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C M C M Y K Y K NEAR PERFECT MISSING HIKERS RETURN Smith leads 49ers to win, B1 Boy Scouts spent two nights in stormy weather, A5 Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2012 theworldlink.com I 75¢ Consensual sex leads to night in county jail BY TYLER RICHARDSON The World COQUILLE — High school seniors have a new reason to be careful about their sexual choices: jail. An 18-year-old Coquille man spent part of the weekend at the Coos County jail after police caught him having consensual sex with his 17- year-old girlfriend early Sunday. A Coquille police officer spotted the couple having sex in a car at a park behind a local school. The 18-year-old — whose name The World is withholding because he will not be prosecuted — was arrested on charges of third-degree sex- Photos by The Associated Press ual abuse, contributing to the sexual delin- Sea water floods the Ground Zero construction site Monday in NewYork.Sandy continued on its path Monday,as the storm forced the shutdown of mass quency of a minor and sexual misconduct. transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. The man was arrested around 2:20 a.m. and was released around 11 a.m. Monday on his own recognizance. Coos County District Attorney Paul Frasier said his office will decline to file charges because the man was within three years of age to the girl. Sandy’s fury Oregon Law 163.345 says it is a defense if the actor was less than three years older than the victim at the time of the alleged offense. Coquille Police Chief Janice Blue said people over the age of 18 need to understand if they Storm leaves millions have sex with a person under the age of 18 it is illegal. “It’s our job to make the arrest,”she said. powerless, stranded Blue said all of the charges the man was arrested on fit the guidelines of the crimes he allegedly committed. BY TOM HAYS AND ALLEN G. BREED Chris Christie said. “The devasta- Sexual abuse in the third-degree is defined as The Associated Press tion on the Jersey Shore is some of a person subjecting another person to sexual the worst we’ve ever seen. The cost contact and the victim is incapable of consent NEW YORK — Millions of peo- of the storm is incalculable at this by the reason of being under 18 years of age. ple from Maine to the Carolinas point.” Reporter Tyler Richardson can be reached at awoke Tuesday without power, The death toll from Sandy in the 541 269 1222 ext 236 or at trichardson@the- and an eerily quiet New York City U.S. climbed to 18, including six in worldlink.com. was all but closed off by car, train New York, four in Pennsylvania and air as superstorm Sandy and three in New Jersey, with most steamed inland, still delivering of the victims killed by falling This U.S.Coast Guard photo shows the HMS Bounty,a 180-foot punishing wind and rain. trees. Sandy also killed 69 people tall ship, submerged in the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Missing man The full extent of the damage in in the Caribbean before making its Sandy approximately 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C. New Jersey,where the storm roared way up the Eastern Seaboard. ashore Monday night with hurri- At least 7.4 million people turns up south cane force, was unclear. Police and across the East were without elec- fire officials, some with their own tricity.Airlines canceled more than 1 dead, captain departments flooded, fanned out 12,000 flights. of Powers to rescue hundreds. Lower Manhattan, the financial center of the U.S., was among the “We are in the midst of urban missing from POWERS — After a monthlong disappear- search and rescue. Our teams are ance, a 57-year-old Powers man was found moving as fast as they can,” Gov. SEE SANDY | A8 camping south of the city. HMS Bounty Mark Ivon Foss and his Dodge Caravan were discov- ered by a hunter in China Flats ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) — When the HMS on Sunday. Bounty set sail last week, the captain running the ship The sheriff’s office has been made famous in Hollywood adventure films believed searching for Foss, who was he could navigate around Hurricane Sandy and last seen on Sept. 25 before he weather the storm. After two days in rough seas, he began driving from Powers to realized his journey would be far more difficult. Bridge. Mark Foss “I think we are going to be into this for several Foss told sheriff’s deputies Found camping days,” Robin Walbridge said in a message posted Sun- that he had voluntarily left his day on the vessel’s Facebook site, which reads like a home and had been camping on his own. He ship’s log of her activities. “We are just going to keep returned to his family. trying to go fast.” By Monday morning, the vessel had started taking on water, its engines failed and the crew of the stately Hedge fund manager craft had to abandon ship as it went down in the immense waves. One crew member died and Wal- pounds DeFazio with bridge was still missing. Most of the sailors were plucked from life rafts barrage of spending shortly after the ship went down, but Claudene BY DANIEL SIMMONS-RITCHIE SEE BOUNTY | A8 The World NEW YORK — Low on cash in the final seven days of the election, a New York hedge fund manager continues to fill the spending gap in Tribes request coal export study Art Robinson’s bid for Oregon’s 4th Congres- sional District. A group backed by Robert Mercer, CEO of BY JESSIE HIGGINS calls on the White House ment in the Pacific North- effective use of the North Renaissance Technologies, has spent $175,000 The World Council on Environmental west. Coos Bay’s terminal is Spit,” said Ray Doering, the in the past week to continue a barrage of televi- Quality to prepare an environ- still a concept. The developers Coquille Tribe’s spokesman. sion ads against Robinson’s rival, Democratic PENDLETON — The Affili- mental assessment on that will decide in December “Before they take a position, incumbent Peter DeFazio. ated Tribes of Northwest specific proposal. whether to move to the next they’ll do a study and look at That outside money is proving pivotal in Indians are calling for the U.S. The resolution does not phase. what the ramifications are. It’s closing the cash gulf between the two cam- Army Corps of Engineers to single out Coos Bay’s pro- Although the Coquille always a tug of war. The coun- paigns in the election’s closing days. complete a comprehensive posed export terminal, other Tribe and the Confederated cil supports more jobs. They Records released earlier this month show environmental impact state- than to insist federal and state Tribes of Coos, Lower also look at (whether the pro- DeFazio’s campaign had $457,000 left in its warchest — over four times that of Robinson’s ment on the cumulative agencies complete separate Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians posal is using) resources in an campaign. effects of exporting coal from environmental impact state- are members of the Affiliated environmentally sound way.” In a Sunday e-mail, Robinson’s campaign the Pacific Northwest. ments on each northwest Tribes, they haven’t taken a The Confederated Tribes asked supporters to make their “most generous The resolution was prompt- export proposal. There are position on coal export. also are withholding judgment ed by a proposed export facility currently six such proposals at “In the past, the tribe has at the Port of Morrow. It also different stages of develop- supported efforts to make SEE COAL | A8 SEE SPENDING | A8 William Lewis III, McMinnville Police reports . A2 Sports . B1 Pauline Hurley, Coos Bay T S S Gail Seibert, Coos Bay E A H Danny Straight, Charleston D What’s Up. A3 Comics . C3 Kenneth Dickinson, Coos Bay I C T Dixie Arrant, Lakeside E A S South Coast. A3 Puzzles. C3 Gretchen Chapman, Lakeside Rain E R N Don Traylor, North Bend | 65/56 I Obituaries A5 D Opinion. A4 Classifieds . C4 O F Weather | A8 C M C M Y K Y K C M C M Y K A2 •The World • Tuesday, October 30,2012 Y K South Coast City Editor Ryan Haas • 541-269-1222, ext. 239 theworldlink.com/news/local Sea energy talk Thursday Logs in a row THE WORLD Coos Bay. Oregon has jurisdiction Territorial Sea NORTH BEND — The over the seabed 3 miles off- Oregon Department of Land shore. The Territorial Sea Plan workshops Conservation will host a Plan coordinates laws, I Thursday, 5-8 meeting Thursday to discuss activities and programs p.m., East Salmon future marine renewable related to that zone, accord- Room, The Mill Casi- energy projects. ing to the port. no-Hotel, 3201 The agency is creating Information from Thurs- guidelines for where future Tremont Street, North day’s meeting will be shared ocean energy projects should Bend. with the Territorial Sea Plan be sited by amending the I Tuesday,Nov.6, 5- Advisory Committee and 8 p.m., Hallmark Hotel, state’s Territorial Sea Plan. Oregon Ocean Policy Advi- 744 SW Elizabeth Thursday’s meeting will Street, Newport. begin with an update on the sory Council, which will eventually designate areas I Wednesday, Nov.

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