2A — THE OBSERVER
TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2020
STATE/REGIONAL
DAILY
PLANNER
Salem prison
now is site of
state’s biggest
coronavirus
outbreak
TODAY
Today is Tuesday, May 26,
the 147th day of 2020. There
are 219 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On May 26, 1981, 14
people were killed when a
Marine jet crashed onto the
fl ight deck of the aircraft car-
rier USS Nimitz off Florida.
ON THIS DATE
In 1864, President Abra-
ham Lincoln signed a mea-
sure creating the Montana
Territory.
In 1868, the impeachment
trial of President Andrew
Johnson ended with his
acquittal on the remaining
charges.
In 1938, the House
Un-American Activities
Committee was established
by Congress.
In 1940, Operation
Dynamo, the evacuation of
some 338,000 Allied troops
from Dunkirk, France, began
during World War II.
In 1972, President Richard
M. Nixon and Soviet leader
Leonid Brezhnev signed the
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in
Moscow. (The U.S. withdrew
from the treaty in 2002.)
In 1994, Michael Jackson
and Lisa Marie Presley were
married in the Dominican
Republic. (The marriage,
however, ended in 1996.)
In 1998, the U.S. Supreme
Court made it far more
diffi cult for police to be sued
by people hurt during high-
speed chases.
In 2004, nearly a decade
after the Oklahoma City
bombing, Terry Nichols was
found guilty of 161 state
murder charges for helping
carry out the attack. (Nichols
later received 161 consecu-
tive life sentences.)
In 2009, California’s
Supreme Court upheld the
Proposition 8 gay marriage
ban but said the 18,000
same-sex weddings that had
taken place before the prohi-
bition passed were still valid.
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TODAY’S QUOTE
“I am never afraid of what
I know.”
— Anna Sewell, English
author (1820-1878)
Photos by Ellen Morris Bishop/EO Media Group
Cars fi lled with Enterprise High School seniors and their families park around the school’s track Saturday for gradua-
tion in order to maintain social distancing regulations due to the coronavirus pandemic. Most people brought chairs
and/or a ground cloth so they could sit outside their vehicle and enjoy the event. One family brought a small sofa.
Enterprise High School graduates 34 seniors
Ellen Morris Bishop
EO Media Group
ENTERPRISE — After
being left alone and seem-
ingly abandoned since
March, Enterprise High
School’s track and athletic
fi eld got a real workout
Saturday afternoon in
the form of the school’s
graduation. Thirty-four
seniors received diplomas,
including three as vale-
dictorians and two as
salutatorians.
The outdoor ceremony
went off without a hitch.
Clouds that seemed to
threaten never spilled a
drop.
The ceremony was stu-
dent-centered. Students
gave the speeches and led
the songs and their slide
show wowed the audience
— who used their phones
to watch it stream on Face-
book midway through the
event.
Graduation began with
an entry procession of
vehicles, each bearing a
student and their imme-
diate family. Kevin
McCadden’s Corvette
served as the pace car,
leading the alphabetically
organized procession onto
the high school track and
parking them around the
periphery of the fi eld while
the standard graduation
entry of “Pomp and Cir-
EO Media Group
BEND — Four men
from Oregon were killed
during World War II in one
of the deadliest attacks at
sea in U.S. history.
The HMT Rohna, a
British transport ship car-
rying American soldiers,
was hit Thanksgiving Day
1943 by a German mis-
sile off the coast of North
Africa. It killed 1,015
American troops, including
the four men from Oregon.
The 966 survivors were
ordered to remain silent
or face court-martial, and
the incident remained clas-
sifi ed long after the war,
according to Jack Ballo,
a New Jersey-based fi lm-
maker who is documenting
the secrecy around the
attack for his fi lm “Rohna:
Classifi ed.”
On Memorial Day, as
Enterprise High School co-valedictorian Anna Moholt
delivers her address Saturday during the school’s grad-
uation ceremony.
cumstance” played over the
loudspeakers.
Principal Blake Carlsen
began the ceremony with
a brief welcome, then class
president and co-valedicto-
rian Tishrei Movich-Fields
followed with another wel-
come. She and fellow vale-
dictorians Natalie Gold-
smith and Anna Moholt
each addressed the crowd.
Co-salutatorian Austyn
Duncan focused her speech
on the curveballs that life
throws — you never know
how many curveballs you
are going to face.
“Actually,” she said,
“the idea of the future just
kind of terrifi es me in gen-
eral. The amazing thing is
that not all of the curve-
balls that life throws at you
are bad.”
The senior class’ other
salutatorian, Foster Hobbs,
turned his attention to the
future.
“Today,” he said, “the
class of 2020 is stepping
out into a world full of con-
fusion, distrust and dark-
ness. A world where we
are farther apart than at
any time in human history.
Searchers use cellphone data to
rescue lost climber on Mount Hood
Associated Press
PORTLAND—
Searchers rescued a lost
climber on Mount Hood
by tracking his phone data,
offi cials say.
The crew found
31-year-old Nicolas David
Larson of Sunriver early
Saturday morning. He
was taken to a nearby
hospital for treatment of
hypothermia.
Larson was reported
Filmmaker searching
for Oregon families of
victims in WWII att ack
By Kyle Spurr
Maximum security
prison not designed
for social distancing

families remember their
loved ones killed serving
in the U.S. military, Ballo
is searching for relatives of
the soldiers killed on the
HMT Rohna. He hopes to
possibly offer some closure.
Most of the living rela-
tives are either second- or
third-generation descen-
dants of the soldiers and
likely have no idea how
they were killed, Ballo said.
Ballo also wants to learn
more about the soldiers. He
has only brief descriptions
from military records. He
has the name and city or
county of the Oregon sol-
diers, but no other details.
The four Oregon sol-
diers were: Elmer J. Laine
of Astoria, Norman J.
Gillespie of Aumsville,
James R. Webb of Uma-
tilla County, and Warren
See, Search/Page 3A
missing Friday evening by
a friend who had received
text messages from him,
Sgt. Marcus Mendoza with
the Clackamas County
Sheriff’s Offi ce said. The
lost climber called 911
himself a short time later.
Larson said he had reached
the summit of Mount Hood
on Friday, but became lost
in whiteout conditions. He
had protein bars but no
water, and told dispatchers
his cellphone battery was
about to run out.
Searchers looked
through the night and
found Larson at about
6,200 feet on the west side
of Mount Hood around
2 a.m. About 30 people
participated in the rescue,
including crews from Port-
land Mountain Rescue,
the Clackamas County
Sheriff’s Offi ce and other
groups.
It seems as though excite-
ment and wonder are grad-
ually disappearing. What
can we do to fi x this? My
request to us all: Take
time to practice happi-
ness and compassion. We
have nothing to lose by
being happy and kind, but
we lose everything if we
decide not to.”
Superintendent Erika
Pinkerton presented the
Enterprise High School
class of 2020 their
diplomas, saying, “You
are all full of excellence,
you are full of honor, and
you are full of humble-
ness. I’m extremely proud
of each and every one of
you and your accomplish-
ments. I want to congrat-
ulate all of you. I’m happy
to recommend that the stu-
dents around the track have
earned every component to
the certifi cate of diploma
and the great state of
Oregon. I proudly present
to you the Enterprise High
School class of 2020.”
Following the award of
diplomas, the Enterprise
police and fi re depart-
ment escorted the caval-
cade of cars, trucks, stu-
dents and families through
Enterprise in the tradi-
tional celebratory horn-
honking and siren-blasting
parade through downtown
Enterprise.
By Noelle Crombie
The Oregonian/OregonLive via AP
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SALEM — The number
of coronavirus cases con-
tinues to rise at the Oregon
State Penitentiary, which
this week became the
source of the single largest
known outbreak of the
virus in the state.
On Friday, the Oregon
Department of Corrections
said a total of 141 people at
the prison — 115 inmates
and 26 employees — have
tested positive. A south-
east Portland nursing home
is the source of the state’s
second largest outbreak.
Four inmates at the max-
imum-security prison in
Salem have been treated for
the disease at local hospi-
tals, including one man who
died Wednesday. It was
the fi rst inmate death from
coronavirus in Oregon.
The man had been trans-
ferred May 18 to Salem
Hospital and was tested
that day. May 19, the results
confi rmed he had the virus.
He died the next day.
Like the vast majority
of people who have died
from the illness in Oregon,
the man had an underlying
health condition, prison
offi cials said. Citing the
confi dentiality, the state
declined to identify the
man, saying only that he
was between 50 and 60
years old.
Built in 1866, the state
penitentiary, a hulking
complex of imposing cell-
blocks, was not designed
with a pandemic in mind .
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