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THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2013
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Tundra
The Samurai of Puzzles
By Chad Carpenter
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Newsmakers Celebrity scoop ■ By The Associated Press
Wachowskis plan Netflix sci-fi series NETFLIX’S NEWEST ORIGINAL series will be science-fiction from the duo behind the “The Matrix” trilogy. Netflix announced Wednesday that it will stream “Sense8” late next year for subscribers. The series is the first foray into TV for Andy and Lana Wachowski, the filmmaking siblings who directed “The Matrix” and last year’s “Cloud Atlas.” Netflix called the 10-episode series “a gripping global tale of minds linked and souls hunted.” The show runner will be J. Michael Straczynski, creator of “Babylon 5,” which aired for five seasons in the 1990s. Netflix made its biggest splash last month with the debut of the political thriller “House of Cards,” starring
Co-directors and siblings Lana Wachowski and Andy Wachowski in Los Angeles last October. previously caught Baldwin’s attenTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS tion. Baldwin also contributed Kevin Spacey. This spring, it will pre$10,000 two years ago to the miere the horror series Central Falls library to help “Hemlock Grove” and the it reopen after it was forced reborn comedy “Arrested to close because of money Development.” problems. The city Baldwin donates emerged Actor Alec Baldwin has from bankruptcy last donated $2,500 to help the year. chess team at Central Falls WLNEHigh School in Rhode Island TV reported defray the cost of traveling that the to a national tournament Baldwin chess team next month. needs The city of Central Falls $8,000 to fund the trip to has made national news because of financial probthe national chess tournalems, and the news coverage ment in Tennessee.
Passings
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS PENINSULA POLL TUESDAY’S QUESTION: Reports are surfacing that NBC is planning to change “Tonight Show” hosts. Who is your favorite current late-night host?
By The Associated Press
Jay Leno VIRGIL TRUCKS, 95, a flame-throwing righthander who tossed two nohitters for the 1952 Detroit Tigers, a team that finished in last place, died Saturday in Alabaster, Ala. His stepdaughter Barbara Sloan confirmed the death. Mr. Trucks, whose nickMr. Trucks name was in 1952 Fire, had a fastball that was sometimes compared to Bob Feller’s and that he claimed was once measured by military radar at 105 mph. He pitched for five major league teams but spent most of his career with the Tigers, helping them to a World Series vic-
tory over the Chicago Cubs in 1945 and leading the American League in strikeouts in 1949, which was perhaps his best big-league season. Of his 19 wins that year, six were shutouts, tied for the major league lead with Ellis Kinder of the Boston Red Sox. He was also the winning pitcher in the All-Star Game. His career record was 177-135, with a 3.39 earned run average. In 1952, Mr. Trucks had one of the oddest statistical seasons in baseball history. Not only was the Tigers’ record dreadful — the team was 50-104 — but Mr. Trucks’ was as well. The woeful offense scored two runs or fewer in 15 of his starts, and he went 5-19. But remarkably, two of
the five wins were no-hitters. The first, on May 15, was against the Washington Senators; the second, on Aug. 25, was against the mighty Yankees at Yankee Stadium. No one since then has pitched a complete-game no-hitter against the Yankees in New York. Mr. Trucks became just the third pitcher to throw two no-hitters in a season, following Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds in 1938 (who did it in consecutive starts) and Allie Reynolds of the Yankees in 1951. Only two others have accomplished the feat since then: Nolan Ryan of the California Angels in 1973 and Roy Halladay of the Phillies in 2010, his second coming in a playoff game.
Peninsula Lookback From the pages of the PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
1938 (75 years ago) Olympic Peninsula skiing activity reached a record peak Sunday at Deer Park in Olympic National Forest when at least 800 competed in or watched the Olympic Ski Club’s first ski championships. Kjell Qvale, member of the Seattle Ski Club, won the Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce trophy for the combined downhill-slalom championship. Trophies and medals for all the winning competitors, mainly from the Seattle and Yakima areas, were issued by Allen Koch of Port Angeles, president of the Olympic Ski Club. They were handed out
during a dinner in the Deer Park Ski Lodge.
1963 (50 years ago) Sequim Chamber of Commerce President Donald Schindler reported that Sequim might get a new industry and manufacturing plant. A New Jersey ballpointpen manufacturer is interested in building a factory, he said. It would employ between 20 and 30 people in the 50-70 age range. Schindler, who was contacted by the company owner, said the business is targeting Sequim because of its weather and the fact that it’s a retirement center.
1988 (25 years ago) The Clallam County jail and Sheriff’s Office were without water for about 11 hours after a water main ruptured and flooded part of the courthouse basement. A maintenance worker found 3 inches of water in the basement when he showed up for work shortly before 6 a.m. Tim Duncan, building maintenance director who was summoned to the scene, rigged a hose from the outdoor sprinkler system into the jail kitchen. From there, jail employees and trustees filled 5-gallon buckets with water to be used for toilet flushing.
David Letterman Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy Fallon
20.8% 7.1% 4.4% 6.7%
Conan O’Brien
4.1%
Other
3.2%
My pillow (I’m asleep)
53.6%
Total votes cast: 1,143 Vote on today’s question at www.peninsuladailynews.com NOTE: The Peninsula Poll is unscientific and reflects the opinions of only those peninsuladailynews.com users who chose to participate. The results cannot be assumed to represent the opinions of all users or the public as a whole.
Setting it Straight Corrections and clarifications
■ Federal mediator Kathleen Erskine will convene and oversee an April 5 mediation session between representatives from Nippon Paper Industries USA and Association of Western Pulp & Paper Workers Local 155. An article Tuesday on Page A1 of the Clallam County edition said Erskine will adjudicate the session, incorrectly suggesting she would render a decision. ■ To clarify, Peninsula Behavioral Health has not received financial commitments from the city of Port Angeles or the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe for a mental health crisis respite center
in Port Angeles, just support, according to the agency’s executive director, Peter Casey. Clallam County commissioners approved a $238,260 contract with the agency for the center, as correctly reported Wednesday on Page A5.
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Seen Around Peninsula snapshots
WOMAN ASKED FOR identification by a checkout A MAN IN England has clerk while purchasing a bottle of wine in Sequim: “I created a car that runs on am 80, and at this age, no coffee. Well, what a genius this amount of Oil of Olay is going to take those 40 years guy is. Let’s pick a liquid away,” she exclaimed. . . . that costs even more money than gasoline. WANTED! “Seen Around” items. Wait until you start try- Send them to PDN News Desk, ing to fill up the tank at P.O. Box 1330, Port Angeles WA Starbucks. 98362; fax 360-417-3521; or email Jay Leno news@peninsuladailynews.com.
Laugh Lines
Looking Back From the files of The Associated Press
TODAY IS THURSDAY, March 28, the 87th day of 2013. There are 278 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: ■ On March 28, 1979, America’s worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa. On this date: ■ In 1834, the U.S. Senate voted to censure President Andrew Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States. ■ In 1854, during the Crimean War, Britain and France declared war on Russia. ■ In 1898, the Supreme Court,
in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, ruled that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen. ■ In 1930, the names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara. ■ In 1935, the notorious Nazi propaganda film “Triumph des Willens” (Triumph of the Will), directed by Leni Riefenstahl, premiered in Berlin with Adolf Hitler present. ■ In 1939, the Spanish Civil War effectively ended as Madrid fell to the forces of Francisco Franco. ■ In 1941, novelist and critic Virginia Woolf, 59, drowned herself
near her home in Lewes, East Sussex, England. ■ In 1943, composer Sergei Rachmaninoff died in Beverly Hills, Calif. ■ In 1963, the Alfred Hitchcock film “The Birds” premiered in New York. ■ In 1978, in Stump v. Sparkman, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld, 5-3, the judicial immunity of an Indiana judge against a lawsuit brought by a young woman who’d been ordered sterilized by the judge when she was a teenager. ■ In 1990, President George H.W. Bush presented the Congressional Gold Medal to the widow of U.S. Olympic legend Jesse Owens.
■ Ten years ago: President George W. Bush warned of “further sacrifice” ahead in the face of unexpectedly fierce fighting. ■ Five years ago: Cuba made it legal for its citizens to own cellphones in their own names. ■ One year ago: The U.S. Supreme Court wrapped up three days of public arguments on President Barack Obama’s historic health care law. On the last day of his visit, Pope Benedict XVI demanded more freedom for the Roman Catholic Church in communist-run Cuba and preached against “fanaticism” in an unusually political sermon before hundreds of thousands at Havana’s Revolution Plaza.