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.
Please see AWARDS, Page 10A
O FFBEAT
Continued from page 4A
The U.S. war department was
not slow to realize that the Japa-
nese had developed a weapon
that, while not a war-winner,
could certainly dramatically
increase the amount of pain
they’d be able to infl ict. Should
the Japanese think to rig the bal-
loons with biological weapons
– weaponized anthrax strains,
smallpox virus, that kind of
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