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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Trump moves toward a tougher
line on Israeli settlements
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is warning
Israel that constructing new settlements “may not be help-
ful” to Middle East peace efforts, shifting toward a tougher
line with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
government.
Still, the White House made clear Thursday that the Trump
administration “has not taken an official position on settle-
ment activity,” departing from previous administrations that
have considered the settlements illegitimate.
Trump has been perceived as sympathetic to the settle-
ments. Shortly before taking office, he vigorously criticized
the Obama administration for not vetoing a United Nations
Security Council measure condemning settlements.
But in a statement Thursday, the White House said, “While
we don’t believe the existence of settlements is an impediment
to peace, the construction of new settlements or the expansion
of existing settlements beyond their current borders may not
be helpful in achieving that goal.”
The White House said the president would discuss the
issue with Netanyahu when he travels to Washington later this
month. The two leaders are scheduled to meet at the White
House on Feb. 15.
AP Photo/Andrew Selsky
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown speaks during a press conference in the Capitol ceremonial office in Salem Thursday. Brown
is asking Oregon’s attorney general to bring legal action against the federal government over President Donald Trump’s
executive order on immigration.
Gov. Brown: Executive order expands
1987 immigration enforcement law
University of Bergen
Researchers from the university begin dissecting a two-
ton whale that was beached in shallow waters off Sotra, an
island west of Bergen. Terje Lislevand of the Bergen Uni-
versity says the visibly sick, 2-ton goose-beaked whale
was euthanized. Its intestine “had no food, only some
remnants of a squid’s head in addition to a thin fat layer.”
Zoologists say dead whale in
Norway full of plastic bags
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Norwegian zoologists have
found about 30 plastic bags and other plastic waste in the
stomach of a beaked whale that had beached on a southwest-
ern Norway coast.
The visibly sick, 2-ton goose-beaked whale was eutha-
nized, Terje Lislevand of Bergen University said today.
“The (whale’s) stomach was full of plastic,” Lislevand
said, adding that its intestine “had no food, only some rem-
nants of a squid’s head in addition to a thin fat layer.”
Lislevand says the non-biodegradable waste was “proba-
bly the reason” why the male whale repeatedly beached last
Saturday in shallow waters off Sotra, an island west of Ber-
gen, 200 kilometers (125 miles) northwest of the capital of
Oslo.
It size — about 20 feet — showed the whale was an adult.
The U.N. estimates that 8 million tons of plastic trash are
dumped into the world’s oceans each year, he said.
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related to the president’s execu-
tive order.
“We are carefully review-
ing legal cases around the
country and assessing how we
can best advance our effort,”
Boss said.
The Attorney General’s
Office plans to announce the
next steps in the legal process
next week, he said. Brown sent
a two-page letter to the office
asking that a lawsuit challenge
the president’s order.
The governor’s execu-
tive order expands a 1987 law
that prohibits the use of state
and local law enforcement
resources in federal immigra-
tion enforcement.
“Oregon’s unique law
has succeeded in keeping the
deportation of immigrants by
the federal government sep-
arate and distinct from the
enforcement of our state crim-
inal laws by our local police,”
said Kimberly McCullough,
ACLU of Oregon’s legisla-
tive director. “We are pleased
the governor has extended this
important state disentangle-
ment to all state agencies and
employees.”
It’s unclear how many peo-
ple headed to Oregon were
affected by Trump’s executive
order, according to the ACLU
of Oregon, which has pro-
vided legal support to airport
detainees.
A 5-month-old Iranian girl
who was scheduled to have
surgery at Oregon Health &
Science University for a heart
condition was one of those
not allowed to enter the coun-
try because of the president’s
executive order, according to a
report by KATU News.
“I find it deplorable that
an infant who was supposed
to come to Oregon to receive
much needed live-saving care
was not able to access that
care at Oregon Health & Sci-
ence University,” Brown said
Thursday.
The governor’s executive
order does the following:
• Bars state employees
from discriminating against
residents for their immigration
status.
• Prohibits the use of state
moneys, equipment or person-
nel for detecting or apprehend-
ing people solely on the basis
of their immigration status.
• Prohibits the use of state
resources to assist or facilitate
the creation of a Muslim reg-
istry, or any other registry tar-
geting a religious group.
US hiring accelerates and more
people begin looking for work
WASHINGTON — U.S. employers stepped up hiring last
month, adding a healthy 227,000 jobs, and more Americans
began looking for work, a sign that President Donald Trump
has inherited a robust job market.
January’s job growth was the best since September, and
it exceeded last year’s average monthly gain of 187,000, the
Labor Department said today .
The unemployment rate ticked up to a still-low 4.8 per-
cent from 4.7 percent in December. But the rate rose for an
encouraging reason: More Americans started looking for
work, though not all of them found jobs immediately. The pro-
portion of adults who are either working or looking for work
reached its highest point since September.
Today’s report depicted an American job market that is
generating consistently solid hiring and encouraging more
people to start looking for work. Nearly a half-million peo-
ple who weren’t previously job-hunting began doing so in
January.
If employers keep hiring, even more Americans could be
drawn into the job market.
“The increase in the unemployment rate came about from
both more people working and more people looking for work
— a positive,” said Gus Faucher, an economist at PNC.
Yet some of the economy’s softness remains: Average
hourly wages — a weak spot since the Great Recession ended
7½ years ago — barely rose last month. And the number of
people working part time who would prefer full-time work
rose.
Still, even the sluggish wage gain contains a silver lining:
It suggests that employers are attracting qualified job seekers
who were previously on the sidelines. If employers regarded
those people as unemployable, they would likely have to fur-
ther raise pay to attract people who already have jobs.
Europeans ask ‘Who’s 2nd?’
after Trump slogan ‘America 1st’
BERLIN — The Dutch started it with a humorous video
highlighting their “orange” history and lax tax rules. Now
other European countries are getting in on the act.
Broadcasters across the continent are publishing satiri-
cal videos directed at President Donald Trump, asking for
their country to be second if he keeps insisting on “America
first.”
Switzerland’s public broadcaster SRF touted its “big fat
mountains” and plentiful gold reserves in its pitch to Trump,
who used to host “The Apprentice” reality show.
A video by Portugal’s RTP television noted the country’s
“huge, enormous beaches. You don’t even have to take your
spray tan.”
Several videos took more serious satirical digs, with an
entry from German public broadcaster ZDF claiming that
Adolf Hitler “made Germany great again.”
German satirist Jan Boehmermann, who last year made
headlines for reading a lewd poem about Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan on air — prompting an international
incident — invited other broadcasters to join the effort.
The Daily Astorian/File Photo
The former Cafe Uniontown has been sold to the own-
ers of the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Astoria.
Landmark: ‘Each
time I sold it, people
failed to perform’
The Daily Astorian/File Photo
John Lindstrom, owner of the Danish Maid Bakery, frosts
a heart-shaped, raspberry-filled cake in 2004.
Bakery: Sweet shop had
been closed since 2015
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Before Lindstrom’s
“It was called Jones’ Bak-
ery,” John Lindstrom said
during a 2003 interview. “Har-
old Jones, he’s the one that
really got it going. Carl Max-
well, he bought it from Harold
Jones … His wife was an actual
Danish maid — not m-a-d-e. A
lot of people, they really don’t
understand that.”
John Lindstrom originally
worked in the bakery while
attending Astoria High School.
He said that after returning
from duty, there were no jobs
available. He worked at Bum-
ble Bee Seafoods, but said he
didn’t like the job.
Then an assistant baker
position at Schoen’s Danish
Maid opened up in 1974. John
Lindstrom filled the position
until he and Jan Lindstrom,
neither of any Danish lineage,
bought the business Jan. 1,
1986, and opened Lindstrom’s
Danish Maid Bakery.
The shop had been closed
since September 2015, after
John Lindstrom had a leg
amputated. Friends and local
businesses raised more than
$27,000 to help the family with
medical expenses. He died in
October at 64 years old.
But Lindstrom’s Danish
Maid wasn’t Astoria’s only his-
toric bakery. Home Bakery,
opened in 1910, still operates
on Marine Drive in Uppertown
under the same Tilander family
ownership lineage.
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restaurant there until 1980.
She founded Cafe Union-
town in 1982.
Wilkins ran Cafe Union-
town until 2007, but the prop-
erty has since struggled to
hold tenants. A four-leaf clo-
ver on the entrance canopy
still looks out at traffic on
Marine Drive, as do the green
and gold accents painted on by
the owners of the short-lived
Workman’s Irish Pub. The pub
held a dry soft opening in June
and was ultimately denied a
liquor license by the state.
Wilkins, on his fourth
round selling the building,
said he’s happy to have a sta-
ble buyer. “Each time I sold it,
the people failed to perform,
and I had to take it back,” he
said.
A block or two west on
Marine Drive is Mary Todd’s
Workers Tavern, another
Uniontown landmark up for
sale. The business and build-
ing at 283 W. Marine Drive
are listed for $595,000 on the
Clatsop Association of Real-
tors website.
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