Party Rallies Paranormal Statewide Candidates and Republican Lewis County Historical Museum Plays Officials Gather in Chehalis / Main 3 Host to ‘Psychic’ Personalities / Main 4 Chehalis Looks $1 Early Week Edition to Expand Tuesday, / Main 5 Oct. 20, 2015 Borders Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com LEWIS COUNTY: Highs and Hopes BREAKING Stories of Pain, Addiction and Finding Strength free For many, it started with experimentation. A taste of alcohol. An innocent pull from a joint. ‘Because I was A compulsion to try something new for a high more intense than the last. so naive, I For others, addictions grew from the surround- didn’t know ings in their youth — alcoholic parents, drug addict- ed friends or relatives. what was However it happens, it happens a lot. happening. In the United States, one in every 10 people are ad- dicted to drugs, alcohol or both. That’s more than 23 I thought I million addicts. could just quit.’ Only 11 percent of them pursue treatment. Three in Lewis County have chosen to share their stories with The Chronicle as part of our ongoing se- ries — Lewis County: Highs and Hopes. See pages Main 8 and 9 for the full stories. ‘It is a sickness. ‘I really in the I’ve got a beginning was strong will preparing to — it wasn’t be a convicted enough to get felon for the me to stop.’ rest of my life.’ The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Goling Scared Five-State Plan Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Shankz Feds Drawing Christianson, Orvin, 89, Follow Us on Twitter Mineral @chronline Mini Golf up Protection Cheney, Charles, 90, Offering Proposal for Centralia Find Us on Facebook a Spooky Cold Water Fenske, Elisabeth, 75, www.facebook.com/ Centralia thecentraliachronicle 18 for the Species in Foley, Diana Jean (McMurry), Season 73, Mossyrock West Barr, Glen William, 82, / Life 1 / Main 13 Curtis Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015 PAGE TWO News Daily Outtake: Homecoming Scene in Tenino of the Weird cluding Thailand, Malaysia, Sin- At 100, Woman Still gapore and Myanmar. It traces Working 11 Hours a Day its origins to the early 1800s, BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Fe- when a troupe of Chinese actors limina Rotundo works 11 hours on tour in Phuket fell ill. It was a day, six days a week at a Buf- decided that they should abstain falo laundromat and says she from eating meat and soon all has no plans to quit working were well again. even though she turned 100 two months ago. Alaska Church Tips Pizza She told WGRZ-TV that she got her first job at 15 during the Delivery Driver $1,900 Great Depression and has been ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) working ever since. — More than two weeks after a Rotundo works from 7 a.m. church congregation in Ohio to 6 p.m. washing clothes and tipped a pizza delivery driver handling dry cleaning at the $1,000, a church in Anchorage College Laundry Shoppe. She has upped the stakes. says she hasn’t considered retire- Anchorage television station Pete Caster / [email protected] ment and will continue working KTVA reported that Ken Felber A classic car cruises past the grandstand as the Tenino Beaver looks on during a break in Tenino’s Evergreen 2A/1A as long as her health is good. has been a pizza delivery driver League football game against Eatonville on Friday in Tenino. Eatonville rallied late to beat Tenino, 42-41. See the story Rotundo, who hit the centu- for 14 years. When he delivered and more photos online at www.lewiscountysports.com. ry mark in August, says she likes a pizza to Chugach Covenant being out and working because Church on Sunday, the pastor it gives her something to do. asked him what was his best- She says too many people ever tip. Notable Quote retire too soon. Her advice to When he replied $100, pastor her peers: “Get out and do some Dan Krause asked him, “How work.” does a tip of $1,900 sound?” Felber was very mindful of “I haven’t come across anything I believe to be his heavenly surroundings and At Thailand Veggie replied: “Oh, heck no!” He says pure evil or demonic. I haven’t come across Festival, Only Flesh of it’s the coolest thing that’s ever anything I believe to be pure good. “ happened to him. the Devout Harmed Krause says this was an op- PHUKET, Thailand (AP) — portunity to do something small William Becker Thailand’s Vegetarian Festival that would really have a big im- self-proclaimed psychic is more than sprouts and tofu — pact on somebody’s life. See page Main 4 for the full story it’s an assault on the senses, and Felber has no plans to splurge for the most devout, on the body since he needs new snow tires itself. and has medical expenses. But The most striking element he does plan to take his wife out of the nine-day Taoist celebra- for a good spaghetti dinner. Today in History tion has little to do with food. In sacred rituals, devotees known Snake Gets Loose on Today's Highlight in History Snyder Co. in New York. urday Night Massacre," special as “Mah Song” or “Spirit Horses” In 1936, Helen Keller's teach- Watergate prosecutor Archibald On Oct. 20, 1965, in one of work themselves into trances to Philadelphia Bus er, Anne Sullivan Macy, died in Cox was dismissed and Attor- the more colorful moments of have all manner of items pierced Forest Hills, New York, at age 70. ney General Elliot L. Richard- PHILADELPHIA (AP) — his presidency, Lyndon B. John- through their cheeks, from dag- In 1944, during World War son and Deputy Attorney Gen- Officials say a 4-foot-long boa son, recovering from gall blad- gers and swords to a bicycle. II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur eral William B. Ruckelshaus constrictor has gotten loose on der surgery at Bethesda Naval Then they dance as massive stepped ashore at Leyte in the a Philadelphia bus, leading to an Medical Center, pulled up his resigned. strings of fireworks explode all emergency evacuation. Philippines, 2 1/2 years after say- In 1981, a bungled armored around them. shirt and jacket to show off his Transit authority officials say abdominal scar to reporters and ing, "I shall return." A series of gas truck robbery carried out by The annual festival in Phuket a man carrying a boa constrictor storage tank explosions and fires members of radical groups in has become a tourist attrac- photographers. (Although crit- boarded the Southeastern Penn- ics were appalled by the display, in Cleveland killed 130 people. Nanuet, New York, left a guard tion, with several large, noisy sylvania Transportation Author- Johnson later said he was trying In 1947, the House Un- and two police officers dead. processions complete with fire- ity bus just before 3 p.m. Sunday. to dispel rumors that he'd actu- American Activities Commit- In 1990, three members of works, gongs and drums pass- The snake’s owner, 26-year- ally been operated on for cancer.) tee opened hearings into alleged the rap group 2 Live Crew were ing through the streets. Many old Koron Riley, told The Phila- Communist influence and infil- acquitted by a jury in Fort Lau- Phuket residents have Chinese delphia Inquirer that he had the tration in the U.S. motion pic- derdale, Florida, of violating ob- ancestors, and devotees to the snake draped around his neck On This Date ture industry. scenity laws with an adults-only many Chinese temples on the and hidden under his jacket. In 1714, the coronation of In 1964, the 31st president concert in nearby Hollywood island parade their shrines’ em- The bus had to be evacuated Britain's King George I took of the United States, Herbert C. the previous June. peror gods on hand-carried car- after the snake somehow got place in Westminster Abbey. Hoover, died in New York at age In 2011, Moammar Gadhafi, riages. loose and coiled itself under a In 1803, the U.S. Senate rati- 90. 69, Libya's dictator for 42 years, The Vegetarian Festival be- seat. A SEPTA mechanic was fied the Louisiana Purchase. In 1968, former first lady Jac- was killed as revolutionary gins on the eve of the ninth lunar able to dismantle the seat, al- In 1914, "Stay Down Here queline Kennedy married Greek fighters overwhelmed his home- month of the Chinese calendar lowing a transit police officer to Where You Belong," an antiwar shipping magnate Aristotle town of Sirte and captured the and is observed primarily in retrieve the snake and return it song by Irving Berlin, was pub- Onassis. last major bastion of resistance Southeast Asian countries, in- to Riley. lished by Waterson, Berlin & In 1973, in the so-called "Sat- two months after his regime fell. The Weather Almanac 5-Day Forecast for the Lewis County Area River Stages National Map Gauge Flood 24 hr. Forecast map for Oct. 20, 2015 Today Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Height Stage Change Chehalis at Mellen St. 110s 48.61 65.0 0.00 100s L Skookumchuck at Pearl St. 90s H L 72.86 85.0 0.00 80s Cowlitz at Packwood 70s L 2.08 10.5 +0.03 60s H Cowlitz at Randle 50s Partly Cloudy Isolated Rain Mostly Sunny Partly Cloudy Mostly Cloudy 3.60 18.0 -0.01 40s 30s 65º 45º 66º 45º 61º 42º 65º 42º 64º 43º Cowlitz at Mayield Dam 20s 3.59 ---- +0.03 10s 0s This map shows high temperatures, type of precipitation expected and Almanac Regional Weather Sun and Moon location of frontal systems at noon.