THE BULLETIN • SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2021 A3
TODAY
It’s Sunday, Feb. 21, the 52nd day
of 2021. There are 313 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
In 1965, minister and civil rights
activist Malcolm X, 39, was shot
to death inside Harlem’s Audu-
bon Ballroom in New York by as-
sassins identified as members of
the Nation of Islam. Three men
were convicted of murder and
imprisoned; all were eventually
paroled.
In 1862, Nathaniel Gordon
became the first and only Amer-
ican slave-trader to be executed
under the U.S. Piracy Law of
1820 as he was hanged in New
York.
In 1885, the Washington Monu-
ment was dedicated.
In 1916, the World War I Battle
of Verdun began in France as
German forces attacked; the
French were able to prevail after
10 months of fighting.
In 1945, during the World War
II Battle of Iwo Jima, the escort
carrier USS Bismarck Sea was
sunk by kamikazes with the loss
of 318 men.
In 1964, the first shipment of
U.S. wheat purchased by the
Soviet Union arrived in the port
of Odessa.
In 1972, President Richard M.
Nixon began his historic visit
to China as he and his wife, Pat,
arrived in Beijing.
In 1973, Israeli fighter planes
shot down Libyan Arab Airlines
Flight 114 over the Sinai Desert,
killing all but five of the 113 peo-
ple on board.
In 1975, former Attorney Gen-
eral John N. Mitchell and former
White House aides H.R. Halde-
man and John D. Ehrlichman
were sentenced to 2.5 to 8 years
in prison for their roles in the
Watergate cover-up (each ended
up serving a year and a-half).
In 1995, Chicago adventurer
Steve Fossett became the first
person to fly solo across the
Pacific Ocean by balloon, land-
ing in Leader, Saskatchewan,
Canada.
In 2005, President George W.
Bush, in Belgium for a NATO
summit, scolded Russia for back-
sliding on democracy and urged
Mideast allies to take difficult
steps for peace.
In 2010, a mistaken U.S. missile
attack killed 23 civilians in
Afghanistan. Four American offi-
cers were later reprimanded.
In 2018, the Rev. Billy Graham,
a confidant of presidents and
the most widely heard Christian
evangelist in history, died at his
North Carolina home; he was 99.
Ten years ago: Deep cracks
opened in Moammar Gadhafi’s
regime, with Libyan govern-
ment officials at home and
abroad resigning, air force pilots
defecting and a major gov-
ernment building ablaze after
clashes in the capital of Tripoli.
Five years ago: Bombings
claimed by the Islamic State
group in the Syrian cities of Da-
mascus and Homs killed nearly
130 people. Pope Francis, speak-
ing at the Vatican, urged Catho-
lic leaders to show “exemplary”
courage by not allowing execu-
tions “in this Holy Year of Mercy.”
Denny Hamlin won the Daytona
500, edging Martin Truex Jr. by
inches at the finish line.
One year ago: Health officials
said at least 18 Americans who’d
returned home from a quaran-
tined cruise ship in Japan were
infected with the new coronavi-
rus, bringing the total number
of cases in the U.S. to at least 35.
Italy reported its first coronavi-
rus death as the number of con-
firmed cases in Italy more than
quadrupled. Greyhound, the na-
tion’s largest bus company, said
it would stop allowing Border
Patrol agents without a warrant
to board its buses to conduct
routine immigration checks.
Today’s Birthdays: Movie di-
rector Bob Rafelson is 88. Actor
Gary Lockwood is 84. Actor-di-
rector Richard Beymer is 82.
Actor Peter McEnery is 81. Film/
music company executive David
Geffen is 78. Actor Tyne Daly is
75. Actor Anthony Daniels is 75.
Tricia Nixon Cox is 75. Former
Sen. Olympia J. Snowe, R-Maine,
is 74. Actor Christine Ebersole is
68. Actor Kelsey Grammer is 66.
Singer/guitarist Larry Campbell is
66. Country singer Mary Chapin
Carpenter is 63. Actor Kim Coates
is 63. Actor Jack Coleman is 63.
Actor Christopher Atkins is 60.
Actor William Baldwin is 58. Rock
musician Michael Ward is 54.
Singer Rhiannon Giddens (Caro-
lina Chocolate Drops) is 44. Actor
Tituss Burgess is 42. Actor Jen-
nifer Love Hewitt is 42. Comedi-
an-actor Jordan Peele is 42. Actor
Brendan Sexton III is 41. Singer
Charlotte Church is 35. Actor Ash-
ley Greene is 34. Actor Elliot Page
is 34. Actor Corbin Bleu is 32. Ac-
tor Sophie Turner is 25.
— Associated Press
LOCAL, STATE & NATION
NATION | CLEANUP FROM THE COLD
Warmer temperatures bring relief
had hoped to have service back
to all but 15,000 customers by
Friday night, but the utility dis-
covered additional damage in
previously inaccessible areas.
Gov. Kate Brown ordered
the National Guard to go door-
to-door in some areas to check
on residents’ welfare. At its
peak, what was the worst ice
storm in 40 years knocked out
power to more than 350,000.
BY JAKE BLEIBERG
AND MARK SCOLFORO
Associated Press
DALLAS — Warmer tem-
peratures spread across the
Southern United States on Sat-
urday, bringing some relief to a
winter-weary region that faces
a challenging cleanup and ex-
pensive repairs from days of
extreme cold and widespread
power outages.
In hard-hit Texas, where
millions were warned to boil
tap water before drinking it,
the warm-up was expected to
last for several days. The thaw
produced burst pipes through-
out the region, adding to the
list of woes from severe condi-
tions that were blamed for at
least 70 deaths.
By Saturday afternoon, the
sun had come out in Dallas
and temperatures were near-
ing the 50s. People emerged
to walk and jog in residential
neighborhoods after days in-
doors. Many roads had dried
out and patches of snow were
melting. Snowmen slumped.
Linda Nguyen woke up in
a Dallas hotel room Saturday
morning with an assurance she
hadn’t had in nearly a week: She
and her cat had somewhere to
sleep with power and water.
Electricity had been restored
to her apartment on Wednes-
day, but when Nguyen arrived
home from work the next eve-
ning she found a soaked car-
pet. A pipe had burst in her
Mikala Compton/Herald-Zeitung via AP
New Braunfels Utility employees help package bottled water Friday at the water station at the New
Braunfels Civic/Convention Center in the central Texas city. The water stations were set up by the utility and
the city of New Braunfels for area residents without water in the wake of outages due to unprecedented win-
ter weather.
bedroom.
“It’s essentially unlivable,”
said Nguyen, 27, who works in
real estate. “Everything is com-
pletely ruined.”
Deaths attributed to the
weather include a man at an
Abilene health care facility
where the lack of water pres-
sure made medical treatment
impossible. Officials also re-
ported deaths from hypother-
mia, including homeless peo-
ple and those inside buildings
with no power or heat. Others
died in car accidents on icy
roads or from suspected car-
bon monoxide poisoning.
A Tennessee farmer died
trying to save two calves from a
frozen pond.
President Joe Biden’s office
said Saturday he has declared a
major disaster in Texas, direct-
ing federal agencies to help in
the recovery.
Powerless, in Oregon
and elsewhere
The storms left more than
300,000 still without power
across the country Saturday,
many of them in Texas, Louisi-
ana and Mississippi.
More than 50,000 Oregon
electricity customers were
among those without power
more than a week after an ice
storm ravaged the electrical
grid. Portland General Electric
‘Everything’s been freezing’
Water woes added misery for
people across the South who
went without heat or electricity
for days after the ice and snow
storms forced rolling blackouts
from Minnesota to Texas.
Robert Tuskey was retriev-
ing tools from the back of his
pickup Saturday afternoon as
he prepared to fix a water line
at a friend’s home in Dallas.
“Everything’s been freezing,”
Tuskey said. “I even had one in
my own house ... of course, I’m
lucky I’m a plumber.”
In Jackson, Mississippi, most
of the city of about 161,000
lacked running water.
Texas electrical grid opera-
tors said electricity transmis-
sion returned to normal after
the historic snowfall and sin-
gle-digit temperatures created
a surge in demand that buck-
led the state’s system. Texas
Gov. Greg Abbott ordered an
investigation into the failure
for a state known as the U.S.
energy capital.
Beloved cherry trees at Oregon Capitol damaged in ice storm
Statesman Journal
SALEM — The regionally fa-
mous cherry trees on Oregon’s
Capitol Mall were damaged in
last weekend’s ice storm.
At least two of the 150 Ake-
bono flowering cherry trees
that line the park leading up to
the statehouse will need to be
removed and the rest will be
thinned out significantly after
sustaining significant damage.
The cherry trees, planted
in 1992, attract visitors from
around the region when they
bloom in March and April and
inspired the Capitol’s annual
Cherry Blossom Day. The two
rows of trees lining the mall,
with their gorgeous pink-and-
white blooms, are regarded as
a visual representation of the
coming of spring and the city’s
connection to the cherry in-
dustry and Japanese culture.
The ice storm last weekend
cut power to at least 350,000
customers; many are still with-
out electricity. A layer of ice an
Can you believe this maniac?
NO SUNSCREEN!
“We’ll be further assessing
the trees in the future once
the initial cleanup is done.”
— Kevin Strandberg, park
manager, Oregon Department
of Parks and Recreation
inch thick coated power lines
and trees.
It’s unknown how the lost
limbs will impact the cherry
trees’ survival or affect the aes-
thetics of the mall, said Kevin
Strandberg, park manager with
the Oregon Department of
Parks and Recreation.
“We’ll be further assessing
the trees in the future once the
initial cleanup is done,” he said.
Strandberg said removal
might be good for the health
of other cherry trees. The two
so far identified as needing
removal were already grow-
ing quite close to neighboring
trees, despite frequent pruning,
crowding the canopies.
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• UV Exposure
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above sea level.
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80% of the UV light
from the sun.
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Cherry trees
show their
colors at the
Capitol Mall
in Salem on
a cold day in
2010. Recent
storms dam-
aged many of
the famous
trees.
Statesman-Journal
file photo