100 years ago

July 5, 1917 — Virgil G. Hinshaw, chairman of the National Committee of the Prohibition Party, issued a statement attacking President Wilson’s action in asking prohibition leaders not to delay passage of the food control bill by insisting retention of the provisions affecting the manufacture of beer and light wines. “”We undoubtedly would have had prohibition within 30 days,” said Mr. Hinshaw, “were it not for the interference of Woodrow Wilson coming to the rescue of the brewers in the final hour.” The senate contest over prohibition was complicated somewhat today when the agricultural committee endorsed Senator Gore’s substitute, stopping distillation of beverages and giving the president authority to suspend manufacture of beer and wines. The administration compromise of Senator Chamberlain was rejected by the committee.

75 years ago

June 25, 1942 — Execution of a lease to the United States of America on Roberts Air Field, Redmond Municipal Airport, was authorized Tuesday night by the city council. Unanimous roll call vote gave Mayor W. F. Hardison power to enter into the lease, requested by the government. The lease indicates all facilities and existing utility installations on the field, and right on ingress and egress over all existing roadways and rights of way in and from the field, and becomes effective as of June 1, 1942, ending June 30, 1943. Nominal rent of a dollar a year will be paid. Right of renewal from year to year for the duration of the “existing wars in which the government is involved” is included on the property is to be turned back to the city within six months thereafter.

50 years ago

June 29, 1967 — Thrills for spectators and contestants alike are promised by the Central Oregon Junior Championship Rodeo, featuring two all-new events and a record number of competitors Saturday and Sunday at Deschutes County Fair Grounds. Oregon’s oldest junior rodeo, which will get underway at 1 p.m. both days, will find senior division girls attempting to place a dab of paint within a 12-inch circle on a steer’s back. The girls will be riding full speed ahead and have the dob of paint on the end of an 18-inch long stick. The steers will get a 10-foot head start. Bulldogging, an accepted event in the RCA circuit rodeos for years will be in the senior boys’ division for the first time at Central Oregon’s Junior Rodeo. “As the boys get bigger and heavier each year, they are demanding this adult event,” Ralph McNulty explained.

25 years ago

June 24, 1992 — The wild west may live on in Redmond, but will gambling — or social gaming — continue? Tuesday night the city council examined Chief of Police Jim Carlton’s recommendation that the city rescind its “enabling” ordinance that allows social games at commercial establishments. Jack Konig, a long-time dealer at the 86 Corral Club, charged that Carlton “thinks he’s Wyatt Earp. But this isn’t Dodge City and he can’t run us out of town.” The issue of whether legal gaming or illegal gambling is taking place in Redmond has been simmering for a year. Carlton said that “Oregon gambling law is complicated in one way and simple in another.”In essence, gambling is illegal in Oregon and at the same time sanctioned by the state through the lottery and its related games. One of those exceptions is social games, which are not considered gambling under state law.