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THE ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
US outlines plan for virus vaccines
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
and MATTHEW PERRONE
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The government out-
lined a sweeping plan Wednesday to make vac-
cines for the coronavirus available for free to
all Americans, assuming a safe and effective
shot is developed, even as top health offi cials
faced questions about political interference
with virus information reaching the public.
In a report to Congress and an accompany-
ing “playbook” for states and localities, federal
health agencies and the Defense Department
sketched out complex plans for a vaccination
campaign to begin gradually in January or even
late this year, eventually ramping up to reach
any American who wants a shot. The Pentagon
would be involved with the distribution of vac-
cines, but civilian health workers would be the
ones giving shots.
But the whole enterprise is facing public
skepticism. Only about half of Americans said
they’d get vaccinated in an Associated Press-
NORC poll taken in May.
Centers for Disease Control and Preven-
tion Director Dr. Robert Redfi eld discussed
the plan before Senate lawmakers Wednes-
day amid concerns that his agency had been
pushed to revise several scientifi c assessments
of the virus by appointees of President Donald
Trump.
Redfi eld told members of the Senate’s
Appropriations Committee that the “scientifi c
integrity” of the CDC’s output “has not been
compromised and it will not be compromised
under my watch.”
Last week, news outlets reported that
Michael Caputo, a Department of Health and
Human Services political appointee, tried to
gain editorial control over CDC’s fl agship
weekly scientifi c report. In a separate online
video last week, Caputo reportedly accused
CDC scientists of conspiring against Trump’s
reelection.
HHS said in a statement Wednesday that
Caputo is taking a leave of absence to spend
time “to focus on his health and the well-being
of his family.”
“It deeply saddens me that those false accu-
sations were made,” Redfi eld told Senate
lawmakers.
Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state, the
committee’s top Democrat, said political inter-
ference had damaged public trust in the gov-
ernment’s health information.
“The Trump administration needs to leave
the science to the scientists immediately,” Mur-
ray said.
As for the planned vaccine campaign, the
CDC playbook for states says it is “much larger
in scope and complexity than seasonal infl u-
enza or other previous outbreak-related vacci-
nation responses.” Redfi eld said the his agency
will be working with state health offi cials to
execute the vaccination plan in coming days.
Although Trump asserted Tuesday in an
ABC News town hall that a vaccine could
be three to four weeks away, offi cials made
it clear to reporters on a call Wednesday that
widespread availability would take months.
Among the highlights of the plan:
— For most vaccines, people will need two
doses, 21 to 28 days apart. Double-dose vac-
cines will have to come from the same drug-
maker. There could be several vaccines from
different manufacturers approved and available.
— Vaccination of the U.S. population won’t
be a sprint but a marathon. Initially there may
be a limited supply of vaccines, and the focus
will be on protecting health workers, other
essential employees and people in vulnera-
ble groups. “Early in (the) COVID-19 vacci-
nation program there may be a limited supply
of vaccine and vaccine efforts may focus on
those critical to the response, providing direct
care and maintaining societal functions, as well
as those at highest risk for developing severe
illness,” Redfi eld said. A second and third
phase would expand vaccination to the entire
population.
— The vaccine itself will be free of charge,
thanks to billions of dollars in taxpayer fund-
ing approved by Congress and allocated by the
Trump administration. The goal is that patients
won’t be separately charged for administration
of their shots, and offi cials say they are work-
ing to ensure that’s the case for all Medicare
recipients and uninsured people as well those
covered by insurance at their jobs.
Smoke from wildlfi res lingers near Freres Lumber Co. in Lyons.
Logging sees major damage from wildfi res
By GEORGE PLAVEN
Capital Press
Oregon’s timber industry has sustained an
enormous setback as massive wildfi res con-
tinue to ravage forests across the state.
While the full scale of destruction is still
coming into focus, groups representing log-
gers and wood products manufacturers say
losses will total in the hundreds of millions of
dollars, including charred timberland that will
take decades to replant and regrow once the
fi res are extinguished.
Kyle Williams, director of forest protection
for the Oregon Forest and Industries Council,
said he is working with members to determine
the extent of the damage. For some landown-
ers, he said entire plantations have perhaps
gone up in fl ames.
“It’s cataclysmic to consider,” Williams
said. “You’re starting over, effectively.”
According to statistics from the council ,
Oregon has nearly 30 million acres of forest-
land statewide. Of that total, 60% is federally
owned, and about 10.1 million acres, or 34%,
is private. Yet private forestland accounts for
more than three-quarters of the total annual
timber harvest.
Wildfi res have burned more than 1 million
acres across Oregon so far this year . Jim Gers-
bach, a spokesman for the Oregon Depart-
ment of Forestry, said the agency does not
know how much of that is privately managed
timber.
“Obviously, it’s a big number,” Gersbach
said.
Privately managed timberland typically
runs on a 50-year life cycle from planting to
harvest, Williams said. That means it will take
about that long for the fi re-impacted forests to
start feeding logs once again to local sawmills.
“With the size of the footprints that some of
these fi res are having, we’re going to see some
of these mills struggling to stay supplied for
the next 40 years,” Williams said.
Rex Storm, executive vice president of the
Associated Oregon Loggers, said his group
is also in the midst of surveying fi re damage.
He estimates about 100 vehicles and heavy
machines may have been left to burn on var-
ious job sites as the fi res spread out of con-
trol. They include logging trucks, harvesters
and bulldozers.
Just one of those rigs might cost anywhere
from $200,000 up to $1.5 million, Storm said.
That’s on top of the already-harvested timber
that was also left to burn.
“There’s been a signifi cant amount of tech-
nology and equipment burned,” Storm said.
“Some of these machines, it takes two days
to move them. You don’t bring it home every
night.”
In the heavily wooded Santiam Canyon
east of Salem, the Beachie Creek and Lion-
shead fi res had burned a combined 356,471
acres as of Monday, fanned by high winds
and dangerous weather conditions the previ-
ous week.
Rob Freres, president of Freres Lumber
Co. in Lyons, said all of the company’s 415
employees are safe, though some of them
did lose their homes in the blazes that devas-
tated nearby communities including Detroit,
Mehama and Mill City.
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John Braid Ten Eyck
Beaverton
March 20, 1931 — Sept. 12, 2020
John Braid Ten Eyck was born March
He and Frances raised their three daugh-
20, 1931, in Freeport, Illinois, and died Sept. ters and were front row to countless sports,
12, 2020, in Beaverton, Oregon, of compli- music and equestrian events.
John and Frances relocated to
cations from dementia and the
Astoria, Oregon, in 1991 to be
coronavirus .
closer to family.
He was raised by parents Wal-
Wince-worthy puns, word ori-
ton Bonnell and Barbara Braid Ten
gins, history, opera, gardening,
Eyck in Greenwich, Connecticut.
ice cream and skiing fresh powder
He attended Loomis prep school
were among John’s favorite things.
in Windsor, Connecticut, and stud-
He was ever curious and learning.
ied architecture at the Massachu-
He is survived by his daugh-
setts Institute of Technology in
ters, Julia Ten Eyck, of San Fran-
Boston, Massachusetts, interrupt-
cisco, California, Elizabeth Ten
ing his schooling to enlist in the
John Ten Eyck
Eyck Knutsen (Bob), of Warren-
U.S. Air Force.
ton, Oregon, and Katherine Ten
He served in Korea as a fi ghter
pilot with the 58th fi ghter bomber group, Eyck, of Astoria, Oregon; his grandsons,
where he fl ew the F-84 Thunderjet. He com- John, Ross (Sarah) and Erik (Lauren) Knut-
pleted his undergraduate degree at MIT in sen and Russell Wille Ten Eyck, and grand-
daughter Tatiana Urriaga-Ten Eyck; and two
1954.
John married Frances Raap in Miami, great-grandsons.
He was preceded in death by his wife,
Florida, in 1952. They moved with the Air
Force for a few years before settling in Col- Frances, in 2003, and his sister, Carol
orado Springs, Colorado, where John began McGrath.
The family thanks the wonderful staff and
his architecture career with the fi rm Lusk and
Wallace. His design and construction career nurses at Maryville in Beaverton, Oregon, for
their devoted care.
spanned over 55 years.
A private memorial will be held at a later
Capt. Ten Eyck was a fl ight instructor in
Colorado Springs for 10 years as part of his date.
In lieu of fl owers, please donate to the
military service. He was involved in numer-
ous civic organizations throughout his life. Alzheimer’s Association.
“Your mission is complete; well done, sir,
For several years he owned The Beefeaters
and welcome home.”
restaurant in Colorado Springs.
Samuel J. Sadler
Hammond
Sept. 22, 2000 — Sept. 4, 2020
It is with profound anguish and eternal
If ever there was an example of pure
love that the family of Samuel J. Sadler innocence, unfettered with the weight of
announce his sudden and unexpected the world, Samuel was the embodiment of
death on Sept. 4, 2020, in Ham-
this. He lived his short life joy-
mond, Oregon, at the age of 19.
ously. Though never capable of
Samuel will be lovingly
verbally speaking, Samuel com-
remembered by his family,
municated through the language
including his mother, Jenni-
of kindness and love to all whom
fer Sadler; father, Sam Sadler;
he encountered. No one ever
sister, Amanda Sadler; mater-
needed a translator to “hear”
nal grandmother, Lois Nava,
what Samuel was “saying” to
them with a hug and a smile.
and maternal grandfather, Andy
The family wishes to send a
Nava.
special thanks to his extended
Samuel was preceded in
Samuel Sadler
“family” at the Warrenton Grade
death by his paternal grand-
School and the life skills class at
mother, Barbara Sadler; paternal
grandfather, Jack Sadler; and his uncle, Astoria High School, who cared and loved
him as their own.
Jim Sadler.
In lieu of fl owers, memorial donations
Samuel was born Sept. 22, 2000, to
Jennifer and Sam Sadler in Salem, Ore- may be made in Samuel J. Sadler’s honor
gon. He moved with his family to the to Shriners Hospitals for Children, 2900
North Coast of Oregon in 2005, settling in Rocky Point Drive, Tampa, FL., 33607 or
donate.lovetotherescue.org
Hammond, Oregon.
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Seattle
65 55
Rain, a
thunderstorm
64 55
66 54
A couple of
showers
Partly sunny
66 51
67 49
67 51
68 53
A shower
possible
Showers
possible
Clouds yielding
Mainly cloudy
to sun
Aberdeen
Olympia
68/57
74/58
Wenatchee
Tacoma
Moses
Lake
74/55
ALMANAC
UNDER THE SKY
TODAY'S TIDES
Astoria through Tuesday
Tonight’s Sky: Emerging from
the eastern horizon is Aries, the
ram.
Astoria / Port Docks
Temperatures
High/low ................................ 70/59
Normal high/low .................. 68/50
Record high .................. 83 in 1919
Record low .................... 38 in 1969
Precipitation
Tuesday ................................... 0.34”
Month to date ........................ 0.45”
Normal month to date ......... 0.91”
Year to date .......................... 39.41”
Normal year to date ........... 39.26”
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2020
Time
High (ft.) Time Low (ft.)
1:23 a.m.
2:10 p.m.
8.3 8:04 a.m. -1.1
7.8 8:20 p.m. 0.1
Cape Disappointment
12:57 a.m. 8.3 7:09 a.m. -1.1
1:44 p.m. 7.9 7:25 p.m. 0.2
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
Hammond
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today .................. 6:57 a.m.
Sunset tonight ............... 7:22 p.m.
Moonrise today .............. 6:59 a.m.
Moonset today .............. 8:01 p.m.
New
First
Full
Last
1:08 a.m.
1:56 p.m.
Warrenton
1:18 a.m.
2:05 p.m.
Knappa
2:00 a.m.
2:47 p.m.
Depoe Bay
Sep 17 Sep 23 Oct 1
Oct 9
8.7 7:30 a.m. -1.3
8.1 7:47 p.m. 0.0
8.7 7:48 a.m. -1.0
8.3 8:04 p.m. 0.2
8.5 9:05 a.m. -0.9
8.1 9:21 p.m. 0.1
12:08 a.m. 8.8 6:37 a.m. -1.1
12:57 p.m. 8.3 6:54 p.m. 0.4
City
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Dallas
Denver
Honolulu
Houston
Los Angeles
Miami
New York City
Phoenix
San Francisco
Wash., DC
Fri.
Hi/Lo/W
75/68/r
79/55/pc
67/52/pc
86/68/t
88/56/s
89/75/pc
90/73/t
90/68/pc
90/78/pc
79/58/pc
109/81/s
73/61/pc
78/63/c
78/64/c
62/49/c
62/50/pc
86/62/pc
89/60/pc
89/77/s
88/69/t
91/67/pc
90/78/pc
68/52/c
106/80/s
72/59/pc
72/53/pc
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy,
c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms,
r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice.
91/58
Hermiston
The Dalles 86/61
Enterprise
Pendleton 89/48
85/60
83/61
La Grande
90/50
78/56
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Hi/Lo/W
89/53
Kennewick Walla Walla
85/60 Lewiston
89/61
73/57
Salem
Pullman
86/55
Longview
65/55 Portland
74/61
89/57
Yakima 89/57
74/56
Astoria
Spokane
87/60
Corvallis
72/52
Albany
75/56
John Day
Eugene
Bend
70/56
78/50
91/55
Ontario
91/53
Caldwell
Burns
90/39
93/53
Medford
74/56
Klamath Falls
76/44
City
Baker City
Brookings
Ilwaco
Newberg
Newport
Today
Hi/Lo/W
91/45/pc
65/56/pc
64/55/t
76/56/t
61/52/c
Fri.
Hi/Lo/W
79/46/pc
63/54/sh
63/56/c
69/54/sh
60/52/c
City
North Bend
Roseburg
Seaside
Springfi eld
Vancouver
Today
Hi/Lo/W
65/54/pc
70/57/sh
65/55/r
69/57/t
75/59/t
Fri.
Hi/Lo/W
65/55/sh
78/50/sh
65/54/c
75/47/sh
70/57/sh