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TODAY
Today is Tuesday, May 4, the
124th day of 2021. There are 241
days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On May 4, 1961, the first group
of “Freedom Riders” left Wash-
ington, D.C., to challenge racial
segregation on interstate buses
and in bus terminals.
In 1626, Dutch explorer Peter
Minuit landed on present-day
Manhattan Island.
In 1776, Rhode Island declared
its freedom from England, two
months before the Declaration
of Independence was adopted.
In 1932, mobster Al Capone,
convicted of income-tax
evasion, entered the federal
penitentiary in Atlanta. (Capone
was later transferred to Alcatraz
Island.)
In 1942, the Battle of the Coral
Sea, the first naval clash fought
entirely with carrier aircrafts,
began in the Pacific during
World War II. (The outcome was
considered a tactical victory for
Japan, but ultimately a strategic
one for the Allies.)
In 1945, during World War II,
German forces in the Nether-
lands, Denmark and northwest
Germany agreed to surrender.
In 1959, the first Grammy
Awards ceremony was held at
the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Dome-
nico Modugno won Record of
the Year and Song of the Year for
“Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)”;
Henry Mancini won Album of
the Year for “The Music from
Peter Gunn.”
In 1968, the Oroville Dam in
Northern California was dedicat-
ed by Gov. Ronald Reagan; the
770-foot-tall earth-filled struc-
ture, a pet project of Reagan’s
predecessor, Pat Brown, remains
the tallest dam in the United
States, but was also the scene of
a near disaster in February 2017
when two spillways collapsed,
threatening for a time to flood
parts of three counties in the
Sierra Nevada foothills.
In 1970, Ohio National Guards-
men opened fire during an
anti-war protest at Kent State
University, killing four students
and wounding nine others.
In 1998, Unabomber Theodore
Kaczynski was given four life sen-
tences plus 30 years by a federal
judge in Sacramento, California,
under a plea agreement that
spared him the death penalty.
In 2006, a federal judge sen-
tenced Zacarias Moussaoui to
life in prison for his role in the
9/11 attacks, telling the convict-
ed terrorist, “You will die with a
whimper.”
In 2010, a Pakistani-born U.S.
citizen was charged with ter-
rorism and attempting to use
a weapon of mass destruction
in the botched Times Square
bombing.
Ten years ago: President Barack
Obama said he had decided
not to release death photos of
Osama bin Laden because their
graphic nature could incite vio-
lence and create national secu-
rity risks. Officials told The Asso-
ciated Press that the Navy SEALs
who’d stormed bin Laden’s
compound in Pakistan shot and
killed him after they saw him ap-
pear to lunge for a weapon. Los
Angeles Clippers forward Blake
Griffin was named the Rookie
of the Year, becoming the NBA’s
first unanimous choice for the
award in 21 years.
Five years ago: Sipping filtered
city water to show it was again
drinkable, President Barack
Obama promised to ride herd
on leaders at all levels of govern-
ment until every drop of water
flowing into homes in Flint,
Michigan, was safe to use.
One year ago: New York state
reported more than 1,700 pre-
viously undisclosed coronavirus
deaths at nursing homes and
adult care facilities. The Su-
preme Court heard arguments
by phone and allowed the world
to listen in live for the first time.
The U.S. Senate convened for
the first time since March.
Today’s Birthdays: Kather-
ine Jackson, matriarch of the
Jackson musical family, is 91.
Jazz musician Ron Carter is 84.
Pulitzer Prize-winning political
commentator George Will is
80. Actor Richard Jenkins is 74.
Actor-turned-clergyman Hilly
Hicks is 71. Irish musician Darryl
Hunt (The Pogues) is 71. Singer
Jackie Jackson (The Jacksons) is
70. Violinist Soozie Tyrell is 64.
Actor Mary McDonough is 60.
Comedian Ana Gasteyer is 54.
Actor Will Arnett is 51. Rock musi-
cian Mike Dirnt (Green Day) is 49.
Contemporary Christian singer
Chris Tomlin is 49. TV personality
and fashion designer Kimora Lee
Simmons is 46. Sports reporter
Erin Andrews is 43. Singer Lance
Bass (‘N Sync) is 42. Rapper/singer
Jidenna is 36. Actor Amara Miller
is 21. Actor Brooklynn Prince is 11.
— Associated Press
LOCAL, STATE & REGION
Methodists turn over
Wallowa church to tribe
Wallowa County Chieftain
What once belonged to the
Nez Perce people was returned
Thursday with celebration and
fellowship at Wallowa United
Methodist Church in Wallowa.
The deed and keys to the
now-closed Wallowa United
Methodist Church were turned
over to the Nez Perce Tribe by
The Oregon-Idaho Confer-
ence of The UMC as a gesture
of gratitude, respect and re-
pentance, according to a press
release.
Leaders from the tribe, along
with Methodist leaders, joined
in a ceremony of celebration
and fellowship as the prop-
erty, which has been owned by
the church for 144 years, is re-
turned to the tribe.
This is the second piece of
property the church has re-
turned to the tribe. In 2018, the
conference returned 1.5 acres
Photos by Bill Bradshaw/Wallowa County Chieftain
LEFT: Nez Perce tribal member Lee Bourgeau, right, describes the his-
torical significance of the garments she is wearing while Mary Jane
Miles, of the Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee, listens.
ABOVE: Nez Perce drummers participate in ceremonies held Thursday
surrounding granting ownership of the now-closed Wallowa Method-
ist Church to the tribe. About 60 people, both from the tribe and the
church, were on hand for the ceremony.
of riverbed property from its
Wallowa Lake Camp to the
tribe to be used for fish spawn-
ing habitat.
Wyoming backs coal with threat to sue other states
Lawsuits between states ar-
en’t unusual and often involve
CHEYENNE, Wyo. —
natural resources, such as wa-
While most states pursue ways ter rights. Such cases can go
to boost renewable energy,
directly to the U.S. Supreme
Wyoming is doing the oppo-
Court, if the justices agree to
site with a new program aimed hear them.
at propping up the dwindling
Wyoming coal production,
coal industry by suing other
which accounts for about 40%
states that block ex-
of the nation’s
“I will not waver in total, has been
ports of Wyoming
coal and cause Wy-
decline as
my efforts to protect in
oming coal-fired
utilities switch
power plants to shut
to gas, which is
our industries,
down.
cheaper to burn
particularly our to generate elec-
The law signed
April 6 by Repub-
coal industry. The tricity. Solar and
lican Gov. Mark
wind power also
use of coal is under are on the rise
Gordon creates a
$1.2 million fund
coal’s share of
assault from all as
for an initiative
the U.S. power
that marks the lat-
market shrinks
directions.
est attempt by state
from about half
— Wyoming Gov.
leaders to help coal
in the early 2000s
Mark Gordon
in the state that ac-
to less than 20%
counts for the bulk
now.
of U.S. coal production, which
Who might be targets of
is down by half since 2008.
future Wyoming coal litiga-
“Wyoming is sending a
tion isn’t yet known. Pearlman
message that it is prepared to
declined to speculate, saying
bring litigation to protect her
Gordon and Attorney Gen-
interests,” Gordon spokesman
eral Bridget Hill would need to
Michael Pearlman said of the
study their chances of success,
fund signed into law April 6.
but they could include West
The law puts Oregon, other
Coast states including, again,
West Coast states and Colo-
Washington.
rado on notice — all seek to
Portland-based utility
get a large share of their elec-
PacifiCorp plans to reduce
tricity from renewables but still its coal-fired generation by
get juice from aging Wyoming two-thirds by 2030, partly
coal-fired power plants. The
by retiring generators at two
approach may run into legal
southwestern Wyoming power
troubles, though, according to
plants starting in 2023, as
one constitutional expert.
much as five years sooner than
BY MEAD GRUVER
The Associated Press
envisioned just a few years ago.
The utility serves four states
with renewable energy stan-
dards or goals — California,
Oregon, Utah and Washington
— and two that don’t: Idaho
and Wyoming.
PacifiCorp has been meeting
renewable standards by getting
electricity from the lowest cost
and least risky sources like it
has always done, so the stan-
dards haven’t factored into its
decisions to retire coal-fired
power, company spokesman
David Eskelsen said.
PacifiCorp has no position
on the legal fund, but the Wyo-
ming Rural Electric Association
supports the message it sends
to states such as Colorado,
which has renewable energy
standards and gets coal-fired
electricity from southeastern
Wyoming, Executive Director
Shawn Taylor said.
“It’s just kind of part and
parcel of folks feeling that
states and state agencies and
entities outside Wyoming are
having more of an impact on
our energy resources than we
do,” Taylor said.
The coal litigation fund
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Swastikas scrawled on
Holocaust memorial in
southwest Portland park
BY SHANE DIXON KAVANAUGH
The Oregonian
At least one person struck
the Oregon Holocaust Memo-
rial in southwest Portland’s
Washington Park, scrawling
swastikas across the memorial’s
stone wall, city officials said.
The vandalism, written in
white, also included the num-
bers “1488,” a symbol popular
among neo-Nazis and other
white supremacists, a photo
reviewed by The Oregonian
shows.
Portland and other commu-
nities around the U.S. recog-
nize May as Jewish American
Heritage Month.
Police notified parks bureau
staff of the antisemitic graf-
fiti about 11 a.m. Sunday, said
Mark Ross, a Portland Parks &
Recreation spokesman.
Maintenance crews later
managed to remove the graf-
fiti, Ross said, adding that the
vandalism remains under in-
vestigation by police.
“The damage to the Oregon
Holocaust Memorial is heart-
breaking, and it’s particularly
painful that it happened during
Jewish American Heritage
Month,” Mayor Ted Wheeler
said in a statement.
“I denounce hate crimes,
anti-Semitism, and white su-
premacy.”
The Portland Police Bureau
said Monday that investigators
were looking into the vandal-
ism, which also included an-
tisemitic tagging on signs and
concrete barriers near the park,
but no arrests had been made.
The Oregon Holocaust Me-
morial was dedicated in 2004.
At the end of the memorial
wall is a soil vault panel, where
soil and ash are interred from
six extermination camps of the
Holocaust.
Engraved in the granite pan-
els on the backside of the wall
are the names of people who
died in the camps, as well as
their surviving relatives who
live in Oregon and southwest
Washington.
followed a 2020 bill that es-
tablished a $1 million fund to
promote Wyoming coal. Wy-
oming is paying a nonprofit,
the Energy Policy Network,
$250,000 a year from the fund
to contest plans in other states
to shut down coal-fired power.
“I will not waver in my ef-
forts to protect our industries,
particularly our coal industry.
The use of coal is under assault
from all directions. And we
have stood firm in our support
of it throughout,” Gordon said
in his state of the state address
in March.
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