C M C M Y K Y K RESEARCH RETIREES AVOIDING UPSET BUG Health group to phase out using chimps, A6 Unlike other top seeds, Serena rolls, B1 Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 THURSDAY,JUNE 27,2013 theworldlink.com I 75¢ Bone marrow drive for infant at Relay for Life BY EMILY THORNTON needs a transplant, Tomlin said. The World “It could cure her for good,”she said. COOS BAY — Two-month-old There will be a bone marrow Evelyn Elizabeth Tomlin bruises drive at the Relay for Life in easily, but she’s not hurting, said Coquille for Evelyn from noon to 4 Stephanie Tomlin, her mother. p.m. Saturday. “She’s not in any pain or any- Tomlin said it is difficult to thing. She’s not really lethargic,” watch her baby go through treat- Tomlin said. “She’s smiling and ment and deal with her possibly cooing and doing all the things not living a long life. The Aplastic she’s supposed Anemia and to be doing.” MDS Interna- The infant tional Founda- was diagnosed tion says 70 to with aplastic 90 percent of anemia a few aplastic anemics weeks after her recover if they Contributed photo April 16 birth. receive a trans- A photo from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hatfield Marine Science Center depicts North Pacific krill that She must plant. washed ashore in Northern California. Scientists are attempting to uncover why large numbers of the tiny, shrimp-like animals undergo a bone It would take a have been washing ashore between Eureka, Calif. and Newport. marrow trans- year to complete plant if she’s to treatment, Tom- live a full life. lin said. Aplastic ane- If Evelyn mia causes bone doesn’t receive a marrow to produce too few blood transplant, her prognosis is grim. If platelets. While not cancer, the she receives too many transplants Why did they die? American Cancer Society says it can that are rejected, there isn’t much be associated with certain cancers. hope either, her mother said. Evelyn must receive platelets Infection or internal bleeding from once a week and red blood cells every BY THOMAS MORIARTY the dead krill with Peterson, said other week currently, but she really SEE EVELYN | A8 The World Krill kill oceanographic cruises along the If you’ve noticed large accumulations of northern California coast did find COOS BAY — Something is dead krill on local beaches, researchers lower oxygen levels than usually killing large numbers of a keystone Bill Peterson and Joe Tyburczy want to seen in Pacific Northwest waters. species off the Oregon Coast. Fed- talk to you. They can be reached by email “If it is hypoxia, there’s a possi- Oregon may vote in ’14 eral researchers say it could spell at [email protected] and jtybur- bility of implications for other danger for the region’s other [email protected]. species like crab,”he said. marine life. Another possibility is that the on same-sex marriage Bill Peterson, an oceanographer krill could have experienced an important food source for Chi- with the National Oceanic and unfriendly weather conditions nook and coho salmon in the Pacif- impact of the Supreme Court deci- Atmospheric Administration’s during their mating cycle. BY NIGEL DUARA ic Ocean, as well as many other sion on its electorate. Hatfield Marine Science Center in “This particular species live in The Associated Press species of birds, fish and marine Same-sex marriage supporters Newport, said in the past few really quite shallow water,” Peter- mammals. PORTLAND — The U.S. are readying two measures for a weeks millions of dead North “This is the main food for fish son said. “When they reproduce, Supreme Court on Wednesday signature drive intended to reverse Pacific krill have washed up on offshore,”Peterson said. they get into these really huge dangled tempting incentives the ban, known as Measure 36. beaches between Newport and Peterson said researchers cur- swarms.” behind the overthrow of 29 state They need to obtain more than Eureka, Calif. rently have two hypotheses about The oceanographer said recent constitutional bans on same-sex 116,000 signatures to appear on Peterson said it’s the largest die- about the cause of the die-offs. high winds may have driven the marriage: the possibilities of the 2014 ballot. off he’s aware of in recent history. The first is hypoxia. “It’s when the shrimp to shore. health insurance, hospital visita- While celebrating the victory, “The odd thing is that this oxygen in the water is so low the For the moment, Peterson and tion rights and Social Security supporters of same-sex marriage seems to be happening in both animals actually get killed by it,”he Tyburczy are depending on the benefits among them. made clear that their priorities rest places at the same time,”he said. said. public to be their eyes on the sand. That’s particularly true in Ore- on the upcoming vote. Opponents The North Pacific species lives Peterson said the water temper- “If this happens again,” Peterson gon, where a 2004 ballot measure of same-sex marriage made the largely on the eastern side of the ature right now is low enough that said. “I’ll have to take a drive down bans same-sex marriage in the same assertion. ocean, predominantly between hypoxia wouldn’t be expected. the coast.” state despite near-uniform oppo- “The Court’s decision to strike southern California and southern But, tests have returned unex- Reporter Thomas Moriarty can sition from the state’s highest down DOMA sends a wrong mes- Alaska. Peterson said they’re typi- pected results. be reached at 541-269-1222, ext. quarters. Nearly a decade after the sage in our opinion,” the Oregon cally found along the continental Joe Tyburczy, a researcher with 240, or by email at thomas.moriar- vote to approve the ban passed Family Council said in a statement shelf. the California Sea Grant extension [email protected]. Follow him with 57 percent of the vote, Oregon The shrimp-like crustaceans are office who has been looking into on Twitter: @ThomasDMoriarty. could be the first state to test the SEE OREGON | A8 Henson admits to killings I Says he used meth of Bandon. spoke of his past with Tuell, During his nearly three and she left the room crying. She and shot two men in a half hours on the stand at the returned later. self-defense Coos County courthouse, Henson admitted to using Henson ran the gamut of emo- methamphetamine several tions by crying, getting angry times during the family’s BY GEORGE ARTSITAS and laughing at times during weekend trip to Bandon before The World his testimony. the killings, and that being high Henson told of how he was made him paranoid. COQUILLE — Timothy born in Arizona and barely He said he had been in con- Henson took the witness stand made it to the ninth grade, how frontations with Leach on the second day of his aggra- he was in special education throughout the weekend, and vated murder trial Wednesday classes when he was in school, their clashes finally boiled over at the scene of the shooting. to admit he shot two men last and how he never felt comfort- Henson said Leach had threat- September. able with guns after nearly Henson is facing two counts ened to shoot him; Henson dying from a gunshot in 1989. claimed he aimed his gun to hit of aggravated murder following By Alysha Beck, The World Henson stared directly at Leach in the neck for a warning the deaths of Milton Leach and his wife, Vellona Tuell, while Coos County District Attorney Paul Frasier presents a slideshow of photos from the scene along George Micheaux III on Sept. 2 recounting his past that leading U.S. Highway 101 where Timothy Henson allegedly shot two men last September. 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C M C M Y K Y K C M C M Y K A2 •The World • Thursday, June 27,2013 Y K South Coast City Editor Ryan Haas • 541-269-1222, ext. 239 theworldlink.com/news/local Judge orders BLM to sell more timber BY JEFF BARNARD ber sale areas was adopted longstanding position that a enough to fuel more than 400 The Associated Press without input from the pub- 1937 law known as the O&C logging and mill jobs. lic, as required by the Admin- Act sets timber production as She noted that the extra GRANTS PASS — A federal istrative Procedures Act. He the top priority for the BLM timber will come too late for judge on Wednesday ordered prohibited government agen- forests. one of the plaintiffs, Rough & the U.S.