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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL June 17, 2015 Cottage Grove Retrospective A look back at Sentinel stories from 30 and 40 years ago June 19, 1975 SALE 839 S. 8th St. Fri 10a-4p; Sat 10a-1p Hi/Her golf clubs, books, 2 old cane chairs, VCR movies, size large women's clothes, more! 4 FAMILY YARD SALE Very Large: June 20 Sat only 9am-2pm 78365 Meadow Park Drive June 19, 1985: The new Coke — Two more signs of Cottage Grove’s dedi- cation to sprucing up the downtown core area became evident on Main Street this past week. Pictured, Cheryl Chapman and Larry Robinson — the latter from Ten-Co Sign and Neon — began repainting the Coca Cola advertisement on the east side of Hoover’s Shoe Store, 7th and Main streets, Monday afternoon. The mural was constructed in 1938 and has been repainted only once since then. Last week, the Holloman Ford building on the corner of Ninth and Main, got a fresh coat of light blue paint with dark blue trim. POLICE BLOTTER June 9 Attempt to locate (informa- tion), I-5 corridor A 50-year old male white male wearing a tie-die shirt and khaki shorts threatened a group of people with a harpoon gun. An ATL was issued for a pos- sible Kyron Horman sighting. The reporting person said they had seen a child looking like the subject with a group of people at a restaurant in Reedsport. The child got into a white GMC truck with a black lumber rack. June 10 Domestic assault, Unknown location The reporting person said she received a voicemail from the Discount Smokes & Cigarettes BEST ! PRICES • Cigarettes • Cigars • Over 300 Glass Pipes • E-Cigarettes • Emerald E-Juice 178 Gateway Blvd Cottage Grove (Gateway Plaza) Summer hours: Mon - Fri 8am - 9pm: Sat - Sun 9am - 7pm 6 -day weather forecast THURSDAY June 18 FRIDAY June 19 47° | 77° 49° | 77° Sunny Partly Cloudy SATURDAY June 20 SUNDAY June 21 53° | 83° 53° | 83° Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy MONDAY June 22 TUESDAY June 23 54° | 81° 52° | 80° Sunny 4 FAMILY GARAGE SALE 1635 E. Adams Ave. Sat only 9am-3pm No early sales. GARAGE SALE Sat. only 9a-4p 76340 London Rd. LOTS of clothes, shoes, coats, and misc. items (no baby items). Please No Early Birds. ESTATE SALE 77316 Hwy 99 S. Sat-Sun 9am-4pm Antiques, collectibles, furniture, Corvette tires & wheels, auto- motive, plasma cutter, more! Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504 June 8 Attempt to locate (informa- tion), Baker Bay MULTI-FAMILY SALE 834 S. 6th St. Fri-Sat 9am-3pm Lots of Everything! GIRLFRIEND'S YARD SALE 1062 Washington Ave. Fri 9a-5p; Sat 9a-4p Terrifi c clothes, antiques, parrot cage, tools, BBQ, garden stuff, something for everyone! 1975 turned out to be quite a year for Cot- tage Grove High School track. The girls’ team placed second in the district meet, one of the Lions’ highest fi nishes in recent years, and went on to a ninth-place fi nish at state. The boys’ team placed fourth at districts, and 13th at state. Nine girls’ records were set this year as the ladies proved that they are now more com- petitive than ever. And Celena Schemer broke her own 220 record at the Junior Olympic meet in Portland last week, but it can’t count as a school record, according to coach Sue Laing, because the high school season was already over. Celena ran 25.0 in the Portland meet, and her school record is 25.21. Lion boys established four school records, and sophomore Mark Reynolds had a hand in three of them. Mark timed 14.5 for the 120-yard high hurdles at the state meet for one of his re- cords, he tied with Mark Ewing for the 330- yard intermediate hurdles record at 40.7 and he triple jumped 42-5 for the third school record. Jim Whitley, who high jumped for Cottage Grove at the state meet, now holds the school record in that event at 6-4 1/4. Jim cleared 6-4 at both the district and state meets, and barely missed 6-6 at both contests. Jerry Young had broken the old school record of 6-2 1/4 by leaping 6-3 earlier this year. The caller said her vehicle was stolen from the location sometime between 11 p.m. the previous evening and 7 a.m. that morning. The approximate val- ue of the vehicle is $1,350. CLIP ' CARRY GARAGE SALES HUGE GARAGE/ MOVING SALE 2070 Bryant Ave. Fri-Sat 9am-4pm Something for Everyone! Athletes re-write record book Unauthorized use of vehicle, E. Harrison Ave. 5A Sunny SAVE WATER - DRIP IRRIGATION AVAILABLE! LANDSCAPE AND BUILDING MATERIALS Open 7 days a week! 79149 N. River Road 541-942-4664 victim, who said she didn’t have anywhere to go. When the re- porting person returned the call, another female answered the phone and said that the victim had showed up the night before covered in bruises, her toenails ripped off and had rib and facial fractures. June 11 June 12 Theft, CG Mini Storage The reporting person said that a customer’s trailer, which was inside a secure fence, had been broken into. The stolen property included numerous camping items. June 13 Theft, All-America Square The caller said she left her purse at the location, and when she returned to retrieve it her wallet was missing. The stolen property included ID cards and cash. porting person said she did not give anyone permission to drive her vehicle. ject at her residence. Unknown trouble, Jehovahs Witness Church The reporting person, an em- ployee, said that a male sub- ject had threatened to shoot the pharmacist and staff at the loca- tion. The suspect did not have a weapon, though. The report- ing person did not know if the suspect had left the premises, but she described him as a thin, white male in his 20s wearing a black baseball cap, dark long sleeve shirt and jeans. Offi cers contacted the subject near the I-5 overpass and deter- mined that he was attempting to obtain Rx in another subject’s name but was refused. The caller said that two juve- niles under the age of fi ve were naked and running around the parking lot of the location. June 14 Unauthorized use of vehicle, E. Madison Ave. Welfare check, S. 8th St. The complainant said her ve- hicle was taken from the loca- tion sometime during the night, and her sister reported seeing it parked on N. 16th St. The re- The caller said she received an email from T., which read as if T. was “giving up,” and was having suicidal thoughts. Police were unable to contact the sub- Suspicious subject, Walmart O FFBEAT Continued from page 4A was wedged under the bed. She’d been beaten, burned with cigarettes and stabbed 19 times. Loel, of course, promptly vanished. Au- thorities tracked him as far as Shreveport, La., where he’d pawned some of his stuff. Then he disappeared from view. A year went by. The heinousness of the murder caught the attention of the FBI, which put him on its Ten Most Wanted list. But although the Most Wanted list was generally very effective in catching wanted crooks, Loel wasn’t caught that way. In- stead, it was his thirst for alcohol that did him in. On Jan. 9, 1955, the cops in Sanford, Fla., arrested a man who called himself Jack McCoy for public drunkenness. McCoy’s fi ngerprints turned out to be a match for Loel’s. And how was it that the cops had Loel’s fi ngerprints on fi le? Because they’d been taken when he was arrested for drunk- en driving, many years before. Loel was promptly extradited to Okla- homa and put on trial for the murder of Elizabeth Henderson. His attorney had a tough job trying to represent him, though, because he kept insisting that he’d killed her in self-defense, trying to fend off her sexual Three newspaper-clipping mugshots of former Sandy Police Chief Otto Austin Loel, published while the FBI was looking for him to charge him with murder. advances. Had the situation not been so seri- ous, the jurors would probably have met this claim with scornful snickers. Did this guy seriously expect them to believe that Eliza- beth Henderson was so hot for him that he’d been forced to defend himself from her rag- ing nymphomania — by burning her with cigarettes? It seemed he did. Consequently, the jury took very little time to come back with a unanimous guilty verdict. And so it was that, following a short series of appeals and requests for clemency (all of which were sabotaged by Loel’s remarkably unrepentant attitude), the former Chief of Police for the city of Sandy, Oregon, found himself strapped into an oak chair in the Oklahoma State Prison, a few minutes after midnight, a black hood over his head and electrodes on his head and legs, waiting for his 2,300 volts. By 12:07 a.m., it was done. By that time, Sandy had learned its lesson. After Loel’s fi ring, the city had promptly raised the city police chief’s salary to com- petitive levels, and the town has enjoyed competent, murderer-free police services ever since. (Sources: Hunter, Wally. “Who’s Who in Crime,” Portland Oregonian, 1/30/1955; Wilson, R. Michael. Legal Executions in Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. New York: McFarland, 2012; Portland Orego- nian, 5/22/1954, 1/18/1955 and 1/11/1957) Finn J.D. John teaches at Oregon State University and writes about odd tidbits of Oregon history. For details, see http://fi nn- john.com. To contact him or suggest a top- ic: fi nn2@offbeatoregon.com or 541-357- 2222. Meet the DJ/Program Host CAMERON REITEN I was born in the small town of Valley City, North Dakota on December 21, of 1986. I moved to Oregon in 1994 when I was seven years old. I graduated from Cottage Grove High School in 2005. In 2003 I came to KNND as an intern in the news department. My eight week internship served to reinforce my conviction that I wanted a career in radio. I was hired in 2005 aft er graduation and have been working at the radio station since. I have numerous duties at KNND, among them local news producer, host of the Rockin' Oldies Morning Show, as well as the Round Up Classic Country and Western Hoedown, (Monday and Th ursday 11:00 am - 3:00 pm) and the ever popular Swap and Shop show. 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