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
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Summer hours:
Mon - Fri 8am - 9pm: Sat - Sun 9am - 7pm
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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
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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.
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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
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Show, as well as the Round Up Classic Country and Western Hoedown,
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and love the opportunity to carry on the tradition of service that has been the
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