Umenhofer had received explosives training during his World War II service and what he saw on the beach that day made him very, very nervous. He was a businessman who happened to be in town with his brand-new car, an Oldsmobile 88 Regency, which he later told Springfield News reporter Ben Raymond Lode that he’d bought days earlier at Dunham Oldsmobile in Eugene during a promotion taglined - no, really, I'm not kidding, this is true - "Get a Whale of a Deal on a New Oldsmobile." The explosives expert runs for cover A highway engineer, faced with the need to dispose of an eight-ton whale carcass which had washed up on the beach, tried to vaporize it with a half-ton of dynamite, with results that most people who know about dynamite could have predicted - and did. 12, 1970, an event happened that put the town of Florence on the map.
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I recommend it in preference to the version on this page the newer column is thoroughly rewritten and re-researched and is of considerably better quality than this one, which was written during Offbeat Oregon History's first full year. Downloadable audio file (MP3, 96 Kbps) EDITOR'S NOTE: The subject of this column was revisited in a longer and more detailed column published in late 2016, which you will find here.
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