THE BULLETIN • SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 2021 A3
TODAY
It’s Saturday, Jan. 30, the 30th day
of 2021. There are 335 days left in
the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
In 1948, Indian political and spir-
itual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi,
78, was shot and killed in New
Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu
extremist. Godse and a co-con-
spirator were later executed.
In 1649, England’s King Charles I
was executed for high treason.
In 1862, the ironclad USS Monitor
was launched from the Continen-
tal Iron Works in Greenpoint, New
York, during the Civil War.
In 1933, Adolf Hitler became
chancellor of Germany.
In 1945, during World War II, a
Soviet submarine torpedoed the
German ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff
in the Baltic Sea with the loss of
more than 9,000 lives, most of
them war refugees; roughly 1,000
people survived. Adolf Hitler
marked the 12th anniversary of his
appointment as Germany’s chan-
cellor with his last public speech
in which he called on Germans to
keep resisting until victory.
In 1948, aviation pioneer Orville
Wright, 76, died in Dayton, Ohio.
In 1968, the Tet Offensive began
during the Vietnam War as Com-
munist forces launched surprise
attacks against South Vietnamese
towns and cities; although the
Communists were beaten back,
the offensive was seen as a major
setback for the U.S. and its allies.
In 1972, 13 Roman Catholic
civil rights marchers were shot
to death by British soldiers in
Northern Ireland on what became
known as “Bloody Sunday.”
In 1974, President Richard Nixon
delivered what would be his last
State of the Union address; Nixon
pledged to rein in rising prices
without the “harsh medicine of
recession” and establish a national
health care plan that every Ameri-
can could afford.
In 1981, an estimated 2 million
New Yorkers turned out for a
ticker-tape parade honoring the
American hostages freed from Iran.
In 2005, Iraqis voted in their
country’s first free election in a
half-century; President George
W. Bush called the balloting a re-
sounding success.
In 2006, Coretta Scott King, wid-
ow of the Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr., died in Rosarito Beach, Mexico,
at 78.
Ten years ago: Egypt’s most
prominent democracy advocate,
Mohamed ElBaradei, called for
President Hosni Mubarak to resign
during an address to thousands
of protesters in Cairo who were
defying a curfew for a third night.
Rachid Ghanouchi, leader of the
long-outlawed Tunisian Islamist
party, returned home after two
decades in exile. Novak Djokovic
won his second Australian Open
title, breezing past Andy Murray
6-4, 6-2, 6-3.
Five years ago: A boat carrying
Syrians attempting the short sea
journey from Turkey to Greece
capsized, causing at least 37 peo-
ple to drown, among them several
babies and young children. Ger-
many’s Angelique Kerber won her
first major title, upsetting Serena
Williams 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 to win the
Australian Open.
One year ago: Health officials
reported the first known case
in which the new coronavirus
was spread from one person to
another in the United States. The
World Health Organization de-
clared the virus outbreak, which
had reached more than a dozen
countries, to be a global emergen-
cy. Russia ordered the closure of
its 2,600-mile-long land border
with China in an effort to limit
the spread of the virus. President
Donald Trump described the
handful of U.S. cases of the virus
as a “very little problem” and said
those people were “recuperating
successfully.”
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Gene
Hackman is 91. Actor Vanessa
Redgrave is 84. Chess grandmas-
ter Boris Spassky is 84. Country
singer Norma Jean is 83. Former
Vice President Dick Cheney is 80.
Singer Phil Collins is 70. Actor
Charles S. Dutton is 70. World Golf
Hall of Famer Curtis Strange is 66.
Actor Ann Dowd is 65. Actor-co-
median Brett Butler is 63. Singer
Jody Watley is 62. Actor-filmmaker
Dexter Scott King is 60. The King
of Jordan, Abdullah II, is 59. The
King of Spain, Felipe VI, is 53. Ac-
tor Christian Bale is 47. Rock mu-
sician Carl Broemel (My Morning
Jacket) is 47. Actor Olivia Colman
is 47. Actor-singer Lena Hall is
41. Pop-country singer-song-
writer Josh Kelley is 41. Actor
Wilmer Valderrama is 41. Actor
Jake Thomas is 31. Actor Danielle
Campbell is 26.
— The Associated Press
LOCAL, STATE & REGION
COVID-19 | Vaccinations
Panel cannot consider race when
recommending who gets a shot
BY FEDOR ZARKHIN
The Oregonian
Oregon’s plan to fight “sys-
temic racism” through fair coro-
navirus vaccine distribution
struck multiple walls Thursday
when the state’s vaccine equity
group learned its recommenda-
tions were too broad and that
race can’t be a factor when de-
ciding who gets a shot next.
The 27-member Vaccine
Advisory Committee, which
suggests who should be vacci-
nated after Gov. Kate Brown’s
priority groups, is now sug-
gesting that people with un-
derlying conditions, front-line
workers, people in custody and
people living in low-income
and group senior housing
should get vaccinated next.
That amounts to about 1.2
million people, according to
the estimates the group used,
and would follow about 1.5
million already slated to get the
vaccine, including health care
Gillian Flaccus/AP file
Members of Oregon’s 27-member vaccine advisory committee are seen
meeting by teleconference in this photo taken Tuesday in Portland.
The committee advises Democratic Gov. Kate Brown and the Oregon
Health Authority on the phases of vaccine distribution.
workers, senior care residents
and staff, educators and people
65 and older.
The scope of the recommen-
dations remained the Achilles’
Heel of the group’s mission, with
multiple members pointing out
that with current vaccine sup-
plies, the recommended catego-
ries were simply too broad.
In fact, the recommenda-
tions are so broad that state
and local officials will likely
have the final say in which
precise subgroups will get
vaccinated when, state Public
Health Director Rachael Banks
told the committee.
“I just want to be really, re-
ally transparent,” Banks said,
adding that the agency “will
continue to be thinking about
health inequities.”
One week ago, the group
recommended that people of
color and Black and Indige-
nous communities get shots,
as well as people with under-
lying conditions. But Banks
indicated the health authority
couldn’t directly implement the
people of color and Black and
Indigenous communities por-
tion of the recommendations.
“We’re not able to priori-
tize services or make decisions
based on services solely on
somebody’s race or ethnicity,”
Banks said, adding that race
and ethnicity are social con-
structs meant to examine how
people experience racism.
Vale High School closes after virus cases found
BY ANDREW SELSKY
AND SARA CLINE
The Associated Press
SALEM — A high school in a
remote Oregon town ordered a
halt to in-person classes Friday
after eight people there tested
positive for COVID-19, and Re-
publican lawmakers accused the
Democratic governor of priori-
tizing urban over rural residents
for vaccine distribution.
The development in the high
school in Vale, a town of 2,000
Up To
residents in Eastern Oregon,
comes as Gov. Kate Brown has
faced criticism over prioritizing
educators over senior citizens
for vaccine eligibility in her ef-
fort to get schools across the
state to reopen. All teachers be-
came eligible to receive scarce
vaccines Monday, even though
eligible health care workers,
who were prioritized first, hav-
en’t all been vaccinated yet.
Alisha McBride, superinten-
dent of the Vale School Dis-
trict, said all in-person instruc-
tion and activities at Vale High
School would be paused from
Monday through Feb. 11. The
eight individuals who had been
in the building tested positive
for COVID-19 this week. Mc-
Bride would not say if the eight
were students or teachers, but
that they apparently became
infected outside the school.
“It appears that the positive
individuals had contact outside
of the school building,” Mc-
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Bride said in an email.
She said she did not know
how many teachers have been
vaccinated in the school dis-
trict, located in sprawling Mal-
heur County, because staff
members are not required to
say if they’ve been vaccinated.
A spokesperson with the
Malheur County Health De-
partment did not respond to a
reporter’s question on whether
the county has received
enough vaccines.
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