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Three new COVID-19 cases OHA releases info on new statewide cases ZACH SILVA The World
COOS COUNTY — Three new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Coos County on Saturday afternoon, according to
Oregon Health Authority. This brings the local count for the virus, that OHA is reporting, to 36. At least two of those cases are presumptive positives. OHA reported 178 new confirmed and presumptive cases across the state on Saturday. There have now been 6,750 positive and presumptive positive COVID-19 cases in Oregon.
“The number of tests performed has been steadily increasing week after week, but the number of positive cases and the test positivity rate have increased significantly over the past two weeks,” said OHA on Saturday. “This suggests increasing numbers of individuals with COVID-19, which is expected now that all counties are in Phase
1 or Phase 2 of reopening.” OHA noted that the state is reaching national testing benchmarks. “Additionally, as of early June, Oregon has reached the threshold of testing 2 percent of the Oregon population each month, a national benchmark set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last Thursday, Coos County
recorded its most recent positive COVID-19 case in a man over the age of 60 years old who had contracted the virus while travelling with his wife in an RV. Additional information about these latest cases will be released by Coos Health and Wellness on Monday, and will be reported in Tuesday’s print edition of The World.
Crabbing from the docks
Amy Moss Strong, The World
The Port of Bandon’s crabbing docks and boat launch have been well used since Memorial Day weekend.
Wyden talks with Southwestern Oregonians in virtual town hall Friday’s call included questions on forestry, healthcare and police reform ZACH SILVA The World
SOUTH COAST — In a virtual town hall focused on individuals in Douglas, Coos and Curry counties, Sen. Ron Wyden spoke with Oregonians on pressing issues for about an hour on Friday. Looking to connect with counties across the state despite a global pandemic, Wyden looked to locals to guide the conversation. One local voice came from Coos County Commissioner Melissa Cribbins who brought up the topic of Medicaid. Cribbins stated that before the COVID-19
pandemic 25% of Coos County residents were on Medicaid, a number that has only increased as unemployment has grown to 18.8%. “Just know that we’re all in on the fight to get better medicaid reimbursements for rural Oregon. And the fact is, without rural healthcare, you can’t have rural life. This is a huge priority of mine and we’ve had battles along the way,” said Wyden. “I have no higher priority than getting a fair shake for rural Oregon and healthcare. This isn’t Joe’s job or Sally’s job or Mary’s job — this is my job. I’m the ranking Democrat on the finance committee that has jurisdiction over Medicaid.” In multiple questions, Wyden was asked about forestry and scenic lands across the area. Wyden praised the money brought in through outdoor recreation
throughout the state and referred to the “21st Century Conservation Corps for our Health and our Jobs Act” which was brought forward in May. The Act looks to add $10.6 billion in funding for the National Forest System in an attempt to get people back to work in the woods while increasing the health of forests and to help prepare for fire season. A fire season, that looks increasingly daunting. “Democrats and Republicans, we’re all saying to the forest service personnel in Washington D.C., what are you all doing to get PPE to these courageous firefighters? And what’s going to be done in terms of testing and follow-up contact tracing?,” said Wyden. He added, “Based on everything we’re hearing right now, this is going to be a fire season
where you’re going to have pandemic hit a riskier than usual fire season. And so we’re going to have our hands full.” Later in the conversation Betsy Cunningham of Roseburg brought up the conversation of the criminalization of people experiencing homelessness. Having worked with this issue for decades, Cunningham has seen continued issues with local efforts to stem this issue, especially in a time of COVID-19. Wyden noted his support of the Public Health Emergency Shelter Act, an act that he stated doesn’t provide enough resources compared to money corporations recently received, in addition to the Low Income Housing Tax Credit. “I want to make it clear, I am opposed to this proposition of criminalizing the homeless as a basic theory of respect and
dignity in America. We have to ensure that so many who don’t have the opportunity for dignity which involves a shelter over their head, decent medical care that they get a fair shake in the end,” said Wyden. After recent events across the country, Joe in Roseburg submitted a question broadly addressing reform to police departments. “Police violence in brutality in effect undermine the rule of law. The rule of law is essentially a basic underpinning of a fair society. And that is why I’m a co-sponsor of the Justice in Policing Act,” said Wyden. “It’s a comprehensive blueprint for reforming the country’s broken policing system. The essence of it is transparency and accountability.” The complete town hall can be viewed on Wyden’s Facebook page.
Confederate statues come down, other symbols targeted RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Spectators in North Carolina’s capital cheered Sunday morning as work crews finished the job started by protesters Friday night and removed a Confederate statue from the top of a 75-foot monument. Across the country, an initially peaceful protest in Portland, Oregon, against racial injustice turned violent early Sunday:
Baton-wielding police used flash-bang grenades to disperse demonstrators throwing bottles, cans and rocks at sheriff’s deputies near downtown’s Justice Center. News outlets reported that work crews acting on the order of Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper removed the statue Sunday morning and began taking down the obelisk on
which it stood. Sunday’s work follows the removal of two other Confederate statues on the state Capitol grounds in Raleigh on Saturday. Cooper ordered the statues removed after protesters toppled two other Confederate statues Friday night, stringing one up by the neck and hanging it from a light pole. “Monuments to white su-
premacy don’t belong in places of allegiance, and it’s past time that these painful memorials be moved in a legal, safe way,” Cooper said in a press release Saturday. A 2015 law bars removal of the statues without approval of a state historical commission, but Cooper said he’s acting under a public-safety exception to the law out of concern for the danger
presented when protesters seek to topple the statues themselves. Cooper has advocated the statues’ removal for years. Republicans, though, blamed him for not ordering police to take a tougher stand Friday night to protect the memorials. In Wilmington, N.C., Democratic Mayor Bill Saffo imposed a curfew in a narrow area surPlease see Symbols, Page A2
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On this day in Coos County history
100 YEARS — June 22, 1920 County Nurse Is To Be Promoted Miss Schreyer Will Leave This Locality Is to Be Succeeded by Miss Elizabeth Campbell — Has Done Splendid Work Here At the request of Miss Jane C. Allen, state advisory nurse, the County Health association has granted a year’s leave of absence to Miss Cecil Schreyer, county nurse, in order that she may accept a position with the state bureau of nursing during Miss Allen’s absence in New York, where she will attend Columbia University for the coming year. While the association releases Miss Schreyer with regret, it also recognizes the broader opportunity which the new position will offer. City And School Board Are Agreed Tentative Arrangement Is Made About Seventh St. Not Much Business Up At Meeting of the Council Last Night — People Want Park There was not much business before the mem-
bers of the city council to transact at the meeting and two of the members, Councilmen James and Rood, were absent. Recorder Butler said that he had a telephone message from Dr. E. Mingus who said there was a movement on foot to take a park at the old cemetery. The doctor was under the impression that the city had a park commission. Mr. Butler told him there was no such body and the doctor said that he thought the park question could be handled better through a committee of the council. Mayor Ferguson explained that there had been a park committee some years ago when the late C.I. Reigard and several others were appointed to act in fitting up Coos Head at a public park. Nothing however was done by the city and the committee was dropped. The mayor said that he thought the proposition from Dr. Mingus was now too indefinite, but that he thought the city would be willing to do most anything the people wanted if the plans were set before the council in a more definite way so the councilmen would know just what it was the people wanted to do.
75 YEARS — June 22, 1945
Burglars Fail To Make Haul An attempt was made to rob the Pacific Fruit & Produce plant on north Front street Thursday night, police reported today. The outer door had been forced but the second door resisted the efforts of the prowlers. It is the third robbery, in the last few weeks. Police believe the same person or persons are responsible for all of the jobs including the burglary of Fred Perry’s place on south Broadway where more than $400 in cash was taken and Lou Blanc’s garage, when cash was removed from a drawer early Wednesday morning. In the Blanc robbery the thieves broke one till, and attempted to jimmy the safe. Runs of Bass Reported Good Bass fishing off Coos Bay has been running better the past week than at any time previously with record catches being reported by all dealers. The shad run, which has been especially good this season, is just about over. A few shad are being shipped to Newport by Bay dealers for kippering. The Hallmark Fisheries at Charleston reported the salmon season has opened and the run is good.
Hallmark has more than 30 boats out and each are returning with daily catches of about 800 pounds of salmon. The crab take is rather weak. Some crabs are coming in from Port Orford, other from the Umpqua, and dealers have a fair supply for local consumption.
50 YEARS — June 22, 1970 Aldrich At Portland Session James Aldrich of Empire Paint Co. returned recently from Portland, where he attended a course in the latest methods of decorating with decoupage and tole painting. Aldrich was among some 25 craft teachers in a class taught by Vivian West of Seattle, representative of the Patricia Nimocks Co., who is noted throughout the country as a teacher of tole and decoupage decorating. The Bay Area craft teacher has been working with students of the area for a number of years and has plans to introduce the methods learned in the Portland class, he said. Grant Is Announced A total of $16,876 is being allocated from a vo-
cational education grant to Southwestern Community College, according to Dale Parnell, superintendent of public instruction. He said “the funding was divided between consumer and homemaking grants, a cooperative work experience project, and aid to the disadvantaged and handicapped.”
15 YEARS — June 22, 2005 Siting rules, processes focus of LNG workshop By Penny Gillson, Editorial Assistant About 20 people joined with representatives from the Oregon Department of Energy at an informal public workshop to gather input on new energy facility siting rules for liquefied natural gas importation terminals. Many of those at the workshop held at Coos Bay City Hall seemed more interested in garnering information on the siting process than on providing advice on siting rules. ODOE project manager Adam Bless said the local workshop followed a January informational meeting regarding a proposal by Colorado-based Energy Projects Development to build a LNG terminal on
the North Spit. Bless emphasized a permit application has not been received to build a facility on Coos Bay. A similar rule making workshop was scheduled for this week in Clastkanie, where a LNG facility also is proposed on the Columbia River. Verger: South Slough expansion dead By Dan Schreiber, Staff Writer After months of languishing in the House Land Use Committee, a bill to expand the potential boundaries of the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve appears to be sinking for good. That’s according to the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Joanne Verger, D-Coos Bay. She said Jack Hampel, owner of the Coos Bay Oyster Company adjacent to Charleston’s drawbridge, is unwilling to sell his plot to the Oregon Department of State Lands, which holds title to property for the federal reserve. “That’s the final nail in the coffin,” Verger said on Monday. These stories were found in the Marshfield Sun Printing Museum newspaper repository stored in Marshfield HS courtesy of Coos Bay Schools and on The World newspaper website www.theworldlink.com.
NORTH BEND POLICE LOG Saturday, June 20 Criminal Trespass
At 1:12 a.m. on Tremont Avenue, a report was made of a disorderly conduct male at location and requested they be trespassed.
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rounding two Confederate monuments to try to thwart any vandalism or destruction. The curfew from 7:30 p.m. through 7 a.m. began Saturday night and lasts five nights. In Baltimore, a statue and memorial to George Washington in a city park were vandalized with red paint. The Baltimore Sun reports that the memorial in Druid Hill Park in northwest Baltimore also had the words “Destroy Racists” and the initials for the Black Lives Matter movement written on the base.
Suspicious Subject
At 8:58 p.m. on Virginia Avenue, a report was made of a male subject with his pants down at location. An officer checked the area but was unable to locate. At 9:46 p.m. on Sheridan Avenue, a report was made of a female trying Police said Sunday morning that they had not received any complaints about the vandalism. Baltimore removed several statues and memorials linked to the Confederacy in 2017. In St. Augustine, Florida, the nation’s oldest city, a debate over history is looming over a monument, located in the city’s historic central plaza, memorializing dozens of the city’s sons who died fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil War. The Rev. Ron Rawls, a pastor at St. Paul’s African Methodist Episcopal Church, calls the monument disrespectful and wants it removed. The City
car doors and a door of a business in the area. Officers checked the area for anything amiss. Suspicious Conditions
At 8:59 p.m. on Union Avenue, a caller noticed interior doors in house were
Commission is expected to decide whether to heed that call on Monday. As statues and memorials to the Confederacy have been targeted across the South, prompted by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, protesters have also at times targeted Founding Fathers who were slaveholders, including Washington. In New York, the American Museum of Natural History will remove a prominent statue of Theodore Roosevelt from its entrance after years of objections that it symbolizes colonial expansion and racial discrimination, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday.
ajar after returning home and did not notice anything missing. It was requested that this be logged for information. At 9 p.m. on Broadway Avenue, it was reported that a female was crying
in the roadway at location. An officer checked the area and located a disabled vehicle which was moved into the parking lot of a business until they got a tow. A message was left for street department regarding oil in the roadway.
At 9:06 p.m. on Connecticut Avenue, a report was made of yelling in the motel room. Officers spoke with subjects from the rooms in the area and everything was fine.
The bronze statue that has stood at the museum’s Central Park West entrance since 1940 depicts Roosevelt on horseback with a Native American man and an African man standing next to the horse. “The American Museum of Natural History has asked to remove the Theodore Roosevelt statue because it explicitly depicts Black and Indigenous people as subjugated and racially inferior,” de Blasio said in a written statement. “The City supports the Museum’s request. It is the right decision and the right time to remove this problematic statue.” In California, protesters over the weekend targeted
statues and busts of former President Ulysses Grant, who commanded the Union Army that defeated the Confederacy; Francis Scott Key, who wrote “The Star Spangled Banner;” and Spanish missionary Junipero Serra, who is credited with bringing Roman Catholicism to the western United States. Grant and Key were both slave owners at points in their lives. In another case in California, symbols of the Black Lives Matter movement have been targeted in recent weeks with vandalism. Three men, including employees of a sheriff’s office and district attorney’s office, were arrested
in connection with the vandalism of a Black Lives Matter sign. Portland police and Multnomah County sheriff’s deputies arrested several people after a group of protesters pulled down a fence cordoning off the center, tossed objects including fireworks at officers and ignored repeated warnings to disperse, police said in a statement. It said some people shined lasers into the eyes of deputies. Seattle police on Sunday pursued their investigation into a weekend shooting in the city’s protest zone that killed a 19-year-old man and critically injured another person. No arrests had been made.
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eEdition Judge rules Bolton can publish book WASHINGTON (AP) — Former national security adviser John Bolton can move forward in publishing his tell-all book, a federal judge ruled Saturday, despite efforts by the Trump administration to block the release because of concerns that classified information could be exposed. The decision from U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth is a victory for Bolton in a court case that involved core First Amendment and national security issues, even as the White House pledged to keep pursuing the onetime top aide. And the judge also made clear his concerns that Bolton had taken it upon himself to publish his memoir without formal clearance from a White House that says it was still reviewing it for classified information. “Defendant Bolton has gambled with the national security of the United States. He has exposed his country to harm and himself to civil (and potentially criminal) liability,” Lamberth wrote. “But these facts do not control the motion before the Court. The government has failed to establish that an injunction will prevent
irreparable harm.” The White House signaled the legal fight would continue, saying it would try to prevent Bolton from profiting off the book. President Donald Trump tweeted that Bolton “broke the law by releasing Classified Information (in massive amounts). He must pay a very big price for this, as others have before him. This should never to happen again!!!” In the meantime, though, the ruling clears the path for a broader election-year readership and distribution of a memoir, due out Tuesday, that paints an unflattering portrait of Trump’s foreign policy decision-making during the turbulent year and a half that Bolton spent in the White House. Bolton’s lawyer, Chuck Cooper, applauded Lamberth for denying the government’s attempt to “suppress” the book. Publisher Simon & Schuster said the decision “vindicated the strong First Amendment protections against censorship and prior restraint of publication.’’ While declining to halt the book’s release, Lamberth did suggest that Bolton may have left himself open to poten-
tial criminal prosecution by publishing classified information and that the government may prove successful in preventing Bolton from benefiting financially. The White House indicated it planned to do exactly that, saying in a statement that the government “intends to hold Bolton to the further requirements of his agreements and to ensure that he receives no profits from his shameful decision to place his desire for money and attention ahead of his obligations to protect national security.” “Whatever he makes he’s going to be giving back, in my opinion, based on the ruling,” Trump added before heading to a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bolton’s team insisted that Bolton had spent months addressing White House concerns about classified information and that Bolton had been assured in late April by the official he was working with that the manuscript no longer contained any such material. Bolton’s lawyers said the Trump administration’s efforts to block the book were a pretext to censor him for an account that the White
House found unfavorable. The Justice Department sued this past week to block the book’s release and to demand that copies be retrieved. Officials said the book contained classified information and submitted written statements from administration officials testifying to that assertion. They also said Bolton had failed to complete a prepublication review process meant to prevent government officials from disclosing national security secrets in books. The judge did not take issue with those concerns in his order. But with more than 200,000 copies of the book already distributed to booksellers across the country, attempting to block its release would be futile, Lamberth wrote. Major media organizations also obtained the book and published comprehensive accounts about it. “In taking it upon himself to publish his book without securing final approval from national intelligence authorities, Bolton may indeed have caused the country irreparable harm. But in the Internet age, even a handful of copies in circulation could irrevocably destroy
confidentiality,” Lamberth wrote. “With hundreds of thousands of copies around the globe — many in newsrooms — the damage is done. There is no restoring the status quo,” the judge wrote. Bolton’s book, “The Room Where it Happened: A White House Memoir,” depicts a president whose foreign policy objectives were inexorably linked to his own political gain. Bolton says Trump “pleaded” with China’s Xi Jinping during a 2019 summit to help Trump’s reelection prospects. Bolton writes that Trump linked the supply of military assistance to Ukraine to that country’s willingness to conduct investigations into Democratic rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter — allegations that were at the heart of an impeachment trial that ended with Trump’s acquittal by the Senate in February. The monthslong classification review process for the manuscript took a complex path. Bolton says he was told April 27 by a career official with whom he had worked for months on edits that the manuscript was now free of classified
information. But another White House official soon after embarked on an additional review and identified material that he said was classified, prompting the administration to warn Bolton in writing against publication. Bolton’s lawyers say the White House assertions of classified material were an attempt to censor him over a book the administration simply finds unflattering. “If the First Amendment stands for anything, it is that the Government does not have the power to clasp its hand over the mouth of a citizen attempting to speak on a matter of great public import,” Bolton’s attorneys wrote in a court filing. Trump on Thursday called the book a “compilation of lies and made up stories” intended to make him look bad. He tweeted that Bolton was just trying to get even for being fired “like the sick puppy he is!” Even Democrats who pounced on some of Bolton’s anecdotes to condemn the president nonetheless expressed frustration that he had saved them for his book instead of participating in the impeachment case.
Three killed in suspected terror attack LONDON (AP) — The English town of Reading mourned Monday for three people stabbed to death in what is being treated as a terror attack, gathering for a moment of silence as police questioned the suspected lone attacker. More than 100 students lit candles and laid flowers in memory of history teacher James Furlong, who was named as one of the victims. A flag in the courtyard of the Holt School, where
he taught in nearby Wokingham, had been lowered to half-staff. “He was so passionate and enthusiastic about history and about learning, and anything that was boring, anything you didn’t find interesting, he would make it interesting,″ former student Molly Collins told the BBC. “He would spend time with you, he got to know people individually, and he just always went the extra mile for everyone.”
Furlong’s friend, Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, was named by his family in Philadelphia as the second victim. The identity of the third victim has not been released. The stabbing rampage took place Saturday evening as groups of people relaxed in Forbury Gardens park in Reading, a town of 200,000 people 40 miles (64 kilometers) west of London. A 25-year-old man who is believed to be the lone attacker is in custody but
Portland police arrest several people during Sunday protest PORTLAND (AP) — A peaceful protest in Portland against racial injustice turned violent early Sunday after baton-wielding police used flash-bang grenades to disperse demonstrators throwing bottles, cans and rocks at sheriff’s deputies near downtown’s Justice Center, police said. Portland police and Multnomah County sheriff’s deputies arrested several people after a
group of protesters pulled down a fence cordoning off the center, tossed objects including fireworks at officers and ignored repeated warnings to disperse, police said in a statement. It said some people shined lasers into the eyes of deputies. Officers used “crowd control munitions” to clear an area west of the center, which has been a flashpoint for conflicts between
demonstrators and police. The confrontation occurred after protesters demonstrated peacefully for several hours late Saturday in Chapman Square on the Justice Center’s west side. Some protesters tried to re-erect parts of the fence torn down by others. KOIN-TV reports the demonstration was the 23rd consecutive day of protests against police brutality and racism.
One dead, 11 injured in shooting MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A shooting in a popular Minneapolis nightlife area early Sunday left one man dead and 11 people wounded in a chaotic scene that sent people ducking into restaurants and other businesses for cover. The shooting broke out shortly after midnight in the city’s trendy Uptown neighborhood, a nightlife hub with bars, restaurants and retail including Apple and Fjallraven stores. Police first said 10 people had been shot with “various severity levels of injuries,” but revised their
total upward in a tweet posted just after 3 a.m. The man died at the hospital, not at the scene, they said. None of the other injuries were considered life-threatening. Police said they believe there was more than one shooter, described only as “individuals on foot.” No one was in custody, and police have not said what may have prompted the shooting. All of the injured were adults. Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said during a Sunday press conference that it
was “tragic and senseless violence” and called the recent uptick in violent crime a public health crisis. He said “we absolutely do have several leads” on suspects and are getting assistance from the FBI and state agencies. In video posted to Facebook that showed the immediate aftermath, screams could be heard as small crowds of people gathered, with some crouched over people lying on the pavement before police officers on bicycles showed up to attend to them.
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officials said the motive for the carnage was unclear. Chief Constable John Campbell of Thames Valley Police said officers were called to reports of stabbings just before 7 p.m. and arrived to find a “horrific” scene. Unarmed officers detained a 25-year-old local man. Police have not identified the suspect, but Britain’s national news agency, Press Association, and other media outlets named him as
Khairi Saadallah, a Libyan asylum-seeker living in Reading. The BBC reported that Saadallah was investigated by British security services last year over concerns he planned to travel abroad to join a jihadi group, but that he was not determined to be a major threat. The Philadelphia Inquirer quoted the father of Ritchie-Bennett as saying his son had moved to England from the U.S. around 15 years
ago. His father, Robert Ritchie, said his son worked for a law firm in London before taking a job about 10 years ago at a Dutch pharmaceutical company that had its British headquarters in Reading. There was no immediate update on the conditions of the three people seriously wounded in the attack. Britain’s official terrorism threat level remains at “substantial” after the attack.
DEAR ABBYBy Abigail Van Buren
Widower grasps for ways to fill void left by wife
DEAR ABBY: My beautiful wife just passed away from ovarian cancer. She was only 48. She was my perfect life partner for 28 years and everything in the world to me. We shared every day together. I didn’t have any hobbies or guy friends; all I ever wanted was to be with her. I’m not asking for help with grief, as there is no getting over what happened. But I became so emotionally dependent on her that I find myself like an addict in withdrawal. Because of this, I’m afraid I will appear to be desperate if I even talk to another woman. I need someone in my life. I just don’t know how to get from hollow to whole again. Please help me figure out how to let someone know I would be a good and faithful partner without hanging a sign around my neck that says “Desperate!” -- IN NEED OF SOMEONE DEAR IN NEED: Allow me to offer my deepest sympathy for the loss of your beloved wife, but please don’t jump the gun. Before searching for another wife, it’s important you figure out the boundary between where you left off and your wife began. While the closeness you shared was a special gift, I urge you to allow yourself time to heal from this great loss. By that, I am not implying that you should go into seclusion. Quite the contrary. But instead of searching for someone to fill the hole in your life, it would be healthier to start by looking for friends. Friends are easy to talk to, and from friendships deeper relationships develop. Explore activities that interest you, whether they be sports-related, continuing your education, the arts, volunteer work. If you get stuck, ask for a referral to a grief support group or a therapist. You WILL get through this, but it will take time for the ache to subside. Have faith, accept it, go slow and you won’t regret it. DEAR ABBY: My fiance, “Jay,” has
a 14-year-old daughter who has been home-schooling during the quarantine, and she refuses to put pants on. When we ask her to, she gets upset. She isn’t built like the average teenager. Abby, she’s 5’10” and weighs 200 pounds, so it’s like seeing a grown woman in her underwear. I think it’s inappropriate for a young woman her age to be unwilling to dress herself fully, and I don’t like seeing her like that every time I go to their house. Jay doesn’t notice. He says it doesn’t bother him, and he doesn’t mind when I ask her to put shorts on. I don’t feel it’s my place at this point to dictate what she wears, but I’m uncomfortable. I don’t know if I’m crossing a line or if it’s normal to feel this way. Help! -- DIDN’T THINK I WAS A PRUDE DEAR DIDN’T: Your fiance is OK with his daughter’s attire in their home. If your engagement to Jay leads to marriage, you will be living there permanently, so your opinion should be respected. Someone has to have “the talk” with your fiance’s daughter about the fact she’s no longer a child; she has become a young woman. The person to do that is her father. The message would be better coming from him because you’re not her parent, and it may help you avoid being perceived as the “wicked stepmother-to-be.” ------------------------------Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www. DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. For an excellent guide to becoming a better conversationalist and a more sociable person, order “How to Be Popular.” Send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $8 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby, Popularity Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.)
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Trump reportedly upset by low rally turnout NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s return to the campaign trail was designed to show strength and enthusiasm heading into the critical final months before an election that will decide whether he remains in the White House. Instead, his weekend rally in Oklahoma highlighted growing vulnerabilities and crystallized a divisive reelection message that largely ignores broad swaths of voters — independents, suburban women and people of color — who could play a crucial role in choosing Trump or Democratic challenger Joe Biden. The lower-than-expected turnout at the comeback rally, in particular, left Trump fuming. “There’s really only one strategy left for him, and that is to propel that rage and anger and try to split the society and see if he can have a tribal leadership win here,” former Trump adviser-turned-critic Anthony Scaramucci said on CNN’s “Reliable Sources.” The Republican president did not offer even a token reference to national unity in remarks that spanned more than an hour and 40 minutes at his self-described campaign relaunch as the nation grappled with surging coronavirus infections, the worst unemployment since the Great Depression and sweeping civil unrest. Nor did Trump mention George Floyd, the African American man whose death at the hands of Minnesota police late last month sparked a national uprising over police brutality. But he did add new fuel to the nation’s culture wars, defending Confederate statues while making racist references to the coronavirus, which originated in China and which he called “kung flu.” He also said Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, who came to the U.S. as a refugee, “would like to make the government of our country just like the country from where she came, Somalia.”
Trump asked administration to slow down testing TULSA, Okla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday he’s asked his administration to slow down coronavirus testing because robust testing turns up too many cases of COVID-19. Trump told supporters at his campaign rally that the U.S. has tested 25 million people, far more than any other country. The “bad part,” Trump said, is that widespread testing leads to logging more cases of the virus. “When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people, you’re going to find more cases,” Trump said. “So I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down, please.’ They test and they test.” The campaign of likely Democratic presidential rival, Joe Biden, said Trump was putting politics ahead of the safety and health of Americans. Trump opted to hold his first rally in 110 days despite conTrump won the presidency in 2016 with a similar red-meat message aimed largely at energizing conservatives and white working-class men. But less than four months before early voting begins in some states, there are signs that independents and educated voters — particularly suburban women — have turned against him. Republican strategists increasingly believe that only a dramatic turnaround in the economy can revive his reelection aspirations. “It’s bad,” said Republican operative Rick Tyler, a frequent Trump critic. “There’s literally nothing to run on. The only thing he can say is that Biden is worse.” But the day after Trump’s Tulsa rally, the president’s message was almost an afterthought as aides tried to explain away a
cerns from local health officials that it could lead to further spread of the virus in Tulsa. Most of those in attendance declined to wear a mask. “In an outrageous moment that will be remembered long after tonight’s debacle of a rally, President Trump just admitted that he’s putting politics ahead of the safety and economic well-being of the American people — even as we just recorded the highest number of new COVID-19 cases in almost two months and 20 million workers remain out of work,” according to the Biden campaign’s statement. The outbreak has killed about 120,000 people in the U.S., and nearly a half-million worldwide, according to a count by Johns Hopkins University, though the real numbers are believed to be higher. The number of newly confirmed cases per day has risen smaller-than-expected crowd that left the president outraged. The campaign had been betting big on Tulsa. Trump’s political team spent days proclaiming that more than 1 million people had requested tickets. They also ignored health warnings from the White House coronavirus task force and Oklahoma officials, eager to host an event that would help him move past the civil rights protests and the coronavirus itself. His first rally in 110 days was meant to be a defiant display of political force to help energize Trump’s spirits, try out some attacks on Biden and serve as a powerful symbol of American’s reopening. Instead, the city fire marshal’s office reported a crowd of just less than 6,200 in the 19,000-seat
from about 21,400 two weeks ago to 23,200, according to an Associated Press analysis. And in Florida, Georgia, Texas and Arizona — states that loosened their stay-at-home restrictions early — daily deaths have been quietly rising since early June. “This virus has killed nearly 120,000 Americans and cost tens of millions their jobs, in large part because this president could not and would not mobilize testing as quickly as we needed it,” according to the Biden campaign statement. “To hear him say tonight that he has ordered testing slowed — a transparent attempt to make the numbers look better — is appalling.” Rising case numbers can partially be explained by the wider availability of testing. Mild cases, previously undetected because of limits on who could be tested, are now showing up in the numbers. BOK Center, and at least six staff members who helped set up the event tested positive for the coronavirus. The vast majority of the attendees, including Trump, did not wear face masks as recommended by the Trump administration’s health experts. After the rally, the president berated aides over the turnout. He fumed that he had been led to believe he would see huge crowds in deep-red Oklahoma, according to two White House and campaign officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations. There was no sign of an imminent staff shakeup, but members of Trump’s inner circle angrily questioned how campaign manager Brad Parscale and other
senior aides could so wildly overpromise and underdeliver, according to the officials. Publicly, Trump’s team scrambled to blame the crowd size on media coverage and protesters outside the venue, but the small crowds of pre-rally demonstrators were largely peaceful. Tulsa police reported just one arrest Saturday afternoon. It’s unclear when Trump will hold his next rally. Before Oklahoma, the campaign had planned to finalize and announce its next rally this week. Trump is already scheduled to make appearances Tuesday in Arizona and Thursday in Wisconsin. Both are major general election battlegrounds. At least one swing state governor, meanwhile, says Trump would not be welcome to host a rally in her state amid the pandemic. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, said she “would think very seriously about” trying to block Trump from hosting a rally there if he wanted to. “We know that congregating without masks, especially at an indoor facility, is the worst thing to do in the midst of a global pandemic,” Whitmer said in an interview before the Oklahoma event, conceding that she wasn’t aware of the specific legal tools she had available to block a prospective Trump rally. “I just know we have limitations on the number of people that can gather and that we’re taking this seriously.” Biden’s campaign, meanwhile, seized on a fresh opportunity to poke at the incumbent president, suggesting that Trump “was already in a tailspin” because of his mismanagement of the pandemic and civil rights protests. “Donald Trump has abdicated leadership, and it is no surprise that his supporters have responded by abandoning him,” Biden spokesperson Andrew Bates said.
Trump supporters, protestors TikTok teens may have had clash after rally in Tulsa impacted on rally turnout
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s supporters faced off with protesters shouting “Black Lives Matter” Saturday in Tulsa as the president took the stage for his first campaign rally in months amid public health concerns about the coronavirus and fears that the event could lead to violence in the wake of killings of Black people by police. Hundreds of demonstrators flooded the city’s downtown streets and blocked traffic at times, but police reported just a handful of arrests. Many of the marchers chanted, and some occasionally got into shouting matches with Trump supporters, who outnumbered them and yelled, “All lives matter.” Later in the evening, a group of armed men began following the protesters. When the protesters blocked an intersection, a man wearing a Trump shirt got out of a truck and spattered them with pepper spray. When demonstrators approached a National Guard bus that got separated from its caravan, Tulsa police officers fired pepper balls to push back the crowd, said Tulsa police spokesperson Capt. Richard Meulenberg. Officers soon left the area as it cleared. The Trump faithful gathered inside the 19,000seat BOK Center for what was believed to be the largest indoor event in the country since restrictions to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus began in March. Many of the president’s supporters weren’t wearing masks, despite the recommendation of public health officials. Some had been camped near the venue since early in the week. Turnout at the rally was lower than the campaign predicted, with a large swath of standing room on the stadium floor and empty seats in the balconies. Trump had been scheduled to appear at a rally outside
of the stadium within a perimeter of tall metal barriers, but that event was abruptly canceled. Trump campaign officials said protesters prevented the president’s supporters from entering the stadium. Three Associated Press journalists reporting in Tulsa for several hours leading up to the president’s speaking did not see protesters block entry to the area where the rally was held. While Trump spoke onstage, protesters carried a papier-mache representation of him with a pig snout. Some in the multiracial group wore Black Lives Matter shirts, others sported rainbow-colored armbands, and many covered their mouths and noses with masks. At one point, several people stopped to dance to gospel singer Kirk Franklin’s song “Revolution.” The protesters blocked traffic in at least one intersection. Some Black leaders in Tulsa had said they were worried the visit could lead to violence. It came amid protests over racial injustice and policing across the U.S. and in a city that has a long history of racial tension. Officials had said they expected some 100,000 people downtown. A woman who was arrested on live television was seen sitting crosslegged on the ground in peaceful protest when officers pulled her away by the arms and later put her in handcuffs. She said her name was Sheila Buck and that she was from Tulsa. Police said in a news release the officers tried for several minutes to talk Buck into leaving and that she was taken into custody for obstruction after the Trump campaign asked police to remove her from the area. Buck was wearing a T-shirt that said “I Can’t Breathe” — the dying
words of George Floyd, whose death has inspired a global push for racial justice. She said she had a ticket to the Trump rally and was told she was being arrested for trespassing. She said she was not part of any organized group. Several blocks away from the BOK Center was a festival-like atmosphere, with food vendors serving hot dogs and cold drinks and sidewalks lined with people selling various Trump regalia. There was also an undercurrent of tension near the entrance to the secured area, where Trump supporters and opponents squared off. Several downtown businesses boarded up their windows as well to avoid any potential damage. Kieran Mullen, 60, a college professor from Norman, Oklahoma, held a sign that read “Black Lives Matter” and “Dump Trump.” “I just thought it was important for people to see there are Oklahomans that have a different point of view,” Mullen said of his state, which overwhelmingly supported Trump in 2016. Brian Bernard, 54, a retired information technology worker from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, sported a Trump 2020 hat as he took a break from riding his bicycle around downtown. Next to him was a woman selling Trump T-shirts and hats, flying a “Keep America Great Again” flag. Her shirt said, “Impeach this,” with an image of Trump extending his middle fingers. “Since the media won’t do it, it’s up to us to show our support,” said Bernard, who drove nine hours to Tulsa for his second Trump rally. Bernard said he wasn’t concerned about catching the coronavirus at the event and doesn’t believe it’s “anything worse than the flu.”
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Did teens, TikTok users and fans of Korean pop music troll the president of the United States? For more than a week before Donald Trump’s first campaign rally in three months on Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, these tech-savvy groups opposing the president mobilized to reserve tickets for an event they had no intention of attending. While it’s unlikely they were responsible for the low turnout, their antics may have inflated the campaign’s expectations for attendance numbers that led to Saturday’s disappointing show. “My 16 year old daughter and her friends in Park City Utah have hundreds of tickets. You have been rolled by America’s teens,” veteran Republican campaign strategist Steve Schmidt tweeted on Saturday. The tweet garnered more than 100,000 likes and many responses from people who say they or their kids did the same. Reached by telephone Sunday, Schmidt called the rally an “unmitigated disaster” — days after Trump campaign chairman Brad Parscale tweeted that more than a million people requested tickets for the rally through Trump’s campaign website. Andrew Bates, a spokesperson for Trump’s Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, said the turnout was a sign of weakening voter support. “Donald Trump has abdicated leadership and it is no surprise that his supporters have responded by abandoning him,” he said. In a statement, the Trump campaign blamed the “fake news media” for “warning people away from the rally” over COVID-19 and protests against racial injustice around the country. “Leftists and online trolls doing a victory lap, think-
ing they somehow impacted rally attendance, don’t know what they’re talking about or how our rallies work,” Parscale wrote. “Reporters who wrote gleefully about TikTok and K-Pop fans — without contacting the campaign for comment — behaved unprofessionally and were willing dupes to the charade.” On midday Sunday, it was possible to sign up to stream a recap of the Tulsa event later in the day through Trump’s website. It requested a name, email address and phone number. There was no age verification in the signup process, though the site required a PIN to verify phone numbers. Inside the 19,000-seat BOK Center in Tulsa, where Trump thundered that “the silent majority is stronger than ever before,” numerous seats were empty. Tulsa Fire Department spokesperson Andy Little said the city fire marshal’s office reported a crowd of just less than 6,200 in the arena. City officials had expected a crowd of 100,000 people or more in downtown Tulsa, but that never materialized. That said, the rally, which was broadcast on cable, also targeted voters in battleground states such as Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida. Social media users who have followed recent events might not be surprised by the way young people (and some older folks) mobilized to troll the president. They did it not just on TikTok but also on Twitter, Instagram and even Facebook. K-Pop fans — who have a massive, coordinated online community and a cutting sense of humor — have become an unexpected ally to American Black Lives Matter protesters. In recent weeks, they’ve been repurposing
their usual platforms and hashtags from boosting their favorite stars to backing the Black Lives Matter movement. They flooded right-wing hashtags such as “white lives matter” and police apps with short video clips and memes of their K-pop stars. Many of the early social media messages urging people to sign up for tickets brought up the fact that the rally had originally been scheduled for Friday, June 19, which is Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Tulsa, the location for the rally, was the scene in 1921 of one of the most severe white-on-Black attacks in American history. Schmidt said he was not surprised. Today’s teens, after all, grew up with phones and have “absolutely” mastered them, he said. They are also the first generation to have remote Zoom classes and have a “subversive sense of humor,” having come of age in a world of online trolls and memes, Schmidt said. Most of all, he said, “they are aware of what is happening around them.” “Like salmon in the river, they participate politically through the methods and means of their lives,” Schmidt added. That said, the original idea for the mass ticket troll may have come not from a teen but from an Iowa woman. The politics site Iowa Starting Line found that a TikTok video posted on June 11 by Mary Jo Laupp, a 51-year-old grandmother from Fort Dodge, Iowa, suggesting that people book free tickets to “make sure there are empty seats.” Laupp’s video, which also tells viewers how to stop receiving texts from the Trump campaign after they provide their phone number (simply text “STOP”), has had more than 700,000 likes.
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Baseball season won’t start by July 19 NEW YORK (AP) — An email from baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred to union head Tony Clark led to a balk in the drawn-out talks to start the pandemic-delayed season, which now won’t begin by July 19. The executive committee of the players’ association was set to vote and reject Major League Baseball’s latest offer for a 60game season on Sunday. “I really believe we are fighting over an impossibility on games,” Manfred said in the email, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press. “The earliest we will be ready
for players to report is a week from Monday, given the need to relocate teams from Florida. That leaves 66 days to play 60 games. Realistically, that is the outside of the envelope now.” Players want 70 games and $275 million more than teams are offering. They are worried that if a resurgence of the new coronavirus causes the 2020 season to be cut short, the deal being negotiated would lock in innovations for 2021 and lessen the union’s bargaining power. “Tony, am writing to reiterate what I told you on the phone a few minutes ago,” Manfred
wrote. “Given the Covid developments, I understand that the players are concerned that the 2020 season will be truncated beyond the agreed upon number of games (for example, we agree to play 60 and can only play 40). If that were to happen, I would be prepared to eliminate the 2021 components of the deal. That would mean that we would not get the expanded playoffs in 2021 and the DH rule would revert to the current rule (DH in AL, no DH in NL).” Players didn’t take a vote and will consider their next move Monday.
The 2020 only items in the deal include starting extra innings with runner on second and a discussion of whether to allow tie games after a specified total of innings plus player re-entry in extra innings. Some players would prefer there not be a deal and that Manfred unilaterally order the schedule. Because players insisted on full prorated pay, he threatened a schedule of about 50 games. MLB agreed to prorated pay when Manfred met with Clark last week. The proposed deal would give Manfred the right to suspended
or cancel play if “restrictions on travel throughout the United States are imposed” or if he determines after consulting medical experts and the union that there has been a change in circumstances posing “an unreasonable health and safety risk to players or staff to stage those games, even without fans in attendance.” MLB’s proposal for 60 games includes $1.48 billion in salary plus a $25 million postseason players’ pool, while the union’s plan includes $1.73 billion in salary and a $50 million pool. Please see Baseball, Page B2
NASAR: Noose found in Wallace garage Simpson TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — NASCAR has launched an investigation after a noose was found in the garage stall of Bubba Wallace, the only Black driver in the elite Cup Series who just two weeks ago successfully pushed the stock car series to ban the Confederate flag at its venues. NASCAR said the noose was found on Sunday afternoon and vowed to do everything possible to find who was responsible and “eliminate them from the sport.” “We are angry and outraged, and cannot state strongly enough how seriously we take this heinous act,” the series said in a statement. “As we have stated unequivocally, there is no place for racism in NASCAR, and this act only strengthens our resolve to make the sport open and welcoming to all.” On Twitter, Wallace said the “the despicable act of racism and hatred leaves me incredibly saddened and serves as a painful reminder of how much further we have to go as a society and how persistent we must be in the fight against racism.” “As my mother told me today, ‘They are just trying to scare you,’” he wrote. “This will not break me, I will not give in nor will I back down. I will continue to proudly stand for what I believe in.” The noose was discovered on the same day NASCAR’s fledgling flag ban faced its biggest challenge. The ban took effect before last week’s race near Miami, but there were only about 1,000 military members admitted into that race. At Talladega, in the heart of the South, as many as 5,000 fans were allowed in, even though rain postponed the race until Monday and visitors were barred from the infield. No flags were spotted Sunday, but cars and pickup trucks driving along nearby roads were flying the flag and parading past the entrance to the
superspeedway over the weekend. A small plane flew over the track Sunday pulling a banner with the flag and the words “Defund NASCAR.” Wallace’s 2013 victory in a Truck Series race was only the second in a NASCAR national series by an Black driver (Wendell Scott, 1963) and helped push him into the Cup Series, where he drives the No. 43 for Hall of Famer Richard Petty and is forced to scramble for sponsorship dollars. Wallace, a 26-year-old Alabama native, said he has found support among fellow drivers for his stance on the flag. He noted that in his tweet after the noose announcement. “Over the last several weeks, I have been overwhelmed by the support from people across the NASCAR industry including other drivers and team members in the garage,” he said. “Together, our sport has made a commitment to driving real change and championing a community that is accepting and welcoming of everyone. Nothing is more important and we will not be
deterred by the reprehensible actions of those who seek to spread hate.” NASCAR has spent years trying to distance itself from the Confederate flag, long a part of its moonshine-running roots from the its founding more than 70 years ago. Five years ago, former chairman Brian France tried to ban flying the flags at tracks, a proposal that was not enforced and largely ignored. This year was different and it was Wallace who led the charge. Over the past month as the nation has been roiled by social unrest largely tied to the death of George Floyd, Wallace wore a black T-shirt with the words “I Can’t Breathe” at one race and had a #BlackLivesMatter paint scheme at another. Wallace, whose father is white, was not always outspoken about racism; even after Floyd was killed last month while in police custody in Minneapolis, he was not the first driver to speak out for racial equality. He has said he began to find his public voice on racism after watching video in May of Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal
NEW YORK (AP) — Eerily empty grandstands. Masked jockeys. Shuttered betting windows. For Tiz the Law trainer Barclay Tagg, no finer way to round out a career Triple Crown. “I’m not trying to be a jerk about it,” the 82-year-old said. “But I thought the quiet, to me, was very nice.” Everything was strange about this Belmont Stakes, except the winner. Heavily favored Tiz the Law won an unprecedented Belmont, claiming victory Saturday at the first race of a rejiggered Triple Crown schedule that barred fans because of the coronavirus pandemic. The 3-year-old colt from upstate New York charged to the lead turning for home and now can set his sights on the Sept. 5 Kentucky Derby and Oct. 3 Preakness. All three legs of this year’s Triple Crown schedule were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Belmont, usually the series capper, was initially scheduled for June 6.
Tiz the Law gave New York a hometown champion in its first major sporting event since the coronavirus pandemic seized the area. He’s the first New Yorkbred horse to win the Belmont since Forester in 1882. “It’s a lot smaller crowd, that’s for sure,” said owner Jack Knowlton, who watched from a restaurant patio in the familiar surroundings of Saratoga Springs. The 4-5 favorite won by 3 3/4 lengths, covering the 1 1/8 miles in 1:46.53. Dr Post finished second and Max Player was third. The race was shortened from the usual 1 ½-mile standard to account for competitors’ unusual training schedules. Horses kicked off from a starting gate placed atop the backstretch, rather than in front of the grandstands. In most every way, this Belmont States was unlike any of the 151 that preceded it. The Long Island track can pack in nearly 100,000, but this race had about 100 on hand, including jockeys, media and park staff. Masks were mandated for all
but the horses — even the jockeys wore face coverings. Closed to the public since March, Belmont Park hardly resembled the summer soiree New Yorkers are used to. Betting windows and gift shops were closed, not a single boozy Belmont Breeze to sip. Foot traffic was so slow that a few weeds over a foot tall had sprouted up between bricks paving the track-side pavilion. Silence at the 115-year-old venue was broken when New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued the traditional “riders, up!” call remotely via video. Longtime bugler Sam Grossman pulled down his facemask to tap out “Call to the Post,” and horses strolled onto the track to a recording of Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York.” A PA announcer introduced them to empty grandstands. Signs outside the locked down venue instructed gamblers that if they wanted to wager on this Belmont Stakes, their best bet was to download an app and do it on their phones.
Talladega race postponed TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — Thunderstorms washed out the NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway, an event further dampered Sunday night when news broke that a noose was found in Black driver Bubba Wallace’s garage stall. The race, which was pushed back to 2 p.m. CDT on Monday, is the first amid the coronavirus pandemic in which NASCAR opened the gates for up to 5,000 fans. Those in the grandstands were urged to seek shelter roughly 30 minutes before the
scheduled start, leading to a two-plus hour wait. NASCAR allowed 1,000 military members to attend last weekend’s rain-disrupted race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The event was stopped several times for more than three hours of total delays. Denny Hamlin and Joe Gibbs Racing were set to run with an all-black paint scheme honoring the National Civil Rights Museum, with the museum’s logo on the hood. Sponsor FedEx won’t be displayed on the car.
shooting in Georgia. He said he now recognizes he must not let his platform as a prominent driver go to waste. NBA star LeBron James tweeted his support to Wallace, calling the noose “sickening!” “Know you don’t stand alone! I’m right here with you as well as every other athlete,” James wrote. “I just want to continue to say how proud I am of you for continuing to take a stand for change here in America and sports!” Talladega is one of the more raucous stops on the NASCAR schedule, but the coronavirus pandemic prompted the series, like all sports, to ban or sharply limit fans for months. The scene this weekend was a dramatic departure from the Talladega norm with plenty of room for social distancing and fans asked to wear masks. David Radvansky, 32, of suburban Atlanta showed up Sunday with his wife and boys, 3 and 6. Radvansky, who started coming to Talladega in the 1990s when his father parked cars at races, applauded NASCAR’s decision to ban the Confederate flag. “I don’t think there’s a place for it in NASCAR, to be honest with you,” the 32-year-old said. “That doesn’t sit well with all the good ole boys but it is what it is.” Across from the track, Ed Sugg’s merchandise tent was flying Confederate flags prominently in a display alongside Trump 2020 banners and an American flag. “People are disappointed that NASCAR has taken that stance. It’s been around for as long as all of us have been,” said Sugg, a Helena, Alabama, resident who has been selling wares at NASCAR races for 21 years. “I don’t think anybody really connects it to any kind of racism or anything,” he said. “It’s just a Southern thing. It’s transparent. It’s just a heritage thing.”
Tiz the Law wins Belmont Stakes without fans
Perhaps a welcome harbinger for Tap It to Win, who led out of the gates and seemed poised to give trainer Mark Casse a third straight Triple Crown race victory. Instead, Tiz the Law powered past him on the outside and cruised to victory. “Everything just went like clockwork,” Tagg said. Knowlton, from New York’s Sackatoga Stable, noted this race was a little different than 17 years ago, when the Sackatoga crew took a school bus to watch their colt Funny Cide try to wrap a Triple Crown sweep at Belmont Park. Funny Cide finished third that day. It was also a breakthrough win for Tagg, who completed a career Triple Crown after also training Funny Cide. “It’s tremendous,” Knowlton said. “We just buy New Yorkbreds, that’s our game. We don’t spend a lot of money. We’ve been with Barclay Tagg for 25 years. I keep telling everybody Barclay Please see Belmont, Page B2
wins on Father’s Day again
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Nothing can top the first time Webb Simpson won on Father’s Day, a U.S. Open title eight years ago at Olympic Club and hearing his father’s laughter on the phone to share the joy. Harbour Town was special in its own right. Dressed in his Sunday yellow shirt — his late father’s favorite color — Simpson emerged from a crowd of contenders with five birdies in a six-hole stretch on the back nine for a 7-under 64 to win the RBC Heritage by one shot over Abraham Ancer. A three-hour storm delay nearly kept it from finishing. Nine players were still in the mix with an hour to go. Simpson was two shots behind and had only two birdies on his card when he dropped in a 10-footer at No. 12 and off he went. “I think it’s a good thing that guys were making birdies because they kind of forced me to be a little more aggressive and know that pars weren’t going to cut it,” said Simpson, who finished at 22-under 264 to break by two shots the tournament record Brian Gay set in 2009. Father’s Day has been the final round of the U.S. Open every year since 1976, but it was moved to September in this most unusual year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The RBC Heritage filled the spot on the schedule and Simpson, now a father of five, became a winner for the second time this year. “I won The Players on Mother’s Day after my dad passed away, and that was really special. That was an emotional win,” Simpson said. “U.S. Open on Father’s Day, I’ll never forget calling my dad after on the way to the press conference, and when he picked up the phone, he just was laughing. That’s kind of what he did when he was happy, he would just laugh. So I’m going to miss that laugh today for sure. “But I thought a lot about him,” he said. “This morning I thought about him, and when I was on the golf course, I thought about him. ... He loved golf. He would have loved watching today.” It was quite a show. Simpson, Ancer, Joaquin Niemann and Tyrrell Hatton were tied at 20 under at one point late in the round. It was a matter of who blinked first. Ancer, who hit every green in regulation, pushed Simpson to the end in his bid to win his first PGA Tour title. He holed a birdie putt from 10 feet on the 17th to get within one, but his approach to the 18th was 40 feet away and his putt to force a playoff came up short.
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National high: 120° at Death Valley, CA
62/94
Tuesday
91°
-10s
Rain
60s
Warm Front 70s
80s
Stationary Front
90s
100s
110s
NATIONAL EXTREMES YESTERDAY (for the 48 contiguous states)
55/93
Butte Falls
Willamette Valley Portland Area Tonight Tue. Tonight Tue.
58°
T-storms
Beaver Marsh
Ashland
62/99
Shown are tomorrow’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
50/90
Toketee Falls
Chiloquin
Gold Hill Grants Pass
49/92
Crescent
52/90
61/98
Charleston
La Pine
63/95
Powers
Location
72/58/c 93/60/s 73/56/pc 91/58/pc 91/58/pc 95/57/pc 87/60/s 99/66/pc 65/52/pc 95/67/s 90/62/pc 95/58/s 94/59/pc 91/59/pc 96/67/s
51/92
Canyonville
Port Orford
TIDES
Tue.
55/93
Sunriver
Oakridge
62/94
57/86
Jul 20
Bend
58/91
Roseburg
Coquille
59/71
54/94
58/91
61/94
54/74
Sisters
Oakland
Bandon
REGIONAL FORECASTS
55°
59/90
55/68
Hi/Lo Prec. Hi/Lo/W
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68°
Cottage Grove
59/91
60/89
Coos Bay / North Bend
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OREGON CITIES
58/91
Drain
Gold Beach Jun 28
54°
Springfield
Eugene
0.00" 24.92" 40.31" 36.08"
Sunset tonight Sunrise tomorrow Moonrise tomorrow Moonset tomorrow
66° Halsey
Yachats
64°/54° 62°/51° 74° in 1990 44° in 1976
Full
67°
Shown is tomorrow’s ow’s weather. Temperatures are tonight’s lows and tomorrow’s highs.
53/69
High/low Normal high/low Record high Record low
First
Sun and clouds
57°
North Bend yesterday
TEMPERATURE
NATIONAL FORECAST
ft.
Low
7.1 5.8 7.7 6.3 7.4 6.0 6.6 5.4 7.4 5.9 7.7 6.3 7.1 5.8
9:16 a.m. 9:16 p.m. 9:14 a.m. 9:14 p.m. 10:42 a.m. 10:42 p.m. 10:12 a.m. 10:12 p.m. 9:00 a.m. 8:51 p.m. 10:30 a.m. 10:31 p.m. 9:29 a.m. 9:27 p.m.
ft.
-1.4 2.7 -1.5 2.9 -1.3 2.6 -1.2 2.3 -1.5 3.3 -0.9 3.1 -1.3 2.7
Central Oregon Tonight Tue.
53°
95°
Tue.
Wed.
National low: 27° at Gothic, CO
Tue.
Wed.
City
Hi/Lo/W
Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/W
Hi/Lo/W
Albuquerque Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Buffalo Burlington, VT Caribou, ME Casper Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Charlotte, NC Cheyenne Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Colorado Spgs Columbus, OH Concord, NH Dallas Dayton Daytona Beach Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Fairbanks
90/64/pc 61/50/sh 79/67/t 83/72/pc 91/71/t 92/71/pc 87/60/s 84/70/t 92/65/s 85/69/pc 82/62/t 91/71/t 91/65/t 85/49/s 91/73/t 81/65/t 88/69/t 78/55/pc 76/57/pc 81/60/t 80/60/t 79/55/t 82/58/t 89/66/t 82/68/t 80/58/t 91/73/pc 84/58/pc 77/59/pc 80/56/t 98/74/pc 64/47/r
94/66/pc 62/48/r 80/69/c 82/70/t 87/70/t 88/66/pc 91/61/pc 82/68/t 94/63/pc 86/68/c 74/59/c 84/61/t 83/66/t 91/52/s 89/72/t 78/60/pc 86/69/pc 86/58/pc 74/58/pc 79/59/pc 74/58/pc 86/57/pc 77/59/pc 83/61/t 89/73/c 75/56/pc 91/73/t 90/61/pc 80/61/s 75/57/pc 98/75/pc 65/44/sh
Fargo Flagstaff Fresno Green Bay Hartford, CT Helena Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Kansas City Key West Las Vegas Lexington Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Madison Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis Missoula Nashville New Orleans New York City Norfolk, VA Oklahoma City Olympia, WA Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix
76/55/pc 81/60/pc 87/52/s 87/50/pc 103/74/s 103/71/pc 73/51/pc 72/52/t 88/70/t 90/64/t 86/58/s 87/57/t 86/73/c 86/75/pc 89/76/t 83/75/t 80/60/pc 77/60/pc 80/60/pc 83/65/pc 89/83/pc 89/83/s 109/83/s 108/83/pc 79/61/t 79/58/pc 83/68/t 86/67/c 82/63/pc 82/62/pc 82/65/t 82/63/s 75/55/pc 75/57/pc 83/69/pc 86/68/c 92/79/pc 92/79/pc 72/57/pc 72/57/pc 75/58/pc 77/60/pc 88/55/s 84/55/t 81/65/pc 84/63/c 90/77/t 85/76/t 90/75/pc 88/73/pc 92/75/pc 87/73/t 87/64/c 88/66/pc 85/60/pc 74/53/sh 79/58/pc 82/64/pc 93/75/pc 94/75/pc 92/73/pc 89/69/pc 111/82/s 111/83/pc
Tue.
City
Hi/Lo/W
Pittsburgh Pocatello Portland, ME Providence Raleigh Rapid City Redding Reno Richmond, VA Sacramento St. Louis Salt Lake City San Angelo San Diego San Francisco San Jose Santa Fe Seattle Sioux Falls Spokane Springfield, IL Springfield, MA Syracuse Tampa Toledo Trenton Tucson Tulsa Washington, DC W. Palm Beach Wichita Wilmington, DE
79/59/t 87/51/s 78/65/pc 83/69/pc 91/71/t 78/55/s 108/74/pc 98/65/pc 92/73/t 96/59/s 82/64/pc 90/65/s 93/67/pc 73/64/pc 75/56/pc 86/58/s 85/56/t 82/60/pc 76/54/pc 86/65/s 80/59/pc 90/68/t 90/67/t 92/79/pc 82/56/t 91/70/pc 106/75/s 86/66/c 92/73/pc 91/77/pc 87/65/pc 91/71/pc
Wed.
Hi/Lo/W
77/57/c 91/59/s 79/65/c 86/68/pc 88/70/t 87/60/s 106/74/s 97/62/s 88/69/pc 98/60/pc 83/66/pc 94/69/pc 91/66/t 73/64/pc 73/56/pc 86/59/pc 90/56/pc 72/56/c 81/60/pc 82/57/pc 80/60/s 89/61/t 81/59/c 92/78/pc 75/53/pc 84/66/pc 109/75/pc 86/70/s 86/71/pc 91/78/sh 87/68/c 86/66/t
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Prec.-precipitation.
NBA finalizes schedule: draft date set for Oct. 16 TIM REYNOLDS Associated Press
The NBA has firmed up the schedule for what will be a hectic time for teams this fall, deciding on Oct. 16 as the date for this year’s draft and saying clubs can begin talking to free agents two days later. The annual moratorium will begin at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Oct. 19 and continue through noon on Oct. 23, the league told teams on Saturday in a memo obtained by The Associated Press. As was the case last season, teams and free agents can begin
negotiating six hours before the moratorium — so 6 p.m. EDT on Oct. 18. It could be a wildly busy few days in October for the NBA. If the schedule for the restarted season at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex at the Disney campus near Orlando, Florida, goes as planned, Game 7 of the NBA Finals could be held on Oct. 13, followed by the draft three days later and then free agency almost immediately following. By setting the draft date, the NBA also firmed up Aug. 17 as the early entry deadline and Oct. 6 as the early entry withdrawal
dates. It’s unclear if that will change the schedule the NCAA laid out earlier this month, when it said college players would have “until 10 days after the NBA draft combine or Aug. 3, whichever comes first” to withdraw from the postponed draft and retain their eligibility. The league also clarified the procedure for teams should any need arise to replace a player who either was excused from participating in the restart, would be protected from playing for health reasons or chose to not play. Starting July 1 and going through the end of the seeding
games, expected to be Aug. 14, substitute players can be signed to take the place of someone who falls into those categories. If a player tests positive for coronavirus after the seeding games end, teams would still be allowed to replace them — but only with someone who has three years or less of NBA service. And if a player — excluding two-way players — refuses to participate in games at Disney, he would lose about 1.1% of his salary for every game missed. That would be capped after 14 games, or roughly 15.1% of the player’s contract. Players who
Sports Briefs GOLF Michelle Wie becomes a mom for first time NEW YORK — Former U.S. Women’s Open champion Michelle Wie West announced on Instagram that she and her husband, Golden State Warriors executive Jonnie West, are parents of a daughter born Friday. They named her Makenna Kamalei Yoona West. The 30-year-old Wie was born and raised in Honolulu. Kamalei is a Hawaiian for “beloved child.” Wie and West, the son of NBA great Jerry West, were married in August. They announced her pregnancy in January.
Ryu earns win in LPGA event in South Korea INCHEON, South Korea — Two-time major champion So Yeon Ryu closed with an even-par 72 to win the Korea Women’s Open on Sunday in her first tournament in four months because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ryu won for the first time since the Japan Women’s Open in 2018, and it was her first victory on the Korea LPGA since 2015. Upon winning, Ryu offered her entire prize money of just over $200,000 for coronavirus relief funds.
Ryu and Hyo Joo Kim, another regular on the LPGA Tour, matched pars on the entire back nine of Bears Best Cheongna Golf Club. Kim shot 70 to finish one shot behind.
AUTO RACING Haley gets win in Xfinity Series race TALLADEGA, Ala. — Justin Haley took the lead on the final lap — with help from Kaulig Racing teammate Ross Chastain — and held on Saturday at Talladega Superspeedway for his first Xfinity Series victory. Haley passed Jeb Burton, who held the lead on a restart with three laps to go, on the outside with a push from Chastain and finished 0.299 seconds ahead. Burton finished third.
HORSE RACING Gamine gets record win in Acorn Stakes NEW YORK — Gamine led all the way in winning the $300,000 Acorn Stakes for 3-year-old fillies by 18 3/4 lengths at Belmont Park. Trained by Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, Gamine ran one mile in 1:32.55, fastest in the 90-year history of the race. Her time was just off the track record of 1:32.24 set by Najran in 2003.
Mott reaches 5,000 career wins as trainer LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Hall of Famer Bill Mott has become the seventh trainer in historywith 5,000 wins. Moon Over Miami won the third race at Churchill Downs on Saturday by a length after being saddled by Mott’s assistant Kenny McCarthy. Mott was at Belmont Park in New York, where he was overseeing Modernist in the Belmont Stakes. Mott ranks seventh in all-time wins behind retired leader Dale Baird, who had 9,445.
OBITUARIES Former Dolphins RB Jim Kiick dies at 73 MIAMI — Jim Kiick, the versatile running back who helped the Miami Dolphins achieve the NFL’s only perfect season in 1972, has died. He was 73. The team announced the death Saturday. Kiick battled memory issues in recent years and lived in an assisted living home. The former University of Wyoming star was part of a formidable backfield that included his best friend, Pro Football Hall of Fame fullback Larry Csonka. They earned the nicknames Butch and Sundance, inspired by the popular 1969
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movie “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” Kiick (“Butch”) made the American Football League All-Star team in his first two seasons and played for the Dolphins’ back-toback Super Bowl championship teams in 1972-73. Kiick had two touchdowns for the ’72 Dolphins in the AFC championship game, and also scored in the Super Bowl victory that capped their 17-0 season under Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Don Shula.
Former USC lineman Max Tuerk dies LOS ANGELES — Max Tuerk, an All-America offensive lineman at Southern California who was drafted by the Chargers, has died. He was 26. USC announced his death Sunday on Twitter. Tuerk played for the Trojans from 2012-15. He was a freshman All-American and an All-Pac-12 first-team selection in 2014. As a three-year starter, he played under three head coaches — Lane Kiffin, Steve Sarkisian and Clay Helton. The Chargers selected Tuerk in the third round of the 2016 NFL draft, but a knee injury during his senior year affected his progress. Despite making the Chargers’ roster, he was inactive all season.
are excused or protected from participating would not be subject to lost salary. Teams will also be able to sign players to rest-of-season contracts, when eligible, starting Tuesday and continuing through June 30. Tuesday is also the day that the NBA enters Phase 2 of its health and safety protocols related to the resumption of the season. Among them: mandatory high-sensitivity coronavirus and antibody testing, with the virus test to be repeated every other day and the antibody test repeated only in the event of a positive virus test.
Baseball From B1
Absent an agreement, the union would file a grievance claiming MLB violated the provision in the March 26 agreement recognizing “that each of the parties shall work in good faith to as soon as is practicable commence, play, and complete the fullest 2020 championship season and post-season that is economically feasible,” subject to several provisions.
Belmont From B1
doesn’t get a lot of big horses and big opportunities, but when he gets them he knows what to do.” Tagg said he wasn’t sure if Tiz the Law would pull it off until the final 100 yards. The colt paid $3.50, $2.90 and $2.60. “I’m just glad I lived long enough that I got another horse like this,” Tagg said. Manny Franco, a 25-year-old jockey from Puerto Rico, entered the winner’s circle in his first career Belmont Stakes. He called Tiz the Law a “ versatile” horse in the runup to the race, and what he
Those provisions say that without MLB’s consent, the season shall not start until there are no legal restrictions on playing in front of fans at the 30 regular-season ballparks, no relevant travel restrictions and no health or safety risk to players, staff or spectators to playing in the 30 regular ballparks. The agreement also says the sides “will discuss in good faith the economic feasibility of playing games in the absence of spectators or at appropriate substitute neutral sites.” showed Saturday was typical — stalk the pacemakers early, then pounce on the home stretch. “It means a lot to me,” Franco said. “This is my home track. I’ve ridden here for about six years already. One leg of the Triple Crown is the dream of any jockey. I’m happy with the opportunity I have right now.” Dr Post, owned by Florida Panthers owner Vincent Viola and trained by Todd Pletcher, paid $5.80 and $4.20. Max Player returned $5.20, among the highest finishes by a female-trained horse — Linda Rice was trying to become the first woman to ever send a horse to victory at a Triple Crown race.
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