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C M C M Y K Y K SAVE SOME ROOM CRUNCH TIME A trio of tempting desserts for the holiday, C1 Justin Smith helps 49ers sack Bears, B1 Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2012 theworldlink.com I 75¢ Defendant seeks more time in murder case BY TYLER RICHARDSON The World COQUILLE — A Coos Bay man accused of beating and stabbing another man to death was eager to have his change of plea pushed back when he appeared in court Monday. “The more the merrier,” Andrew Davenport said when Coos County Circuit Court Judge Michael Gillespie asked if he was fine with giving his lawyer more time for discovery. By Alysha Beck, The World The 45-year-old was charged Mike Stonesifer, left, and Jim Hollenbeak, right, from the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay check to make sure boats in the with murder after Randall Har- Charleston Marina Complex aren’t taking on water and are securely tied to the docks Monday afternoon. A winter storm brought less, 55, of Coos Bay, was killed high winds and heavy rain to the South Coast. in late August. Coos County District Attorney Paul Frasier said the two were close friends, but declined to give specifics on the case. South Coast weathers Harless was found clinging to life in his driveway Aug. 25 with By Alysha Beck, The World injuries to his head and stab Murder suspect Andrew Davenport wounds to the chest, shoulder appeared in front of Judge Michael and side. He later died at Bay first winter storm Gillespie on Monday afternoon at the Area Hospital as a result of blunt Coos County Courthouse for a special hearing. SEE DAVENPORT | A10 BY JESSIE HIGGINS The World High winds on the South Coast knocked out power DA: Failed suicide to at least 4,000 customers throughout Coos County between Monday afternoon and this morning, many in the Coquille, Myrtle Point and Bandon areas. suit is ‘ridiculous’ Most of the outages were from fallen trees and limbs. “This is the first winter storm of the season,” said Christine Stallard, the spokeswoman for Coos Curry BY TYLER RICHARDSON Read the lawsuit Electric Cooperative. “This is typi- The World Inside cally when most things break loose, Read the entire lawsuit filed by on the first storm.” By Amy Moss Strong, The World COQUILLE — Coos County Callaway. Storm ravages As of this morning, Pacific Power, Strong winds toppled trees in Bandon on Monday. District Attorney Paul Frasier http://media.oregonlive.com/olive_top_s the state which initially had about 1,000 cus- believes a Bandon man’s lawsuit tories/other/Callaway%20Complaint%2 Page A5 tomers without power, had restored the Coquille River at Coquille and Myrtle Point on Mon- against law enforcement offi- 0against%20Frazier.pdf service to all but 137 customers. day night, but neither flooded overnight, said Coos cials in the county is “ridicu- Coos Curry Electric, which had County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Pat Downing. lous.” about 1,100 customers out, had only two customers Emergency responders spent most of Monday night Monte. B. Callaway filed the The lawsuit was originally still needing power. filed against Frasier, two Coos and this morning helping repair downed power lines and lawsuit on his own behalf from removing fallen trees and limbs from roadways, mainly Mill Creek Correctional Facility County Circuit Court judges, Hurricane winds offshore the late Coos County Sheriff in the Seven Devils and Bridge area, Downing said. in Salem, where he is serving out The National Weather Service reported hurricane Andy Jackson, the Sheriff’s County road crews were called out to handle downed the latter part of a seven-and-a- force winds just off shore that continued through Office and members of the Coos trees blocking traffic, mostly on North Bank Road and half-year sentence for first- Monday evening, with winds averaging 75 knots and County jail, among others. It has Libby Lane, said County Roadmaster John Rowe. degree assault. Callaway shot a gusts reaching 90 knots. Neither Douglas County nor the Oregon Department over 175 allegations of impropri- The U.S. Coast Guard closed Coos Bay’s bar to all bartender in the head at Lloyd’s eties against the Sheriff’s Office of Transportation had many problems as of Monday Old Town Tavern in Bandon in recreational vessels Monday. The bars at Yaquina Bay afternoon. and officials in the county after and the Umpqua River also were closed. However, the 2008 before putting the 12- Callaway shot himself. “I think we fared pretty well,”Downing said.“It being gauge shotgun under his chin bars remained open to commercial fishermen. the first storm of the season, I think we’ll see more. The “Overall the lawsuit isn’t Additionally, the Coast Guard canceled all of its and blowing a large section of worth the paper it was written wind was pretty bad yesterday. I hadn’t seen it that bad his jaw off. regularly scheduled training flights due to the high in a while, but I think we fared pretty well.” on,” Frasier said. winds, said Lt. Patrick Wright. Callaway survived the suicide Frasier — along with defense Reporters Tim Novotny and Amy Moss-Strong con- attempt and has undergone Flood watch tributed to this report. Reporter Jessie Higgins can be numerous surgeries to repair his reached at 541-269-1222, ext. 240, or jhiggins@the- jaw and face. SEE LAWSUIT | A10 The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for worldlink.com. Students with their heads in the clouds BY JESSIE HIGGINS “It supplements all other history classes, as The World the history of flight is inextricably linked to the history of the world,” Eberwine said. It also COOS BAY — Tucked away in a far corner of excites students’ imaginations. Marshfield High School, a group of about 20 Not every student in the class will go on to students in Jeff Eberwine’s fourth-period his- careers in the aviation industry, but some do. tory class learn about a life of adventure, trav- “If you want to do something in life, you el and flight. have to go out and make it happen,”said Mike It’s a life, Eberwine tells his students, that Martin, one of Eberwine’s many guest lectur- could be theirs. ers, the son of a Tuskegee Airman from World The elective aviation history class takes stu- War II. “Right now is the time to get the skills dents from Leonardo Da Vinci’s flight machine so you can go out and make it happen.” By Jesse Higgins, The World drawings to the Wright brothers’ first flight, Eberwine remembers one of his students, Marshfield High School history teacher Jeff Eberwine uses props to show the students in his aviation histo- through more than 100 years of aviation’s ry class the difference between planes flown by the Tuskegee Airmen,and the planes Germans flew in WWII. advances up to the space program. SEE AVIATION | A10 Ferocious storm Police reports . A2 Comics . A8 Freida Rowell, North Bend T S S E Frederick Kroush, Coos Bay Winds flip vehicles; E A H D What’s Up. A3 Puzzles . A8 T I John Dubisar, North Bend thousands without C T A E A S Rain South Coast. A3 Sports . B1 Doris Nehoda, Coos Bay T power; at least one death E R N S 56/48 I D Opinion. A4 Classifieds . C4 Obituaries | A5 reported. Page A5 O F Weather | A10 C M C M Y K Y K C M C M Y K A2 •The World • Tuesday, November 20,2012 Y K South Coast City Editor Ryan Haas • 541-269-1222, ext. 239 theworldlink.com/news/local Outdoors Thefts & Mischief COOS COUNTY of Wildahl Road. residence and stolen laptops, See GO! Saturday Nov. 18, 1:15 p.m., criminal mis- 63000 block of Isthmus Heights TODAY Nov. 18, 9:16 a.m., criminal mis- Road. chief to a mailbox, 90000 block chief to a mailbox, 90000 block OSU Extension Holiday Food Itt’s’s AArdvark’srdvark’s of Sand Dollar Lane. of Sand Dollar Lane. 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