COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL January 20, 2016
CITY BEAT
Cottage Grove Retrospective
A look back at Sentinel stories from 30 and 60 years ago
Jan. 22, 1986
Jan. 19, 1956
Former mayor
Cottage Grove has largest six-lane
back downtown
junior bowling program in Oregon
Just because he traded in his
gavel last year for the tamer life,
don’t count on former mayor
Bill Whiteman to be leaning
back in a chair watching the rest
of Cottage Grove going past
him.
He said when he decided not
to run for another term as mayor
that he wanted to have more
time for business pursuits as a
partner in Inn Enterprises Inc.
And with the opening last
month of the Bakery on Main
Street, Whiteman is back within
shouting distance of city hall.
Apparently he enjoys the
homecoming.
“it’s more than met our ex-
pectations and business is ex-
cellent,” he said. “We said from
POLICE BLOTTER
Jan. 11
Suicidal Subject, Snauer
Lane
A caller advised that her boy-
friend is suicidal and has a knife.
The call disconnected on trans-
fer to the Lane County Sheriff’s
Offi ce.
Burglary, N 14th St.
A reporting person advised
that a window in front of the
location has been broken. An
offi cer contacted the reporting
person for addition info and to
fi le a burglary report.
Suspicious Conditions,
Anthony Ave
A call reported that another
possible attempted burglary
the beginning that we’d like to
do something downtown.
He pegged the total invest-
ment in the business thus far at
$37,000.
It has long been the feeling of
most people that the best way
to keep kids out of trouble is
to give them something to do.
Something they will enjoy more
than trouble making pranks,
which eventually outgrow the
“prank” stage. What could be
better than a clean interesting
competitive sport, they ask.
Milton Raymer of Chicago
probably realized this when he
organized the American Junior
Bowling Congress.
Mr. Raymer’s idea spread un-
til over 50,000 youngsters in 43
states and four foreign countries
participating in junior bowling.
In the fall of 1954 he came to
Oregon, sponsored by the Wo-
mens Bowling associations of
several cities, to organize the
state Junior Bowling Congress.
In November of that he he gave
instructions in league develop-
ment and how to help beginning
bowlers to a group of adults in
Eugene interested in starting the
program there.
Last year, shortly after Marga-
ret Spriggs opened the Cottage
Bowl, junior bowling starting
in Cottage Grove. Through the
efforts of a handful of persons
willing to give their time devel-
oping and managing the leagues
and the excellent cooperation of
local merchants in the sponsor-
ship of teams, Cottage Grove
can boast of 22 junior and ban-
tam teams; an Oregon state re-
cord for a six-lane house.
Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504
occurred as the caller found a
window screen ajar and wasn’t
sure if entry was attempted or if
the screen fell due to a broken
clip. The caller also reported the
theft of a micro SD card from
her Nintendo Wii.
Jan. 12
Found Bike, N 8th St.
A caller advised that there
was a bicycle in the far left cor-
ner by the hedge at the location
and that the bike has been there
for two days. The bicycle is a
green Sierra Quest with no seat
and gears broken off.
Unlawful Entry to Motor
Vehicle, Gibbs Ave.
The theft occurred between
2 and 4:15 p.m. where a video
game was stolen that belongs to
the library. The police tried con-
tacting the library but there was
no answer.
Missing Adult, Main St. PD
A call at the police depart-
ment came in from a lady who
reported her boyfriend missing.
The offi cer sent out an “Attempt
to Locate” the subject through-
out his shift prior to taking the
case as a missing person.
Burglary, Spillway Rd.
A reporting person believes
that someone may be attempt-
ing to break into his house. The
caller was transferred to the
Lane County Sheriff’s Offi ce.
Criminal Mischief, E. Gibbs
Ave.
The owner of the building
called at the location to advise
of criminal mischief that has oc-
curred over the last several days.
The offi cers advised that the ap-
proximate value of damages to
be $500.
Shots Fired, HWY 99
A caller advised police that he
was shot at while driving near an
intersection at the location. The
vehicle in question was last
From the City's
Friday Update
State bicycle and
pedestrian plan
Rotary Club host-
ing Peter DeFazio
As a member of the State
Scenic Bikeway Committee,
City Manager Richard Meyers
attended a presentation of the
draft of the State of Oregon’s
fi rst Statewide Bicycle and
Pedestrian Plan. The plan
represents the fi rst effort to
begin to coordinate bicycle and
pedestrian needs and issues
into State transportation plan-
ning. The draft Oregon Bicycle
and Pedestrian Plan has been
prepared and is available on the
State’s webpage at:
http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/
TD/TP/pages/bikepedplan.
aspx .
The website contains an inter-
active online open house that
describes each chapter. The
public comment period on the
Bicycle and Pedestrian plan is
open from now until Feb. 18.
The Cottage Grove Rotary Club
is hosting Peter DeFazio at
their meeting on Thursday, Jan.
21 at Stacy’s Covered Bridge
Restaurant. Congressman
DeFazio will be talking about
transportation. The meeting
starts at noon and the cost of
lunch is $12. Reservations are
required for those who would
like to eat lunch and can be
made by contacting Don Wil-
liams at 541-953-3444 by 3
p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 20.
2015 leaf pick-up
summary
Jan. 13
5A
In early January, Public Works
fi nished the leaf pick-up pro-
gram for 2015. Public Works
personnel hauled one more load
of leaves than they did in 2014.
Below, you can fi nd an equip-
ment, labor and load summary.
Total backhoe hours: 76 = $
1,976
Total dump truck hours: = $
2,730.88
Total labor hours: 201.5 = $
7,455.50
The total cost for the pick-up
was $12,162.38. Ninety-fi ve
total loads were hauled, which
amounted to 950 cubic yards of
leaves.
Draft Flood Dam-
age Prevention
Code available for
review
The Cottage Grove Community
Development Department has
been working for some months
on a new draft of the Develop-
ment Code section covering
buildings and development
within the designated 100-year
fl oodplain. A new draft code, ti-
tled Flood Damage Prevention,
is now available for review and
comment by the public. Those
interested are encouraged to
visit the City’s website, www.
cottagegrove.org, to review the
draft code.
The deadline for written com-
ments on this draft is Friday,
Feb. 19. An open house will
be sponsored by Community
Development staff on Tuesday,
Feb. 2 from 4-6 p.m. at City
Hall to answer any questions.
property owners or citizens
might have on the new code.
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it when we ask for His help.
And God not only wants to help
us with our big problems, He
also wants to help us with the
little things in life. That’s won-
derful news because sometimes
we allow the little things to get
us frustrated and upset. One of
the best ways to go through the
day is to pray often, “Help me,
Lord. Help me. Help me!”
In the Psalms, we frequently
see King David going to God for
help. For example, Psalm 40:13
(AMPC) says, “Be pleased, O
Lord, to deliver me; O Lord,
make haste to help me!”
Notice that David was not
only bold enough to ask God
for help, but he was also confi -
dent that God would answer his
prayers. We can learn from that
too.
In Psalm 43:5 (AMPC), Da-
vid says, “Why are you cast
down, O my inner self? And
why should you moan over me
and be disquieted within me?
Hope in God and wait expec-
tantly for Him, for I shall yet
praise Him, Who is the help of
my [sad] countenance, and my
God.”
You and I have so many op-
portunities to feel sad or discour-
aged and have a bad attitude, but
God wants us to stay strong in
Him, like David did. Those who
do will eventually come out on
top, because there’s no way the
enemy can hold you back if you
will trust God and keep your
hope in Him.
Learn how to trust your
helper
It’s comforting to know God
will help you get through the
hard times of life. His grace and
strength will sustain you while
you’re waiting for your break-
through. Isaiah 41:10 says He
will keep you strong and retain
you with His victorious hand of
rightness and justice (AMPC).
Even when you’re tempted to
think, It’s not going to do me
any good to pray after the way
I’ve acted, don’t let that stop
you from asking for God’s help.
Because when you go to the Fa-
ther in prayer, you don’t go in
your name—you go in the name
of Jesus.
Hebrews 4:16 (NIV) says we
can “approach God’s throne of
grace with confi dence, so that
we may receive mercy and fi nd
grace to help us in our time of
need.” And Psalm 23:3 (AMPC)
says, “He refreshes and restores
my life (my self); He leads me
in the paths of righteousness
[uprightness and right standing
with Him "not for my earning it,
but] for His name’s sake” (em-
phasis mine).
When you’re hurting, in
trouble, or waiting for answers
in your life, you need to be-
lieve that your Helper, the Holy
Spirit is with you and He wants
to help you. Stay in close fel-
lowship with Him and ask Him
for the help you need. No mat-
ter what the circumstances may
look like, believe He’s working
on your behalf. He is your Com-
forter, Counselor, Helper, Advo-
cate, Intercessor, Strengthener,
Standby—He’s everything you
need—and He’s just waiting for
you to ask.
sponsored monopoly that could
simply raise its rates if the jitney
drivers took away too much of
its business?
As a result, Portland’s jitney
drivers got to stay on the road
much longer than others, and
their licensing requirements
were much less onerous. But the
Portland Morning Oregonian
— motivated both by publisher
Henry Pittock’s personal ha-
tred for Daly, and his sympathy
for the high-rolling capitalists
whose pocketbooks were being
impacted by what they saw as
illegitimate competition from
cream-skimming peons — nev-
er stopped fulminating against
the jitneys, relentlessly calling
them (and Daly) socialists in
blithe defi ance of the dictionary
defi nition of the term and decry-
ing their business as unfair.
And as for claims that jitneys
presented “unfair competition,”
Daly’s response was equally
brilliant. Of course it was unfair,
he said. “Where has there ever
been competition that is fair?”
he added. “Competition means
survival of the fi ttest; there is
nothing fair about it.”
Left unspoken, but surely
understood, was a follow-up
question: Whose position here
is really a socialistic one? The
backers of a government-spon-
sored transportation monopoly,
or the backers of a diversity of
individual small businessmen
competing in an open market-
place?
That difference is also why
the comparison with Uber and
Lyft doesn’t quite work. Uber
and Lyft are centrally controlled
systems, more like a distributed
version of the streetcar com-
pany than like the jitneys that
once so vexed them. And the
taxi companies, although few
of them are one-car operations
owned by the drivers, are locally
owned businesses like the jitney
drivers were.
And like the jitney drivers, it
seems pretty likely that they will
lose their fi ght with the smooth,
well-fi nanced ride-sharing ser-
vices. In the case of the jitneys,
the coup de grace that took them
out was the outbreak of the First
World War. In the years lead-
ing up to it, competition from
the jitneys inspired the streetcar
company to upgrade its service
substantially. When the war
broke out, most jitney drivers
found they could make a lot
more money helping build ships,
tents, cots and other supplies for
the war effort. Their jitneys fell
into disuse and they joined the
throngs aboard the streetcars.
By the end of the war, stiff
regulations had been put into
place. The city’s nascent taxi
services were able to roll with
the regulatory punches, but most
jitney drivers found they could
no longer make a living collect-
ing nickels and shut down for
good.
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himself, so he was both a union
man and an enlightened em-
ployer, and he made the jitney
drivers’ case in terms that were
hard for an honest conservative
to argue with. How, he asked,
was it appropriate for the city to
take action to squelch a cadre of
entrepreneurial small-business-
men in favor of a bloated, cen-
trally-controlled, government-
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(Sources: Johnston, Robert D.
“The Myth of the Harmonious
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Electric Railway Journal, 24
Aug 1918; Law, Steve.
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