are to be
the permanent mode of power,
although electricity or gasoline
was considered.
75 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
June 19, 1946
Train engine rams through
roundhouse, leaving hole
A runaway railroad engine
crashed through the wall of
the roundhouse on Scott street
early this morning, taking out
a 30-foot section and finally
coming to rest at a precarious
angle halfway out of the build-
ing.
The engine was being ser-
viced by the crew on a track
leading into the roundhouse,
when a defective throttle set it
in motion.
Crews worked all day today
hoisting and jacking the engine
so track could be put under
the wheels. When this is done
the engine is to be pulled back
through the hole and into the
roundhouse. A crane from the
Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Com-
pany Inc., is helping with the
job. A heavier crane is on the
way from Wishram.
When the engine finally
came to rest its front end was
across a section of a “Y”, tying
up part of the Bend yards.
Record crowd at Sisters rodeo
Under damp skies, with low
clouds shrouding the nearby
Cascade peaks to their white
bases, Sisters presented its an-
nual rodeo this past weekend,
with attendance estimated at
the greatest in history. It was
reported that between 5,000
and 6,000 attended each per-
formance.
Many of the West’s most re-
nowned cowboys took part
in the events, vying with top
hands from stock ranches in
Central Oregon and all parts of
the state.
Among the most lively of
the contests was the wild horse
race, in which a local boy,
13-year-old Donald Currier,
won top money from a field of
men.
A light shower which fell
Sunday morning failed to
dampen the spirits of the hun-
gry patrons of the buckaroo
breakfast, who cleaned out the
mountains of supplies which
had been assembled to accom-
pany the buffalo steaks and
other cowboy specialties. Ver-
non Peck, chairman for the
breakfast, estimated 1,100 were
served before supplies were ex-
hausted.
Dog credited with saving
owners’ store
A small dog named Poodles
was credited with saving Hen-
ry’s Grocery store in Carroll
Acres from destruction by fire
early this morning.
At 2:10 a.m. Poodles barked
loudly when flames appeared
inside the store and awakened
the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil
Henry, in their quarters. Henry
called the Bend fire depart-
ment, which made a run to the
store and put out the fire. Had
the dog not noticed the fire
and awakened the owners, the
entire store and service station
probably would have been de-
stroyed.
Damage was confined to the
interior of the store with stock
suffering some from smoke
and water. Cause of the fire was
not determined.
50 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
June 19, 1971
Marijuana plants find climate,
cops too much
Sheriff Forrest C. Sholes and
his deputies are nursemaiding
24 potted marijuana plants.
They acquired the “garden” last
Friday when they uprooted the
plants in a yard on Riverfront
Street.
No arrest has been made yet
in connection with the finding.
The total city and county
garden of marijuana plants is
now 124. There are 100 plants
dying in the basement of city
hall, according to Bend Detec-
tive Jack Arney. Sholes said he
is watering his to keep them
alive as possible evidence. Still,
they are scrawny plants. Mari-
juana doesn’t grow well in Cen-
tral Oregon.
Arney said marijuana
grows easily in areas like the
tropics and Vietnam; “It just
takes a lot of heat and water
and no frost.”
It is because of the frost
that most marijuana grown
in Central Oregon need extra
care. Arney said all the mar-
ijuana plants police have col-
lected here have been found
in enclosed places, such as
greenhouses.
People here grow only “a
very small part” of what they
smoke, Arney said. This is be-
cause it is really more trouble
than it’s worth.
Arney said that it is easy to
buy the drug here, so there
isn’t much reason to bother to
grow it.
He said, “I’ve asked kids I
know are probably non-users,
if I gave them $10 how long
it would take them to get me
a lid. They say about 15 min-
utes.”
A lid is not a precise mea-
surement, but a selling unit.
It contains enough marijuana
for about 20 “joints” (mari-
juana cigarettes).
Besides the risk involved in
cultivating an outlawed plant,
he said the marijuana pro-
duced here is “a poor grade.”
The tallest single plant the
police have in custody is only
two feet high.
Mexican varieties have
been known to grow up to
eight feet tall.
Marijuana growers can
obtain seeds along with the
leaves they buy in a lid. Ar-
ney said pushers fill “baggies”
with leaves to sell it, and since
people purchase it by inex-
act amounts, the vendors add
bulk by including stems and
seeds.
“Marijuana is harvested
when it matures and blos-
soms,” Arney said. Then it
is dried and cured for future
use.
Burl Ives to highlight Bend’s
Fourth Of July
Folksinger Burl Ives will be a
feature attraction of the second
annual Old-Fashioned Fourth
of July Celebration sponsored
by the Bend Chamber of Com-
merce. Allan Crisler, chamber
manager, said he received con-
firmation this morning that
the popular entertainer will be
a member of a Johnny Horizon
Environmental Festival group
that will present a program in
Drake Park on the evening of
July 4.
In addition to Ives, the group
will also include Doc Severen-
son and his orchestra and Mar-
tha Radcliff, a young country
and western singer. Severenson
and his orchestra appear regu-
larly on Johnny Carson’s “To-
night Show.”
Crisler said there is also a
good chance that Ferlin Husky,
another popular country west-
ern singer, will be with the
group.
25 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
June 19, 1996
Hospitality hooks Hawaiian
hockey team stranded by crash
The Hawaiian state cham-
pion roller hockey team was
a long way from home Tues-
day afternoon when one of its
vans was struck broadside in a
high-speed collision near Sun-
river. But a host of nameless
Central Oregonians who went
out of their way to help made
the near tragedy into a reason
the team is planning to return
next year.
“The people here have been
the winning thing of this
whole trip,” said Hawaii coach
Todd Mayer Thursday eve-
ning after his squad beat the
Oregon state champion Bend
Bullets 3-0. “Everybody we’ve
met is super nice. Even the
people at the accident were
unbelievably nice.”
Jeffrey Bryant, 43, was cited
for failure to obey a stop sign
after allegedly pulling onto
Highway 97 from S. Century
Drive and into the path of a
southbound pickup, traveling
about 55 mph and driven by
Buddy Maguire, 31, of LaPine.
The force of the driver-side
impact sent the van 50 feet
and into a ditch and ejected
Bryant’s 14-year-old son, Ja-
son, who escaped with bad
scrapes and bruises. The acci-
dent occured at what is statis-
tically one of Central Oregon’s
most dangerous intersec-
tions. One of the persons who
stopped to help was a pastor
from LaPine who didn’t leave
his name.
The pastor learned that
part of the team, including the
coach, was already in Bend at
the roller hockey rink at Juni-
per Park. So he drove there to
tell Coach Mayer of the acci-
dent, and then gave him a ride
to St. Charles Medical Cen-
ter to be with his family and
players. He later returned to
the hospital to see if there was
anything else he could do.
Following Thursday’s fame
the two teams feasted on bar-
becue chicken and ribs sup-
plied by Butch Roberts, coach
of the Bullets and head of the
Central Oregon Roller Hockey
League. “It’s just one of those
things where you count your
blessings,” said Roberts of the
accident’s fortunate ending,
noting he hopes to meet up
with the Hawaiian team again
in St. Paul, Minn., in August
at the USA Hockey Inline Na-
tionals.
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