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Looking back on more than 80 years of
coverage #7 east Linn County...
February 1, 1962
The Linn County court stated
this week that the Waterloo bridge,
which crosses the Santiam river,
would possibly be opened for traf-
fic within the next few weeks.
Construction of the bridge
started last summer. The new
bridge is the fifth to cross the San-
tiam from Waterloo. The first was
built in 1889. A bridge built in
1913 was washed away by flood
waters in 1920.
Reagan vs Obama: two visions for U.S.
By Rick Manning
In his last State of the Union
address, in 1988, President Ronald
Reagan used the opportunity to re-
mind Americans and Congress of
the greatness that America aspires
to, not through increased govern-
ment, but through increased lib-
erty.
In the address he said, "I don't
buy the idea that this is the last year
of anything, because we're not talk-
ing here tonight about registering
temporary gains but ways of mak-
ing permanent our successes. And
that's why our focus is the values,
the principles and ideas that made
America great. Let's be clear on
GUEST COLUMN
this point. We're for limited gov-
ernment, because we understand,
as the Founding Fathers did, that
it is the best way of ensuring per-
sonal liberty and empowering the
individual so that every American
of every race and region shares
fully in the flowering of American
prosPerity and freedom.
"One other thing we Ameri-
cans like -- the future -- like the
sound of it, the idea of it, the hope
of it. Where others fear trade and
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economic growth, we see opportu-
nities for creating new wealth and
undreamed-of opportunities for
millions in our own land and be-
yond. Where others seek to throw
up barriers, we seek to bring them
down. Where others take counsel
of their fears, we follow our hopes.
Yes, we Americans like the future
and like making the most of it."
Just 24 years later, we have
had another of the annual State of
the Union addresses, this time by a
president desperate for re-election,
trying to justify policies that have
shredded liberty and economic
freedom.
A president who has made
class warfare the hallmark of his
LETTERS
Thanks for B&G
Club support
Editor:
The Boys & Girls Club-of
Sweet Home wishes to welcome
O'Reilly Auto Parts to our commu-
nity and thank them for their gener-
ous donation to our organization.
It is the support of our partners
that enables us to continue to grow
and serve the youth of our commu-
nity. We wish Jim Lewis and his
staff all the best in Sweet Home.
Andi Casteel
Clubhouse Director, Sweet Home
Boys & Girls Clubs
of the Greater Santiam
presidency and through his philo-
sophical intransigence has created
a debt burden on our nation unpar-
alleled in history.
A president who has also de-
clared war on the very U.S. Con-
stitution that he swore to upheld
by appointing officials outside of
the advice and consent process that
our founding fathers put into place
to ensure that the executive branch
did not become imperial.
A president who will tout an
8.5 percent unemployment rate,
and will ignore the millions of
Americans who have given up hope
of finding a job and are uncounted
by government bureaucrats. No-
where will we hear about the real
unemployment rate of around 11
percent when those dropped-out
Americans are counted.
A president who will chide
Congress for inaction on the debt,
while it is his political party that
has steadfastly refused all efforts to
make even modest cutbacks in the
size and scope of govemment.
A president who will claim the
creation of millions of "green" jobs
• See Compare, page 5
Charles Otip Triplett Jr., 23, of
Sweet Home, was killed in a one-
car traffic accident last Saturday
morning near the Willamette Na-
tional Lumber Mill at Foster.
The vehicle Triplett was driv-
ing reportedly struck a jiggle bar
in the middle of the road as Trip-
lett attempted to pass another ve-
hicle. The car went out of control
and skidded about 400 feet, then
flipped.
February 4, 1987
Items stolen from four Sweet
Home-area burglaries were recov-
ered last week during the arrest of
two Salem persons in connection
with an undercover methamphet-
amine laboratory investigation.
Two SHHS Huskies have
been tapped to compete for the
East squad in the annual East-West
Shrine All-Star football game Aug.
15 at Baker.
Dirrell Harper will play in the
offensive backfield, while Jerry
Farnsworth will play in the defen-
sive backfield for coach Ron Au-
gust's East squad.
Each 30-man team is com-
posed of 14 class AA and 13 class
A and 3 class B players. As state
AA runners-up to Dallas, Sweet
Home was guaranteed two spots
on the East team.
By 1990, Sweet Home Stove
Works, in conjunction with Will-
Burt Manufacturing of Orrville,
Ohio, will control 20 percent of the
nation's coal and wood-burning
stove industry.
That is the prediction of Harry
Featherstone, company president.
Sweet Home Stove Works was
recently sold to Will-Burt, a diver-
sified, multinational corporation.
The local company had operated
independently for 10 years.
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