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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Peninsula Daily News
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The Samurai of Puzzles
By Scott Adams
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Newsmakers Celebrity scoop ■ By The Associated Press
Actor, wife welcome daughter DAVID SCHWIMMER IS now a father. A spokeswoman for the 44-yearold actor and director said Schwimmer and his wife, The Associated Press Zoe Buckman, Schwimmer recently welen photo call comed their first daughter. Actors Michael Fassbender, left, and Publicist Ina TrecioJames McAvoy pause during a photo kas said baby Cleo Buckman Schwimmer was call for the film “X-Men: First Class” in born May 8. London on Monday. Schwimmer was a star of TV’s “Friends.” He also lent his voice to the “MadaSo when Michael Lohan gascar” animated movies. entered the plea to misdethey saw meanor domestic violence the film, I Jolie-Pitt children battery Monday in Beverly wondered if With its themes of adop- they were Hills. tion and family, “Kung Fu He was arrested in going to be Panda 2” was a big hit in March after his ex-girlaffected in the Jolie-Pitt household — one way or friend, Kate Major, and not just because Ange- another . . . Jolie accused him of abusing her lia Jolie is one of the stars But my kids and preventing her from of the animated film. calling 9-1-1. loved the movie, and they Jolie said her kids conMichael Lohan’s attorfelt closer to Po [the nected to the story of Jolie’s panda].” ney said his client is lookcharacter, Tigress, who is ing forward to resolving shown in an orphanage. the case and sorting out Lohan dad “In my home, ‘adoption,’ the conflicting stories of Lindsay Lohan’s the events that led up to ‘birth mother,’ ‘orphanage,’ father has pleaded not his arrest. A trial is schedthey are all happy words,” guilty to attacking his exuled for July 5. said the actress and girlfriend during an arguIf convicted, the 51-yearmother of six. ment earlier this year in old could spend up to a “They are good words; year in jail. we talk openly about them. California.
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Peninsula Daily News PENINSULA POLL SUNDAY’S QUESTION: Simple question about gasoline prices: Are you currently driving less or paying more?
Driving less
Paying more
50.2% 45.0%
Don’t have car 1.6%
Just stay home 3.2% Total votes cast: 915
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Passings By The Associated Press
NATHANIEL DAVIS, 86, a seasoned diplomat who shepherded American interests through upheavals like the Chilean coup of 1973 and the breakout of civil war in Angola in 1975, died May 16 in Claremont, Calif. The cause was heart failure, his wife, Elizabeth, said. In the week before the military Mr. Davis coup in in 1983 Chile on Sept. 11, 1973, during which President Salvador Allende Gossens died, most likely by suicide, Mr. Davis, then the American ambassador to Chile, made a twoday visit to Washington. Over the years, that trip often has been interpreted as suggesting the United States was involved in the plot. Mr. Davis was assistant secretary for African affairs when Angola became independent of Portugal in 1975. He convened a task
Seen Around
force that recommended against covert military intervention on behalf of anti-Communist forces, questioning the cost, the risks and the probability of success. That was not the answer his bosses wanted, and the matter was passed to a secret intelligence committee, which did not include Mr. Davis. The committee approved secret aid, which helped set the stage for a prolonged civil war between the Soviet-backed government and anti-Communist rebels backed by the United States.
Bob, his younger brother, who had driven the car they built — the Goldenrod — died in 1991. It was on Nov. 12, 1965, on a stretch of the Bonneville Salt Flats in northwestern Utah, that the Goldenrod — zooming past the clock on two separate runs within an hour — set the record with an average top speed of 409.277 miles per hour. That broke the record of 403.135 set a year earlier, July 17, 1964, by Donald Campbell, an Englishman.
BILL SUMMERS, 75, a car builder who, along with his brother Bob, set the world speed record for wheel-driven cars in 1965, died of natural causes at his home in Ontario, Calif., on May 12, his daughter, Maggie Peace, said. Mr. Summers would become a truck driver, and he brother Bob a welder when they built a spearlike vehicle that set the record that stood for 26 years.
1936 (75 years ago)
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Laugh Lines
Peninsula snapshots
Corrections and clarifications
■ Shannan St. Clair’s first name was misspelled in a feature report on Sunday’s Rhody Run on Page A1 of the Jefferson County edition. Also Joseph Gray, the winner of the men’s vision in the race, is from Newcastle. The story erroneously said he was from Castle Rock. ■ The General Aviation Pilots EAA Chapter 430
meeting will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday at Sequim Valley Airport Hangar No. 10. An incorrect meeting time was listed Sunday on Page C4.
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Peninsula Lookback
From the pages of the Peninsula Daily News
Port Angeles Mayor Ralph E. Davis was informed in a message today that Navy warships will be in the harbor between July 3 and Aug. 10. Capt. W.J. Giles, chief of staff of the 13th Naval District, said cruisers and destroyers of the battle force and scouting force of the Puget Sound-Columbia River area will be maneuvering in ocean waters and the Strait of Juan de Fuca during that period. Giles requested the mayor make arrangements for shore facilities in Port Angeles during the summer similar to those in effect last year.
THE JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ETHICS says that it’s insulting to call animals “pets,” and they should be called “animal companions.” They say “pet” is the WANTED! “Seen Around” most insulting thing you 1961 (50 years ago) items. Send them to PDN News could call an animal, except Desk, P.O. Box 1330, Port Angeles Port Angeles Mayor in North Korea, where WA 98362; fax 360-417-3521; or James E. Maxfield will they’re called “dinner.” e-mail news@peninsuladailynews. Jay Leno hang the city’s first downcom.
BUMPER STICKER ON car in Port Townsend: “Today, I’m just catching up with yesterday. Tomorrow, I’ll be ready for today” . . .
Setting it Straight
town flower basket tomorrow in conjunction with the city’s beautification program for Century 21 [later named the Seattle World’s Fair]. After the mayor has put the first basket in place at First and Laurel streets, the Fire Department will take over the task of hanging the rest of the 50 baskets in the downtown area. Following the ceremony, there will be a no-host lunch at Haguewood’s Restaurant for anyone interesting in attending. Mrs. Herman Ahlvers, president of the Port Angeles Garden Club, which spearheaded the flower basket project, will join Maxfield as luncheon speaker.
1986 (25 years ago) Election results: ■ Sequim School District voters defeated a pro-
posed $4.99 million bond measure to build a new elementary school by almost two to one. ■ Nearly 71 percent of voters in the Quillayute Valley School District approved a special levy that will fund school operations and maintenance in Forks for two years.
Did You Win? State lottery results
■ Monday Daily Game: 4-1-2 ■ Monday’s Hit 5: 01-13-22-29-36 ■ Monday’s Keno: 06-16-20-24-28-30-35-3941-43-50-56-60-63-65-6971-75-76-77 ■ Monday’s Lotto: 07-13-14-18-40-42 ■ Monday’s Match 4: 02-04-10-16
Looking Back From the files of The Associated Press
TODAY IS TUESDAY, May 24, the 144th day of 2011. There are 221 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: ■ On May 24, 1941, 70 years ago, Robert Allen Zimmerman was born in Duluth, Minn. The singersongwriter-poet would become the reluctant “voice of his generation,” Bob Dylan. On this date: ■ In 1775, John Hancock was elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding Peyton Randolph. ■ In 1819, Queen Victoria was born in London. ■ In 1844, Samuel F.B. Morse transmitted the message, “What
hath God wrought” from Washington to Baltimore as he formally opened America’s first telegraph line. ■ In 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan, was dedicated by President Chester Alan Arthur and New York Gov. Grover Cleveland and opened to traffic. ■ In 1935, the first major league baseball game to be played at night took place at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field as the Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1. ■ In 1941, the German battleship Bismarck sank the British dreadnought HMS Hood in the North Atlantic, killing all but three of the 1,418 men on board.
■ In 1959, former U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles died in Washington, D.C., at age 71. ■ In 1961, a group of Freedom Riders was arrested after arriving at a bus terminal in Jackson, Miss., charged with breaching the peace for entering white-designated areas. They served 60 days in jail. ■ In 1962, astronaut Scott Carpenter became the second American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Aurora 7. ■ In 1976, Britain and France opened trans-Atlantic Concorde supersonic transport service to Washington. ■ In 1980, Iran rejected a call by the World Court in The Hague
to release the American hostages. ■ Ten years ago: Twentythree people were killed when the floor of a Jerusalem wedding hall collapsed beneath dancing guests, sending hundreds of people plunging several stories into the basement. ■ Five years ago: Taylor Hicks was named the new “American Idol” over runner-up Katharine McPhee. ■ One year ago: Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen, the Obama administration’s point man on the BP oil spill, rejected the idea of taking over the crisis, saying the government had neither BP’s expertise nor its deep-sea equipment.