e PARTLYEdition SUNNY 57 • 46 | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2020 | theworldlink.com Follow us online: facebook.com/theworldnewspaper twitter.com/TheWorldLink instagram.com/theworldlink Famed Air Force pilot Chuck Yeager dies Associated Press said in a statement. the hills of West Virginia, flew “Sure, I was apprehensive,” he apart,” Yeager said. “Gen. Yeager’s pioneering and for more than 60 years, including said in 1968. “When you’re fool- Sixty-five years later to the Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. innovative spirit advanced Amer- piloting an X-15 to near 1,000 ing around with something you minute, on Oct. 14, 2012, Yeager Charles “Chuck” Yeager, the ica’s abilities in the sky and set mph (1,609 kph) at Edwards in don’t know much about, there commemorated the feat, flying in World War II fighter pilot ace our nation’s dreams soaring into October 2002 at age 79. has to be apprehension. But you the back seat of an F-15 Eagle as and quintessential test pilot who the jet age and the space age. He “Living to a ripe old age is not don’t let that affect your job.” it broke the sound barrier at more showed he had the “right stuff” said, ‘You don’t concentrate on an end in itself. The trick is to The modest Yeager said in than 30,000 feet (9,144 meters) when in 1947 he became the first risks. You concentrate on results. enjoy the years remaining,” he 1947 he could have gone even above California’s Mojave person to fly faster than sound, No risk is too great to prevent said in “Yeager: An Autobiogra- faster had the plane carried more Desert. has died. He was 97. the necessary job from getting phy.” fuel. He said the ride “was nice, His exploits were told in Tom Yeager died Monday, his wife, done,’” Bridenstine said. “I haven’t yet done everything, just like riding fast in a car.” Wolfe’s book “The Right Stuff,” Victoria Yeager, said on his Twit- “In an age of media-made but by the time I’m finished, I Yeager nicknamed the rocket and the 1983 film it inspired. ter account. “It is w/ profound heroes, he is the real deal,” won’t have missed much,” he plane, and all his other aircraft, Yeager was born Feb. 23, sorrow, I must tell you that my Edwards Air Force Base histo- wrote. “If I auger in (crash) to- “Glamorous Glennis” for his 1923, in Myra, a tiny communi- life love General Chuck Yeager rian Jim Young said in August morrow, it won’t be with a frown wife, who died in 1990. ty on the Mud River deep in an passed just before 9pm ET. An 2006 at the unveiling of a bronze on my face. I’ve had a ball.” Yeager’s feat was kept top Appalachian hollow about 40 incredible life well lived, Ameri- statue of Yeager. On Oct. 14, 1947, Yeager, then secret for about a year when the miles southwest of Charleston. ca’s greatest Pilot, & a legacy of He was “the most righteous a 24-year-old captain, pushed world thought the British had The family later moved to Ham- strength, adventure, & patriotism of all those with the right stuff,” an orange, bullet-shaped Bell broken the sound barrier first. lin, the county seat. His father will be remembered forever.” said Maj. Gen. Curtis Bedke, X-1 rocket plane past 660 mph “It wasn’t a matter of not was an oil and gas driller and a Yeager’s death is “a tremen- commander of the Air Force to break the sound barrier, at the having airplanes that would fly at farmer. dous loss to our nation,” NASA Flight Test Center at Edwards. time a daunting aviation mile- speeds like this. It was a matter Administrator Jim Bridenstine Yeager, from a small town in stone. of keeping them from falling Please see Yeager, Page 2 U.S. fully restores DACA SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration said Monday that it fully restored the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that shields hundreds of thousands of young people from deportation, complying with a federal judge’s order. The Department of Home- land Security posted on its website that it is accepting new applications, petitions for two- year renewals and requests for permission to temporarily leave the U.S. The department said it “may seek relief from the order,” sig- naling that its concession to the court order may be short-lived if its legal efforts succeed. The announcement is still a major victory for young people who have been unable to apply John Gunther, The World since Trump ended DACA in Bandon’s Isaac Cutler leads the field up the hill near the start of the 2019 district meet at Lane Community College. Practice for the cross country season and other fall sports September 2017. His administra- for the 2020-21 school year is now slated to begin in late February. tion has long argued that DACA is unconstitutional. After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that Trump violated federal law in how he ended the OSAA again delays start of 2020-21 sports year program, Chad Wolf, the acting The World leyball, cross country and soccer Feb. 21. Marshfield and North that delaying the start of the Homeland Security secretary, following that season. Bend High Schools have con- season will allow COVID-19 said the administration would The Oregon School Activities But the state is seeing an ducted a series of sports during case counts to decrease in coun- study its options and, until then, Association has pushed its 2020- increase in virus cases, with 25 the current season, with Myr- ties so they can move out of the wouldn’t accept new applications 21 sports calendar back again, of Oregon’s 36 counties currently tle Point, Reedsport, Brook- extreme-risk category. and would grant renewals for one and switched around the seasons in the “extreme-risk” category. ings-Harbor and Bandon joining “All of our conversations with year instead two. DACA shields one more time, in the face of the Coos and Curry counties are not in some of the sports. the Oregon Health Authority, and about 650,000 people from ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. in that list, but Coos County is OSAA Executive Director following the news, it appears deportation and makes them The plan announced Monday trending that direction. All but 42 Peter Weber said in a story for that the models are showing that eligible for work permits. by the OSAA Executive Board of OSAA’s member schools are OSAAtoday that altering the things are going to get worse Monday’s announcement came now calls for fall sports practices in the counties currently classi- calendar is a “moving target.” before they get better,” Weber hours before a deadline set by to begin in February and the win- fied as “extreme risk.” “We needed to make a deci- said in the OSAAtoday story. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis ter sports season, which had been Board members made it clear sion,” Weber said. “I think the “As we’re looking to provide as in the Eastern District of New scheduled to begin with practice Monday the OSAA and its board made the right decision.” much time as possible to lower York for the administration to on Dec. 28, to be the final season member schools are bound by Under the new plan, practice case counts — and get counties post public notice that it would of the sports year, running from rules, regulations and guidance for the fall sports would begin out of the extreme-risk level, if accept applications under terms mid-May to near the end of June. set forth by the governor’s office Feb. 22 for cross country, soccer possible — we thought that this before Trump ended DACA in In addition, the three seasons and Oregon Health Authority. A and volleyball and Feb. 8 for timeline made sense.” 2017. The judge ruled Friday that were each shortened and now press release from OSAA said football, with contests starting With the new plan, the tradi- Wolf was unlawfully serving in will be six weeks in length with the organization remains in con- March 1 for all those sports. tional spring sports of baseball, his position. the sixth week an “OSAA culmi- tact with the governor’s office, Full-contact football is not softball, golf, tennis and track DACA was started in 2012 nation week.” OHA and the Oregon Depart- currently allowed by the state and field would have practice be- during the Obama administra- In August, the executive board ment of Education to advocate of Oregon and indoor volley- gin on April 5, with the six-week tion. It allows certain immigrants approved a plan with winter for a safe return to in-person ball is not currently allowed in competition season starting April who were brought to the country sports practices for basketball, learning and high school activ- extreme-risk counties. Cross 12. All of the spring sports cur- illegally as children to work and wrestling and swimming starting ities. country and soccer are allowed rently are allowed in all counties. be exempt from deportation, at the end of December and the The board extended the in all counties. though it does not confer legal fall sports season of football, vol- current Season 1 period through The executive board hopes Please see OSAA, Page 2 status on recipients. President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to reinstate DACA when he takes office in January Source: Biden picks Lloyd Austin as defense secretary but permanent legal status and a WASHINGTON (AP) — The impending nomination of previous defense secretaries have acknowledged that pressure had path to citizenship would require President-elect Joe Biden will Austin was confirmed by four served briefly in the military, built to name a candidate of color congressional approval.