COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL July 6, 2016
Cottage Grove Retrospective
CLIP N' CARRY
GARAGE SALES
A look back at a Sentinel story from 60 years ago
July 5, 1956
Western Days begin now; Riding
Club rodeo July 7-8
Rodeo stock of the Harley
Tucker Rodeo Stock associ-
ation of Joseph will arrive in
Cottage Grove Friday for the
10th annual two-day rodeo
sponsored by Cottage Grove
Riding club. Mr. Tucker is
bringing his stock from the
four-day rodeo and show at
St. Paul. This is the second
year the Tucker stock has
been under contract for the
Cottage Grove show.
Mayor Jess Hill has pro-
claimed Thursday through
Sunday as Western Days
and has called upon the peo-
ple to properly observe the
four days by wearing west-
ern dress. Members of the
Cottage Grove riding club
will be on the search for per-
YARD SALE
1011 N. 9th St., #21
Fri-Sat 9am-3pm
Beads, Native American bed work, misc.
items.
sons who do not observe the
proclamation and will prob-
ably apply fi t punishment to
he offenders.
The opening parade to the
rodeo begins at 10 a.m. Sat-
urday.
The local rodeo will be
held Saturday and Sunday at
the rodeo grounds one mile
south of town. It is a profes-
sional show, with amateur
entries limited to fi ve events.
Entries for the professional
events of the Rodeo Cow-
boy association will be han-
dled by the secretary of the
Tucker Rodeo association.
They will be taken until Sat-
urday noon.
June 27
Detox, HWY 99S
A reporting person advised police
of a male subject observed climbing
into a dumpster at the location. Offi -
cers contacted the subject inside the
dumpster and took him into custody
for non-criminal detoxifi cation and
transported to the station for lodg-
ing.
Theft Attempt, N. 10th St.
A caller requested an offi cer to
report an unknown suspect that at-
tempted to remove the license plates
from his vehicle, which was parked
in the driveway. The offi cer contact-
ed the complainant, who declined a
formal report but requested extra pa-
trol during the graveyard hours.
ESTATE SALE
1440 Anthony Ave.
Fri-Sat 9am-4pm
Whole household of items must go - from
clothes to tools and more!
Police chief Ed Jones leads the Pet Parade through Cottage Grove, with Ro-
deo Queen Floretta Anderson and her court, Princesse Judy LaBlue, Judy
Larsen and Dona MacInnes accompanying him. Queen Floretta and her
court will reign over the Western Days, Thursday through Sunday.
Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504
Shots Fired, Gateway Blvd
A reporting person advised that a
single shot was fi red in the back of
the location for an unknown reason.
Offi cers on the scene contacted all
present subjects and determined that
the shot was actually a fi recracker.
June 28
Menacing, Row River Rd.
A complainant advised that she
was walking her dog while her hus-
band was unloading their vehicle
when a male subject tried to attack
her with a shovel. The man was de-
scribed as a white male with black
boots and shorts with a white shirt
and a long blonde or reddish beard.
Offi cers checked the area for the
suspect but were unable to locate
anyone fi tting that description.
CITY BEAT
The updating of the City
FEMA fl oodplain maps will
move forward this year. The
Community Development Staff
were notifi ed by FEMA that
the Region X Engineer had re-
viewed the differences between
the (Light Detection and Rang-
ing (LiDAR) tool provided by
the City about a year ago and
the terrain data sets used for the
modeling and mapping of the
Coast Fork River. He has con-
cluded that updates to the draft
maps are warranted. FEMA is
coordinating with the US Army
Corps of Engineers to prepare a
ANNUAL CENTER STREET SALE
(off Mosby Creek Rd.)
Fri-Sat 9am-4pm
Thousands of items priced to sell. Too much
to list!
From the
City's Friday
Update
scope of work for the updates
with the consultant hired for the
work. FEMA is now wanting to
discuss the scope of work with
staff with the work to be funded
for later this summer or early
fall. The fl oodplain mapping
project that has been on hold
will now commence. Staff will
provide further information as it
becomes available.
Emergency
Preparedness Fair
The second annual Emergen-
cy Preparedness Fair is sched-
uled for Saturday, Aug. 13 from
11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Cottage
Grove Hospital, 1515 Village
6
-day
weather forecast
THURSDAY July 7
FRIDAY July 8
53° | 78°
52° | 67°
Partly Cloudy
Poss. Showers
SATURDAY July 9
SUNDAY July 10
50° | 71°
50° | 76°
Poss. Showers
Partly Cloudy
MONDAY July 11
TUESDAY July 12
52° | 80°
52° | 80°
Sunny
Sunny
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June 29
June 30
Found Bike, E. Main St.
A caller advised police that a bike
was found in the parking lot of a
business. It appeared that someone
had tried to burn off the lock that was
attached. The bike is an unknown
brand BMX bike with foot pegs on
the front and rear and a Tootsie Roll
seat cover.
Suspicious Subject, S. 4th St.
A caller advised police of seeing
a female subject coming from the
rear of a remodeled home, carrying
a trash bag fi lled with stuff. Police
were unable to fi nd the subject after
an extensive area check.
Wanted Subject, Harlow Rd.
Police were informed that a sub-
ject who has been wanted was at the
location to visit her children. Offi -
cers contacted the subject and took
her into custody for providing liquor
to an intoxicated person. The sub-
ject was transported to Lane County
Jail.
Drive. This is a family-friendly
event with helicopter and emer-
gency vehicle displays, infor-
mational booths, exhibits and
more. Those interested in par-
ticipating are asked to contact
intern Glenn Rust at (541) 942-
3340 or email him at Communi-
tydev@cottagegrove.org.
Golf Course
mower
On Friday, Middlefi eld Golf
Course took delivery on a new
Terrain Cut Rough Mower, a
2016 John Deere 9009A model.
The City purchased the mower
from Pacifi c Golf and Turf in
Portland. The City also demoed
a Toro and Jacobson mower and
it was determined that the John
Deere had the best specifi ca-
tions and features needed by the
golf course. The John Deere
mower will replace a 2004 Toro
Grounds Master 4500 that has
reached the end of its useful life.
The purchase of this mower
was included in the Fiscal Year
2016-2017 budget.
July 1
Suspicious Conditions, Bohemia
Park
A caller reported seeing smoke
around the fl ag pole at the loca-
tion. The complainant advised that
it seemed to be too much smoke for
just steam or a bit of fog. It was later
revealed that it was a fog machine
for activities going on the next day.
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Cottage-Grove-Sentinel
An article in the June 22, 2016 edition of
the Sentinel incorrectly listed the weekly
time of the South Valley Farmers Market.
The market takes place each Thursday at
the corner of Seventh and Main streets in
downtown Cottage Grove from 4-7 p.m.
The Sentinel apologizes for any confusion.
Original rules of baseball
on display in Portland
Documents that the Offi cial Historian of
Major League Baseball declared "the Magna
Carta of America's national pastime" will be
on exhibit at the Oregon Historical Society in
Portland (1200 SW Park Avenue) beginning
July 1, through Oct. 9, 2016. The exhibit will
be the fi rst public display of these nineteenth
century papers, which only recently came to
light at an auction in California.
The hand-written documents were drafted by
Daniel "Doc" Adams and presented at an un-
precedented special meeting of all New York
area baseball clubs in 1857.
O FFBEAT
it refl ect on the military; how Continued from page 4A
would it affect home-front mo- was everything the authorities
rale?
could have wanted in a suspect,
So the authorities were quite and then some: sophisticated
relieved when a third suspect and urban in that jazzy Harlem-
was found: a cook by the name Renaissance way, he appeared
of Robert E. Lee Folkes.
in court sporting a bright-blue
The offi cial story was that “zoot suit.” Even better, he was
Folkes was fi ngered after Pvt. black — which in 1940s Amer-
Wilson recalled seeing him in ica made stories of his alleged
the kitchen as he raced through wickedness a whole lot easier
in pursuit of the brown-suited to sell than would have been the
man and noticed he was sweaty- case had he been white.
looking. So the Los Angeles
Those stories sold very well
Police Department had brought indeed at Folkes’ murder trial,
him in for questioning. Folkes, a sensational proceeding held
the LAPD claimed, had main- in Albany at the Linn County
tained his innocence until con- Courthouse and juried by eight
fronted with assurance that two women and four men. After 17
women who said he’d made ag- hours’ deliberation, they found
gressive passes at them earlier in him guilty and sent him off to
the evening had positively iden- the gas chamber; two years
tifi ed him from his mugshot, later, his appeals exhausted and
at which dread news he “broke the governor refusing to inter-
down” and confessed it all.
vene, this was done.
Wilson, who freely and
But questions still lingered in
frankly acknowledged how bad the air. The only real evidence
things looked for him, greeted against Folkes had been his
the news that Folkes had con- confession — obtained by the
fessed with an obvious sigh of LAPD in an interrogation. Had
relief. “Boy, am I glad to hear that confession been faked or
that,” he said.
coerced? Was Folkes guilty only
He wasn’t the only one. Folkes of being handy when someone
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needed a scapegoat?
The short answer is, almost
certainly, yes. But the longer,
more accurate answer is coming
with next week’s column.
(Sources: Geier, Max G.
The Color of Night. Corvallis:
OSU Press, 2015; Barker, Neil.
“Murder on No. 15…,” Oregon
Historical Quarterly, fall 2011;
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235 S. 12th St.
Sat 8a-4p; Sun 8a-12p
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tools and more.
CORRECTION:
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FEMA mapping
update
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