Bulletin Daily Paper 09-03-15

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THURSDAY September3,2015

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HEALTH D1

bendbulletin.corn TODAY’ S READERBOARD Trump-mania what’s driving Donald Trump’s sur› prising success? A look at the science behind the presidential candidate’s popularity.A3

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Campfire bans to remain

2015 FOOTBALL PREVIEW Gary Anderseneraunderwayat OregonState University Do the Duckshavethe weapons for another title run? NFL andcollege schedules; plus, polls andbowls

Tea-dased spirits Bend

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tea shop’s latest offerings pack a punch.C6

in place By Dylan J. Darling The Bulletin

Campfire bans in

The Costco effect›

Central Oregon are set to remain in effect through

KICKING OFF THE PREPFOOTBALL SEASON

Howthe rise of warehouse clubs has changed the retail game evenmore than e-com› merce.C6

at least Labor Day due

There is onlyone chance to win the first state championship. Seventy-five years ago, a group

AndaWedexclusive› Taxlaw seenas driving Amer› icans to renounce citizenship. bendbunetin.cern/extras

of ’giant-killers’ took the state by storm

to do just that. This is the story ofBend High’s 1940

EDITOR'SCHOICE

Backpacks undergoan evolution

to persistent wildfire

danger. Even with chilly nights expected for the long holiday weekend, the De› schutes and

inside

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trict of the

Bureau of LandMan›

agement, as well as the Central Oregon District of the

Oregon Department of Forestry and Oregon State Parks, all have

By Hiroko Tabuchi

bans on campfires and other open flames. While rain prompted

New York Times News Service

The inside of Alejan› dro Sarete’s backpack is

the Willamette National

jammed with the objects of

Forest to lift its campfire

a busy student life: smart› phone, USB thumb drive, playing cards, lip balm. Cho Young-Uk’s shoulder bag is

ban earlier this week,

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cooler temperatures have not been enough to end

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more minimalist in content:

campfire restrictions in

Central Oregon, which extend to designated campgrounds, said Lisa Clark, a spokeswoman

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Lenovo laptop and adapter. Sarete and Cho, both stu›

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dents at New York Universi›

ty, have something missing from their stashes: piles of

for the BLM in Prineville.

"Even though we have had cloudy days we ha›

textbooks.

"I don’t really have to car› ry around textbooks any› more, like I used to in high school," said Cho, a soph› omore. All but two of his classes Spanish history and financial accounting› had moved the coursework

ven’t had much measur› able moisture," she said

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Wednesday. See Campfire /A5

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online.

Earth’ s tree count comes in at 3 trillion

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"I think fewer people have them, for sure," Sarete said. "I actually still like

physical paper, but I’m an exception." As students increasingly go back to school with gad› gets instead of textbooks, and no longer need huge backpacksto haulthem around, backpack-mak›

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940Football State Champions

ers such as JanSport are

rethinking not only the perennial style of back-to›

By Chris Mooney The Washington post

school packs, but also the

mission of the ubiquitous carrying gear that for de› cades has been an annual must-buy for students of all ages. SeeBackpacks/A4

Photos by Joe Kline/The Bulletin

ABOVE: The 1940 Bend High football team, pictured in front of the school’s old gymnasium, became the first official OSAA football

state champion. TOP:The state trophy, a replica of the original that disappeared over the years, is displayed in the school’s hall of fame.

A look at the first

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INDEX Business C5-6 Calendar B2 Classified E1-6 Comics E3-4 Crosswords E4 Dear Abby D6

Health D1-6 Horoscope D6 Local/State B1-6 Obituaries B5 Sports C1-4 TV/Movies D6

The Bulletin

and only

Bend Highteam to win the state football title

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end was a true mill town. Plain and simple. Pat Metke recalled as much. There were fights on every street corner, he remembered. Kids "grew up rough and tough."

In an era long before face masks, advanced padding or concussion-reducing helmets, a mere

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in Nature a team of 3B scientists finds that the

planet is home to 3.04 tril› lion trees, blowing away the previously estimate of 400 billion. That means, the researchers say, that

there are 422 trees for ev› ery person on Earth. However, in no way do the researchers con› sider this good news. The study also finds that

there are 46 percent few› er trees on Earth than there were before hu›

hunk of leather was the buffer between collisions. In a 1980 interview, Metke, quarterback of

mans started the lengthy,

the 1940 Bend High football team, said the sawmills produced more than timber products. They

processofdeforestation.

produced a rawboned cut of young men. The Lava Bears were "woefully weak in reserve strength," as it was described in The Bulletin. No

but recently accelerating, "We can now say that there'sless trees than at

any point in human civ› ilization," says Thomas Crowther, a postdoctoral

matter. They were only average in size. Not an issue. By the end of the season, the Bears evolved

researcher at the Yale School of Forestry and

into a team that "probably could have walloped any high school team in the Pacific northwest."

Environmental Studies

An Independent Newspaper

vol. 113, No. 24e, 50 pages, esections

In a blockbuster study released Wednesday

This was 1940, when 19

players composed a sur› prising Bend High squad that raised its slingshot and slayed the giants of Oregon high school foot›

ball. When theLavaBears reeled off an 8-1-1 record,

mighty Medford 20-7

and when, that November,

ball championship ever officially recognized in Oregon. SeeGrid kings/A4

as The Sunday Oregonian put it, Bend’s "burly gang deaned house," defeating

for the first state foot›

PREP FOOTBALLWEEKLY Check TheBulletin’s sports section each Thursday for previews of Friday night’ s prep football action.

who is the lead author on the research. "Since the spread of human influ› ence, we’ ve reduced the number almost by half, which is an astronomical

thing." SeeTrees/A4


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