COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL January 6, 2016
Cottage Grove Retrospective
A look back at Sentinel stories from 30 and 70 years ago
Jan. 3, 1946
Appeal made for
funds for veterans
memorial building
Approximately 3,000 letters
are being mailed out this week
from the Veteran’s Memorial
Inc., asking the people of South
Lane county to contribute to the
proposed all veterans memo-
rial building here. The project is
sponsored jointly by the Ameri-
can Legion, the Veterans of For-
eign Wars, Disabled American
Jan. 1, 1986
Ice creates havoc
over holidays
The sights and sounds along
Interstate 5 just south of the bor-
der separating Lane and Doug-
las Counties have been very
consistent during the past two
and a half weeks.
Consistently bad.
Oregon State Police troopers
directing long lines of traffi c,
the fl ashing of motorists’ brake
lights and paramedics hauling
around medical bags have been
as commonplace as the sounds
of truckers shifting down, fl ares
sizzling along the roadside and,
Veterans, the Chamber of Com-
merce and other civic organi-
zations. A lot for the proposed
building has been purchased.
Sponsors of the memorial
hope to have the building under
construction before the close of
the summer.
The appeal:
To our friends of southern
Lane county: The veterans of
southern Lane county are asking
you to assist in erecting a me-
morial to the men of our vicinity
who will not come home. Many
of you have sons and brothers or
other relatives who have given
their lives for our country and to
secure for use the homes we live
in and that we might continue
to enjoy the privileges of a free
country. We are asking you to
join with us in expressing an ap-
preciation of their sacrifi ces and
to help in erecting a memorial
building in their honor.
This building is to be used
as a center for patriotic orga-
nizations. It is beautiful in de-
sign and will be a credit to the
community. We are asking you
to give towards its erection as
much as your circumstances
permit that you may feel you
have an interest in honoring the
boys that are resting in far coun-
tries and give the honor and re-
spect due to them. Our commu-
nity needs this living memorial
to keep their memory sacred.
We think you will be pleased to
have a part in this memorial and
ask you to give what you can in
bonds or cash to this fun.
For your protection, send your
donation to the Veterans Memo-
rial Building Fund or hand it to
H. E. Eakin at the First National
Bank; C J. Kem , chairman of
the Chamber of Commerce
Memorial committee; Chas. S.
Hall, chairman of Veterans Me-
morial Building Fund.
for those in the wrong place at
the wrong time, metal hitting
metal.
Since Dec. 13, state police,
paramedics and tow truck driv-
ers from Cottage Grove and
Drain have been making regular
trips to I-5 between mileposts
168 and 162.
As of Monday, the OSP fi led
reports on 35 accidents in that
area and many more likely have
gone unreported. None have
yielded serious injuries.
Ron Taylor, who has operated
Taylor’s Towing since 1969,
says he would prefer business
not being quite so good.
“This is the worst I’ve ever
seen it,” Taylor said Thursday
morning after being called to
an accident in the southbound
lanes where the freeway begins
to snake into a small canyon.
“It makes me nervous every
time I’m here, I’m bound to get
hit eventually.”
Taylor was responding to a
mishap which came about when
a Portland woman lost control
of the car she was driving.
POLICE BLOTTER
Dec. 28
5A
Icy road conditions
keep fi rst responders
active on I-5
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
P
ersonnel with South Lane
County Fire and Rescue
had a busy fi rst weekend of
2016, responding to at least a
dozen calls related to freezing
rain that left a sheet of ice cover-
ing the area overnight Saturday.
Division Chief Joe Raade said
that calls from motorists regard-
ing vehicles that had strayed
from the highway during icy
conditions began at about 2 a.m.
Sunday morning. He said fi rst
responders had handled nine
calls before 2 p.m. Sunday, calls
that began to taper off as warm-
er temperatures helped melt the
thin sheet of ice at about noon.
Two areas in particular kept
fi refi ghters (and drivers) busy,
Raade said — the area of Inter-
state 5 south of Cottage Grove
to the Douglas County line from
mileposts 168-171, and the in-
terstate north of Creswell to the
Highway 58 exit.
“That area was nasty,” Raade
said of the freeway north of Cre-
swell. “That’s normally where
we get ‘em, probably due to the
frost on the Camas Swale bridg-
es. There’s also some kind of
change in the climate when you
get down to the curves headed
toward Curtin.”
The fi rst crash of the weekend
involved a semi truck and car,
though the rest were crashes in-
volving passenger cars. Raade
expressed amazement that no
one was injured in any of the
dozen incidents. Previously, icy
conditions on Dec. 23 led to
crashes including one in which
South Lane Fire transported
seven patients to the hospital.
“It usually takes a few days
before people realize that they
need to slow down and adjust
their driving to the conditions,”
Raade said. “But it’s supposed
to warm up in the next few days,
so hopefully we’re okay for a
while.”
Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504
Dec. 29
Neighborhood Problem, Tyler
Ave.
A reporting person advised
police of a problem with the
neighbor, accusing her of al-
lowing her dog to poop in their
yard. The neighbor put a pile of
dog poop on her doorstep and
was refusing to clean it up even
though it was not her dog that
did the dirty deed. An offi cer
contacted both parties and the
subject was advised to call
if she observes the reporting
person’s dog in her yard.
Burglary, S 11th St.
A caller advised that he
believes someone entered his
back door and that when he
arrived home, all the lights
were off in the residence which
never happens. The caller then
advised police that a vehicle
in front of his residence left
just prior to the police offi cer’s
arrival. The police offi cer con-
fi rmed that there was an entry
through the back window.
Theft, N 9th St.
A caller reported that his trailer
was stolen from the location.
The trailer is 12x6 feet with
wooden sides. The theft oc-
curred within the last two days.
Burglary, S. 4th St.
A man came in through a
woman’s unlocked back door
while the woman was awake
watching TV. The subject was
described as a man in a camo
hoodie who struggled with the
caller and drug her out the back
door. The woman got away and
Dec. 30
the subject was last seen going
around the south side of the
residence. The subject was pos-
sibly armed with a .45 revolver
or possibly a semi automatic
weapon.
Dec. 31
DUII, Gateway Blvd
A caller advised of a red Cor-
vette parked at the location and
the driver is possibly under the
infl uence of intoxicants. The
driver apparently hit the curb
coming in to the parking lot
and almost hit the fi re hydrant.
The caller then called back to
advise police that he is now
urinating outside the vehicle.
Offi cers contacted the subject
and transported him to the PD
for processing.
Jan. 1
Motor Vehicle Accident,
Shoreview Dr.
A reporting person advised
that a vehicle had rolled over at
the location with three people
inside. No one was injured, the
caller was transferred to Lane
County Sheriff’s Offi ce.
courtesy photo
Locations north and south of Cottage Grove on I-5 were
prime crash sites this weekend.
Fire Chief , family
rescued after frigid
Christmas Eve
Missing Adult, Chamberlain
Ave.
A caller advised that his girl-
friend was supposed to pick
him up at the Redmond Airport
the night before and never ar-
rived. He also advised that he
has called her phone numer-
ous times with no answer and
now the phone goes straight to
voicemail. The offi cer talked
to the woman’s roommate who
said she talked to her around
6 am and was alright at that
time. The roommate will call
the police department when the
victim returns so an offi cer can
verify her status.
outh Lane County Fire
and Rescue Chief John
Wooten found the tables turned
over the Christmas holiday.
Wooten told a Eugene-based
television station that he and his
family were rescued on Christ-
mas day after their truck got
stuck on a snowy road. Woo-
ten said the family left Cottage
Grove to visit family in Cres-
cent City, adding that during the
journey they took an alternate
route toward Highway 199 after
missing their route. Their truck
hit a patch of ice and slid into
a ditch, becoming stuck there.
The family spent the day and
night inside the truck, he said,
though Wooten later hiked sev-
eral miles to get cell phone ser-
vice and call for help. He said
he injured his knee but the fam-
ily is otherwise okay.
Wooten credited supplies of
warm clothing, food and water
with helping him and his family
weather their ordeal.
public spending — just to pub-
lic spending on relief programs.
During his term, the National
Guard and State Police never
wanted for resources.
And those resources got used.
The 1930s were a time of much
unrest among unions and labor
leaders; federal legislation had
recognized unions’ right to exist
and to strike a few years before.
Now, as they started doing so,
they seemed to inspire Martin’s
full paranoia. Perhaps thinking
of a labor strike as analogous
to a mutiny among soldiers, he
saw them as an existential threat
to democracy and Western civi-
lization. “The purpose of both
(the AFL and the CIO) is the
same,” he wrote to a sympathet-
ic fellow military man. “To seize
control of the government.”
To counter this threat to de-
mocracy, Martin felt that an-
tidemocratic measures were
warranted. Martin waged what
amounted to a cold civil war in
Oregon from 1934 until he was
stripped of his power in a bitter
primary fi ght and sent kicking
and screaming into retirement in
1938. We’ll talk in detail about
that cold civil war — the spies,
the bribery, the perjury, the at-
tempts to get people fi red, and
even a case in which a blood-
bath was barely avoided — in
next week’s column.
S
O FFBEAT
When Dust Bowl refugees
tried to come to Oregon, he or-
dered the state relief commit-
tee to close down the Roosevelt
Transient Camp in Roseburg
— he called it a “tramp camp”
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— and hustle them on their
way. He vetoed every attempt
at relief for veterans, and when
some of them began falling be-
hind on their government-guar-
anteed home loans, called them
“skunks.” He even proposed, in
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a speech to a group of Young
Democrats in Eugene, that 900
developmentally disabled pa-
tients at the Fairview Training
Center in Salem should be “put
out of their misery.”
“War is the normal state of
man, in spite of all the wishful
thinking of pacifi sts,” he said;
and in that war, in which only
the fi ttest will survive, society
can ill afford to coddle its unfi t
elements.
This was a philosophy Martin
shared with many other military
men at that time — including
the ones who had seized pow-
er in Italy and Germany. Like
them, he was not opposed to
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