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THE ASTORIAN • SATuRdAy, July 6, 2019
OBITUARIES
Shirley Elaine (Hart) Turman
Astoria
June 13, 1941 — June 20, 2019
Shirley Elaine (Hart) Turman, 78, devoted of Chandler, Arizona, son in-law John Peart,
wife, mother and grandma, passed away and grandchildren Devin Jasper, Mark Peart
Thursday, June 20, 2019, in Astoria, Ore- and Kelly Peart; and great-grandchildren
gon, surrounded by the love of her
Starla and Lilli Loomis, Alexis
Joyner, Hannah and Nevaeh Cur-
family.
tis, Maddy Aiken, Tommy Shaw,
Shirley was born in Akron,
Kiah Hughes and Landon and Lin-
Ohio, on June 13, 1941. Her par-
coln Houck.
ents moved the family to Southern
She loved spending time with
California in 1943, where she was
“her girls,” and together with Ben,
raised and met Ben Turman, the
loved traveling to California to
love of her life, in 1956.
visit family and go to her favorite
They were engaged the day of
magical place, Disneyland. They
her high school graduation from
also had many wonderful adven-
Southgate High School in 1959,
Shirley Turman
tures to Hawaii and taking cruises.
and married a year later on June
She enjoyed quilting, shopping,
18, 1960.
In November 1972, they moved their fam- watching movies, attending local Astoria
ily to the great Pacific Northwest’s Astoria, events, including the Astoria Scandinavian
Oregon. Shirley retired from The Daily Asto- Midsummer Festival (she loved the Dan-
ish aebleskivers and Swedish meatballs), the
rian in 1998 after 23 years of employment.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Astoria-Warrenton Crab, Seafood and Wine
Murlin and Esther Hart, and her brother, Festival and walking the Astoria Sunday
Market.
Roger Hart.
She was the rock of our family, a second
She is survived by her husband, Ben,
of Astoria, Oregon; three daughters, and mom to many, and one of the kindest women
numerous grand and great-grandchildren: you could ever know.
In honor of this amazing woman, please
Becky Worrell, of Astoria, Oregon, (part-
ner Geoff Poole) and grandchildren Kevin join us for a celebration of life to be held Sat-
Loomis, Kristin Loomis, Katie Loomis, Nick urday, Aug. 17, from 12 to 4 p.m. in the Coho
Worrell and Amber Worrell; Sherry Curtis, Room, on the second floor of the Duncan
of Chandler, Arizona, son in-law Jeff Curtis, Law Building, at the Oregon State Univer-
and grandson Jeromy Rowland and his wife, sity Seafood Center, located at 2021 Marine
Rachel, of Seattle, Washington; Susan Peart, Drive in Astoria, Oregon.
AP Photo/Evan Vucci
President Donald Trump talks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before
departing for his Bedminster, N.J., golf club on Friday.
Trump to pursue
citizenship question
on the 2020 Census
Legal path is
still unclear
By MARK SHERMAN
and JILL COLVIN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
Justice Department said Fri-
day it will continue to look
for legal grounds to force
the inclusion of a citizen-
ship question on the 2020
Census, hours after Presi-
dent Donald Trump said he
is “very seriously” consider-
ing an executive order to get
the question on the form.
Trump said his adminis-
tration is exploring a num-
ber of legal options, but the
Justice Department did not
say exactly what options it
has now that the Supreme
Court has for now barred the
question.
The government has
already begun the process of
printing the census question-
naire without that question.
The
administration’s
focus on asking broadly
about citizenship for the first
time since 1950 reflects the
enormous political stakes
and potential costs in the
once-a-decade population
count that determines the
allocation of seats in the
House of Representatives
for the next 10 years and the
distribution of some $675
billion in federal spending.
The Census Bureau’s
own experts have said the
question would discourage
immigrants from participat-
ing and result in a less accu-
rate census that would redis-
tribute money and political
power from Democratic-led
cities where immigrants tend
to cluster to whiter, rural
areas where Republicans do
well.
Trump, speaking as he
departed the White House
for a weekend in New Jer-
sey, said he might take exec-
utive action.
“It’s one of the ways that
we’re thinking about doing
it, very seriously,” he said.
An executive order
would not, by itself, override
court rulings blocking the
inclusion of the citizenship
question. But such an action
from Trump would perhaps
give administration lawyers
a new basis to try to con-
vince federal courts that the
question could be included.
“Executive orders do not
override decisions of the
Supreme Court,” Thomas
Saenz, president and gen-
eral counsel of the Mexican
American Legal Defense
and Educational Fund, said
in a statement Friday. The
organization is representing
plaintiffs in the census law-
suit in Maryland.
Later Friday, Justice
Department lawyers for-
mally told U.S. District
Judge George Hazel in
Maryland the administra-
tion is not giving up the legal
fight to add the citizenship
question to the next cen-
sus. But they also said it’s
unclear how they will pro-
ceed, according to a court
filing.
“They still say they don’t
have clear instructions on
what to do,” said Saenz, who
took part in a conference call
with the judge and lawyers
for both sides in one of three
lawsuits seeking to keep the
question off the census. The
other two are in New York
and California.
Hazel had expressed
mounting frustration with
the mixed signals the admin-
istration was sending, first
telling him on Tuesday that
the question was off only to
have Trump tweet the next
day that the administration
was “absolutely moving for-
ward” with efforts to include
the question.
Trump’s
administra-
tion has faced numerous
roadblocks to adding the
question, like last week’s
Supreme Court ruling that
blocked its inclusion, at least
temporarily. Both the Justice
and Commerce departments
indicated on Tuesday that
they were moving forward
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with the census, minus the
citizenship question.
But Trump has insisted
otherwise, pushing his
administration to come up
with a way to include the
controversial query. He sug-
gested Friday officials might
be able to add an addendum
to the questionnaire with the
question after it’s already
printed.
In the Supreme Court’s
decision last week, Chief
Justice John Roberts joined
the court’s four more lib-
eral members in saying the
administration’s
current
justification for the ques-
tion “seems to have been
contrived.”
The administration had
pushed the Supreme Court to
decide the case quickly, cit-
ing a July 1 deadline to begin
printing the forms. The court
made the rare move of tak-
ing up the case directly from
a trial court in New York
before an appeals court had
weighed in. As recently as
June 20, Solicitor General
Noel Francisco reminded
the justices of the need for a
quick decision, writing that
“for all practical purposes,
the Census Bureau needs to
finalize the 2020 question-
naire by June of this year.”
The Trump administra-
tion had said the question
was being added to aid in
enforcement of the Voting
Rights Act, which protects
minority voters’ access to the
ballot box.
But the question’s oppo-
nents say recently discov-
ered evidence from the com-
puter files of a Republican
redistricting consultant who
died last year shows that, far
from helping minority vot-
ers, discrimination against
Hispanics was behind the
push for the citizenship
question.
Hazel is considering
reopening the Maryland
case to take account of the
new evidence, which could
provide a separate basis for
blocking the citizenship
question.
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Seattle naturalization ceremony
underscores immigration tensions
500 new citizens
sworn in Thursday
By PAUL ROBERTS
Seattle Times
SEATTLE — In a cere-
mony that captured both the
aspirations and tensions of
immigration in America today,
500 men and women from 80
countries were sworn in as
new U.S. citizens at an emo-
tional Fourth of July event at
Seattle Center.
“I’m so proud to be part
of this,” said Omar Abbaker,
a 44-year-old from war-torn
Sudan who came to Amer-
ica as a refugee six years ago
with his wife, Widad, 34, who
was also being sworn in. He
seemed dazzled and delighted
by the diversity of his fellow
citizens-to-be.
“Right now, all the world
is here,” he added, nodding at
a crowd that represented “our
different colors and different
nations and different cultures.”
Indeed, the breadth of
nationalities
represented
at Thursday’s ceremony at
Fisher Pavilion played like a
spontaneous advertisement
for the American melting pot,
with newcomers from coun-
tries ranging from American
Samoa and Armenia to Zam-
bia and Zimbabwe, and, just
outside the pavilion, a mas-
sive crowd of flag-waving
family members and other
well-wishers.
It was the 35th such event to
be held in Seattle on the Fourth
of July, according to the U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration
Services, and one of 110 such
ceremonies across the country
that were slated to naturalize
nearly 7,500 new citizens.
The ceremony, which cul-
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Rebekah Welch/The Seattle Times
A woman from Armenia celebrates her newly granted U.S.
citizenship during the annual naturalization ceremony at the
Seattle Center.
minates in an Oath of Alle-
giance, is the final step in a
long bureaucratic process that
bestows new rights, including
the right to vote, and adds new
duties, not least an obligation
to military service if called.
For many in Fisher Pavil-
ion, the event marked the cul-
mination of a dream some
waited years — even decades
— to achieve.
Gomez Conrado, 71, who
arrived from the Philippines
in 1999, says he was drawn
to the U.S. by the promise of
both economic and political
freedom. “It’s a big day for
me,” he said, eyes widening,
as he waited for the ceremony
to begin.
Seated in the front row was
Gabriel Graterol, a 29-year-
old from Venezuela who is
serving in the Navy on Whid-
bey Island — one of 37 new
citizens who are already serv-
ing in the armed forces. He
talked of his excitement over
the chance to participate in
the democracy that his strife-
torn home country no longer
enjoys.
The ceremony illustrated
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the shifting demographics of
immigration to the Pacific
Northwest. Although the
crowd was drawn from around
the world, several countries
were particularly well repre-
sented: There were 25 new cit-
izens from Ukraine, 27 from
South Korea, 27 from Mexico,
30 from China, 40 from India
and 50 from the Philippines.
The tone was largely cele-
bratory, with inspirational sen-
timents from King County
Executive Dow Constantine,
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan,
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell and
Washington Secretary of State
Kim Wyman, and a gorgeous a
cappella version of “America
the Beautiful” by Josephine
Howell.
Yet, proceedings also
reflected the rising tensions
around U.S. immigration
policy.
Even as the 500 immi-
grants and refugees prepared
to take the Oath of Allegiance,
controversies over the federal
crackdown on immigration, as
well as family separations and
detention centers, hung in the
air.
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