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Lava Bears' 1940 State Championship Football Historic Guard Election of Board Station Log Cabin Members Nearing Deschutes Bridge Guard Station, on It is time again for elections to the the Cascade Lakes National Scenic Board of Directors for the Deschutes Byway, offers a rare glimpse at U.S. County Historical Society. The ballot Forest Service guard station history. for this year’s election can be found See Page 2 on pages 7-8. The Homesteader Deschutes County Historical Society Newsletter – January 2017 LAVA BEARS’ 1940 STATE CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL RETURNED The Homesteader Leaps Into the 21st Century You may have noticed that the email messages announcing the publication of the latest The football from the 1940 State Championship game between the Lava Bears and Homesteader has changed. No Medford is back in Bend. Manufactured by Wilson Sporting Goods Company in Chicago, longer a plain text email with Illinois, it carries the names of the players, coaches and the manager of the team. a single link to the newsletter, the new email looks more like a A relic from one of Central Oregon’s greatest prep gridiron teams has finally billboard with pictures and text. made its way home. The monthly Homesteader Last month, Portland resident Jim Byers donated a football from Bend High’s newsletter is sporting an updated, 1940 state championship team to the Deschutes Historical Museum. The ball contemporary look and we wanted includes the names of all 20 players, coaches Joe Huston and Hank Nilsen, and to carry over that look and feel to manager Clarence Cunningham. the monthly emails as well. Last “Bend high’s (sic) bruising Lava Bears, with power to burn and an aerial attack month we successful tested the new that flared brilliantly when touchdowns were in sight, captured Oregon’s 1940 delivery system. Now we’re ready prep football championship yesterday,” The Medford Mail Tribune wrote in its to take on the new millennium Dec. 1, 1940 edition. “It was simply a matter of a good little team playing a good wholeheartedly. Enjoy! big team. … (Medford) couldn’t cope with Bend’s power when it was turned on Tor Hanson, Homesteader editor -- continued on page 3 The Homesteader: Volume 43; No. 1=. Published monthly by the Deschutes County Historical Society, 129 NW Idaho Avenue, Bend, Oregon 97703 Deschutes Bridge Guard Station Awaits its Destiny The original Deschutes Bridge Guard Station log cabin, shown on the left side of this 1930 U.S. Forest Service photograph (above). The Guard Station log cabin still stands as shown in this 2016 photograph and could be maintained in a state of arrested deterioration and interpreted. Photo: Les Joslin. Historic Deschutes Bridge Guard Station, not quite 40 sun set and needed a place to bunk for the night. miles from Bend on the Cascade Lakes National Scenic One or more guard stations were located on each of the four Byway, offers a rare glimpse at U.S. Forest Service ranger districts into which the Deschutes National Forest guard station history. At the river crossing for which was subdivided for most of its history. Three guard stations it is named are both the early 20th century log cabin which still exist are located west of Bend. From north to and the 1930s structure that housed Deschutes National south, these were Elk Lake Guard Station on the northwest Forest personnel serving in the field for most of the shore of Elk Lake, Deschutes Bridge Guard Station national forest’s history. about eight road miles south of the Elk Lake Station, and Guard stations were seasonally-staffed satellites of Fall River Guard Station about a dozen miles south of ranger stations at which district forest rangers posted Deschutes Bridge at the headwaters of the river for which it seasonal assistants called forest guards who performed is named. fire prevention and control, recreation facility and trail The forest guards posted at these three guard stations maintenance, public information and education, and any worked for the district ranger headquartered in La Pine other jobs distant from the ranger station for the forest until 1933 when the district name was changed to Bend ranger. These stations also came in handy when the district Ranger District with headquarters in Bend. These guard ranger found himself far from the ranger station when the -- continued on page 4 Museum Staff: Board Members: Kelly Cannon-Miller, Executive Director Tony DeBone, Mike Berry, Andrea Hunnell DuPree, Vanessa Ivey, Museum Manager Beau Eastes, Greg Fulton, Karen Green, Shey Hyatt, Registrar Robin Gyorgyfalvy, Tor Hanson, Loren Irving, Tor Hanson, Homesteader Editor Heidi Kennedy, Courtney Lupton-Turner, Bill Olsen, and Susie Penhollow • • • • • Complete minutes of the meetings of the Board of 2016 DCHS Board of Directors: Directors are on file with the Museum office. 129 NW Idaho Avenue, Bend, OR 97703 Nate Pedersen, President • • • • • Open Tuesdays-Saturdays Marsha Stout, Vice President 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sue Fountain, Secretary/Treasurer www.deschuteshistory.org 541.389.1813 [email protected] 2 THE HOMESTEADER Bend High’s 1940 State Championship team in front of the Mt. Hood Stages’ bus in Medford. The Lava Bears won the title game against Bill Bowerman-coached Medford, final score 20-7. Lava Bears’ coach Joe Huston (right). June, 1941. Less than a year later he was taken prisoner by Championship Football... the Japanese army following the fall of Bataan. Chambers – continued from page 1 spent three years in Japanese prison camps and survived full blast, and they couldn’t crack that grand Lava Bear line the infamous Bataan Death March. On July 31, 1944, consistently.” Chambers was forced to amputate his own leg when it became entangled with a cable in a Japanese steel mill he The Lava Bears topped Bill Bowerman-coached Medford was forced to work at. His captors refused to cut the cable, 20-7 that year in Oregon’s first sanctioned high school according to a later report in The Bulletin, football state championship game. Sherman Nicar caught so Chambers and a fellow American POW two touchdown passes, “Big Jim” Byers – the uncle of cut off the leg to save his life. the Portland Jim Byers - ran for a score on offense and grabbed an interception on defense, and Billy Eby threw a Bill Eby, the halfback and kicker, was touchdown pass and converted a pair of point-after kicks to also taken prisoner by the Japanese after lead Bend. The Lava Bears finished the season 8-1-1 and the fall of Bataan. He later died in a POW allowed more than a single touchdown in a game just once. camp from “dysentery and malaria,” Bill Eby according to the U.S. military. “They say that teams back then couldn’t compare to the ones today, but the hell they couldn’t,” Bowerman was Jim Byers, who played football at the quoted saying in The Bulletin newspaper 40 years later. University of Washington before the war “It’s a matter of blocking and tackling and those guys could and at the University of Oregon briefly block and tackle.” after, went on to become a decorated fighter pilot for the U.S. Army Air Forces, Like the rest of their generation, the 1940 Lava Bears were the predecessor to the U.S. Air Force. He thrown into the chaos of World War II a year after knocking ended the war with 68 combat missions off the Black Tornado in what was then the city’s four-year- in Europe, including three successful Jim Byers old Medford Stadium. missions over Utah Beach during D-Day, All told, every member of the Lava Bears’ June 6, 1944. Byers was awarded a 1940 state championship team, including Distinguished Flying Cross for his service coaches Huston and Nilsen, served in the and later flew combat missions in the military in some capacity during World Korean War. War II. Here’s a few of their stories: Clarence (Jim) Cunningham, the team Jack Chambers, the starting center for manager, died in a plane crash during the championship team, enlisted in the Clarence Jack Chambers naval flight training. U.S. Army Air Forces after graduation in Cunningham -- continued on page 6 THE HOMESTEADER 3 Bridge Guard Station’s two Guard Station... sister guard stations mentioned – continued from page 1 above, this includes the stations were connected to historic Paulina Lake Guard each other, the surrounding Station now serving as a fire lookouts, and the district visitor information station ranger’s office by Forest within the Newberry National Service telephone lines and Volcanic Monument. The later by radio. Elk Lake and Deschutes National Forest has Fall River guard stations accomplished such tasks by were in active use by Forest availing itself of the Forest Service fire control or Service’s own Passport in recreation personnel until the Time (PIT) heritage resource middle 1990s before those program volunteers as well functions were centralized in as other sources of unfunded Bend. After Forest Service labor and materials. It also has personnel were no longer recent experience with U.S. stationed at Deschutes Army National Guard and Bridge Guard Station, it was U.S. Marine Corps Reserve used through summer 2005 construction and engineering as an administrative site teams. for supervision of Oregon Additional good news Department of Corrections for such a project in this era crews working in the of declining appropriations Deschutes National Forest for recreation and heritage on forest health improvement resources is the Federal Lands projects. Recreation Enhancement Act The Elk Lake and Fall River permits the Forest Service guard stations have been to reinvest fees charged to national forest visitors who restored for reuse as recreation The Deschutes Bridge Guard Station structure built by the rent historic ranger and guard and heritage resources.
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