COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL May 11, 2016
Cottage Grove Retrospective
A look back at a Sentinel stories from 30 years ago
May 14, 1986
Youth Advisory
Council visits LMS
District will miss Moira Bangs
Moira Bangs admits freely that her
interests didn’t lie in budget line items
or maintenance projects. Reviewing the
lease-purchase of several school buses
held her attention, but it wasn’t her fa-
vorite topic of discussion.
“A board agenda for me would be talk-
ing about curriculum, honoring some-
body who has won an award… that kind
of thing,” Bangs said. “That’s what I
would like to see."
If there ever was a club for optimistic
“people” persons, Moira Bangs (mother,
businesswoman and outgoing South Lane
School District board member) would be
the group’s president. Bar none.
During the past three years, Bangs has
used her senses of humor and humanity
to get in touch with the district’s staff
and parents. And her top concern was
always the same: the students.
“She always placed the kids fi rst, as
it should be,” said board Chairman Dee
Anderson. “The quality of her human-
ness, her accessibility with the public…
both will be sorely missed.”
Bangs, along with fellow board mem-
ber Bob Zeek, resigned from the panel
in April. Both cited personal reasons,
including the frustrations of trimming
school programs to meet budget guide-
lines, and slated their last day on the
board for May 19.
Bangs and Zeek set the resignation
date to coincide with the district’s $6.5
million tax base proposal, which will
be decided Tuesday, May 20. Both have
been integral parts of a board effort to
inform the voters of the proposal’s im-
portance.
But while some may see the upcom-
ing elections as purely a fi nancial mat-
ter, Bangs prefers to view the request
in human terms. She saw the fl ip side a
POLICE BLOTTER
May 3
Criminal Mischief, Cham-
bers Railroad Bridge
A complaint came in from
the Chamber of Commerce
which was advised by tourists
that they were “accosted”
by a group of juveniles. The
juveniles were reportedly
verbally abusive towards the
tourists at the above location,
which also was vandalized by
graffi ti inside the bridge.
Animal Information, Tyler
and 1st St.
A caller advised that there
was a cat under a green car
that was foaming at the mouth
and appeared to be very sick.
The animal was transported to
Gowdyville and dispatched.
ATL Information, Mosby
Creek
A complainant advised that
there was an older grey car
full of people with a pas-
senger hanging out of the
window drinking from an
alcohol bottle. Inside the
vehicle, music was playing
loudly, lights were fl ashing
and the occupants were yell-
ing “screw Donald Trump!”
May 4
Criminal Mischief, Bohemia
Elementary
A caller advised police that
her lawn mower was locked
in the dugout at the location
as she maintains the fi elds for
South Valley Little League,
and an unknown subject
broke into the dugout and
damaged her lawn mower.
Domestic Disturbance, S
6th St.
A caller advised that there are
two subjects screaming and
May 5
Animal Neglect/Abuse,
Landess Rd.
A caller advised that her
squatter/tenant has dyed her
cat’s coat purple. The caller
said that it was a retaliation
for her not letting the squatter
use the water from the caller’s
house. All parties were con-
tacted and the tenant agreed
to leave the cat alone.
Suspicious Subject, Main
St.
A male with a yellow hat and
grey jumpsuit was attempting
to sell “bags of mystery” to
passersby and was being ag-
Edward F. Lee was Oregon’s fi rst
fake-viagra scammer
N
ot much is known about
Edward F. Lee, the Al-
bany-based swindler sent up
6
decade ago.
“I went through the ’76 closure as a
parent. That was a frightening experi-
ence,” Bangs said of the 1976 schools
closure, caused when the district went
broke for several weeks.
“A lot of parents moved their children
into private school, but that wasn’t the
answer. The answer was funding and
confi dence for what we had,” she said.
yelling in the parking lot and
heard the female yell “are you
seriously going to put your
hands on me again?” The is-
sue was resolved and deter-
mined it was verbal only.
Offbeat Oregon History
BY FINN J.D. JOHN
For the Sentinel
Moira Bangs left the South Lane
School Board on May 19,1986.
Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504
May 2
-day
weather forecast
THURSDAY May 12
FRIDAY May 13
49° | 80°
51° | 74°
CITY BEAT
gressive. The caller stated that
he appeared to be a tweaker.
Noise complaint, Stewart
Park
A caller advised that there
were kids in the park being
extremely loud and standing
on the picnic tables.
May 8
Firearm discharge, 13th St.
Caller advised that a male
went into the backyard of
location with a rifl e and shot
it into a piece of plywood in
the backyard, then rushed
back into the house. Gun was
wrapped in a blanket like he
was trying to hide it. Delay of
10 minutes...caller reported it
was a potato gun.
the river for mail fraud in 1919.
In fact, Edward F. Lee may not
even have been his real name;
he may have assumed it as an
alias to encourage people to
confuse him with a highly re-
spected and trusted Seattle-area
businessman and shipbuilder of
the same name.
As swindlers often do, Lee’s
career as a huckster started
out relatively mild. In the ear-
ly 1910s, his small classifi ed
ads frequently appeared in the
Members of the Cottage Grove
Youth Advisory Council attended
the Relay for Life assembly at Lin-
coln Middle School on Tuesday
afternoon, May 3 and participated
by providing a presentation on the
dangers of tobacco. Eight YAC
members attended and made a pre-
sentation urging the youth to make
‘Every Day Tobacco Free.’ The
presentation was a part of the Youth
Tobacco Elimination Project grant
that the YAC received from the
American Lung Association.
Bohemia Park
Amphitheater
saddlespan
installed
The saddlespan that graces Bo-
hemia Park each summer was re-
installed this week in preparation
of the summer activities in the
park. Again this year, the Bohemia
Park Amphitheater will be the site
of a wide variety of entertainment
and events. The 2016 Concerts in
the Park series sponsored by the
Chamber of Commerce will begin
Wednesday, June 22. The Eugene
Symphony will be coming back on
July 18.
The signs of spring:
Yard sale signs
The City says one of the signs of
spring is the proliferation of yard
or garage sale signs plastered all
over town. They remind that signs
placed within the City right of
ways, parks, on street signs or posts
and mounted to utility poles are il-
legal and will be removed.
“The signs are litter and clutter
the community. They also create
Portland Morning Oregonian’s
business section, and their con-
tent was only slightly scammy.
“$8 EVERY DAY selling OR-
ANGEADE POWDER, the new
drink,” reads one from May
1915. “It’s the craze; everybody
buys; sample package 10 cents;
makes a gallon; send today:
EDWARD F. LEE, Kennewick,
Wash.”
Of course, 10 cents was a lot
of money to pay in 1915 for a
packet of Kool-Aid powder, but
Looking Glass
Community
Services
WE’VE MOVED!
Our new oi ce is located at
Sunny
Sunny
508 E. Whiteaker St.
SATURDAY May 14
SUNDAY May 15
50° | 72°
47° | 71°
541-767-3823
www.lookingglass.us
Poss. Showers
Partly Cloudy
MONDAY May 16
TUESDAY May 17
48° | 66°
47° | 67°
Partly Cloudy
Partly Cloudy
e
v
i
t
o
m
o
Aut
s
e
i
t
l
a
i
c
e
S p
PRACTICING THE ART OF TRANSMISSION REPAIR SINCE 1991
CALL FOR A QUOTE
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.
MAINTAINING YOUR VEHICLE AFFORDABLY
We Want Your News!
$ PUUBHF ( SPWF 4 FOUJOFM
In person: 116 N. Sixth Street, Cottage Grove
Email: cgnews@cgsentinel.com
Office phone: 942-3325
WE LIVE IN THE SAME TOWN WE WORK IN
“ NO MONKEY BUSINESS!”
5A
From the
City's Friday
Update
hazards,” City Manager Richard
Meyers wrote, adding that anyone
caught putting yard or garage sale
signs up within the right of way can
be cited into Municipal Court. The
signs may be put on private prop-
erty with permission.
Tree branch
pick-up May 23
Just a reminder, the City of Cot-
tage Grove’s annual tree branch
pickup will begin on Monday,
May 23. Public Works crewmem-
bers will pick up branches that are
placed in street parking areas during
that week only. More information
about the tree branch pickup can be
obtained on the City’s webpage or
by contacting the Public Works de-
partment at City Hall.
Divers clean raw
water intake tanks
On Thursday and Friday, div-
ers with Reliable Diving from
Maple Valley, Wash. were at the
Row River Water Treatment Plant
to clean the two raw water intake
tanks. There are two raw water
tanks that supply river water into
the treatment plant. The smaller
tank is just behind the fi sh screens
at the intake structure and mea-
sures 16’x16’x7’. The larger tank,
which directly supplies water to
the membrane fi lters, is just out-
side the treatment plant and mea-
sures 60’x17’x22’. Silt and sand
from the raw water from the river
settles to the bottom of these tanks
and must be removed on a regular
basis. Specially equipped divers
enter the tanks and vacuum the silt
and sand from the bottom of the
tanks. The silt and sand is then
land-applied to dry and return to
the soil. This service is performed
every other year.
it’s not against the law to charge
high prices.
That can’t have been all he
was doing, though, because in
1916 Spokane County authori-
ties arrested him for committing
fraud through the mails. His ad-
vertisements in the Oregonian
stopped for a time, and the next
time they reappeared in the Or-
egonian, they were slightly dif-
ferent:
“VALUABLE FORMULAS
and trade secrets. List free.
EDWARD F. LEE, Albany, Or-
egon.”
These formulas, such as they
were, included recipes for home
production of liquor, which had
been outlawed in Oregon sev-
eral years previously. But that
wasn’t what got Lee in trouble
with the law – that would come
from the other ads he was run-
ning at the same time, in pub-
lications far distant from Lee’s
new home city. Ads like this
one, quoted without attribution
in the Journal of the American
Medical Association’s report on
his case:
“MEN OF ALL AGES—
STOP GROWING OLD. You
can recover and retain your
youthful vigor and vitality with-
out dangerous drugs and appli-
ances. OUR NEW METHOD
tells how. Send for free letter.
The P. Presto Company, Albany,
Oregon.”
This ad was, as you have like-
ly guessed, a carefully coded
appeal to men suffering from
erectile dysfunction. At the time,
ministering to this cohort of men
was an extremely profi table and
popular line for scammers of
all types. For many men of that
era, impotence was almost a fate
worse than death; it was a severe
blow to their masculine pride.
They were desperate enough to
try nearly anything in quest for
a cure. And, even better, erec-
tile dysfunction was a disease
that most commonly struck af-
fl uent men in their 50s and 60s
– meaning they’d have plenty of
money to throw around to fi nd
that cure.
The hucksters rose to the oc-
casion, peddling everything
from fake folk remedies to the
“electric belts” that were sup-
posed to jolt men’s reproductive
apparatus back to life. There was
even a quack surgeon in Little
Rock, Arkansas, who offered to
surgically implant a piece of a
goat’s testicle in patients.
Patients who had suffered
from ingesting dangerous drugs
or blasting their most sensitive
parts with electrical current read
Lee’s advertisement with con-
siderable interest. And better
Please see OFFBEAT, Page 10A
Better
together.
+
= SAVE
The more you protect, the more you save.
I can do a lot more than just protect your car. And when
you bundle coverage for your auto and home, I can help
you save big.
Get the savings you deserve. Call me or stop by my ofice
for a free quote.
Erik Benson
541-942-2605
130 Gateway Boulevard
Cottage Grove, OR 97424
erikbenson@allstate.com
www.automotivespecialties.biz
DUSTIN TULLAR & RUSS OWENS
541-942-8022 • COTTAGE GROVE
Subject to terms, conditions and availabiliy. Savings vary by state and produce line. Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Co.,
Allstate Fire and Casualty Insurance Co., Allstate Insurance Co., Allstate Indemnity Co., Allstate Vehicle and Property Insurance
Co. © 2016 Allstate Insurance Co.