The BulleTin • Wednesday, May 5, 2021 A3
TODAY
Today is Wednesday, May 5, the
125th day of 2021. There are 240
days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On May 5, 1925, schoolteacher
John T. Scopes was charged in
Tennessee with violating a state
law that prohibited teaching the
theory of evolution.
In 1494, during his second voy-
age to the Western Hemisphere,
Christopher Columbus landed in
Jamaica.
In 1818, political philosopher
Karl Marx, co-author of “The
Communist Manifesto” and au-
thor of “Das Kapital,” was born
in Prussia.
In 1891, New York’s Carnegie
Hall (then named “Music Hall”)
had its official opening night,
featuring Russian composer Pe-
ter Ilyich Tchaikovsky as a guest
conductor.
In 1942, wartime sugar ra-
tioning began in the United
States.
In 1945, in the only fatal attack
of its kind during World War II, a
Japanese balloon bomb explod-
ed on Gearhart Mountain in Or-
egon, killing the pregnant wife
of a minister and five children.
Denmark and the Netherlands
were liberated as a German sur-
render went into effect.
In 1961, astronaut Alan B.
Shepard Jr. became America’s
first space traveler as he made
a 15-minute suborbital flight
aboard Mercury capsule Free-
dom 7.
In 1973, Secretariat won the
Kentucky Derby, the first of his
Triple Crown victories.
In 1978, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream
had its beginnings as Ben Cohen
and Jerry Greenfield opened an
ice cream parlor at a converted
gas station in Burlington, Ver-
mont.
In 1981, Irish Republican Army
hunger-striker Bobby Sands
died at the Maze Prison in
Northern Ireland on his 66th day
without food.
In 1987, the congressional
Iran-Contra hearings opened
with former Air Force Maj. Gen.
Richard V. Secord the lead-off
witness.
In 1994, Singapore caned
American teenager Michael Fay
for vandalism, a day after the
sentence was reduced from six
lashes to four in response to an
appeal by President Bill Clinton.
In 2009, Texas health officials
confirmed the first death of a
U.S. resident with swine flu.
Ten years ago: Solemnly
honoring victims of the Sept. 11
terror attacks, President Barack
Obama hugged survivors at
ground zero in New York and
declared that the killing of Osa-
ma bin Laden was an American
message to the world: “When
we say we will never forget, we
mean what we say.”
Five years ago: Former Los
Angeles trash collector Lonnie
Franklin Jr. was convicted of 10
counts of murder in the “Grim
Sleeper” serial killings that tar-
geted poor, young Black women
over two decades.
One year ago: President Don-
ald Trump visited a Honeywell
mask factory in Arizona, but
ignored guidelines to wear a
mask. Tyson Foods said it would
resume limited operation of its
huge pork processing plant in
Waterloo, Iowa, with enhanced
safety measures, more than two
weeks after closing the facility
because of a coronavirus out-
break among workers. Michigan
communities saw record turn-
out for local elections, with votes
cast largely by mail. Facebook
said it had removed several
accounts and pages linked to
QAnon, taking action for the first
time against the far-right con-
spiracy theory circulated among
Trump supporters.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Pat
Carroll is 94. Country singer-mu-
sician Roni Stoneman is 83. Actor
Michael Murphy is 83. Actor
Lance Henriksen is 81. Comedi-
an-actor Michael Palin is 78. Ac-
tor John Rhys-Davies is 77. Rock
correspondent Kurt Loder is 76.
Rock musician Bill Ward (Black
Sabbath) is 73. Actor Melinda
Culea is 66. Actor Lisa Eilbacher
is 64. Actor Richard E. Grant is
64. Former broadcast journalist
John Miller is 63. Rock singer Ian
McCulloch (Echo and the Bunny-
men) is 62. NBC newsman Brian
Williams is 62. Rock musician
Shawn Drover (Megadeth) is 55.
TV personality Kyan Douglas is
51. Actor Tina Yothers is 48. R&B
singer Raheem DeVaughn is 46.
Actor Santiago Cabrera is 43.
Actor Vincent Kartheiser is 42.
Singer Craig David is 40. Actor
Danielle Fishel is 40. Actor Henry
Cavill is 38. Actor Clark Duke is
36. Soul singer Adele is 33. Rock
singer Skye Sweetnam is 33. R&B
singer Chris Brown is 32. Figure
skater Nathan Chen is 22.
— Associated Press
LOCAL, STATE & REGION
TIGARD
COVID-19 | Rising cases
DA asks Justice
Department to
review fatal
police shooting
Associated Press
Mojo Hill via AP
University of Oregon students and fans gather at a cramped outdoor party in Eugene Saturday. The school says it is “disappointed” to see
the photo of more than 100 students as the region deals with a spike in COVID-19 cases and businesses endure new restrictions. None of the
packed partygoers in the photo is wearing a mask. Eugene police responded to the party after calls about the large crowd, loud music and
about people urinating in the front yard.
UO ‘disappointed’ after large party
Associated Press
EUGENE — The Univer-
sity of Oregon says it is “disap-
pointed” to learn about large
crowds gathering for parties
during the Ducks spring game
as the region weathers a spike
in cases of COVID-19 and
businesses endure new restric-
tions.
Lane County, where the
university is located, moved
back to “extreme risk” on Fri-
day, meaning that bars and
restaurants were limited to
outdoor dining only and nor-
mal social gathering places
were off-limits. Capacity at
a spring game for the Ducks
football team at Autzen Sta-
dium had been set at 15%, but
the new restrictions meant no
spectators or tailgaters were
allowed.
Instead, students packed
into parties at private homes.
Photos and videos of several
large parties Saturday circu-
lated on social media, show-
ing people standing shoul-
der-to-shoulder and without
masks, The Register-Guard
reported.
The University of Oregon
issued a statement late Sunday
condemning the behavior but
said there was little it could do
about parties at private houses
off campus.
“The university has worked
very hard to educate students
about the serious COVID-19
health risks of gathering in
groups without masks,” the
statement said. “This behav-
ior is not representative of the
majority of UO students, who
we have seen work diligently
Marine suspended
amid probe of sinking
ordered the suspension last
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The
week pending the outcome of
Marine Corps inspector gen-
the probe, the newspaper said.
eral, Major General Robert
Castellvi was the command-
Castellvi, has been suspended
ing general of the Camp Pend-
amid the ongoing probes into
leton-based 1st Marine Divi-
last summer’s fatal sinking of
sion until September. He was
a seafaring tank off the South-
named in a previous investiga-
ern California coast,
tion as someone who
a newspaper reported
has some responsi-
Monday.
bility in the accident.
A Bend man and
However, the Marines
eight others died in
did not punish him.
the accident involving
The Marine Corps
an amphibious assault
has said last year’s ac-
vehicle July 30 near
cident was caused by
San Clemente Island.
mechanical failures,
Ostrovsky
Castellvi becomes
shabby maintenance,
the highest-ranking officer to
inadequate training, and poor
face discipline in the multiple
judgment by commanders.
investigations into the disaster,
The armored vehicles out-
the San Diego Union-Tribune
fitted with machine guns and
reported. His suspension was
grenade launchers look like
announced by the assistant
tanks as they roll ashore.
commandant of the Marine
Jack Ryan Ostrovsky, 21, of
Corps commander in a hear-
Bend was one of those killed in
ing before the House Armed
the accident. He moved from
Services Subcommittee on
his native Bellingham, Wash-
Readiness on Monday.
ington, to Bend in 2018 and at-
Gen. David Berger, the com- tended Central Oregon Com-
mandant of the Marine Corps, munity College.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
to follow health guidelines.”
Some residents called the
Eugene Police Department
and officers assisted the uni-
versity in dispersing the par-
tygoers. Callers reported loud
music and students urinating
in the front yard of one home
where one student witness
snapped a photo that circu-
lated widely on social media,
The Register Guard reported.
One woman fell off the roof
and was taken to the hospital
by ambulance.
Student Joseph Hill, who
took the picture, said there
was a party of similar size a
few nights before at the same
address.
Hill’s Twitter post quickly
got a lot of reaction online,
from students, alumni and
professors who commented
that they were disappointed in
these students, some who they
recognized.
“There were a lot of those
photo-truther people,” Hill
told the newspaper. “Even
now there are people still
tweeting and saying, ‘Oh, this
is from 2015.’ I was pretty
shocked at how many people
were insisting that it was an
old photo, and people were
able to disprove them pretty
quickly in the comments.”
But not everyone was so de-
fensive, he said.
“There’s also been a lot
of students reacting saying
they’re disappointed in their
peers. There’s some people
even being really dramatic
and saying, ‘If you’re in the
photo I will not be friends
with you,’ and stuff like that.”
PORTLAND — Washing-
ton County District Attorney
Kevin Barton has asked the
Oregon Department of Justice
to review the deadly shooting
of a man by Tigard police.
In a letter to Michael
Slauson, chief counsel for the
criminal division of the Jus-
tice Department, Barton said
he believes an “independent
evaluation” of the investigation
of the fatal shooting of Jacob
Macduff is necessary “given the
concerns I have developed re-
garding the incident.”
Barton declined to comment
on his request or about the
concerns he mentioned, The
Oregonian reported.
Macduff, 26, was in the
throes of a mental health crisis
that had escalated before his
death on Jan. 6, his friend The-
resa Chapin said at the time.
Macduff had struggled with
an undiagnosed mental health
problem, Chapin said. Mac-
duff’s mother told The Orego-
nian it might have been bipolar
disorder.
His erratic behavior
prompted Chapin and other
friends to call 911 five times in
the week before police shot and
killed him. Tigard police have
said he was shot as officers
tried to arrest him on domestic
violence allegations.
Police said officers “con-
fronted” Macduff in his vehi-
cle, which was parked under
the apartment complex where
he lived. Macduff had a knife,
police said, and refused to sur-
render. Officer Gabriel Maldo-
nado shot him during a strug-
gle, police said in a statement.