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4A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL August 5, 2015 O PINION LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Nice baskets Thank you all so very much for the beautiful fl ower baskets on Main Street. Whoever made them up and, most especially, to whoever watered and main- tained them, especially dur- ing our hot spell, are all to be congratulated. We have several eyesores like canopies on Main Street, but the trees and fl ower baskets make up for a lot. Sujo Tryk Cottage Grove CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS Cottage Grove City Hall: 942- 5501. www.cottagegrove.org/ Lane County Commissioners: Faye Stewart, East Lane Com- missioner Lane County Public Service Building 125 East 8th Street Eugene, OR 97401 Phone: (541) 682-4203 Fax: (541) 682-4616 Cottage Grove Mayor Tom Munroe: 942-5501. Cottage Grove City Councilors: Mike Fleck, At Large: 942-7302 Oregon State House of Representatives: Heather Murphy, At Large: 942-3444 Rep. Cedric Hayden (REP) District: 7 900 Court Street NE Suite H-379 Salem, OR 97301 Phone: (503) 986-1407 Fax: (503) 986-1130 Email: rep.cedrichayden@state. or.us Jake Boone, Ward 1: 653-7413 Jeff Gowing, Ward 2: 942-1900 Garland Burback, Ward 3: 942-4800 Offbeat Oregon History Navy schooner doomed by skipper’s fear of skipping sailors BY FINN J.D. JOHN For the Sentinel H istory is not always made by the “great.” Sometimes key points in history turn on people like 25-year- old ex-sailor John Tice. Tice, according to the United States Navy, “pretends to be a blacksmith, but is a bungler at that or any other busi- ness he undertakes.” The offi cer who wrote those words had no idea how much Tice’s “bun- gling” would affect him personally. There’s some reason to believe that Tice and a half dozen of his fellow sail- ors were ultimately responsible for one of the most storied shipwrecks of the 1800s — and, incidentally, for putting the “cannon” in Cannon Beach. They did this by quitting — slip- ping away from the U.S. Navy schoo- ner U.S.S. Shark during its two-month survey-and-exploration mission of the Oregon country, during the summer of 1846. Sailors deserting from that particular ship at that particular time in the Or- egon country posed a massive problem for their skipper. They could not be re- placed. The only non-Native American men in the Oregon Territory in 1846 were people who had paid vast sums and made enormous sacrifi ces to get there. Nobody who had made the gru- eling overland journey along the Or- egon Trail would ever think of signing onto a Navy ship for seaman’s wages after arriving there. Especially not in the summertime. Moreover, the residents of Astoria — where the men were believed to be hiding out — showed no sign of re- sponding to the generous bounties of- fered for their recapture. It looked like the deserters were home free, in a wild new state full of freedom and opportu- nity. This fact was not lost on the other sailors on the Shark, who were already resentful of Navy’s offi cial policy on ships in port — designed to prevent desertion. The policy was, sailors were denied any shore leave and had to re- main on board the ship even when it was securely anchored in the same place for days on end. As a result, on shore, sailors could see the generous sunshine and scenic beauty of a temperate northwest Or- egon summer — but they couldn’t go experience it. Now they were beginning to see that if they could but slip away in the mid- dle of the night, their chances of get- ting away clean were pretty good. And if enough of them acted on that realiza- tion, the Shark’s captain, Lt. Neil M. Howison, stood a pretty good chance of getting stranded there, without enough crewmembers to sail back home. And so, in the grand old tradition of haste making waste, Howison wrapped up his business in record time and or- dered his ship out to sea with an almost panicky urgency — when a delay of a few days would probably have made all the difference between success and soggy, chilly, humiliating failure. The hunter of slave ships The U.S.S. Shark may have been the most historically signifi cant fl oating object to enter the Columbia River in the entire 19th century. It had been built 25 years before and still represented a powerful threat as a Navy ship. It was a small ship, just 86 feet long and displacing 200 tons. It was designed as a pirate hunter, intended to help make the Caribbean Sea a less danger- ous place for American merchant ships. Its hull was that of a Baltimore clipper, and it was rigged as a topsail schooner, with aggressively raked masts and a colossal square topsail on the main, all of which made it extraordinarily fast while keeping its draft shallow. The Shark also was endowed with a particularly hefty load of fi repower for such a small warship: a pair of rifl ed long guns throwing nine-pound can- nonballs, and eight beefy, short-range carronades throwing 32-pound charg- es. This combination would have been a deadly one in a fi ght with any pirate ship of the day. But its fi rst assign- ment, in 1821, was to operate against a different kind of pirate: slave traders. The slave trade had been outlawed for American skippers and traders in 1808, but that hadn’t ended the practice, and American, Portugese and French smug- glers continued hauling unfortunate Africans across the sea to plantations of sugar and cotton in the Caribbean and the American South. Of course, the rescued slaves had to be taken somewhere. So in 1821, the year it was launched, the Shark brought Dr. Eli Ayres to Sierra Leone to acquire land in West Africa for what would be- come the nation of Liberia — where the former slaves were resettled after being rescued from their hellships (and, in most cases, nursed back to health). Later the Shark’s captain, Matthew Perry — the same man who famously visited and “opened” Japan some years later — found and formally took pos- session of a Caribbean island that he dubbed Thompson’s Island, after the U.S. Secretary of the Navy. Thomp- son’s Island is, today, better known as Key West. Then in 1839, the doughty little schooner became the fi rst U.S. Navy ship to ever pass through the notori- ously stormy and dangerous Strait of Please see OFFBEAT, Page 5A Ten best and worst foods for health and longevity BY JOEL FUHRMAN, MD For the Sentinel ents, phytochemicals and other health-promoting compounds. People want to know which high-nutrient foods provide the keys to optimum health and lon- gevity. They are searching for a simple answer to the question, “What should I eat to reach my ideal weight, achieve immunity to disease and feel my best ev- ery day?” It is diffi cult to squeeze all the nutrient-dense, health-pro- I a m often asked for my list of the best foods to eat — the foods that contain the most micronutri- $ PUUBHF ( SPWF 4 FOUJOFM 116 N. Sixth Street · P.O. Box 35 · Cottage Grove, OR 97424 ADMINISTRATION: JOHN BARTLETT, Regional Publisher.............................. GARY MANLY, General Manager................942-3325 Ext. 207 • publisher@cgsentinel.com ROBIN REISER, Sales Repersentative...............942-3325 Ext. 203 • robin@cgsentinel.com E. 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In foreign countries, postage extra. No subscription for less than Ten Weeks. Subscription rates are subject to change upon 30 days’ notice. All subscritptions must be paid prior to beginning the subscription and are non-refundable. Periodicals postage paid at Cottage Grove, Oregon. Postmaster: Send address changes to P.O. Box 35, Cottage Grove, OR 97424. Local Mail Service: If you don’t receive your Cottage Grove Sentinel on the Wednesday of publication, please let us know. Call 942-3325 between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Advertising ownership: All advertising copy and illustrations prepared by the Cottage Grove Sentinel become the property of the Cottage Grove Sentinel and may not be reproduced for any other use without explicit written prior approval. Copyright Notice: Entire contents ©2015 Cottage Grove Sentinel. moting foods into a list of the 10 best. The foods on my list however, are the foods that I believe everyone should include in their diet on a regular basis. They strongly protect against cancer and favor longevity. They contain the most vitamins and minerals and powerful phy- tochemicals including allium compounds, glucosinolates, aromatase inhibitors, fl avonoids and lignans. Of course, not all of my favorites could make my top-10, and the runners-up include many other vegetables and fruits. Ten Best Foods: Green Leafy Vegetables (e.g. kale, collard greens, mustard greens, spinach, lettuce) Non Leafy Cruciferous Vegeta- bles (e.g. broccoli, caulifl ower, Brussels sprouts, cabbage) Berries Beans Mushrooms Onions Seeds (e.g. fl ax, chia, hemp, sesame, sunfl ower, pumpkin) Nuts (e.g. walnuts, pistachios, pine nuts, almonds) Tomatoes Pomegranates It is almost just as challenging to take all the bad foods in the world and condense them down to the worst of the worst. Foods have the power to heal but also have the power to harm. Our leading causes of death, includ- ing cancer, diabetes, and heart disease are primarily the result of the foods we eat. The wrong foods can be as addictive as drugs and alcohol and can cause us to lead lives that provide only a fraction of our potential for health, energy level and physi- ological well-being. Foods such as dairy and other animal products are rich in sub- stances that scientifi c investiga- tions have shown to be associat- ed with cancer and heart disease incidence: animal protein, satu- rated fat, cholesterol and ara- chidonic acid. The high animal protein content of dairy increas- es levels of IGF-1 in the blood, which increases cancer risk. The combination of dairy with insulin-raising sugars is even more dangerous when it comes to cancer risk. Processed foods containing refi ned white sugar, refi ned white fl our, salt and oil comprise over 60 percent of the calories in the American diet but provide little if any of the antioxidant nutrients or phyto- chemicals that are essential for preventing chronic disease and premature death. Salt consump- tion has been linked to both stomach cancer and hyperten- sion. Needless to say, I advise people to avoid the foods on my “worst” list entirely. Ten Worst Foods: Sweetened Dairy Products (e.g. ice cream, low-fat ice cream, frozen yogurt) Trans Fat Containing Foods (e.g. stick margarine, shorten- ing, fast foods, commercial baked goods) Donuts Sausage, Hot Dogs and Luncheon Meats Smoked Meat, Barbecued Meat and Conventionally Raised Red Meat Fried Foods including Potato Chips and French Fries Highly salted Foods Soda Refi ned White Sugar Refi ned White Flour It is clear that unrefi ned plant foods should make up the bulk of your diet and that fruits and vegetables score highest on the nutrient density scale in terms of concentration of nutrients per calorie. It is also obvious to anyone who has studied the re- search and looked at the trends in recent years, that a diet based on refi ned processed foods and animal products cannot sustain optimum health and protection against disease. Dr. Fuhrman is a #1 New York Times best-selling author and a family physician specializing in lifestyle and nutritional medi- cine. 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