4A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL July 29, 2015
O PINION
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Bravo!
Bravo, Cottage Grove! Tonight a
little bit of magic was sprinkled into
the center of town via the Eugene Sym-
phony’s lovely performance in our new
Bohemia Park. It occurred to me how
brave it was for the generous benefac-
tors and volunteers who must have had
moments wondering if anyone would
show up. For it takes courage to take
a chance on bringing a symphony to
town with hopes the music will be a hit
(and on a hot night too). Put those wor-
ries aside, for it seemed the entire town
arrived and thoroughly enjoyed the
event. Old friends greeted each other
in the crowds, picnickers were every-
where and children danced to the tunes
with their grinning parents nearby. I’ll
remember this night, as it’s a bit too
easy to get grumpy with town issues
and that certainly includes myself...but
tonight? Not so much, for this was a
reminder that the real soul of Cottage
Grove is how we can come together.
Thank you Faye Stewart and everyone
else who stepped up to make this night
happen. So now...we applaud YOU!
Nancy P Wales
Cottage Grove
Clean up
My dog “PUP” and I try to take a
walk around the beautiful city of Cot-
tage Grove each morning.
As Pup and I walk around it makes
me happy to be part of a city such as
ours, a lot of the well taken care of
yards and properties. Occasionally we
will notice a Yard of the Week sign; this
makes me smile to think of the labor in-
volved in keeping one’s place looking
nice. Occasionally we will see a yard
with large dandelions, morning glory,
the start of a blackberry vine and vari-
ous other plants that some would fi nd
undesirable. I think if the dandelions
were just a little bit larger they would
be classifi ed as “old growth;” then they
would be a protected species. I have to
smile then at these yards also, thinking
they need a sign that says, “This is not
yard of the week”. Just in case some-
body was confused, the sign would
erase all doubt.
Something that is disturbing though,
is the inconsiderate jerks who do not
clean up after their dogs. A small plas-
tic bag is all it would take to pick up
the dog poop. I noticed one fellow
waiting for his dog to poop then threw
his cigarette but down on the sidewalk
as he and the dog walked away — nice
citizen that person. Signs such as the
one on the trails by the ponds that ad-
dress dog feces should be placed on the
popular walk paths around town; may-
be it would cause people to think about
cleaning up after their dogs!
Dick Gilkison
Cottage Grove
I recommend prayer
Greetings to all of the hate-fi lled lib-
erals,
Such expressions of hate are not usu-
al in the letters to the editor as printed
in the Sentinel ("Racism and Hate is
alive and well in Cottage Grove, July
22 Sentinel.") But to so blatantly ex-
press the desire to trample on another
person’s First Amendment rights is
certainly indicative of far too much of
what passes for the liberal’s credo at
the present time. And showing such a
childish attitude: “If you will not play
by my rules, I will just take my toys
home and pout!” And to irrationally
punish all the other vendors by with-
holding your patronage is just “cutting
off your nose to spite your face.” Let
me tell you about hate: A few years
ago, I was driving in Eugene. Stopped
at a red light, I saw a young man run
to the middle of the intersection and
set an American fl ag on fi re. The hate
that I felt toward that person was over-
Offbeat Oregon History
Oregon’s 20th-century “gold rush”:
The quest for uranium
BY FINN J.D. JOHN
For the Sentinel
W
hen people talk about
mining in Oregon,
they’re usually thinking of gold
– something the Beaver State
still has plenty of, hidden away
in high-country streambeds and
quartzite ore deposits.
But there’s another precious
metal out there in Oregon’s out-
back, and it’s one that inspired a
bigger “gold rush” than even the
big one of 1849: Uranium.
The heart of the uranium min-
ing story is centered on the dry
states of the Southwest – Ne-
vada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado
and New Mexico. But the south-
east quarter of Oregon was ura-
nium country, too, back in the
decade and a half following the
Second World War.
Uranium: The heaviest
metal
Uranium is one of the heaviest
naturally occurring elements on
Planet Earth – except for some
traces of plutonium, everything
heavier is a man-made element.
It comes in several different fl a-
vors, only one of which is the
radioactive uranium 238 that’s
used to make nuclear bombs
and reactors.
Uranium had been used for
other things before the atomic
whelming; I wanted to leap out of the
car and beat him. But I didn’t. What I
did do was to pray to God to remove
such hate from my heart, and He did.
I have never hated another person, in
spite of some considerable provoca-
tion. I wonder if those complaining
about the presence of what they hate
have any idea as to why the sales of the
Rebel fl ag in this area were so brisk?
It’s something to ponder. I recommend
to those complainers and other liberals
that they avoid driving around town be-
cause there are quite a few Stars and
Bars waving in the area. So, remem-
ber this, if denying another person’s
First Amendment rights is successful,
you may be next in line. I recommend
prayer.
age came along, but for the most
part, it had been a waste product
– part of the waste tailings gen-
erated by refi ning carnotite ore
for radium and vanadium. But
when the U.S. government start-
ed spinning up its production
of nukes for Cold War chest-
thumping purposes, things sud-
denly got very crazy in uranium
country.
Starting around 1952, the
Atomic Energy Commission
started building roads into
promising uranium regions,
and announced guarantees of a
minimum of $50 per ton on ore
that exceeded 0.3 percent urani-
um. They also offered a $10,000
cash bonus for prospectors who
found big deposits of the stuff
and offered to analyze the sam-
ples for free.
The result was a massive,
government-sponsored mining
rush. All over the arid West,
this federal intervention got lo-
cal residents and out-of-town
Herb Ball, PhD
Cottage Grove
Flags
Well here we go again — the Con-
federate fl ag. I saw it on the local TV
news, so I went right down to get one,
and a “Don’t Tread on Me” fl ag also. It
will be one subject after another, one
controversy after another. Well, I guess
it is time to take the American fl ag
down, with what this country has done
to the Indians.
My fl ag is the one that was on the
Navy battleships.
People, it’s the people behind the
scenes that start this garbage to further
divide the people. You should really pay
attention to what they are really plan-
prospectors alike very excited
indeed.
The dryer parts of Oregon
were no exception. Deposits of
uranium had been found there,
near Steens Mountain, in the late
1940s. Now, remembering that,
local residents found themselves
joined by hordes of prospectors
from out of the area, all of them
crawling all over the arid desert
in four-wheel-drive rigs looking
for “A-metal,” fl ashing Geiger
counters at every possible out-
cropping and staking claims
when the gadgets beeped.
Mining on Main Street
One enterprising fellow, Earl
Sheridan, set the tone for Ura-
nium Mania in the Beaver State
on the streets of his home city
of Klamath Falls. A descendant
of city founder George Nurse,
he believed that he had inherited
the mineral rights to the entire
town. So he staked out a claim,
ning for you — stop hopping on the
bandwagon. You’re being used — they
are going after all you care about and
love. You can make or believe what-
ever you want to about the Confeder-
ate fl ag, but get your facts straight. We
must stand together, never give in, fi ght
like there’s no tomorrow. There will
be more garbage coming to keep you
off track. Be ready. Flags don’t cause
people to shoot people. And I’ve never
seen a fl ag get up and shoot people.
Mike Ritter
Cottage Groves
pitched a tent, loaded his shot-
gun and stood guard there to de-
fend it … in the middle of Main
Street. He stayed there on guard
through a bout of appendicitis
but quit the scene after his law-
yer found out that Nurse had in
fact deeded over mineral rights
to the city.
In a sense, Oregon’s back-
country was a real uranium
“tease.” There was plenty of
uranium out there in Oregon,
so prospectors’ Geiger counters
were kept in a relatively con-
stant state of excitement; but
only two deposits would turn
out to be commercially viable:
the White King Mine and the
Lucky Lass Mine. They were
both close by each other in the
Fremont National Forest, near
Lakeview.
Soon the two deposits were
being exploited with giant open-
pit mines, and Lakeview got a
brand-new uranium processing
mill in 1958.
It wasn’t long, however, be-
fore the federal government de-
cided it had enough uranium to
blow the world up several times
over or provide it with centu-
ries of electric power. The feds
pulled the plug on the AEC’s
heavily subsidized program,
and uranium mines all over the
arid West were abandoned.
fi ned carbohydrates, like white
fl our, white rice, and sugars can
also raise IGF-1 levels, because
they cause rapid increases in in-
sulin levels, leading to increases
in IGF-1 signaling. In fact, IGF-
1 signaling is thought to be a
major factor in the connection
between diabetes and cancer.
It is the amino acid distri-
bution of animal protein that
sparks IGF-1 production. For
this reason, isolated soy protein,
found in protein powders and
meat substitutes, may also be
problematic because the protein
is unnaturally concentrated and
its amino acid profi le is very
similar to that of animal pro-
tein.
How can we keep IGF-1 in
a safe range? Reducing IGF-
1 levels by dietary methods is
now considered by many sci-
entists to be an effective cancer
prevention measure. Minimiz-
ing or avoiding animal protein,
isolated soy protein and refi ned
carbohydrates can help to keep
our IGF-1 levels in a safe range.
Green vegetables, beans and
other legumes, and seeds are
rich in plant protein and they
have cancer-preventive, not can-
cer-promoting properties. For
optimal cancer protection, veg-
etables, beans, fruits, nuts and
seeds should comprise the vast
majority of our calories.
The aftermath
It could have been worse,
though. In other states, it was.
Because Oregon was on the pe-
riphery of the uranium-mining
boom, it missed out on most
of the worst effects of uranium
mining, such as were experi-
enced by more southerly states.
The problem was, uranium ore
was nasty stuff and often con-
tained radium to boot. Miners
who tried to save some money
Please see OFFBEAT, Page 5A
Animal protein, IGF-1 and cancer
BY JOEL FUHRMAN, MD
For the Sentinel
M
ost people are aware of
the connections between
red and processed meats and
cancer—that there is convinc-
ing evidence that these danger-
ous foods are a cause of colon
cancer. In addition, cooking any
meat at high temperatures (for
example, grilled or fried chick-
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