$1 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Early Week Edition All Area Tuesday, Football Dec. 22, 2015 Team / Sports 1 Home for Holidays Big Year for the Fox Chehalis Couple Gets Keys to New Centralia Theater’s Renovation Project House from Habitat for Humanity / Main 3 Takes in More Than $200,000 in 2015 / Life 1 Morton, A Legacy of Conservation Pe Ell Grandchildren Carry on Adna Man’s Salmon Recovery Efforts Damage Increases Flood Estimates 39 HOMES DAMAGED: County Official Says There Are Concerns for Water Systems in Both Cities By The Chronicle Lewis County already has $1.6 million on the record for public assistance damage re- ported after flooding occurred earlier this month, but accord- ing to county officials, that number could grow steadily with new damage now reported in Morton and Pe Ell. Emergency Management Di- rector Steve Mansfield told the county commissioners at their Kaylee Osowski / [email protected] Monday meeting that the Mor- Ten-year-old Lane Johnson, right, and his cousin, Evie Anderson-Thomas, 10, laugh as Lane pours salmon eggs into an incubator at a Deep Creek tributary near Adna ton water supply system is being Thursday. evaluated, and approximately $1.7 million to $2 million of re- CONTINUING: Salmon pair work needs to be done. Conservationist’s Family please see DAMAGE, page Main 14 Carries on Efforts at Remote Incubators on U.S. Highway Deep Creek By Kaylee Osowski 12 Repairs [email protected] Allow White For decades, Errol Anderson collected pea-sized pink coho Pass Opening salmon eggs from state hatcher- ies and put them in his remote By The Chronicle site incubators near Adna, rais- State transportation officials ing 3 million fish in an effort to say they plan to reopen U.S. 12 help dwindling salmon popula- over White Pass in both direc- tions. tions at 5 p.m. today. Errol died in May of this The highway was closed year after battling cancer, and about two weeks ago after rain now his family has taken it upon caused washouts and mudslides themselves to continue his ef- west and east of White Pass. forts. The Department of Trans- Two of Anderson’s great- portation says a traffic light will grandchildren, Evie Anderson- Salmon eggs from Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife's Skookumchuck Hatchery are seen here in a photo please see LEGACY, page Main 14 taken Thursday. please see REPAIRS, page Main 14 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Christmas Classic High-Speed Chase Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Scenes Kent Man in Pratt, Ila Joan “Jody,” 84, Follow Us on Twitter Toledo @chronline From the Court After Burton, Sonja Ann, 74, Nutcracker’s Pursuit in Centralia Find Us on Facebook 20th Run by Centralia Finley, William Oderal www.facebook.com/ “Darrell,” 88, Lacey thecentraliachronicle SWW Dance Reaches Christiansen, Hilda, 90, Center 100 MPH Randle / Main 13 / Main 7 3 Pairs of Socks with FREE Women's Slippers Now $7.00! CH552163cz.ke GOLDTOE STORE • 1338 Lum Rd Centralia, WA 98531 • 360-736-1978 50% OFF Suggested Retail Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015 PAGE TWO News Daily Outtake: Snow Before Christmas of the Weird ing definite wishes to the future Prague Zoo Claims head of Barnaul,” says regional to Have the Longest Gov. Alexander Karlin. “The conclusion has been Salamander on Earth made that there’s absolutely no PRAGUE (AP) — Prague trust among voters for any of the Zoo says it likely has the longest candidates,” said local Commu- Chinese giant salamander now nist Party official, Ivan Karpov. on Earth. The critically endangered animal is the largest amphibian School Makes Teacher on the planet. Remove Pink Hello Kitty In a statement Sunday, the zoo says Karlo, a Chinese gi- Christmas Tree ant salamander it received 19 BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A months ago from the State Mu- Maine high school teacher is seum of Natural History in Karl- complaining that she was forced sruhe, Germany, is likely the big- to remove a small pink Christ- gest representative of its species. mas tree festooned with the Pete Caster / [email protected] The zoo says, according to the character Hello Kitty from her latest measurements done Fri- Snow falls on holiday shoppers as they leave the Salvation Army’s Christmas gift distribution on Monday afternoon in classroom. Centralia. See more photos on page Main 16. day, that Karlo is 1.58 meters (5 Catherine Gordon is a math feet, 2 and 3/16 inches) long. teacher at Bangor High School. Karlo’s age is estimated at 37 She wrote on her Facebook page to 38 years and weight is 35 kilo- that “everything offends every- grams (77 pounds). one all the time” and that it “just Notable Quote The largest salamander on sucks the joy out of everything.” record was 1.8 meters (5 feet, 11 The news of the pink tree’s inches) long. The zoo says its removal took off on social me- worldwide check didn’t reveal dia Monday. Even Republican “Many people are very comfortable performing the chest compressions any longer-living salamander. congressman Bruce Poliquin weighed in, saying the school and perhaps less comfortable doing mouth to mouth. I think the went too far in ordering the interest in the community is greater.” No Dog-Eat-Dog Politics: tree’s removal. Siberian City Backs Cat Star Wars Fan in NY Mike Kytta for Mayor Riverside Fire Authority chief BARNAUL, Russia (AP) — Legally Changes Name Tired of the dog-eat-dog politics (See full story on page Main 5) in their Russian city, the resi- to Darth Vader dents of Barnaul say they want a CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. (AP) — cat to be their next mayor. Darth Vader is a tattooed 43-year- The Siberian city of 650,000 old former Marine who owns a Today in History people, which lies 2,900 kilome- gym and is raising funds online for Today’s Highlight in History was opened to traffic. (The sec- Europe’s hard-line Communist ters (1,800 miles) east of Moscow, a bone marrow transplant. ond tube opened in 1945, the rulers, was toppled from power On Dec. 22, 1965, “Doctor is to get a new mayor next week The Democrat and Chroni- third in 1957.) in a popular uprising. Play- Zhivago,” David Lean’s epic film when a commission comprising cle of Rochester reported that a In 1940, author Nathanael wright Samuel Beckett died in adaptation of the Boris Paster- the city council and the regional western New York man legally West, 37, and his wife, Eileen Paris at age 83. nak novel starring Omar Sharif governor choose from among changed his name last year to McKenney, 27, were killed in a In 1990, 21 sailors returning and Julie Christie, had its world six candidates. match the villain in the “Star car crash in El Centro, Califor- from shore leave to the aircraft premiere in New York. But none of the six appear Wars” films. nia, while en route to the funeral carrier USS Saratoga drowned to spark much affection among The former Eric Welch, of On This Date of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who had off Haifa when the Israeli ferry Barnaul’s residents. An informal Canandaigua (kan-un-DAY’- In 1775, Esek Hopkins was died the day before. they were traveling on capsized. online poll asking residents to gwuh), says he grew up in foster appointed the commander-in- In 1944, during the World Lech Walesa (lek vah-WEN’- express their preferences among homes and didn’t have strong chief of the Continental Navy. War II Battle of the Bulge, U.S. sah) took the oath of office as the six and a Siamese cat named family ties to his name. In 1894, French army officer Brig. Gen. Anthony C. McAu- Poland’s first popularly elected Barsik showed the feline nab- The “Star Wars” fan says he Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of liffe rejected a German demand president. bing more than 90 percent of the chose Darth Vader for his new treason in a court-martial that for surrender, writing “Nuts!” in In 1995, actress Butterfly vote. name because the character car- triggered worldwide charges of his official reply. McQueen, who’d played the Barsik has attracted much ries an aura of leadership and anti-Semitism. (Dreyfus was In 1968, Julie Nixon married scatterbrained slave Prissy in amused attention in the Russian toughness. eventually vindicated.) David Eisenhower in a private “Gone with the Wind,” died in news media. Still, some local He tests his own toughness In 1910, a fire lasting more ceremony in New York. Augusta, Georgia, at age 84. politicians understand there’s by competing in half-marathons than 26 hours broke out at the In 1977, three dozen people In 2001, Richard C. Reid, a a more serious message com- and endurance events. He was Chicago Union Stock Yards; 21 were killed when a 250-foot- passenger on an American Air- ing from the people of Barnaul, diagnosed with leukemia in firefighters were killed in the high grain elevator at the Conti- lines flight from Paris to Miami, which like many Russian cities 2002. collapse of a burning building. nental Grain Company plant in tried to ignite explosives in his has been riddled with alleged A spokeswoman for the De- In 1937, the first, center tube Westwego, Louisiana, exploded. shoes, but was subdued by flight corruption. partment of Motor Vehicles of the Lincoln Tunnel connect- In 1989, Romanian Presi- attendants and fellow passen- “Through the image of Bar- confirms that Darth Vader is his ing New York City and New Jer- dent Nicolae Ceausescu (chow- gers.