100 Years Ago

Nov. 20, 1924 — Missing issue…

75 Years Ago

Nov. 17, 1949 — Hot Rod Drivers Endanger Planes

Request to Get Off Runway Not Obeyed

Using a runway at Roberts field as a race track, two “hot rods” endangered air traffic and caused much confusion Sunday afternoon it was reported by Elmer Mulkins, chief pilot for Tilse-Bowman Air service.

The hot rods, one green and the other black, drove onto Runway 10, racing up and down the blacktop. Mulkins went out to warn the drivers telling them a United Mainliner was due to land very soon, and asking them to get their cars off the runway.

While the speedsters still were on Runway 10, United landed, using the other runway.

Mulkins, who was giving a passenger a plane ride, took off, and when he came back to land, noted that one hot rod had become stalled and the driver was trying to fix it — still on the runway. Getting the car started again about that time, the drivers, apparently unable to resist the 7000-foot runway, raced their hot rods on it once more.

Seeing Mulkins, they tried to drive in by United’s office, but he stopped them, informing them that it is a violation of airport regulation to drive a car on an airport runway without special permission.

State and city police were notified of the occurrence and of the danger resulting from the action of the hot-rod drivers.

“If those fellows want to go that fast, especially on an airport, they should put wings on those hot rods and get them off the ground,” Mulkins commented.

Broken beer bottles, a further hazard to aircraft, were found at one end of the main runway Wednesday by Al Tilse, airport manager. Tilse said that apparently someone had driven onto the runway at night and hurled the bottles on the blacktop.

James Foss, 72 Taken by Death

Terrebonne Rancher First Here in 1905

James A. Foss, who first came to Terrebonne in 1905, died Monday evening at his home following a lengthy illness.

Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock from Redmond Christian church, of which he was a member. Rev. O. W. Herbison officiated and interment was at the Terrebonne IOOF cemetery. Zacher mortuary made funeral arrangements.

Foss, who was 72, was born January 17, 1877, in Sullivan county, Missouri. He came to Oregon 65 years ago, the family settling near Athena. In 1905 he took up a homestead at Terrebonne, but worked near Athena for the next five years and returned in 1910 when irrigation water was available. He had lived on the home place, 160 acres, ever since that time, also owning another 360-acre farm in the Terrebonne country.

Foss is survived by his widow, Martha J.; a daughter, Marjorie Entrikin of Culver; son, Arthur Foss of Terrebonne, three stepchildren, Robert Williams of Fossil, Donald Williams of Seattle and Faye Gardner of Lebanon; a brother, John of Moro; two sisters, Mrs. Harvey Hill of Nampa, Idaho, and Mrs. George Sayles of Spokane, Wn., and 13 grandchildren.

Pall bearers at the funeral included Herbert Eby, Hulburt Beesley, George Fairfield, C. F. Peters, E. E. Burgess and Ed Davis of Prineville.

50 Years Ago

Nov. 20, 1974 — Dark horse write-in is Midstate director

Tim Tracy, who resides at 316 N.W. Georgia Ave. in Bend, became the dark horse winner of the at-large position on the Midstate Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Directors.

So obscure is information about the new director that Soil Conservation Service employees working out of Redmond were still trying to determine his identity on Monday.

Tracy, who polled 16 votes in the write-in contest, was declared winner after a review of write-in tabulations by the State Soil and Water Conservation Commission office in Salem, reported director Bud F.A. Svalberg.

Ken Huddle won the Zone 1 position, formerly held by Oswald Hanson, after it was determined that Huddle met land ownership and residence requirements for the post. Several other write-in candidates had earned more votes, but failed to qualify.

The Zone 4 position went to Ken Miltenberger, who outpolled all write-ins with 47 votes. That seat formerly was held by Allen Auzenne.

Central Electric plans rate hike after 34 years

Central Electric Cooperative will increase its rates for the first time in 34 years, as a result of Bonneville Power Administration’s 30 per cent hike, effective in January, to the co-op.

Sharing billing with that not unexpected news will be David A. Hamil, Rural Electrification Administrator from Washington D.C. He will address Central Electric members following the 11:30 am. luncheon.

Registration starts at 10:30 a.m., and the business meeting will convene at 1 p.m. Entertainment will be provided by Rodger Hall of Sisters and Alton Hemmingson of Bend.

Three directors will be running unopposed for re-election, W.A Buckner, Terrebonne and Lone Pine, Clifford Ray, Sisters, and Harold Siegenhagen, Agency Plains.

Hamil was nominated in 1969 by President Nixon as REA administrator under the US. Department of Agriculture In 1971 he assumed additional duties as the first governor of the Rural Telephone Bank

Hamil previously served as REA administrator under President Eisenhower from 1956 to 1981.

Hamil and his brother, Donald, are ranchers in Logan County, Colo, where their principal business is the fattening of cattle. They also produce sugar beets, alfalfa and corn.

During Hamil’s first tenure as REA administrator, nearly half a million rural consumers were added to the lines of REA financed electric systems, while telephone subscribers receiving new and improved service tripled.

Today, 300,000 new electric consumers are added each year. To meet requirements of growing telephone systems, a Rural Telephone Bank was established in 1991 to provide supplemental financing.

25 Years Ago

Nov. 17, 1999 — Finding the keys to secure children

It was like grade school all over again.

Clutching packets they were handed at the door of Lynch Elementary, 70 adults settled in the cafeteria, prepared to follow instructions.

Their first directive came from Melinda Ennes: On the blank piece of white paper in your folder, complete the following sentence:

“I want to live in a community where kids …”

Now walk around, showing everybody your paper and reading theirs.

This takes only a minute or two. Ennes wants to hear what people have written, and find some commonalities in what parents want for their kids.

Words like safe, valued, loved, respected — nurturing words, words that show support, care, empowerment, positive values.

Ennes, a Family Access Network advocate for Lynch and Vern Patrick elementary schools, was joined by Kari McCullough and Karen Fitzgerald from the Community Education Department of Central Oregon District Hospital, and by Jan Jorgensen-Churches, counselor and art teacher at Lynch, to present a free community forum on building developmental assets for children.

For the next 90 minutes, the audience participated in discussion and exercises to identify factors in young people’s lives that make them more likely to grow up healthy, caring and responsible.

The forum, called “Know Assets, Know Youth” was designed around a framework of research done by the Search Institute of Minneapolis, Minn., which developed the asset building initiative in use around the country.

McCullough said the Deschutes County Commission on Children and Families has made a 10-year commitment to support the asset-building program.

Last spring the City of Sisters surveyed sixth- through 12th-graders in its school district on their perceptions of assets and nurturing they receive from school, community and families.

On Nov. 4, about 18 Central Oregon middle- and high-school-age youth gathered in Bend for an afternoon of “Youth Speak Out.”

The Search Institute identified four categories of external assets and four of internal assets for a total of 40 ways to reach out to building blocks — children.

The four external categories of of time include such assets as positive communication, a caring school climate and parent involvement in schooling, safety and service in the community, positive peer influence, high expectations and positive role models.

The internal categories — commitment to learning, positive values, social competencies and positive identity include assets like motivation and achievement in school, integrity, responsibility and restraint, peaceful conflict resolution, personal power and self-esteem.

The audience at Lynch included parents and grandparents, a few middle- and high-school students, and several educators. They were invited to continue talking to colleagues, neighbors, church members — and to children — to focus on current challenges and opportunities to spread the asset-building message.

The whole village to raise a child concept is one the assets approach embraces. Change takes time, and additional public forums, continued training workshops, using consultants and possibly hiring someone to keep the focus are possibilities for the community to concentrate on.

McCullough said there are 35 “Assets Ambassadors” trained to speak to any public gathering, congregation, school or organization.

Information also is available at the support, empowerment, boundaries Commission for Children and Families’ and expectations, and constructive use office in Redmond.