[or-roots] They robbed the bank in Sweet Home

[Connie Guardino]

Cecil, I hardly know of anyone who has had a more colorful life than
you!  You must have a karmic connection to the strange, the bizarre, the
unexpected. Ha!

Cecil Houk wrote:

> They robbed the bank in Sweet Home I forget the year, but it was some
> time in the late 1940's, but it was before 1948. The old bank building
> on Long Street is now gone, but for years there were bullet holes in
> the outside walls of the that bank; the result of a holdup. My brother
> (the late Doug Houk), was playing down on the Santiam River, near the
> covered bridge at Foster.  He saw some fellows hide "something" in the
> bushes near that bridge.  He told our father about it, and dad went
> into town and called the FBI. This story was reenacted on one of the
> radio crime programs that were so popular back then. In 1948 we moved
> from Foster to near the east end of Long Street.  Guess who lived next
> door?  The family of the young man, fresh out of jail, who was party
> to that robbery!!!  YIKES!!!!!!! Cecil Cecil Houk, ET1 USN Ret.
> PO Box 530833
> San Diego CA 92153
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