100 years in the past
Farmer shot to avoid wasting his personal life, verdict
Ed Halvorsen, killer of William W. Garrett, was exonerated by a coroner’s jury this afternoon after a four-hour listening to. That Halvorsen was appearing in self-defense when he shot Garrett within the coronary heart at 10 p.m. Saturday on the Halvorsen ranch close to Bend was the decision of the jury.
With out emotion, Halvorsen, Garrett’s confessed killer, on the stand this afternoon, on the request of his legal professional, EO Stadter, informed the story of Garrett’s demise. Self-defense had required the act, he mentioned. Halvorsen, the one eyewitness to the tragedy, testified that Garrett had arrived at his house three miles from Bend round 10 p.m. Saturday evening and, after inviting him out and dying, had opened hearth with a pistol. computerized. Earlier than the sound of the final shot had died away, Halvorsen, firing from the half-open door, had pierced Garrett’s coronary heart with a bullet.
Garrett had threatened Halvorsen’s life six months in the past, the witness mentioned. Garrett had suspected that he had poisoned a cow, however later came upon that this was not true and apologized.
Automobiles make a journey to the highest of Pilot Butte
A Ford automobile outfitted with a six-speed transmission ought to have the consideration of being the primary to make the ascent of Pilot Butte, though the journey was not the official one meant for Fourth. On Monday evening about 7:30, JL Van Huffel and engineer Robert B. Gould made the journey, preparatory to the scheduled tour of the Room, to see if it may very well be performed, there being any doubt that a automobile might do it. . it is. They made it to the highest with no drawback.
On Tuesday morning at 7:30 sharp, Clyde P. Weittenhiller, proprietor of the Kenwood grocery retailer, arrived in his Ford supply automobile, accompanied by his spouse. No issues had been skilled, Weittenhiller reported.
The street is just not but secure to journey, based on Gould, as a result of it’s too slender for vehicles to move by way of, and it could be not possible to show round or return ought to two vehicles meet. A automobile went off the slope yesterday, however no injury was performed.
Faculties will drop topics
There’s a chance that 4 of final 12 months’s Bend Faculties departments won’t carry over into the following college 12 months, though a decided effort can be made, as a number of college board members indicated eventually evening’s assembly, to have guide coaching and residential science on this fall’s course of research. The abolition of those two departments, and along with music and bodily schooling, and the place of college nurse, was determined as a measure of financial system after the defeat of the final college finances.
Packed theaters for the annual giveaway
Each theaters had been packed final evening with individuals making the most of the annual free leisure provided by Supervisor JB Sparks. Streamers had been freely thrown into the Liberty through the second present.
75 years in the past
Two strikes threaten Bend over Fourth
Bend confronted two main strikes right now, on the eve of this metropolis’s Northwest Deschutes River Parade and 4th of July celebration.
A strike would name out most Culinary Alliance members in Bend eating places. The opposite would droop all Trailway bus operations at midnight tonight, apart from en-route buses, these to proceed to the closest break up factors.
Go away vehicles at house, ask police chief
Police Chief Ken C. Gulick right now requested that as many native individuals as doable stroll to the water concourse on Saturday evening, as a substitute of utilizing autos. “Earlier water pageants have resulted in extraordinarily extreme site visitors congestion within the Drake Park space,” Gulick mentioned, “and most metropolis residents inside an inexpensive distance will discover strolling to and from the present to be sooner and safer”.
All accessible officers can be assigned to site visitors duties within the contest space, Gulick mentioned. Automotive parking on Riverside Boulevard, which adjoins Drake Park, can be discouraged and drivers can be requested to make use of streets east of Riverside.
‘Flying saucer’ seen over Bend
“Alien craft” or flyers? This was the query dozens of Bend residents had been asking yesterday when brilliant disc-shaped objects appeared within the northwestern sky. Some had been positive it was the mysterious “saucers” reported in lots of components of the nation. Others insisted they had been airplane-dropped flyers.
Some observers mentioned they noticed each the drifting flyers and the “alien craft.”
Plentiful water for irrigation of agricultural crops
Central Oregon irrigators face the commonly dry mid-summer season with a considerable amount of water nonetheless saved in reservoirs and pure stream circulation remaining excessive, primarily because of an unusually chilly June, state officers report. district.
Crane Prairie Reservoir, a storage supply for a number of districts, continues to be poorly developed. The extent of Lake Crescent, a storage supply for the Tumalo district, stays excessive. Within the new Wickiup Reservoir there’s storage effectively in extra of the wants of the restricted acreage that has to date been ditched within the North Unit segregation of southern Jefferson County.
AE Perry, Deschutes Water Grasp, stories that the county’s irrigation scenario is great, because of comparatively low water use thus far.
50 years in the past
Gotta do higher than that, Clay Myers
BA “Duch” Stover swings wildly on a large pitch from Secretary of State Clay Myers at yesterday’s dedication of Bend’s new Dutch Stover Park on the East Pilot Butte Addition. Mayor Dick Gervais was the person behind the plate at catcher. A softball sport between the Bend Kiwanians and Rotarians adopted the opening ceremony. The park was collectively developed by the town and the Kiwanis Membership. It’s named in honor of Stover, a Kiwanian, in recognition of his a few years of supporting youth actions.
25 years in the past
In order for you a good TV sign in LaPine and rural southern Deschutes County, you’ve three choices: get cable, get a satellite tv for pc dish, or get Cliff, Will and Al. “There are quite a lot of older individuals right here than in the event that they did not have this TV , they might don’t have anything,” mentioned Cliff La Greide, an 81-year-old tv technician who works with Will Daughtry, 82, and Al Floyd. 65, to maintain LaPine TV Affiliation Inc., on the air.
Regardless of being the most cost effective and most lasting choice in South County, the corporate has misplaced a whole bunch of shoppers to newer video know-how. Nonetheless, LaPine TV hangs on and breaks even on a finances of $10,000 a 12 months because it nears its 40th anniversary subsequent 12 months.
Such longevity is kind of stunning, contemplating that LaPine TV operates on the consideration system. You possibly can’t actually get any of South County’s 22,000 residents to pay the $20 annual membership charge. They will catch the alerts, no matter whether or not they pay or not.
At one time about 1,000 individuals had been dues-paying members of the tv affiliation. However that was earlier than Prineville-based Crestview Cable wired LaPine, and earlier than satellite tv for pc dishes shrank in dimension and value, and grew in reputation.
“It is like a merry-go-round, bringing individuals collectively,” La Greide mentioned of one in every of his frequent forays to the highest of Finley Butte, simply east of LaPine, the place a 35-foot-wide receiving dish product of rooster wire and Phone poles herald indicators.
4 channels, Portland’s Fox, CBS and NBC stations and Eugene’s ABC station, are supplied by way of translators, which convert distant alerts into regionally accessible alerts. Bend’s NBC affiliate pays to place one in every of its transmitters in Finley Butte. Even the cable firm pays LaPine TV for the Portland alerts.
“If we’re off the air, they’re off the air,” La Greide mentioned. “We work very intently with them. Though they’re our opponents, they’ve helped us once we are in bother.” La Greide was a chief engineer for tv stations in Texas and Los Angeles earlier than spending 29 years at Jet Propulsion Laboratories in Pasadena, California. He is spent greater than a decade preserving the TV crew atop Finley and Spring Buttes, however he is able to go. to youthful individuals. “I do all my work there totally free; I needs to be making $35 an hour,” mentioned La Greide, whose spouse died a few years in the past. “He is telling me a bit. Winters are harsh. The three technicians aren’t the one volunteers. La Greide mentioned Midstate Electrical Cooperative staff have volunteered their time and gear for the antenna work. “Everybody thinks it is free, they arrive from the larger cities, you understand,” La Greide mentioned. He usually helps callers decide which antenna they should carry the alerts, which federal guidelines restrict to 10 watts of energy.
A while in the past, he mentioned, somebody broke into the gear constructing, ripped the door off and introduced an ax to the location, smashing a tv monitor and the translators, and likewise stealing La Greide’s instruments.
“The enjoyable half about it’s, after they took down all of the meters, we nonetheless had a picture up within the air after I acquired house,” he mentioned.
