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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL December 30, 2015 5A Cottage Grove Retrospective A look back at Sentinel stories from 40 and 60 years ago Dec. 29, 1955 Dams save Grove area from damaging fl oods Dec. 25, 1975: Christmas Past Area residents got "just a hint of Christmas past at the December open house of the Cottage Grove Historical museum. According to Donna Allen, chairman of the muse- um committee, the rag doll and toy fi re truck in the Christmas tree display were both 1912 vintage. POLICE BLOTTER Dec. 24 Death Investigation, Holly Ave A reporting person advised of their 90 year old mother ap- pearing to be unresponsive and was unable to fi nd a pulse. The caller was transferred to Central Lane County. Agency Assist, Valley View Units were enroute to the loca- tion with medics for suspicion of gunshots being fi red. The While most of Oregon suf- fered from damaging and deathly fl oods, Cottage Grove remained comparatively free from the disaster. The reasons for Cottage Grove’s freedom from fl oods were two products of the U.S. Army Corps of En- gineers, Dorena and Cottage Grove dams. Neither of these two dams entirely stopped the rampag- ing fl ood water that fl owed into them, but they controlled it. The concrete structures kept the Coast Fork of the Willamette and the Row River within their banks in the Cottage Grove area and reduced the fl ood waters farther down stream. On the afternoon of Thursday, Dec. 22, Jack Wall, dam tender at Cottage Grove dam, was con- cerned about the possibility of the rain sending water over the spillway sometime that evening. Water was coming into the res- ervoir at the rate of around 6,000 cubic feet per second at that time and the Coast Fork banks could only hold around 3,000 cubic feet per second below the dam. Within the last 24 hours, the water in the 33,000 acre feet ca- pacity dam had increased from 19,000 acre feet to 30,150. Wall fi gured that the water would go over the dam simetime that night or the following morn- ing, whether the rain stopped or not. He calculated that the only thing that would reduce the pos- sibility of the fl ood being dam- aging to Cottage Grove would be for the rain to stop or for the weather to become cold enough to turn the precipitation into snow. A few hour delay would make the water uncontrollable. It snowed Thursday night and the water didn’t go over until late Friday morning. With 2,000 cubic feet per second being re- leased from the gates, only 250 cubic feet per second went over the top, therefore causing no damage below. Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504 offi cers on scene confi rmed that their were multiple gunshot wound victims inside the resi- dence. Dec. 25 Domestic Disturbance, Gate- way Blvd A caller advised that the neigh- bor downstairs was beating her kids; the kids are now upstairs with the caller. The children are 18 and 16 years old. The subject was still downstairs screaming and was intoxicated. Unlawful vehicle entry, John- son Ave A caller advised that their ve- hicle was broken into last night at the location. Reporting items missing were a wallet with debit cards and credit cards, an iPod, two buck knives in a case and two other unknown brand knives. The total approximate value is $450. was broken into last night and his daughter’s tablet was stolen. The tablets are LG tablets and worth approximately $99 each. The offi cers also seized a ciga- rette butt at the scene since no one at the residence smokes. Theft, Beach Rd. A caller advised that multiple guns have been stolen from her residence; the caller was trans- ferred to Lane County Sheriff’s Offi ce. Theft from Vehicle, 10th St. A caller advised their vehicle O FFBEAT Dec. 26 Theft from Vehicle, Johnson Ave A caller advised that her ve- hicle was broken into and that a Samsung Galaxy S6 cell phone was stolen, the approximate value being $900. The vehicle was left unlocked. laptop was stolen, $50 cash and miscellaneous jewelry was missing as well. Unlawful Vehicle Entry, Ar- thur Ave. A caller advised that her wallet was stolen out of her car and the subject has used her credit card at Little Caesars, Short Stop and Kwik Pick Market. Burglary, 6th St. A caller had just arrived home to fi nd that her residence had been broken into. A grey HP J OYCE Continued from page 4A crystallized Martin’s attitudes toward members of other ethnic groups into frank disdain. In this he was hardly unique among im- perial-age military men. When it’s one’s job to kill people, thinking of them as subhuman beasts to be eradicated rather than as brother men makes that job a lot more psychologically tolerable. And that kind of re- ductive, dehumanizing thinking can and did become a lifelong habit for an entire generation of British, French and American military men. Following the Boxer Rebel- lion, Martin returned to the states and served in various functions with great discipline and competence, much of it in the Portland area. In 1913, the Army lent him to the limping, ramshackle Oregon National Guard so that he might instill some proper military discipline into it. In 1916 he was deployed to reinforce Gen. John Pershing in his operations against Poncho Villa in Mexico. And then the U.S. entered the First World War. Martin, by now a full-bird col- onel, was temporarily promoted to brigadier general and put in 6 charge of training camps. It’s in this capacity that he earned the nickname “Iron pants.” His success in breaking down recruits to build them back up as soldiers led to Martin being given a particularly noteworthy assignment near the end of the war — an assignment that would probably be the ugliest stain on his career. The military authori- ties had a problem that they wanted his help with. It seemed that the African American sol- diers who had signed up to go to France and fi ght had been treat- ed as equals by the French, rath- er than as subhumans. Despite increasingly desperate attempts by white offi cers to induce the French to adopt the proper at- titude of arrogance and disdain toward them, the black dough- boys were enjoying an unprec- edented level of social freedom and acceptance. The worry was that they had gotten used to this, and would use their new status as war heroes to demand similar equality upon their return to the states. What was needed, according to military authorities, was a re- indoctrination clinic of sorts, un- der the guise of “training.” And who better to administer that -day weather forecast THURSDAY Dec. 31 FRIDAY Jan. 1 27° | 45° 26° | 43° Sunny Sunny SATURDAY Jan. 2 SUNDAY Jan. 3 28° | 43° 31° | 45° Sunny Sunny MONDAY Jan. 4 TUESDAY Jan. 5 34° | 48° 36s° | 46° Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy HAPPY HOLIDAYS! training than old Iron Pants? Martin himself had no use for blacks, opining many times that they were inferior in every way to himself and his white friends, and was thoroughly on board with the plan to “put them back in their place.” Thus did Charles Henry Mar- tin, future governor of the state of Oregon, become the central fi gure in one of the most shame- ful events in American military history — the deliberate, sys- tematic breaking of the spirit of an entire divisional cohort of American combat veterans and war heroes. The black veterans were given the most degrading duties Mar- tin could fi nd for them, includ- ing cleaning out toilet pits, bury- ing rotting corpses, and the kind of meaningless rock-breaking busywork one associates with prison chain gangs. They were worked all day and given no liberty to leave the camp. Mean- while, Martin and his staff cul- tivated rumors back home that they had been running amok in France, raping French girls by the dozens, and Martin openly referred to them as the “rap- ist division.” (An investigation later revealed that for the entire war, just two charges of rape were made against members of the division.) It is worth noting that Martin, after the war, blamed the low status of this “training” assign- ment for the fact that his tempo- rary promotion to general was not made permanent after the war. Perhaps lingering resent- ment of that belief is why, after the war, Martin fi led a report that would become the core of the U.S. Army’s policy on Afri- can American soldiers from the early 1920s until the early years of the Second World War. It was designed to minimize blacks’ access to the kind of combat roles in which they might dis- tinguish themselves as heroes, to avoid having black offi cers over the rank of fi rst lieutenant, and most of all to ensure that no white soldier or offi cer ever had to take an order from any black man of any rank whatever. Martin’s Army career ended with his retirement in 1927. He left the Army a very different man than he had been when he entered it. A merciless disci- plinarian with a worshipful at- titude toward vested authority and a growing fear of commu- nism, he was already starting to show signs of the Gen. Jack D. Ripper-style paranoia that his political career would reveal af- ter his return to civilian life. We’ll talk about that political career in next week’s column. (Sources: Murrell, Gary. Iron Pants: Oregon’s Anti-New-Deal Governor. Pullman, Wash.: WSU Press, 2000; Murrell, Gary. “Hunting Reds in Or- egon,” Oregon Historical Quar- terly, winter 1999) e v i t o m o Aut s e i t l a i c e Sp Continued from page 2A way: What are you hoping for? What are you expecting in life? What are you looking forward to? Focus on that. My negative outlook was due to my attitude about all the bad things that had happened in my life. I was stuck in the pain of my past, so I didn’t believe any- thing good would happen in my future. Because of all of the neg- ative things that had happened, I was programmed to believe that negative things would always happen. I lost hope. Well, God was there and He knew that. But over time He kept loving me and dealing with me, promising me what Isa- iah 61:7 says: “Instead of your shame you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your inheri- tance. And so you will inherit a double portion in your land, and everlasting joy will be yours” (NIV). That’s a promise for us all…a promise of double for your trouble! Double the bless- ing, double the joy, double the peace! Hallelujah! Now doesn’t that inspire hope in your heart? Of course, this double-bless- ing promise isn’t for the double- minded. When you walk it out in everyday life, there will be times when doubt, fear, unbelief and weariness will come against you. It’s in these times you will need to fi ght a good fi ght of faith. You will need to guard your mind against negativity about your situation. I encour- age you to fi nd out what God says about it and then stand on the promises in His Word. The Bible tells of many times when people encountered Jesus and He touched their lives, they wanted to stay with Him and follow Hi — understandably so. But He sent them home—back to everyday life—to live out and share with others what He’d done. They had to hold on to what He had done for them. In the same way, we must hold on to whatever He promises us and be confi dent that He is working in our situation. Hope releases the power of the Holy Spirit in these times. Hope I want to encourage you to make a decision to cultivate an attitude of hope in your life. Speak positive things about your future and refuse to be negative. You may not always feel hope- ful but don’t give in to your feelings. Catering to bad feel- ings feeds and empowers them. But standing our ground and not giving in to negative feelings starves them and causes them to lose their power over us. Just ask the Holy Spirit to lead you. Line your will up with His and get excited about serv- ing God. You could even be one who inspires others to become prisoners of hope! Joyce Meyer is a New York Times bestselling author and founder of Joyce Meyer Min- istries, Inc. She has authored nearly 100 books, including Battlefi eld of the Mind and The Mind Connection (Hachette). She hosts the Enjoying Ev- eryday Life radio and TV pro- grams, which air on hundreds of stations worldwide. For more information, visit www.joycemeyer.org. Douglas G. Maddess, DMD FAMILY AND GENERAL DENTISTRY Brightening Lives One Smile at a Time PRACTICING THE ART OF TRANSMISSION REPAIR SINCE 1991 Manual & Automatic Transmission Repair Tune ups 30-60-90K Services Brakes, belts, hoses and cooling system services Muffl ers & Custom Exhaust Drive-train repair such as clutches, u joints and differentials All makes and models. 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