Monday, January 6, 2020 The Commercial Review Portland, Indiana 47371 www.thecr.com $1 Millions mourn A legend gone Iranian leader By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran — Weep - ing amid wails from a sea of mourners, Iran’s supreme leader today prayed over the remains of a top Iranian general killed in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad, an attack that’s drastically raised ten - sions between Tehran and Washington. The procession for Iran - ian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani drew a crowd of mourners and followers, said by police to be in the mil - lions, today in Tehran, where Soleimani’s replacement vowed to take revenge for his killing. Additionally, Tehran has abandoned the remaining limits of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers in response to the slaying while in Iraq, the parlia - ment has called for the expulsion of all American troops from Iraqi soil. The developments could bring Iran closer to build - Special to The Commercial Review/Becca James ing an atomic bomb, set off a proxy or military Darrel “Pete” Brewster, pictured here in 2013, died Friday. A Portland native who starred for the Panther high attack launched by Tehran against America school basketball and football teams, went on to play both sports at Purdue, played nine seasons in the NFL and coached and enable the Islamic in the AFL and NFL for 13 years. He won two NFL championships as a player with the Cleveland Browns and a Super Bowl State group to stage a ring as receivers coach for the Kansas City Chiefs. comeback in Iraq, making the Middle East a far more dangerous and unstable place. Portland native Darrel ‘Pete’ Brewster, Adding to the tensions, President Donald Trump two-time NFL champion, died Friday at 89 threatened to demand bil - By RAY COONEY career that nearly never lions of dollars in com - The Commercial Review got started. pensation from Iraq or He was one of the lead - He was a sophomore in Career impose “sanctions like ers of the most successful high school when the 1945 highlights they’ve never seen before” basketball team in Port - Portland Panthers were if it goes through with land High School history. unbeaten, untied and Helped lead expelling U.S. troops. He played basketball unscored upon. But he Portland High School Soleimani’s daughter, and football at Purdue to three straight boys wasn’t on the team. basketball sectional titles, Zeinab, directly threat - University. “My family didn’t want two regional ened an attack on the U.S. He appeared in five me to play football, and championships and the military in the Mideast NFL championship you had to have a parent’s 1948 semi-state finals. while speaking to a crowd games, winning two with permission to play foot - that stretched as far as the the Cleveland Browns. Played football and ball,” Brewster said. “I basketball at eye could see down major He won a Super Bowl had an older sister who Purdue University. thoroughfares in Iran’s ring as receivers coach finally signed my papers Named the football capital. for the Kansas City to play football.” team’s MVP in 1951. Topps “The families of the Chiefs. That happened during American soldiers in Darrel “Pete” Brewster, his senior year. And it Won NFL championships This 1957 Topps football card featured with the Cleveland Browns western Asia … will spend the most accomplished changed his life. in 1954 and ’55. their days waiting for the athlete in Jay County his - Darrel “Pete” Brewster, who was named a first- In 1952, Brewster was Led NFL in yards per death of their children,” tory, died Friday at Belton team All-Pro by The Sporting News. He led the drafted by the Chicago reception in 1957. she said to cheers. Iranian Regional Medical Center NFL in yards per reception that year at 20.5. Cardinals in the second state television and others in Belton, Missouri. He Earned a Super Bowl ring round of the NFL draft online shared a video that was 89. but then immediately as receivers coach for the Kansas City Chiefs. showed Trump’s Ameri - Brewster, who lived in Portland High School) field. “This is truly one of traded to the Cleveland can flag tweet following Peculiar, Missouri, about was named in his honor. the best moments of my Browns. (He was also Inducted into the 30 miles south of Kansas “I’m just proud of all of life.” drafted by the NBA’s Mil - Indiana Football, Soleimani’s killing turn City, was immortalized you making this happen,” Brewster spent nine waukee Hawks, but decid - Indiana Basketball and into a coffin, the “likes” Purdue University of the tweet replaced by locally in 2012 when the the 1948 Portland High years as a player in the ed to go the professional halls of fame. football field at East Jay School graduate said dur - NFL and 13 as a coach in football route.) over 143,000 “killed” with Middle School (formerly ing a ceremony at the the AFL and NFL. It was a See Legend page 2 the hashtag #severere - venge. See Mourn page 5 Turnpike crash killed five, injured 60-plus By KIM BELLWARE Eleven other patients were and our thoughts and prayers go The Washington Post taken to Forbes Hospital in Mon - out to their families,” the com - At least five people were killed roeville, which reported two pany said in a statement to the and 60 more were hospitalized in patients in critical condition. paper. a crash early Sunday morning Fatal collison included a Somerset Hospital in Somerset Three New Yorkers also per - on the Pennsylvania Turnpike received 18 victims — 12 adults ished in the multi-vehicle crash. that snarled two tractor-trailers, charter bus and two semis and six minors — who were all Nine-year-old Jeremy a charter bus and a passenger treated and released, according Vazquez of Brooklyn, New York, vehicle, transportation officials to a hospital spokeswoman. and Eileen Zelis Aria, 35, of said. A UPS spokeswoman identi - Bronx were passengers in a bus Two UPS drivers and a nine- to shut down an 86-mile stretch The injured ranged in age fied drivers Daniel Kepner, 53, driven by 58-year-old Shuang year-old girl have been con - of the turnpike between New from 7 to 67 years old. Thirty-one and Dennis Kehler, 48, of Penn - Quing Feng of Flushing, New firmed among the dead, The Stanton and Breezewood in both of them were taken to Frick Hos - sylvania as two of the people York, The Patriot-News report - Patriot-News reported. directions. pital in Mount Pleasant, a hospi - who died from the fatal colli - ed. The crash occurred in the Photos from the scene showed tal spokesperson told The Post. sion, according to The Patriot- Feng was unable to make a turnpike’s westbound lanes just a mangled FedEx truck, a semi By midday, 27 had been treated News. Kepner had been with the turn and hit an embankment as before 4 a.m. in Mount Pleasant cab pushed partially up an and released in stable condition. company for five years, and he was going downhill, state Township, about 30 miles east of embankment and an overturned Three adults and one child were Kehler was a 28-year veteran of police told the paper. His bus Pittsburgh, said Carl DeFebo, a Ohio Coach branded charter bus transferred to hospitals in Pitts - the packaging and supply-chain rolled downhill before it was hit spokesman for the Pennsylvania scattered across the turnpike burgh. Nine of Frick’s patients management company. by three tractor trucks and a Turnpike. It prompted officials lanes. were under age 18. “Our drivers will be missed passenger vehicle. Deaths Weather In review Coming up The high temperature was Need to fill out a birth 43 degrees Sunday in Jay announcement, engagement Tuesday — Coverage of Darrel “Pete” Brewster , County. The low was 27. or wedding form to have your tonight’s Portland City Coun - 89, Peculiar, Missouri Tonight’s forecast also calls special event announced in cil meeting. Charles Butcher, 72, rural for a low of 27. Expect partly the newspaper? They’re now Dunkirk cloudy skies Tuesday with a available electronically. Just Thursday — Coverage of Details above and on page 2. high of 43. go to thecr.com, hover over Wednesday’s Jay County For an extended outlook, “Forms” and select the form Council meeting. see page 2. you’d like to fill out. The Commercial Review Page 2 Local Monday, January 6, 2020 Jay Superior Court Judge Max Ludy Meridian St., Portland, pleaded guilty to visiting a common West, Bryant pleaded guilty to a Filings Fined and sentenced guilty to possession of marijua - nuisance, a class B misde - probation violation — Sen - State v. Courtney Willoughby, Chad J. Jackson, 42, 2029 S. na, a class B misdemeanor — meanor — Sentenced to Jay tenced to an additional 214 days criminal misdemeanor Lutes Drive West, pleaded guilty Sentenced to 180 days in Jay County Jail for 180 days with all of that sentence and given 190 State v. Joshua Troxel, Level 6 to possession of marijuana, a County Jail with all but two but two days suspended and days credit for 95 days served. felony class B misdemeanor — Sen - days suspended as part of a given two days credit for one As part of the plea agreement, SAC Finance v. Heath Byerly, tenced to 180 days in Jay County plea agreement. He was given day served. He was fined $1 as a charge of theft, a Level 6 civil collections Jail with all but two days sus - two days credit for one day well as ordered to pay $185 in felony, was dismissed.