C M C M Y K Y K DOWN AND OUT Ducks lose to Louisville, B1 her me F iisher mensWhar f f Or eg on.c c om Fres sh Sea affood 5 & Mo 41- ore… -888-T TUNA (8862)) Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 2013 Itty Bitty case solved I Jurors add Sharks! aggravating factors to verdict A fading menace? They may seem BY JAMES CASEY abundant, but California isn’t so sure For The World COQUILLE — Guilty. And G Story By Thomas Moriarty G Photos by Alysha Beck worse. Ronald Wayne Ambill COOS BAY — Local lore suggests the — if mostly harmless — presence. received a verdict Friday that Pacific surf is rife with great white Dale Inskeep, principal at Sunset may let Judge Martin Stone sharks. Yet the state of California is Middle School, has had four encounters send him to prison for longer worried the species’ coastal population with great white sharks in his years of than the prescribed 25-year may be in trouble. surfing the South Coast. The first was sentence for the slaying of Effective March 1, the California Fish one of the most dramatic. David Marion Barker. Ambill wept after the nine- and Game Commission has listed the On Jan. 3, 1993, Inskeep, then a young man,three-woman jury hand- Northeastern Pacific population of the elementary school teacher, was surfing ed down the augmented ver- great white as a candidate species under off Bastendorff Beach with colleague dict, telling his attorneys that the California Endangered Species Act. Bill Weaver when Weaver was attacked he had given himself up so he The toothy fish, known to biologists by a white shark. could testify about Barker’s by the latin name Carcharodon car- The attack left a giant bite mark in the death — not so he could be charias, has captured the imagination of board Weaver was riding. The story charged and convicted. the oceangoing public since Steven made regional news — and quite an Barker’s son, Anthony Spielberg immortalized it in his 1975 impression on the surfers. Hajek, scoffed at Ambill’s film “Jaws.” The sharks, which prey on “The ones I’ve seen — the memories despair. seals, sea lions and fish, can be found don’t leave you,”Inskeep said. “My father was being kind throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Tony Lewis, another Coos Bay surfer, to him, bought him break- Indian Oceans. Despite scientific con- said it’s probably safe to discount about fast,” Hajek said. He cern, South Coast ocean enthusiasts half the local rumors about great whites. maintain the sharks are a fairly regular Lewis said he has had encounters of his SEE GUILTY | A8 SEE SHARKS | A8 CB man charged in child porn case THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EUGENE — Authorities say a Coos Bay man exchanged thousands of emails soliciting, trading and discussing explicit There’s images of underage girls. FBI agents and Coos Coun- ty sheriff’s deputies served a more than search warrant this week at the Tarheel Lane home of Richard great whites Earl Garrett, 23. According to an affidavit, they seized Gar- rett’s smartphone. out there The FBI affidavit said Gar- rett acknowledged the phone NEWPORT — While the future was his and that he used it to of the region’s great white popula- access an email address to tion may be in doubt, the region’s receive and distribute child waters are to home to a wide vari- pornography. He told police he ety of other sharks. had about 200 such videos and Standing in the Oregon Coast 5,000 such pictures stored on Aquarium’s Passage of the Deep the phone, according to the exhibit, Senior Aquarist Brian affidavit. Fodness said Garrett has been lodged in the broad- the Lane County jail while he nose sev- awaits his next court appear- engill shark, Watch shark feeding ance, scheduled for Wednes- leopard shark video: theworldlink.com day. He has not yet entered a By Alysha Beck, The World and spiny plea. Miss Piggy, a 300-pound broadnose sevengill shark, cruises by the Passages of the Deep exhibit tunnel before feeding time at the dogfish housed in the exhibit all According to an FBI affi- Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport.The broadnose sevengill is one type of large shark common in Oregon’s South Coast waters. are common on the Oregon coast. davit, agents linked Garrett to The sharks, all swimming in the child pornography after same tank, will prey on each other arresting a Texas man and then The ones that commercial fishermen run into are going to be blue if hungry enough Fodness said the monitoring the man’s com- “ aquarium tries to feed them puter for porn trafficking. shark or salmon sharks.” enough to prevent that from hap- William Fowler of El Paso pening. pleaded guilty to federal child The broadnose sevengill sharks Jim Burke, Oregon Coast Aquarium are the largest species currently SEE CHARGES | A7 SEE SPECIES | A8 Jacqueline Vehrs, Eugene Howard Cavanagh, Coupeville, Wash. 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C5 Holly Berry, Coos Bay O F Weather | A8 Frances Whitebeck, North Bend Obituaries | A5, A7 C M C M Y K Y K C M C M Y K A2 •The World • Saturday, March 30,2013 Y K South Coast City Editor Ryan Haas • 541-269-1222, ext. 239 theworldlink.com/news/local Mealtime at the marsh Vietnam vets invited to ‘welcome home’ today BY GAIL ELBER The World Twelve MHS alumni died in Vietnam COOS BAY — A group of Killed in action Marshfield High School stu- Monty Duwayne Button: May 3, 1967 dents is coordinating a Sat- Michael Howard Cavanagh: June 2, 1969 urday observance of Wel- Richard Lee Dooley: Dec. 15, 1967 come Home Vietnam Veter- Edwin Alfay Downs: May 12, 1969 ans Day. George Alfred Holladay: July 15, 1967 Honoring those who Earl Adelbert Mailloux Jr.: Jan. 25, 1968 served is one goal, but the James Ray Muth: March 7, 1970 teens also hope someone will Grady Ray Nelson: Nov. 23, 1968 show up with information John Charles Strauser: Feb. 2, 1971 about some of the 12 Marsh- field alumni who were killed Died in service By Alysha Beck, The World Edgar John Udell: December 25, 1971 An American egret flies over the Millicoma Marsh in Eastside on Wednesday afternoon. Egrets are common- in Vietnam. ly found in marshes where they can prey on fish, frogs and snakes. The students belong to a group that archives informa- Died of wounds tion about people buried in Dennis Carl Shively: March 24, 1968 the Marshfield Pioneer Robert Roland Watrous: June 2, 1969 If you have information to share about any of these men, visit Cemetery next to the high sites.google.com/site/cbcemetery/history/, or leave a message at 541-435-1177. Coos Bay Rail Link wins award for safe operations school. This year, at a Memorial Day program May The American Short Line achievements in the short- ees operate weekly freight 23, they’ll honor the 12 alum- and Regional Railroad Asso- line railroad industry for rail- train service, connecting the ni killed in Vietnam. an opportunity for Vietnam encouraging the obser- ciation is honoring the Coos roads that achieved injury- region’s manufacturers to the They have information vets to eat cookies, meet vance, and President Barack other vets and, if they wish, Obama proclaimed March Bay Rail Link for the second free operations or an injury North American freight rail about some of the men, but year in a row with its Jake frequency rate in 2012 that is record their memories. 29, 2012, as National Viet- system through Class 1 con- want to learn more about Award “for achieving a per- less than or equal to the others, said Cricket Soules, Since 2000, when Viet- nam Veterans Day. But fect safety record with no industry average compiled by nections in Eugene. Current- their volunteer adviser. nam veteran Jose Ramos efforts to have Congress reportable injuries.” the Federal Railroad Admin- ly, the Coos Bay rail line is “We’ll bring the tape started the effort to create a make the national recogni- The association recog- istration. undergoing $31 million in recorder from the museum in day in honor of Vietnam tion an annual one have nizes outstanding safety The shortline’s 12 employ- repairs and upgrades. case anyone has stories they vets, the occasion has been been unsuccessful. want to tell,”she said. observed on or about March Reporter Gail Elber can be From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., 30 in many communities. reached at 541-269-1222, ext. they’ll be at the Coos Bay Numerous cities and the 234, at gail.elber@the- abbllee Visitor Information Center state of California have worldlink.com, or on Twitter AAffffoorrdda ! at 50 Central Ave., offering issued proclamations at @gailtheworld. tive Care ven to Keep Thefts & Mischief Pre tter Way A Be lthy! and theft of change and pre- r Pet Hea No license, no sale COOS COUNTY You NORTH BEND — Calls scription medication, 63300 March 27, 12:07 a.m., assault, block of Boat Basin Road. We Offer: An Adult Canine Plan • An Adult Feline Plan started coming in to police 90200 block of Cape Arago on Wednesday afternoon Highway.