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Almost everyone loves birthdays, right? We’re no different. All year, we have been celebrating 135 years of The Spokesman-Review, known as the Spokane Falls Review in the early years.

Nearly every Sunday during 2018 we have pulled pages from our archives and reprinted them to continue our yearlong birthday party.

The feedback from readers has been tremendous, so we decided to close 2018 with a collection of historic pages.

This collection represents some of the biggest events in the history of Spokane, Washington, our country and the world.

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Secret vault stores 135 years of news Old S-Rs give history lessons You exit The Spokesman-Review downtown office on Riverside, head west to cross Monroe (at your own peril), step inside the S-R production facility and head to the elevator to venture below street level. When the elevator door opens, you enter a world of concrete posts the size of Redwood trunks, chainlink fiefdoms, enough wooden pallets to build a luxury shanty and monster newspaper rolls waiting to spread the news.

Off in the far corner is a historical treasure protected by 7-foothigh chain-link fencing and a $3 padlock. That 50-by-30-foot space with rolling shelves holds the pages of The Spokesman-Review and Spokane Daily Chronicle for the past 135 years. If you like history, it’s Disneyland. But bring your dust mask.

When we decided to celebrate our 135th birthday, we wanted to end the year with a special section to highlight some of the biggest news during that period. At first blush, it seemed like a real doable task. The reality is, the more you discover the harder it is to make decisions.

As you flip through this 48-page section, there is no doubt you will quibble with what got in and what didn’t. And that’s absolutely understandable. This collection should not be considered the definitive list of big news events of the last 135 years. This effort is merely an example of 135 years of headlines, stories, photos and graphics.

So how did we decide?

We had a meeting, or four. That was probably our biggest mistake.

That is when you learn that there are as many opinions about our history as there are events. One wise guy even suggested that we run the headline of every U.S. presidential outcome. Great idea! What, wait.

Every one since 1883?

Here is the painstaking process: You first locate the date of the big event. You then head to the archive dungeon. The bound books

of newspaper issues are separated by days. In the early 1900s you may have a book that covers two months.

In more recent JOE a PALMQUIST history, book will cover 10-15 days.

MANAGING Once you find EDITOR the book with the correct newspaper, you must carefully and precisely use your X-acto knife to extract the single page. Once removed, the page is carefully scanned to create an electronic version. The scanning is done with two passes and Photoshop is used to seamlessly patch two halves together.

The bulk of the scanning was expertly and patiently handled by photo intern Libby Kamrowski.

Once scanned, the page is put back in the correct spot in the book, which is wrapped back up and placed back on the shelf with the correct identifying words and marks.

The more you explore this fascinating “first draft of history� the more you want to share. Because we wanted to share as many pages as possible, explanations are mostly contained on this page. The headlines speak for themselves, but this can act as quickie guide.

We wanted to include the first edition, May 19, 1983, which is displayed on your left. In those days photos were rare. Below that is a 1889 page that doesn’t exactly scream the news that Washington is officially a state. Unlike today’s design, subtlety was much more common. The first paragraph of the story is magnificent: “After thirty-six long years Washington to-day cast off the bonds of territorial servitude and took its place among the sisterhood of states.�

Page 4 chronicled what may have been the biggest news day in

our state history and it needed just two words “Volcano explodes!�

The page below that is of the 1889 fire that burned down the city. The one-column headline declared “Millions Lost.� Smaller headlines beneath the main headline gave readers a quick glance that declared outrage, sadness, blame and resiliency.

There were more fires, of course, and many more devastating than the one in 1889. The greatest of them all was in 1910 and detailed 100 years later in a Spokesman-Review story by staff writer Jim Kershner. In 1991, fires broke out in several areas around Spokane. Dubbed Firestorm (page 18), the October blazes burned down homes and displaced residents for days. There was also Ice Storm (page 18), Wind Storm (page 19) and the 2008 snowstorm that set the record for inches in a 24-hour period.

Folks who remember the 1969 snowstorm may argue that it was the worst snowstorm our region has ever endured.

Our collection includes great moments in Spokane history, like the opening of Expo ’74(page 8), President Jimmy Carter’s rededication of Riverfront Park (page 9), Grand Coulee Dam starting up in 1941 (page 6), and the first Bloomsday race (page 20). The growth of that race was nothing short of phenomenal, but even in 1977 when there were just 1,400 runners, the humble beginning was celebrated on the front page of The Spokesman-Review.

Our collection also includes many tragic events like the recent shooting at Freeman High School (page 23) and the four-day nightmare at Fairchild Air Force base (page 22) that started with a former airman opening fire at the base hospital. Five died and 22 were injured. Four days later, a Fairchild B-52 crashed while practicing for an air show, killing all four aboard.

Some of the bigger crime stories in our region were highlighted (pages 14 and 16) as well as bizarre events like the Division Street bridge collapsing in 1915 (page 10).

There were assassinations and no-

table deaths. We leaned toward local events and in the case of the Columbia Shuttle tragedy in 2003 (page 11), there was a local tie to one of the biggest news stories in our history. Cheney High School grad Michael Anderson was one of seven astronauts who perished in the explosion.

With wars, the headlines were usually big and bold. When the first atom bomb dropped, the headline went across the top of the page (page 42). A couple of days later, when Nagasaki was hit, it didn’t elevate to the top of the page.

In sports (pages 46-47), we kept it completely local and had a lot to choose from. There were personal achievements and team victories and losses. Although WSU’s 1997 Rose Bowl season and Gonzaga’s amazing run through the NCAA Tournament in 2017 ended with losses, the outcomes hardly diminished great seasons.

And, of course, we have every presidential election since 1892 (1884 and 1888 were missing). The knucklehead who suggested the addition, government editor Jonathan Brunt, is a political junkie.

Few things get him more excited than a tight election race. Most of the headlines in this collection indicated whether the 32 races were tight or not. We highlighted a few, like the 2000 race that ended up in the Supreme Court (page 34), the 2008 race that elected Barack Obama as the first African-American president (page 35) and the 2016 race that put first-time politician Donald Trump (page 38) into office. The race was close enough going into Election Day that we created three versions as possible covers – The Trump version, the Hillary Clinton victory, and the undecided version.

We also highlighted a few local elections – Jim Chase as the city’s first African-American mayor and George Nethercutt’s upset win over House Speaker Tom Foley in 1994 – and one recall, Mayor Jim West in 2005 (page 40). If you look closely at the 1964 presidential election (page 31), below the story on Lyndon Johnson’s victory is a smaller headline of upstart con-

gressman Foley upsetting incumbent Walt Horan. The 1976 election (page 32) that put Jimmy Carter in the White House also gave Washington its first woman governor, Dixie Lee Ray. When you explore as many pages as we did in preparing this section, you can’t help but wonder what it would have been like when a mysterious explosion destroyed several businesses on North Monroe Street (page 10) in 1962. How would we treat that today? In 1912, the Titanic sank (page 7). That was worth a four-column headline.

And the stock market crash (page 7) of 1929? Two columns.

When Elvis played at Joe Albi Stadium in 1971, it landed on page 6.

When Garth Brooks played seven shows last year at the Arena, it made our cover three times that week. When Jonas Salk announced the cure for polio, the S-R editors put it on the cover, but it was low on the page with an understated headline.

How will future generations look back at our more recent efforts? For starters, they won’t need to visit the no-frills archive outpost below Monroe Street. Since 2004, our pages have been saved digitally. Somewhere on a server at an undisclosed location or up in a cloud, our pages can be retrieved with a few mouse clicks.

The growing cacaphony of digitally minded “prophets� dismiss the importance of the daily newspaper in today’s world and predict its demise. We think the daily newspaper is needed more than ever. In the past two-plus years, under the leadership of Editor Rob Curley, we have doubled our efforts to make a more lively and complete product for our readers.

In particular, our “Year in the Fields� series produced a lot of covers worthy of this section, but picking just one or two would undervalue an amazing body of work.

Thanks to the value the Cowles family places on keeping our citizens informed, and to the dedication of those who work daily to present a quality product, The Spokesman-Review will have many more birthdays to celebrate.

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FOR 135 YEARS, THE SPOKESMAN REVIEW HAS BEEN TELLING SPOKANE’S HISTORY. FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS, OUR MERCHANTS HAVE BEEN MAKING IT.

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Valley Edition

Dr. Scott Lieberman/Tyler Morning Telegraph

‘‘The same creator who names the stars also knows the names of the seven souls we mourn today.’’ — President Bush

Godspeed, Columbia Cheney High graduate among crew of 7 killed in shuttle tragedy Staff and wire reports

Associated Press

Astronauts, from left, David Brown, Ilan Ramon, Rick Husband, Kalpana Chawla, William McCool, Michael Anderson and Laurel Clark wave hello to a television camera on Jan. 20 aboard the shuttle.

More coverage inside, Pages A6-18, B1 ■ Flags lowered to half-staff as world mourns loss of astronauts./A7

■ Early signs suggest a heat problem enveloped the shuttle before it disintegrated./A8

Nothing was going to get in future astronaut’s way

■ Terrorism was not to blame./Notebook, A9

By Tracy Ellig Staff writer

■ Israeli astronaut

had become symbol of better future for nation torn by terrorist attacks./A12

Michael Anderson always knew he would go to space

Associated Press

Mourners attend an impromptu candlelight vigil in Racine, Wis.

■ The text of President Bush’s address./A16 ■ Challenger disaster remembered./A18 ■ Spokane man stunned by cousin’s death on shuttle./B1

ON THE WEB ■ A discussion forum at www.spokesmanreview.com/ comment — where you can offer your condolences to the families of the astronauts and comment on the tragedy.

The Earth was not big enough to encompass the ambitions of Michael Anderson. They fit only in the heavens.

At 3 years old, Anderson lifted his first toy airplane and decided he would fly in space. On Saturday, Anderson perished with six other astronauts aboard the space shuttle Columbia. He was 43.

He is survived by his wife, Sandra, formerly of Spokane. She and the couple’s daughters, ages 9 and 11, now live in the Houston area. Anderson is also survived by his parents,

Bobbie and Barbara of Spokane and three sisters, Brenda, Diane and Joann.

Born in Plattsburgh, N.Y., Anderson grew up following his father’s Air Force career around the nation until the family arrived at Fairchild Air Force Base. Anderson was 11 at the time.

A 1977 graduate of Cheney High School, Anderson never wavered from his desire to be an astronaut and never lost the faith that he would live his dream. ‘‘Mike knew he was going to be an astronaut and nothing was going to get in his way,’’ said Hal Sautter, Anderson’s ninth grade physical science teacher at Cheney High School.

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Cheney High School yearbook photo

Michael Anderson, in his senior picture from 1977, showed a flair for science at an early age.

Hurtling through the upper atmosphere at supersonic speed, the space shuttle Columbia tore apart into fiery pieces Saturday morning just minutes from its planned touchdown, killing the seven astronauts on board and raining debris across a wide swath of eastern Texas.

Americans froze as events unfolded on television, once again confronted with images of a clear blue sky filled with smoke and death. ‘‘The Columbia is lost. There are no survivors,’’ President Bush told the nation.

A massive investigation began Saturday in Texas, Florida and Washington, D.C., with initial speculation centering on damage to Columbia’s left wing sustained during takeoff 16 days ago. At the time, the damage was thought to be inconsequential.

There were clear skies and good visibility as Columbia streaked toward Cape Canaveral at 200,000 feet Saturday morning.

Suddenly, the shuttle’s left-wing temperature sensors malfunctioned. NASA Mission Control quickly saw that the left-side tires had also lost pressure. ‘‘Columbia, Houston, we see your tire pressure messages, and we did not copy your last,’’ they radioed.

A crew member replied, ‘‘Roger, uh . . . buh . . .,’’ then static, as terrified ground controllers and hundreds on the ground watched a large chunk pop off the shuttle and then several more in rapid succession streaking downward in white vapor trails alongside the plummeting fuselage.

Those familiar with shuttle landings say Columbia would have had its nose pointing steeply skyward when disaster struck. We can imagine the seven aboard were facing the heavens as they hurtled toward the morning star.

That’s an image fitting for Michael Anderson, who had sung in the choir at Spokane’s Morningstar Baptist Church and had, even as a child, kept his gaze aimed at the heavens, focused on flight.

It’s an image Bush evoked when he said: ‘‘The same creator who names the stars also knows the names of the seven souls we mourn today. The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth, yet we can pray that all are safely home.’’

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From one Centenarian to Another, Congratulations Spokesman Review!

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SHOOTING AT FREEMAN HIGH SCHOOL

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Bush-Gore in 2000 was election night to remember

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Around 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 7, 2000, TV networks called Florida for George W. Bush.

And with that, he was declared the president-elect.

In The Spokesman-Review newsroom, editors moved quickly to slam out the paper’s first edition, which went to Idaho. The bold headline declared “Bush edges Gore.”

That turned out to be wrong, at

least until the Supreme Court gave Florida to Bush in December.

But it wasn’t quite the “Dewey defeats Truman” headline that embarrassed the Chicago Tribune in 1948.

Previous to the The Spokesman’s Idaho edition going to the presses, it had already been a roller coaster election night. The race had appeared headed the other direction. Networks called Florida for Vice President Al Gore before retracting it and later giving it to Bush.

“Usually, the headline calls the race. That was impossible that night.”

Kevin Graman The Spokesman-Review news editor on the night of the Bush-Gore election

As the Idaho edition printed, the news changed. Networks retracted again, and Florida was a toss-up.

News Editor Kevin Graman was at the helm for The S-R’s page 1that night. The question was how late the presses should be held, and would the paper be embarrassed if

other newspapers waited longer and had a more accurate reading of the day.

When news breaks late on the East Coast, it helps, of course, that The Spokesman-Review is several timezones to the west.

“It was stressful until I came to

the realization that no one was going to have it,” Graman said.

His headline for the final edition: “It’s Florida’s call.”

“Usually, the headline calls the race,” Graman said. “That was impossible that night.”

It wasn’t bedlam in the newsroom as the nation waited. Graman recalls all the paper complete except the hole for the latest story on the presidential race and a headline.

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ELECTION SPECIAL

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LOOK INSIDE FOR SEVEN PAGES OF ELECTION COVERAGE

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AHEAD WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2008

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Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R)

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Inslee (D) ................51% McKenna (R) .............48%

McMorris Rodgers (R) .......61% Cowan (D) .................38%

Labrador (R) .......63% Farris (D) ...................30%

IT’S OBAMA

Dino Rossi (R)

Chris Gregoire (D)

U.S. SENATE (WASH.) Cantwell (D) ........59% Baumgartner (R) ..... 40%

For the latest election results, go to spokesmanreview.com/elections or tune into KJRB 790-AM for updates on the bottom of the hour beginning at 6:30 a.m.

OBAMA ROLLS

PRESIDENT EMERGES WINNER AFTER BRUISING CAMPAIGN

Democrat dominates coast to coast in historic election How we voted A look at how regional counties voted in the 2008 election: SPOKANE COUNTY

President-* K John McCain 66,020 I Barack Obama 69,571 County Commission-* District 1 I Todd Mielke K Kim Thorburn District 2 K Mark Richard K Brian Sayrs Too close to call

President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Jill Biden wave during the president’s election party early this morning in Chicago.

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President-* I John McCain 33,331 K Barack Obama 19,299 County Commission-* K Bruce Noble I Todd Tondee K Greg Wells Associated Press

President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, and Vice President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, greet the crowd after Obama’s acceptance speech in Chicago on Tuesday night.

‘Change has come to America,’ he tells celebration in Chicago

BY STEVEN THOMMA McClatchy

making. He drew masses of young people to politics for the first time. His biracial heritage reflected the changing demographics of America. His mastery of the Internet matched the rise of a new information age. And his push into formerly Republican states in the South, Midwest and West marked a new political landscape possibly emerging.

After an epic struggle, the first-term Democratic senator from Illinois defeated Republican John McCain, 72, a hero of the Vietnam War and a four-term senator from Arizona.

“It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this elec-

Inside A transformative day: Barack Obama’s election will reshape the nation’s dialogue on race. /Page A6

WASHINGTON – Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, swept to victory by an anxious country eager to change course at home and abroad.

Obama, 47, becomes the first black person to win the presidency and the first from the generation that came of age after the turbulence of the 1960s.

His win suggested a new political order in the See OBAMA, A6

Gov. Chris Gregoire, center, followed by her husband, Mike, and daughter Michelle greets supporters at an election night party in Seattle.

Associated Press

At left Blue states: Obama Red states: McCain Gray states: Too SOURCE: AP close to call or not McClatchy Tribune available

Gregoire tops Rossi for second time goire on Tuesday claimed an easier victory over two-time Republican challenger Dino Rossi – although he refused to concede as ballot counting continued into this morning.

Republican U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers easily

BY JIM CAMDEN was re-elected in Eastern Washington’s 5th ConStaff writer gressional District, while across the border in Idaho, inThe Democratic tide that swept Barack Obama into the cumbent Republican Bill Sali was in a see-saw battle with White House left some Republicans standing as it washed Democratic challenger Walt Minnick. over Washington and Idaho. But it may have helped keep But in Idaho’s Senate race, Lt. Gov. Jim Risch paralChris Gregoire in Washington’s governor’s mansion.

Four years after winning a razor’s-edge election, Gre- See REGION, A8

McMorris Rodgers cruises to victory; Idaho’s Sali-Minnick contest too close to call

K Stephen J. Caires I Elmer “Rick” Currie K Bob MacDonald *-As of press time

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This 1932 cartoon was the last front-page illustration used for presidential election coverage in The Spokesman-Review until 2016 when the newspaper ran a drawing of Donald Trump.

“It was very calm at that point,” Graman said. “We were waiting for the latest story we could possibly get in.”

The newsroom usually gets a later deadline for election night, and that was the case in 2000.

John Kafentzis, who was designing page one that night, said editors had been warned about missing the deadline. So they were sure not to miss it. He remembers the final version being sent to the presses about 1 a.m.

But it was a bit unsatisfying.

“I remember thinking, ‘We need to be able to say somebody was elected,’ ” Kafentzis said.

For most working in the newsroom that night, it was the first time they would be unable to to tell their readers in the morning paper who their next president would be.

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Associated Press

Incumbent Democrat captures second term with help of women, younger voters, minority groups

While the popular vote was close, Barack Obama earned a comfortable victory in the Electoral College.

Results as of midnight:

303 Obama 206 Romney 29 Too close to call

By Mark Barabak Los Angeles Times

ALSO TODAY

STATE-BY-STATE BREAKDOWN U.S. presidential map examines electoral votes and popular votes by state | PAGE A5

President Barack Obama overcame a disappointingly slow economic recovery and a massive advertising onslaught to win a second term Tuesday night, forging a coalition of women, minorities and young people that reflects the changing political face of America.

The outcome was surprisingly swift. Major television networks called the race against Republican Mitt Romney less than 20 minutes after the polls closed on the West Coast, as a succession of battle-

ground states tipped the president’s way.

About 90 minutes later, the former Massachusetts governor offered his concession in a private phone conversation with the president.

Claiming victory before a PAGE A6 roaring, flag-waving crowd in his hometown of Chicago, Obama summoned a bit of the poetry that was absent throughout much of the acrid campaign. He told supporters that the country was moving forward “because of you.”

“You reaffirmed the spirit that has triumphed over war and depression, the spirit that has lifted

INSIDE

Republicans hold House of Representatives; Democrats retain Senate

See PRESIDENT, A5

WASHINGTON GOVERNOR

WASHINGTON BALLOT MEASURES

Inslee out front as count goes on

Pot use OK’d; charter schools, marriage lead

By Jim Camden

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INITIATIVE 1240 CHARTER SCHOOLS

YES 51% NO 48% Would authorize up to 40 publicly funded charter schools open to all students, with government oversight

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Democrat Jay Inslee and Republican Rob McKenna will continue their battle for the job of Washington’s chief executive for at least another day.

Ballots tallied Tuesday night gave Inslee a lead of about 50,000 votes out of 1.8 million counted, leaving the race too close to call. With as many as half of the ballots still to be counted, Inslee has 51.3 percent See GOVERNOR, A9 75 cents ($1 in some areas)

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Democrat Jay Inslee hugs supporter Antonia Gonzalez Tuesday in Seattle.

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Same-sex couples may be able to marry in Washington as early as next month, as the state’s voters seemed to be narrowly approving a law that was passed then suspended earlier this year.

More certain for December, adults who use marijuana won’t need to fear arrest from state or local law enforcement officials, at least. By a larger margin, voters were approving a ballot measure that legalizes recreational marijuana use for adults, although it keeps it illegal for those under 21. The See BALLOT MEASURES, A9

presidential election cover- examined the cartoon to help age over the years includes us interpret it.

“The racist imagery, I’m giant bold Spokaneheadlines • 509-324-8200 •and www.foothillsa more subtle announcements. afraid, is more or less par for A racist cartoon ac- the course for this time pecompanied the 1904 election riod,” he said.

Drawings and cartoons win of Theodore Roosevelt.

The depiction of a butler with were common to illustrate the Democrat defeated by the Spokesman’s front-page Roosevelt, Alton B. Parker, election coverage until the appears to be “a common mid-1930s, when photos betrope at the time” to identify gan to dominate. A cartoon figures in the cartoon as ser- two days before Franklin vant or butlers, said Erik Roosevelt’s win in 1932 was Johnson, of the Theodore highly sympathetic to HerRoosevelt Center at Dickin- bert Hoover, who was ousted son State University. He in the election. The Election-

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Day cartoon was more neutral, depicting Franklin Roosevelt having to deal with the Depression.

After that, The Spokesman-Review didn’t use an artist to illustrate the winner of the presidential election until 2016 when the newspaper hired Spokane artist Chris Bovey. He prepared three versions, including Hillary Clinton winning and one for the race being too close to call.

His depiction of Donald Trump won the night.

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“I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all Americans.”

DONALD TRUMP

President-elect

NATION PLAYS

Illustration by Chris Bovey

Trump’s populism carries the day Republican Donald Trump’s populist message rang true to millions of U.S. citizens, helping him sweep past his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in an Election Day victory that defied most predictions. The brazen businessman’s straightforward message often lacked political polish and offended many during a hard-fought and vicious campaign, but his vow to “Make America Great Again” was a driving force that helped carry him into the White House as the next president of the United States of America.

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MORE ELECTION RESULTS Republicans keep control of Congress. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is re-elected, as is U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers. STORIES INSIDE.

Ulti t Ultimate outsider harnesses voter anger

Upending the political establishment and shocking pollsters, an avalanche of disillusioned voters handed the White House to Donald J. Trump and control of both the House and Senate to Republicans.

For the first time in U.S. history, the next president will have no record of service in either the military or government office.

The Ne New York b businessman’s sinessman’s victory ictor swept away years of divided government and opened the door to an ideological shift in the U.S. Supreme Court, where issues including abortion and voting rights hang in the balance.

Democrat Hillary Clinton won 3 of every 4 nonwhite voters, but Trump’s victory blew away the possibility she would carry forward the legacy of Presi-

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Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R)....58.3%

Patty Murray (D) ................60.8%

Jay Inslee (D) ....................56.3%

Yes .................................59.5%

Joe Pakootas (D) .................41.7%

Chris Vance (R)...................39.2%

Bill Bryant (R)....................43.7%

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GOP faithful delighted

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Spokane voters ousted Mayor Jim West Tuesday, ending the political career of one of the community’s longest serving elected officials.

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With less than 30 seconds left in the game, an emotional Gonzaga guard Nigel Williams-Goss is consoled by Gonzaga head coach Mark Few. The Zags lost the game to North Carolina 71-65.

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Platoon’s survivors still stick together t a time when the United States was shoring up its military presence in Vietnam, the Marine Corps signed up 80 young men from Washington state and allowed them to train together as a unit.

Many of the surviving members of the Evergreen State Platoon, as it came to be known, will meet July 12 in Olympia, 40 years after their induction in the Capitol Rotunda in a ceremony attended by then-Gov. Dan Evans and Miss Washington 1968.

“We all left together, but we came back alone,” said Larry Plager, of Spokane, one of 16 members of the Evergreen State Platoon from Eastern Washington and an organizer of the reunion.

Six members of the platoon were killed in action, half of them from among the small group that started out together from Spokane on the adventure of their lives.

Like many of the young recruits, Plager signed up before graduation. At 5 feet 11 inches tall and 125 pounds, he was “not particularly athletic or pugilistic,” and he wasn’t sure whether he could make it in the Corps. But he wanted to be a Marine like his father.

Plager joined with his buddy, Doug Simpson, a Rogers High School student who appears in Plager’s Ferris High School yearbook in a photo taken on a day Simpson had skipped school and was hanging with his friends at Ferris.

“I joined, I guess, because Larry did,” Simpson said, adding that the anti-war sentiment gaining

KITCHENER, Ontario – Helmets went airborne. Sticks and gloves scattered. Goalie Dustin Tokarski was mobbed on the north end of the ice as time expired.

After 17 years, the Memorial Cup is returning to Spokane.

The Western Hockey League champion Spokane Chiefs captured junior hockey’s most treasured piece of hardware with a Also today 4-1 victory over Sports: Chiefs the tournament earn memory host Kitchener of a lifetime/C1 Rangers on Sunday afternoon in front of 6,807 fans at Kitchener Auditorium.

“It’s special because of the guys,” said Chiefs general manager Tim Speltz, who was with the franchise when it won the Cup in 1991 and was publicly criticized when the Chiefs missed the postseason two straight years before qualifying last season.

“We had a tough time getting through what we did a few years ago,” said Speltz. “I think these guys deserve so much credit – there are so many different types of players, and for the coaches to do the job they did and put it all together is just remarkable. All the challenges, all trials and tribulations – for our guys to overcome everything that they’ve had to – Spokane goaltender Dustin Tokarski, the tournament MVP, launches the postgame party.

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President Barack Obama, who observed his first Sept. 11 as president by declaring it a national day of service, laid a wreath Friday at the Pentagon

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President Barack Obama greets families of victims of the 2001 terrorist attack Friday at the Pentagon.

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Evergreen Platoon veterans and lifelong friends Larry Plager, left, and Doug Simpson meet at the Vietnam Memorial in Riverfront Park on Thursday.

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Afghan policy under scrutiny Democrats wary as Obama eyes options

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WASHINGTON – Congress will examine next week the future of American military involvement in Afghanistan, a future that many key lawmakers hope won’t include sending more U.S. troops than President Barack Obama already has committed.

“There’s a significant number of people in the country, and I don’t know the exact percentages, that have questions about deepening our military involvement in Afghanistan,” Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., said Friday.

Levin’s warning, combined with similar carefully worded comments recently from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., send a strong signal to Obama that many Democrats are wary of escalating the U.S. role in Afghanistan. Indeed, Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee – which will hold two hearings on Afghanistan next week – is urging discussion of a “flexible timeline” for ending American involvement there.

The president is weighing whether to increase U.S. forces in the country.

Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, submitted an assessment of the war to the White House last month, and he’s widely expected to ask soon for tens of thousands of new U.S.

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PRINGFIELD, Mass. – All John Stockton ever asked was a chance to prove himself against the best – whether that was his older brother Steve in the family driveway on North Superior or Michael Jordan in the NBA Finals.

Now the proof is in: his induction Friday into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

The Hall’s 50th induction class was possibly its most distinguished, headlined by the incomparable Jordan and including fellow NBA and Olympic champion David Robinson, Stockton’s longtime Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan, and C. Vivian Stringer, the only college coach in history to take teams from three schools into the NCAA Final Four.

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