WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
FRIDAY
TODAY
SATURDAY
A passing
afternoon shower
Clouds and breezy
with a shower
64° 46°
59° 40°
SUNDAY
Mostly cloudy with
a few showers
Today
MONDAY
Partly sunny
Cloudy
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
57° 54°
66° 51°
66° 40°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
62° 41°
61° 47°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
71°
63°
85° (1940)
47°
39°
20° (1917)
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"
0.26"
0.59"
12.55"
9.24"
9.53"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
60°
64°
85° (1940)
Trace
0.18"
0.33"
7.19"
6.34"
6.89"
SUN AND MOON
Oct 27
Bend
61/38
Full
Nov 3
7:17 a.m.
6:02 p.m.
6:58 a.m.
6:28 p.m.
Last
Nov 10
Caldwell
73/48
Burns
65/32
Hi
57
69
61
56
65
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57
63
61
68
62
69
65
62
56
59
72
63
64
57
63
57
53
64
57
64
63
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
Lo
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Hi
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84
81
64
75
46
70
72
69
79
58
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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WINDS
Medford
62/43
PRECIPITATION
Oct 19
John Day
68/41
Ontario
72/48
48°
38°
23° (1976)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Albany
57/46
Eugene
57/43
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
69° 38°
Spokane
Wenatchee
53/42
58/40
Tacoma
Moses
57/42
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 59/45
59/43
56/47
56/43
63/37
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
56/44
64/46 Lewiston
63/49
Astoria
65/46
57/44
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
57/46
Pendleton 67/40
The Dalles 61/47
64/46
59/44
La Grande
Salem
69/42
57/46
Corvallis
57/43
HIGH
69° 50°
Seattle
56/46
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
60° 55°
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Today
Friday
SW 6-12
WNW 6-12
WSW 10-20
WSW 12-25
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
62/32
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Breezy today with pouring
rain. Periods of rain tonight. Periods of rain
tomorrow.
Eastern and Central Oregon: A passing
shower today; partly sunny in the south and
upper Treasure Valley.
Western Washington: Periods of rain, some
heavy today. A little rain tonight. Occasional
rain tomorrow.
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warm front stationary front
110s
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low
National Summary: Showers will dot Florida, the Texas coast and Southwest today. Rain
will douse Washington and Oregon prior to reaching wildfire-ravaged Northern California
at night. Other areas will be dry and sunny.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 99° in El Centro, Calif.
Low 14° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
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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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Report leaves ambiguity about Slats Gill’s legacy on race
CORVALLIS (AP) —
Oregon State University
is considering whether to
change the names of four
campus buildings that some
students believe are named
for racists.
One is Gill Coliseum,
home of the Oregon State
basketball teams.
The university released
a historical review Monday
that provides ammunition
for supporters and critics
of the building’s namesake
— former men’s basketball
coach Amory “Slats” Gill, the
Gazette-Times reported.
Gill had only one black
player during his tenure from
1928 to 1964, a walk-on for
part of a season. But the report
says there’s evidence he tried
to recruit black players. The
report, written by Oregon State
professors Marisa Chappell
and Dwaine Plaza, concludes
Andy Cripe/The Corvallis Gazette-Times via AP
In this Feb. 2016 photo, the Oregon State men’s bas-
ketball team plays against Washington State at Gill
Coliseum in Corvallis. Gill Coliseum is a multi-purpose
arena that opened in 1949 and is named after famed
basketball coach Amory T. “Slats” Gill.
the evidence is incomplete
and ambiguous, but generally
points to a conclusion that Gill
did not deliberately keep the
team segregated.
“We have no evidence that
Gill made derogatory state-
ments about African Ameri-
cans or opposed having black
players on the OSU basketball
team,” the report states. “We
do have evidence that he tried
to recruit several black players
but was unsuccessful.”
A public discussion is
scheduled for Thursday night
at the university. Gill Coli-
seum was unofficially named
for Gill when it was built in
1949, and officially so after
his death in 1966.
The report states contro-
versy arose around Gill in
1963, when an Oregon state
senator introduced a bill to
prevent Oregon universities
from playing against the
University of Mississippi,
where
segregationists
protested the enrollment of
James Meredith, the school’s
first black student.
The legislator tabled the
bill after realizing Oregon
State never had a black
basketball player. Gill’s
response in the campus
newspaper: “I wish that these
people who are making such
charges would help us get a
Negro on our basketball team
that would measure up to our
current players.”
The report notes that
recruiting was more regional
at the time, and Oregon had
a small black population.
Two black players Gill
tried to recruit in the early
1960s were Norm Monroe, a
track athlete at Oregon State,
and Charlie White, a Califor-
nian.
Monroe only practiced for
part of a season before leaving
the squad. White became the
team’s first black scholarship
player the year after Gill
retired as basketball coach.
“We have evidence that
Corvallis was a difficult
place for African Americans
in the 1960s, which would
help explain some of Gill’s
difficulty attracting black
players,” the report states.
“Both Charlie White and
Norm Monroe described
feeling isolated and facing
consistent racism and hostility
at OSU and in Corvallis.”
The report, however, also
quotes White talking about
feeling uncomfortable during
a recruiting visit from Gill.
He said Gill didn’t make eye
contact and was more inter-
ested in talking to his white
roommate.
“Charlie White’s recol-
lections about Gill were not
positive, but it is unclear if that
uneasiness related specifically
to race,” the report said.
No interviewees remem-
bered Gill ever discussing
civil rights or racial politics.
When Gill’s team lost to
University of San Francisco in
the 1955 NCAA tournament,
Gill singled out Bill Russell,
who is black, as the key
difference between the teams.
BRIEFLY
Lane County workers
go on strike
EUGENE (AP) — Workers
represented by Lane County
government’s largest labor union
went on strike Wednesday, seeking
higher wages while trying to fend
off an attempt to make them pay
for health insurance.
The Register-Guard reports
striking workers established picket
lines outside different county
buildings in Eugene.
The workers are represented by
the American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Employees.
It’s the union’s first strike in Lane
County since 1979.
The two sides have been
negotiating since March on a
new three-year contract but are
more than $20 million apart on
employee compensation costs.
The county has offered pay
raises of about 3 percent on
average in the contract’s first
year. The county also wants
employees to start paying $20 to
$70 per month toward their health
insurance coverage premiums;
they currently pay nothing.
The union wants far higher
raises and rejects the county
proposal to contribute to health
insurance plans.
County spokeswoman Devon
Ashbridge said officials will try
to minimize how the strike affects
service to the public.
“Being the first day of the
strike, this is new territory for a
lot of people,” she said. “It’s an
all-hands-on-deck situation.”
AFSCME and its nurses
unit employees represent 692
employees, nearly half of the
county’s roughly 1,400 employees.
With an undetermined number
of workers on strike, county
managers had the option of
implementing plans to suspend
numerous health programs, close
community health centers and
cut operating hours at different
county offices.
Lane County District Attorney
Patty Perlow said all divisions of
her office remain open, although a
slow-down of some work related
to criminal cases is expected.
Clerical staff and victim advocates
are represented by the union.
Yakima to vote on
recreational pot ban
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) —
Voters in the unincorporated areas
of Yakima County will vote in
November on whether they think
the county’s ban on recreational
marijuana businesses should be
lifted.
The Herald-Republic reports
that county commissioners say
the ban was put into place when
Yakima County voters rejected the
initiative that legalized recreational
marijuana in 2012 by 57.8 percent.
The November vote will
be an advisory vote, meaning
commissioners still have final say
on the ban despite the outcome of
the election.
There are currently more
than 20 marijuana businesses
in unincorporated areas of the
county, despite the ban. Many
of them initially were operations
only providing medical marijuana
before the state began regulating
both medical and recreational pot
under one market.
Paper mill closing after
128 years in business
WEST LINN (AP) — The
West Linn Paper Company is
shutting down after more than 100
years in business.
Chief Operating Officer Brian
Konen said in a statement that
several unforeseeable events led to
a significant reduction in available
pulp, making continued operations
impossible.
West Linn Paper will also shut
down a warehouse, logistics and
transportation site in Vancouver,
Washington.
The Oregonian/OregonLive
reports that the mill south of
Portland opened in 1889 and once
employed 1,600 people, making
newsprint, wrapping paper and
paper bags. Originally Willamette
Falls Pulp and Paper Co., it took its
current name from an investment
group that acquired it in 1997.
Corrections
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