A Pet’s Home Before Home Pioneer West In Centralia Puts Pets First / Life 1 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com $1 Early Week Edition Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016 Cancer Breakthrough Blazer History Made Napavine, Centralia College Graduate Makes New Centralia College Women’s Soccer Big Discovery in Cancer Biology / Main 3 Program Signs First 10 Players / Sports 1 Report: 43 Thefts Take Emotional Toll Percent B&D Owners Disheartened After Recent Robbery, Thefts of Lewis County Households in Poverty UNITED WAYS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: ALICE Report Highlights Scope of Financial Hardship in Area By Justyna Tomtas [email protected] One in three Pacific North- west households struggles to afford basic needs, states a new study conducted by United Ways of the Pacific Northwest. The ALICE Report helps de- tail the size and scope of finan- cial hardship in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. The house- holds that fall under ALICE earn more than the federal pov- erty level, but less than the basic cost of living, stated a release. ALICE — otherwise known as Asset Limited, Income Con- strained, Employed — studied Pete Caster / [email protected] the financial hardship on a large Matt Dare, left, points to the suspect of a shoplifting incident last week on the B&D Market's surveillance camera system as David Haladay, a co-owner of the store population of hardworking resi- with Dare, looks on in their oice on Monday afternoon in Centralia. dents who work at low-paying jobs, have little or no savings, By Natalie Johnson and are one emergency from falling into poverty, stated a [email protected] press release. A week after a robbery at POVERTY, Centralia’s B&D Market, owners please see page Main 11 David Haladay and Matt Dare say they’re discouraged with the ever-present threat theft poses Governor’s to their “Mom & Pop” business. “I would like to get into a dif- ferent line of business, because Executive this one is beating us up,” Hala- day said. Order Targets Haladay founded the B&D Market about 21 years ago. Suicide “He’s had to fight for his every breath,” Dare said. “He’s considered leaving … even he’s Prevention, got a threshold.” Haladay and Dare said shop- Firearm lifters are only part of the prob- lem. They have also experienced Violence theft from employees, vendors and their own families. By Izumi Hansen “We’ve had all those sce- For The Chronicle narios work out over the years,” Dare said. OLYMPIA — An executive Dare estimated they’ve lost order issued Jan. 6 by Gov. Jay at least $100,000 in stolen lottery Inslee intends to reduce suicides tickets alone. in the state by first analyzing “Each time we’ve had to fight data and laws concerning gun our way back,” Haladay said. violence. Both said the constant vigi- The order takes a public- lance and worry about theft is health approach to gun violence exhausting. — an approach also used to pre- “What we’re seeing is, over vent vehicular fatalities, which David Haladay, co-owner of the B&D Market, sits in front of stacks of DVDs that were stolen last week. Haladay, and co- have steadily dropped since please see THEFTS, page Main 11 owner Matt Dare, confronted a suspect stealing the DVDs outside the store last Tuesday. please see SUICIDE, page Main 11 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Pe Ell Potholes Winter Wonderland Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 West A Guide to Hatfield, Lawrence Carl, Follow Us on Twitter County Showshoeing 94, Centralia @chronline Town Fun at Find Us on Facebook Prepares Mount www.facebook.com/ to Invest Rainier thecentraliachronicle in Roads National Park / Main 5 / Main 13 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016 PAGE TWO News Daily Outtake: Permanent Tavern Resident of the Weird counts of the hangings, then used modern-day aerial photog- raphy and ground penetrating radar not available a century ago. The team made other inter- esting discoveries. They deter- mined there probably never was a gallows at the site. More than likely, the executioners tossed a rope over a large tree. Researchers Confirm Baker also stressed that there Site of Hangings for is no evidence that any of the victims were buried at Proctor’s Salem Witch Trials Ledge — it’s too rocky and the SALEM, Mass. (AP) — A soil is too shallow. team of researchers using histor- “I think knowing the exact lo- ical documents and 21st-century cation where the executions took archaeological techniques has place is important because we want to get history right,” Mayor confirmed the site where 19 in- Pete Caster / [email protected] nocent people were hanged dur- Kim Driscoll said. “It’s also an opportunity to come together A cigarette hangs from the mouth of a wall-mounted buck behind the bar of the Brown Shack Tavern in Salkum on ing the Salem witch trials more Monday afternoon. See a feature story on the business on page Main 6. than three centuries ago. and recognize the injustice and The site, known as Proctor’s tragedy.” Ledge, is a small city-owned plot The city plans to place a of woods nestled between two marker at the site but also wants residential streets and behind to respect the rights of the people Notable Quote a Walgreens pharmacy, said who live in the area, the mayor Salem State University history said. The city doesn’t want visi- professor Emerson “Tad” Baker, tors tramping through private a member of the seven-person backyards looking for the spot, team, which announced its find- she said. “None of us have seen anything like this. It’s ings this week. Instead, she encourages visi- unheard of for the heart rate not to go up.” Historian Sidney Perley had tors to go to the memorial and pinpointed Proctor’s Ledge museum downtown. nearly a century ago as the site Baker said a memorial at the Dr. John Evered of the hangings by using his- site is important. on music therapy program for premature babies torical documents, but his find- “We need to have that exact ings were lost to time, and myth, spot marked so it can never be misconceptions and conspiracy lost again,” he said. (see page Main 9 for the full story) theories had taken their place, Baker said. The current research, known Cops: Pennsylvania Man as the Gallows Hill Project, was Used Basement Hole to about correcting the misinfor- mation many people have about Burglarize Home Today in History one of the most tragic episodes BATH, Pa. (AP) — State in American history. police have charged an eastern Today’s Highlight in History: Great Yarmouth and King’s over Carswell’s past racial views. Lynn in England. In 1977, in one of his last “We are not discovering any- Pennsylvania man with burglar- On Jan. 19, 1966, Indira Gan- thing, and we don’t want to take izing a neighbor’s home by cut- In 1937, millionaire Howard acts of office, President Gerald dhi was chosen to be prime min- Hughes set a transcontinental R. Ford pardoned Iva Toguri credit for that,” he said. “This is ting a hole that linked his base- ister of India by the National all about the healing, not about ment to the neighbor’s. air record by flying his mono- D’Aquino, an American con- Congress party. (Gandhi, a pow- plane from Los Angeles to New- victed of treason for making the discovery.” Twenty-two-year-old Paul Bus- erful as well as polarizing figure, Twenty people suspected of kirk has been in the Northampton ark, New Jersey, in 7 hours, 28 wartime broadcasts for Japan. served as India’s prime minister minutes and 25 seconds. In 1981, the United States and witchcraft were killed in Salem County jail since Sunday on bur- from 1966 to 1977, and again be- in 1692 during a frenzy stoked glary, theft and other charges. In 1942, during World War II, Iran signed an accord paving the ginning in 1980 until she was as- Japan invaded Burma (Myanmar). way for the release of 52 Ameri- by superstition, fear of disease Police say he sawed through sassinated in 1984.) and strangers, and petty jealou- his wall and created a hole to get In 1955, a presidential news cans held hostage for more than sies. Nineteen were hanged, and into a woman’s home sometime On This Date: conference was filmed for televi- 14 months. one man was crushed to death on Dec. 4. Police say Buskirk In 1807, Confederate Gen. sion and newsreels for the first In 1992, German government by rocks. then stole $200 worth of quar- Robert E. Lee was born in West- time, with the permission of and Jewish officials dedicated a “The witch trials cast a long ters the woman had stored in moreland County, Virginia. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Holocaust memorial at the villa dark shadow on Salem history,” several envelopes. In 1853, Giuseppe Verdi’s op- In 1960, the Treaty of Mutual on the outskirts of Berlin where Baker said. The woman called police era “Il Trovatore” premiered in Cooperation and Security be- the notorious Wannsee Confer- The top of nearby Gallows when she came home and found Rome. tween Japan and the United States ence had taken place. Hill had long been thought of sheet rock materials in her base- In 1861, Georgia became the of America was signed by both Today’s Birthdays: Former U.N. as the site of the hangings, but ment — along with a shirt cov- fifth state to secede from the countries in Washington, D.C.