2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2017 Local offices close for Christmas The Daily Astorian In observance of Christ- mas Day on Monday, all fed- eral and state offices and ser- vices are closed. Clatsop County offices are closed Fri- day and Monday. Astoria City Hall is closing at noon today, and is closed Monday. Gear- hart and Seaside city halls are closed Monday. Cannon Beach and Warrenton city halls are closed Monday and Tuesday. All U.S. post offices are closed Monday, and there is no mail delivery. Astoria, Jewell, Knappa, Warrenton/Hammond, Sea- side (including Cannon Beach and Gearhart schools) and Ocean Beach School District schools and Clatsop Commu- nity College are closed for winter break. The Astoria Library is closed Monday. The Sea- side Library is closed Satur- day and Monday, but open on Sunday. The Warrenton Library is closed Monday and Tuesday. All Timberland libraries in Washington state, including Ilwaco, Ocean Park and Naselle, are closed Satur- day through Monday. The Port of Astoria offices and services are closed today and Monday. The transfer station is closed, and there is no garbage Train crew not using electronic devices before deadly crash collection Monday through Recology Western Oregon (covering Astoria, Seaside, Gearhart and Cannon Beach); collection is a day late for the rest of the week. Peninsula Sanitation (covering the Long Beach, Washington, Penin- sula) and Warrenton garbage collection are closed on Mon- day; customers with normal Monday service will have their garbage picked up on Tuesday. The transfer stations at Recology Western Oregon and Peninsula Sanitation are closed Monday. The Sunset Pool and the Astoria Aquatic Center are closed Sunday and Monday. The Clatsop County Her- itage Museum, Oregon Film Museum, Flavel House and Carriage House are closed Sunday and Monday. The Uppertown Firefighters’ Museum is closed for the win- ter. Capt. Gray’s Port of Play and Lil’ Sprouts are closed Saturday through Tuesday. Fort Clatsop and the Colum- bia River Maritime Museum are closed Monday. The Sea- side Museum is closed Sun- day and Monday. Sunset Empire Trans- portation (“The Bus”) is not running. The Daily Astorian offices are closed Monday, and there is no newspaper. By PHUONG LE Associated Press SEATTLE — Federal investigators say video aboard the Amtrak train that derailed in Washington state shows crews weren’t using personal electronic devices and that the engineer remarked about the speed six seconds before the train went off the tracks south of Tacoma, killing three people. The National Transporta- tion Safety Board also said Friday that the inward-fac- ing video with audio showed it did not appear that the engi- neer placed the brake han- dle in the emergency braking mode. The train was recorded at 78 mph — more than double the posted speed limit. The train derailment Mon- day spilled cars onto the high- way and closed the south- bound lanes of the state’s main north-south arterial. Federal investigators try- ing to determine the cause of the wreck say their full inves- tigation could take more than a year. Nearly 300 people have died in train crashes that could have been prevented if rail- roads across the U.S. imple- mented critical speed-control FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT SATURDAY SUNDAY 34 44 33 Evening rain; otherwise, mostly cloudy Mostly sunny and chilly MONDAY 42 37 Chilly with periods of rain TUESDAY 45 33 44 31 Mostly cloudy with a bit of rain Mostly cloudy with a shower AP Photo/Elaine Thompson The engine from an Amtrak train crash is checked by workers in DuPont, Wash. technology that federal safety investigators have been push- ing for close to five decades, according to rail crash data obtained by The Associated Press. Georgia man attempts to rob Astoria gas station By JACK HEFFERNAN The Daily Astorian ALMANAC REGIONAL WEATHER Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 34/44 Astoria through Thursday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 43°/26° Normal high/low ........................... 48°/36° Record high ............................ 60° in 1980 Record low ............................... 6° in 1990 Tillamook 37/43 Precipitation Thursday .......................................... 0.00" Month to date ................................... 3.44" Normal month to date ....................... 6.76" Year to date .................................... 79.75" Normal year to date ........................ 64.13" Newport 41/47 Dec 26 Last Jan 1 New Jan 8 TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks High 7.9 ft. 8.2 ft. Time 10:21 a.m. 10:35 p.m. Low 3.4 ft. 0.6 ft. 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 Hi 63 35 40 44 35 40 50 22 80 53 37 55 66 64 84 62 79 49 37 52 47 40 56 41 57 Today Lo 58 33 26 19 18 32 28 5 70 34 20 35 43 46 70 53 65 46 24 47 32 31 42 30 50 Horace Leslie McFarland Klamath Falls 18/40 Gearhart March 25, 1924 — Nov. 29, 2017 Lakeview 19/39 Ashland 28/46 City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend Hi 34 43 49 41 45 39 43 40 46 49 Today Lo 21 23 40 33 35 18 27 37 41 39 W sn sn pc c sh pc pc c sh pc Hi 33 31 53 45 44 40 45 43 47 52 Sat. Lo 11 23 43 30 36 25 29 33 38 39 W sn s pc s s s pc s pc pc City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Springfi eld Vancouver Yakima Hi 40 36 40 40 43 45 28 42 40 37 Today Lo 26 21 35 36 36 35 13 34 35 22 W pc sn sn pc pc sh c c sn sn Hi 40 28 41 44 45 44 22 45 40 35 Sat. Lo W 24 s 15 s 32 s 37 pc 31 s 35 s 9 s 33 s 32 s 20 s TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER NATIONAL CITIES W c sn sh pc c sh s pc s sh pc s s r s r c c c c sh c s c c Hi 68 40 34 38 29 38 57 13 81 39 37 59 70 48 83 55 69 53 47 59 43 40 57 40 64 Sat. Lo 45 33 20 11 17 26 34 6 71 24 19 40 50 35 66 36 49 40 24 38 25 25 43 29 41 bean-bag shotgun at him as he refused to show his hands and was holding an object in his pocket. Once the officer warned him he would be hit with a bean bag, he surrendered, and the object turned out to be a silver cellphone. Brandon Denmark, 24, of Marietta, Georgia, was arrested and charged with sec- ond-degree robbery, third-de- gree theft and second-degree disorderly conduct. Burns 20/34 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 Source: Jim Todd, OMSI with a cloth covering his face. Earlier, the man allegedly gave an employee at the store a rob- bery note, asked for money and clutched what appeared to be a weapon in his pocket. The employee then grabbed a knife and refused to hand him money. The man then allegedly swiped a candy bar and left. After finding him in the park- ing lot, one officer pointed a Ontario 30/37 REGIONAL CITIES Tonight's Sky: At 12:09 p.m. today, the sun will be at its lowest altitude of 21 degrees above the southern horizon for the year. A Georgia man was arrested after allegedly attempting to rob a convenience store at the 76 gas station on Marine Drive on Thursday night. Astoria police responded to the station just before 9:30 p.m. for what was originally reported as a theft. They found a man in a nearby parking lot Roseburg 36/44 Brookings 39/53 Jan 16 Baker 21/33 John Day 25/30 Bend 23/31 Medford 27/45 UNDER THE SKY Time 4:46 a.m. 3:49 p.m. Prineville 24/32 Lebanon 35/45 Eugene 33/45 Sunset tonight ........................... 4:33 p.m. Sunrise Saturday ........................ 7:56 a.m. Coos Bay Moonrise today ......................... 10:46 a.m. 38/51 Moonset today ........................... 8:58 p.m. Full La Grande 20/26 Salem 36/45 SUN AND MOON First Pendleton 21/28 The Dalles 32/37 Portland 35/41 But despite overwhelming evidence it could save lives, Congress extended the dead- lines for railroads to imple- ment so-called positive train control for years. All the while, new high- speed train routes continue to spring into operation with- out the technology, includ- ing the new route involved in the Amtrak crash south of Tacoma and one in Florida that’s expected to start service in the coming weeks. Data that the National Transportation Safety Board provided to AP shows the crashes that the agency says could have been prevented by positive train control have led to 298 deaths, 6,763 inju- ries and nearly $385 million in property damage. Washington Gov. Jay Ins- lee said Amtrak had com- mitted to trying to ensure the technology will be in place statewide before the Dec. 31, 2018 deadline. Amtrak also offered to pay all costs associated with deadly train derailment near Tacoma, as well as medical and other expenses of the victims, Ins- lee said. Washington trans- portation officials said pas- senger service along the rail line where the Amtrak train derailed won’t resume service until the advanced safety sys- tems are in place. Associated Press writ- ers Michael Balsamo and Michael Sisak contributed to this report. Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W r r pc sn c c s pc pc sn pc pc pc r pc r r r c r sn sn pc s sh Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. Leslie McFarland, of Gearhart, Oregon, as the secretary of the Seaside Moose Lodge for passed away at home on Nov. 29, 2017, of lung 20 years. He was also an active member of the cancer at the age of 93. He was born in Pal- American Legion. He will be remembered for myra, Missouri, to Roy and Mattie McFarland his unwavering help to anyone who needed a hand. on March 25, 1924. Les is survived by his daughter, The youngest of seven, he lived Susan Weston; his stepson, David in Palmyra on the farm until enter- Gassner (Marilyn); his stepdaugh- ing the Army during World War II, ter, Margaret Christenson (James); where he was deployed to Europe numerous grandchildren and as a truck driver. Upon his discharge great-grandchildren; as well as many in 1946, he joined two of his broth- ers in Portland working construction, nieces, nephews and great-nieces and and in 1947 came to Seaside, where great-nephews. He is preceded in he drove a log truck for the next 40 death by his wife, Loretta, in 2013; years. his six brothers and sisters; and his He met his wife, Loretta, in Sea- Leslie McFarland stepson, William. side where she worked in her moth- A memorial service and pilgrim er’s restaurant and ice cream parlor, ceremony will be held at the Astoria that is now the Bridge Tender on Broadway. Moose Lodge, 420 17th St., Astoria, Oregon, They married in 1950, and bought their home followed by a celebration of his life, at 1 p.m. near Gearhart, where they raised their family on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018, to which all of his friends are invited to attend. and remained the rest of their lives. Please visit the online guest book at Les spent many years as a volunteer fire- man with the Gearhart Fire Department. He also hughes-ransom.com/obituary and facebook. pitched for the men’s fast-pitch softball team com/hughesransommortuary to leave a com- and collected many bowling trophies. He was ment or share a memory. Funeral services are in the care of a member of the Moose Lodge for almost 70 years, going through the chairs, receiving the Hughes-Ransom Mortuary and Crematory in Pilgrim Degree of Merit in 1980, and serving Astoria and Seaside. 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