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Officers Search Lacking 4

A double Christmas elopement occurring between the hours of 8 and 9 o’clock final night time is inflicting sheriff’s deputies to scour Deschutes county, whereas officers in Criminal and Jefferson counties have been warned to be looking out for the 2 14 12 months previous women and for the lads who’re believed by mother and father and native authorities to have headed north on horseback final night time.

This morning after Dorothy Creson and Lavina Armstrong had not been positioned, it was discovered that Walter Evans and Albert Brownlee, who had been boarding on the Creson dwelling, had additionally disappeared, and that 5 head of using inventory which the younger males had saved have been additionally gone. Sheriff Roberts holds the idea that the 2 males and the ladies rode off collectively, utilizing one of many horses as a pack animal.

Expensive Booze Goes In Sewer

Liquor which had price $3,000 went into the sewer as we speak when Mayor E.D. Gilson, N.H. Gilbert, chairman of the council police committee, and Police Chief Willard Houston destroyed the inventory of moonshine which has been accumulating on the firehouse, bottle by bottle, for the final 5 months.

With virtually no exception the booze. was the rankest product of Central Oregon’s illicit stills, nevertheless it was excessive priced booze at that, representing fines which might common at the very least $50 a bottle.

Along with the “onerous likker,” just a few bottles of homebrew helped to taste the air on the fireplace station. A number of containers holding liquor which is proof in instances nonetheless pending, have been saved.

Ice Output To Be Doubled At Native Manufacturing facility

Enlargements and additions which is able to make attainable a doubling of the each day output of the ice plant of the Bend Water Gentle & Energy Co. can be began as quickly because the ice plant constructing is vacated by the Central Oregon Farmers; creamery, which is able to transfer into the current Bulletin quarters a while in January. The enlargement can be accomplished earlier than the season of most ice consumption of the approaching summer time.

The modifications deliberate will price $7,000 based on T.H. Foley, supervisor of the corporate, who made the announcement as we speak. A further ice tank can be put in, and elevated storage room offered for.

Manufacture of 20 tons of ice each day can be attainable within the enlarged plant. The capability prior to now few summers has been 10 tons a day.

Bend’s Development Is Extra Than Complete County

That the expansion of Bend throughout the previous 12 months is larger than that of all Deschutes county is revealed in full figures on the 1922 college census, compilation of which has simply been completed within the workplace of the county superintendent. In truth had it not been for Bend, the college inhabitants in Deschutes county would have proven a lower from that of 1921. Deschutes county’s current college inhabitants is 3,241, made up of 1,716 boys and 1,525 women as in contrast with 2,792 final 12 months. Bend’s share of the final census is 2,019. Hampton is the smallest college within the county, with three pupils out of a college inhabitants of six.

Census figures from different districts within the county are: Redmond, 326: Tumalo, 101; La Pine, 58; Terrebonne, 115; Sister, 65; Tetherow, 40; Cline Falls, 21; Pinehurst, 60; Nice Ridge, 63; Decrease Bridge, 28; Cloverdale, 69; Arnold, 56; Grange, 45; Richardson, 43; Plainview, 22; Alfalfa, 25; Millican 14; Hoech, 21; Deschutes, 31.

For the week ending Dec. 31, 1947

Loggers Require Harvest Permits

Salem, Ore., All Oregon logging operators should safe 1948 harvesting permits in compliance with the state forestry conservation act as amended by the 1947 legislature, the state forestry division stated as we speak.

Permits point out the process the operators will observe in giving affordable assurance that the lands will stay in a productive situation after logged.

Constructing building in Bend surpasses million-dollar mark

Development in Bend, each residential and business, smashed all current information in 1947 as constructing permits issued by the town recorder’s workplace soared above the a million greenback mark for the primary time in historical past.

The 1947 constructing permits totaled $1,006,096, an quantity better than the earlier report of $795,480 in 1946. A big a part of the development was for brand new companies or for manufacturing corporations set as much as make the most of native pine, pumice or different merchandise. Many current corporations discovered it essential to modernize and improve their measurement to handle extra enterprise.

Greater than half of the large building allow whole was accounted for by residential building. The variety of permits for brand new residences totaled 142 for the 12 months. March was the main month for beginning homes.

However despite the massive quantity of building this 12 months, along with that in 1946, homes and residences remained at a premium and there’s each indication that residential constructing will proceed at a excessive price within the coming 12 months.

Beforehand undeveloped areas on the east aspect of city offered websites for many of the new homes, however vacant heaps in all components of the town diminished in quantity all year long.

Gilchrist Wins From Chiloquin

The Gilchrist highschool Grizzlies and the Chiloquin Panthers opened league basketball play in Gilchrist final week with the Gilchrist workforce scoring a 40 to 38 victory in a quick, shut sport. This was the primary victory for the Gilchrist first string over the Panthers in three years.

Moon Bow Seen In Bend As Mist Falls

A December moon at its full section solid a lunar rainbow within the western sky shortly after darkish Saturday night time, with Bend observers reporting that the colours of the sky bow have been distinctly seen.

The “moon bow” was intermittently seen for about two hours. Individuals who noticed the bow stated that mild rain was falling in Bend with lower than one-tenth of the sky lined by clouds. Lunar rainbows are uncommon, members of the Bend climate bureau employees stated.

50 Years In the pastFor the week ending Dec. 31, 1972

Bookmobile to get replaced

The Deschutes County Bookmobile is being phased out in favor of a brand new mailbox guide service. Some tri-county residents resent the county librarian Dick Tuffli’s determination; others are so excited a few new mailbox guide service that they need the bookmobile good riddance.

June 30 would be the closing date for any bookmobile service in Deschutes, Criminal or Jefferson County. Visits to the Cloverdale and Alfalfa faculties will cease earlier than then, however Tuffli has not but determined when.

Throughout the final month the bookmobile has stopped visiting Bend’s Younger College in addition to faculties in Tumalo and Sisters.

“I can’t see why they will’t come to Sisters anymore,” fifth grade instructor Connie Cyrus stated. “We’d like these books. We have now our personal library, nevertheless it’s not very giant. The youngsters normally pick 4 or 5 books every, after which we rotate them among the many class.”

“Effectively, the faculties have gotten to hoe their very own row now,” Tuffli says. “They’ve acquired much more cash than we do.”

Tuffli asserts that mailbox guide service begun in late August “is a a lot better program. It reaches everyone within the county, whereas the bookmobile didn’t.”

And he has written testimonials from county residents praising the mail service to help his assertion.

The guide cellular visited each small city in Criminal and Deschutes counties, bringing about 2,000 hardcover titles to rural faculties and communities. Final 12 months about 10,000 books circulated within the two counties and the Black Butte College in Jefferson County.

The mailbox guide program sends three mail order catalogs per 12 months, every with 500 paperback titles. About 4,200 rural put up workplace packing containers in Deschutes County obtain the catalogs. Housebound individuals who dwell inside metropolis limits additionally might use the service.

25 Years In the pastFor the week ending Dec. 31, 1997

Celebrating the arrival of 1998 doesn’t must lead to a hangover the subsequent morning. And there’s no purpose these youthful than 21 have to remain dwelling. The most important social gathering night time of the 12 months provides a spread of actions for all ages- from cosmic bowling to nighttime snowboarding. Lots of the actions are alcohol-free.

Skiers can convey within the New 12 months at Hoodoo Ski Space’s annual New 12 months’s bash. The resort will maintain a chairlift open till 12:15 a.m. The bar can be closed, however glowing apple cider can be served and the Doug Cavenaugh band will play. Raise tickets price $15 for adults, $11 for juniors.

“You’ll be able to really ski within the New 12 months,” stated Rick Saul, a Hoodoo spokesman. “We’ll make it as festive as any New 12 months’s social gathering with out all of the cigarette smoke or consuming.

One other option to rejoice exterior is on ice skates. You received’t be capable of ice skate into 1998, however you may come shut. The ice skating rink at Inn of the Seventh Mountain can be open till 11 p.m., whereas Sunriver’s skating rink is open from 4 to eight p.m.

For skating indoors, attempt the Household Curler Enjoyable Heart’s 14th annual all-night New 12 months’s skate from 7 p.m. to 7a.m. Proprietor Lela Huntemann will provide video games and prizes. She additionally will arrange a tv and VCR for films. At midnight, the rink could have a balloon drop. Certificates for meals and prizes can be inside every balloon.

There’s no age restrict on the skate social gathering nevertheless it’s primarily for teenagers. There can be grownup supervision. Price is $10.

“I all the time keep up with my children,” Huntemann stated.

Criminal County Parks and Recreation additionally will provide a New 12 months’s curler skating social gathering from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. on the Prineville skating rink. Price is $6.

An uncommon New 12 months’s celebration entails bowling underneath strobe lights and fog machines. Lava Lanes in east Bend provides a cosmic bowling social gathering from 8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. House is restricted and events ought to reserve a lane. Solar Mountain Sports activities Heart, close to the Bend River Mall, provides glow-in-the-dark bowling till 2 a.m.

If bowling’s not your factor, there’s laser tag at Laserport on the south finish of Bend. It plans to remain open till 1 a.m.

These too younger to get into the bars however need to dance might need to take a look at Bend’s new non-alcoholic dance membership, The Palladium, positioned at 316 NW Greenwood. It’s open from 9:30 p.m. to midnight for these 16 and older, and from midnight till 3 a.m. for these 18 and older. Cowl Cost is $7 prematurely, $9 on the door, which incorporates social gathering favors and free Pepsi.