Celebrating a Big Birthday for Former Boistfort Boys
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$1 Weekend Edition Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Bearcats Take Title W.F. West Puts Up Big Win Against Rivals / Sports East County Court Winlock Cemetery Commissioners, Judges Hear From Residents Driver Damages Grave Markers After Going on Future of District Court in Morton / Main 9 Off the Road in Jan. 18 Accident / Main 3 Chehalis- Centralia Celebrating a Big Birthday Railroad and Museum Purchases for Former Boistfort Boys Backup Men Who Were Once the Only Boys in Their First-Grade Locomotive Boistfort Class Set to Celebrate 90th Birthdays Together Again By The Chronicle The Chehalis-Centralia Railroad and Museum has purchased a locomotive to be used as a backup engine for steam train rides. Bill Thompson, with the museum, told Port of Che- halis commissioners at their Thursday meeting that a 1941 locomotive was purchased for $10,000. The museum is waiting on the federal government to fin- ish paperwork before the train is moved to Chehalis from Bremerton. please see BACKUP, page Main 16 Public Facilities District Approves Purchase of New Turf Pete Caster / [email protected] ABOUT $53,000: From left, John Hogue, Gene Frazier, Jack Crocker and Edgar Jones pose for a picture inside the Boistfort School Library on Thursday afternoon. The four men all went Addition Will Increase to elementary school together in Boistfort and will turn 90 in February. Tournament Team By Natalie Johnson Numbers to 36, Draw “I think Lewis County kind 90 in February. They ask that their 90th birthdays together. [email protected] of draws you in,” Frazier said. attendees bring no gifts, but “If this could happen, maybe Down Reserves “You live here very long, you’ll come to the grange to visit. we could win the lotto,” Crocker For Boistfort Valley resi- love it.” “It’s amazing the four of us added, also marveling at their By Justyna Tomtas dents Jack Crocker, John Hogue, The men plan to celebrate went to school together and luck at living such long, event- [email protected] Gene Frazier and Edgar Jones, their 90th birthdays from 1 to we’re still alive,” Frazier said. ful lives. there’s nowhere else on earth 4 p.m. Feb. 20 at the Baw Faw He said it was a “miracle” all The Lewis County Public they’d rather live. Grange in Curtis. All four turn four will be able to celebrate please see BIRTHDAY, page Main 16 Facilities District board ap- proved a resolution that would allow the Northwest Sports Hub to acquire more turf, in return bringing more people Sheriff’s Office Hosts Crisis into the area. The board met in a special Intervention Training meeting on Friday afternoon to approve the purchase for SHERIFF: ‘Engaging’ the Lewis County Sheriff’s Of- fice Thursday for a day-long $52,521.75. Training Helps Officers According to board Chair- Crisis Intervention Training ses- man Todd Chaput, it will in- Work with Mentally Ill, sion. crease tournament levels from People in Crisis The education effort gives 24 teams to 36 teams. He es- the officers tips and strategies timated there would be an By Natalie Johnson when encountering a mentally additional 150 people attend- ill person in crisis. Natalie Johnson / [email protected] [email protected] “They’re not expected to be ing the events, adding about Renee Cox, a mental health professional who contracts with the Criminal Jus- 200 rooms a night per event About 40 law enforcement able to diagnose, but an officer tice Training Commission, conducts an eight-hour crisis intervention training at officers from Lewis County and please see TURF, page Main 16 the Lewis County Sherif’s Oice Thursday. surrounding areas gathered at please see CRISIS, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Homeless Connect Hip Hop Show Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Help for Bubba Kelstrup, Arthur F., 100, Chehalis Follow Us on Twitter Kerr, Patty J., 81, Ethel @chronline Those on Sparxxx Snook, David W., 83, Winlock the Streets to Play Fickett, Olga Jeannette, 87, Find Us on Facebook at Annual Show Onalaska www.facebook.com/ Harwood, Gary, 79 thecentraliachronicle Event at With Local Slemp, Phyllis Pauline, 76, Fairgrounds Rochester Talent Quade, Robert Eugene, 68, / Main 4 / Life 1 Tumwater Main 2 The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016 PAGE TWO News Daily Outtake: Putting Their Heads Together of the Weird as they are known in Thai, have Fugitive Found in previously drawn only mild no- ‘Elaborate Tunnel tice beyond the circle of their de- voted collectors, they dominated System’ at Trailer Park the news this past week after a SITKA, Alaska (AP) — Au- memo from budget airline Thai thorities arrested a fugitive con- Smile was leaked, telling staff victed on drug and theft charges they should treat the dolls as if after finding him hiding this they were human passengers — week in what they called an provided, of course, their seats “elaborate tunnel system” dug were paid for. underneath a trailer home in Alaska. The tunnels narrowed as of- Satanists to Do ficers walked further in, forcing Invocation at Phoenix them to trudge through on their knees and then on their stom- City Council Meeting Brandon Hansen / [email protected] achs. Police in the city of Sitka PHOENIX (AP) — Members The W.F. West wrestling team preps for Evergreen 2A Conference wrestling action against Centralia Thursday in Cheha- say they eventually spotted Jer- of a satanic group will give the lis. See more in today’s Sports section and online at www.lewiscountysports.com. emy Beebe’s foot sticking out of opening prayer at an upcoming another hidden entrance, catch- Phoenix City Council meeting. ing him after an officer pulled Some council members have back the skirting around the objected, but city attorney Brad Notable Quote trailer. Holm says the government can- Police Lt. Lance Ewers said not exclude a religion from pray- Beebe, 42, had failed to report to ing under such circumstances. the police department on Jan. 12 Satanic Temple member Stu after he was sentenced to nearly de Haan says the group doesn’t in- “That type of information, in the wrong hands, can definitely be two years in prison, the Sitka tend to do anything offensive. He detrimental. It’s like having the blueprints to a bank.” Sentinel reported. says the Satanic Temple doesn’t Acting on a tip, officers believe in a literal Satan but see staked out a trailer park Wednes- the biblical Satan as a metaphor Jim Mullen day and saw Beebe heading in to for rebellion against tyranny. owner of marijuana shop one of the units. A woman who The Arizona Republic re- answered the door said Beebe ported that the temple will per- was not there. form the invocation on Feb. 17. (see page Main 7 for the full story) Police then used a battering The city’s invocation has ram to get through a plywood been delivered by Christians, door they found on the outside Jews, Muslims, Sikhs and people of the trailer, which led to the of other faiths. The temple sub- tunnel system. mitted a request in December to Today in History Beebe was arrested and may give the prayer. face additional charges of con- Today’s Highlight in History: ate in agreeing to purchase the were later executed.) Aviation personal book collection of for- pioneer Orville Wright, 76, died tempt of court, Ewers said. Goat-Tiger Odd Couple On Jan. 30, 1945, during Jude Pate, a public defender mer President Thomas Jefferson in Dayton, Ohio. World War II, more than 500 to replace volumes lost when the In 1962, two members of “The in Sitka assigned to Beebe’s May Be Over Allied captives held at the Japa- case, declined to comment when British burned the U.S. Capitol Flying Wallendas” high-wire act MOSCOW (AP) — A ro- nese prison camp in Cabanatu- and its congressional library were killed when their seven- reached by The Associated Press mance that enchanted Russia an (kah-bah-nah-TOO’-ahn) in on Thursday. during the War of 1812. person pyramid collapsed dur- may be over: Timur the goat and the Philippines were liberated In 1882, the 32nd president of ing a performance at the State Amur the tiger have had a fight by U.S. Army Rangers, Alamo the United States, Franklin Del- Fair Coliseum in Detroit. In Latest Fad, Thais and aren’t together anymore. Scouts and Filipino guerrilla ano Roosevelt, was born in Hyde In 1968, the Tet Offensive In November, the goat was fighters. Adolf Hitler marked Park, New York. began during the Vietnam War Treat ‘Child Angel’ Dolls placed in the tiger’s compound in the 12th anniversary of his ap- In 1911, James White, an in- as Communist forces launched Like Pets a wildlife park near Vladivostok pointment as Germany’s chan- tellectually disabled black man surprise attacks against South with the expectation that the big cellor with his last public speech who’d been convicted of rape Vietnamese provincial capitals. BANGKOK (AP) — Dolls in cat would eventually kill and eat in which he called on Germans for having sex with a 14-year-old In 1969, The Beatles staged an Thailand can be a serious busi- him. But the two not only toler- to keep resisting until victory. white girl when he was 16, was impromptu concert atop Apple ness these days — a mixture of ated each other, they appeared to publicly hanged in Bell County, headquarters in London; it was superstition, fashion and celeb- become friends. The odd couple On This Date: Kentucky.