100 Years Ago

Oct. 23, 1924

75 Years Ago

Oct. 20, 1949 — Low-Rent Homes Seen Possible

Nick Denton Points Way to Solution Of Redmond Problem

Low-rental federal housing units as a solution to the perpetually desperate Redmond housing problem were suggested Tuesday by Nick Denton to the chamber of commerce.

These federal units, he said, are managed by a board of local citizens, can be built by local contractors, and are financed by federally-guaranteed bonds that can be sold locally.

There is nothing temporary or makeshift about these homes, Denton said. He has recently inspected several large federal developments in Seattle, Portland, Salem and Eugene. He said the dwellings were easily in a class with those costing eight or nine thousand dollars, yet they rent at rates of houses costing less than half that amount.

Income Sets Rates

Actually, he explained, rates are not based on the cost of the housing at all, but on a percentage of the income of the renters.

The chamber members voted to follow Denton’s suggestion and invite a federal housing official to address the chamber within the next few weeks and explain the entire federal low-rent housing law as recently approved by congress.

Denton said his own experiences in the last two years as a contract home builder and as operator of the airbase housing project has convinced him that the federal plan is the only solution in Redmond.

The airbase project, he said, has demonstrated clearly how serious the shortage of housing is here. Most of the families living at the airbase, he said, could afford much better home. In fact, he said, he’d bet that the average in-1 come of airbase families is higher than that of the average family in town.

Experience Shows Need

His experience in building houses for resale, he said, has shown him that hundreds of people would like to rent homes in Redmond if these could be built to rent at low rates. Denton said he has tried every way to build such homes, but that it just isn’t possible without federal aid.

These lessons, Denton said, led, him to make a series of scouting expeditions to federal projects, and to several conferences, with federal housing officials in the Northwest.

Contest Will Pick Popular Babies

The Jaycettes will sponsor a “baby popularity” contest as an added feature to the Jaycee home talent show, according to Mrs. Everett Van Matre, chairman of the contest committee.

Reigning royalty will be chosen by vote, and the boy and girl winners of this contest will be crowned November 3 at John Tuck school at the Jaycee home show.

Fond mamas may exhibit diapered cheesecake of six summers or less, and pictures of all these potential kings and queens will be placed in a window display. Photos of the children will be placed on bottles which will then be distributed to business houses, and townspeople may vote for their choice by dropping a penny into the bottle exhibiting the face of the child.

Pictures, a large one for display and a small one for the bottle, should be in the chairman’s hands not later than Monday, October 24, announced Mrs, Van Matre. Mothers may contact the chairman by phoning 229J, or at 639 B street or get in touch with Mrs. Kay Shopshire by phoning 40X.

The money collected by the contest committee will be turned over to the disaster car fund.

50 Years Ago

Oct. 23, 1974 — Canal break site to be reconstructed

As a result of the most recent break in the Central Oregon Canal on Oct. 13, the district directors consulted with the engineers from the CH2M-Hill on Oct. 16, deciding to reconstruct the embankment fill at the site and to construct 260 feet of concrete flume within the fill area for added protection.

A temporary pipeline will be installed through the construction site to provide water for domestic use during the interim. The supply of domestic water during this period will be limited and will be rotated throughout the area. The district urges the affected users to take water immediately as it becomes available as the time alloted will be very brief. Initial flows into the canal for this purpose are expected about Oct. 24.

Construction will require from three to four weeks and afterward the district is planning to provide water through the canal for irrigation of the lands that are dried because of the shut off.

Assault of policeman charged against pair

An altercation between a state policeman and a Redmond man and woman Saturday night resulted in a broken nose for the trooper and lockup of the local couple.

The fracas began at 11:05 p.m. Saturday when state trooper Bartlemay stopped the suspects in front of their house at 417 N. 17th St. to cite the man for driving under the influence of liquor. The altercation continued until the couple locked the policeman out of their house.

At 2 p.m. the following day state police, joined by Redmond police, arrested the pair, charging them with second degree assault, second degree escape and resisting arrest. They were lodged in the Deschutes County Jail in lieu of $5,000 bail each.

The suspects were identified as Richard Alan McClain, 40, and Sylvia Dianne Lundberg, 37.

Teen killed in one-car accident

Linda Diane Sproat, 18, Sisters, was killed in a one-car accident about 8 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, on Highway 20 between Sisters and Bend.

The young woman apparently fell asleep at the wheel of her westbound car in the Plainview area. Her auto went off the right shoulder, and when she attempted to pull it back, went out of control, turning end over end into dry wash about 20 feet deep.

25 Years Ago

Oct. 20, 1999 — Young artists let eyes, minds run free

Project excites kids in magnet school

Professional artist and instructor Annie Painter titled her recent book “Struggling Artists Masterpiece.”

When art students at Lynch Elementary applied Painter’s principles last week, they were anything but struggling.

Thoughtful, maybe. Perceptive, perhaps. Creative and engaged, for certain.

This bodes well. Lynch is the district’s first magnet school for performing and visual arts, and Painter’s masterpiece method is one of several projects planned by art coordinator Jan Jorgenson Churches.

Painter gave a workshop to the Lynch staff in September. Jorgenson-Churches, who relinquished the fifth-grade teaching position she’s held for five years to focus on art, is encouraging her colleagues to apply Painter’s methods in their rooms.

The premise of the program is that by creating a large group masterpiece of many smaller strokes, no identifiable theme emerges which might block imagination.

Said another way, no preconceived subject or idea is suggested to the students. The instructions are simple: Stay inside the border and don’t paint anything you can name. The results are what a less sophisticated toddler who fingerpaints might find: complete exploration in their play of what their fingers or a brush, a few dabs of paint and their imagination can produce.

Painter labels this real art.

In her method, only three colors are used — cyan, magenta and yellow — and with these the young artists discover shades, blends and hues. Each child has one brush-the same size — and one cup of water — the same amount, a third of a cup.

The kids work together on one large sheet of paper to create a colorful abstract. When the painting dries, each lays a small paper frame over an element of the larger work that cries out to them.

Painter calls this a visual treasure, with the kids looking at elements of design like value, line, texture, positive shape and space, negative shape or space, color and form.

The young Picassos then wander around carrying a printed word such as silly or busy, rain, harmony or water, studying the art for a special grouping of strokes that evoke the feeling of their word.

This exercise is a focus on moods and objects.

Painter’s approach caused the teachers in her workshop to take a new look at old methods of teaching art.

Jorgenson-Churches is intent on keeping that challenge throughout the year, urging her colleagues to incorporate feelings and moods into all of their curriculums.

She’s encouraged as she considers a variety of new per forming and visual arts, dangling before the Lynch staff the Annie Painter question in the spirit of her institute.

“Do we have a need for higher achievement?