COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL August 17, 2016
Cottage Grove Retrospective
A look back at a Sentinel story from 40 years ago
Aug. 26, 1976
Airport changes hands
Ownership of the assets of
the Cottage Grove Airport have
changed hands, effective Aug.
1.
The new owners are Roland
and DeLoris Jensen of Simi Val-
ley, Calif.
They have purchased the as-
sets of the Cottage Grove Flying
Service, Inc., formerly owned
and operated by Alpha and Ada
Pitcher. The fi eld itself is owned
by the State Board of Aeronau-
tics.
The Pitchers have leased
the airport from the state since
1965, when the airport was
built. Mr. Pitcher will continue
to managed the fl ying service
for awhile, and the operation
will remain the same.
Mr. Jensen said he plans to
put in a maintenance shop,
which the airport does not have
now. Also, Mr. Jensen said he
has hired a fl ight instructor, Lee
Green, who lives in an apart-
ment in the airport building.
The fl ying service owns two
planes, and Mr. Jensen has add-
ed his to the fl eet.
The Pitchers have purchased
a house on Cedar Parks Road.
The were living in the apart-
ment at the airport.
Aug. 8
Suspicious Subject, Disc
Golf Course
Second-hand
information
came into the station about two
male subjects sleeping at the lo-
cation. An employee attempted
to wake them up without suc-
cess; one had a knife laying
next to him. The subjects were
advised of illegal camping and
oil production was in the back
of a building near the location.
Aug. 9
Suspicious Conditions, Dis-
trict Four
A person advised that a news-
paper carrier pounded on his
door saying that he was being
followed by people on bicycles.
Animal injured, HWY 99
A witness requested assis-
tance with an injured deer near
the location. The rear hindquar-
ters of the animal were report-
edly mangled. Offi cers on scene
helped dispatch the animal and
reported that the remains were
to be disposed.
Drug Information, Palmer
Ave.
An anonymous person ad-
vised that a large unlicensed
marijuana growing operation for
CITY BEAT
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for City Council
or Mayor is Aug.
23
GARAGE SALE
1063 Tyler Ave.
Fri-Sat 8am-2pm
Scuba gear, Harley leather,
lots more of everything.
GARAGE SALE
2065 W. Harrison Ave.
Fri-Sat-Sun 9am-dusk
Something for
everyone!
HUGE TWO FAMILY
SALE
209 Pond Turtle Way
Fri-Sat 8am-4pm
School clothes for kids, toys,
white wooden rockers, plug-
in fi replace, household items
& more.
SMALL ESTATE SALE
78650 North Cedar Park
Road
See Craigslist ad.
Sat. only 8am-4pm
YARD SALE
205 N. 16th St.
Fri-Sat 9am-3pm
Furniture, housewares, col-
lectibles, little bit of every-
thing! No early sales.
Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504
moved on.
Person Down, Disc Golf
Course
A complainant at the station
advised that when exiting the
I-5 southbound off ramp, he
observed what appeared to be a
male subject laying face down
on the ground near the Frisbee
golf course. Offi cers had con-
tacted several subjects around
the location who are relocating
their camp from the area and
stopped to take a rest.
CLIP N' CARRY
GARAGE SALES
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942-5501 or cityrecorder@cot-
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Aug. 11
Juvenile problem, Gateway
Blvd
A caller advised that juveniles
were riding in grocery carts
down the hill in front of apart-
ments near the location and into
the road. Offi cers contacted the
juveniles and advised them of
the complaint and they moved
on.
Aug. 13
Welfare Check, Main St.
PD
A subject was seen staring
at a planter for an extended pe-
riod of time and appeared very
confused. An offi cer came in
for duty and advised who it was
and that the behavior was very
typical.
Offi cer Dumas
graduates from
Academy
Offi cer Josh Dumas gradu-
ated today from the Department
of Public Safety Standards and
Training Academy, Basic Police
Class 359. He received the Vic-
tor G. Atiyeh Award, an award
presented to the outstanding
student of each basic class as
selected by their fellow students
and the academy staff. The
award is presented to a student
who has displayed exceptional
professionalism by demonstrat-
ing an exemplary attitude and
outstanding achievement in
leadership, academics, health
and fi tness and survival skills.
Offi cer Dumas was hired in
March 2016 and started the
Academy on April 18.
Intoxicated Subject, N. 9th
St.
A caller advised that her
daughter is currently inside a
tavern at the location and ex-
tremely intoxicated and has
been having seizures for the
last couple of days due to her
intoxication. Offi cers contacted
the subject and cleared her and
determined she was not intoxi-
cated.
Aug. 14
Domestic Disturbance, N.
9th St.
A caller advised that his wife
struck him on the head after he
walked in on her and a male
known as Toby. Police deter-
mined that there were no weap-
ons or children at the scene and
determined it was only verbal
abuse and the complainant
didn’t want to press charges.
Broken water
main
Last Tuesday, the Public
Works Utilities Crew responded
to a broken water main on Os-
trander Lane in the north part
of the City. This main line is a
six-inch cast iron pipe that dates
from the early 1960s. The City
said the crew responded to the
break at 6:30 a.m. and every-
thing was repaired and back in
service by 10 a.m. The line was
repaired with a full-circle clamp
patch.
This particular water main
break caused a 12x30 foot sec-
tion of asphalt to lift, which will
need to be replaced. Customers
were affected by this break from
Ostrander Lane to North 16th to
Oswald West.
GARAGE SALE
78555 North Cedar Park
Road
Sat. only 8am-4pm
Lots of great stuff!
CAR TRUNK SALE &
BAKE SALE
Sat. only 9am-3pm
Bohemia Park Parking Lot
Proceeds to CG Community
Medical Center Auxiliary
Roland Jensen poses at his newly-owned airport.
POLICE BLOTTER
5A
HUGE GARAGE SALE
45 years of accumulation!
Fri.-Sat. Aug. 19-20
Gates open 9 a.m.;
Close 5 p.m.
77621 S. 6th St.
O FFBEAT
Continued from page 4A
been ordered doused to keep
Japanese marauders from fi nd-
ing their way by it.
Meanwhile, the advent of
a large ship driving onto the
beach in the dark of night had
not gone unnoticed on shore.
However, because it is not in the
standard-operating-procedures
manuals of freighters to drive
head-on into beaches, some wit-
nesses of the incident assumed
they were looking at a ship of a
type that WAS designed for that
sort of thing — such as a land-
ing craft.
So even as the Coast Guard
got busy unloading the crew of
the battered freighter, rumors
were fl ying around that a big
Japanese ship was dumping
soldiers onto the outskirts of
Warrenton for an invasion.
Companies of soldiers, locked
and loaded and ready to show
the Japanese what a big mistake
they’d made, converged on the
beach, joined by civilians carry-
ing their Winchesters and Rem-
ingtons ready at port-arms, to
fi nd — a bunch of Coast Guard
guys and other local residents
salvaging Christmas trees and
cases of steaks out of the surf
near a big steamer lying strand-
ed on the beach.
There were a couple of mo-
ments of high drama when the
soldiers fi rst arrived. The surf
was full of baled Christmas
trees, which looked a little bit
like men swimming to shore.
One or two of the trees got shot
at before everyone realized
what was going on, according
to an oral-history interview with
a soldier conducted by the Can-
non Beach History Center.
Mindful of what happens to
10,000 turkeys when they’re left
out in an unrefrigerated space
for too long — even in Decem-
ber on the Oregon Coast — the
military declared the contents
of the Mauna Ala “open sal-
vage,” essentially inviting local
residents to come on down and
get what they could. So, plen-
ty of locals got to start off the
nation’s four-year wartime run
of scarcity and rationing with
a whale of a Christmas feast,
courtesy of the Mauna Ala and
the U.S. military.
(Sources: Cannon Beach His-
tory Center and Museum, cb-
history.wordpress.com; Gibbs,
James A. Pacifi c Graveyard.
Portland: Binford, 1950)
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The S.S. Mauna Ala, just after the First World War when
she was the U.S.S. Canibas, docked in Antwerp in 1919.
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