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East Oregonian
After 4 decades as
ailing man turns himself in
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Frail and
tired of leading a secret life for four decades,
66-year-old Clarence David Moore called po-
lice this week to surrender. The deputy who
answered thought it was a prank. It wasn’t.
Moore escaped from police custody three
times during the 1970s and eventually settled
into a quiet life, living in Kentucky since at
least 2009. His health is poor from a stroke
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When Franklin County Sheriff Pat Melton
showed up at Moore’s house to make the “ar-
rest,” Moore was in a hospital bed. He broke
down in tears. He told the sheriff he needed
medical help.
“He looks like he’s almost 90,” the sheriff
said.
A woman who had been living with Moore
had no idea of his past. “She was just blown
away when all this happened,” the sheriff said.
On Wednesday, a woman who answered
the door at the single-story ranch home de-
clined comment. The modest neighborhood
on the outskirts of the state’s capital was dot-
ted with brick homes with well-tended yards.
Two sport-utility vehicles were parked in the
driveway.
Moore was convicted of larceny of more
than $200 in North Carolina in 1967 and was
sentenced to up to seven years in prison, ac-
cording to records from the Department of
Public Safety. While working with a road
crew in the Asheville area, he escaped and
was recaptured in 1971. He escaped again the
following year and was on the lam until he
was apprehended in Texas in 1975. His third
escape from a Henderson County prison was
North Carolina Department Of Public Safety, left, Franklin
County Regional Jail via AP
LEFT: Undated booking photo of
Clarence David Moore. RIGHT: A booking
photo of Moore taken on Tuesday.
Aug. 6, 1976.
On Monday, after he called police, he was
taken from his home by ambulance to a local
hospital for evaluation and then to jail, where
he remained in custody Wednesday.
“As soon as he saw us, he started crying,”
Melton said Wednesday. “He said, ‘I just want
to get this behind me. I want to be done.”’
Moore has declined requests for inter-
views.
Melton said he knew little about Moore’s
life before arriving in Kentucky, other than
Moore spent time working on boats along the
East Coast.
Neighbor Jim Clark, a former correctional
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was an attentive neighbor who would collect
the Clarks mail for them when they went on
vacation and let them know if they had left
their garage door open at night.
“He was a nice neighbor. He was a very
compassionate person. He didn’t have any ha-
tred in his heart toward anyone,” Clark said.
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bars for as long as possible so he won’t return
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the wound could have ended
her life.
He also said Gonzalez
told police he did it be-
cause he believed she was
unfaithful to him.
Defense attorney Kara
Davis said Gonzalez told
police and others what he
did.
“He explained he went
into a rage and he explained
why,” she said, “... and he
hasn’t tried excusing it as
anything other than that.”
Pachico also read a
statement
from
Cam-
pos-Diaz that recounted the
violence and its aftermath.
“I’m lucky to be alive,”
she said in the statement,
and her child lives in fear of
her father and never wants to
see him again. Campos-Di-
az said she protected her
daughter, otherwise Gonza-
lez may have harmed her.
She said she wants Gonzalez
behind bars for as long as
possible so he will not return
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In accordance with the
plea deal, Circuit Judge
Lynn Hampton sentenced
Gonzalez to seven-and-
a-half years in prison for
attempted murder, and
another 34 months for bur-
glary to run concurrent.
The state dismissed other
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second-degree assault.
Davis said Gonzalez
likely faces deportation to
Mexico after he serves his
time.
Hampton
also
al-
lowed Gonzalez to make a
statement. He said Cam-
pos-Diaz was not holding
their daughter during his
attack, as she has asserted.
Davis told the court this was
the only fact in dispute.
“This one little fact,” his
attorney said, “is probably
the least important of your
entire case, Mr. Gonzalez.”
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But with the rise of ener-
gy-intensive data centers in
Umatilla and Morrow coun-
ties, UEC anticipates it will
eclipse that 3 percent sales
mark by next year. When
that happens, the co-op will
have until 2039 to phase
up to 25 percent renewable
generation.
UEC had previously
said it would look at devel-
oping “one or more” solar
projects to start making
small steps toward its RPS
requirements. Time is of the
essence, as a 30 percent fed-
eral tax credit for solar pow-
er installation will be scaled
back to just 10 percent by
2016.
“Solar has caught the
imagination of the general
public and cost effective-
ness of the technology is
improving, so we will ex-
plore its feasibility here in
our service area,” Eldrige
said in a previous statement.
UEC serves 10,000
members in Umatilla, Mor-
row and Union counties.
The majority of its power is
purchased wholesale from
Bonneville Power Admin-
istration.
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Contact George Plaven
at gplaven@eastoregonian.
com or 541-564-4547.
CRISIS: ‘It’s all very different, but the same process is there’
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grieving, relieve teachers
who need a break to com-
pose themselves and pro-
vide a listening ear to any-
one who to needs to talk.
The team mobilized
last week after Umatilla
School District learned that
McNary Heights Elemen-
tary teacher and parent
Elisabet Flores was killed
in a car crash.
The
circumstances
of the death, the size of
the school and whether
students already knew of
the tragedy before they
arrived at school all play
a role in what the school
needs from the team. But
Berryessa said some things
never change.
“It’s all very different,
but the same process is
there,” she said. “There’s
shock, there’s anger, there’s
guilt, there’s all the stages
of the grieving process.”
Often people want to
share memories of the per-
son, she said, and other
times it’s helpful for them
to have a neutral third party
with whom they can voice
complicated feelings they
might not want to discuss
with their friends.
“Obviously there are a
lot of tissues on hand,” she
said.
Wendy Simer, executive
assistant at the IMESD, said
there are currently about 85
people between Umatilla
County and Union County
who have gone through the
Crisis Flight Team trainings
and passed a background
check. Some of them are
ESD employees, others are
school counselors or pas-
tors.
A handful of IMESD
staff take turns carrying
the 24/7 hotline cellphone
that school administrators
can call when they learn
of a crisis. At that point an
automated message is sent
out to volunteers and the
IMESD employee choos-
es a team from those who
respond that they can help.
Simer said the number
of times the team is called
out varies. Last year it was
only utilized once, this year
volunteers have already re-
sponded to three tragedies.
Rick Scheibner, a school
counselor at Sandstone
Middle School in Hermis-
ton, has been a member of
the Crisis Flight Team since
2003.
He said even though
he is a counselor by trade,
it’s a misconception that
members of the team are
there to provide counseling.
Instead of talking, they are
there to create a safe space
and to listen.
“Grieving takes place
in the context someone
knew the person the most,”
he said, noting that if the
victim was someone a stu-
dent knew from math class
it only made sense that they
would feel saddest while in
math.
Therefore, he said, it was
helpful for administrators to
be prepared because “griev-
ing is going to happen
whether you have a planned
process for that or not.”
One change he has seen
during his time on the
crisis team is that students
now are more likely to be
aware of the tragedy be-
fore they walk through the
school doors in the morn-
ing, thanks to social media.
In the course of his work
as a team leader he has
sometimes pulled together
students who were friends
with the victim to talk as a
group, but other times the
students who really need
the safe space aren’t the ob-
vious ones.
“I once talked to one
young man who didn’t re-
ally know the student who
had died well, but he had
recently lost someone in his
own family and it brought
up some feelings,” Scheib-
ner said.
At the end of the day
Scheibner said crisis team
members debrief with the
ESD and school administra-
tors about things the admin-
istrators might need to be
sensitive to going forward.
Obviously
grieving
doesn’t happen in one day,
Scheibner said, but when
that grief is most raw, “the
crisis team is there to help.”
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Contact Jade McDowell
at jmcdowell@eastorego-
nian.com or 541-564-4536.
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While Requa’s location
looks to be set in stone,
the controversy has con-
vinced the Pendleton Arts
Commission to reevaluate
how it approves privately
funded statues.
Two of the most polar-
izing bronzes, likenesses
of Requa and former bor-
dello madam Stella Darby,
were mostly paid for by the
Linebacker’s Club and Pend-
leton Underground Tours,
respectively.
The commission has sent
the new rules, which in-
clude public notice ahead of
commission meetings, to the
city’s legal counsel before
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mendation to the city coun-
cil.
Mike Forrester, a former
editor and part owner of the
East Oregonian, suggest-
ed even stronger changes to
the commission. Forrester
said the commission should
create a comprehensive set
of goals and guidelines for
public art.
He also proposed not al-
lowing Houk to chair the
commission, saying the
mayor wields too much
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“I’m really not directing
it,” Houk responded. “I’m
just going along with what
the group is saying.”
Besides discussion of
commission reform, com-
munity input at the meeting
involved the usual arguments
from both supporters and
opposition about the Requa
bronze’s location, his legacy
and whether it would attract
tourists.
The $93,000 bronze was
approved by the city council
January 2014 and is set to be
unveiled July 11.
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community manager Bill
Clemens presented a dona-
tion of $5,000 on behalf of
the company to the city for a
bronze of former Round-Up
Queen Kathleen McClintock.
In other news, the council
unanimously approved the
cost of a local improvement
district on S.W. Ninth Street,
which paved the road and
added sidewalks.
Much to the chagrin of
Ninth Street property owners,
the city originally approved a
$116,959 bid for the project, a
loan the street’s seven proper-
ty owners would have to split
based on the frontage length
of each owners’ property.
After construction, the total
cost came in at $104,684,
approximately $12,000 less
than the original bid.
Further sweetening the pot
for the Ninth Street property
owners, Councilman Tom
Young reduced the interest
on the loan from 6 percent
to 3.5 percent, which will be
paid back over 15 years.
WHEN PUBLIC NOTICES
REACH THE PUBLIC, EVERYONE
BENEFITS
SOME GOVERNMENT AGENCIES WANT TO TAKE
OFFICIAL NOTICES OUT OF LOCAL NEWSPAPERS
AND BURY THEM ON GOVERNMENT-RUN WEB-
SITES. THIS IS LIKE PUTTING THE FOX IN CHARGE
OF THE HEN HOUSE.
KEEP PUBLIC NOTICES
IN NEWSPAPERS