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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
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
record producer testified Thursday in Wynn’s slander trial NBC NEWS SPECIAL against correspondent Tom BroFrancis, Wynn kaw has been discharged which from a Charlotte, N.C., hosfocuses on claims by the pital and pronounced “in “Girls Gone Wild” founder great health” after feeling that the casino creator lightheaded during a TV vehemently denies. appearance Thursday Francis said Jones told morning. him about Wynn’s threats. “After Wynn denied ever threatmedical ening Francis and said the evaluation soft-porn producer’s accuand a round sations have the potential of tests, to damage his casinos, Tom was which include the Wynn pronounced and Encore in Las Vegas. in great Jones said he never No threats health and heard Wynn threaten Brokaw has been Francis. He said Francis’ Quincy Jones said he discharged,” said NBC accusations sound like a never told porn producer News President Tom scene from “Scarface.” Joe Francis that casino Capus in a statement mogul Steve Wynn threatThe producer also released about 1 p.m. EDT. ened to kill him and have backed up Wynn’s testihim buried in the desert. Capus expressed gratimony that he never sent an The Grammy-winning tude to the Carolinas Mediemail to Jones.
Brokaw exits hospital in ‘great health’
cal Center for Brokaw’s excellent care. Hours earlier, the network had reported that Brokaw, 72, felt “lightheaded” on the set of the news-talk program “Morning Joe,” which originated this week from Charlotte. “Out of an abundance of caution,” he was taken to the hospital for examination. At about 10 a.m., Brokaw offered his own diagnosis with this Twitter post: “All is well Early AM I mistakenly took a half dose of Ambien and made less sense than usual. Made a better comeback than Giants . . .” Ambien is a brand name for a sleep-inducer.
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS PENINSULA POLL WEDNESDAY’S QUESTION: What do you think is the ideal number of children for a family to have?
Passings By The Associated Press
ART MODELL, 87, the former Baltimore Ravens owner and longtime NFL stalwart who incurred the wrath of Cleveland fans when he moved the team from Ohio and admittedly tarnished his own legacy as a civic leader, died early Thursday. David Modell said he and his brother, John, were at their father’s side when he “died peace- Mr. Modell fully of nat- in 1982 ural causes.” Mr. Modell was among the most important figures in the NFL as owner of the Cleveland Browns and a league insider. During his four decades as a team owner, he helped negotiate the NFL’s lucrative contracts with television networks, served as president of the NFL from 1967 to 1969 and chaired the negotiations for the first the collective bargaining agreement with the players in 1968. He also was the driving force behind the 1970 contract between the NFL and ABC to televise games on Monday night. Mr. Modell, however, made one decision that hounded him the rest of his life: He moved the Cleveland franchise to Baltimore in 1996, and Ohio fans never forgave him for it.
“I have a great legacy, tarnished somewhat by the move,” Mr. Modell said in 1999. “The politicians and the bureaucrats saw fit to cover their own rear ends by blaming it on me.”
_________ JOE SOUTH, 72, a singer-songwriter who performed hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s such as “Games People Play” and “Walk a Mile in My Shoes” and also penned songs including “Down in the Boondocks” for other artists, died Wednesday, his music publisher said. Mr. South, whose real name was Joseph Souter, died at his home in Buford, Ga., northeast of Atlanta, according to Marion Merck of the Hall County Coroner’s Office. Merck said Mr. South died after having a heart attack. Mr. South worked as a session guitar player on recordings of some of the biggest names of the 1960s — Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan and Simon & Garfunkel, among others. But he had a string of hits of his own starting in the late 1960s that made his booming voice a familiar one on radio stations, with a style that some described as a mix of country and soul. He is perhaps best
known for the song “Games People Play,” which reached No. 12 on the Billboard charts in 1969 and won him two Grammys for Best Contemporary Song and Song of the Year. The opening lines evoked the message songs of the era: “Oh the games people play now, every night and every day now, never meaning what they say now, never saying what they mean.”
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Peninsula Lookback
Setting it Straight
From the pages of the PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Corrections and clarifications
that provoked a call to which law officers All records for spring responded. salmon “egg takes” on the At about 4 a.m., the Dungeness River were broman got out of bed, placed ken when the logs of hatchery Superintendent Ernest a single bullet in a .22-caliBrennan showed a count of ber target pistol in front of his wife, spun the chamber 7.22 million eggs in the and, laughing, placed the trays, more than 300,000 revolver against his foregreater than ever before. head and pulled the trigWith six to seven days left in the season, Brennan ger. and his assistants expect to 1987 (25 years ago) reach the 9 million mark. One feature of the A Forks man survived record egg take this year is an estimated 25-foot fall the fact that not one of the from an out-of-control helisalmon was impounded in copter that scraped a a trap, Brennan said. vacant beauty salon and They were all gaffed burned beyond recognition along the river by hatchery in a parking lot near Forks staff, with the eggs taken Airport. in trays and buckets on the The man, Jim Mott, who river banks. owns Eagle Air Helicopters Inc. in Forks, suffered leg 1962 (50 years ago) and arm injuries. Seen Around The helicopter on which A 29-year-old Port Peninsula snapshots Mott was working was Townsend millworker being tested when it rose PORT ANGELES, played Russian roulette skyward unpiloted. Mott WASH., shown on the and lost, Sheriff Bob HanLaugh Lines grabbed the landing skids weather map of ABC’s sen said. “Good Morning America” The father of three chil- trying to gain control of it. A NEW SURVEY preHe was tossed off the on Wednesday . . . dren ages 4, 3 and 2 died dicts that women and the copter about 25 feet off the at a Port Townsend hospielderly are more likely to WANTED! “Seen Around” tal four hours after a bullet ground, and it continued vote in the presidential items. Send them to PDN News flying erratically into the tore into his forehead. election. Which explains Desk, P.O. Box 1330, Port Angeles The sheriff said the man small commercial center on the new front-runner, WA 98362; fax 360-417-3521; or U.S. Highway 101 near the and his wife had an arguMichael Buble. email news@peninsuladailynews. ment earlier in the evening airport. Jimmy Fallon com.
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■ To clarify, Art on the Town, of which a newly installed whale vertebra sculpture is the latest addition, is a project of the Port Angeles Downtown Association. PADA went unmentioned in an article on the newest sculpture that appeared on the front page of Thursday’s Clallam County edition. ■ The date of a scheduled Olympic Region Clean Air Agency meeting in Sequim will be Oct. 15. A story on Page A1 of Thursday’s Jefferson County edition erroneously said the meeting would be Sept. 15. At the meeting — which will start at 5 p.m. at the Sequim Transit Center, 190 W. Center St., air-monitoring strategies will be discussed, but no decision will be made, ORCAA Executive Director Fran McNair said.
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Looking Back From the files of The Associated Press
TODAY IS FRIDAY, Sept. 7, the 251st day of 2012. There are 115 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: ■ On Sept. 7, 1812, the Battle of Borodino took place during the Napoleonic Wars as French troops clashed with Russian forces outside Moscow; although France won a short-term victory, Russia was able to ultimately drive out Napoleon’s invaders. The battle was commemorated by composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky with his “1812 Overture.” On this date: ■ In 1907, the British liner RMS Lusitania set out from Liverpool, England, on its maiden voy-
age, arriving six days later in New York. ■ In 1940, Nazi Germany began its eight-month blitz of Britain during World War II with the first air attack on London. ■ In 1957, the original version of the animated NBC peacock logo, used to denote programs “brought to you in living color,” made its debut at the beginning of “Your Hit Parade.” ■ In 1962, author Karen Blixen, also known as Isak Dinesen, died in Rungstedlund, Denmark, at age 77. ■ In 1964, the controversial “Daisy” commercial, an ad for President Lyndon B. Johnson’s election campaign featuring a
girl plucking flower petals followed by a nuclear explosion, aired on NBC-TV. ■ In 1972, the International Olympic Committee banned Vince Matthews and Wayne Collett of the U.S. from further competition for talking to each other on the victory stand in Munich during the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” after winning the gold and silver medals in the 400-meter run. ■ In 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur was shot and mortally wounded on the Las Vegas Strip; he died six days later. ■ Ten years ago: President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, meeting at Camp David, said the world had to
act against Saddam Hussein, arguing that the Iraqi leader had defied the United Nations and reneged on promises to destroy weapons of mass destruction. ■ Five years ago: A jury in St. Francisville, La., acquitted Sal and Mabel Mangano, the owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died after Hurricane Katrina, of negligent-homicide and cruelty charges. ■ One year ago: A private Russian jet carrying a top ice hockey team slammed into a riverbank moments after takeoff from the airport near the western city of Yaroslavl, killing at least 44 people. Investigators blamed pilot error.