Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com $1 Floods Strike Mid-Week Edition Throughout Thursday, / Inside Dec. 10, 2015 Region Neighborhoods Become River Channels Cowlitz Deals Blow to East End During Countywide Flooding STRUCK AT DARK: Rescues and Evacuations Unfold During a Wild Pete Caster / [email protected] Night in Packwood Above: Rising waters By Jordan Nailon from a rushing Cowlitz River pushed over For The Chronicle playground equipment PACKWOOD — The mud- behind a house on dy debris-choked waters of the Mountain View Lane Cowlitz River had started to re- east of Packwood on cede in the uppermost reaches Wednesday morning. of East Lewis County Wednes- day morning, allowing resi- Left: Rose Holmes dents an opportunity to eye the stands on her porch damage wrought by powerful after water from a storms that wreaked havoc on looded Cowlitz River the Cowlitz River. receded enough for The wild waterway crested her to inspect the near Packwood around 7 p.m. damage on Wednesday on Tuesday evening and quickly morning in Packwood. turned neighborhoods into new Holmes, who has lived river channels. at her trailer along the Up in the High Valley neigh- river for ive years, said borhoods of Packwood, the she slept through the flood damage was worse than dangerous rising waters anything reported in Lewis on Tuesday night. 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Main Street 360.740.0770 HOME | CONSTRUCTION | BUSINESS Also TOLEDO, WINLOCK, TUMWATER & OLYMPIA Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015 PAGE TWO News Knee Deep in the flood waters of the Weird day the 44-year-old man was Police: Albuquerque sleeping inside a large trash bin Man Arrested After behind a restaurant when a trash truck collected it and used the Stealing Mom’s Stew compactor. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Bosques told the Oakland (AP) — Police say an Albuquer- Tribune the truck then traveled que man wanted his mother’s to a fast food restaurant, collect- traditional New Mexican stew ed trash from another bin there so much he broke into her home and again used the compactor. and stole it. She said the man crawled out The Albuquerque Journal through an opening in the roof reported that 23-year-old Jona- the next time the truck stopped than Ray was arrested recently at another store. after he ignored his mother’s Bosques says the man was very orders to stay away from her po- lucky to have survived the com- sole and ran off with the holiday paction without serious injuries. dish. According to a criminal com- Abandoned Jets: Malaysia Pete Caster / [email protected] plaint, Ray sent his mom a text After looking for a path around a very large and deep puddle, reporter Jordan Nailon empties water out of his boots on message saying he wanted some Wants Them Out Wednesday afternoon near Packwood. Nailon did not ind an easy path around the puddle. of her posole but she told him no. The complaint says the KUALA LUMPUR, Malay- mother later found her gate and sia (AP) — Attention owners of garage broken and a pot of the three jumbo jets parked at Ma- posole missing. laysia’s main airport: Please re- move your aircraft immediately Notable Quote or the airport will. Donor Drops Rings Malaysia’s airport operator took the unusual step of post- Worth $3,500 in ing photos in two major news- “First it was a fence, then it was the roof, and then it was papers of the three Boeing 747- just coming down in pieces.” I don’t know who it belonged to, Salvation Army Kettle 200s that have been sitting idle BILLERICA, Mass. (AP) — for more than a year. The notice but it belonged to somebody and it’s gone now.” The Salvation Army says some- this week warns the owners that one has placed a wedding band the airport has the right to sell or Jim Blair, and a diamond engagement ring dispose of the planes unless they worth $3,500 in one of its holi- are collected within 14 days. Packwood resident speaking about the might of the Cowlitz river day red kettles in Massachusetts. Kuala Lumpur International (see page Main 5 for the full story) The charity said Tuesday that Airport General Manager Zainol the anonymous donation made Mohamad Isa said Wednesday last week in the town of Billerica, such notice is normal in a bid to about 20 miles northwest of Bos- recover debts owed to Malaysia ton, is reminiscent of a series of Airports Holdings Berhad, after donations of expensive jewelry exhaustive but futile efforts to last winter. locate the owners. They are be- Today in History Salvation Army officials lieved to be foreign entities that Today’s Highlight in History: came the first American woman In 1994, Yasser Arafat, Shi- called the rings “an incredible could have ceased operations. to be awarded the Nobel Peace mon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin On Dec. 10, 1905, the O. Hen- gift” that will help pay for food The planes carry registration Prize; the co-recipient was Nich- received the Nobel Peace Prize, ry short story “The Gift of the pantries, soup kitchens and oth- prefixes TF for Iceland. An Ice- olas Murray Butler. pledging to pursue their mission Magi” was published in the New er holiday outreach to the needy. land-based air charter and cargo In 1950, Ralph J. Bunche was of healing the anguished Middle York Sunday World Magazine Last December, a widow’s company, Air Atlanta Icelandic, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, East. under the title “Gifts of the Magi.” donation of her wedding and was quoted by The Star news- the first black American to re- Ten years ago: A Nigerian diamond engagement rings in paper as saying it operated the On this date: ceive the award. jetliner crashed while landing Boston touched off a wave of planes until 2010. In 1520, Martin Luther pub- In 1964, Martin Luther King in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, kill- similar giving that wound up “We placed out the advertise- licly burned the papal edict de- Jr. received his Nobel Peace ing all but two of the 110 people raising more than $30,000. ments because we want to re- manding that he recant, or face Prize in Oslo, saying he accept- on board. A U.N. conference on move ambiguity over ownership excommunication. ed it “with an abiding faith in global warming ended in Mon- Man Asleep Inside Trash of the planes,” Zainol said. “We In 1817, Mississippi was admit- America and an audacious faith treal with an agreement by more want the owners to step forward ted as the 20th state of the Union. in the future of mankind.” than 150 nations (not including Bin Survives Garbage- and we want the planes to be out In 1906, President Theo- In 1967, singer Otis Redding, the United States) to open talks of our airport bay.” dore Roosevelt became the first 26, and six others were killed on mandatory post-2012 reduc- Truck Compactor He said that such cases are American to be awarded the when their plane crashed into tions in greenhouse gases. Chief FREMONT, Calif. (AP) — not uncommon and happen in Nobel Peace Prize for helping Wisconsin’s Lake Monona. U.N. nuclear inspector Mo- Police say a homeless man sleep- airports around the world. to mediate an end to the Russo- In 1972, baseball’s American hamed ElBaradei (ehl-BEHR’- ing inside a garbage bin survived If the planes are unclaimed, Japanese War. League adopted the designated uh-day) accepted the Nobel two compaction cycles after the Malaysia Airports will likely sell In 1915, the Irving Berlin hitter rule on an experimental Peace Prize. Former Sen. Eugene bin was emptied into a trash the jets to recover debts for land- song “I Love a Piano” was copy- basis for three years. McCarthy, 89, died in Washing- truck. ing and parking fees, Zainol said, righted by Berlin’s music com- In 1984, South African Bish- ton. Actor-comedian Richard Fremont police spokeswom- but declined to say how much pany in New York. op Desmond Tutu received the Pryor, 65, died in Encino, Cali- an Geneva Bosques said Tues- money is being owed. In 1931, Jane Addams be- Nobel Peace Prize. fornia. The Weather Almanac 5-Day Forecast for the Lewis County Area River Stages National Map Gauge Flood 24 hr. Forecast map for Dec. 10, 2015 Today Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Height Stage Change Chehalis at Mellen St. 110s 61.14 65.0 +0.51 100s L Skookumchuck at Pearl St. 90s L 80s 82.51 85.0 +0.47 70s Cowlitz at Packwood 60s 10.51 10.5 -0.63 50s Cowlitz at Randle H Rain Likely Showers Likely Cloudy Showers Likely Cloudy 40s L 22.95 18.0 +1.74 30s 50º 40º 48º 40º 48º 38º 44º 34º 45º 34º Cowlitz at Mayield Dam 20s 14.73 ---- +0.09 10s 0s This map shows high temperatures, type of precipitation expected and location of frontal systems at noon.