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1925 Chehalis Farmhouse Injured Adna Free Home to Be Demolished for Development / Main 3 Football Player Recovering / Sports $1 Early Week Edition Tuesday, Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Oct. 6, 2015 Threat Leads to Evacuation of Winlock Schools SECOND INCIDENT: Centralia Threat That Pete Caster / Led to Lockdown Still ‘‘We take every [email protected] Washington Under Investigation incident seriously, as State Trooper By The Chronicle student safety is the Jonathan Vaughan After the second lockdown highest priority.’’ works with in as many school days in Lewis his bomb- County, Winlock’s middle and sniing dog, high schools were given the all- Shannon Criss superintendent Asia, as they clear Monday afternoon. investigate a The Winlock Middle and bomb threat Senior High schools went into a that was made lockdown after a student found by bus to Winlock Elementary School and later picked up by at Winlock a bomb threat at about 12:30 High School p.m. The message indicated a their parents. The sheriff’s office respond- on Monday bomb would go off in the school afternoon. later that afternoon, according ed to the scene with assistance to the Lewis County Sheriff’s from the Toledo Police Depart- Office. ment and the Washington State Students were evacuated please see WINLOCK, page Main 13 Will Vader Toledo’s Dragon Master Change Its Name? COST OF CHANGE: WSDOT Estimates Price to Change Signs Could be as High as $15,000 By Kaylee Osowski [email protected] Ten years ago, Dave Holland was one of the Vader residents leading the call to change the town’s name to one it had previ- ously. He now has signs in his yard and decals on his car showing his support of calling the town Little Election Falls, an issue that is on the 2015 ballot again after failing in 2005. This elec- tion season, the 85-year- old isn’t ac- tively campaigning for the change. Instead, a newcomer to town is one resident taking ac- Pete Caster / [email protected] tions to promote the change be- Local artist Marcus Devine sits on top of a large, steel dragon that he created. It was on display in downtown Toledo on Monday afternoon, but will soon be moved. cause he thinks it will help bring families and businesses to the ‘GLOBAL PRESENCE’: grade art teacher was so con- brary in Santa Barbara, Califor- “I was always enamored with city. cerned his first dragon, made nia, where Devine grew up, put dragons. Probably my first fas- Mike Parsons moved to Dragon Sculptor Brings out of papier mache, could be it on display for many years. cination came when I was in town less than one year ago, and before making the move, he said damaged that she gave him a “That was kind of the begin- third grade, I think,” Devine Piece on Tour, Hopes to he and his wife hesitated to close key to the janitor’s closet so he ning of a little notoriety for me,” said. “We all went on my birth- the deal on their home because Land Back in Seattle could safely work on it there. he said. day to a movie, Grimm’s fairy tale type of stories, and there they didn’t like the name Vader. By Kaylee Osowski The about 4-foot-tall piece Since then, Devine, a Toledo The town will vote on wheth- included shark’s teeth and some resident, has become a master was a dragon in there, and I was [email protected] er or not to change the name of his brother’s hair for a beard. of dragons — or sculpting them, Marcus Devine’s eighth- When he finished it, a li- anyway. please see DRAGON, page Main 13 please see VADER, page Main 13 Pete Caster / [email protected] Boater Still Missing at First respond- ers from the Centralia Police Plummer Lake in Centralia Department row By The Chronicle across Plummer Kytta, of the Riverside Fire Authority. Lake in Centralia Police and fire crews searched Witnesses also reported seeing a in hopes of ind- Plummer Lake in Centralia Monday man struggling in the water. Fire crews used the man’s boat to ing evidence of a for a boater who went into the water check the shoreline and surface of possible drown- at about noon and didn’t resurface. ing on Monday the water for evidence of the missing Witnesses at the scene reported man. afternoon. seeing an unoccupied boat and a life- jacket in the water, said Chief Mike please see CENTRALIA, page Main 13 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Border to Border Apple Harvest Festival Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Thousands Godding, Allegra Mae, Follow Us on Twitter Local 82, Chehalis @chronline Cyclist Travel to Firth, Don, 62, Rides From Onalaska Chehalis Find Us on Facebook for Annual www.facebook.com/ Canada to thecentraliachronicle Mexico Parade and / Life 1 Festivities / Main 14 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015 PAGE TWO News Daily Outtake: ‘Bam Bam’ Kam of the Weird Kuwaiti With Gulf Skeletons, Skulls Plates Nabbed for 1,645 Under Afghanistan’s Driving Violations Presidential Palace KUWAIT CITY (AP) — A KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Kuwaiti driver who apparently Afghanistan’s presidential palace thought having license plates says skulls and bones belonging from another Gulf country to two bodies have been uncov- would help avoid more than ered beneath a kitchen during 1,600 traffic citations has been renovation work on the palace hit with a huge fine. grounds. The state-run Kuwait News The gender, cause of death Agency says the driver racked up and identity of the skeletons are 1,645 different driving violations a mystery. while traveling under the un- Tuesday’s palace statement named Gulf country’s plates. says the remains have been sent KUNA quoted a statement for forensic examination. from an Interior Ministry offi- It also says that a commis- Scott Ecklund / The Associated Press cial, Maj. Gen. Abdullah al-Me- sion, including representatives Seattle Seahawks strong safety Kam Chancellor, right, celebrates his tackle of Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin John- hanna, as saying that the driver of the Afghan Independent Hu- son in the second half of an NFL football game Monday, in Seattle. The Seahawks beat the Lions 13-10. See more in faced over $190,000 in fines after man Rights Commission and today’s Sports section. being caught. Physicians for Human Rights, The statement on Saturday has been set up to identify the did not identify the driver, but bodies. Notable Quote reminded drivers they have a Afghanistan has had a long month’s grace period to change history of unearthing mass their license plates to Kuwaiti graves of unidentified victims ones for foreign-bought cars. of war, many linked to former “All our science is so amazing that I would not doubt that we can fix the Countries throughout the warlords. Gulf use traffic cameras to en- In 2002, around 2,000 bod- weather changing. I just have that feeling and that hope.” force speed limits and traffic ies were found in a mass grave in laws. northern Afghanistan, believed to be Taliban fighters killed af- Marcus Devine, Former Florida Middle ter being taken prisoner during Toledo artist fighting that overturned their (see the front page for the full story) School Students Look six-year regime. for Missing Time Capsule TNT Wedding Favors INDIALANTIC, Fla. (AP) Caused Evacuation at Today in History — Former students of a central Denver Airport Florida middle school were hop- DENVER (AP) — A wedding Today's Highlight in History: pictures arrived with the open- dential debate with Democrat ing to crack open a buried time ing of "The Jazz Singer" starring Jimmy Carter, President Gerald gift was no joke to TSA agents On Oct. 6, 1973, war erupted capsule to celebrate the 50th Al Jolson, a movie featuring both R. Ford asserted there was "no anniversary of Hoover Middle checking bags in a screening in the Middle East as Egypt and silent and sound-synchronized Soviet domination of eastern School. room at Denver International Syria launched a surprise attack sequences. Europe." (Ford later conceded The problem is no one re- Airport. on Israel during the Yom Kippur In 1939, in a speech to the that was not the case.) members where it was buried. An agent watching an X-ray holiday. (Israel, initially caught Reichstag, German Chancellor In 1979, Pope John Paul II, Florida Today reports teacher monitor spotted wax and fuses off-guard, suffered heavy losses Adolf Hitler spoke of his plans to on a week-long U.S. tour, be- Jack Deppner filmed students on inside a checked bag at the air- before rebounding and push- reorder the ethnic layout of Eu- an 8 millimeter camera in 1976. port. ing back the Arab forces before came the first pontiff to visit rope — a plan which would en- the White House, where he was He also collected mementos to TSA said the bride and a cease-fire finally took hold in tail settling the "Jewish problem." bury in the time capsule. groom’s names both start with a the nearly three-week conflict.) received by President Jimmy In 1949, U.S.-born Iva Toguri Carter. Students reconnected on “T,” so their wedding souvenirs D'Aquino, convicted of trea- In 1981, Egyptian President Facebook and raised the idea were labeled TNT. On This Date: son for being Japanese wartime of opening the capsule. But no The incident happened Sept. broadcaster "Tokyo Rose," was Anwar Sadat was shot to death one knew where it was buried.