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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL August 31, 2016 Cottage Grove Retrospective CLIP N' CARRY GARAGE SALES A look back at a Sentinel story from 40 years ago SALE 36953 Shoreview Dr. Fri-Sat 9am-3pm Household, women's and boy's clothes, toys and more. Sept. 2, 1976 Paper Streets? The cloth is called Mirafer 140. It is produced by a subsidiary of the Dow Chemical fi rm. Mr. Sinclair was on the project site Monday, watching as work- men for the contractor, Delta Sand and Gravel Company of Eugene, rolled out the long, wide strips of cloth-like material on the excavat- ed street bed. “As far as I know, this is the fi rst time it’s used in Oregon,” Mr. Sin- clair said, noting that the new tech- nique has been used in other parts of the country with success. Mr. Sinclair said the material will “form a tough membrane” that will be equivalent to six inches of crushed rock. The material will al- low water to pass through when the winter rains come, but it will hold A major part of the proposed ‘R’ Street extension in front of Cottage Grove’s new Bohemia Elementary School is in an area that has very high water table during winter months. Normally, that fact would mean the street’s base would have to be fi lled with expensive crushed rock to protect the planned street from later damage caused by mud work- ing its way up under the hard sur- face. But the R Street extension is not going to be handled in the normal way. According to City Engineer Rog- er Sinclair, the city has decided to try using a “fi lter cloth” to prevent mud from weakening the street in front of the new school. back the mud that weakens streets when it mixes with the normal rock base. If the “fi lter cloth” were not used, the R Street project would need about three feet of crushed rock fi ll, Mr. Sinclair said. But with the cloth, the fi ll requirement has been cut to 12 to 18 inches. When it is fi nished, the R Street extension will run a street 42 feet wide about 1,200 feet north and south past the new school. The street will link W. Main Street to the north of the school with Har- rison Avenue to the south. The R Street project will include curbs and gutters. Mr. Sinclair said work on the curbs should start this week and paving should begin sometime next week. POLICE BLOTTER GARAGE SALE 210 Hayes Ave. Fri-Sat 9am-3pm Shutters, bird cages, old watering can, nice items for home and gar- den. No earlies. BIG SALE Lots and lots of good stuff! 1355 W. Harrison Ave. Sat. only 9am-3pm No early sales. HUGE SALE 4-FAMILY 34456 Row River Rd. (just past Dorena Grange) Sat-Sun-Mon 9am-5pm Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504 Aug. 22 Aug. 23 Child Abuse/Neglect, Main St. A complainant reported that a toddler was locked in a green Toyota Camry for the past 15-20 minutes unattended and parked on Main St. Assault, Gateway Blvd. A complainant advised that his seven year old was assaulted by a six year old and he wants the juvenile arrested. The case was taken for information. Welfare Check, HWY 99 A complainant advised that a little girl from a neighboring apartment came to the front door with her blanket and said that her mom went crazy and disappeared. Police arrived and transported the girl to the police department. 5A Theft, W. Main St. A complainant at the depart- ment reported that her brother stole her mom’s electric wheel chair. Contraband Seized, HWY 99 A reporting person advised police that someone dropped three mature marijuana plants out back near the old, aban- doned trailers. The plants were lodged at the impound lot. Aug. 26 Trespassing, Row River Rd. The assistant manager of Walmart advised police of a dis- orderly subject on the sidewalk near the front entrance. The subject came in with two pack- ages of women’s underwear and demanded cash. The subject was given a gift card and then went back out front trying to sell that. Illegal Camping, Arthur Ave. Police were out to clear out a transient camp in the blackber- ries next to a residence. Aug. 27 Property Recovered, E. Main St. A complainant in the lobby advised that he dropped his cell phone down the storm drain in the alleyway behind a business. He asked for permission to take a crowbar and hammer to the drain. The subject was very in- toxicated, but police units man- aged to recover the cell phone. Suspicious Conditions, HWY 99 A hysterical female was on the phone stating that someone is killing her friend. The caller stated that a man took the victim in the middle of the night and took him down the river. The caller has found the victim’s boat but cannot fi nd him. The complaints were considered un- founded and the caller was in- toxicated. Domestic Disturbance, BMX Track A male in black shorts and a black T shirt was witnessed hit- ting a female in a dress. The fe- male was pushing a bike in the opposite direction of the male, and the male left in a light blue older van towards town. No prosecution was desired. Mental issues, Jefferson Ave. A complainant at the front counter requested to speak to an offi cer regarding his down- stairs neighbor, who was alleg- edly threatening to kill him with religious statements. The com- plainant said the neighbor was violating his Second Amend- ment right not to be killed. Of- fi cers were unable to make con- tact with the neighbor. A WARDS Continued from page 2A Division G – Crafts and Hobbies Carson Rigel: sun catcher 1st; Hunter Rigel: sun catcher 1st; Seth Lebow: plane model 2nd, lamp 2nd, paper leaf 3rd; Carter Wills: cup & candle- holder 1st; Corbin Kephart: Gator car 1st, Simpsons fi gures 2nd; Summer Lebow: col- lage 2nd, earth collage 1st; Eli Williams: rock collection 1st; Chloe Hinkle: string pictures 1st; Kailen Wills: mug & bowl 1st; Briahna Guevaro: coin col- lection 2nd; Kaylynn Guevaro: necklace 3rd, tye dye 1st & 3rd, lego train 2nd, bowl 3rd, piggy bank collection 1st, beanie col- lection 2nd, stuffed whales 3rd; Gabe Bunce: zip line Lego 1st, pirate ship 3rd, Eifel Tower 3rd; Abigail Bunce: tank top 1st, Jennifer Bryant: fairy house 1st; Fred Rigel: wooden crate with milk bottles 2nd, Tara Sue Hughart: fi sh bowl ceramics 1st, antique baby mugs 2nd; Ashley Rigel: rifl e sling 1st, hat band 2nd; Sabrina Coop: hand- bag 1st, belt 3rd, spur straps 2nd; Steven Stroud: blind spi- der 3rd, ear rings 2nd; Veronica Geiger: bead button 2nd; Ken Turner: fabricated rose 2nd; Dave Fors: plaque 1sr; Joyce Durham: antique picture 3rd, ‘Indian Princess’ 3rd, Bavarian Dolls 2nd, Grimm’s Fairytale plates 1st, Embroidery collec- tion 3rd; Joanne Skelton: turtle boxes 3rd, ‘By the Sea’ salt & pepper shakers 1st; Tinika Oss- man-Steier: ‘Insect’ collection 2nd; Mary Lee Cooper: 1950’s & 1960’s baby dolls 1st; Mark Markham: woodworking 1st; Bill Towsley: wooden fi shing boat 2nd, wooden boat w/ski’s 1st; Corolene Corriea: mosaic box 2nd; Penny Schaack: glass bead necklace 2nd, amber & turquoise necklace 1st; Carole Chapman: eeyore board 2nd; Ruth Dusley: girl w/balloons; Lois Stadt: America’s Bottles Collection 1st; thing – they could do tremen- dous damage. And worse, if they continued to launch them when fi re season began in the Pacifi c Northwest … Now, the Yanks didn’t under- stand what the jet stream was or how it worked yet, so they didn’t know, as the Japanese did, that it was a wintertime thing. Come July or August, when the entire Pacifi c Northwest was a giant tinderbox, the balloons would no longer be fl ying. But that was a problem easily solved with bombs rigged with very-long- running timers or even tempera- ture sensors that would set them off when they hit 80 degrees or so. Well, so far as is known, the Japanese did none of these things; they contented themselves with sending traditional bombs. Of the 9,000 they launched, about 300 were found, and it’s esti- mated that another 500 or 600 either blew up harmlessly with- out witnesses around or fell into the woods somewhere and are still out there. But the U.S. gov- ernment did such a great job of hushing the whole thing up that the Japanese concluded that the whole program was a miserable failure, and there was no discus- sion of continuing the program after April 1945. It was in May of 1945 that the fi re balloons actually drew blood, when a group of church picnickers in the southern-cen- tral Oregon town of Bly found one of the balloons; while they were gawking and prodding it, it exploded, killing fi ve children and a pregnant woman. And then there was that mys- terious forest fi re that broke out in July, which we know today as the third Tillamook Burn … Historians almost universally agree there was nothing the Jap- Division H – Photography and Scrapbooking Summer Lebow: Chi Chi 1st, Baby & Mama Slugs 3rd; Ryan Lane: Lazy Lizard 2nd; Kayla Lane: Chicken Party 1st; Kay- lynn Guevara: White Flower 1st; Eli Williams: Watusi Cattle 2nd, Inside of Tree 1st; Gabe Bunce: Praying Mantis !st, Velvet 3rd, Horsetail Falls 2nd; Ashley Kephart: Dream 1st, Christmas 1st, Infamous Bowl Licker 2nd; Jennifer Bryant: Pasta Game 1st, 4-H Club Making Rocket Launcher 1st; Holly Whiting: Pink Bleeding Heart 2nd, Sweet Baby Girl 2nd, Baby Iris 1st, Old Wagon 2nd; Thomas Pryor: Tibetan Joy 3rd; Marlene Nowak: Span- ning Over Time 3rd, Winter Sleeps 1st, Swinging on the Boardwalk 2nd, Mudding it 1st, Splash 2nd, Oh Yeah! 3rd; Aaron Kephart: Buoys 1st, Wildwood 1st; Paul Henrichs: Hummingbird 2nd, Ocean Sun- rise With Boat 3rd, Umpqua River Refl ection 1st; Jennifer Guevara: Emu Close-up 3rd; Susan Cameron: Kylemore Abby 1st, Shark Bite 1st; Jen- nifer Bryant: Goat 3rd, Good Life 2nd, Flower 3rd; Dustin Bryant: Creswell Airport 1st; Lois French: Gymnastics 2nd, Merry Go Round 2nd, Car Show 1st, Handprints 1st, ‘A’ Wedding 1st; anese could have done to win that war. They had picked a fi ght with a country that by the end of the confl ict was out-produc- ing the entire rest of the world combined. Although there were some bad moments in 1942, the outcome of the confl ict was inevitable, particularly after American aircraft design caught up with and surpassed the Japa- nese Zero (arguably the best all-around fi ghter plane in the world until about 1943). But had the Japanese devel- oped it a year earlier, and had they loaded it with anthrax spores and put the bombs on six-month time delay fuses be- fore sending them over the sea, they would have dramatically changed the way the war is re- membered in the United States. And they probably would have changed the very landscape of the American West for decades. It’s not like him. 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