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On Sept. 7,1944, a U.S. Navy submarine sank a Japanese ship off the Philippines. Among the passengers on the Japanese ship were American POWs, two of them Baker boys — Willard E. Hall and Jesse "Gordon" Smurthwaite.

Hall survived the sinking. Smurthwaite did not.

The second part of a three-part series on the men and their experiences by local historian Gary Dielman is in today's issue.

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Baker City vying for $100,000 to create dog park Baker City is competing in the fifth-annual "Bark for your Park" contest from PetSafe, which will award five communities with funds to build a dog park. The winners are determined through online votes, which can be cast on the PetSafe Facebook page and on the PetSafe website, www.petsafe. net/barkforyourparkl.

The grand prize is $100,000. The next top four communities will each receive $25,000 grants.

Everyone can vote twice each day through the two sites. The contest runs through June 10. The finalists will be notified on June 15, and then the next round of voting is June 17 through July 22.

Winners are announced July 31.

A local Facebook page has been created to spread awareness of the contest — search for Bark for Your ParkVote for Baker City.

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Baker City installed an ultraviolet light watertreatment plant last year to protect against cryptosporidium.

HAINES — Two young brothers will be honored Tuesday, June 9, at Haines School for their efforts in saving their baby brother, Thomas, a 15-month-old who fell into a pond on their family's property about 4:17 p.m. on May 26.

Thomas Kerns was released from St. Luke's Hospital in Boise on May 29 and is doing well, according to apressreleasefrom Baker County SherifFTravis Ash. Third-grader Caleb Kerns, 9, and his brother, Wesley Kerns, 8, who's in second grade, will be among those recognized during the end-ofyear assembly, said Nannette Lehman, a second-grade teacher who also serves as head teacher at Haines

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Department director, agreed with Kee. likeit's the (city) water supply "At this point, it doesn't look like it's the icityl water supply," Nudd (that's a sourceof crypto)." sald.

— Robin Nudd, Baker County She saidherdepartment and BakHealth Department director er City stafF are communicating and sharing information as both continue to investigate how the woman, who also been ill with symptoms consistent with crypto infection during the has not been identified, became ill.

2013 outbreak, although she was not City workers collected samples of tested then. She said she stopped tap water from the woman's home drinking the city's tap water at that and sentthem toa lab to betested. time and has continued to avoid After the 2013 outbreak, the city drinking the water since then. had to have its water tested twice City Manager Mike Kee said he each week for several months. None ofthosetestsdetected crypto.The doesn't believecryptohasfouled the city's water supply, in part because twice-weekly testing requirement the UV plant has operated continuended after the city installed a temously, and in part because there is porary UV treatment system. onlyone reported case ofinfection.

A $3 million permanent UV treat"I don't have any reason to believe ment plant went online in November that there is any crypto in the water," 2014.

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Local government officials are confident that Baker City's water supply is not the cause of a confirmed case ofcryptosporidiosis.

0$cials from the city and the Baker County Health Department are trying to figure out how a Baker City woman was infected w iththemicroscopicparasite that contaminated the city's water supply during the summer of 2013, making hundreds oflocal residents ill and resulting in a boil order that lasted nearly two months.

Crypto hasn't been detected in the city's water since August 2013.

And since March 2014 the city has treated all its water with ultraviolet iUVl light, which inactivates crypto.

The woman called City Hall on Friday and said she had tested positivefor crypto.

She told city officials that she had

The three boys are the sons of Adam and Ori Kerns.

The assembly will begin at 8:30 a.m.

The three Kerns boys and their sister, Kiley, 5, were playing near the pond with their mother who was working in a garden, according to

Ash. Kiley Kerns saw Thomas floating in the pond. Wesley rescued Thomas from the waterand Caleb dialed 911 while their mother performed CPR. Emergency responders from the Baker City Fire Department, Haines Fire Department, Baker Rural Fire Protection District and the Baker County SherifF's Office helped in reviving Thomas.

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The"SuperHeroes"Summer Fun and Reading program for children in Grades 1-3, will begin Tuesday, June 16.

Sessions will be scheduled each Tuesday and Thursday — 11 a.m. to noon — at the North Baker Education Center, 2725 Seventh St. The reading program will continue through Aug. 13.

Lunch will be served at noon Monday through Friday, June 15 to Aug. 28 at the site.

Children sign up to read on ON pAGE 8A. Baker Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Schooi District's free mustdo soby June 4to help summer lunch program organizers plan for the amount ofreadingmaterialsneeded and the number of volunteers required, according to a press release. The program is workingin partnership with the Baker County Library's summer reading program.

During the summer program at North Baker, teachers and volunteer readers with the Baker County Community Literacy Coalition's REAL iRead Everyday and Learn) program will read with and tutor children. Reading materials will be suggested and provided by the child's teacher and districtreading specialists.

Baker County Commission Chairman Bill Harvey will have his monthly"First Friday WithThe Commissioner" event this Friday from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Courthouse, 1995 Third St. Citizens are invited to visit with Harvey to talk about issues affecting the county.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 2015

BAKER COUNTY CALENDAR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3 • Driver Education Class Sign-Up:6 p.m., Baker School District Office, 2090 Fourth St. THURSDAY, JUNE 4 • Christian Women's Connection luncheon and program:11:20 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Sunridge lnn; cost is $12 inclusive.

• Never Miss A Chance to Dance:The Powder River Dance Club meets, 6:30 to 8 p.m.,Veterans of Foreign Wars Club, 2005Valley Ave.; more information is available by calling 541-524-9306.

• Medical Springs Rural Fire Protection District Board: 7 p.m. at the Pondosa Station.

FRIDAY, JUNE 5 • Live Music by KeithTaylor:ragtime piano; 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.,Veterans Center, 1901Main St.; free.

• First Friday art shows:Baker City art galleries are open late to showcase the month's new artwork; opening times 5:30 p.m. at Crossroads Carnegie Art Center, Peterson's Gallery, ShorITerm Gallery.

SATURDAY, JUNE 6 • Pan FishTournament:Registration and participant checkin starts at 5:30 a.m., Hewitt and John Holcomb Parks.

TURNING BACK THE PAGES 50 YEARS AGO from the Democrat-Herald June 3, 1965 "Several" schools prefer Pendleton over Baker for the State "B" BasketballTournament because of travel distance and in early March driving conditions from Pendleton to Baker can be "extremely" hazardous are two reasons given by the Board of Control of the Oregon School Activities Association for selecting Pendleton for the 1966 tournament.

25 YEARS AGO from the Democrat-Herald June 3, 1990 Aquiet step in Baker City's historywas made Friday afternoon with the planting of a time capsule in the Post Office Square Park.

Workers from the City PublicWorks Department installed the copper capsule, which is filled with many recent memories.

The city's plan is to have the capsule opened in November2089.

10 YEARS AGO from the Baker City Herald June 3, 2005 John Edvalson might have met Pope Benedict XVI in May 1945.

Of course Joseph Ratzinger wasn't yet the pope — he was only18when he was one of25,000German prisoners that Edvalson helped escort from Traunsetein, Germany, to a prisoner-of-war camp at Bad Aibling.

Edvalson, 87, of Baker City, served with the U.S. Army's 2nd Chemical Mortar Battalion during World War II from January 1942 to October 1945.

His possible encounter with Ratzinger came in early May 1945 when Edvalson's battalion company entered Traunstein, Germany.

ONE YEAR AGO from the Baker City Herald June 4, 2014 Fresh off his win in the May 20 primary, Bill Harvey said his plans as the likely incoming chairman of the Baker County Board of Commissioners remain focused on a single concept: producing jobs.

The concept is not a new one — generating more jobs for the county was a central tenet of Harvey's campaign — and the local building contractor and businessman will have more than seven months to fine-tune his plan to achieve that goal.

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'PottervforParkinson's'fnndraiserFridav "Pottery for Parkinson's" is a fundraising event that ispartofCrossroads First Friday Artwalk this Friday.

The event starts at 5 p.m. at 1719 Main St. in Baker City.

Refreshments will be served.

Baker High School graduate Tanya Denne is raising money to fund a trip to Otty, India, to research the Mucuna plant, which is known to all eviatethe symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

Her research will be

conducted at JSS School of Pharmacy.

Denne's ethnobotanical studies iscientific study of therelationships that exist between people and plants) will include tribal studies with the Irula and Paniya tribes outside Ooty. Mucuna has been used since 300 B.C. for the treatment of "kampvata," which is similar in diagnosis to Parkinson's disease.

Denne has a Bachelor of Science degree in life science and a minor in psychology

from the University of Portland. After her trip to India, she plans to apply to and attend medical school at Bastyr University in Maryland to become a naturopathic doctor.

Denne will be partnering with Whit Deschner's Great Salt Lick benefit for research, Baker City's oneof-a-kind benefit/auction for Parkinson's awareness.

There will be short videos for both the Great Salt Lick and Tanya's unique research project.

Pottery art pieces made by Tanya and John Denne, her father, as well as Deschner's book'Travels With a Kayak" and his salt lick sculptures will be available for viewing and purchase. Tanya makes handmade jewelry out of clay that come in a wide variety of styles including renditions of the mucuna leaf.

She will take pre-orders of her jewelry as an incentive for an IndieGoGo fundraiser icoming this summer), which is an online crowd funding platform.

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then taken by hospital to St. Alphonsus Medical CenterBaker City.

From there he was flown by helicopter to St. Luke's Hospital in Boise.

'There was an excellent

unified response to this incident from all agencies and individuals involved,"Ash saidinthe pressrelease.

Ash said he talked with Thomas' father, Adam Kerns, on Tuesday.

"Adam expressed his appreciatio n to allofthose who responded as well as the friends, family and citizens who were praying for and supporting them during this incident,"Ash said.

Continued ~om Page1A Thomas, who had begun to breathe on his own while his mother was performing CPR, was stabilized and

CRYPTO Continued ~om Page1A Michelle Owen, the city's public works director, said the city last tested its water forcrypto on Nov .3,2014.Thattestw as negative.

The standard testforcrypto hasone limitation.

Owen said the state-approved lab the cityuses detectsthepresence ofcrypto but it doesn't determine whether the parasite's oocysts, the protective shell that makes crypto resistant to chlorine,

areactive,m eaning they'recapableof reproducing in humans and thus causing illness.

The issue is that UV light inactivates crypto but it doesn't actually remove the oocysts. That means the standard test could detect oocysts in UV-treated water, but it wouldn't show that the oocysts have been inactivated and thus are harmless.

Owen said she is researching other lab options, with help fiom the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that do test for oocyst viability.

The most common symptoms of the cryptoinfection are persistentw atery diarrhea, stomach cramps and nausea.

The BakerCounty Health Department notes that other possible symptoms are fever, vomiting and weight loss.

The Health Department recommends anyone who suffers from these symptoms for more than three days call their doctor to be tested.

For more information about cryptosporidium visit http J/wwwcdc.gov/parasites/ crypto/index.html or call Baker County Health Department at 541-523-8211.

OB1TUARIES volunteered countless hours at the library, the school, Cove Methodist Church, the Cove Arleen Goodson, 96, of Cove, died on June 1, 2015, at Improvement Club and the Meadowbrook Place in Baker Cherry Art Festival.

City.

She was honored as the A service to grand marshal of the Cherry honor her life Festival in 2003. Arleen was will be at 10 an active member of Mount a.m. Friday, Fanny Grange Hall, Cherry June 5, at LoveChapter of Eastern Star, land Funeral Daughters of the Nile, and Chapel, 1508 A rlee n Cove Sportsman's Club.

FourthSt.,in La Goodson Arleen and Leonard were Grande. founding members of the Arleen was born on Aug. Cove Booster Club. Arleen's heart always belonged to 5, 1918, at Roswell, Idaho, to the kids of Cove. For years, Walter and Leonora Obendorf After high school, Arleen Arleen's smiling face was at every home sporting or school graduatedfi om Lewis and Clark College with a lifetime event — taking tickets, selling T-shirts or just being the teaching certificate. She began her teaching career at Leopard's No. 1 fan.

Ten Davis School near Parma, In 1982 the Goodsons Idaho. were sel ected forCove'sfi rst In 1942 she married Leon- Booster of the Year award. In ard Goodson and two years a special ceremony in 1991, later their daughter, Jacki, the sports field was officially named"Goodson Field" in was born.

In 1946Arleen and Leonhonor of the many contribuard purchased a farm north tions thatArleen and Leonard had made over the years to of Cove. In addition to the everyday tasks of a farm wife theathleticprogram. and mother, Arleen quickly The plaque reads,"Goodson Field will forever be named in dedicated herselfto hernew community. Arleen was a your honor. Your loyal support in good times and bad are an substitute teacher, taught inspiration to us all."

Sunday school, and enjoyed Arleen will always be teaching piano lessons. She

Arteen Goodson Baker City, 1918-2015

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remembered for her infectious smile, her compassion, and her sweet disposition. She was full ofgrace,love,andjoy.

God was the center ofher life.

She wasa trueexample ofa Christian woman who exemplified God's love by the way she touched people with her selfless giving. Those privileged to have known Arleen are better because ofher.

Survivors include her daughter, Jacki, and her husband, Jack Turner, of Baker City; granddaughters, Lynne McKitlrick of Portland, Heather Krueger iJerryl of Covington, Washington, and

ChandraBingaman iGregl ofImbler;seven great-grandchildren; brother, Arthur, and his wife, Lela Obendorf; four nephews, one niece and numerous great-nieces, greatnephews and cousins.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Leonard Goodson; and her

brother, Walter Obendorf.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Cove Booster Club through Loveland Funeral Chapel, 1508 Fourth St., La

Grande, OR 97850.

Online condolences to the family may be made at www. lovelandfuneralchapel.com

Edward Hootstein Former Baker City resident, 1929-2015

Edward Hootstein, 85, of Denver, a former Baker City resident, died May 31,2015.

A private service is scheduled.

He was the husband of Eloise Hootstein; father of Alan and David Hootstein; son of the late Joseph and Rita Hootstein; brother-in-law of Berta and Donald Sugarman; and grandfather of Emily and Molly Hootstein.

Memorial contributions may be made to Jewish Family Service.

NEWS OF RECORD FUNERAL PENDING Marian Stratford Hyde Brady: Funeral, 11 a.m. Friday, June 5, atThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2625 Hughes Lane. A viewing will precede the service from 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Vault interment will be at Mount Hope Cemetery.

Gary Dean Higgins: Sunday, June 7, 11 a.m. at the

Seventh-day Adventist Church, 42171 Chico Road.

POLICE LOG Baker City Police Arrests, citation

INTERFERING WITH A POLICE OFFICER: Mary Lynn Roberts, 57, of 1720 Estes St., 12:07 p.m.

Tuesday, at her home; jailed.

Public luncheon at the SeniorCenter,2810 Cedar St., 11:30 a.m.to 12:30 p.m.; $3.50 donation (60 and older), $5.75 for those under 60.

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OREGON LEGISLATURE

Housecommitteedacks'lighter version'ofgundackgroundchecks

By Sheila V Kumar

The bill, Senate Bill 315, amends SB 941, which was SALEM — An Oregon approvedearlierthisyear, and requires all gun buyHouse committee advanced legislation Tuesday that ers and sellers who aren't makes changes to a bill related to visit a licensed requiring background checks gun dealer who can run a for most private firearm background check. transfers.

Rep.Brian Clem, a Salem The House Judiciary Com- Democrat who sometimes mitteeapproved a measure disagrees with the majority allowing people to lend ofhis colleagues &om Portfirearms to a friend for seven land and Eugene, said he days without having to visit voted for that measure una licensedgun dealer to do a der thecondition itlaterbe background check. amended. He didn't want to They could instead do a regulate gun loans between background check by calling friends, he said. the Oregon State Police Clem will be carrying the before lending the gun. adjustment to background Associated Press

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check expansion bill on the House floor.

"I didn't want them to stop the bill, I wanted a change.

And this is what I was abletogetthem to agree to. Background checks, but a lighterversion ofbackground checks," Clem said.

Both the original measure and the changes made Tuesday were vehemently opposed by gun rights groups and Republicans, but they passed with Democratic support. Opponents of that measure argued it would do little to curb gun violence while burdening law abiding citizens.

An attorney &om the Oregon Law Center will be available at Community Connection Thursday, June 18, to consult with low-income people who have civil legal problems.

Consultations are by appointment only, &om 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Those attending are askedtocall541-889-3121 ortoll-fiee888-2509877 before June 18 to schedule an appoint-

Critics also raised concerns about how quickly the bill was passed, saying the process offered little time for evaluation.

"So we're amending the notorious 941 that was untouchable except by some higher authority who haven't landed on Earth yet.

But all of a sudden we're doing this," said Rep. Wayne Krieger, a Republican from

Gold Beach.

But supporters said it closed a loophole in state law that allows gun purchasers to skip a background check if they purchase firearms online with a review.

ment. Income eligibility will be determined at the time of the call. Those who cannot attend the clinic are urged to call the Oregon Law Center anytime to ask for help or advice.

The Oregon Law Center usually provides assistancein the areasoflandlord/tenant, employment, civil rights, public benefits, consumer rights and domestic violence.

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LOCAL BRIEFING Free fishing derby for kids 3une 6 A &ee fishing derby for kids 13 and younger is scheduledforSaturday,June 6,&om 9 a.m. to noon atthe Highway 203 Pond just east of Interstate 84 at Exit 298, about five miles north of Baker City.

The event is coordinated by the BLM's Baker Resource Area, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. More information is available by calling Shannon Archuleta at 541-523-1385.

The fishing derby is in conjunction with Oregon's Free Fishing Weekend, June 6 and 7. Fishing licenses aren't required those two days, although all other regulations, including size and bag limits, are in effect.

Burnt River Conservation District meets The Burnt River Soil and Water Conservation District will meet Thursday, June 4, at 6 p.m. at the USDA Service Center, 3990 Midway Drive in Baker City. The public is welcome and meals are available for those who RSVP by calling Tara at 541-523-7121, Extension 100.

Huckleberry Festival seeking vendors NORTH POWDER — The North Powder Hucldeberry Festival Committee is looking for craft and food vendors for the ninth-annual event set for July 25.

The annual festival honors the tasty wild berry that grows in the nearby mountains. The event includes a parade, entertainment, huckleberry dessert contest, barbecue, street dance and mud volleyball tournament.

Prospective vendors should callBev Biglerat541-8982320 or email her at blbig@eoni.com

Forest Service special agent to speak John Matye, a special agent for the U.S. Forest Service, will attend the Eastern Oregon Mining Association's meeting Friday, June 5, at 6:30 p.m. at Baker City Hall, 1655 First St. Matye previously worked for the WallowaWhitman National Forest.

KVronHorman'smother'svigil continues Paroleviolatorsought

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always come naturally to independent agencies.

It's said that time heals all Young, who still lives in M edford, played arolein wounds. For Desiree Young, it's not worked out that way.

Southern Oregon's CART The pain she first felt certification a year ago.

Her public engagements five years ago when her son Kyron disappeared hasn't arepartofher drive to help improve the response when softened. If anything, her emotionsare more ragged children go missing, she said. today, she said. Tears flow of- They also help her navigate ten. The gnawing hole inside her own rough times. hasn't filled, not even a little.

"There's part of that that "Itdoesn'tgeteasierwith gets me through every day," Young said."It's different time," Young said."I still wake up crying and praying, than talking to a parent of hoping today will be the day." a missing child. It gives you Young tries to keep busy. adiff erent focus.Itprovides She's a budget analyst at a little bit more of a feeling Southern Oregon University. that I'm doing something to improve the future."

She goes to therapy. She But Young bounces supports families as coordinator for Team Hope, a group between despair and hope of parentvolunteersfor the like a yo-yo. She worries National Center for Missing about straining her personal & Exploited Children. relationships, knowing that Young addresses at least peoplecan reach a pointof one conference every year saturation where they don't that's sponsored by the want to hear again about the sorrow.She'sstillm arried to center. She also has shared her perspective asa parent of Tony Young, a major crimes a missing child at nationwide detective with the Medford law enforcement conferences, Police Department. Their including for the Amber Alert relationship remains rock solid, she said. system and Child Abduction ''We made a pact," Young Response Team Training under the U.S. Department of said.'We weren't going to Justice. give up on Quinn, my oldest CART teams are made up son. We weren't going to give of profes sionals from various up on each other. And we disciplines, including city weren't going to give up on and county police agencies as Kyron." w ell ascounselors,educators After Kyron disappeared, and special istsin search and Young piled up presents, cardsand stuffed animals rescue. When a child goes missing, they work together, in the room that Kyron and something that doesn't Quinn shared when they The Oregonian

stayed with Young. Quinn, now 20, moved in with Young shortly after Kyron went missing.

But Quinn became uncomfortable sleeping in the room without Kyron there. He told his mother that it resembled a shrine and made him sad.

So she tucked many of the items away, keeping a few on Kyron's bed, like his teddy bearand a stuffed alligator from Quinn.

A plastic Crystal Geyser water bottle, the last that Kyron used, is still in the refrigerator with his initial on the cap. The photos and drawings on the door haven't changed either since he disappeared. Young wants to keep those reminders ofher son.

She buys him presents on his birthday and at Christmas. They are always for a child of 7, the age when he disappeared. She can't imagine him older.

On Thursday — the June 4 anniversary date — she planstobe attheW all of Hope, a cyclone fence decorated in honor of Kyron in a grassy area outside the Xtreme Edge Gym in Beaverton where Young's exhusband and Kyron's father, Kaine Horman, works out every day.

In September, Young is planning another search.

She hopes to bring in 15 tracking and cadaver dog teams &om Washington, Idaho, California and Florida

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to search in the Portland area, but wouldn't say where.

She's organized several other searches in the past.

She said they've turned up evidence implicating Terri Moulton Horman, who was married to Kaine Horman at the time Kyron went missing.

Terri Horman took the boy to ascience fair beforeclass at Skyline School and then walked him to his classroom before leaving. ''We've found evidence to suggest that Terri might have been trying to get rid of things connected to Kyron," Young said, referring to the previous searches."She's not going to talk until we have evidence to con&ont her. We have to find it."

Terri Horman and her lawyers have said she wasn't the last person to see Kyron that day, but haven't offered further explanation. She has never faced charges.

Young said she's coordinating the search with the Multnomah County SherifFs 0$ce, but said the agency wouldn't take part. She plans to keep searching until every inchofterritoryiscovered.

'There are so many differentareas thathave tobe searched thoroughly," Young said."It' sa big canvas.There is no way that law enforcement can do that."

Craig Linnemeyer, 32, has absconded fiom the supervision of the Baker County Parole and Probation Department on a conviction for tampering with a witness.

The Department is asking the public for helpin findingLinnemeyer.Baker County residents should not attempt to apprehend him, however, said Will Benson, Parole and Probation supervisor.

Linnemeyerhas brown hairand hazel Linneey e s. He is 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighs 160 meyer pou nds.

Anyone with information about Linnemeyer is asked to callParole and Probation at541-5238217; the nearest police department; or the Baker County Consolidated Dispatch Center's business number, 541-5236415; or send the information via email to parole@bakercountyorg.

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The word is perhaps the most toxic that can be uttered in Baker City Hall.

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Crypto.

Even that shortened version of the actual word — cryptosporidium — immediately conjures memories of the summer of 2013 when the microscopic parasite contaminated the city's drinking water and m ade hundreds ofpeople sick.

Since March 2014 the city has treated its water with ultraviolet (UV) light, which inactivates crypto.

But when a Baker City woman called City Hall Friday and said her doctor had diagnosed her with crypto infection, city officials had little choice but to publicly acknowledge the situation and to do what they can to confirm that city water isn't the culprit.

More than likely the woman was infected from some other source.

She told the city that she stopped drinking the city's tap water during the 2013 crypto crisis, when she also became ill but was not tested for the parasite.

Moreover, City Manager Mike Kee said the city's UV treatment plant has been operating constantly.

Nonetheless, the city has an obvious obligation to residents to react quickly and aggressively no matter how remote the chance that crypto has entered the water supply.

That reaction included sending samples of tap water from the woman's home to a lab to be tested for crypto and other contaminants. The city probably won't get results until next week.

Considering the relatively low risk that crypto has gotten into the city's water, a critic might argue that the city frightened residents unnecessarily.

We might agree were the evidence much more scanty — if, for instance, the city received an anonymous call about a supposed crypto case, but with no otherdetails.

But in reality the city had details — the woman's address — that made it possible to investigate and try to conclusively eliminate tap water as the source ofher illness.

The city was right to do that.

And it was right to explain to the public what is happening, and why. Ifanything we would have preferred the city be more aggressive, and issue a press release before the Herald on Monday morning asked questions about the crypto case.

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• The Baker City Herald will not knowingly print false or misleading claims. However, we cannot verify the accuracy of all statements in letters to the editor.

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Mail:To the Editor, Baker City Herald, PO. Box807,BakerCity,OR 97814 Email: news@bakercityherald.com

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e era overreac onwa er All across Oregon and the rural West, farmers, ranchers, and other property owners have been wondering: What will Washington, D.C., try to unnecessarily regulate next? Where will a federal agency again attempt to curtail private property rights? How will this uncertainty affect already struggling rural economies?

This week we got that answer when the Environmental Protection Agency iEPAl finalized their rule to massively and unilaterally expand federal jurisdictionoverwater and private property.

With the stroke of a pen, the administration has pushed aside the"navigable waters" limitations of the Clean Water Act, leaving in its wake vague definitions that potentially open up intermittent streams, vernal pools, irrigation ditches, or ponds to even more federalregulations.

The EPA first proposed this rule under the guise of"clarifying" the scope of the Clean Water Act. But I've heard throughout Oregon that the vague language in their proposal actually creates more uncertainty, not less. More red tape, not less. For fanners, ranchers, Oregonians, and others that utilize our water resources, itisahuge threat.

Ranchers are wondering when the EPA will come after their stock ponds.

Wheat growers worry about an intermittent stream adjacent to a field. Fruit and vegetable growers are concerned about their irrigation ditches. As one Eastern Oregon rancher told me, the rule is "an overreach by the federal government that threatens to eliminate conserva-

GREG WALDEN tion practices currently implemented by fanners and ranchers across Oregon."

I have long opposed expansion of this authority, whether through legislation or administrative rulemaking. This regulatory overreach by the EPA blatantly ignoresCongress'repeated rejection of similar legislative efforts to expand jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act in the past. Of course, we shouldn't be that surprised. The EPA has tried this before, and theyhave twicebeen rebuked by the Supreme Court.

Even the Small Business Administrationhas said thattheproposedrule would have"direct, significant effects" on small businesses, and recommended that the EPA withdraw their rule. But the agency went full steam ahead this week.

The economies of rural Oregon and other communities around the country face enough obstacles already. Broken federalland policiesand unnecessary red tape have strangled communities, often leaving only agriculture to grow jobs and combat unemployment rates in the double digits. We don't need agencies in Washington, D.C., erecting more hurdles and creating more uncertainty as our fanners and ranchers work to feed the world and create jobs in rural communities.

That's why I worked hard to pass a bill in the House to require the EPA to

withdraw the rule. The Regulatory Integrity Protection Act iH.R. 1732l passed the House on a bipartisan vote in May. Twenty-four House Democrats iincluding my Oregon colleague Kurt Schraderl joined every Republican in supporting this common-sense measure.

As one Oregon farmer told me when a similar bill passed the House last year, 'This attempt to control private lands using the Clean Water Act must be stopped.

Itisimportant thatfarms be able to focus on raising fresh, healthy, and necessary food and feed forthis world without unnecessary regulations.

Congress has taken an important step to help ensure farmers can continue to fann their land without federal permission and allows landowners to meaningfully improve water quality through existing state programs."

The House has also passed legislation that would prohibit funding fiom being used on this rule ithis is on top of our successful efforts to cut the EPA's budget by 21 percent — $2.2billion — overthepast five years).

The Senate should take up and pass these bills right away and send the EPA back to the drawing board.Ou rfanners, ranchers and rural communities deserve better than federalagenciesstrangling them with more red tape. It's time to ditch this rule.

Greg Walden represents Oregon's 2nd Congressional District, which covers 20 counties in Southern, Central, artd Eastern

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GUEST EDITORIAL Editorial from The (Bend) Bulletin: Gov. Kate Brown was clear about one thing when she took office in the wake of John Kitzhaber's resignation in February. She wanted higher ethical standards for Oregon politicians, and she laid out a legislative plan to achieve them.

At least one of Brown's proposals has made it through one house of the Legislature and facesno seriousopposition in the other. It would expand the state's Government Ethics Commission to nine members, shorten its timeline for investigation of complaints and allow it to continue its work even if a criminal investigation into the same action begins.

In addition, House Bill 2019 would reducethe governor'scontrolofappointments to the commission by giving him

or her only a single appointment that could be made without recommendations from leadership in both parties and both houses of the Legislature.

Unfortunately, what the bill does not do is require the commission to put some teeth into its decisions regarding ethics violations by public officials at every level of government in Oregon.

As TheOregonian newspaper noted in a recent article on the commission, it has taken a decidedly gentle approach when dealing with those who violate state ethicslaws.In fact,the newspaper reported, Ron Bursin, the commission's executive director ,wants a negotiated settlement of every case brought to the commission.

He sees the agency's mission as largely educational and has been unwilling to go

beyond that role.

W e11 agree thestate'sethicsrequirements can be difficult to sort out, and the less sophisticated the agency, the more difficult that can be. There is room, then, for an educational component to the commission's work.

But there's also room — and the commission must embrace the ideato punish those men and women who looked at the rules and simply chose to ignore them. Examples of such cases are not difficult to find, as The Oregonian's story made clear. In those cases, fines, not negoti ated slapson thewrist,are what's called for. The soon-to-be newly expanded ethics commission must make that clear, both to its executive director and to the public at large.

CONTACT YOUR PUBLIC OFFICIALS President Barack Obama: The White House, 1600 PennsylvaniaAve.,Washington, D.C. 20500; 202-456-1414; fax 202456-2461; to send comments, go to www.whitehouse.gov/contact.

U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley: D.C. office: 313 Hart Senate Office Building,U.S. Senate,Washington, D.C.,20510; 202-224-3753; fax 202-228-3997. Portland office: One WorldTrade Center, 121 S.W. Salmon St. Suite 1250, Portland, OR 97204; 503-326-3386; fax 503-326-2900. Pendleton office: 310 S.E. Second St. Suite 105, Pendleton 97801; 541-278-1129; merkley.senate.gov.

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden: D.C. office: 221 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-5244; fax 202-228-2717 La Grande office: 105 Fir St., No. 210, La Grande, OR 97850; 541962-7691; fax, 541-963-0885; wyden.senate.gov.

U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (2nd District): D.C. office: 2182 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20515, 202-225-6730; fax 202-225-5774. La Grande office: 1211 Washington Ave., La Grande, OR 97850;541-624-2400, fax, 541-624-2402; walden.house g OV.

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Oregon Gov. Kate Brown: 254 State Capitol, Salem, OR 97310; 503-378-3111; www.governor.oregon.gov.

Oregon State Treasurer Ted Wheeler: 350Winter St. N.E., Suite 100,Salem, OR 97301-3896; 503-378-4329.

Oregon Attorney General Ellen F. Rosenblum: Justice Building,Salem, OR 97301-4096; 503-378-4400.

Oregon Legislature: Legislative documents and information are available online at wwwdeg.state.or.us.

State Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-Ontario): Salem office: 900 Court St. N.E., H-475, Salem, OR 97301; 503-986-1460. District office: RO. Box 1027, Ontario, OR 97914; 541-889-8866.

State Sen. Ted Ferrioli (R-John Day): Salem office: 900 Court St. N.E., S-323, Salem, OR 97301; 503-986-1950. District office: 111 Skyline Drive, John Day, OR 97845; 541-490-6528.

Baker City Hall: 1655 First Street, PO. Box 650, Baker City, OR 97814; 541-523-6541; fax 541-524-2049. City Council meets the second and fourthTUesdays at 7 p.m. in Council Chambers.

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Baker City administration: 541-523-6541. Mike Kee, city manager;Wyn Lohner, police chief; Mark John, fire chief; Michelle Owen, public works director; Luke Yeaton, HR manager and city recorder.

Baker County Commission: Baker County Courthouse 1995 3rd St., Baker City, OR 97814; 541-523-8200. Meets the first and third Wednesdays at 9 a.m.; Bill Harvey (chair), Mark Bennett, Tim Kerns.

Baker County departments:541-523-8200. TravisA sh, sheriff; Jeff Smith, roadmaster; Matt Shirtcliff, district attorney; Alice Durflinger, county treasurer; Cindy Carpenter, county clerk; Kerry Savage, county assessor.

Baker School District: 20904th Street, Baker City, OR 97814; 541-524-2260; fax 541-524-2564. Superintendent: Walt Wegener. Board meets the thirdTuesday of the month at 6 p.m., Baker School District 5J office boardroom; Andrew Bryan, Kevin Cassidy, Chris Hawkins, Kyle Knight, Rich McKim.

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BAKER CITY HERALD — 5A

BAKER COUNTY HISTORY

THE SINICING OF THE SHINYO MARU: PART 2 OF A 3-PART SERIES

• Two Bakermen were POWS aboard aJapanese shipsunk in 1944by a U.S.subm arine;only one ofthepair survived

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Just before the surrender, Smurthwaite was at Valencia south of Camp Casisang.

'The few days spent at Valencia, were worse than Del Monte bombings and strafings...very strenuous upon the men, who were becoming more jittery as the days passed," he wrote in his diary."My worst and closest escapewas atValencia....I can't tell you the horrible feeling I got watching the Japanese planes strafing up and down the little gully iwhere he was hiding behind a tree), watching the bullets hitting the small stream. Worse than that was watching the Japs cut their engines, diving upon the gully, to release their cargo and all I could do was wait and pray, hoping their bombs wouldn't hit too close.

I never want to go through an ordeal such as that one was."

After arriving at Camp Casisang, Smurthwaite wrote, tongue-in-cheek,'We aregetting excellenttreatment from the Japanese.

Some of the work details are somewhat strenuous, but they are slacking down. The Japanese are kind, and very generous, especially to the Americans, there being about 1130 Americans, around 250 of them officers."

Prisoners of war iPOWsl learned early on not to do anything that might anger their captors. Even the highest-ranking American POWs had to either salute or bow to even the lowest ranking Japanese guard.

The day after the surrender of Corregidor, the military declared Hall and Smurthwaite missing in action iMIAl. Their families had

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United States and Filipino forces fought a four-month retreat before surrendering on April 9, 1941. Victorious Japanese troops marched 70,000 prisoners 60 miles from Mariveles at the south end of the Bataan Peninsula to San Fernando, where they were crammed into cattle cars for a train ride to Capas.

Photo of POWs liberated from Camp Cabanatuan on Jan. 30,1945.Willard Hall,who lost 90 pounds during captivity, and Gordon Smurthwaite probably looked like these five prisoners. family knew he was alive.

These cards had a line about the prisoner's health to fill out:"My health is — excellent; good; fair; poor." Smurthwaite underlined"excellent" on one card and"good" on another card. To underline one of the other two choices, which would no doubt have been the truth, would have risked antagonizing the Japanese.

A small portion of the card was devoted to a personal message introduced by a printed"Please seethat..." which Smurthwaite filled in, "Tell Cecille I'm still waiting for her." Doug says he did not know if Cecille planned to marry Gordon."But she never married," Doug says.

The April 9, 1942, surrender of the forces on Bataan Peninsula left the Japanese in charge of 15,000American and 60,000 Filipino prisoners,

to wait a whole year before learning that the two men had survived the Japanese invasion of the Philippines and were POWs. On June 10, 1943, an item appeared in the Record-Courierreportingthat22-yearold Pvt. Willard Hall had been declared a POW after being listed as MIA for the past 19 months.

Two weeks later the Record-Courier reported that Gordon Smurthwaite was a POW in the Philippines after being reported MIA in May 1942.

Smurthwaite's younger brother, Doug Smurthwaite, who lives in Baker City, says the family received a couple of official Japanese prisonerpostcardsfrom his brother during his 2V2 years in captivity. The postcards said nothing about his life in prison camp. But at least the

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The prisoners, including Willard Hall, already in poor physical condition due to inadequate diet, meager medical supplies, and suffering from tropical diseases during four months of fighting, were forcedto march 60 miles north up the Bataan Peninsula in the hot climate with no food and little water.

Prisoners who could not keep up were executed and left beside the road. About 650 Americans and 9,000 Filipinos died during what became known as the Bataan Death March, which lasted from six to 10 days depending on where prisoners joined the march. iln this article, I will not go intodetailabout the abuses suffered by American and

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was on the Bataan Death March. His parents were Melvin G. Hutchins, fireman for Sumpter Valley Railway, and Florence Wickam Hutchins. The family home was at 1134 11th Street in Baker. When war with Japan broke out, Pfc. Hutchins was serving in the Philippines as a member of the 228th Signal Operations Company.

Hutchins must have been in bad shape at the end of the march,forhedied May 29, 1942, at the infamous POW Camp O'Donnell. He is buried in the beautiful Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines. Hutchins' name ialso sometimes spelled Hutchensl is listed on the bronze plaque of World War II dead on the Veterans Memorial in front of the Baker County Courthouse, as is the name Jesse Gordon Smurthwaite.

Within three months at Camp O'Donnell, 1,500 Americans and 22,000 Filipinos died from brutal treatment, starvation, heat, exhaustion, and diseases, such as malaria, dengue fever, yellow jaundice, diphtheria, dysentery, and beriberi.

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Dyess wrote, 'When we had been at O'Donnell about a week, the daily death rate among the Americans was twenty a day. Filipinos were dying at a rate of 150 a day.

In two weeks, fifty Americans were dying each day. The Filipinodeath tollhad soared to 350 each twenty-four hours."

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On Nov. 26, 1942, Thanksgiving Day, Smurthwaite wrote in his diary,DWe expect the Allies in here within 30 days and are hoping to spend this Christmas under 'old Glory'.

Ionly hope and pray that such a thing happens.

I'm tired of being in this unfortunate position, but I don't think we'll be this way very long."

He would spend almost two more years at Davao.

On Mindanao it's not surprising that life as underfed, physically abused slave laborersfostered dreams Baker native Melvin Hutchins' grave marker in the of escape, even though the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philipmen were surrounded by a hostile jungle. pines. In poor health after participating in the Bataan Death March, Hutchins died May 29, 1942, at Camp Lt. Col. Dyess did more O'Donnell. than dream. Finding likeminded men he could trust, lucky few who got water. skeletons." they plotted an escape. On Hall and Dyess did not reIn Hall's speech to the April 4, 1943, Dyess, nine main at Camp Cabanatuan.

Baker Lions Club in January other Americans, and two In late October 1942 they Filipino criminals success1945, Myrtle Lee summarized what Hall had to say fully pulled off the largest were among 1,000 relatively fit prisoners who volunteered about food. escape from a POW camp "Their rations in prison in the Philippines during to be transferred from Luzon, the largest of the Philippine World War II. After arducamp were meager: a meislands, to the Davao Penal dium sardine can of cooked ous days wandering in the Colony in southeastern rice in the morning, leveled jungle, the 12 escapees ran Mindanao, the second-largest ofE not heaping. The same at into a band of Filipino guerPhilippine island, a little over noon and night with one exrillas. The escapees joined one-third the size of Oregon. ception,a sortofspinach-like Mindanao guerrilla units After an 11-day trip watery soup added. It was under command of Lt. Col. aboard the Japanese ship made fromthekangkong Wendell Fertig.

"Erie Maru," the POWs from plant, which grows in every iFor a fascinating acCabanatuan, including Hall swamp in the Philiippinesl, count of Fertig's three years and Dyess, arrived at Davao and evidently has vitamins, organizing guerrilla bands at sunset on Nov. 7, 1942. because on it they survived. on Mindanao, read the book "They Fought Alone" by Right after debarking, the The only meat scraps they prisoners marched 20 miles saw were given on an occaJohn Keats). north reaching the Davao Pe- sion when they worked a Dyess, secreted from nal Colony at 2 a.m. Bolitho water-carabou iwater buffalo) Mindanao bysubmarine noted in his memoir, "These to death in the fields." and taken to Australia, soon men hadfought on Bataan In aprivateconversation arrived in Washington, D.C., and Corregidor and suffered after his return, Hall told where he was the first perwith starvation and dietary Lee that he, like most other son todisclose theatrocities diseases. They were walking starvingprisoners,had fanta- the Japanese were comsies about food. His fantasy mitting against prisoners was to eat a whole apple pie of war in the Philippines. followed by a quart of ice Several months later Dyess cream. But when he got back, tragically died in a military he couldn't stand more than plane crash in Southern a coupleofbites.

California. His memoir, "The Dyess Story," was not Bolitho described their work at Camp Davao:"The published until January rice field operation was the 1944, a month after his largestand mostimpordeath. tant crop...and by far the After the escape, Bolitho hardest, dirtiestand most wrote that some prisoners disagreeable work of any in were happy for the escapees the iDavao Penal) Colony." but fearedwhat would hapPrisoners plowed with water pen next. buffalo, planted, weeded, and harvested the rice. PrisonSee Baker Boys/Page 7A •r •o •

Continued ~om Rge 5A D Men who had weighed two hundred pounds or so," wrote Dyess,unow weighed ninety or less. Every rib was visible. They were living skeletons, without buttocks or muscle."

After three months at Camp O'Donnell, most surviving American prisoners, including Hall and Dyess, w ere transferred 36 miles eastto a complex ofcamps near Cabanatuan north of Manila. Cabanatuan became the largest POW facility in the Far East.

In January 1945, survivor Hall recounted some of his experiences as a POW in a speech to the Baker Lions Club. Baker County School Superintendent Myrtle Lee, who attended the speech, noted in the February edition ofthenewsletter sheedited and sent to Baker County troops throughout the world, D He has no gray hair, has gained back much of the 90 pounds he lost, and is as poised and calm as though he had notsurvived a terrible ordeal."

Asked about the Bataan Death March, Hall said that they traveled14 days for 120 miles often suffering intensely for lack of water, sometimes being compelled to sit in the sun during the hottest partoftheday,being allowed only such food as they could dig from roots or forageforthemselves at stops.

Once incarcerated,due to lack of vitamins in prison camp food — chiefly rice three times per day — Hall developed ulcers on his eyes that rendered him blind for about six months.

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Bolitho described the journey that his unit, which included Smurthwaite, took: "Camp Casisang was closed and all remaining Americans moved out on open flat bed trucks for Bugo," a port on the north side of Mindanao, where they arrived on the island a year ago.DWe embarked on the Japanese TroopShip ¹760.Our trip around the northern and eastern sides of Mindanao was rather pleasant considering the circumstances."

Circumstances were anything but pleasant once they disembarked at Davao Harbor on Oct. 20, 1942.

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to Stephen Drew and Brett Gardner in the 11th, Joe Beimel came in to face Jones, who had been a late-inning replacement.Jones greeted Beimel by drilling a 2-0 fastball over the fence in center to give New York a 5-2 lead.

Justin Wilson i2-01 pitched a clean 10th for the win and then gave way to Andrew Miller, who allowed an RBI single to Robinson Cano in the 11th before striking out Nelson Cruz for his 16th save.

The 11th-inning theatrics weren't the only ones the Yankees needed. Facing Seattle closer Fernando Rodney trailing 2-1 in the ninth, Chase Headley walked and moved to third on a two-out, pinch-hit single by Brian McCann.

Stephen Drew followed with an RBI double to tie the

Mariners catcher Mike Zuninoand manger Lloyd McClendon were ejected in the third inning, both were long gone by the time the game got to the late innings.

Perhaps it was better that way.

Closer Fernando Rodney allowed the tying run in the ninth and New York's Garrett Jones hit a three-run home run in the 11th as the YankeesbeatSeattle5-3 Tuesday night.

"One thing I shared with my club and 111 share with you — bad times don't last, butgood men do,"M cClendon said."And I've got good men in the clubhouse and we11be just fine."

After reliever Tom Wilhelmsen allowed two-out singles

BAKER BOYS Continued ~om Rge 6A aWehad already been put in 'death squads' of ten, but none of us knew who the other nine in the group were. iThe Japanese threatened that) if one in your group escaped, the other nine would be executed." The Japanese secluded all men living in the same barracks as the escapees into a disciplinary compound, which included four barracksout ofatotalofeight.

It's quite likely that Hall and/ or Smurthwaite were held in the disciplinary compound, which had

iRodneyl made agoodpitch, I put a good swing on it.

"Itwas allaround a great team win tonight. It was a lot offun.Game was going back and forth,itwas fun to be a part of."

It was Rodney's second blown save in four appearances and third of the season.

Zunino was tossed in the third inning for showing his displeasure with first base umpire Will Little's ruling thatAlex Rodriguez had checked his swing on a fullcount pitch. It was the second swing that had been checked on a full countin the inning.

a tripl e barbed wirefenceand eight guardtowers."Itseemed likea nice vacation from work. But we were slowly starving to death on the small amount of rice they were giving us," reported Bolitho. After several weeks the men were returned to the main compound, apparently without anyone having been executed asaresultofthe escape.

In his Lions Club speech, Hall made only one reference to Smurthwaite, according to Myrtle Lee. "GordonSmurthwaite and he were together a greatdealand drew a map of the whole city of Baker, putting in every house, on

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McClendon was also quickly ejected after confionting Little. The Mariners manager made his way from first to

each block as they remembered it, and who lived in many of them."

It's probable that Hall joined Smurthwaite, a Mormon, in attending church services organized by a group of 25 Mormons, all from the western U.S. The group called itself the Davao Penal Camp "Branch" of the LDS Church. A monograph in

"BYU Studies," vo1.50i41,pp. 108135 iJan. 20111 describes in detail the Davao LDS Branch's organization, activities, likely members, including Smurthwaite and Sgt. Nels Hansen of Weiser, Idaho, and their fate: All 25 members died in the sinking of the "Shinyo Maru."

third to voice his displeasure with each of the umpires, tossing and kicking his hat along the way.

The monograph points out that about half the group, including Smurthwaite, "were spared the horrors of the Bataan Death March and became prisoners on Mindanao," where they were stationed "as part of the Fifth Airbase Group."

Following are some other details from the monograph pertinent to knowing what Hall and Smurthwaite experienced."On March 2, 1944, 650 of the men at Davao were sent to a new camp near the village of Lasang, a few miles from their Davao camp. These were supposedly the healthiest men at Davao and were to be laborers building a

French Open quarterfinals Tuesday against his pal and Swiss Davis Cup teammate Stan Wawrinka.

According to the ATP, this was the first time since a fourth-round loss at the 2002 U.S. Open — back before he'd won a major trophy — that Federerfailed to break an opponent's serve once in a Grand Slam match.

new Japanese airfield. All of these men would eventually be sent on the fateful "Shinyo Maru."

On Aug. 17, the Americans bombed the airfield, which delighted the prisoners, because it was the first indication they had that the Japanese were losing the war. iDuring the Davao POW camp's existencefrom October 1942 to June 1944, only 805 survived out of an estimated 2,009 POWs held there.)

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vice's Family and Community Health Education program assistant, will offer The Baker School District's kee a 30-minute"make it and taste it"basic summer lunch program is expanding to cooking lesson each Monday beginrmg at indude a site at Haines and an increased 1 p.m. at North Baker.

A 30-minute"balanced energy physifocus on healthy food choices and physical activity. cal activities" session will be offered each Lunches will be served Monday Thursday at Geiser-Pollman Park. The through Friday at noon at the North programwillbegin at11:45 a.m .

Baker Education Center, 2725 Seventh The school district also will provide snacks for the YMCA's open swim proSt.; and at 11:15 a.m. at Geiser-Pollman Park be~ Mon d ay, June 15. The last gram at 1 p.m. Monday through Friday at kee lunch day will be Friday, Aug. 28.

Sam-0 Swim Center, Wickert said.

Members of the Haines Parent-TeacherSummer reading programs built Community Organization iPTCOl will amund the theme of superheroes will bring food kom North Baker to the meet before lunch at North Baker and Haines Library on Tuesdays and Fridays at the Baker County Public Library and beginning June 16 and ending Aug. 28. after lunch at the Haines Library.

Lunch will be served at noon each TuesKatie Ash, Haines librarian, said her day andFriday throughout thesummer. program will be kom 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 The meals are provided fiee at each site p.m. each Friday. It will begin June 19 and to all kids ages 18 and younger, said Jescontinue through July 31. The first session will begin with an introduction and sica Wickert, the district's Food Services director. Those older than 18 can eat lunch mask-making activity.

The program will condude with a at any of the sites by buying tickets for $3 each at the district ofIIce, 2090 Fourth St. heroes obstacle course on July 31.

Becca Colton, the Extension SerSpecial"community hero" guests for the ccollins©bakercityherald.com

summer will include representatives kom the Baker County SherilI's OIIIce on June 26; Sheila Holman and her service dogs, July 3; and the Haines FIIe Department, July 24,Ash said.

There will also be a special superhero science activity on July 10 and July 17 that will feature paper airplanes.

Four sessions will be offered weekly at the Baker County Library, 2400 Resort St. Children are divided by age group into one session per week Those 4 and younger will attend kom 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Tuesdays; and ages 5 and older will meetkom 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.

To sign up,callthelibrary at541-5236419 or visitthelibrary at2400ResortSt. Children who plan to participate in the summer lunchprogram atNorth Baker are encouraged to sign up for Wednesday or Fridayatthelibrary forreading.

Melissa Shafer, children's librarian, said the event will culminate with a carnival at which participants can cash in their summer reading log for tickets to play games and wln prIzes.

READING Continued from Page1A Sessions are one hour.

Children will read with a volunteer for 30 minutes and spend 30 minutes on skillsbasedreading activitiesand sensory movement activities.

Reading time also will be tracked and exchanged forticketsand prizesatthe library carnival at summer's end.

Children who sign up for the summer reading program must commit to specific days to help with planning and scheduling. They are asked to attend both weekly reading sessions.

Students also should arrive on time and by doing so, they will qualify for prizes awarded in daily drawings.

S. John Collins/ Baker City Herald Parents are asked to notify The summer reading program offers a world of stories.

Jim Tomlinson, literacy coordinator, assoon aspossible if Parents will be required be a v ailable under certain their child cannot attend the to provide transportation. circumstances. scheduled session.

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• Call ESL iEnglish as a Second Language) interpreter/translator Ma'Lena Wirth, 541-519-7498, oremail her at mwirth@baker.k12.or.us.

Students attending the summer reading program also will be encouraged to stay for a free lunch. Meals will be served atnoon M onday through Friday at the North Baker Education Center as part of the Baker School District's summer lunch program.

Meals also are being served Monday through Friday at11:15 a.m. atGeiserPollman Park and at noon on Tuesdays and Fridays at the Haines Library.

OREGON BRIEFING Birth control measure advances in Salem SALEM iAPl — Women are closer to getting easier access to birth control under two measures advancing in the Oregon Legislature.

The House voted Tuesday to allow pharmacists to write prescriptions for birth control after women complete a risk-screening questionnaire.

Bend RepublicanRep.Knute Buehler,wh oproposed the measure, says expanding access to birth control could have profound implications on the health and financial security of women. The measure heads to the Senate.

Meanwhile, the Senate voted unanimously Tuesday to require that private insurers pay for up to 12 months of birth control at once. That bill heads to Democratic Gov. Kate Brown.

Advocates say dispensing a full year ofbirth control can decrease the number of unintended pregnancies while ensuringeffectiveuseofthe prescription.

Man feared drowned in 3ohn Day River SPRAY iAPl — An Eastern Oregon sherif's officer says a 30-year-old man is believed to have been swept away in the John Day River.

Wheeler County sherif's Chief Deputy Michael Boyd said Monday that deputies were called Sunday afternoon to an area west of the small town of Spray. They were told that a 30-year-old man kom Fossil, Oregon, had been swept away in the water. His name has not been released.

An initial search by deputies, Oregon State Police, local firefighters and a fast water rescue team failed to find the man.

On Monday, members of the Deschutes County Water Rescue Dive team assisted in the search.

Boyd says that due to recent heavy rains, the river is unusually fast-moving and hazardous to swimmers and boaters.

Cluster of earthquakes off Oregon Coast SALEM — A cluster of earthquakes ranging in magnitude up to 5.9 have struck off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, but haven't been strong enough to generate tsunamis, scientists said.

The sixth and seventh quakes in the series struck Monday evening. They were the weakest so far, at magnitude 3.9 and 4.2.

The first quake came a few minutes before midnight Sunday, Pacific time, at magnitude 5.8. The magnitude 5.9 quake hit shortly after 1 p.m. Monday.

It usually takes an earthquake of magnitude 7 or better to trigger a tsunami, said geophysicist Paul Caruso of the U.S. Geological Survey.

The quakes have been shallow — about 6 miles deep.

They have been centered in an area about 300 miles west of Coos Bay along what's known as the Blanco Fracture Zone.

A 2008agency report said the zone had produced about 70 quakes of magnitude 5 or greater in the previous 28 years, as many as eight in some years. Also in 2008, scientists detected a swarm ofhundreds of smaller quakes.

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Glaspey to speak at Pub Talk event in Baker City 3une 10 BAKER CITY — Jason Glaspey, acofounder of the Portland Incubator Experiment, will give a presentation at the Pub Talk event set for 5:30 p.m. June 10 at Mfty's Taphouse, 1934 Broadway St.in BakerCit. In addition, Stephanie Hartman of Catalyst Performance Consulting will give an overview of the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network.

Everyone is welcome. Admission is free, or for $5 patrons getlightappetizersand beverages.

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The adult western cherry fruit fly will be rearing its ugly head and cherry tree owners should be prepared.

The emergence of the cherry fruit fly began last week. Initial spray applications shouldbe made as soon aspossible and then follow-up spray applications should be scheduled to control CFF until harvest.

Management options for the WFF indude sprayingthetreeswith registered~ cide pmducts, hire a commerciai applicator, remove all blossoms or fiuit fiom your trees prior to CFF emergence or cut down the tree if the task of managing the pests is too much.

Tree height and canopy influence can effect sprays.Shorter treespruned to open up the canopy allows for more effective spray coverage.

For further information of the cherry fruitfl y m anagement and product forCFF control, contact the Union County extensionoffi ce at541-963-1010.

Oregon Facilities Authority Snap Bond presentation 3une 8 The Oregon Facilities Authority will hold an information session for nonprofits and banks about"Small Nonprofit Accelerated Bond Program" as well as other OFA bond programs.

The meeting will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the Pendleton Convention Center.

The discussion will focus on the benefits of the program for nonprofits and the structure/requirements of the program. OFA's executive director will be available for questions during and after the presentation.

Nonprofit and bank representatives are also welcome, and participants should feel welcome to bring guests such as nonprofit stafForboard members.

Anyone interested in attending the program to learn more about SNAP Bonds should contact Tillie Hasson at 503-8022137 or email tillie.hasson@tonkon.com to reserveseatsatthe presentation.

Customer service workshop planned for 3uly 14 Customer service is an integral part of a business. Join Union County Sheriff Byod Rasmussen and Arnie fiom Les Schwab &om 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. July 14 to hear the simple strategies they use to help build lasting customer relationships in a workshop hosted by La Grande Main Street.

They will share tips for helping employees embracethe valueofgood customer service.

RSVP by July 13 to director@lagrandemainstreet. org,orcall541.963.1223.

Cost is &ee for Main Street members, $10 for non members. Breakfast is included.

— From staff reports

About thiscolumn Small Business Happenings covers Northeast Oregon's small-business community.

The column carries news about business events, staitupsand owners and employees who earn awards and recognition or make significant gains in their careers.

There is no charge for inclusion in the column, which is editorial in nature and is not ad space or a marketing tool. Products and services will be discussed only in general terms.

Email items to biz@lagrandeobserver.com or call them in to 541-963-3161.

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Greg Hennes bought the Jennings Hotel in May 2014 and is renovating each room at a time. The hotel was built around 1910, Hennes said. In recent memory, it housed the Gold Room and Cactus Jack's — once popular drinking and dining venues on the south end of Joseph's Main Street.

UNDER MAJOR RENOVATIONS

By Katy Nesbitt, Wesoom News Service

The Jennings Hotel in Joseph is undergoing major renovations, creating what will one day soon be aunique vacation experience.

Greg Hennes said he'd been coming to Wallowa County for about a decade. The Minnesota native said he'd dreamed ofliving in the mountains since he was 15.

Last year he made it one step closer when he bought the building that houses Arrowhead Chocolate and La Laguna on the street level.

Upstairs is another world.

Hennes said he found the buildingforsale4-V2 years ago.

"I kept coming back and viewed the building a bunch of times."

In November 2013, he made an offer that was accepted in January 2014, and the saleclosed last May. "I fell in love with the place.

Owning a hotel in a small mountain town. What's not dreamy about that?" Hennes said.

The hotel was built around 1910, Hennes said. In recent memory, it housed the Gold Room and Cactus Jack's — once popular drinking and dining venues on the south end of Joseph's Main Street. Hennes' envisions eight rooms,distinctively designed,that will house tourists in the summer and writers-in-residence in the winter.

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Hennes said there's no reason to change the name of the historic hotel that he is now renovating for guest rooms. rowhead Chocolate is a doorway — on the floor of the entrance the tile says, "Jennings Hotel."

Hennes said there's no reason to call it anything else. Up a wide setofwooden stairstherooms are lined out in an"L" shape. The first door on the right leads to rooms thatwillserve asa lobby and library. From there, one can go out onto a porch with views of downtown and the Eagle Caps.

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La Grande and Baker City have been ranked in the top 20 places to starta businessin Oregon on a consumer finance website.

NerdWallet ranked La Grande No. 13 out of 79 cities included in its study. Baker City was ranked No. 20, while Pendleton was the highest ranked Eastern Oregon community at

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According to a survey compiled by NerdWallet, communitieswith atleast5,000 people and more than 500 businesses ranging in size &om sole pro-

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A community's average revenue, percentage ofbusinesses with paid employees and the number of businesses per 100 peoplewere key factorsto this survey. Most small businesses in the U.S. are soleproprietorships, which mean they don't have paidemployees,according to the release.

Portland's metro communities and communities with big tourist crowds, like those along the coast, were proven to bedriving SeeRankimgs / Page 2B

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be sharedspace forrooms that don't already have one.

While many of the rooms are filled with lumber and construction supplies, one small room is finished — the sauna. Hennes is of Scandinavian descent, where saunas are built before a house or even a bathroom. The sauna can comfortably fit four people and just outside is a large, tiled shower for cooling off. Down the hall is a room SeeHotel / Page 2B

conomist Milton Friedman divided spending intofour categories,each one impacting owners, employees, vendors and organizational culture: • You spend money on yourself and in doing so you're interested in buying whatever you want most at the best price.

• You spend your money on other people, and because someone else will be the recipient, you are less invested or interested in pleasing them.

• You spend other people's money on yourself and price is no longer an objection.

• You spend other people's money on other people, and no onereall y noticesorcares.

Steve owns a business.

Even when he struggled in the early days to get his business off the ground, his attitude was that he always deserved the best.

He acquired debt with what others believed to be over-the-top spending, but Steve had always believed he was ultimately the one who should get full credit because it was only due to his efforts that his business was successful.

Even though he said he treasured his clients, in reality he only valued the revenue they generated.

Despite his professed love, Steve was always negotiating for higher prices and didn't cut any deals.

Steve fell into the first category of spending. Not only could he never distinguish between a want and a need, negotiating is how Steve chose to live his life.

In his mind, everything was negotiable.

Steve wasn't impacted by the second category, spending his money on others, until the business grew and he was forcedto hire employees.

These were people that Steve brought on board to take care of"His Clients" iemphasis

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Steve never had any interestordesiretosplurge on his employees. His attitude was SeeKeller / Page 2B

THE GREAT RECESSION

U.S. economy signals a stop-and-go recovery

By Nelson D. Schwartz New YorkTimes News Service

The U.S. economy got off to an even weaker start this year than firstthought,the government reportedFriday,aseconomic activit y contracted because ofa more dismaltrade performance and continued caution by businesses and consumers alike.

The 0.7 percent annual rate of decline in economic output in the first quarter of 2015 was a reversal of the initial 0.2 percent advanceforthe period reported last month by the Commerce Department.

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Greg Hennes shows off the balcony of the Jennings Hotel, now under major renovation. He hopes to have one room ready to rent by the end of June.

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Continued from Page 1B where he will install a hot tub; the room has a window facing south toward Wallowa Lake.

Down the hall, Hennes is concentrating on one room — walled with wide-planked wood.

He said each room will be designed differently and as they are finished will become available for hotel guests this summer. He's getting help from a wealth of artistic friends, some who will stay in the hotel during the renovation and create their own artwork as well.

Hennes is a true entrepreneur who took his knowledge of renting high-end photography equipment and, with a partner, started his own business in Portland. He started the Portland Bazaar featuring vendors from around the Portland metro area. He runs Campfire Cologne, an online company that sells incense, and he is building a photo studio in his Portland photography store. Opening the hotel is a whole new adventure for the self-prof essed "serialentrepreneur."

Hennes said renovating the hotel "is going to require a slightly more heels-in version than previous dabblings where the rooms are thoughtfully designed with a cabin aesthetic.

Each of the seven diferent designers will bring an aesthetic of their own."

He hopes to have the first room ready by the end of June.

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For information on how to get involved in The Jennings' Hotel Kickstarter campaign, visit http://kck.st/1 IC1 GGy or contact Hennes at greghennes@gmail. com or 503-863-6757.

Hennes is doing all of the heavy lifbng on his own, from financing to construction, but is looking for investors through a Kickstarter campaign.Kickstarterisone ofseveralfundraisingcampaigns that have gotten a lotof popularity in recent years — asking for investors who get gifts in return for their monetary donations.

Hisartistfriendshave offered to make prizes for the Kickstarter campaign

that ends June 12. On agoal of $80,000, Hennes said in half the time allotted he has secured half the funding.

He said he has had commitments from his friends but is now reaching further out on Facebook and Twitter.

"I'm trying to spread the network bigger to a wider audience," Hennes said.

The tricky part of Kickstarter is ifhe doesn't raise the entire amount, he gets none ofit.

"I'm taking nothing for granted, but stats are on my side," Hennes said. "I'm doing it all by feel. I'm doing what I think will work and hope for the best."

like Ian Shepherdson of Pantheon Macroeconomics say Continued from Page 1B a return to normal trade patternscouldpropela healthy country played a role, as did a rebound in the second quarter. work slowdown at West Coast But he cautioned that the ports, the lackluster report dataremained in fl ux and for January, February and warned that even his own March underscores the U.S. estimate could end up being economy's continuinginability wide of the mark.

"Anybody estimating gross to generate much momentum.

The pullback was the third domestic product forthesectime that economic activond quarter is kidding themity had posted a quarterly selves, because the tradedata contraction since the current is sounpredictable atthe morecovery began in mid-2009, ment, and we have no hard with declines in output in numbers yet," Shepherdson the first quarters of 2011 said.'Tm guessing there will and 2014. Even acknowlbe a reversal in trade flows, edging flaws in the way the and we11 see 3 percent growth government takes account of in the second quarter. But it expectedseasonal variations, could be anywhere between 1 that on-again, off-again patpercent and 5 percent." tern helps explain why anExports had been a particunual growth rates in recent larly bright spot for the U.S. years have been well below economy in the first years of the recovery, as world trade the paceofgainsrecorded in the 1990s and mid-2000s. rebounded from the plunge Much of the revision report- that followed the finaned Friday was spurred by new cial crisis in late 2008 and data showing that exports fell early 2009. Those gains have more than first thought and moderated more recently and imports rose higher. Econoare likely to remain under mists at Goldman Sachs pressure as the stronger dollar makes US. goods more noted that the change in the expensive for overseas buyers. trade balance shaved 1.9 percentage points off overall Most experts had expected growth last quarter, the larg- the datareleased Friday to est quarterly drag from net exports in three decades.

Volatile even in the best ofti mes, thetradebalanceis especially hard to gauge in the wake of a labor dispute and slowdown at West Coast ports.

Although clearly a negative in the first quarter, some experts

show a contraction in the first quarter, and virtually no mainstream economists are predicting that the economy is about to fall into a recession. Still, the weak start for theyearisacrucialreason that the Federal Reserve has pulled back from any plans to raiseshort-term interestrates in June, with officials now suggesting that the first rate increasefrom near zeroisnot likely to come until September oreven laterthisyear.

Although Wall Street and the Fed are already looking ahead to the June 5 report on employment gains in May and other more recent data, the rearview mirror take on economicactivity discouraged buying on the stock market.

At the end of trading Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average, the Standard & Poor's 500 index and the Nasdaq were all off 0.6 percent. Bond yields also crept lower.

After the economy grew at an annual rate of nearly 5 percent in the spring and summer of 2014, some experts concluded that the economy had found its footing and predicte d thatahealthier, sustainedgrowth rate ofnear 3 percent was finally at hand.

factorstogetting a successful business.

Wilsonville, Hood River and West Haven-Sylvan were the top threeplacesto start a business in Oregon, respectively. Pendleton was ranked No. 8 in the survey,because ofitscentral location to Portland, Boise, Idaho, and Spokane, Washington, and it has an affordable cost ofliving, according to the release.

Pendleton's median monthly housing cost was the lowest among the top 10 communities listed at

$745.

Its tourist attractions including the Pendleton Round-Up, the Wildhorse Resort and Casino and the Pendleton Woolen Mill are very popular and bring

NerdWallet examined communities with at least 5,000 people and more than 500 businesses ranging in size from sole proprietorships to big companies.

Business climate:NerdWallet looked at a community's average revenue, percentage of businesses with paid employees and the number of businesses per100 people. Most small businesses in the U.S. are sole proprietorships, which means they don'thave paid employees.

Local economic health:In this category, NerdWallet looked at three factors in each community, including the median annual income, the median annual housing costs and the unemployment rate.

In Oregon, the unemployment rate was 5.4 percent in March, matching the nation's rate, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The state also has no sales tax.

people into the town.

La Grande's average revenue per business, according to the survey, is $721,393 with 43.14 percent of businesses with paid employees.

There are 8.96 businesses in La Grande per 100 people and the unemployment rate

is 6.1 percent.

Baker City has an average revenue of $489,124 per business with 31.41 percent of its businesses with paid employees.

Ithas 12.25 businesses per 100 people and its unemployment rate is 6.8 percent.

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owner, he was approached to run for his local city council and won. At this point, spending category four kicked in, and Steve Continued ~om Page 1B had no issue at all voting to spend money thatpeople were replaceableand loyalty that wasn't his for people he didn't know. was something you bought.

Does Steve's business make money? Yes. Annual raises were non-existent. Given The business is profitable. But this success his tendency to negotiate, Steve waited for comes at a price. employees to approach him about getting a Only a few of Steve's clients like his apraise and even then, he stalled. proach of constant bartering. Vendors like He actually held off doing anything until the volume that Steve's company purchases an employee generated enough courage to but they do not enjoy dealing with Steve. ask him a second time about a pay increase. W hen Steve callsor paysa visit,people Stevebelieved hispeoplewereweak dread it because the only reason he is there because they did not engage to negotiate is because he wants something. with him. The raises he did give, he gave As a result, the loyalty, work ethic and grudgingly. care of clients by Steve's employees extendThe third category of spending is a rare ed only to their paycheck and not beyond it.

Employees were disengaged and saw no occurrence, but when there was a windfall of money, such as a rebate from a vendor reason to change their mindset.

The employees who could actually have isomething Steve had negotiated), or an unexpected tax refund, he splurged. That m ade Steve' sbusinessbetterleftand those largesse, however, never extended to his who remained were those who wouldn't be employees. hired anywhere else.

Steve is not about"win-win" but"Steve Stevetook that"found money" and used it for things he would never have spent must always win."What a legacy. his own money on. He traveled the world, staying at the finest hotels and eating at Ken Kelleris a syndicated business columnist the best restaurants, going first-class all the focused on the leadershipneedsof small and way. midsize closely heldcompanies. Contact Mr. Because Steve was seen as a successful Keller atKenKellerCSBCglobal.net.

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815 - Condos,Townhouses,Union Co 41789 F urniture , k i t c h e n Fn btt Sat: June 5 btt 6.

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825 - Houses for Sale, Union Co Lots of Good Stuff!

STAND OUT for as little as 840- Mobile Homes, Baker Co NEIGHBORHOOD Yard $1 extra.

845 - Mobile Homes, Union Co SaleSat. Only, 7-12pm.

2501 E M Ave/2401 btt 850- Lots 8 Property, Baker Co HUGE INSIDE SALE 2403 E N Ave., LG. BAKER SCHOOL DIS855 - Lots 8 Property, Union Co TRICT 5J is currently (Corner of Clark St Baker) F urniture , de co r , 860 - Ranches, Farms accepting applications 2260 C Ia rk St. house itmes, baby btt 870 - Investment Property for a Head Girls VolleyFn. btt Satd 8am-4pm. kid itmes, clothing. ball Coach at B a ker 880 - Commercial Property Lots of new items H igh School. F o r a P RE-MOVING S A L E .

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AA MEETING: Yard Sales are $12.50 for 180 - Personals Powder River Group 5 lines, and $1.00 for IPT Wellness Connection Mond 7 PM -8 PM each additional line.

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AA MEETINGS Nonsmoking day after noon, Apnl CHECK YOUR AD ON 2614 N. 3rd Street terminaI illnesses) Wheel Chair Accessible 100+ YR OLD BARN 24, 2015. You are THE FIRST DAY OF La Grande Meets 1st Monday of SALE-ANTIQUE s lender an d w a s PUBLICATION every month at St. w earing l i gh t c o l CONTENTS 8t BUILDLukes/EOMA©11:30 AM We make every effort MON, VVED, FRI ored blue Ieans with ING. Fri . J u n e 5 b tt NOON-1 PM t o a v o i d err o r s . $5.00 Catered Lunch matching shirt, short SAFE HAVEN Sat. June 6 — 8 a.m. to However mistakes TUESDA Y Must RSVP for lunch Alzheimer/Dementia blond hair, and with 4 p.m. 7 m i les north 541-523-4242 d o s l i p thr o u g h .

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2nd Friday of Rd. and McDonald Ln. CLASSIFIEDS of fers tion btt please call us SAT, SUN every month SUV. I dnve a Dodge ( Iust west o f 6 3 9 7 0 Self Help btt Support immediately if you 10AM-11AM Stealth turbo, grayM cDonald L n . , L a G roup An n o u n c e - 11:45 AM in Fellowship find an error. Northish pearl white color, Hall (Right wing) of G rande. ) A nt i q u e ments at n o c h arge. east Oregon Classi- ACCEPTANCE GROUP w/ chrome wheels.

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For LaGrande call: tion btt extend your t o stop and try t o United Methodist Church m etal f a r m in g a n E n ca — 541-963-31 61 ad 1 day. meet you. Never did on 1612 4th St. in the tiques...great for creaI expect you to be library room in the NARACOTICS tive yard art! Make an PREGNANCY w aiting for me w i t h ANONYMOUS offer on barn wood rebasement.

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Left Wing of Meeting times Episcopal Church waved. So much for Nazarene Church VETERANS OF 1st btt 3rd Wednesday 10405 S Mc A lister Rd showmanship. I will Basement 1250 Hughes Lane FOREIGN WARS Evenings ©6:00 pm IC. Guy stuff, reload forever regret that 2177 1st Street Baker City POST 3048 Elgin Methodist Church fishing, misc. e v ery m istake. I v ery Baker City MONTHLY MEETING 7th and Birch thing, btt furniture. Sat much want to meet 2nd Thurs. of the month. only, 7am-2pm. you. But, I have to Post btt Auxiliary meet at UNION COUNTY First Saturday of every find you. I hope this 6:30 p.m. VFW Hall, AA Meeting month at 4 PM 62416 LEFFEL Rd. LG reaches you. Please WALLOWA COUNTY Info.

Pot Luck — Speaker 2005 Valley Ave., Baker Sat. 6th btt Sun. 7th, c aI I me at AA Meeting List Meeting 541-523-4988 541-663-41 1 2 8-5. Multi-Family, ca303-888-8616 in tenng items, wood furRichland, WA. Only Alcoholics Anonymous 100 - Announcements 600 - Farmers Market niture, k id s i t e m s btt me at this number.

Monday, Wednesday, sports, good clothes, 105 - Announcements 605 - Market Basket Wayne Fnday, Saturday 7 p.m. to much to list!

110- Self Help Groups 610 - Boarding/Training Tuesday, Wednesday, MEET S I NGLES right 120 - Community Calendar 620 - Farm Equipment 8 Supplies Thursday noon.

ESTATE SALE. Ju ne now! No paid operaWomen only 6th, 8-4.

2607 N 4th 130 - Auction Sales 630 - Feeds tors, Iust real people AA meeting St. LG. Appliances, fur140 - Yard, Garage Sales, Baker Co 640 - Horse, Stock Trailers l ike y o u . Bro ws e Wednesday 11a.m., n iture , hou s e h o l d greetings, ex change 143 - Wallowa Co 650- Horses, Mules, Tack 113 1/2 E Main St., items, clothes, snowm essages and c o n145- Union Co 660 - Livestock Enterpnse, across from blower, f ireplace inn ect live. Try it f r e e .

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THE OBSERVER a BAKER CITY HERALD — 5B

PUBLISHED BY THE LAGRANDE OBSERVER & THE BAKER CITY HERALD - SERVING WALLOWA, UNION & BAKER COUNTIES

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WE CURRENTLY have ARE YOU looking for a ELGIN PARKS 8E openings at the Richcareer in Hum an RECREATION DISTRICT Center for Wellness Center for Wellness District ¹12 land, WA , Y a k i ma, The following position is Services ? New Day HIRING MAINTENANCE seeks a part-time Dei s seeking t o h i r e a WA, Walla Walla, WA Enterpnses is looking With and without general velopmental DisabiliRegistered Nurse for available: and La Grande, OR for enthusiastic i n disupervision, maintain ties Services Coordina32-40 hours per week.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 2015

PUBLISHED BY THE LAGRANDE OBSERVER & THE BAKER CITY HERALD - SERVING WALLOWA, UNION & BAKER COUNTIES

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BROOKSIDE MANOR e Security Fenced APARTMENTS grounded responsibility and mercurial LEO (Jufy 23-Aug. 22)--Things are likely AQUARIUS (Jan.20-Feb. 18) —An unexNEWER 4 BD, 2 ba, gas, Brookside Manor, Senior Prolect phone number: impulses. You have aquicksilver personality to line up quite favorably for you all day long; pected dangerarises,requiringa quick decie Coded Entry A/C, energy efficient, 541-437-0452 and Disabled Housing that is not likely to be restricted by the rules ultimately, you'll have your choice of many sion -- and perhaps some fancy footwork, as dw, garage, no smoke Lighted for your protection TTY: 1(800)735-2900 1 bedroom, all utilities ing/pets, $895/mo. and regulations governing most other mor- things you want. well. paid, community room, e 6 different size urits 541-805-5629 'This institute is an equal tals.

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NEWLY REMODELED anyone or anything stand in your way for your own — atleast for a while. He or she will period marked by high stressborn of anothRent based on income.

T riplex, 3 b r d m , 3 41298 Chico Rd, Baker City off Pbcahontas HUD housing units. er's unexpected outburst. bath, all utilities pd, long. You areable to size up a rival or a situa- appreciate the extra effort.

Please contact no smoking, no pets, tion very quickly, and youput what you learn LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You mayhave ARIES (March 21-Apru 19) -- You're manager's office at $1,000 month, $900 to good use almost immediately, formulating had your fill ofothers telling you what to do; readyto learn afew thingsaboutyourselfand (541) 523-5908 or stop deposit. 541-910-3696 a planthat often guarantees success -- pro- today, you'll have the chance to prove that a quickly developing situation, Soon, you'll A PLUS RENTALS by the office at 2920 LA GRANDE has storage units vided, ofcourse, that you put it into motion at you can make the right decisions. have all the answersyou need.

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Apartments 5x12 $30 per mo. location, private patio progress at a startling pace, leaving others in matters take up much of your time, despite denceison the rise.Take care,however,that 767Z 7th Street, (!t storage, no smoking 8x8 $25-$35 per mo. your dust. the fact that you are preparing to make an you don't walk into a dangerous situation La Grande, OR 97850 or pets. $725/mo Call 8x10 $30 per mo.

FRIDAY, JUNE5 important decision at work. without first assessing all risks. 'plus deposit' 541-963-4907.

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Behind Armory on East a pool table, full kitchen Candi: 541-523-6578 Pnvate nverside park and H Streets. Baker City and island, and an $500./mo. + dep. electnc fireplace.

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Opportunity Provider 57 — and drabs (Gx10 up to 14x26) stopper $1000/mo + dep. available 2 bedroom MARS O RA C L E S Molly Ragsdale 60 Homer-hitter 14 Chemist's 8 41-83 3 - 1 6 8 8 apartments in a clean, Property Management Mel BO A T W RY A B B A milieu attractive, quiet, 3 3la l 4 t h Call: 541-519-8444 well-maintained setting.

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21 Cartoon bear small fenced yard. No R EC Y C L ED I RA N HUD vouchers are COVE APARTMENTS smoking. Small pet neg. Vanety of Sizes Available 64 Touch of frost 23 Marshy tract AC C T E LI ZONE accepted. Please 1906 Cove Avenue $800/mo. 1st, last (!t dep. Secunty Access Entry 65 Thickening 25 An octopus contact manager's office RV Storage Avail. July 1st.

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No pets. $850.00 APPLY today to qualify SECURESTORAGE 30 Little one 541-403-2551 for subsidized rents at 5 Harem jewelry 10 Air rifle ammo 32 Puppy's bark 1 Apply makeup This is an equal these quiet and Surveillance 3-BDRM, 1.5 bath 6 Social insect 12 Santa — winds 2 Numero33 Hot Springs loc. opportunity provider centrally located Cameras No pets. $1100/mo.

3 "Lake" in a 7 Flower holder 17 Princess multifamily housing Computenzed Entry 34 Long SandwiCh 541-523-4435 properties.

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RFPD will be held on June 10, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. at the fire station o n Highway 7 . T h e purpose of this meeti ng is t o d i s cuss t h e

budget for the f i scal year beginning July 1, 2015 as approved by t he G reater B o w e n

been appointed Personal Representative (hereafter PR) of the Estate of Ma r y R. Brown , Deceased, Pro b a t e No. 1 5-05-8537, U n i o n County Circuit Court, State of Oregon. All persons whose nghts may be affected by the proceeding may

Probate Department In the Matter of the Estate of

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Public Notice NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING A public meeting of the City of Cove will be held on June 9, 2015 at 7:00 pm at 504 Alder, Cove, Oregon.

The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015 as approved by the City of Cove Budget Committee. A summary of the budget is presented below. A copy of the budget may be inspected or obtined att 504 Alder, Cove, Oregon between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and Noon.

This budget is for an annual budget period. This budget was prepared on a basis of accounting that is the same as the preceding year.

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CASE NO. 15-05-8540 Actual Amount

TOTAL OF ALL FUNDS

NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS

2013 - 2014 1,092,933 296,460 2,808,259

Beginmng Fund Balance/Net yyorktng Capital Fees, Licenses, Permits, Fines,Assessments &Other Service Charges Federal, State and ag Other Grants, Gifts, Allocations and Donations Revenuefrom Bonds and Other Debt Interfund Transfers / Internal Service Reimbursements II Other Resources Exce t Current Year Pro ert Taxes Current Year Pro e Taxes Estimated to be Received Total Resources

Adopted Budget This Year 2014- 2015 1,215,140 333,720 43,950

Approved Budget Next Year 2015- 2016 1,437,835 335,800 46,470

Valley RFPD Budget Committee. A copy of the budget may be inobtain additional infor- Notice is h e reby given 125,000 269,000 spected or obtained by mation from the court that Susan E. Snell has 266,847 231,490 232,445 request. Mail request records, the PR, or the b een appointed a nd 13 539 13 300 13 750 meeting is to r e ceive to P.O. Box 613, Baker attorney for the PR. All has qualified as the 4 603 038 2 106 600 2 066 300 the budget message City, OR 97814. This persons having claims personal representaFINANCIAL SUMMARY - REQUIREMENTS BY OBJECT CLASSIFICATION and to receive combudget is for an annual a gainst t h e est a t e tive of the estate. All 145,816 171,320 I 74,660 ment from the public b udget p e riod. T h i s must present them to persons having claims PersonnelServices Matenals and Services 232,792 1,247,529 1,096,230 on the budget. This is budget was prepared the PR at: against the estate are Capital Outlay 1,495,362 7,000 9,000 a p u b l i c m eet i n g on a basis of account- Mammen at Null, hereby required to pre- Debt Service 59,495 111,940 111,940 Interfund Transfers where deliberation of ing that is the same as Lawyers, LLC sent their claims, with 125,000 269,000 255,011 417,070 the Budget Committee the preceding year.

J. Glenn Null, p roper v ouc h e r s , Contingenaes SpeaalPayments 1,345,194 111,900 will take place. Any Attorney for PR within four months afUna ro nated Endin Balance and Reserved for Future Ex enditure I 199 379 44 800 145 500 1602 Sixth Streetter the date of first person may appear at LegaI No. 00041342 Total Re uirements 4 603 038 2 106 600 2 066 300 the meeting and dis- P ublished: June 3 , 5 , P.O. Box 477 publication of this noFINANCIAL SUMMARY - REQUIREMENTS AND FULL-TIME E QUIVALENT EMPLOYEES FTE BYORGANIZATIONAL UNIT OR PROGRAM* cuss the proposed pro2015 La Grande, OR 97850 tice, as stated below, to the personal repre- Nameof Orgamzational Umt or Program grams with the Budget (541) 963-5259 FTE for that umt or ro ram STORAGE UNIT Committee. within four months after s entative at : M a r t i n, dmimstration 106,140 I 05,530 AUCTION A copy of the budget the f i rs t p u b l ication Elliott at Snell, P.O. FTE I 37 13 document may be in- Descnption of Property: date of this notice or Box 575, Tualatin, Ore- Public INorks 1,435,309 1,175,460 Kitchen t a b l e an d FTE I 60 16 spected or obtained on they may be barred. g on 97062, o r t h e c hairs , v a c u um , or after June 10, 2015 c la im s may be ba rred.

FTE dresser, mattresses, Published: May 10, 27, at 2550 Broadway St., c ouch, b e d f r a m e , 2015 and June 3, 2015 All persons whose rights between the hours of FTE clothes, and boxes of 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM. may be affected by m iscellaneous i t e m s Legal No. 00041164 FTE the proceedings in this unable to inventory LegaI No. 00041222 estate may obtain adFTE NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S Published: May 27, June d itional i n f o r m a t i o n SALE Property Owner: Robert 3, 2015 from the r ecords of FTE Crawford otAgocatedto Or amzational Umt or Pro ram 565,151 785,310 the court, the personal FTE On June 19, 2015 at the representative, or the Amount Due: $335.00 as hour of 10:00 a.m. at Total FTE 2.97 2.97 attorney for th e p e rof June 1, 2015 t he U n i o n Co u n t y sonal representative.

PUBLIC NOTICE Sheriff's Office, 1109 ate or mount mpose ate or mount mpose ate or mount pprove 2013-14 This Year 2014-15 Next Year 2015-16 to take place on ICAve, La Grande, Ore- Dated and first published The Baker County Board Auction Permanent Rate Levy irate hmit 4007 per $1,000) 4007 4007 4007 Wednesday, June 17, gon, the defendant's Local Option Levy this 27th day of May, of Commissioners will interest will b e s o ld, Lev For General obh ation Bonds 2015 at 9:00 AM at A 2015. be meeting for a Work sublect to redemption, 2 Z Storage ¹16, on Session followed by a 1 7th S t r e et , B a k e r in the r ea l p r operty LONGTERM DEBT Estimated Debt Outstanding Estimated DebtAuthonzed, But Personal Representative/ Special C o m m ission on Jul I Not lncurred on Jul I commonly known as: Attorney: General Obhgation Bonds Session on We d nes- City, OR 97814 7 02 C A v e n ue, L a Susan E. Snell, Other Bonds 1,360,846 79 day, June 10, 2015, Name of Person ForeOther Borrowtngs 993,607 42 G rande, O r 9 7 8 5 0 . OSB ¹853356 b eginning a t 9 : 0 0 Total 2,354,454 21 A 2 Z Storage The court case num- Martin, Elliott at Snell, PC a m. a t the Ba k e r closing: Units are managed by be r i s 1 4-05-49080 P.O. Box 575 Publish: June 3, 2015 County Courthouse loNelson Real E state w her e W il m i n g t o n Tualatin, Oregon 97062 Legal no. 4922 cated at 1 99 5 T h ird Savings Fund Society, S treet, B a ke r C i t y , Agency, 845 Campbell, Baker City, OR FSB, Not in its individ- Published: May 27, 2015 O regon 97814. T h e 97814, 541-523-6485 ual capacity but solely and June 3, 10, 2015 C ommissioners w i l l as t r u ste e f o r the meet for a special ses- Legal No.00041348 P rimestar-H F u n d LegaI No. 00041223 sion at 10:30 a.m. to Trust, its successors in review an d a p p rove Published: June 3, 5, 8 interest and/or assigns 10,12, 15, 2015 t he C i t y of Unit y i s plaintiff, an d U n 2 015-16 Budget. A 1010 - Union Co. GET QUICIC known Heirs of Gercomplete agenda will Legal Notices a ldine D a w so n a k a CASH WITH THE b e available o n t h e Geri A. Dawson; Jeff PERSUANT TO ORS C ounty w e b s i t e a t Haxton; James Haxton CLASS I FE I DS! CHAPTER 87 www.bakercount .or . aka Jim Haxton; John Baker County operH axton; J u l i e H a r - Sell your unwantates under an EEO pol- Notice is hereby given icy and complies with that th e f o l lowing g rove; State of O r e - ed car, p roperty gon; Occupants of the vehicle will be sold, Section 504 of the Repremises, and the Real a nd h o u s e h o l d for cash to the highhabilitation Act of 1973 P roperty l o c ated a t and th e A m e r i cans e st b idd e r , o n 7 02 C A v e n ue, L a items more quick611612015. The sale w ith D i sabilities A c t .

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DEARABBY: I'm having a hard time getDEARALREADY WOUNDED: You're not wrong. Your mother appears to be toxic tirg over a secret my boyfriend, 'Wayne,"kept Sending her negativity down with her is a from me. Wehave been ofj"and on for14years, butback onforthepastfour.Theproblem is,he perfect solution in my opinion. had a child with a woman in a different country. The child is now 9. Wayne didn't mention it DEARABBY: I am an Irish-American until four years ago, during our last breakup. It man with a problem of the heart. I recently bebothers me that he keptitfrom me. gan reconnecting on social, media with a girl I I have since met the woman and the child, knew in high school. I wrote her several times, and she said what I wrote but my trust in my boyfriend is strained. In the back of was very sweet and kind. She DEAR my mind Ikeep wonderirg told me, however, that she what else he hasn't told me.

ABBY was s eeirg someone. Isaid I Abby, he was always against understood and did not want having kids with me. He said to mess up the relationship. he didn't want any. Now I wonder if it was I decided to bide my time and hope she because he already had one. becomes free. Ilove her with all my heart, and Wayneis surprised I'm so challenged by this. this waitirgis killing me. Should I keep bidi rg my time and waiting or should I move on?

He says he and the woman dated for only a — HOPING IN TENNESSEE few months, then brokeup becausehedidn't DEAR HOPING:When the woman toldyou feel they were compatible. She told me their child was the product ofa one-night stand. she was seeing someone, she mayhave been Now I don't know who to believe. Please advise. trying to tell you kindlythat she isn'tinterested — BETRAYED OUT WEST in aromance withyou. Foryou to putyour life DEAR BETRAYED: There is a reason why on hold waiting for a woman you haven't seen since high school would be a mistake, and that's you andWayne have been"otfand on"for 14 why I'm advising you to move on. years, and I'm guessing it's because he has a problem with commitment. It appears he may also have a problem leveling with you.

DEARABBY: We have two lovely daughIf you have to make a choice about whom to ters in their 20s. The older one lives with her believe, I think you should believe the mother boyfriend.

They areexpecting a baby soon. ofhis child because it's clear she wasn't tryOuryounger daughter lives with us,and she's ing to make herselflook any better. planning on moving in with her boyfriend.

We're an old married couple, and we're not DEARABBY: My 85-year-old mother told surehow totreatourdaughters'boyfriends. me that upon her death she is leaving each However, "Gerald"is thefatherofournew ofher children a letter expressing to them grandchild, and we think ofhim as famhow theyhave hurtherthroughout theyears. ily. "Joel"is a great guy who is in love with Never once has she acknowledged how deeply our younger daughter and vice versa, so we she has hurt us. It affected our childhood and think of him as family, too. adulthood. I think i f she feels we hurt her, she We stumbled through the holidays not should say it to us while she's living. knowing if we should get gi fts for them. Joel It has always been about Mom's needs not is having a birthday soon. Should we get ours. I, for one,plan to put her unopened letter him a gift? We want to brirg the boyfriends in her cogn to be buried with her when the time into our family and treat them like our chilcomes. Her letterisjust a final hurtful armw to dren, but we don't know if we're overstepping stab us with, and Ialready have had a lifetime our bounds.

— STUMBLING INNEW ENGLAND ofthat. Idon't need her to damqge mefurther.

Am I wrong? Normcdly parents leave heartDEAR STUMBLING: Stop stumbling. warmirg letters to give their children peace.She I can't think of a better way to draw your readsyourcolumn, soIhopeshereconsiders. daughters' significant others into your fam— ALREADY WOU1NDED ily than to open your hearts, let them know IN CALIFORNIA they are welcome and treat them that way.

405 Chinese passengers, five travel agency employees and BEIJING — More than 430 46 crew members, according Chinese tourists, many of them to Xinhua. Previously, Xinhua thought to be elderly, were still had said 458 people were MONGOLIA missingearlyWednesday, more aboard, butitrevised those Beij than a day after their tour boat numbers late Tuesday. * sankin the Y~ R i v er after Yangtze Three Those rescued induded Gorges being hit by a stmng storm, the boat's captain and chief D am Nan j i engineer, who were taken into possibly a tornado.

Thousands of rescuers Sha h custody, according to CCTV, for h ngqing worked to find survivors, reasons notimmediately clear. with some managing to Cruising the Yangtze is a CHIN TAIWAN popularpastime forforeign extractthree peopletrapped 400 km alivein the overturned boat. and Chinese tourists, with 400 miles many wanting to see China's But some 30 hours after the massive Three Gorges Dam disaster, only 14 people had been rescued, according to and whatisleftofthe gorges Source: AP Hubei province officials and Graphic: TNS that were flooded when the the Xinhua news service. dam was constructed.

Onlyseven were confi rm ed The Eastern Star had by authoritative media as dead, but with dawn coming a the standard," the website startedits trip Thursdayfiom secondti me totherescuesite, quoted the order as saying. the eastern cityof Nanjing and the number of dead seemed Maritime disasters in was traveling to the southwestAsia are not uncommon, and ern city of Chongqing. It sank certain to rise significantly amid predictions the sinking of some of the biggest can have about 9:30 p.m. Monday near Jingkouin Hubei province. the boat would become China's political ramifications. After The boat's captain and its worst maritime disaster since the MW Sewol ferry sank the founding of the People's chief engineer reportedly told last year in South Korea, killing 304 passengers, many authorities the ship had been Republic of China in 1949.

Chinese officials kept tight of them young students, the hit by a tornado and had control over news coverage sunk quickly. At least one country's prime minister, of the disaster. Numerous Jong Hong-won, accepted survivor confirmed that the responsibility and resigned. journalist swerestopped at boat had gone down fast.

On Tuesday morning, state "It capsized within a minroadblocksin Hubei province and prevented&om getting media quickly reported that ute," tour guide Zhang Zhui near riverbanks to observe Chinese President Xi Jinping told Xinhua fiom a hospital the rescue operations. had called for"all-out efforts bed. Zhang said he survived According to China Digital in rescue work." by jumping through a window Times, a website that tracks Chinese Premier Li Keqof the boat and holding onto the Chinese Internet, governiang quickly arrived at the debris in the water for hours. ment propaganda officials site and was photographed After hedging on whether a issued orders to local state all day instructing rescue tornado had struck the area, media instructing them not to crews on operations. CCTV China's MeteorologicalAdmindispatch reporterstothescene reported that Li specifically istration confirmed that a force and instead to rely on Xinhua instructedcrews tocutinto 12 storm had passed through and state broadcaster CCTV. the hull of the overturned the area when the ship went "Reporters already there boat to find survivors. down. On the Beaufort scale, must be immediately The boat, the 251-foot-long force 12 is eflectively hurricane recalled. All coverage must Eastern Star, was carrying 456 force, with huge waves and use information released people when it went downwinds over 72 mph.

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