100 Years Ago

June 26, 1924 — Golf course draws Sunday crowds

The first golf ever played in this section of the state was enjoyed by the enthusiasts of the game Sunday at the Martin Hansen ranch on the Metolius. The course is a six-hole course and apart from a little too long grass on the fairways, the course is in first class condition. The greens and fairways will be in much better condition next Sunday, according to those who are caring for the ground.

The golfers who played made some pretty good scores, being near enough to par, which is 24 for the six holes, to be content for the first time around the course.

75 Years Ago

June 23, 1949 — Big-time busters swarm to Sisters

Popularity of the Sisters show with the nation’s big-time cowhands is evident this week, with an unprecedented number of the best buckaroos in the country swarming there to take part in the rodeo Saturday and Sunday.

These bronc-busters, winners at all the largest shows in the country, will compete for big purses, $350 in the main events, with special prizes offered for the best all-around cowboy.

Already nearly 20 riders have checked in with Secretary-Treasurer Lewis Luckenbill. They include Jack Sherman of Klamath Falls, noted brone rider who took first money at Sisters last year; Pud Adair, famous bronc-buster from Wickenberg, Ariz., and Dan Poore of El Centro, Cal.

Prize Appaloosa Stallion Here

Northwest Redmond — Bringing with them their grand champion Appaloosa stallion, “Medicine Man,” Mr. and Mrs. Wallace E. Shields of San Jose, Cal, were here Tuesday night. The Shields, who were en route home from the All Appaloosa Horse show at Lewiston, Idaho, were overnight guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Eppenbaugh.

Medicine Man won grand champion in a class of 17 stallions brought to Lewiston from all over the United States and Canada.

50 Years Ago

June 26, 1974 — Post office braces for onrush of food stamp buyers Monday

Federal food stamps will be sold by the Redmond Post Office beginning July 1, says postmaster Lanny Fredrick.

Food stamps will be available from two or three counter lines, so marked, between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. These stations will also handle postal business as well.

The first counter station, staffed usually by Howard Massey, will transact only postal business throughout the day. From 8:30 to 10 a.m. and 3 to 5 p.m. daily the post office will dispense only postal business.

Normally the post office’s busiest days are the first four or five, the middle two or three and the last couple days each month. The post office handles 85-90 per cent of its month’s business during those periods.

The addition of food stamp sales obviously is going to increase counter activity, particularly during the first few days each month. Fredrick urges postal patrons to be aware of the increased traffic anticipated and to plan their post office business accordingly, where possible.

Fredrick last week attended a training session in Bend for postmasters in the 977 area conducted by Ed Spencer, manager of Salem Section Facility. Thirty of the 80 post offices in SSF will handle food stamps.

This week Fredrick relayed training instruction to Redmond clerks who will be selling food stamps: Paul Wolfe, Jerry Campbell and a new employee, Dan Marshall. Supervisor Dick King, when he returns from sick leave, and Fredrick also are authorized to sell food stamps.

Fredrick says two months ago it was estimated that Deschutes County would have 700 persons eligible to buy food stamps. The latest projection, he says, is 2,000. He expects Redmond may serve 200-400 persons a month.

However, Ralph Romans, supervisor of the public assistance unit for Deschutes County Welfare, Bend, said Tuesday morning that response to the widely broadcast appeal for application by potential eligibles has been very slight. To date only about 225 persons on public welfare assistance, and some 70 low-income applicants, had been certified as eligible for food stamps.

If there are indeed 2,000 eligible in the county he expects “it’s going to be pretty hairy around this office come first of July,” when the rush is on for sign-up.

25 Years Ago

June 23, 1999 — Local cowboys prove they’re best of best

Redmond seems to be a Cowboy kind of place with a local wrangler taking the state all-around title two years in a row.

Redmond’s Bobby Alexander won the title Sunday. Last year, Jerod McFarlane of Redmond won the state saddle bronc and team roping, and placed second in the cow cutting to win the all-around title.

This year McFarlane did himself one better.

Competing for Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, he won a national championship in the saddle bronc competition at the college National Finals Rodeo in Casper, Wyoming, June 14-19.

A freshman, he was competing against riders from four-year colleges from all over the country. The rodeo was sanctioned by the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association.

In state high school rodeo action, Levi Day pushed Bobby Alexander all the way to the state finals this year and has next year to anticipate his own title.

Police seek help to find missing Redmond man

The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office is seeking help from anyone who may know the whereabouts of Ron L. Nordstrom of Redmond.

Nordstrom, 47, was last seen June 9 riding a blue mountain bicycle in the vicinity of NE Yucca Ave. He was reported missing June 14.

Nordstrom is 5-foot-11, with brown hair, brown eyes and a small mustache. He has a small scar on his chin and a scar on his left hand. When last seen he was wearing blue jeans, a black ball cap with the name BASIC on it and a green University of Oregon sweatshirt. His bicycle may have duct tape on the seat springs.

Right now there is “not a thought” that anything bad has happened to Nordstrom, said Detective Bob Stone, but “it’s a concern” that he hasn’t been seen.

Nordstrom has never been gone for more than a couple of days and his only transportation is the bicycle, Stone said.

Anyone who knows where Nordstrom is or who may have seen him, is asked to call Stone at 388-0170 or 317-3115.