Jan. 4, 1951
Too heavy, too high and too wide, reads the citation at the justice court regarding the huge Douglas fir which was parked along the highway last week. Dale C. Morgan was hauling the log through Foster for the Ripple Creek Logging Co. when he found himself at a standstill. Permissible weight runs about 72,000 pounds, while Morgan’s load weighed 108,400.
A 1942 sedan driven by Wendell A. Moore, 25, of Holley, and carrying seven passengers was crushed after it met with a parked GMC diesel truck on M Street. All eight were injured, but are reported to be coming along well. Police reported Moore was clocked at driving 70 mph before the car skidded and crashed into the truck.
Jan. 1, 1976
After about seven years of frustration, the school district finally managed to purchase part of the old Oregon Plywood (Hofheins) property directly behind the high school. Seven of 20 acres was purchased at $64,162. Previous attempts at buying Hofheins’ property had been unsuccessful, so the district bought other small lots surrounding the school. To afford this purchase, the district will sell a small parcel between the high school and Evangelical Church.
Former actress Holly Hill flew from New York to visit her parents here for Christmas. After acting in theater for a number of years, she is now a theatrical writer and drama critic for the Westchester-Rockland newspapers. She’d gotten bored in acting after always being typecast as a teenager, but she also disliked the growing number of acts with obscenity and nudity.
After three burglaries in nine months at the Travel Center and Trailways Bus Depot, owner Don Menear has opted to install bars on the store, and maybe even the windows. It was learned the most recent burglary was from a visiting 15-year-old who took between $60 and $100. His punishment: he was sent home.
Mayor Doyle Johnson said he made a mistake voting to place the Roy Clover Memorial Fountain at Osage Street near the highway. He wants to find a better location because the current site is “the worst possible site in the city,” a place nowhere near where people would go to see it. “It will be a monument to bad decision making,” he said.
Jan. 3, 2001
The Mountain House, an eastern Linn County landmark, closed down this week when owners Bill and Char LaFollette found they could no longer carry the financial burden of the home-restaurant. Located on Hwy. 20 just 25 miles east of Sweet Home, The Mountain House has a history more than 100 years old. The LaFollettes bought the place in 1991 and raised their children there.