A4 THE BULLETIN • TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2021
TODAY
Masks
Today is Tuesday, April 27, the
117th day of 2021. There are 248
days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On April 27, 1978, 51 construc-
tion workers plunged to their
deaths when a scaffold inside a
cooling tower at the Pleasants
Power Station site in West Vir-
ginia fell 168 feet to the ground.
In 1521, Portuguese explorer
Ferdinand Magellan was killed
by natives in the Philippines.
In 1791, the inventor of the tele-
graph, Samuel Morse, was born
in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
In 1810, Ludwig van Beethoven
wrote one of his most famous
piano compositions, the Baga-
telle in A-minor.
In 1822, the 18th president of
the United States, Ulysses S.
Grant, was born in Point Pleas-
ant, Ohio.
In 1865, the steamer Sultana,
carrying freed Union prisoners
of war, exploded on the Missis-
sippi River near Memphis, Ten-
nessee; death toll estimates vary
from 1,500 to 2,000.
In 1941, German forces occu-
pied Athens during World War II.
In 1973, acting FBI Director L.
Patrick Gray resigned after it was
revealed that he’d destroyed
files removed from the safe of
Watergate conspirator E. How-
ard Hunt.
In 1982, the trial of John W.
Hinckley Jr., who shot four peo-
ple, including President Ronald
Reagan, began in Washington.
(The trial ended with Hinckley’s
acquittal by reason of insanity.)
In 1994, former President Rich-
ard M. Nixon was remembered
at an outdoor funeral service
attended by all five of his suc-
cessors at the Nixon presidential
library in Yorba Linda, California.
In 2009, a 23-month-old Mexico
City toddler died at Texas Chil-
dren’s Hospital in Houston, be-
coming the first swine-flu death
on U.S. soil.
In 2010, former Panamanian
dictator Manuel Noriega was
extradited from the United
States to France, where he was
later convicted of laundering
drug money and received a sev-
en-year sentence.
In 2015, rioters plunged part of
Baltimore into chaos, torching
a pharmacy, setting police cars
ablaze and throwing bricks at
officers hours after thousands
attended a funeral for Freddie
Gray .
Ten years ago: Powerful tor-
nadoes raked the South and
Midwest; according to the Na-
tional Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, more than 120
twisters resulted in 316 deaths.
President Barack Obama pro-
duced a detailed Hawaii birth
certificate in an extraordinary at-
tempt to bury the issue of where
he’d been born and confirm his
legitimacy to hold office.
Five years ago: Former House
Speaker Dennis Hastert was sen-
tenced in Chicago to more than
a year in prison in a hush-money
case that revealed accusations
he’d sexually abused teens while
coaching high school wrestling.
One year ago: In a call with
governors, President Donald
Trump said states should “se-
riously consider” reopening
public schools before the end of
the academic year.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor
Anouk Aimee is 89. Rock mu-
sician Jim Keltner is 79. Rock
singer Kate Pierson (The B-52s) is
73. Actor Douglas Sheehan is 72.
Rock musician Rob Squires (Big
Head Todd and the Monsters)
is 56. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J.,
is 52. Actor Sally Hawkins is 45.
Actor Ari Graynor is 38. Rock
singer-musician Patrick Stump
(Fall Out Boy) is 37. Actor William
Moseley is 34. Singer Lizzo is 33.
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Summit’s Maggie Williams stumbles at the end of her 800-meter run, which set a school
record Wednesday.
U.S. growth
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Growth in the District of Co-
lumbia mushroomed, possibly
predicting trends in other cities
once more detailed census data
are released later this year.
Immigration, health
and the pandemic
Since 2010, immigration has
declined, driven by the eco-
nomic crisis early in the decade
and government restrictions
later in the decade. The birth-
rate has also dropped; and life
expectancy has dipped in the
past couple of years — a re-
versal driven by factors such
as drug overdoses, obesity,
suicide, and liver disease, and
sharply accelerated last year by
the coronavirus pandemic.
The extent to which the coro-
navirus pandemic has contrib-
uted to population patterns is
not apparent in the new census
data because much of the related
displacement and the deaths
of over half a million people
took place after Census Day.
According to the Pew Research
Center, 5% of U.S. adults said
they moved because of the pan-
demic; it is not clear whether
these moves will be permanent.
But it is clear that older pop-
ulations, especially those over
age 65, will continue to see far
higher rates of growth than
young ones. The percentage
of Americans 65 and over has
grown by 35%, based on cen-
sus estimates released last year.
In the coming decade, people
in the large baby boomer gen-
eration will reach their 60s, 70s
and 80s.
Without robust immigration,
the United States would look
more like Japan, Germany and It-
aly, where births and the influx of
newcomers have been unable to
keep pace with the graying of the
population, placing burdens on
social services and the labor force.
A Pew Research Center analysis
showed that more half the coun-
try’s population increase between
1965 and 2015 was due to im-
migration, which alone added
about 72 million people. With no
immigration in the next half-cen-
tury, growth in the United States
would nearly flatten.
But the rate of growth for a
nation or a state does not tell
the whole story, said Steven
Martin, a senior demographer
at the Urban Institute.
“While growth creates many
advantages for a state — a more
vibrant economy and easi-
er-to-balance state budgets —
perpetual growth cannot be
a long run solution in a finite
world,” he said. The current fer-
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tility rate in the United States is
1.73, below the 2.1 considered
to be the replacement rate, pro-
ducing as many births each year
as deaths. “Overall population
growth is going to be small, and
eventually flat, which has to
happen at some point.”
“A lot of people talk about
cultural extinction if a nation
doesn’t bring it up to two chil-
dren per couple,” Martin said.
“That’s like saying that a 19-year
old is growing less than ever.”
If the nation were to keep
growing at the rate it did in the
20th century, when it quadru-
pled from about 70 million to
about 280 million, “essentially
within a couple of centuries
we’ll run out of space,” he said.
Not unpredicted
Over the nation’s history,
growth ebbed and surged
during wars, economic down-
turns and immigration waves.
But the overall arc has been in
the direction of a slowdown.
For the first century after
the United States gained its
independence, the country
grew at a feverish pace, staying
above 30% most decades. The
rate hovered in the 20s in the
late 19th and early 20th cen-
turies, and mostly in the teens
through the 1960s. It contin-
ued to flag toward the end of
the century, and between 2000
and 2010 it fell to 9.7%.
The growth last decade was
about half the rate of the 1990s,
when rising immigration and
millennial-generation births
pushed it up to 13.2%.
The state population totals
released Monday will be used
to determine the reapportion-
ment of House seats and elec-
toral college votes.
The slowdown was uneven
across regions. Three states saw
their populations shrink in the
past decade.
West Virginia shrank most
radically, losing 3.2% of its pop-
ulation. That continued a de-
cades-long downward trend
and reflects emigration and ag-
ing of the population. The state,
which is more than 90% White,
is the only one to have a smaller
The two biggest changes will come in
the hurdles and the 100-meter sprint —
short-distance races where athletes are
typically running close to one another
for the entire duration. Turnbull said he
plans to only fill half the lanes for these
events, guaranteeing 6 feet of distance,
so sprinters and hurdlers can race with-
out masks.
However, Turnbull believes short
events like these wouldn’t spread
COVID-19 easily, even without 6 feet of
distance between runners.
“A 13-second 100-meter race, the risk
for transmission seems impossibly low,”
he said. “You’re at higher risk driving to
the meet (in your car).”
The highest-risk outdoor events
for spreading COVID-19 involve un-
masked people in close contact, but
only for long periods, according to the
Mayo Clinic.
For long-distance events — like the
population compared with 1950
levels, when it peaked at slightly
over 2 million people.
Most of the loss there has
been in rural areas, where job
losses and emigration started
several decades ago and con-
tinue to reverberate. “In the 80s
we saw the loss of a lot of coal
jobs and a lot of manufacturing
jobs, shifting from miners to
machines,” said Sean O’Leary,
a senior policy analyst at the
West Virginia Center on Bud-
get and Policy. “And in the past
decade … dwindling coal sup-
plies and the rise of natural gas
have been putting pressure on
the coal industry.”
West Virginia is also one of
two states where the deaths ex-
ceeded births over the decade
(the other is Maine, which grew
because it had a higher rate
of immigration). The median
age there is between 42 and 43,
compared to the national aver-
age of 38. The state is projected
to keep shrinking through 2040,
according to the University of
Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Cen-
ter for Public Service.
While most states registered
an uptick rather than a decline,
the growth was in many cases
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Vicki Ann Nicholson
January 31, 1954 - April 13, 2021
Vicki Ann Nicholson, age
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following a long illness.
Vicki was the youngest of four
girls, born in Portland, Oregon
to Daniel and Marie Myers.
She graduated from Madras
High School in 1972 and began
a career as an insurance and
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family, Vicki loved spending ti me with the German
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3,000- or 1,500-meter races, where ath-
letes huddle together, shoulder-to-shoul-
der, at the start line — student-athletes
will wear face masks to start, Turnbull
said. But once the runners naturally
spread out as the race gets going, they
can pull their masks down.
Student-athletes must still wear face
masks while training for competitions,
or directly before and after competi-
tions, Modie said.
Peter Weber — president of the Or-
egon School Activities Association,
which regulates high school athletics
in the state — noted that the nonprofit
OSAA did not make this mask rule
change, nor did they create the original
rule. OSAA simply enforces the rules,
he said.
Still, Weber was happy to see the
Oregon Health Authority relax mask
wearing for outdoor non-contact com-
petition.
“We definitely think that it’s a posi-
tive,” he said.
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much slower than in previous
decades. California, for exam-
ple, grew by 2.3 million people,
or 6.1%, but it will lose a seat in
Congress because other states
outpaced it.
“California is kind of a signal
that people are leaving expen-
sive states to go to lower-cost
states,” said William Frey, a de-
mographer and senior fellow at
the Brookings Institution, add-
ing that trends show people in-
creasingly moving inland from
more costly coastal places.
Most of the fastest growth
was in the South and the West,
which have seen an influx in
recent years of people moving
in from other countries and
other states. Based on census
estimates, in more than a dozen
states about half the gains are
Latino people, including Ar-
izona, Florida, Nevada, New
Mexico and Texas, Frey said.
Whites accounted for more
than half the growth in five
states, plus D.C. In 27 states, the
number of whites declined.
OBITUARY
Will Miller Storey
July 22, 1931 - April 7, 2021
Will Storey’s legacy began
with his passing on April
7th, 2021. Born to George
and Louise Storey on July
22nd, 1931 in Vancouver,
Washington,
and
the
younger brother of Ken
Storey, Will spent his
youth heavily involved in
sports and social acti viti es.
He eventually att ended
Oregon State University
where he conti nued to play
football and enrolled in the ROTC. Aft er graduati ng,
Will joined the United States Air Force and was
stati oned in Japan where he served for two years.
Upon returning to the U.S. a new chapter in Will’s
life would begin. He would att end graduate school at
the University of Washington, obtaining his masters
in fi nance. In 1957, Will was married to Verle
Kippenhan, taking a vow that they would honor
for the rest of his life. Not long aft er, they moved
to Bend, Oregon where he began his career in the
corporate world and their two children, Sharon and
Kip, were born.
A passionate businessman, Will left his mark in
many industries signifi cant to the Pacifi c Northwest
over his lifeti me. He held many positi ons through his
career in fi nance but perhaps his most illustrious,
and most fond, were his 20 years with Boise Cascade,
where he ended his tenure as CFO. His experti se in
fi nance would take him all over the country, most
notably to Cincinnati , Ohio, where he assumed
the role as Vice President and COO of Federated
Department Stores. His career also encompassed
serving on various business, educati onal, and
hospital boards, including the 127 year old family
brick mason business, B & B Tile & Masonry.
Nine years later, Will would take one more job as
COO of American President Lines. During this ti me
Will and Verle would relocate to Sun Valley, Idaho,
where he reti red. Will was sti ll very acti ve at this
ti me, where he served as chairman of the board
for the then new St. Luke’s Wood River Hospital.
Eventually, they found their way back to Bend,
Oregon and Will spent his remaining days in Lake
Oswego, Oregon, in the company of his children and
grandchildren.
Anyone who knew Will was well acquainted with his
generosity and passion for history. He was always
forthright - never shy about his opinions but was
curious and respectf ul of any other’s point of view,
diff erent though they may be. He had a taste for
the fi ner things in life, but nothing could top peach
cobbler and ice cream.
Will’s fi nal days were spent with his loving family
where meals were shared, stories were told and
heirlooms handed down. Will faced his terminal
diagnosis bravely, grateful for the long, content and
happy life he’d led, saying as much to his friends
and family. He passed away a very proud husband,
father and grandfather.
He will be remembered for his vision, forthrightness,
and generosity. He is survived by his loving family,
his wife Verle Storey, daughter Sharon Storey, son
Kip Storey, daughter-in-law Robin Meredith Storey,
and his four grandchildren, Meredith Miller, Hailey
Miller, Ian Storey and Will Storey. Celebrati on
of life will be a family only gathering. If desired,
contributi ons may be made to the American Red
Cross.