A Week of Sunshine Winlock Arrests Forecasters Predict a Break in Soggy Weather Hiding Places, False Wall Found as Three With the Arrival of Spring Conditions / Main 7 Jailed for Outstanding Warrants / Main 5 The Branch $1 Opening in Early Week Edition Downtown Tuesday, Centralia / Main 3 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com March 29, 2016 Lewis Steam Train Draws a Record County Crowd for Easter Rides, Hunt Democrats ‘Feel the Bern’ at Caucuses CHOOSING A NOMINEE: Bernie Sanders Dominates Lewis County Democratic Caucus at 81 Percent By Kaylee Osowski [email protected] Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders swept Washington state, in- cluding Lewis County, during Saturday’s Democratic caucuses. Sanders took 81 per- cent of the vote in Lew- is County, while chal- lenger for the Bernie Sanders Democratic candidate for Paul Dunn / For The Chronicle nomina- president A large crowd waits to board the Chehalis-Centralia Railroad & Museum Easter Train Saturday in Chehalis for a 30-minute ride through the rural countryside. Following tion Hillary the ride, children gathered in three age groups for an Easter egg hunt. Clinton took 18 percent. One percent of the vote came in as HOPPING: More Than uncommitted. 1,200 Riders Ride the please see CAUCUS, page Main 14 Rails; Easter Bunny Runs Out of Eggs By Jordan Nailon Centralia [email protected] The promise of prize-packed Coal Easter eggs and the allure of sunshine enticed a record crowd Transition out to the Chehalis-Centralia Railroad & Museum steam train Saturday. Board Wanda Thompson, secre- tary-treasurer for the Chehalis- Centralia Steam Train Railroad Approves & Museum, said that 1,202 pay- ing passengers showed up on $727,433 Saturday, with an additional 100 or so egg and steam enthusiasts of the free, 3-year-old and under Grant variety. “This is the biggest event TRANSALTA: Community we’ve ever done,” said Thomp- Action Council of son. “It was crazy. We were so Chehalis resident Harold Borovec, 89, has engineered the Chehalis-Centralia Railroad & Museum Easter Train for 26 years. Saturday he donned bunny ears as he again rode the rails for a 30-minute trip through the rural countryside with a large Lewis, Mason and please see TRAIN, page Main 10 contingent of passengers. Thurston Counties Awarded Funds for Weatherization One Presumed Dead on Mount Rainier, By Justyna Tomtas [email protected] Two Others Flown to Hospital After Rescue Last year, TransAlta an- nounced it would provide $55 SEATTLE (AP) — A climber Rainier National Park. million over 10 years to help was presumed dead Monday on The climber and his partner, ease the impacts of its smaller Mount Rainier and two other a 41-year-old Canadian woman, operations and shifts away people were safely airlifted off were summiting the 14,411-foot from coal. the mountain after all three glaciated peak when a fierce On Tuesday, one of three were caught on the peak during winter storm hit Saturday. They boards tasked with allocating a weekend storm, a park official apparently took shelter near an that money announced the said. area called Gibraltar Ledges on first dispersal of the funds. Rescuers aboard a Chinook the upper mountain. Tempera- The Centralia Coal Tran- sition Weatherization Board helicopter spotted a 58-year- tures were in the single digits approved its first grant ap- old man from Norway at about with wind and blowing snow. plication, one submitted 11,000 feet. He did not respond On Sunday, the woman by the Community Action or react to rescuers and was pre- descended the mountain and Council of Lewis, Mason and sumed dead, said Patti Wold, The Associated Press a spokeswoman with Mount please see RAINIER, page Main 14 Mount Rainier is seen from a helicopter lying south of the mountain. please see GRANT, page Main 14 Pursuit of Royalty All-Terrain Vehicles The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Lewis County Area Since 1889 Legality of Women Driving on Follow Us on Twitter Compete to Roads in @chronline Represent Question for Find Us on Facebook The Spirit of www.facebook.com/ Yard Birds Some Vehicle thecentraliachronicle / Life 1 Owners / Main 4 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, March 29, 2016 PAGE TWO News Outtake: Moment in the Sun of the Weird box along with the DVDs and 2 Dead, Venomous contacted the Royal Society Snakes Found In for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for help. The RSPCA Package At Post Office traced the owners through the WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) — cat’s microchip. Two dead venomous snakes were “We looked everywhere for found in a package in a western her,” owner Julie Baggott said Pennsylvania post office earlier Sunday, adding that she felt terri- this month, federal authorities said. ble about Cupcake’s ordeal. The box shipped from the Vets said Cupcake needed Philippines to the Beaver Coun- treatment but should recover fully. ty post office was declared as containing T-shirts, The Beaver County Times reported. Teen Arrested in Theft Capt. Thomas Christ of the of Model Spaceship Pennsylvania Fish and Boat From UFO Museum Commission said a waterways Pete Caster / [email protected] conservation officer opened the ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — A Elaine Bennett, of Chehalis, walks with her son, Charlie, 14, and her 7-year-old American Eskimo, Flufy, along the Wil- box and found two venomous pit teenage boy has been arrested in lapa Hills Trail in Chehalis on Monday evening. See another photograph and a look at a forecast of sunny weather vipers, both dead. the theft of a fiberglass and met- on page Main 7. Pit vipers find their prey and al version of a spaceship from places to hide by sensing heat. outside the UFO Museum in There are more than 150 species Roswell. Notable Quote of pit vipers. Officials didn’t reveal Police say they’re still search- the exact kind of snake, but said ing for two other suspects. they believe the reptiles were alive The model spaceship has when they were put in the box. been a fixture in downtown Ros- “Although I found it disturbing and it brought tears to my eyes to Additional snakes were found well, where it was long mounted at the home of the person to outside the UFO museum before watch, I found the video my surveillance system recorded to be quite which the box was addressed, a recent snowstorm damaged it. interesting. I wonder what the deputies think of it.” Christ said. He said he could not It was being stored behind say what the person intended to the museum before it was stolen do with the snakes if they had ar- March 19. Edward Kip Baker rived alive. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Police say surveillance video man who took plea deal after being accused of assaulting deputies authorities are investigating. showed three people hauling the Mailing an animal is a feder- spaceship off in a pickup truck. (see page Main 5 for the full story) al offense, and in Pennsylvania, a The saucer was found in piec- permit is required to buy a snake, es two miles west of Roswell last said Henry Kacprzyk, curator Wednesday. of reptiles at the Pittsburgh Zoo Police say tips led them to and Aquarium. the teenager, who was arrested Today in History “On a legal end, it’s not some- Saturday at his home in south thing that is a moneymaker,” Roswell. Today’s Highlight in History: the first to reach the South Pole, In 1973, the last United States wrote the last words of his jour- combat troops left South Viet- Kacprzyk said. Roswell still stirs debate On March 29, 1951, Julius nal: “For Gods sake look after nam, ending America’s direct Kacprzyk also said that brin- about extraterrestrials seven de- and Ethel Rosenberg were con- our people.” military involvement in the Viet- ing an exotic snake from another cades after the 1947 crash of a victed in New York of conspira- In 1936, German Chancel- nam War. country is dangerous, since hos- flying object. cy to commit espionage for the In 1974, pitals carry antivenom antidotes Soviet Union. (They were exe- lor Adolf Hitler claimed over- eight Ohio National for venomous snakes common to Creative Hats, Costumes cuted in June 1953.) The Rodg- whelming victory in a plebiscite Guardsmen were indicted on the United States but don’t have ers and Hammerstein musical on his policies. federal charges stemming from antidotes for those from other at NYC’s Easter Parade “The King and I” opened on In 1943, World War II rationing the shooting deaths of four stu- countries. NEW YORK (AP) — Top Broadway. of meat, fats and cheese began. dents at Kent State University. In 1962, Jack Paar hosted (The charges were later dis- hats with bunny ears and elab- On this date: orate costumes have gotten a NBC’s “Tonight” show for the missed.) Chinese farmers dig- Cat Sent by Mail showing in New York City’s Eas- In 1638, Swedish colonists set- final time, although the network ging a well discovered the Ter- ter Parade. tled in present-day Delaware. aired a repeat the following racota Warriors, an “army” of Survives 8 Days in Box The event runs along Man- In 1790, the 10th president of night. (Johnny Carson debuted sculpted soldiers dating from the LONDON (AP) — A tough hattan’s Fifth Avenue every Eas- the United States, John Tyler, as host the following October.) third century B.C. Siamese cat named Cupcake has ter Sunday. It started in the 1880s was born in Charles City County, In 1971, Army Lt. William L.