May 24, 1951
In the face of one of the worst farm labor shortages in recent years, the Lebanon office of the state employment service issued a plea for help in harvesting berry and bean crops. The office contacted schools to urge sign-ups from persons down to 11 years old. Of primary concern is harvesting of berry crops, clearing, planting and hoeing. Particularly needed is the county’s 110 acres of strawberries mostly near Lacomb. Also caneberry, cherry, snap beans, hay, grain, filberts and walnuts.
Disappointing results were reported from the Red Cross bloodmobile when Sweet Home missed its goal of 200 by 62 pints. The scheduling chairman expressed disappointment over the 58 no-shows of scheduled donors, stating they either forgot or “thought the donation unimportant to a fighting man in Korea.”
Crews will begin work on Sweet Home’s community pool with all efforts to rush its completion. This was made possible by efforts of the Jaycees to secure $13,000 in something of a “loan” by businessmen and other supporters for deficits of a $29,000 cost.
Over the objections of Warren Korstad, a Eugene outdoor advertising man, the Sweet Home City Council gave its first reading of a new ordinance prohibiting construction of billboards within the city. Korstad was ordered to remove a nearly-completed billboard on M Street, but stated the ordinance was “discriminatory and unconstitutional.”
May 20, 1976
William Roebuck, 17, is healing from wounds sustained when the car he was driving rolled and burned on Quartzville Road about a half-mile north of Hwy. 20. The car reportedly began to swerve to the right, went off to the left, veered back across the pavement and plunged into a canyon before bursting into flames. Roebuck’s injuries included third-degree burns and face lacerations.
Norm “Hoop” Davis, coach of Sweet Home High’s AAA state championship team, was named AAA Coach of the Year at the first annual All State Wrestling Banquet in Albany. Dick Weisbrodt, of Lebanon, handed Davis a myrtlewood plaque for the honor and explained Sweet Home has become famous for the “hoop hold.”
May 23, 2001
A Sweet Home bus carrying the freshman baseball team and an empty milk tanker collided one mile south of Monmouth on Hwy. 99. Four Huskies were treated for minor injuries, bus driver Adeline Hight had a broken wrist, and Coach Tim O’Donnell had a cracked rib and vertebrae. Hight saw the truck coming and everything was fine until “all of a sudden he turned for us.”