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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR 97523, February 19, 2003 A Look Back This Week February 28-29, 1704, Indi- ans attacked settlers in Deer- field, Mass., killing 40 and abducting 100 ... March 1, 1781, the Articles of Confed- eration took effect ... March 1, 1784, Thomas Jefferson's proposal to ban slavery in new territories after 1802 was narrowly defeated ... February 24, 1803, for the first time, the U.S. Supreme Court over- turned a U.S. law in the Mar- bury v. Madison case ... March 2, 1836, Texas de- clared its independence from Mexico ... February 28, 1854, the Republican Party was formed in Ripon, Wis., in op- position to the Kansas- Nebraska Act which left the issue of slavery to a vote of the settlers ... February 24, 1868, the House of Repre- sentatives impeached Presi- dent Andrew Johnson for try- ing to remove Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War, claiming a violation of the Tenure of Office Act ... March 3, 1891, the Forest Reserve Act allowed the president to close public forest land to set- tlement for the establishment of national parks ... March 1, 1932, 19-month-old Charles Lindbergh Jr. was kid- napped ... March 1, 1954, five members of Congress were wounded in the House of Representatives by four Puerto Rican independence supporters who fired at ran- dom from a spectators' gal- lery ... March 1, 1961, the Peace Corps was created by an executive order ... March 1, 1967, Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-N.Y.) was denied his seat because of charges he misused government funds ... February 24, 1991, in a ground war starting on this day, which lasted only 100 hours, the U.S.-led forces in Kuwait killed or captured many thousands of Iraqi sol- diers and sent the rest into retreat ... February 24, 1996, Cuban jets shot down two unarmed planes owned by a Cuban exile organization; all four persons on board were presumed killed ... February 27, 2001, President George W. Bush spoke to a joint ses- sion of Congress in the House chamber, and to a na- tional audience on televi- sion ... February 28, 2001, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific Northwest, injuring 250 people and caus- ing at least $1 billion in dam- age. (c) 2003 DBR Media, Inc. Chain Link Specialist 592-6192 Additional Listings Besides the program listings Provided, the following also are among those available from Charter Communications. For information about costs that might apply, contact the company. 1-800-338-8838 *12 - QVC *14 - Better Life TV *16 - Home Shopping *23 - Community Bulletins *25 - Fox News *26 - C-Span (House of Reps.) *27 - C-Span 2 (Senate) *28 - ESPN 2 *31 - CNN Headline News *33 - Fox Sports Northwest *36 - Country Music TV *37 - Nashville Channel *40 - The History Channel *41 - The Learning Channel *42 - Cartoon Network *43 - Home & Garden TV *44 - The Weather Channel A DYING BREED? - (Photo above) This 1931 hard rubber-tired log truck is loaded with logs taken from the old Tuttle residence owned then by Warren and Jenny (Camp) Tuttle on Thompson Creek Road in Selma. The driver of the truck is Lowell Camp, son of Jenny (Camp) Tuttle. (Photo below) This 1948 Reo log truck was purchased new in September, 1947 in Med- ford by Gilly Squire. Back in those days ‘cheese blocks’ were used instead of bunk stakes to hold the load secure (hopefully). The photo was taken in the Salvage Brothers Mill yard on Holland Loop Road in rural Cave Junction. (Photos courtesy of Gilly Squire) Page 5