REGULAR SEASON FINALE INSIDE TODAY’S PAPER Reedsport clinches playoff berth, B1 Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2013 theworldlink.com I $1.50 Surveillance reached ‘too far’ — Kerry BY DEB RIECHMANN The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry’s remark that some National Security Agency surveillance “reached too far” was the first time a high-ranking Obama administration offi- cial acknowledged that U.S. snooping abroad might be seen as overzealous. After launching into a vigorous defense of sur- veillance as an effective counterterror tool, Kerry acknowledged to a video-conference on open government in London that “in some cases, I acknowledge to you, as has the president, that some of these actions have reached too far, and we are going to make sure that does not happen in the future.” “There is no question that the president and I and others in government have actually learned of some things that had been happening, in many ways, on an automatic pilot because the technol- ogy is there,”Kerry said, responding to a question about transparency in governments. Bradley Claiborne, 12, sits underwater at Coos Bay’s Mingus Park Pool, where he swims every Saturday morning. Bradley was diagnosed with autism Kerry was responding to questions from Euro- at age 2 and finds comfort in the water. Go to theworldlink.com/galleries to see more photos. pean allies about reports in the past two weeks that the National Security Agency had collected data on tens of millions of Europe-based phone calls and had monitored the cell phones of 35 world leaders, including that of German Chancel- lor Angela Merkel. The State Department said Friday his remarks ‘Trapped outside were in sync with what President Barack Obama has already said on the controversial spying prac- tices. But Obama has said the administration was conducting a review of surveillance practices and said that if the practices went too far they would be halted. my kid’s brain’ Kerry first joked with British Foreign Secretary William Hague, whom he said should also answer South Coast families struggle to find autism services SEE NSA | A12 ncased in water, Bradley STORY BY CHELSEA DAVIS Claiborne is home. PHOTOS BY ALYSHA BECK South Coast The 12-year-old swims for an Numbers of children with Fire marshal: hour every morning, chattering There is no communication, at least none that autism on the South Coast: away as he back floats up and makes sense to his dad. down the pool lanes, though he “My son’s stuck inside a mind he can’t open Coos County: 75 Check detectors Enever forms an actual word. a door to and let me in,”Derek said. “I’ve felt Curry County: 25 Every once in awhile he comes to a near trapped all these years. I’m trapped outside my Douglas County: 112 halt, floating in silence, lost in thought. He’s kid’s brain. I can’t get in there.” Josephine County: 124 while falling back not agitated, his hands don’t flicker, the noises Lane County: 871 and mumbling stop and his body relaxes. The diagnosis Statewide total: 8,194 FLORENCE (AP) — Daylight savings time ends Ten years ago, Bradley was diagnosed with Oregon has the second highest rate of chil- early Sunday. autism. dren diagnosed with autism in the country, On Dec. 1 every year, school Siuslaw Valley Fire Marshal Sean Barrett says His days are somewhat similar to those of with 10.29 percent of Oregon children diag- districts across the state while you’re resetting your his peers. He wakes up, gets ready for school, nosed during the 2010-2011 school year, report the number of stu- clocks, you should also test takes the bus to Sunset Middle School, moves according to a nationwide study conducted by dents with educational eligi- the smoke detectors in your from lesson to lesson and takes the bus home. Easter Seals, an organization dedicated to find- bilities for Autism Spectrum house. A respite care provider keeps an eye on him ing opportunities for disabled people. Disorder to the state in a Many newer detectors before his dad, Derek, gets home from work at Just 10 years earlier, the study found that "census." The above numbers have a 10-year battery so reflect the Dec. 1, 2012 cen- Knife River Corporation. The Claibornes spend only 3.92 percent of Oregon’s children were they don’t need to be the evening together as most families do: eat- sus, which encompasses all K- replaced as often, but that diagnosed as autistic. 21 students diagnosed with ing dinner and watching TV. Sometimes In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and doesn’t mean you should- ASD during the 2011-2012 n’t periodically check them Bradley cuddles up with his dad, other times he Prevention estimated that one in 150 children school year. wrestles with his older brother, Tim. had some form of autism. Today, it’s one in 88. out to make sure they’re Source: Oregon Department of But there’s a wall between Bradley and his Education working. dad and his brother that none can breech. SEE AUTISM | A6 Barrett says properly working smoke detectors have been a lifesaver. Cemetery receives TLC BY CHELSEA DAVIS Civil War monument in time for its mausoleum and who did it. Some The World 100th birthday in May 2015, which say students took out a skull, is also the sesquicentennial of the removed a woman’s finger or took a COOS BAY — Volunteers are end of the Civil War. wad of hair. The Hirst family then breathing new life into Marshfield “We have good neighbors look- barricaded the mausoleum with Pioneer Cemetery. ing out for (the cemetery),” she cinder blocks so the culprits would Cricket Soules is leading the said. “And Marshfield students are stop. charge, working on three grants in either our worst enemies or our Now,the cemetery is closed with an effort to revive the 122-year-old best stewards.” a combination lock. Visitors can cemetery. The cemetery has endured a lot obtain the code by contacting So far, the $10,000 “TLC4MPC” of vandalism over the years: 80 Soules or the high school. project has received an Oregon headstones have been knocked The fence surrounding the Historic Cemeteries grant and over, many others have taken beat- cemetery has stood since 1983 or Soules submitted an application ings and the Hirst mausoleum is earlier. But it’s deteriorating, as is By Alysha Beck, The World for a Coos County Cultural Coali- now off limits. the rock wall. Thankfully, Pacific Cricket Soules walks through Marshfield Pioneer Cemetery next to Marshfield High tion grant this week. She’s also Soules said it’s an “urban leg- School on Wednesday afternoon.Soules is the leader of the “TLC4MPC”project that working on a grant to restore the end” what exactly was done to the SEE CEMETERY | A12 is working to restore parts of the 122-year-old cemetery. Judity Pierson, North Bend Donna Sturdivan, Coos Bay Police reports . A3 Comics . A10 Artice Fisk, Bend S Marlin Patterson, Kathleen Rosencrantz, E H Ronald Marcott, North Bend D What’s Up . Go! Puzzles . A10 Bellingham, Wash. Coos Bay I T Joe DeGarlais, North Bend A S South Coast. A3 Sports . B1 Avrey Walker, Bend Carl Woods, Charleston E N Carl Wick, Bend Everett Jenkins, Vancouver, | I Obituaries A9 Opinion. A4 Classifieds . C5 D Jeanne Drehmer, Lakeside Wash. A2 •The World • Saturday,November 2,2013 South Coast Executive Editor Larry Campbell • 541-269-1222, ext. 251 theworldlink.com/news/local Hallmark receives Eagle An Eagle Court of Honor along the Coquille River walk will recognize Thomson Jay trail.Completing this project Hallmark at 6 p.m. Satur- required 20 hours and assis- day,Nov.9,at The Church of tance of 21 helpers for an Jesus Christ of Latter-day additional 100 hours of time. Saints, 2405 Shelly Road, Thomson obtained the Coquille. rank of Eagle Scout, earning Thomson is a senior at 21 merit badges.He held sev- Coquille High School where eral leadership positions he has participated in school within Troop 70,participat- leadership positions, is an ed in the troops’ 50-mile accomplished musician, a hike and attended the 2010 member of the track and Boy Scout National Jam- cross country teams and a boree. He plans to attend a member of the National Thomson Jay Hallmark college that has medical and Honor Society. Thomson is technician programs as well Eagle Scout By Alysha Beck, The World Contributed photo the son of Rick and Tina as a good track program. He Grace Laird, 11, holds up a photo of how long her hair With just moments before the scissors go to work, Hallmark. the project to form and pour hopes to earn a scholarship was before she cut off 13 inches and donated it to the Grace Laird, 11, sits in the stylist’s chair, displaying As part of the require- cement pads and installed a based on both his academic ments for earning his Eagle picnic table,park bench and and athletic accomplish- non-profit Locks of Love. her long hair. Scout award, Thomson lead two garbage pail receptacles ments. Haircut for a good cause BY EMILY THORNTON Grace Laird heard about why’d you cut it?,’”Laird said. The World the ability to donate her hair But,Laird said she liked her ply a year ago at her school in Gig cropped hair. She said her Sim NORTH BEND — She grew Harbor, Wash. She waited a donation was a good solution ble her platinum blond hair for year to cut her hair only since she wanted to cut her sisti most of her 11 years,only cut- because she wanted to have it hair and people could use it.