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A town’s friendship with its wartime attacker
Twenty years after he tried to light the surrounding forests on fire, Japanese pilot Nobuo Fujita returned to Brookings as an honored guest and presented the town with his family's Samurai sword. (Br…
Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Nobuo Fujita, the flying Samurai who attacked Oregon
After World War II started, submariner and pilot Nobuo Fujita hatched an idea: Use his tiny, rickety submarine-launched seaplane to attack an enemy 5,000 miles away from the nearest aircraft carrier.…
Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago
Finn on KPNW's Wake Up Call: Silverton's nationally-famous Bobbie the Wonder Dog
A recording of a June 2024 on-air conversation with Bill Lundun and Gerry Snyder of the Wake Up Call on Eugene's KPNW Radio AM 1120. Topic: 'Bobbie the Wonder Dog's' 2,500-mile odyssey. Lost in Illin…
Published on 1 month ago
Colorful sea-captain was like an 1800s Han Solo
THERE WAS NO reason why the U.S. Marshal should spend the night on board the cramped, smelly little freight schooner he was in charge of. After all, the ship was anchored in a semi-civilized town — S…
Published on 1 month ago
Plain-talking preacher made lawmakers squirm
“Uncle Joab” was the most famous preacher in the West for a reason ... and that reason was pretty much exactly why the pioneer lawmakers found him to be such a lousy fit for the job of Chaplain of th…
Published on 1 month ago
“Uncle Joab” was West’s most famous preacher
When the Legislature of the new state of Oregon started looking for someone to serve as the state's first Chaplain of the Legislature, Uncle Joab's name naturally came readily to mind. But it wouldn'…
Published on 1 month ago
Oregon System showed way to fight corruption
After out-of-state interests overplayed their hand and showed how little power locals had in their own state, Populists and renegade Republicans got together to do something about it. The result: The…
Published on 1 month ago
For country docs, life was colorful and action-packed
Dr. E.R. Huckleberry came to Tillamook County in 1923, fresh from medical school; by the time he retired, in the 1960s, he could safely say the career he'd chosen had been neither easy nor safe ... b…
Published on 1 month ago
Was Anna Schrader the victim of ‘torso murder’?
JUST BEFORE SUNSET on the evening of April 12, 1946, Milwaukie residents James and Mary Rader were strolling with their friend H.C. Foster along the river by the Wisdom Island Moorage in Oak Grove wh…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Dynamite murder caused by a sordid love triangle
Someone killed Oliver Kermit Smith with a massive dynamite bomb planted under his car seat ... and police soon figured out who. But did Smith's wife really put the killer up to the job, like a real-l…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago