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C M C M Y K Y K HIGH SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS Coquille, Marshfield boys and girls sweep, B1 Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 SATURDAY,JANUARY 5, 2013 theworldlink.com I $1.50 Report revisits administrators for county BY DANIEL SIMMONS-RITCHIE certain ideas. likes the idea of a finance manager.The posi- The World The authors’ biggest recommendation is tion also would oversee the county’s Who authored this report? to collapse 13 of Coos County’s departments accounting system and take over certain The study was conducted by volunteer researchers at COQUILLE — From department mergers into five or six and establish two new man- duties from the treasurer. the National Policy Consensus Center of Portland State to sharing services with other counties, the agement positions: finance manager and But Sweet shares Main’s concern over the University. The center offers free consulting services to new board of commissioners is set to take chief administrative officer. proposed “chief administrative officer,”who government organizations. The Coos County commis- another hard look this year at how it can save Commissioner Bob Main says he could be would oversee three to six existing depart- sioners approached the center last year. money and streamline operations. open to mergers, but says he is wary of estab- ments. The study was conducted by Jim Johnson, John Anderson and Pat Cochran, who each have experience A report released this week is likely to be lishing any position that oversees too many “I say that not because I’m dead set in city or county government. The county covered the the launch pad for that discussion. The 108- departments. He says that would be too simi- against it,”Sweet said, “but I think that’s too cost of a single visit by Johnson and Anderson to Coos page document was written for Coos Coun- lar to a “county administrator,” a proposed close to a county administrator, which the County, but paid no other costs. ty by volunteer researchers at Portland State position that was rejected by voters in voters clearly voted down.” Johnson and Anderson interviewed 12 officials and University. November. Commissioner-elect Melissa Cribbins commissioners-elect John Sweet and Melissa Cribbins. All three newly-elected commissioners “I don’t know why it’s being brought up says the position of chief administrative The report is dated Dec. 21, but was released say they are interested in the report’s pro- again when it was just voted down,”he said. Wednesday by the Coos County commissioners. posals, although their opinions differ over Commissioner-elect John Sweet says he SEE ADMINISTRATOR | A8 A rocky start to crabbing season The early Crews plan returns removal of have been crashed boat mixed BY THOMAS MORIARTY The World BY TIM NOVOTNY CHARLESTON — The diesel The World fuel that leaked from a wrecked crab boat near Cape Arago on CHARLESTON — It is too Thursday has safely dissipated, but early to call it a lost year, but it left behind a multi-jurisidictional it’s clear the Oregon Dunge- mess for state and federal agencies. ness crab season is not off to a As of 4:15 p.m. Thursday, only a stellar start. thin film of fuel lingered north of the The season started with stricken Robert Henry beneath the delays, and now the crab, if Simpson Reef overlook. they are out there, appear to By Lou Sennick, The World “It seems to be moving straight be hiding. The crab boat Robert Henry has drifted closer to the bluffs below the Simpson Reef overlook and has broken in half in this viewThursday out away from shore,”and the out- “It’s been a mixed batch so afternoon.The overlook will be closed to visitors during the boat’s removal. look is as good as could be expect- far,” said Matt LeDoux, pres- ed for this type of scenario, said ident of the Fishermen’s John Todd,a diver con- Dawn Grafe, acting project leader Wharf in Charleston. “Some tracted by Sunderland for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife of the guys are striking out, Marine Mutual Insurance, Service’s Newport office. “No sick but some guys are doing real- examines the bow wreck- mammals have been spotted.” ly well.” age from the Robert According to Grafe, the sheen It’s just a matter of finding Henry, a Newport-based that resulted from the split vessel the constantly moving crab, was approximately 20 feet wide by he says. “Crab are kind of like fishing vessel that 160 yards long. cattle, they just migrate in a wrecked near Simpson The National Oceanic and big group around the area.” Reef on Wednesday morn- Atmospheric Administration and Fishermen, he says, typi- ing. Employees with the Oregon Department of Fish and cally go to familiar ground to Oregon Parks and Wildlife are among the agencies start the season. But they Recreation Department assisting with environmental also will drop experimental and the Oregon monitoring. strings of crab pots in other Department of Fish and “Our role is to advise the inci- areas. While the start of this Wildlife picked up debris dent commanders of the natural season has been under- along Cape Arago’s North resources present at the site,”said whelming, it may just be a Cove beach Friday morn- ODFW spokesperson David Lane. matter of shifting focus. ing.Todd and another Lane said his agency defers Hallmark Fisheries plant diver checked for coils of authority over marine mammals to manager Scott Adams “The Simpson Reef overlook will be closed ropes in the water, which the federal government. agrees. “The catch is down. could endanger marine Pollution wasn’t the only How much is hard to say.” through Jan. 7.” potentially sticky situation created However, the season could animals in the refuge by the wreck. Chris Havel still bounce back. It just area. Initially, responsibility for the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department By Alysha Beck, The World SEE CRAB | A8 SEE BOAT | A8 Could it get much dumber than this? I Astoria teen charged after New Year’s Eve and hit someone’s car. two vehicles. Police also connected pieces released on his own recognizance. He avoid- Deputy Chief Brad Johnston said Thurs- from the crash scene to the vehicle registered ed a charge of drunken driving because he ‘Drivin drunk’ post on day that officers were investigating a hit and to Cox-Brown. was interviewed hours after the incident and run involving a sideswiped car that sustained “He denied it initially, and it wasn’t until the Facebook post is not sufficient evidence Facebook after wreck significant damage — a second car also was he was confronted with overwhelming evi- that he was intoxicated. hit — when two Facebook friends of Cox- dence that he finally admitted to it,” John- “We can’t just convict somebody based on Brown contacted authorities, reporting a ston said. the fact that they said they were drunk,” BY STEVEN DUBOIS Facebook post in which the 18-year-old Cox-Brown, who has more than 650 Face- Johnston said. The Associated Press wrote: “Drivin drunk ... classsic ;) but to book friends, did not immediately respond to Johnston said the department is fairly whoever’s vehicle i hit i am sorry. :P” a Facebook message seeking comment. He active in social media and it has been useful PORTLAND — Jacob Cox-Brown might One of his friends sent a Facebook mes- does not have a phone number listed in his in several cases. He added that the takeaway want to adjust his Facebook privacy settings. sage to an Astoria police officer; the other name. from this case is not that people should be Police in the coastal city of Astoria arrested called the station, Johnston said. Officers Cox-Brown was charged with failure to careful about what they post on Facebook: the teenager after he allegedly confessed via went to Cox-Brown’s house and found a perform the duties of a driver. He was “No, the message is stop and contact people Facebook that he had been driving drunk on vehicle that matched the damage done to the booked into the Clastsop County jail and when you run into their cars.” Police reports . A2 Sports . B1 William Landles, Coos Bay T S S Jimmie Suggs, Sherwood E A H Louise Karstens, Coquille D What’s Up . Go Comics . C5 Judith Grossman, North Bend I C T Elfriede Boehm, Brookings E A S South Coast. A3 Puzzles. C5 Ronald Harrison, Coos Bay Rain E R N Oletta Clampett, Bandon | 52/41 I Obituaries A5 D Opinion. A4 Classifieds . C6 O Howard Leatherman, Myrtle Point F Weather | A8 C M C M Y K Y K C M C M Y K A2 •The World • Saturday, January5,2013 Y K South Coast City Editor Ryan Haas • 541-269-1222, ext. 239 theworldlink.com/news/local Local legislators enter committees Police seek lost THE WORLD I Joint Committee on Public Safety goods’ owners Sen. Jeff Kruse (R-Roseburg) SALEM — South Coast legislators I Education and Workforce Devel- game systems have received their committee opment THE WORLD I Magnavox VCR assignments for the 77th session of I Judiciary the Oregon Legislature, which will Have you lost something I Sony Cybershot 3.2 digi- start Jan. 14. Representatives recently and thought it would tal camera never appear again? I Two Sega Genesis game The legislators will spend two days Rep. Caddy McKeown (D-Coos swearing in new members and elect- Well, maybe the Coos Bay systems Caddy McKeown Bay) Arnie Roblan Police Department can help ing presiding officers. They’ll return I Sega Dream Cast game D-Coos Bay I Vice Chair, Agriculture and Nat- D-Coos Bay to work Feb.

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