$1 Early Week Edition Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Thomas Medals; Bearcats Prevail W.F. West Golfers Top Centralia at Newaukum Valley / Sports 1 $400,000 for Students A Town Staple Since 1945 Scholarship Night Brings Centralia College Mossyrock’s Smith and Son Grocery Has Been Foundation Together With Students / Main 4 Around for a Lot of History, Change / Main 4 Twin Transit Seeks $4.3 Million Grant for Facility PLANS: More Space and would be located along Pearl Centralia, but it is located next Street between Maple and Cen- to train tracks, is unstaffed and Better Location Eyed by ter, would be staffed and allow the current management build- Tax-Funded Entity riders access to other services, ing is located some 1,000 feet including LEWIS Mountain to the south, across the Locust By The Chronicle Highway Transit, Rural and Street tracks. Twin Transit has submitted Tribal Transit and Grays Har- In addition to purchasing a grant application to the state bor County Transit, according parcels on Pearl Street, Twin Department of Transportation to a press release from Twin Transit also bought the Car- requesting $4.3 million to con- Transit. penters’ Union Building to be struct a new transit center in The Historic Train Depot, or remodeled into a transit office. Centralia. Amtrak Station, has been serv- The new station, which ing as the transportation hub for please see FACILITY, page Main 16 A computer-generated image of the new transit center provided by Twin Transit. Odd Sights and Sounds Dominate Vader Church Saginaw Days in Logging Road Town Distributes $100,000 Worth of Donated Potato Chips ASSEMBLY OF GOD: Congregation Works Together to Distribute 81,000 Bags of Chips By Aaron Kunkler [email protected] Last Tuesday, Vader Assem- bly of God received and distrib- uted a donation of some 81,000 lunch-sized bags of barbecue potato chips from the Kettle Chips company, the largest single shipment Pastor Tracy Durham said he’d seen. “We have never ever received donations on this scale before,” he said. “We might get 15, 18, 20 boxes, but never a semi load.” The semi-truck load of chips they received on Sept. 13 was sent originally to God’s Portion, a Yelm-based organization Pete Caster / [email protected] comprised of various churches A steam donkey, owned by Lou Parsons, of Hoodsport, is used during a demonstration at Saginaw Days in Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon. The antique steam and food banks, which then donkey was used to haul large pieces of timber from one point to another. sends donations out to member organizations for distribution. A GOOD TIME: Lumberjack BROOKLYN — Saginaw berjack enthusiasts and outright flannel-jacket and hickory-shirt The 81,000 bags came in a Days is a strange happening in revelers from all over the area outfitted attendees simply pitch 53-foot semi-truck trailer on Competition in Brooklyn a far-out place. descend on the logging road a tent or park a camper and 90 pallets before Durham’s Brings Folks Out of the For starters, the lumberjack- community of Brooklyn begin- proceed to enjoy each other’s church distributed them to ing competition is actually a ning on Friday night, either to sap-splattered company right on food banks, schools, senior Woodwork one-day event. help set up the fiasco or, more through until after another Sun- centers and churches across the region, spanning from Toledo The pluralized “days” in its likely, for the prolific social im- day morning has come on down. By Jordan Nailon title is no misnomer though. bibing. The actual show is on [email protected] That’s because each year lum- Saturday, and many of those please see SAGINAW, page Main 16 please see CHIPS, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Free Admittance For a Good Cause Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Voetbergs to Friends, Reynolds, Simeon ‘Si’ Felix, Follow Us on Twitter 42, Chehalis @chronline Take Part in Band Roy, Charles, 75, Onalaska Fundraiser Members DeYoung, Joan, 85, Centralia Find Us on Facebook for Centralia to Raise Johnson, Phyllis J., 73, www.facebook.com/ Chehalis thecentraliachronicle Pregnancy Money for Dropalski, Dennis, 75, Center Centralia Family Borovec, Byron Edward, 85, / Main 6 / Main 6 Chehalis Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016 PAGE TWO News Chainsaw With Buick Engine of the Weird est operating inn in the coun- ‘Lucky’ To Be Alive: Calf try. With 2 Faces Born at Kentucky Farm Pennsylvania Man CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. Who Lost Phone (AP) — Visitors to a cen- tral Kentucky farm may do a Fleeing Cops Posts double-take when they see the Online: Don’t Call Me newest addition: a two-faced calf. SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Stan McCubbin of Camp- Authorities say a Pennsylvania bellsville told WDRB-TV that drug suspect who dropped his he thought he had twins when cellphone while running away he first saw the calf on Friday, from police took to Facebook but quickly realized he had to warn his friends not to call something far more unusual. that phone number. The female calf has two Lackawanna County detec- tives say 25-year-old Scranton Pete Caster / [email protected] noses, two mouths and four Jef Fetter, of Buckley, left, and Dave Bekkevar, of Sequim, use a modiied chainsaw powered by a 215 Buick V8 engine eyes, though the middle two resident James Lee Hankins fled when police tried to arrest to cut through a log during a demonstration at Saginaw Days in Brooklyn on Saturday. Fetter said he bought the eyes don’t function. Although 500-pound saw about 10 years ago for $1,000. See more on today’s front page. she can walk, the McCubbins him for an undercover drug say she ends up going in circles deal involving heroin and co- and falling over. caine on Monday afternoon. The family says most calves Police say a woman who Notable Quote with such a genetic mutation knew Hankins let them search are stillborn, but so far this one her apartment, and they found is eating and seems healthy. him minutes later in her base- McCubbin’s wife, Brandy, ment on a computer that had said their 5-year-old daughter, a page open to Facebook. De- “Our locals are our business, and the Kenley, named the calf Lucky tectives say Hankins posted tourist is just the cream on top of it.” because she’s lucky to be alive. a message telling friends he’d be off Facebook for a while and asking them not to call his Larry Smith Inn That Inspired phone until he said otherwise. Online court records don’t owner of Smith and Son Grocery Longfellow: Guests, list an attorney for Hankins. Give Us Our Stuff Back (see page Main 4 for the full story) SUDBURY, Mass. (AP) Police: Drug Suspect — A historic Massachusetts inn that inspired poet Henry Tried to Dissolve Wadsworth Longfellow and Heroin by Urinating was once owned by automo- Today in History SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — tive pioneer Henry Ford wants Today’s Highlight in History: Francisco; the convention nomi- In 1973, in their so-called “bat- its stuff back — no questions Police say a Pennsylvania drug suspect was all wet when he uri- nated Belva Ann Bennett Lock- tle of the sexes,” tennis star Billie asked. On Sept. 20, 1946, the first wood for president. Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs Longfellow’s Wayside nated in his pants in the hope Cannes Film Festival, lasting 16 that it would dissolve the heroin In 1911, the British liner RMS in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, at Inn in Sudbury is celebrat- days, opened in France. Among Olympic collided with the Royal the Houston Astrodome. Singer- ing its 300th anniversary by and cocaine in his pocket. the films honored with the Gold- The (Scranton) Times-Tri- Navy cruiser HMS Hawke off the songwriter Jim Croce, 30, died in offering amnesty for former en Palm were “The Lost Week- Isle of Wight; although seriously a plane crash near Natchitoches, guests who may have —ahem bune says 42-year-old Wesley end,” ‘’Brief Encounter,” “Rome, Autrey sold heroin Tuesday damaged, the Olympic was able Louisiana. — “secretly checked out” inn Open City” and “Pastoral Sym- to return to Southampton under In 1976, Playboy magazine property. Return it, and man- during an undercover sting in phony;” “The Battle of the Rails” Scranton. its own power. released an interview in which agement says it won’t pursue won the International Jury Prize. In 1947, former New York City Democratic presidential nomi- criminal charges. When police tried to ar- rest him afterward, they say he On this date: Mayor Fiorello La Guardia died. nee Jimmy Carter admitted he’d Innkeeper Steve Pickford In 1958, Martin Luther King “looked on a lot of women with tells The Boston Globe he’s struggled and had to be sub- In 1519, Portuguese explorer dued with a stun gun. Jr. was seriously wounded dur- lust.” The historical drama series particularly interested in re- Ferdinand Magellan and his crew ing a book signing at a New York “I, Claudius,” starring Derek Ja- covering a copy of the Declara- Police say Autrey then be- set out from Spain on five ships to gan urinating in his pants in an City department store when he cobi as the fourth emperor of An- tion of Independence belong- find a western passage to the Spice was stabbed in the chest by Izola cient Rome, began airing on BBC ing to Revolutionary War-era attempt to dissolve the drugs.