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DUDLEY VS. KITZHABER

Bend family — ranging in age from 4 to 69 — crosses 11 states and a province COMMUNITY LIFE, C1 M k ac I Ma

‘The history of Bend’ School hall of fame adds 7 alumni from when Bend was a 1-high-school town The Bulletin

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ABOVE RIGHT: Bend High School as it’s stood 1956 through today. BELOW: 1925 through 1956.

THE INDUCTEES Jim Byers, 1941

Doug Herland, 1969

He went on to attend the University of Washington on a football scholarship. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, signaling the start of the United States’ involvement in World War II, Byers left the university to become a fighter pilot in the Army Air Corps. For his 27 combat missions over Belgium, France and Germany in 1944, Byers earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, which is given out for bravery. Byers named his plane “Detour, Bend City Limits.” On D-Day, he flew three missions over the beaches of Normandy, France. In total, Byers flew 68 combat missions in Europe, then returned to Bend. When the Korean War started in 1950, he returned to active duty, flying 100 combat missions. Byers died in 2000 in Portland. No other photo was available.

Herland, who was the first patient in Bend to suffer from osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease, went on to attend Pacific Lutheran University. Always interested in sports but not able to play on high school teams, he served as the high school’s manager for the football, basketball and baseball teams. It was the high school baseball coach who suggested Herland, just 4 feet 8 inches and 107 pounds, become a coxswain for the college crew team. “He wanted to live as normal a life as possible,” Herland’s sister Lyla Duncan said. “He just enjoyed sports.” Herland was the coxswain for PLU from 1969 to 1973, then went on to become the crew coach at the University of Michigan. At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Herland won a bronze medal in the pair-with-coxswain rowing competition. Afterward, he developed a rowing program for disabled athletes called Freedom on the River. “He did a lot of good things and touched a lot of people’s lives,” Duncan said. Herland died in 1991.

Bios for the rest of the inductees appear on Page A4.

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By Nick Budnick The Bulletin

SALEM — Chris Dudley and John Kitzhaber are feverishly competing to be governor of a state that ranks seventh worst in the country for unemployment and that will greet whoever wins with a whopping $3 billion projected hole in the next budget. Republican Dudley, a former NBA player who’s spent the last four years as an investment adviser, is taking on Democrat Kitzhaber, a former emergency room doctor, 14-year lawmaker and two-term governor of Oregon. Outgoing Gov. Ted Kulongoski is leaving behind a legacy of pension reform and a strong green energy industry, as well as complaints that he did not do enough to actively manage the state’s Chris Dudley bureaucracy. He’ll also pass on to his successor a plan to “reset” state government with assorted reforms to cut state spending, such as eliminating the state’s pickup of employee retirement costs. Dudley, a social moderate, argues that the state needs tax cuts on capital gains and a Republi- John can in the governor’s seat, while Kitzhaber Kitzhaber responds that Dudley lacks experience and hasn’t said what he’ll cut to fund his tax plan. See Governor / A8

ELECTION

By Sheila G. Miller Bend High will induct another seven graduates into its hall of fame on Friday, adding a Hollywood casting director, a distinguished economist, local business people, an Olympian and a war hero to the growing list of notable alumni. Gary Whitley, a Bend High counselor who helped start the hall of fame, came up with the idea while watching symphony attendees spend time during intermission reading the signs on the walls of the high school. Now they’ve got a series of plaques featuring notable alumni to look at during intermission. And soon, there will be seven new plaques to check out. The seven Bend High graduates honored in a ceremony and assembly on Friday will be the second group to earn Distinguished Alumni awards and be inducted into the school’s hall of fame. Last September, the high school honored 11 graduates. “Oregon’s history is really a series of onehigh-school towns,” Whitley said. “Through the ’50s and ’60s, the culture and history was all surrounding the high school. Now we have three or four high schools in Bend, but Bend High really is the history of Bend.” See Bend High / A4

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Sports

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Editorial

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Vol. 107, No. 269, 52 pages, 7 sections

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Milestones

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Inside • League of Oregon Cities candidate forum, Page B3

HUNTING’S DECLINE

Working to keep a heritage relevant By Erik Eckholm New York Times News Service

HAMBURG, Pa. — To millions of Americans, autumn means not just NFL games and the World Series but also the start of hunting season — a few months packed with chances to stalk deer, bear, Inside ducks and doves with rifles, shot• Ancient guns, bows and even black-powtechniques, der muskets. Page A6 “Hunting is one of those sports where you can’t have too • Doves in much stuff,” said Dan GechtMissouri, man, 46, one of many customers Page A7 streaming into Cabela’s, a hunting and fishing megastore here, • What about the kids? on a balmy afternoon. “This Page 7 store is on steroids,” he said while trying on a camouflage suit that fluttered with artificial leaves and taking in the dazzling array of products, stuffed animal dioramas and a laser-shooting arcade. See Hunting / A6

In farewell to Teddy Ballgame, studies in perfection By Charles McGrath New York Times News Service

Tuesday is the 50th anniversary of Ted Williams’ last game, in which, with an impeccable sense of occasion, he hit a home run, a miraculous line drive to deep right center, in his final at-bat. There was no Red Sox Nation back

then. The club was a bottom-dweller in the old eight-team American League, and its following amounted to a village of lonely die-hards. The weather was dank that afternoon and so overcast that in the sixth inning, the lights at Fenway Park were turned on. Only 10,455 fans turned up to say goodbye to Williams, who was 42,

hobbled by aches and pains. Among them, sitting behind third base, was 28-year-old John Updike, who had actually scheduled an adulterous assignation that day. But when he reached the woman’s apartment, on Beacon Hill, he found that he had been stood up: No one was home. See Williams / A5


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