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pair of U.S. robot builders have a 15-foot-tall contender they hope will face aJapanese opponent soon.A3
By Joseph Ditzler
The company, based in Port- bay and fueling station. The
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land and the largest manufac-
improvements will add 30 new
turer of heavy-duty trucks in North America, plans to up-
jobs at the 87-acre facility. While initial news of the
ty agreed to exempt Daimler
ica has made official its decision to invest $18 million into an up-
grade its truck test track in Ma-
truck-testing facility surfaced
buildings and equipment at the facility, which is located in a ru-
By Thad Moore
ral enterprise zone. SeeDaimler /A5
When self-driving cars begin zipping through Virginia
Daimler Trucks North Amer-
D.C.'s Grant Memorial Manydon’teven know it exists. As it's restored, a look at the tortured artist who cre-
show of the Cascades. The city and Jefferson Coun-
rules step into the back seat
from payment of taxes on its
grade of its research and devel- dras and add several associated several months ago, Daimler opment facility near the Madras structures, such as maintenance Trucks North America made it Airport. and office buildings, truck wash official Friday night at the Air-
The Washington Post
this year, they won t
ated it.A6
need any special registration, and the testers sitting behind
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the wheel won't need
hunters respond to the recent furor over the death of afamous lion.D1
a special license. In the eyes of the law, they' ll be regular cars. Virginia is one of
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And a Wed exclusiveU.S. judges questioning harsh justice in a newera. bendbnllntin.cnm/extras
Bend woman launches The Barge, selling frozen treats on the Deschutes River
a handful of states
seeking to attract the potentially lucrative business of de-
veloping self-driving cars. And along with a few other states, its lawmakers and reg-
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ulators are inclined
to welcome the industry — and get out of the way. California, Florida, Michigan and
EDITOR'5CHOICE
Poland joins Nazi treasure train hunt
Nevada and the
District of Columbia have enacted laws to
legalize automated vehicles, according to the National Con-
ference of State Legislatures. Of those, two have set out de-
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tailed regulations. In states such as Virginia and Texas, however, self-dri ving carscan
By Carol J. Williams Los Ange(es Times
hit the roadways
For decades the whispers persisted among the factory workers and lumberjacks of southwest Poland
thanks to a simple argument: Doing so is legal because the law doesn't say otherwise.
that a Nazi train laden with
"Automated ve-
plundered gold, jewels and artworks had been hidden beneath the Owl Moun-
hicles are probably legal," said Bryant
tains since the waning days
Walker Smith, a
of World War II. Legend had it that the
Joe Kline l The Bulletin
University of South Carolina law profes-
valuables, stolen mainly
Amy Williams, top, at left in red inflatable, and Tiffany Libby call out to passers-by in inner tubes that they' re selling ice cream sandwich-
from Polish Jews who had been dispatched to concen-
es and bars from Libby's business, The Barge, on the Deschutes River near Riverbend Park onFriday afternoon. Friday was the first day
helped advance
on the river for The Barge, and Libby said she plans to continue selling ice cream on Fridays and Saturdays through Sept. 19.
that interpretation. "That is the default
sor whose research
tration camps, were hastily loadedintoan armored military transport in early
By Scott Hammers
1945 and shipped west-
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ward from the German
There's now good reason to bring along a wallet when floating or paddling on the De-
city of Breslau to prevent the loot from falling into the hands of the advancing
schutes River.
The Barge is the creation of Tiffany Libby, a Bend resident
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last spring. She's spent the last few months refining her plan
next year. If so, she hopes to
and meeting with representa-
ing campaign over the winter to build a more robust craft. For now, however, The Barge use anidenticalbackup. Leach› is a four-person floatie, outfites latched onto their ankles, ted with items borrowed from stiff winds threatened to blow
mount a Kickstarter fundrais-
tives of the Bend Park & Recre-
rulers who reportedly explored the labyrinth of tun-
cream bars, ice cream sand-
ing at the next four weekends
nels and bunkers under the Walbrzych region found nothing. But a claim by two treasure hunters last week to
wiches and fruit bars from an as a test period, to determine inflatable floatie anchored near whether there's sufficient interthe edge of the river. estforan expanded operation
Historians have long dismissed the story as folkloric, and Communist-era
ation District, Oregon Marine Board and others to be sure
there were no legal obstacles to the business. Libby, 30, is look-
That's the view
tent provides shade. Friday, Libby and friend Amy Williams got off to a bumpy start. The patches applied to their primary floatie the night before apparently failed to take, forcing them to
who came up with the idea late
Bend's first aquatic ice cream shop, The Barge, embarked on its maiden voyage Friday, launching from Riverbend Park to sell organic ice
Soviet Red Army.
assumption."
See video of TheBarge's first day:bnndbnlletin.corn
Google took this summer when it put driverless, retrofit› ted Lexus SUVs on the road in Austin, Texas, the first time
the tech giant has run tests outside of California. Texas
friends. The treats are packed
them ashore, and stand-up pad-
on dry ice in ordinary picnic coolers, theanchor offalarger fishing boat keeps the floatie in place, and the rain fly from a
dleboarders bemoaned their
transportation officials say they are not
inability to eat ice cream while
involved with the
paddling upstream.
project.
See Float /A5
SeeCar /A4
have located an armored
train through ground-penetrating radar has swept the story from myth to giddy expectation after a top Polish cultural official's decla-
Nations joust over Arctic wealth; it may beyears away
ration of virtual certainty
By David J. Lynch
on the train's existence and the Warsaw government's
Bloomberg News
plan to collaborate with the
as melting Arctic glaciers
purported finders. SeeTreasure/A5
threaten to swamp shorelines,
Guard officer and now an ad-
nations from Russia to the
viser at Catalyst Maritime. President Barack Obama
WASHINGTON — Even
United States are betting that
warming temperatures also will unlock trillions of dollars
Correction In a story headlined "Busy season: 1 coach, 3youth soccer teams," which appeared Friday, Aug. 28 onPageA1, Rich Ekman's namewas spelled incorrectly. The Bulletin regrets the error.
in new wealth.
"It is potentially the big-
gest strategic opportunity in America since the Louisiana Purchase in 1803," said Scott Borgerson, a former Coast
begins a three-day Alaska trip Monday to underscore the urgency of combating climate change. His visit comes as the
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ration for Arctic oil and gas, while new trade routes across trade routes when the ice cubic feet of natural gas that the top of the world are falling melts puts it at the crossroads await discovery in the Arctic, short of expectations. "Arctic development is a lot of economics and geopolitics. with the vast majority located Already, the polar economic offshore, according to a 2008 slower than people thought," dawn includes server farms U.S. Geological Survey report. says Malte Humpert, execfor companies such as FaceAny big financial payoff, utive director of the Arctic book andGoogle,w hich enjoy however, is probably decades Institute, a Washington-based lower cooling costs in the away. Falling commodity policy group. north. Possible future rewards pricesare discouraging explo› SeeArctic /A4 Arctic's potential for oil and
include an estimated 90 billion
gas production and shorter
barrels of oil and 1.7 trillion
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