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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
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Hi
66
64
67
72
66
67
73
75
63
65
Thu.
Lo
37
37
52
44
50
35
46
45
47
47
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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
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48
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Hi
74
70
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75
69
66
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Lo
40
45
51
48
47
47
45
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47
44
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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
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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
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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray
will resign after sexual
abuse allegations.
He initially told the Times
he would not resign, but eventu-
ally did so as pressure mounted
Tuesday.
Former U.S. Attorney Jenny
Durkan, who is vying to suc-
ceed him, called for Murray
to step down and removed his
endorsement from her cam-
paign website. 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
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was arrested by the Seaside Police Department at Avenue U and
Edgewood Drive and charged with driving under the infl uence
of intoxicants.
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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.
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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.
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