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TODAY
It’s Saturday, July 24, the 205th
day of 2021. There are 160 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
In 1969, the Apollo 11 astro-
nauts — two of whom had been
the first men to set foot on the
moon — splashed down safely
in the Pacific.
In 1567, Mary, Queen of Scots
was forced to abdicate by Scot-
tish nobles in favor of her infant
son James, who became King of
Scotland at the age of one.
In 1847, Mormon leader
Brigham Young and his follow-
ers arrived in the Great Salt Lake
Valley in present-day Utah.
In 1858, Republican senatorial
candidate Abraham Lincoln
formally challenged Democrat
Stephen A. Douglas to a series of
political debates; the result was
seven face-to-face encounters.
In 1862, Martin Van Buren, the
eighth president of the United
States, and the first to have been
born a U.S. citizen, died at age
79 in Kinderhook, New York,
the town where he was born
in 1782.
In 1866, Tennessee became the
first state to be readmitted to
the Union after the Civil War.
In 1915, the SS Eastland, a pas-
senger ship carrying more than
2,500 people, rolled onto its side
while docked at the Clark Street
Bridge on the Chicago River; an
estimated 844 people died in
the disaster.
In 1937, the state of Alabama
dropped charges against four
of the nine young Black men ac-
cused of raping two white wom-
en in the “Scottsboro Case.”
In 1952, President Harry S. Tru-
man announced a settlement
in a 53-day steel strike. The Gary
Cooper western “High Noon”
had its U.S. premiere in New
York.
In 1974, the U.S. Supreme Court
unanimously ruled that Presi-
dent Richard Nixon had to turn
over subpoenaed White House
tape recordings to the Water-
gate special prosecutor.
In 1975, an Apollo spacecraft
splashed down in the Pacific,
completing a mission which
included the first-ever docking
with a Soyuz capsule from the
Soviet Union.
In 2010, a stampede inside a
tunnel crowded with techno
music fans left 21 people dead
and more than 500 injured at
the famed Love Parade festival
in western Germany.
In 2019, in a day of congressio-
nal testimony, Robert Mueller
dismissed President Donald
Trump’s claim of “total exonera-
tion” in Mueller’s probe of Rus-
sia’s 2016 election interference.
Ten years ago: Cadel Evans
won the Tour de France, becom-
ing the first Australian champion
in cycling’s greatest race.
Five years ago: Thousands of
demonstrators took to Phila-
delphia’s sweltering streets in
the first major protests ahead
of the Democratic National
Convention. Ken Griffey Jr. and
Mike Piazza were inducted into
the Baseball Hall of Fame. British
rider Chris Froome celebrated
his third Tour de France title in
four years.
One year ago: U.S. agents again
used tear gas to try to disperse
a large crowd of protesters
outside the federal courthouse
in Portland, after fireworks were
shot toward the building amid
raucous demonstrations. A
federal judge denied a request
by Oregon’s attorney general
to restrict the actions of federal
police who’d been deployed
there amid weeks of protests
over the death of George Floyd.
Television personality Regis
Philbin, remembered for his syn-
dicated morning show and for
“Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,”
died at 88.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor John
Aniston is 88. Political cartoon-
ist Pat Oliphant is 86. Comedian
Ruth Buzzi is 85. Actor Mark
Goddard is 85. Actor Dan Hedaya
is 81. Actor Chris Sarandon is 79.
Comedian Gallagher is 75. Actor
Robert Hays is 74. Actor Michael
Richards is 72. Actor Lynda Car-
ter is 70. Movie director Gus Van
Sant is 69. Former Sen. Claire Mc-
Caskill, D-Mo., is 68. Basketball
Hall of Famer Karl Malone is 58.
Retired MLB All-Star Barry Bonds
is 57. Actor Kadeem Hardison
is 56. Actor-singer Kristin Che-
noweth is 53. Actor Laura Leigh-
ton is 53. Actor-singer Jennifer
Lopez is 52. Basketball play-
er-turned-actor Rick Fox is 52.
Director Patty Jenkins (“Wonder
Woman”) is 50. Actor Rose Byrne
is 42. Actor Elisabeth Moss is 39.
Actor Anna Paquin is 39. Actor
Sarah Greene is 37. NHL center
Patrice Bergeron is 36. Actor Em-
ily Bett Rickards is 30. Actor Lu-
cas Adams is 28. TV personality
Bindi Irwin is 23.
— Associated Press
LOCAL, STATE & REGION
BOOTLEG FIRE
Firefighters make progress
Containment has
reached 40%
BY NATHAN HOWARD
Associated Press
BLY — The nation’s largest
wildfire continued burning
in parts of Klamath and Lake
counties on Friday, but crews
were scaling back some night
operations as hard work and
weaker winds helped reduce
the spread of flames.
The Bootleg Fire, which has
grown to just over 400,000
acres, with containment in-
creasing to 40% as of Friday af-
ternoon, according to InciWeb.
The blaze has burned about 70
homes, mainly cabins, fire offi-
cials said.
At least 2,000 homes were
ordered evacuated at some
point during the fire and 5,000
were threatened.
The upper eastern edge of
the blaze continued to move
toward Summer Lake, jump-
ing fire lines on Thursday and
prompting an evacuation or-
der for some portions of Lake
County to be raised to Level 3
“go now!” fire officials said.
Winds up to 10 mph could
drive the flames through tim-
ber but not at the pace seen last
week, when the wind-driven
blaze grew exponentially, fire
information officer Angela
Goldman said.
There was good news on
the lower portion of the light-
ning-sparked blaze. Crews had
locked in containment lines,
and on the lower southeastern
side, crews were able to gain a
substantial foothold, allowing
them to cut back to nighttime
patrols from what had been
a “24-7 run-and-gun” fight,
fire information officer Sarah
Nathan Howard/AP photos
Sayyid Bey, left, and his son, Nicolas Bey, 11, sift through the remains of their home Thursday after it was destroyed by the Bootleg Fire near Bly.
Gracey said.
“For us, that’s a pretty big
step,” she said. “It’s not that easy
to work in a pitch-black forest
in the middle of the night.”
“The fire continues to throw
challenges at us, and we are
going to continue to stay vigi-
lant, work hard, and adapt,” Joe
Hessel, incident commander
for the Oregon Department of
Forestry Incident Management
Team, said in a statement.
That side of the blaze also
had burned into an area black-
ened by a previous fire, cre-
ating gaps in the fuel and re-
FBI to join Portland
police downtown
after deadly shooting
BY MAXINE BERNSTEIN
The Oregonian
FBI agents will pair up with
officers in the Portland police
Enhanced Community Safety
Team to provide more cover-
age in downtown Friday and
Saturday nights in the wake of
a mass shooting that killed an
18-year-old and wounded six
others July 17.
The weekend also marks the
kickoff of a formal grand re-
opening of the city center after
a year of upheaval.
Police plan to pull officers
from their north and east pre-
cincts to bolster central pre-
cinct patrols in the downtown
core, provide more overtime
for the increased coverage and
have FBI agents ride-along
with certain officers.
The police bureau’s En-
hanced Community Safety
Team — made up of three
sergeants, 12 officers and six
detectives — already has been
working closely with the FBI to
respond to shooting scenes, ex-
amine evidence, interview wit-
nesses and do follow-up inves-
tigations. An FBI-led task force
was created in April to work
closely with Portland police
to build cases against people
responsible for the significant
rise in shootings in the city.
“Last week’s tragic shoot-
ing reverberated throughout
the community,” Police Chief
Chuck Lovell said. “We are
seeing almost nightly gun vi-
olence, but as things open up,
we want people to feel safe,
as they come downtown and
gather in the Entertainment
District. We are trying to use
our resources effectively in or-
der to accomplish this while
also responding to 911 calls.”
The extra downtown cov-
erage, at this point, is planned
only for this weekend.
On July 17 at about 2 a.m.,
18-year-old Makayla Maree
Harris was killed and six oth-
ers wounded in a suspected
drive-by shooting on SW
Third Avenue near Harvey
Milk Street. No arrests have
been made.
ducing the spread of flames
through grass, shrub and tim-
ber, Gracey said.
In northeast Oregon, the
Elbow Creek Fire burning in
the Umatilla National For-
est northwest of Wallowa re-
mained at just under 20,000
acres with 20% containment,
according to InciWeb.
Across the Washington bor-
der, the Lick Creek Fire, also
burning in the Umatilla Na-
tional Forest, had burned more
than 78,000 acres, with con-
tainment at 55%, according to
InciWeb.
A cow walks through an area damaged by the Bootleg Fire near Bly.