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10A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL July 20, 2016 G OTTA CATCH ' EM ALL S YMPHONY Continued from page 1A Cottage Grove's Katie Warhol gets a little canine help while playing Poke- mon Go during a walk down Sixth Street. During its fi rst full week of play, the game drew players who could be seen congregat- ing in pairs or small groups or playing alone using their smart phones in var- ious local hotspots. The game, which was released on July 6 and became an instant phenom- enon, offers over 100 types of characters that can be virtually "caught," and Bo- hemia Park and the Humane Society's This n' That store are rumored sights of much game activ- ity. Players say the game encourages exercise and so- cial activity as they battle it out or work together to catch as many Pokemon as possible. photo by Jon Stinnett to help choreograph the movements of his three dancers. They would add a Cottage Grove fl avor, with scenes reminiscent of Buster Keaton, covered bridges, car- ousels and gold mining. The Symphony program featured a wider, more eclec- tic range of music than last year’s performance, with a tune by Cole Porter and a Sousa march complement- ing a viola performance by star soloist and 19-year old Maia Hoffman. The familiar jump of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” closed the show to a round of cheers. The City of Cottage Grove sold buttons and raffl e tick- ets to help fi nance this year’s show, in addition to several sponsor tables. Funds raised from last year’s performance also helped offset the $30,000 or so it takes to bring a sym- phony to town. Afterward, City Manager Richard Mey- ers said he thought the City “broke even” but did not raise enough money to contribute toward next year’s perfor- mance. Still, Meyers lauded the evening’s events. “It was a great night,” he said. “Having the Symphony start a little later made the timing just about right, and what a beautiful sunset!” photo by Jon Stinnett Symphony bassist Evan Pardi helps Braxton Handsaker pluck a few notes at the instrument petting zoo. O FFBEAT Continued from page 4A African-American crewmem- bers. A provincial jury made up of white people whose familiar- ity with black people consists entirely of racist pulp-mag sto- ries about savage black rapists attacking pure white maidens will be far more likely to con- vict such a man in the absence of any real evidence of guilt. And such a fall-guy just hap- pens to be handy, so with a little help from the LAPD’s jailhouse interrogation squad, they fabri- cate what they need. So, is this what happened? We can’t really know for sure. But it seems very likely. The motive was certainly there. The U.S. War Department But the agency with the most compelling motivation to cru- cify Folkes was the U.S. War Department. Here’s why: Imagine, for a moment, that you are an 18-year-old single woman, and it’s early 1943 – close to the darkest hour of the war. You’re doing your best to be brave, and everyone must make sacrifi ces, so you’re riding trains unchaperoned and walking to your home-front manufacturing job in the dark by yourself. But it’s OK, because you feel safe with all the uniformed soldiers and sailors around. Strong and brave and confi dent, they rep- resent security to you, and you feel sure that if you should ever need anything, you could ask one of them to help you out. Then suddenly you hear about a story from the West Coast: A U.S. Marine has been accused of having raped and murdered a pretty girl just like you, in a Pullman sleeper car just like the ones you’re riding in regularly, all by yourself, on long war- related trips. Suddenly you’re looking at those soldiers and sailors in a completely differ- ent way – as potential threats rather than as sources of com- fort. And every other pretty woman in the country is doing the same. They’re avoiding rail travel. When forced to take an overnight train, they’re arriving at their destinations exhausted and unrested. Worse yet, other low-quality men in uniform are starting to jump on this criminal bandwagon. There’s another as- sault, and another. Soon wom- en are refusing to travel alone on rail cars and wondering if they’re safe on the streets. Mo- rale, at this most key point in the war effort, collapses. And it all could have been avoided if … if the crime had been committed not by a uni- formed soldier, but by, say, an African-American railroad cook. It’s more of a random sort of threat; a black train cook climbing into a Pullman berth with a passenger would be so unusual that people would view it as a freak incident rather than a new threat to guard against. Looked at this way, railroad- ing Folkes was almost a patri- otic duty, and his subsequent execution wasn’t much different from a death on a battlefi eld. It may even have saved lives. But the price of that non-out- come was a grave injustice, an innocent man killed and a guilty one not only set free, but re- leased from the duty assignment that would likely have cost him his life. And in fact, out of all the military personnel in that “murder car” on the night Mar- tha James was killed, the only one who survived the war was Pvt. Harold Wilson. (Sources: Geier, Max G. The Color of Night. Corvallis: OSU Press, 2015; Barker, Neil. “Murder on No. 15…” Oregon Historical Quarterly, fall 2011) Finn J.D. 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