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Saturday, May 28, 2016
Woody Guthrie celebrated the
Columbia River through song
BRIEFLY
Bundy hires new
lawyer in wildlife
refuge case
PORTLAND (AP) — The
leader of a wildlife refuge
occupation in Oregon has
retained a new lawyer to defend
him against a federal conspiracy
charge.
The Oregonian reports that
Ammon Bundy has hired J.
Morgan Philpot, a former Utah
state representative who was born
in Oregon. The outspoken tactics
of Bundy’s previous lawyer,
Mike Arnold of Eugene, drew
complaints to the Oregon State
Bar. Most have been dismissed,
but are a few pending questions
about his use of social media.
The federal case against more
than two dozen people stems
from the Bundy-led 41-day
occupation of the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge earlier
this year.
Bundy has pleaded not
guilty to the conspiracy charge,
possession of irearms in a
federal facility and the use or
carrying of a irearm during a
violent crime.
Inslee proclaims Saturday
as Woody Guthrie Day
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
Associated Press
SPOKANE, Wash. — Before
Macklemore or Nirvana, this land
was Woody Guthrie’s land.
It was 75 years ago that the
celebrated folk singer traveled
across Washington and Oregon,
composing 26 songs that extolled
the virtues of Grand Coulee Dam
and the electricity it produced.
It was one of the most productive
months of Guthrie’s career, and will
be celebrated on Saturday with a
gathering at the giant dam on the
Columbia River that remains the
nation’s greatest producer of hydro-
power.
The 26 songs composed in the
spring of 1941 included favorites
like “Roll on Columbia,” “Pastures
of Plenty,” and “The Biggest
Thing that Man has Ever Done.”
Collectively they are known as “The
Columbia River Songs.”
“He plucked tunes about the
people, the mighty Columbia River,
the beautiful Northwest landscape
and the promise of prosperity from
new hydroelectric dams,” said
Libby Burke, an archivist for the
Bonneville Power Administration,
the Portland-based federal agency
that hired Guthrie. “We’re excited
to celebrate the music of this great
American songwriter and his 30-day
employment with us back in 1941.”
The BPA planned to use the songs
in a documentary about Columbia
River hydropower, but the project
was abandoned when World War II
started. The ilm, “The Columbia,”
was inally inished in 1949.
Man accused of hitting
woman with car after
parking dispute
AP Photo/ File
AP Photo/File
In this undated
photo folk singer
Woody Guthrie
plays his guitar.
This April 14, 1945 ile photo shows the Grand
Coulee dam, located about 100 miles north of
Spokane, Wash.
In honor of the
anniversary, Wash-
ington Gov. Jay Inslee
proclaimed Saturday
as Woody Guthrie
Day in the state.
Events at the mile-wide dam,
located 80 miles west of Spokane,
run from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the
visitor center. There will be panel
MEDFORD (AP) — A
Medford man has been accused
of hitting a woman with his car in
a grocery store parking lot after
he say she took his parking spot.
The Mail Tribune reports that
the 61-year-old man is being
held at the Jackson County Jail
on more than $1 million bail
after oficials say he struck a
woman with his SUV Wednesday,
causing bruises and a torn knee
ligament.
Oficials say the man clipped
the 24-year-old woman in the
parking lot of WinCo before
leeing the scene and heading to
another store.
Police say the man told them
he was upset that the woman
took his parking spot and he was
trying to cut her off as she walked
to the store.
He pleaded not guilty on
Thursday to assault and a
hit-and-run charge.
inluenced generations of musicians.
His best known song is “This Land
Is Your Land.” Many of his songs
were about his experiences during
the Great Depression, when he
traveled with displaced farmers from
Oklahoma to California and learned
their traditional folk and blues songs.
Guthrie was married three times
and had eight children, including
folk musician Arlo Guthrie.
discussions,
readings and ilm
screenings. There is
no charge.
The BPA is
a federal power
marketer that sells wholesale elec-
tricity from 31 federal dams and one
nuclear plant to 142 electric utilities.
Guthrie died in 1967 at the age of
55. He wrote hundreds of songs and
Cloud seeding program continues with collaborative funding
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho
water managers say they will step
up funding for a cloud seeding
program that’s already been credited
with increasing the state’s mountain
snowpack.
The Idaho Power Co. program
releases silver iodine into the atmo-
sphere, which helps ice form in the
clouds and increases precipitation,
The Capital Press reported.
The cloud seeding began in
2003. Idaho Power estimates that
the extra snowpack creates an
average of 800,000 acre-feet of
water, roughly the volume of the
American Falls Reservoir. It gener-
ates enough hydro-power to supply
17,000 homes.
Irrigation organizations, the
Idaho Water Resource Board and
Idaho Power will each shoulder
about a third of the project’s cost,
according to Idaho Power engi-
neering leader Jon Bowling.
“We wouldn’t want our
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SUNDAY
TODAY
Times of sun and
clouds
Partly sunny
72° 47°
75° 47°
MONDAY
TUESDAY
Partly sunny and
pleasant
Abundant
sunshine
Mostly sunny and
very warm
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
75° 45°
81° 49°
89° 55°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
76° 47°
79° 46°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
65°
73°
99° (1934)
47°
49°
33° (1932)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Trace
1.19"
1.17"
5.59"
4.42"
6.32"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
HIGH
LOW
69°
75°
100° (1934)
51°
50°
32° (1932)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
1.25"
0.98"
4.23"
3.14"
5.00"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
New
May 29
June 4
87° 48°
93° 53°
Seattle
61/51
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
80° 46°
5:12 a.m.
8:34 p.m.
12:58 a.m.
11:45 a.m.
First
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June 12 June 20
Today
WEDNESDAY
Spokane
Wenatchee
63/46
71/51
Tacoma
Moses
62/51
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 71/46
62/43
58/51
61/49
74/46
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
63/51
70/50 Lewiston
76/50
Astoria
69/48
62/50
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
69/53
Pendleton 64/40
The Dalles 76/47
72/47
75/50
La Grande
Salem
67/41
69/50
Albany
Corvallis 71/49
72/50
John Day
71/45
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
74/45
72/47
66/39
Caldwell
Burns
71/44
67/35
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
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Jerusalem
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WINDS
Medford
80/49
(in mph)
Klamath Falls
72/39
Boardman
Pendleton
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Showers around across
the north today; clouds breaking in central
parts. Partly sunny in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Clouds and
sun today. Partly cloudy tonight. Partial
sunshine tomorrow.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today.
Rain and drizzle at the coast; a shower or
two in central parts.
Eastern Washington: Times of sun and
clouds today; a shower in spots in the
mountains in the afternoon.
Cascades: Clouds and sun today; warmer.
Today
Sunday
WSW 6-12
WSW 7-14
WSW 7-14
W 7-14
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
2
4
7
7
4
2
8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.
0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Northern California: Sunny today, except
some clouds in the interior mountains. Clear
tonight.
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WORLD CITIES
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
manager with the Idaho Department
of Water Resources.
Water District 1, which includes
the Upper Snake system, gave
$200,000 to the program. Water-
master Lyle Swank says his district’s
contribution is 20 percent of its total
budget, but members voted for the
contribution.
“When we can extract a little
extra moisture from the atmosphere,
that can be really helpful,” Swank
said.
customers to bear the full cost of a
program other stakeholders beneit
from,” said Bowling. “I think we’ve
had a pretty good reception to the
collaborative funding mechanism.”
The Water Resource Board
contributed $500,000 to help the
program add infrastructure two
years ago, followed by another
$200,000 last year toward an
airplane for cloud seeding in the
Upper Snake River Basin, said
Brian Patton, the Planning Bureau
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016
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National Summary: As a tropical system approaches the Carolina coast today, a mosaic of
downpours and locally gusty storms will affect the Central and Northeastern states. A few
afternoon storms will dot the Rockies.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 102° in Zapata, Texas
Low 24° in Bellemont, Ariz.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
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Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
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