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2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 ‘What is a favorite back-to-school memory?’ “Clothes shopping and connecting with old friends.” “It’s not about me, it’s about my son. It was when I put him on the bus with his lit- tle red ear fl ap cap. He was so confi dent, marching off into the world. I cried like a baby.” THE DAILY ASTORIAN // QUESTION OF THE WEEK “Meeting my Univer- sity of Idaho college friends I hadn’t seen all summer, and see- ing my fi re fi ghting buddies I’ve worked with over the years.” Jennifer Parsons, Astoria David Kaspar, Astoria Jeanine Fairchild, Astoria Cowlitz County Jail to use Seattle mayor will resign body scanner on inmates after abuse allegations Associated Press LONGVIEW, Wash. — The Cowlitz County Jail will soon become the fi rst correc- tional facility in Washington state to use a body-scanner to prevent new inmates from smuggling drugs and other contraband into the jail. The Daily News reported authorities will start using the body scanners on Tues- day. The scanners can iden- tify anything concealed under clothing or inside a person’s body cavity. Capt. Chris Moses says the scanner takes seven seconds to scan an inmate. All new arrest- ees will be scanned before joining the rest of the inmates, with a few exceptions. Moses says the scanner will be far less intrusive than a strip search, which can take 10 to 15 minutes. Moses says body scanners are being used in many jails throughout the country. Fifth accuser steps forward By GENE JOHNSON and RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press County launches breastfeeding survey The Daily Astorian Clatsop County has launched a survey intended to help the Public Health Department better aid moth- ers seeking to breastfeed. The fi ve-minute sur- vey is available at multi- ple locations: the Public Health Department; Colum- bia Memorial Hospital Pavil- ion Pediatrics and Women’s Center; Providence Seaside North Coast Clinic; North- west Regional Educational Service District offi ce; lim- ited times at Blue Scorcher Bakery and limited times at Seaside Public Library. The county is seeking data that will help iden- tify needs of breastfeeding mothers and reduce barri- ers. Oregon Health & Sci- ence University and the North Coast Breastfeeding Coalition collaborated with the county in creating the survey. FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT THURSDAY FRIDAY 49 Partly cloudy ALMANAC Cloudy; breezy in the afternoon with rain Mostly cloudy Tillamook 47/67 First Salem 49/75 Newport 48/63 Sep 27 Coos Bay 51/64 Last Oct 5 Source: Jim Todd, OMSI TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 2:52 a.m. 2:44 p.m. Low 0.2 ft. 2.6 ft. Ontario 55/72 Burns 40/65 Klamath Falls 44/67 Lakeview 43/68 Ashland 50/72 REGIONAL CITIES City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend Hi 81 78 69 74 64 82 83 74 63 65 Today Lo 44 43 53 48 51 44 51 48 48 49 W pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc Hi 66 64 67 72 66 67 73 75 63 65 Thu. Lo 37 37 52 44 50 35 46 45 47 47 W pc pc pc pc pc s s pc pc pc City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Springfi eld Vancouver Yakima Hi 71 77 72 78 73 66 73 76 73 78 Today Lo 43 51 53 51 49 50 48 48 50 48 W pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc Hi 74 70 75 73 75 69 66 74 75 76 Thu. Lo 40 45 51 48 47 47 45 46 47 44 W pc pc pc pc pc pc c pc pc pc TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER NATIONAL CITIES Hi 76 81 73 91 87 76 98 62 86 67 84 98 78 75 90 64 86 78 86 77 75 89 74 69 82 Baker 44/66 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 Tonight's Sky: Due south after sunset is Sagittarius, the Teapot. Today Lo 61 66 58 59 63 60 73 43 71 59 61 72 65 64 79 60 68 68 60 68 59 63 61 53 68 La Grande 43/65 Roseburg 51/73 Brookings 53/69 Oct 12 John Day 48/66 Bend 43/64 Medford 51/73 UNDER THE SKY High 6.3 ft. 7.9 ft. Prineville 43/68 Lebanon 49/75 Eugene 48/72 Full Pendleton 51/70 The Dalles 54/78 Portland 53/75 Sunset tonight ........................... 7:31 p.m. Sunrise Thursday ........................ 6:52 a.m. Moonrise today .................................. none Moonset today ........................... 3:06 p.m. City Atlanta Boston Chicago Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Honolulu Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Memphis Miami Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Philadelphia St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Washington, DC Times of clouds and sun 64 50 Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 49/70 SUN AND MOON Time 9:20 a.m. 8:43 p.m. SUNDAY 69 49 REGIONAL WEATHER Precipitation Tuesday ............................................ 0.00" Month to date ................................... 0.21" Normal month to date ....................... 0.72" Year to date .................................... 50.27" Normal year to date ........................ 38.82" Sep 19 71 49 Periods of sunshine Astoria through Tuesday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 68°/53° Normal high/low ........................... 68°/50° Record high ............................ 88° in 1924 Record low ............................. 38° in 1986 New SATURDAY 70 46 W pc pc pc pc pc sh s c pc r pc pc pc c pc r s pc s sh c pc pc pc sh Hi 79 82 78 87 91 76 96 60 86 76 86 89 75 85 90 81 87 78 92 80 87 80 71 72 81 Thu. Lo 65 65 62 55 66 58 71 42 74 59 65 69 64 68 78 62 72 66 70 65 65 57 59 51 65 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. 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Her rival, urban planner Cary Moon, reiterated her own call for Murray’s res- ignation, which she fi rst made months ago. ‘There would be times when I would fake sleeping because I didn’t want him touching me.’ Joseph Dyer son of Ed Murray’s first cousin, who says he was repeatedly molested by Murray over the course of a year in 1975 “Mayor Murray is doing the right thing by stepping down,” Gov. Jay Inslee said in a statement. “He has done good things for Seattle and his res- ignation will allow the city to move forward.” City Council President Bruce Harrell will become mayor upon Murray’s resigna- tion and has fi ve days to decide whether to fi ll out the remain- der of his term. If he declines, the council would appoint someone else, possibly Coun- cilman Tim Burgess, who is retiring this year. Before being elected mayor in 2013, Murray, 62, was a longtime state lawmaker who led the campaign to legalize same-sex marriage in Washing- ton state. As mayor he pushed LOTTERIES ON THE RECORD DUII • At 5:19 p.m. Saturday, Bradley Winsted, 23, of Manzanita, was arrested by the Seaside Police Department at Avenue U and Edgewood Drive and charged with driving under the infl uence of intoxicants. Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. Need a Lift? SEATTLE — Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, beset over the past fi ve months by sex abuse alle- gations, is set to resign, bring- ing an ignoble end to a lengthy political career in which he championed gay rights and bet- ter pay for workers. His announcement that he plans to resign came after The Seattle Times reported that a fi fth man — one of his cous- ins — had accused Murray of molesting him decades ago. Though he has vehemently denied all of the accusations against him, Murray, a Demo- crat, had already decided not to seek re-election. “While the allegations against me are not true, it is important that my personal issues do not affect the ability of our city government to con- duct the public’s business,” he said in a statement Tuesday. He apologized to his staff and to the city for “this pain- ful situation,” and said it had become clear that his resigna- tion was best for the city. The news left the city wait- ing to hear who would fulfi ll the remaining months in his term. The latest allegations came from Joseph Dyer, the son of Murray’s fi rst cousin, Maryel- len Sottile. Dyer told the news- paper in a story published Tues- day that he was 13 and Murray was in his early 20s when Mur- ray came to live with Dyer’s family in Medford, New York, in 1975. The two shared a bed- room, and Murray repeatedly molested him over the course of a year, Dyer said. “There would be times when I would fake sleeping because I didn’t want him touching me,” Dyer said. Dyer said the molestation stopped only after Murray was accused of abuse by a boy in a Catholic group home where Murray worked. Dyer told the newspaper his uncle persuaded the group home not to pursue charges as long as Murray left. Efforts by The Associated Press to reach Dyer were not immediately successful. Murray, who is gay, has not faced criminal charges. He denied abusing Dyer and blamed the allegation on resent- ment between their families. PUBLIC MEETINGS OBITUARY POLICY The Daily Astorian pub- lishes paid obituaries. The obit- uary can include a small photo and, for veterans, a flag sym- bol at no charge. The deadline for all obituaries is 10 a.m. the business day prior. Obituaries may be edited for spelling, proper punctua- tion and style. Death notices and upcoming services will be published at no charge. Notices must be submitted by 9 a.m. the day of publication. Obituaries and notices may be submitted online at www.dailyastorian.com/forms/ obits, by email at ewilson@ dailyastorian.com, placed via the funeral home or in person at The Daily Astorian office, 949 Exchange St. in Astoria. For more information, call 503- 325-3211, ext. 257. WEDNESDAY Clatsop County Board of Commissioners, 6 p.m., Judge Guy Boyington Building, 857 Commercial St. Astoria School Board, 6:15 p.m., study session, 7:30 p.m., regular meeting, Capt. Robert Gray School third-fl oor board- room, 785 Alameda Ave. Wickiup Water District Board, to raise the city’s minimum hourly wage to $15. Murray grew up in work- ing-class neighborhoods in and around Seattle as one of seven children in an Irish Catholic family and became one of the state’s most prominent politi- cal fi gures. As a young man, he consid- ered joining the priesthood and spent a year at a seminary in 1976 before studying sociology at the University of Portland, a private Catholic institution. Murray worked as a parale- gal with public defender law- yers in Portland before return- ing to Seattle and joining the vanguard of the gay rights movement in the 1980s, serv- ing as campaign manager for Cal Anderson, a Seattle state senator who was the state’s fi rst openly gay member. Anderson, Murray’s mentor, died in 1995. Murray failed in his bid to win Anderson’s seat, but he was appointed to fi ll the legislative seat of the state rep- resentative who won the state Senate campaign. During his 18 years as a state lawmaker, Murray was the prime sponsor of Washington’s gay marriage law, spearheaded an effort to protect LGBTQ youth in public schools, and led the state’s push to ban dis- crimination based on sexual orientation. As mayor, Murray recently fought to boost funding to address Seattle’s homelessness crisis. Before Dyer, four men had accused Murray of sexually abusing them. Delvonn Heck- ard sued the mayor in April, saying Murray had paid him for sex when Heckard was a teen. Heckard subsequently dropped the case, saying he would refi le it after Murray was out of offi ce. The mayor claimed the dropping of the lawsuit as vindication. Another man who accused Murray, his former foster son Jeff Simpson, had fi rst approached Seattle media with the allegations in 2008, when Murray was a state legislator. The Times decided at the time not to write about the allega- tions because details could not be verifi ed. This year, Oregon’s Depart- ment of Human Services dis- covered old fi les that included a child-welfare investigator’s conclusion that Murray sex- ually abused Simpson in the early 1980s. La Corte reported from Olympia, Washington. 6:30 p.m., 92648 Svensen Mar- ket Road, Svensen. 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