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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL April 20, 2016 Cottage Grove Retrospective A look back at Sentinel stories from 70 years ago April 25, 1946 Engineers will bid on Dorena Dam Army Engineers will open bids here on May 14 for a ma- jor contract in connection with Dorena dam on the Row river in Lane County which will involve railroad and highway relocation and other work esti- mated to cost in the neighbor- hood of one million dollars. In announcing the pending contract, which is the fi rst large construction project of the en- gineers since the war ended, Colonel O.E Walsh, district en- gineer, pointed out that Dorena is one of the seven proposed dams in the Willamette Val- ley fl ood control project. Two of the dams, Cottage Grove and Fern Ridge, are already in place. Preliminary work at Dorena dam was started prior to the war, under contract to E.C. Hall and McNutt Brothers, Eugene, but the contract was cancelled and the work halted. The present contract will in- volve relocation of the Oregon Pacifi c and Eastern railroad, market road No. 30 and the Cottage Grove municipal water supply line leading from a res- ervoir in the vicinity of Dorena. It will also include construc- tion of a county road on the left bank of the stream and construction of a borrow area drainage system. The building of one highway bridge and two railroad spans is included in the relocation work. Walter A. Schwarz, resident engineer at Eugene, will be immediately in charge of the project. A contract for erect- ing an engineers’ offi ce build- ing and other preliminary work was awarded the fi rst of April to Tauf Charneski, Leaburg, and this contract is now under- way. POLICE BLOTTER April 11 Patrol Request, Veterans Park A complainant came to the front counter to request patrols of the park due to the transient population congregating and drinking in the park every day and making it uncomfortable for others to use. April 12 Suspicious Subject, Village Dr. A caller advised there is a male wearing a green jacket carrying Abandoned Vehicle/Illegal Parking A total of 10 vehicles were Offbeat Oregon History Famous Jefferson ‘secession’ was largely a publicity stunt BY FINN J.D. JOHN For the Sentinel M ost Oregonians know about the State of Jef- ferson — in general concept, at least: a small group of Southern Oregon people got together in 1941 to proclaim a new state, Marine Second Lieutenant Carlton Woodard, Marine Garri- son Forces, Pearl Harbor, Navy Yard, saw his three-month-old baby, Kim, for the fi rst time when he met his family at Pier 11, Honolulu. Mrs. Woodard, whose par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Miller, live at 258 19th street, Santa Monica, California, has been re- siding at that address. Lieuten- ant Woodard, formerly of Cot- tage Grove, had not seen Mrs. Woodard since last July. They live in the Navy Housing Proj- ect here. Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504 a white plastic bag, and that he is talking to himself and fl ailing his arms all over. Suspicious Conditions, Bohemia Park A reporting person advised that a young male (around 12) was found hiding in the play struc- ture at the location. He advised the reporting person that he didn’t want to go to school be- cause he was being picked on. An offi cer located the subject and was transported to Lincoln Middle School and released to the staff. Carlton Woodard Family made up of southwest Oregon and northwest California, called Jefferson; just as they got start- ed, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor; and the idea just never got off the ground. All of which is true enough. But it barely touches the real story of Jefferson — and it’s not cited within an hour for be- ing parked illegally. Six of the vehicles were marked as abandoned and four of them were moved. Four others were cited for parking illegally, three of which were parked in the wrong direction on the curb. A few hours later, another vehicle was moved. April 15 Agency Assist, N 16 St. A complainant requested as- sistance with contacting the owner of a vehicle located in a ditch on Shoreview near milepost 4. Police determined even the most interesting part. The fact is, the 1941 move for statehood was mostly a pub- licity stunt. It was crafted over drinks by two guys who seem right out of central casting for a Hollywood movie — a high- rolling, back-slapping business promoter and a hard-drinking, wildly imaginative newspaper man. The newsman actually won a Pulitzer prize for his part in the affair. His name was Stanton Delaplane; he wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle. that the owner was aware of the vehicle’s status. Identity Theft, Harvey A caller advised that her iden- tity was being used for several different credit carrd applica- tions and reported a burglary on Oct. 15 and that her personal information was taken at the time. She was in possession of the suspect’s email address. Theft attempt, Row River Rd. A reporting person at the station wanted to report an attempted fraudulent use of his credit card. The use was unsuc- cessful and has been cancelled. The business promoter was a stocky, dynamic man named Gilbert E. Gable, onetime dino- saur egg hunter, movie-maker, NBC radio-show star and (he claimed) Navajo Indian chief. In 1941, he was mayor of the tiny Oregon town of Port Orford and, for a brief and shining mo- ment, governor of the State of Jefferson. The promoter Gilbert Elledy Gable was born in Pennsylvania in the late Looking Glass Community Services ORDER TODAY! 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Anyone fi nd- ing a dead bat or who observes bats fl ying during the day or dur- ing freezing weather is asked to report this via the online site or call the ODFW Wildlife Health Hotline at 866-968-2600. ODFW veterinarian Colin Gillin said WNS is a fungal dis- ease occurring in hibernating bats that has killed more than six million bats since 2006 when it was discovered in New York. This disease quickly spread to 28 states and fi ve Canadian provinces. Eastern Minnesota and eastern Nebraska were the farthest west that WNS was de- tected before it made an appar- ent 1,300 mile geographic leap to Washington. WNS could potentially trans- mit to Oregon Conservation Strategy species, and it could decimate populations of com- mon bat species, putting them in conservation concern. The USFWS leads a national WNS response effort, working with state and federal partners to survey for the disease. Cave surveys by ODFW and federal partners over the last two years show no evidence presently of WNS in Oregon’s bat population. ODFW will continue intensive surveillance, education and outreach to help protect this important group of animals in Oregon. Visit www.whitenosesyn- drome.org to follow the latest news, research and resources. 1880s. Although he never went to college, he quickly found his way into public relations and spent nine years as a publicity man for Theodore Vail’s Bell Telephone Company. During this time, Bell transitioned from the most hated company in the nation to one of the most trust- ed, publicly committed to using its market dominance to bring telephone service to the remot- est outposts of America. That story is more than we can get into in this article, but it’s one of history’s greatest public-rela- tions triumphs. And Gable was a part of it — although I have been unable to learn how big a role he played. lost ancient Indian village, and claimed to have been made an honorary chief of the Navajo people — a claim he backed up with a certifi cate “written in hu- man blood.” He made a number of dinosaur-hunting expeditions to the Painted Desert area, until in 1929, the governor of Ari- zona ordered police to prevent “Dr. Gable” from removing any more fossils or artifacts. He also made movies. In 1927, as vice-president of Bray Motion Pictures, he won public- ity for the silent movie “Men- ace” by bringing a fi lm crew down the wild Colorado River on a boat through the Grand Canyon, a feat that was breath- lessly described in the papers as fraught with deadly peril. The Adventurer The phone business must have been good to him, though, because after the war Gable be- came an explorer and amateur paleontologist. 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