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A Look Back
This Week
On April 18, 1775, Paul Re-
vere and Williams Dawes
rode out at night to warn the
Patriots that the British were
on their way to Concord to
destroy arms ... April 19,
1775, in Lexington, Mass.,
the Minutemen lost eight
men, but on their return from
Concord, the British sus-
tained 273 casualties ... April
15, 1861, President Abraham
Lincoln issued a call for
75,000 volunteers to join the
Army ... April 19, 1861, Presi-
dent Lincoln blockaded
Southern seaports, cutting off
vital exports and aid ... April
14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth
shot and fatally wounded
President Lincoln ... April 18,
1865, General J.E. Johnston
surrendered 31,200 troops to
General Sherman at Durham
Station, N.C. ... April 14,
1894, the first public showing
of Thomas Edison's kineto-
scope (moving pictures) took
place ... April 18-19, 1906, a
deva st at i ng eart hquak e
rocked San Francisco, caus-
ing 503 deaths and $350 mil-
lion in damages ... April 15,
1920, radicals Nicola Sacco
and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
were accused of killing two
men in a Massachusetts pay-
roll holdup ... April 17, 1961,
Cuban exiles, trained, armed
and directed by the U.S., in-
vaded the Bay of Pigs, at-
tempting to overthrow the
regime of Premier Fidel Cas-
tro, but they were unsuccess-
ful ... April 18, 1978, the U.S.
Senate voted to turn over the
Panama Canal to Panama,
Dec. 31, 1999 ... April 17,
1993, a federal jury found two
Los Angeles police officers
guilty and two not guilty of
violating the civil rights of mo-
torist Rodney King in a 1991
beating incident ... April 19,
1993, federal agents raided
the Branch Davidian com-
pound at Waco, Texas, burn-
ing it down and causing the
deaths of over 80 cult mem-
bers ... April 19, 1995, a truck
bomb exploded outside the
Murrah Federal Office Build-
ing in Oklahoma City, killing
168 people ... April 14, 1997,
James McDougal, a former
partner with then-Governor
Bill Clinton in the Whitewater
Development Corp., was sen-
tenced to three years in
prison for seeking to enrich
himself with fraudulent
loans ... April 20, 1999, Eric
Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold,
17, killed 12 fellow students
and a teacher at Columbine
High School in Littleton, Colo.
(c) 2003 DBR Media, Inc.
Online smokes
sold illegally
to 14 year old
Attorney General Hardy
Myers filed lawsuits against
three Internet tobacco sellers
for allegedly selling cigarettes
to a 14-year-old minor as part
of an undercover sting in con-
junction with the Attorneys
General of California and
Washington.
Named in the suits filed in
Marion County Circuit Court
are D. C., Inc. of Fenton, Mo.,
doing business in Oregon as
dirtcheapcig.com; Dirt Cheap
Cigarettes, Cyco.Net, Inc. of
Albuquerque, N.M.; and eS-
mokes, Inc. of Tampa, Fla.
“Our children must be
protected from these unscru-
pulous companies that take
advantage of their innocence
and unawareness of the health
risks in using tobacco prod-
ucts,” Myers said.
Working with a DOJ in-
vestigator in February, a 14-
year-old minor placed an
Internet sales order for one
carton of cigarettes from each
of the Internet websites used
by the defendants. The orders
were placed using the child’s
mother’s name and credit
card.
The products were deliv-
ered through the mail or by
United Parcel Service a week
later.
The cigarettes were left at
the child’s home without re-
quiring an adult’s signature.
Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, April 16, 2003