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Shooting
hoax
triggers
mistaken
warning
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
A shooting Friday near Pendleton
was bogus, but some Neighborhood
Watch members received this mes-
sage about the incident not long after
a 9-1-1 call: “If seen do not approach
them! Call them into dispatch only.
These people are out to kill.”
Greg Hodgen, head of the Neigh-
borhood Watch program for the sher-
iff’s of ce, said he sent an all-caps
email to about 200 Neighborhood
Watch members Friday soon after the
sheriff’s of ce received a report of a
shooting at 4:35 p.m. in the area near
Stage Gulch Road, west of the East-
ern Oregon Regional Airport, Pend-
leton. He explained he was about to
leave work for the day when he got
word about the reported shooting, so
he dashed off the message and sent
it as quickly as he could, and there
was a lot of adrenaline pumping as he
worked.
“I wanted to put the fear of God in
people,” he said, but admitted the mes-
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AP Photo/Brandon Wade
Oregon players walk off the fi eld after the NCAA college football playoff championship game Monday in Arlington, Texas.
After fast start, Ducks zzle in title game
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
Things started so well for
Duck fans.
Mac’s Bar and Grill in Pendle-
ton was abuzz Monday with both
Ducks faithful and temporary
converts, ready to watch the Uni-
versity of Oregon play Ohio State
for the rst College Football Play-
offs national title.
Clad in an Oregon scarf,
Stephanie Markle sat at a table
next to her husband Mike, who
sported the orange hat of Oregon
State University, the Ducks’ bitter
in-state rival.
The couple said they live in a
house divided, with three children
pledging allegiance to the Ducks,
three other children claiming Bea-
ver fandom and one child consid-
ered a bipartisan “platypus.”
Oregon scored rst, taking the
ball 75 yards with little resistance
and the bar went wild.
As an alum, Pendleton Pub-
lic Works Director Bob Patter-
son was in an Oregon State fan,
though he put his support behind
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Jeni McGlothan of Pendleton, and Lisa and Dan Ward react to a
dropped pass Monday in the fi rst quarter of the Oregon Ducks’
42-20 loss to the Ohio State Buckeyes in the NCAA championship
football game while watching at Mac’s Bar and Grill in Pendleton.
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Oregon for the night. He said he
could set his Civil War feelings
aside if it meant more respect for
the state.
Ohio State scored three times,
building a 21-7 lead in the rst
half, but Ducks fans were con-
dent their team would come
storming back.
Oregon graduate Erik Thom-
asser said the team’s early play
was indicative of the Ducks’ in-
experience in big games, although
he fully expected for Oregon to
pull out the victory in the end.
But as the night wore on and
the Buckeyes built their lead, the
bar began to empty.
After Ohio State sealed the
win, those that were left of the
Mac’s audience were given a
chance to offer their own post-
mortem headlines.
“A disappointing loss,” Markle
said.
“Oregon had its chances” Pat-
terson said.
Although equally dissatis ed
with Oregon’s loss, Gwen Lewis’s
chagrin was mitigated slightly by
winning tickets to a future Ducks
game as a part of a raf e held ear-
lier that evening. A huge fan of
college football, Lewis was ex-
cited for the opportunity to attend
only her second college football
game. Still, her proposed headline
summarized Oregon’s defensive
woes.
“They didn’t get their Ducks in
a row,” she said.
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Idaho police
seek motive
in shooting
Suspect John Lee jailed
for death of three people
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
Associated Press
SPOKANE, Wash. — Police in
Moscow, Idaho, asked for help from
the public on Monday as they sought a
motive in the shooting deaths of three
people over the weekend.
Moscow Police Chief David Duke
said suspect John Lee remained jailed
in adjacent Whitman County, Wash-
ington, and has not yet been questioned
by of cers.
“Mr. Lee, if we are able to talk with
him and he cooperates, maybe will
give us the reasons,” Duke said. “In the
meantime, we are seeking community
assistance from anybody who had con-
tact with him.”
“We’d like to know about his recent
activities, anything to give us a clue as
to why he would do this,” Duke said.
Lee, 29, was expected to make a
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Kitzhaber draws on history
for fourth inauguration
His parents were part of the
World War II generation, and his
father was in the U.S. 3rd Army,
SALEM — John Kitzhaber led by Gen. George Patton, that
sounded a philosophical note or helped conquer Nazi Germany in
1945. His politi-
t o as he too o ce
cal inspiration was
Monday as Oregon
Kennedy, a senator
governor for the More to come
from New York
fourth time.
For the outlook on
who was assassi-
In remarks he the upcoming legis-
nated during a bid
prepared for a joint lative session from
for the presiden-
session of the Leg- Eastern Oregon’s
cy in 1968, when
islature, Kitzhaber representatives, see
Kitzhaber was a
invoked memories Wednesday’s EO.
college student.
of his parents and
Kitzhaber said
Robert Kennedy in
calling for expanding prosperity the war united the nation in a
to thousands of Oregonians who common purpose, and Kennedy’s
have not shared in the state’s eco- campaign raised questions about
nomic recovery from the Great
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Recession.
By PETER WONG
Capital Bureau
AP Photo/Don Ryan
Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, middle, is sworn in for an unprecedented
fourth term by Senior Judge Paul J. De Muniz in Salem on Monday. Stand-
ing next to Kitzhaber is his fi ancé, Cylvia Hayes.