$1 Mid-Week Edition Thursday, June 2, 2016 SATURDAY,JOIN JUNE US 4TH Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com10:00AM - 2:00PM AT OUR CHEHALIS LOCATION Hamre We’re Celebrating Earns Four Titles 40 Years! FOOD • DEMOS • GIVEAWAYS • MORE! / Sports Dorn Visits Centralia Berlin Wall in Onalaska Big Strides in Reading Lauded at Fords Chunk of Divisive Structure Donated for Prairie Elementary in Centralia / Main 3 Display at Onalaska High School / Main 4 Chehalis Attorney On 60th Wedding Anniversary, Makes Wife Provides Gift for Everyone Superior Court Race Jo Kuehner to Open Veterans Memorial Museum for Free June 16 Contested ELECTION: There Will Be Two New Judges on the Bench in Lewis County in 2017 By Natalie Johnson [email protected] All three of Lewis Coun- ty’s three Superior Court judge positions are up for election this year, but only one, Department 3, will be contested. Attorney Katherine Gul- mert will run against Cheha- lis attorney Joely O’Rourke in the November election. “I am committed to the community,” Gulmert told The Chronicle. “I just think I have the qualifications neces- sary to be judge.” Gulmert graduated from Southwestern Law School and the University of South- ern California with a bachelor of science degree in public af- fairs. please see JUDGES, page Main 16 Driver Dies in Interstate 5 Crash Near Grand Mound Natalie Johnson / [email protected] Jo Kuehner, left, and Veterans Memorial Museum Executive Director Chip Duncan discuss a display of military items belonging to Kuehner's husband Bud, who died By The Chronicle in 2012. On June 16, Kuehner is renting and opening the museum to the public free of charge to honor her husband and to celebrate the 60th anniversary of their An Oregon driver was marriage. killed Tuesday after her vehi- cle hit a tree along Interstate 5 By Natalie Johnson “I wanted to do something Also I thought it would please seum is a also a special place to near Grand Mound. [email protected] that makes me happy. I want to Bud,” she said. Kuehner since she donated me- At 2:44 p.m. on Tuesday, make the day special,” she said. Although she admitted some mentos from her late husband’s Well-known Chehalis resi- the Washington State Patrol Kuehner is renting out the might find it strange to celebrate time in the Navy. responded to the crash at dent, Navy pilot and former Veterans Memorial Museum in a wedding anniversary after her Kuehner’s dress uniform, mile marker 87 of I-5. county treasurer Karl “Bud” Chehalis June 16 and opening husband’s death, Kuehner said flight jacket, flight suit and They found a silver 2001 Kuehner died in 2012, but that it up to the public free of an ad- she still feels married to Bud, helmets from the Korean and Oldsmobile was traveling isn’t stopping his wife, Jo Kue- mission charge as a gift to honor and still misses him. Vietnam wars are on display southbound when it swerved hner, from celebrating their her late husband and celebrate “I think I can do what I want at the museum, along with 60th wedding anniversary this their wedding date. to do,” she said. please see CRASH, page Main 16 June. “It is making me happy … The Veterans Memorial Mu- please see GIFT, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Feeder Games Hunting for Gold Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Seniors Packwood Street, Charlotte, 81, Centralia Follow Us on Twitter Paine, Frank N., 74, Winlock @chronline Take the Business Peters, James W., 82, Packwood Field One Provides Blair, Sharron Lee, 64, Vader Find Us on Facebook Last Time Supplies Arth, Joseph E., 77, Winlock www.facebook.com/ Benson, Walter E., 95, Vader thecentraliachronicle in Annual for Gold- Kendig, Norman LeRoy, 81, Chehalis Games Seekers Aumiller, Delmar Robb, 83, Centralia Rice, William Lee, 97, Chehalis / Sports 1 / Life 1 Herold, Christopher Michael, 64, Rochester LOCAL PEOPLE, LOCAL DECISIONS! CHEHALIS 714 W. Main Street HOW CAN 360.740.0770 WE HELP Also TOLEDO, You? WINLOCK, TUMWATER & OLYMPIA Keith Macy Matt DeBord HOME | CONSTRUCTION | BUSINESS NMLS# 539574 CH559142cd.cg Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, June 2, 2016 PAGE TWO News Outtake: At the Warning Track of the Weird Cops: Duo Used Stolen a boy who he believed was his grandson. The report says the Cash To Buy Winning grandfather approached the boy and gave him a hug. When Full- $1M Lottery Ticket er asked the boy if he was ready ORWIGSBURG, Pa. (AP) — to go, the boy said yes. A couple who helped steal more The report says a teacher’s than $175,000 from a grocery assistant told sheriff’s deputies store where they worked used that she asked the boy if the man that money to buy a winning $1 was his grandfather, and the boy million lottery ticket from the said yes. same store, state police said. It wasn’t until after Fuller Joan Lechleitner, 51, and her brought him home that the fiance, Kerry Titus, 54, both of mistake was realized and he re- Pottsville, were charged Tuesday turned the boy to the school. He along with two other former em- ployees with stealing from the says he’s very sorry. Agway store in Cressona. They rang up bogus returns and pock- Forbes: Former Richest Matt Baide / [email protected] eted the money from May 2011 Alex Bacon, of Toledo, gets under a deep ly ball during the Southwest Washington All-State Feeder Game on until March 2016, police said in Self-Made US Woman Wednesday, June 1, at Ed Wheeler Field in Centralia. a criminal complaint. Now Worth Nothing See more in today’s Sports section and online atwww.lewiscountysports.com. And some of the stolen mon- ey was used to buy lottery tick- NEW YORK (AP) — Forbes ets, including the Cash 5 ticket has revised the net worth of the worth more than $1 million on woman it crowned America’s Notable Quote Sept. 11. richest self-made woman last Four winners split the prize year from $4.5 billion to nothing. of $1,047,618, with Lechleitner Forbes says its estimate of winning $261,904.50, state lot- Elizabeth Holmes’ wealth is “It was a paranoid state to live in and I’ll tell you what, if Trump is tery officials said. based entirely on her 50 percent Lechleitner had previously stake in troubled blood-testing elected that’s exactly what we will have here. You wind up keeping told the (Pottsville) Republican startup Theranos. The company people out but you also keep people in. It goes both ways.” Herald that Titus bought the acknowledged in April that it’s ticket. She told the newspaper under investigation by several that they used the money to buy a regulators and agencies following Renate Voss 2015 Chevy Silverado pickup and a series of reports by The Wall donor of section of Berlin Wall to Onalaska High School planned to honeymoon in Mexi- Street Journal in which former co and build a backyard pool. employees said the company’s Online court records list tests were unreliable. The tests (see page Main 4 for the full story) James Conville as the defense use only a few drops of blood. attorney for Lechleitner and Ti- Theranos said the articles tus, who was the store’s manager. were inaccurate when they were Conville didn’t immediately published. Today in History return a call Wednesday seek- ing comment on the theft, con- Today’s Highlight in History: report of my death was an exag- died 11 days later. (Prosecutors geration.” believed Bolles was targeted be- spiracy and records tampering Unplayable Lie: Turtle On June 2, 1941, baseball’s In 1924, Congress passed, cause he had written stories that charges they face. A preliminary “Iron Horse,” Lou Gehrig, died Lays Eggs in Golf Club’s and President Calvin Coolidge upset a liquor wholesaler; three hearing has been set for July 5. in New York of a degenerative signed, a measure guaranteeing men were convicted of the kill- The store’s owner installed disease, amyotrophic lateral Sand Trap full American citizenship for all hidden cameras in January that sclerosis; he was 37. ing.) showed the suspects stealing the ALLISON PARK, Pa. (AP) Native Americans born within In 1981, the Japanese video ar- money and buying lottery tick- — Talk about an unplayable lie: On this date: U.S. territorial limits. cade game “Donkey Kong” was ets, police said. A snapping turtle has nested in In 1863, during the Civil In 1946, Italy held a referen- released by Nintendo. the sand trap at a Pittsburgh- War, Union Maj. Gen. William dum that resulted in the Italian In 1983, half of the 46 people area golf club, forcing officials to T. Sherman wrote a letter to his monarchy being abolished in fa- aboard an Air Canada DC-9 Grandfather Apologizes rope off the hazard. wife, Ellen, in which he com- vor of a republic. were killed after fire broke out for Picking Up Wrong Officials at Wildwood Golf mented, “Vox populi, vox hum- In 1953, the coronation of on board, forcing the jetliner to Club in McCandless Township bug” (The voice of the people is Queen Elizabeth II took place make an emergency landing at Boy From School told KDKA-TV that a golf pro saw the voice of humbug). in London’s Westminster Abbey, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A the turtle laying the eggs in the In 1886, President Grover 16 months after the death of her International Airport.