Barbara Scott in the Pinehurst Dairy Club purchased this registered heifer calf in 1938 using her $35 cash award from the Central Oregon Co-Operative Ceremony.

100 Years Ago

Oct. 5, 1922 — One shot gets entire flock of geese

J.O. Houk, the genial Ford dealer, has got it all over the rest of the local hunters, as he went out on the Redmond ranch last Friday afternoon and killed a whole flock of geese with one shot from his trusty blunderbuss.

He didn’t even leave one for seed. And if any of our readers doubt this story, we ask them to go to Mr. Houk and he will verify it. Irvin S. Cobb J. Fennimore Cooper may be long on bear and the like, but they can’t come to Redmond and get away with any big game stories, for our local hunters have got the goods to show them.

75 Years Ago

Oct. 9, 1947 — Field specimen his horse play

Theodore Tieman found an interesting specimen last week that smacked of horse play.

While working in the potato fields, Tieman, an employee at the George Hollister farm, uncovered a potato that had flourished with a bit around it. The tuber, doing things the hard way, had grown through the brittle ring and was wedged solidly against the bit.

50 Years Ago

Oct. 11, 1972 — ‘Redmond’ to vanish from outgoing mail

Effective next Monday, the traditional “Redmond” postmark will be missing on many letters mailed here as area mail processing goes into effect in the Bend Sectional Center Facility, announced Bend postmaster Russell L. Kiel.

The new technique calls for processing in Bend of all outgoing mail from Redmond, Prineville, Madras, Burns and Bend.

The postmark will read “United States Postal Service 977” along with the date and AM or PM.

25 Years Ago

Oct. 8, 1997 — Doctors, clergy debate state suicide law

An Oregon citizens’ initiative three years ago lead to voters approving a pioneering law that allows a doctor to comply with a terminally ill patient’s request for assistance in ending his or her life.

A court challenge has prevented the nations first physician-assisted suicide law from taking effect, though its passage spurred the medical profession to an unprecedented focus on care for the dying and treating their pain.

The 1997 legislator, rather than revising the existing law, decided the public should reconsider approval of physician-assisted suicide. Voters soon will receive mail in ballots for measure 51.

If passed, it would repeal measures 16, the 1994 law known as the “Death with Dignity” Act that legalized physician-assisted suicide.