COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL August 3, 2016
Cottage Grove Retrospective
A look back at a Sentinel story from 40 years ago
Aug. 5 1976
He doesn't call himself a wrecker
Doug Howell of Cottage Grove tears
down buildings for a living, but he does
not like to be called a wrecker.
“I generally refer to myself as a
building dismantler, as opposed to a
wrecker,” Mr. Howell said Monday. “I
can salvage 85 to 90 percent of a build-
ing, if I’ve got the time to do it.”
Since last week, Mr. Howell has been
dismantling the old Joe Short building
on Main Street. The building is located
just east of the new City Hall building,
and the old store is on city land that is
planned for a parking lot and driveway
to serve the new municipal facility.
Mr. Short has moved out of the
building, taking his business and mer-
chandise to the city’s old 6th Street
city hall.
Earlier this year, the city called for
bids for the Short building. The bid-
der was to get the building, with a time
limit to remove it from the city’s prop-
erty.
Mr. Howell, operating as Doug
Howell Enterprises, was the only bid-
der. He bought the building for a $6.92
low bid.
The Cottage Grove man said he does
not usually purchase buildings. He
said he generally contracts to remove
the buildings for someone else.
POLICE BLOTTER
July 25
Property Found, Spirit
Trail
A caller advised that there
is an orange wood-chipper in
the bushes near the location.
The wood-chipper is a Cray
Bearcat Model #70050 with a
Ramsey-Waite sticker on it. All
attempts to identify the owner
were unsuccessful.
July 27
Property Found, E. Main
St.
“The primary reason I did it was be-
cause the bid contract was written that
way,” Mr. Howell explained. “I didn’t
mind doing the city a job.”
Mr. Howell said he made a similar
deal with the city this year, when he
tore down half of the old Southern Pa-
cifi c depot at 9th and Main streets in
return for the right to sell off the mate-
rial he could salvage.
And that, basically, is the way Mr.
Howell works. He bids to remove a
building and then attempts to make his
money by selling the material he can
save from the structure.
“It makes me mad when I see these
guys go in and knock everything down
and haul it off to the dump,” Mr. How-
ell said. “I get a lot of satisfaction out
of recycling a building.”
If everything goes as planned, Mr.
Howell said he will have the Short
building down in three to four weeks.
He said he will probably make about
$6,000 from the project.
“I usually sell the material off the
job; it’s not unusual to have the entire
building sold before I start,” Mr. How-
ell said. “I’ve got about half of this Doug Howell takes down a building to sell
one sold, and I’ve only been on the job the parts.
three days.”
Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504
A complainant advised that
the interrupted a drug deal go-
ing on the parking lot of the
location. The subjects dropped
a bag of some kind of crystal
substance. Offi cers on scene
determined it was a bag of
meth. One of the subjects was
last seen wearing a red hoodie.
Suspicious Conditions, 6th
and Main St.
An offi cer was told by his
wife that a possible vehicle
from the a robbery the previous
day was last seen near the loca-
tion. The complainant advised
CITY BEAT
Webinar
From the
City's Friday
Update
The City Manager, Community
Development Director, City
that it was possible that this
was the vehicle and the suspect
from yesterday's robbery. An
offi cer and an employee are
going to review video footage
from the Little Caesars and re-
port to the police department.
July 29
Motor Vehicle Accident,
16th and Main.
Multiple calls came in stat-
ing that a female was hit by a
vehicle on 16th St. The victim
was transported to McKenzie
Willamette. The driver was
cited for failing to yield to a
pedestrian.
Property Found, 6th and
Adams St.
A complainant advised po-
lice of a large purse sitting on
the ground at the location next
to a telephone line. The purse is
turquoise in color with brown
handles. It is a Rosetti brand
bag containing miscellaneous
women’s toiletries.
Planner, Main Street Coordi-
nator and Chamber Executive
Director participated in a webi-
nar hosted by the International
City/County Management As-
sociation (ICMA) on Revitaliz-
ing Retail. The webinar shared
ideas on how to develop and
improve existing retail oppor-
tunities in the community and
how to recruit and encourage
new retail developments.
the unions; this meant that even
though the Journal had no dog
in the Oregonian stereotypers’
fi ght, it was forced into it, es-
sentially, by treaty obligations.
And unlike the Oregonian, the
Journal was not fi nancially pre-
pared for it.
The Journal was no longer
being run by the family that had
founded it back in 1902. Fear-
some newsman Sam Jackson,
and later his son Philip, had built
it from nothing into Portland’s
leading newspaper. But by the
late 1950s all members of the
family were dead. And the last
surviving Jackson, Sam’s widow
Maria, had left specifi c instruc-
tions in her will that the paper
was under no circumstances to
be sold to Newhouse.
But it was no secret that New-
house wanted very much to buy
it, so that he could enjoy an ef-
fective local monopoly; and the
trustees were quite willing to
sell it to him, if they could just
fi gure out how to get around
Maria Jackson’s posthumous
edict.
They’d already defeated one
such edict. In her will, Maria
had instructed that all the fami-
ly’s stock in the company was to
be distributed to the employees.
But the trustees had challenged
the bequest, and got a judge
to rule that she had made it in
“wishful” language, and that
Street Striping
On Tuesday and Wednesday
of this week, City streets with
traffi c control striping, were
restriped by Lane County. The
City contracts with Lane Coun-
ty each year to restripe City
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CLIP N' CARRY
GARAGE SALES
YARD SALE
78074 Mosby Creek
Rd.
Fri-Sat 9am-2pm
Books, youth girl
clothes, lots of 10
cent items.
HUGE SALE!
1st house after left
on Gowdyville
Road.
40 years of accumu-
lation. House-hold,
shop, yard, antique
items, clothes, 1954
D2, furniture.
Fri-Sat 9am-3pm
Treasures are wait-
ing for you at
THE OLD TIME
GOSPEL FEL-
LOW-SHIP RUM-
MAGE SALE.
103 S. 5th Street.
Fri-Sat 9am-3pm
Sofa, fi rewood, 4
maple dining chairs.
Priced to Sell!
Open at 9 a.m.
sharp!
MULTI-FAMILY
GARAGE SALE
2175 Carver
Fri-Sat 9am-3pm
All name brand
clothing: adult, girls
0-10, boys 0-10,
Build-a-Bears, toys,
home decor, too
much to list! Cash
only.
YARD SALE
77796 Sunset Drive
Fri-Sat 9am-4pm
GARAGE SALE
1661 Hwy. 99 N.,
#16
Fri-Sat 9am-4pm
GARAGE SALE
1306 N. 19th St.
Fri-Sat 9am-4pm
Air tools, mechanic
tools, collector
plates and much
more!
No early sales!
MULTI-FAMILY
YARD SALE
325 Grant Ave.
Sat. only 8am-2pm
Kid's clothes,
women's clothing,
holiday, home decor
and much more!
HUGE YARD
SALE
Fri-Sat 9am-5pm
31516 Rudolph Rd
Dryer, Kids clothes,
pool table, toys,
bikes, great deals!
SHOP SALE
Fri-Sat-Sun 8am-
5pm
35 S. 21st St.
Guy Stuff: tools,
auto, building,
hardware, welding,
hunting, camping,
misc & old stuff.
MULTI-FAMILY
YARD SALE
Saturday 9am-
3pm
1200 E Quincy
Yakima rack,
stained glass sup-
plies, & lots more.
78376 Cedar Park
Rd.
Friday 9am-2pm
Saturday 9am-
12pm
GARAGE SALE
Sat-Sun 9am-4pm
36778 Shoreview
Drive
6 mile marker
Dorena Lake
Tools, car parts, car
dolly, PU trailer,
household, holiday,
too much to list
- cash please
ESTATE SALE
FRI-SAT 8AM-?
77500 S. 6th St.
space A-49 (River-
stone Trailer Park)
Glassware, yard
items, table/chairs,
twin bed, size 7W
women's shoes lot
of useable items
BRICKER ES-
TATE SALE
Sat 9am-6pm
Sun 10am-5pm
1022 N 11th St.
UPCOMING:
DRAIN CITY-
WIDE YARD
SALE
Saturday, Aug. 13
7am
In park and around
town.
Reserve park space,
call 541-870-5442
GARAGE SALE
269 Hayes Ave.
(by Lincoln Middle
School)
Fri, Sat, Sun, 10-5
No earlies
Furniture, king-size
bed, tools and misc.,
composter
streets. This work is generally
performed in one or two nights
each year between 5:00 pm
and 4:00 am. In addition to the
street striping, the Public Works
Utilities Crew has made ar-
rangements with a private con-
tractor to restripe the parking
lot at Middlefi eld Golf Course.
This work will also include
the repainting of the handicap
parking spaces, as well as, the
pedestrian crossings and speed
bumps on Village Drive. In
addition, the Middlefi eld Home
Owner’s Association may
piggy-back on this job to have
their parking lot, located behind
the Association’s community
center, restriped.
it was therefore null and void;
so, the trustees got to keep con-
trol. Needless to say, Newhouse
found these trustees far easier to
work with than would have been
the case had the Journal been
owned by its employees – espe-
cially during the strike.
So the year 1960 found the
Journal hard-pressed, and the
Oregonian not much better.
They’d teamed up to produce a
single edition, the Oregonian-
Oregon Journal, which was
delivered to all their dwindling
subscribers; but delivery was
suddenly very uneven, and the
quality of the newspaper was
terrible. Cancellations were
pouring in. It would have ap-
peared to anyone looking, in
early 1960, like the unions were
going to win this fi ght.
But that’s when one of the
members of the stereotypers’
union — the union that started
the whole thing — made a cru-
cial mistake. And although that
mistake wouldn’t put the kiss of
death on the whole operation —
that would happen the following
year, with the shooting outside
Donald Newhouse’s basement
window — it would set the
stage for it. Because, how hard
is it to believe a union will try
to murder the manager, after the
union has hired bombers and
given them dynamite?
We’ll talk about that bombing,
and the events that followed, in
next week’s column.
O FFBEAT
Continued from page 4A
ber of strikers. In response,
Newhouse brought in a cadre
of out-of-state strikebreakers —
some of whom turned out to be
thugs with sawed-off shotguns
and prison records — to keep
the paper going. These turned
out to be better at making trou-
ble than they were at making a
newspaper, and the Oregonian’s
quality suffered shockingly,
which made the union organiz-
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ers’ door-to-door efforts to get
locals to cancel their subscrip-
tions that much easier.
Meanwhile, over at the Or-
egon Journal — the competing
Portland daily newspaper, which
was still locally owned — one
might have expected things to
be going rather better. In fact,
they were going much worse.
The Journal and the Oregonian
had made a deal for both news-
papers to bargain together with
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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 LIVE IN THE SAME TOWN WE WORK IN
“ NO MONKEY BUSINESS!”
(Sources: Diehl, Caleb. “The
Newspaper Wars…,” Portland
Monthly, Dec. 2015; Klare,
Gene. “Let Me Say This about
That,”
nwlaborpress.org,
1/01/2002; Diehl, Caleb. “The
Portland Reporter,” oregonen-
cyclopedia.org)
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