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informed that Kennedy’s body was being sent to our hospital.” According to Cox, while Air Force One was leaving Dallas following the assassination, the President’s physician asked Jackie Kennedy, the President’s wife, where she wanted the autopsy performed and she selected Bethesda. See KENNEDY, Page A5

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Scheduled power outage allows for maintenance

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Approximately 500 Pacific Power customers in Lincoln City were to experience a power interruption in the early morning hours today while crews completed maintenance work on the electric distribution system. Such preventative maintenance investment helps ensure safe, reliable power is available to everyone in the community, especially moving into storm season. The power must be cut to ensure worker and public safety. The outage was expected to take place just after midnight and last until 7 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6. Affected was to be an area bordered on the west by Keel Avenue, on the south by N.E. 21st Street, on the east by Tide Avenue and on the north by N.W. 36th Street.

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Social Security numbers. Oregon law prohibits the public posting or displaying of consumer names and Social Security numbers. As part of the final order, the agency assessed Samaritan a civil penalty of $5,000, but reduced the penalty to $1,000 as long as Samaritan complies with the Oregon law for the next five years. “A Social Security number can be a very useful tool for an identity thief,” said David Tatman, administrator of the agency’s Division of Finance and Corporate Securities (DFCS), which enforces the Oregon Consumer Identity Theft Protection Act. “Businesses must be aware of the consequences of failing to

safeguard their confidential records, and that includes the secure destruction of those records.” When The News Guard asked for comment from Samaritan Health Services regarding the action taken by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Businesses Services, Samaritan officials referred us to this release issued July 30: “Samaritan Health Services has retrained staff and notified a federal agency after completing an internal investigation involving patient information that was discovered earlier this month outside a physician clinic in Corvallis. The investigation began on July 16, when a community member notified

Samaritan staff that patient health information had been discovered in a recycling container behind the Samaritan Family Medicine Clinic. The investigation determined that documents, intended for shredding, had been accidentally placed into a recycling container. The recycling container was placed outside for pick-up and processing on July 15. After receiving the reported concern, the information in the recycling container was immediately collected and secured. Some of the documents placed in recycling contained names, dates of birth, addresses, diagnostic information, and, in a small number of instances, Social Security

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Hundreds of American Flags were displayed in September as part of the Celebration of Honor for American veterans at the Chinook Winds Casino Resort. Veteran’s Day is Monday, Nov. 11. Read a column on A4 about life on the Oregon Coast during WW II.

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numbers. “Since the documents were recovered, we don’t have reason to believe that there is any risk to patients and we are not aware of any steps that patients need to take in response to this incident,” said Leslie Soltau, Samaritan’s privacy officer. “We have since secured the information.” Soltau said clinic processes were immediately evaluated to prevent a similar situation from occurring in the future. The clinic’s staff has also been retrained in confidential handling and destruction of patient information. In addition, Soltau said, Samaritan audited confidential document

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The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has fined Samaritan Health Services, Inc., for violating Oregon law by discarding business records with patient names and Social Security numbers. Samaritan operates a nonprofit network of hospitals, physician clinics, health plans and senior care facilities in Albany, Corvallis, Lebanon, Lincoln City, Newport and Sweet Home. In July, a patient at the Samaritan Family Medicine Clinic in Corvallis found approximately 1,222 patient files had been discarded into an unlocked recycling container. Twenty of the discarded files contained patient names and

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triggered talk of conspiracy for years. Dr. Jay Cox, today a Depoe Bay surgeon, was the Officer of the Day at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland on the day of the assassination and when President Kennedy’s body was brought there for the autopsy. “I was a young resident in my second year and as Officer of the Day I was in charge of the entire hospital,” said Cox. “I was the first one

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