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SUPER BOWL PREVIEW Fight in Pendleton over toilet leaves questions FOOTBALL/2B REGION/3A FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2015 139th Year, No. 76 Your Weekend WINNER OF THE 2013 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD PENDLETON Chief says Aryan gang’s days are up Pendleton police began the crack- down on the gang this month. Rob- erts said his department focused on Pendleton police Chief Stuart putting the most dangerous members Roberts said his department is in the behind bars. Locking up those key ¿QDOVWDJHVRIFRUUDOOLQJPHPEHUVRI ¿JXUHV KH VDLG JDYH VRPH YLFWLPV the breathing room to come forward a white supremacist gang. Roberts and Umatilla County and report crimes. 5REHUWVDOVRLGHQWL¿HGQLQHSHRSOH District Attorney Dan Primus have said the United Aryan Empire is a as Aryan gang members or as facing criminal organization responsible for charges as a result of gang incidents: •Jeremiah Mauer, 30, Warren violent acts and plots to assault and even kill people starting in October Browning, 35, and Gregory Tinnell, 43, are in the Umatilla County Jail, 2014. “Right now, the number of iden- Pendleton, and have pleaded not WL¿HG PHPEHUVDI¿OLDWHV LV DW ´ guilty to multiple charges, including riot, racketeering and conspiracy to Roberts said in an email. By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian • • • Nick Jaina live at the Great Pacifi c, Friday “Fusion” Saturday at the Vert Auditorium Sno Road Winery Murder Mystery For times and places see Coming Events, 6A Catch a movie AP Photo/Twentieth Century Fox One dollar commit murder. •Steven Grangood, 22, is not in jail, but also faces charges of rack- eteering, riot, conspiracy to commit murder and more. •Sarah Frankford, 30, is out of jail and pleaded not guilty to third-de- gree assault and conspiracy to com- mit third-degree assault. •Scotty Ray Pollard, 40, is in the jail and faces a charge of riot. Pendle- ton police picked him up Wednesday on a warrant. Roberts said Pollard was involved in a stabbing incident in October. •Kirk Hatley, 24, also is in the jail for riot. Roberts reported Hatley LVDI¿OLDWHGZLWKWKH&\FORQHVVHWRI Sureno 13, a primarily Latino Amer- ican gang. Roberts said police have warrants for two others: Matthew Reed for ¿UVWGHJUHH DWWHPSWHG DVVDXOW DQG conspiracy to commit murder; and Bryan Corona for riot. The chief also reported he antic- ipated at least one more indictment, and as detectives investigate more assault cases, more indictments could come. ——— Contact Phil Wright at pwright@ eastoregonian.com or 541-966- 0833. Erosion, instability leave Birch Creek in need of restoration The SAG award winning “Birdman,” starring Michael Keaton, comes to Hermiston. For showtime, Page 5A Weekend Weather Fri Sat Sun 45/30 43/33 43/39 Book thieves target the occult East Oregonian :KHQ ERRNV À\ RII WKH shelf at a library, it’s usually seen as a positive trend. But books about black magic, Satanism, the occult and other related subjects have a tendency to disappear without coming back. The Pendleton Public Library is just one of many libraries in Eastern Oregon dealing with the issue. A cursory search for books about tarot cards re- veals there’s only one that can be checked out at the Pendleton library, while the other can only be viewed in- side the facility. Of the 36 tarot card books in the Sage Library System, which covers 77 libraries in ¿IWHHQ FRXQWLHV LQ (DVWHUQ and Central Oregon, 28 per- cent are considered lost or missing. While the Sage system does have a small collection RIQRQ¿FWLRQERRNVDERXW6D See LIBRARY/8A Hemphill “It was a mess. Once the water left, it was basi- cally a mudfl at.” — Colin Hemphill, fi fth-generation farmer and cattle rancher Staff photo by E. J. Harris A fence line separates a cattle pasture from the banks of Birch Creek on the property of Colin Hemphill north of Pilot Rock. The fence was installed in 1989 as part of a ODFW stream bank stabilization program. Saving a sanctuary A third of all Umatilla Basin steelhead call creek home By GEORGE PLAVEN East Oregonian As a kid, Colin Hemphill remembers riding out on his family’s ranch between Pendleton and Pilot Rock to pick up drift- wood littered around the pasture after a %LUFK&UHHNÀRRG “You’d have about six inches of mud on top of your grass,” said Hemphill, 34, a ¿IWKJHQHUDWLRQIDUPHUDQGFDWWOHUDQFKHU “It was a mess. Once the water left, it was EDVLFDOO\DPXGÀDW´ ,WLVQRWXQFRPPRQWRVHHÀRRGLQJRQ Birch Creek, where agricultural practices in some areas led to bank erosion and in- stability. That’s had a negative impact on both property owners and native steelhead runs. Restoration work has been a staple on Birch Creek for decades as agencies seek DEDODQFHEHWZHHQKHDOWK\IDUPVDQG¿VK About 87 percent of the creek runs through private land south of Pendleton, rising at the base of the Blue Mountains and emp- Staff photo by E. J. Harris tying into the Umatilla River near Rieth. It Rancher Colin Hemphill holds a photo of himself, top See CREEK/8A right, in 1989 working on the ODFW stream bank stabili- zation of Birch Creek on his property north of Pilot Rock. Some doctors decline anti-vaccine patients to Disneyland in Southern California. The American Academy of Pediatrics says doctors LOS ANGELES — should bring up the im- With California gripped portance of vaccinations by a measles outbreak, Dr. during visits but should re- Charles Goodman posted a spect a parent’s wishes un- clear notice in his waiting OHVVWKHUH¶VDVLJQL¿FDQWULVN room and on Facebook: to the child. His practice will no longer “In general, pediatri- see children whose parents cians should avoid dis- won’t get them vaccinated. charging patients from their “Parents who choose practices solely because a not to give measles shots, parent refuses to immunize they’re not just putting their AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes his or her child,” according kids at risk, but they’re also putting other kids at risk — Pediatrician Charles Goodman poses for photo with to guidelines issued by the especially kids in my wait- the MMR vaccine, an immunization vaccine against group. However, if the relation- ing room,” the Los Angeles measles, mumps, and rubella at his practice in Northridge, Calif. ship between patient and pediatrician said. It’s a sentiment echoed parents to change their measles outbreak in at least doctor becomes unwork- by a small number of doc- minds; if that fails, they 15 years, with at least 98 able, the pediatrics acad- tors who in recent years hope it will at least reduce cases reported since last emy says, the doctor may KDYH ³¿UHG´ SDWLHQWV ZKR the risk to other children in month — raises questions want to encourage the vac- continue to believe de- WKHRI¿FH about doctors’ ethical re- cine refuser to go to another bunked research linking The tough-love approach sponsibilities. Most of the physician. vaccines to autism. They — which comes amid the measles cases have been See VACCINES/8A hope the strategy will lead nation’s second-biggest traced directly or indirectly By ALICIA CHANG AP Science Writer Gap widens between views of the public and scientists By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON — The American public and U.S. scientists are light-years apart on science issues. And 98 percent of surveyed sci- entists say it’s a problem that we don’t know what they’re talking about. Scientists are far less worried about genetically PRGL¿HGIRRGSHVWLFLGHXVH and nuclear power than is the general public, accord- ing to matching polls of both the general public and the country’s largest general science organization. Scien- tists were more certain that See SCIENCE/8A
