Toledo Takes Title

$1 Early Week Edition Tuesday May 31, 2016 Toledo Takes Title Pete Caster / [email protected] Toledo players celebrate after beating Pe Ell-Willapa Valley 4-1 to win the State 2B Baseball Champion- ship on Saturday afternoon at Ed Wheeler Field in Centralia. CHAMPIONS: Toledo Boys Win State 2B Title With 4-1 Comeback Win Over Pe Ell-Willapa Valley The Toledo Indians made history on Sat- urday, winning the school’s first state baseball championship with a 4-1 victory over Pe Ell-Willapa Valley at Ed Wheeler Field. It was the first appearance in a state baseball title game for Toledo, which wrapped up the season with a 22-6 record in its second year in head coach Jeff Davis’ second tenure at the helm. The Indians finished second in the Cen- tral 2B League, took fourth in the District 4 tournament, and won two regional games in Wenatchee to reach the final four before defeating Asotin 10-2 on Friday to set up the third meeting of the year between the Indi- ans and Titans. See today’s Sports section for complete coverage on the Indians and the rest of the weekend’s state championship action. For even more stories and photographs, visit www.lewiscountysports.com. The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Daughters of the American Revolution Evergreen Playhouse Lewis County Area Since 1889 Centralia ‘Putnam Follow Us on Twitter Group County @chronline Disbands Spelling Find Us on Facebook Before Bee’ Set for www.facebook.com/ 100th Centralia thecentraliachronicle Anniversary Stage / Main 5 / Life 1 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, May 31, 2016 PAGE TWO News Outtake: Getting a Better Look of the Weird also charged with possession of Cops: Lost Couple Cuts a controlled substance. Police Chain to Enter Nuclear said she had a small metal pipe Plant Property that smelled like marijuana. DELTA, Pa. (AP) — A couple who got lost in Pennsylvania Police Say Man Used while driving to New York en- Front-Loader to Break tered the property of a nuclear plant by cutting a chain at a gate, Into Liquor Store apparently in a quest to get back ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) on the right road, authorities said. — Alaska police say a man used a The Chesapeake, Virginia, stolen front-end loader to break couple were driving from Bal- into a liquor store and then led timore on Friday night when officers on a low-speed chase they got onto an access road at early Thursday. the Peach Bottom Atomic Power A witness flagged down An- Station, owned by Exelon. The chorage police about 3:20 a.m. driver told police he didn’t see to report a front-loader with Pete Caster / [email protected] two “No trespassing” signs when forklift attachments had ripped he cut the chain on the gate, The Children climb a soccer goal in order to get a better vantage point during Toledo’s 4-1 win over Pe Ell-Willapa Valley on off most of the front entrance Saturday in the State 2B Baseball Tournament championship game at Ed Wheeler Field in Centralia. York Daily Record reported. The story and ad- to a Brown Jug, an Alaska liquor ditional photographs can be found in today’s Sports section and online at www.lewiscountysports.com. Exelon spokeswoman Krista store chain. Merkel said the couple never The witness saw the driver posed a threat to the plant and go inside, take bottles, then hop security was monitoring them back on the front-loader and Notable Quote the entire time they were on drive east. plant property. During a 15-mph chase, police “It seemed they inadvertently followed the driver into a recre- made it to our property and ational vehicle park and blocked were trying to find their way the only exit with patrol cars. “The people on stage, I don’t know what they’re back out,” Merkel said. “They Police say alcohol bottles thought the only way they could going to say or what they’re going to do.” were found inside the front-load- get back was to cut the fence.” er, which had been stolen from a Police initially said, after con- Matt Osborne sulting with security staff, that construction site. the man and woman appeared to Joseph Martin is being held Evergreen Playhouse actor have made it to “a highly security on suspicion of criminal mis- (see page Life 1 for the full story) sensitive” area where radioactive chief, burglary, felony driving material is transferred from the while intoxicated and other main power plant. If the couple counts. His bail is set at $30,000. had gone inside a nearby out- building, the plant would have Dog Day: Officer Finds been placed on lockdown and Today in History there was a “possibility of lethal 911 Caller, Now Both force being used,” authorities Today’s Highlight in History: play about an impoverished Washington for a summit meet- Lost in Woods Southern family based on the ing. The situation comedy “Sein- said in court documents. On May 31, 1916, during BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — novel by Erskine Caldwell, feld” began airing as a regular But Merkel said Saturday World War I, British and Ger- A police officer dashed into the closed on Broadway after a run series on NBC. that the couple hadn’t made it to man fleets fought the naval Bat- woods alone to search for a man of 3,182 performances. In 1994, the United States an- any areas where radioactive ma- tle of Jutland off Denmark; there who called 911 saying he ran into In 1961, South Africa became nounced it was no longer aiming terials are transferred or stored was no clear-cut victor, although forest to escape two armed men. long-range nuclear missiles at tar- and didn’t make it past security the British suffered heavier losses. an independent republic as it officers who constantly monitor The gunmen were never withdrew from the British Com- gets in the former Soviet Union. all sides of the plant. She said the found, and the officer soon lo- On this date: monwealth. In 2005, breaking a silence of couple was “very cooperative” cated the distress caller, but now In 1790, President George In 1962, former Nazi official 30 years, former FBI official W. and waited until police arrived. neither of them could find their Washington signed into law the Adolf Eichmann was hanged Mark Felt stepped forward as Nuclear Regulatory Commis- way back to the street. first U.S. copyright act. in Israel a few minutes before “Deep Throat,” the secret Wash- sion spokeswoman Diane Screnci And so it went for three hours In 1889, some 2,200 people in midnight for his role in the Ho- ington Post source during the also said there was no threat to in the forest in Birmingham, Al- Johnstown, Pennsylvania, per- locaust. Watergate scandal. the plant or harm done to equip- abama, where it took a police K9 ished when the South Fork Dam In 1977, the trans-Alaska oil Ten years ago: The U.S. said ment, and officials believe “secu- unit to track them down. collapsed, sending 20 million pipeline, three years in the mak- it would join in face-to-face rity at the plant is appropriate.” Birmingham media report- tons of water rushing through ing, was completed. talks with Iran over its disputed Nuclear plants have at least ed Friday that police would not the town. In 1985, 88 people were killed, nuclear program if Tehran first two resident inspectors from the identify the rescued officer. A In 1910, the Union of South more than 1,000 injured, when agreed to put challenged atomic agency who watch things like spokesman tried to defend him. Africa was founded. 41 tornadoes swept through activities on hold; Iran dis- work activity, and the Inspectors Lt. Sean Edwards said “the In 1935, movie studio 20th parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, missed the offer as “a propagan- may go in on Tuesday to go over woods are very difficult to walk Century Fox was created New York and Ontario, Canada, da move.” NBC’s “Today” show the arrest and what happened, through ... The officer was try- through a merger of the Fox during an 8-hour period. threw a going-away party for 15- Screnci said. ing to clear a path here, clear Film Corp. and Twentieth Cen- In 1990, President George year host Katie Couric, who left The couple was charged with a path there, and got turned tury Pictures. H.W. Bush welcomed Soviet to become anchor of “The CBS trespassing. The woman was around a little bit.” In 1941, “Tobacco Road,” a leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to Evening News.” The Weather Almanac 5-Day Forecast for the Lewis County Area River Stages National Map Gauge Flood 24 hr. Forecast map for May 31, 2016 Today Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Height Stage Change Chehalis at Mellen St. 110s 48.37 65.0 0.00 100s Skookumchuck at Pearl St. 90s L 80s 73.05 85.0 0.00 70s Cowlitz at Packwood H 60s 2.13 10.5 0.00 50s Cowlitz at Randle Sunny Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny Partly Cloudy Mostly Sunny 40s H 5.90 18.0 +0.06 30s L 82º 50º 84º 54º 79º 53º 78º 53º 84º 55º Cowlitz at Mayield Dam 20s 5.14 ---- +0.04 10s 0s This map shows high temperatures, type of precipitation expected and location of frontal systems at noon. Almanac Regional Weather Sun and Moon L H Cold Front Stationary Front Warm Front Low Pressure High Pressure Data reported from Centralia Sunrise today .............5:21 a.m.

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