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N Barbara L. Holden, of Bend January 12, 1931 - July 21, 2010 Arrangements: Autumn Funerals, Bend, 541-318-0842 www.autumnfunerals.com Services: At her request, no services will be held.
C.G. Gordon Anderson, of Bend Dec. 10, 1923 - July 21, 2010 Arrangements: Baird Funeral Home of Bend, (541) 382-0903 www.bairdmortuaries.com Services: A committal service with full military honors will be held on Friday, July 30, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. at Willamette National Cemetery. Contributions may be made to:
Partners In Care Hospice, 2075 NE Wyatt Court, Bend, Oregon 97701 www.partnersbend.org
William H. Bartles, CMDR, of Bend April 3, 1921 - July 15, 2010 Arrangements: Niswonger-Reynolds Funeral Home, 541-382-2471 www.niswonger-reynolds.com
Services: Funeral services and Military Honors are Wed., July 21, 2010, at 11:00 am, at Niswonger-Reynolds Funeral Home, 105 NW Irving Ave., Bend, OR 97701 Contributions may be made to:
First Presbyterian Church, 230 NE 9th St., Bend, OR, 97701.
Judy Ellen Kurtz, of Bend April 20, 1955 - July 21, 2010 Arrangements: Autumn Funerals, Bend 541-318-0842 www.autumnfunerals.com Services: At her request, no services will be held.
William ‘Bill’ W. Offenhauser, of Bend (Formerly of San Diego) Aug. 7, 1922 - July 20, 2010 Arrangements: Baird Funeral Home of Bend, (541) 382-0903 www.bairdmortuaries.com Services: A committal service with full military honors will be held at Miramar National Cemetery in San Diego, California at a later date. Contributions may be made to:
Friends of Cats www.friendsofcats.org or Partners In Care Hospice, 2075 NE Wyatt Court, Bend, Oregon 97701 www.partnersbend.org
GaryRobert Isaksen, of La Pine April 8, 1939 - July 16, 2010 Arrangements: Baird Memorial Chapel 541-536-5104 Services: A tribute will be held on Saturday, July 31, 2010 11:30 a.m. at La Pine Moose Lodge.
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William Wayne Offenhauser
Gary Lee Price
August 7, 1922 - July 20, 2010
Gary Lee Price, of Bend, died Thursday, July 15, 2010. He was 64 years old. Gary was born November 16, 1945, in Burbank, California, the son of Otis and Nellie (Farless) Price. Gary worked in the auto restoration industry and was the business owner and operator of Gary Lee Price an auto body and fender repair shop. He was an antique car enthusiast and enjoyed restoring them in his leisure time. Survivors include two brothers, Larry Price of Bend, OR, and Jerry Price of AR; a sister, Ernestine Alston of O'Neals, CA; four nephews, Dean, Adam and Brian Price and Ralph Groomer; and three nieces, Justine and Heidi Price and Jennifer Mesa. A Committal Service will be held in Burbank, California at a later date. The family suggests contributions be made in Gary's memory to Westside Church, 2051 Northwest Shevlin Park Road Bend, OR 97701. Baird Funeral Home of Bend, Oregon, is in charge of arrangements (541) 382-0903.
Bill Offenhauser was born August 7, 1922, in Canton Missouri. Bill met Audrey Dowling in Lakehurst, NJ, and they married in 1945. Bill enlisted in the U.S. Navy at the age of 18, and served throughout the Pacific during WWII, including William ‘Bill’ W. tours in Offenhauser Tulagi, Guadalcanal and the Philippines. While in the Navy, Bill held a number of jobs: Aerial Gunner, Blimp Aircrew, Parachute Rigger Instructor and School Supervisor. After successfully completing 100 jumps, Bill achieved the level of Master Parachutist. Bill also was among the first class of sailors promoted, and the first parachute rigger, to the level of Master Chief. After serving for 20 years, Bill retired from the Navy in 1960. He had second careers with the U.S. Postal Service and as a civilian employee with the Navy. Bill took full advantage of the time his retirement gave him. Using the sewing skills he learned as a parachute rigger, Bill created all of his own backpacking equipment as well as luggage and wallets for his friends and family. Bill had a passion for travel and the great outdoors. One of his first big adventures was hiking along the Rogue River in Oregon. However, his favorite was hiking the Sierra Nevada. Bill travelled throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and South America. Some of his most memorable visits were to Nagasaki just after WWII, the Galapagos Islands and Machu Picchu. In 2004, Bill and Audrey moved to Bend, Oregon. Bill is survived by his wife, Audrey, his children, Audrey Stauffer of Park City, UT, Jude Graves of Edwardsville, IL, Jeanne Burton of Valley Center, CA, Janice Davis of Annandale, VA, Gail Jenkins Ryan of Phoenix, AZ and Skip Offenhauser of Bend, OR. Bill is also survived by 13 grandchildren, four greatgrandchildren, his sister, Marjorie Flier of Thousand Oaks, CA, brothers, Guy Offenhauser of La Quinta, CA and Jack Offenhauser of Fayetteville, NC and his cats, Bridget and Charlie. Bill was predeceased by his grandson, Tim Glover. Bill's final resting place will be at Miramar National Cemetery in San Diego, CA. A memorial service will take place this fall. Donations in his memory may be made to Friends of Cats in San Diego, CA or Partners in Care in Bend, OR. Baird Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. 541-382-0903 www.bairdmortuaries.com
Cecile Aubry, 81, actress and writer New York Times News Service Cecile Aubry, a French actress who had a short but glamorous film career and who later became a writer, creating a children’s television series, died Monday in Dourdan, outside of Paris. She was 81. The cause was lung cancer, Agence France-Presse reported, citing family sources. Aubry was just 20 when she appeared in the racy title role of “Manon,” a 1949 film by HenriGeorges Clouzot set in postWorld War II France. Seized on by Hollywood, she was immediately cast in “The Black Rose,” a medieval adventure story filmed in England and Morocco that also starred Tyrone Power and Orson Welles. Her film career was shortlived, however: She made a halfdozen more movies in Europe, the last in 1960.
Nov. 16, 1945 - July 15, 2010
Engineer Paul Rosen helped develop high-speed modem By T. Rees Shapiro The Washington Post
Paul Rosen, an electrical engineer who in the mid-1950s helped develop the high-speed modem, spurring revolutionary progress in the nascent industry of telecommunications, died of congestive heart failure Tuesday at his cottage in West Bath, Maine. He was 88. The technology behind the modem — a device that converts data into signals that can be passed through channels such as phone lines — has existed in primitive forms since the late 1940s. But in those days, phone lines carried data signals inconsistently, and information was transmitted slowly. While working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory in 1958, Rosen and a colleague, Jack Harrington, patented a device
that rapidly transmitted large amounts of data over phone lines. Their invention, “Method of Land Line Pulse Transmission,” helped expand computer networks nationwide by significantly accelerating the flow of data over phone lines. “One of my colleagues said, ‘Oh, you’re going to get rich on this,’” Rosen said in a 2004 interview with IEEE, the organization formerly known as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. But the patent’s wording was too constrained — the work of an inept lawyer, Rosen often said — which allowed competitors such as AT&T’s Bell Labs to create their own modems by making only minor adjustments to the patented design. Thus, Rosen never made the fortune he thought he deserved when
high-speed modems based on his work began popping up across the United States. Nonetheless, Rosen’s system was a crucial addition to a landmark Army defense project during the Cold War. The SAGE program, or Semi-Automatic Ground Environment, was a series of more than 100 radar installations spread across the northern border of the United States. Each station sent data about incoming planes, such as Russian bombers loaded with nuclear weapons, to centers around the country at a rate of more than 1,800 bits per second through Rosen’s modems. The standard maximum speed for data transmission was about 600 bps, but Rosen’s breakthrough technology allowed the military to monitor U.S. air space nearly in real time.
TULI KUPFERBERG, POET AND ROCKER
Doug Ohlson, 73, painter of grand abstracts By Roberta Smith New York Times News Service
It could be said that Doug Ohlson’s determination to be a painter came out of the blue. He was born in Cherokee, Iowa, 50 miles east of the Missouri River, in the middle of the Great Depression. His father, a farmer and the son of a Swedish immigrant, expected his three sons to carry on the family tradition. But Ohlson had other ideas, inspired in part by a plentitude of flat terrain and open sky that was extreme even in a region known for them. In a catalog essay on Ohlson, the art historian E.C. Goossen noted the possible effect of the changing sky during the unending chores of farm life on the artist’s passion for color. “One can imagine yellowish pink and green dawns, blue noons, and red-orange sunsets that swiftly slide from purple to black,” Goossen wrote, “a frequent and spacious enough panorama to last a lifetime.” By the time Ohlson died on June 29 at 73, after a fall in front of his loft building in New York, he had fulfilled his determination with considerable effectiveness, making abstract paintings that experimented intuitively with the color spectrum regardless of fashion. His death was announced by Hunter College, where he had taught for 35 years. Ohlson’s work astutely fused aspects of abstract expressionism, color field painting and minimal art on a grand scale; his paintings sometimes measured as much as 23 feet across. The staple of his formal vocabulary was repeating vertical bars that seemed, increasingly, to levitate before clouds of vibrant contrasting color. Born on Nov. 18, 1936, Ohlson attended Bethel College in St. Paul and served three years in the Marines before earning a degree in studio art from the University of Minnesota in 1961. After graduation, Ohlson immediately headed to New York. He studied briefly with the abstract sculptor and painter Tony Smith at Hunter College until his money ran out, at which point he worked briefly as Smith’s assistant. He began teaching at Hunter in 1964.
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Tuli Kupferberg performs in 2004 at The Knitting Factory in New York. Kupferberg, a poet and singer who went from being a noted Beat to becoming, in his words, “the world’s oldest rock star” when he helped found The Fugs, the bawdy and politically pugnacious rock group, died July 12 in New York. He was 86.
Energy expert James Akins warned of 1973 oil embargo By Douglas Martin New York Times News Service
James Akins, the State Department’s top energy expert and then ambassador to Saudi Arabia, who warned more than a year in advance of the 1973 Arab oil embargo that oilexporting nations were poised to restrict shipments, died July 15 in Mitchellville, Md. He was 83. His death, at an assistedliving center, was caused by a heart attack, his family said. He had earlier lived in Washington. Akins made his prediction after attending a meeting of Arab petroleum producers in May 1972 in Algiers, where he confirmed that oil-exporting nations were eager to take advantage of the United States’ increasing dependence on the crude they pumped. The countries, he said, could not spend as much money as they were getting for their oil, and realized that “oil in the ground is as good as oil in the bank.” He soon laid out the grim economics of the energy future in an influential article in the journal Foreign Affairs in April 1973. He correctly predicted that world consumption of oil for the next 12 years would exceed that of all previous human history, and warned that the loss of any two Middle Eastern countries’ production would push oil prices from $3 a barrel to more than $5. In fact, they reached $39.50. The first shock came with the Middle East war that October. After Israel was attacked by Egypt and Syria, the United States pledged to resupply its military. Arab members of
the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries responded by raising the price of crude by 70 percent, agreed to production cutbacks to enforce the new price, and banned exports to the United States and selected other nations. The embargo ended in March 1974, after delivering a body blow to the global economy and forcing Americans to endure gas rationing and long lines at service stations. Akins had been promoted from director of fuels and energy at the State Department to ambassador to Saudi Arabia the month before the embargo began. One of his first acts was to send a confidential message to executives of the major oil companies that were forming a consortium, called Aramco, to pump oil in Saudi Arabia. He asked them “to use their contacts at the highest levels” of the U.S. government to “hammer home the point that oil restrictions are not going to be lifted unless political struggle is settled in a manner satisfactory to Arabs.” Akins was advocating at least some measure of support for Arab claims against Israel, something
he would often do later in life as an industry consultant, and he was criticized for it. “Here he was, the American ambassador to Saudi Arabia, attempting to reinforce the Arabs’ blackmail of the United States,” Steven Emerson wrote in his book “The American House of Saud” (1985). Akins said he was simply doing his job of promoting American interests, which may or may not coincide with those of Israel, and warning against the West’s growing dependence on imported oil. “Our foreign policy was so proIsrael that we alienated the Arabs,” he said in a speech in 1994, “yet our energy policy, such as it was, made us dependent on Arab oil.” But as Robert Kaplan wrote in his book “Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite” (1995), Akins also maintained that he had tried to help build understanding between Saudi Arabia and Israel, asserting that he had moved King Faisal from eschewing the very idea of a Jewish state to accepting the legitimacy of Israel within the borders that existed before its 1967 war with Arab countries.