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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
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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
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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.
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Horace Leslie McFarland
Klamath Falls
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Gearhart
March 25, 1924 — Nov. 29, 2017
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NATIONAL CITIES
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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
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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.
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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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