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Father dies trying to save son Obama:
Problems can be solved By David Espo and Robert Furlow The Associated Press
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LAKE BILLY CHINOOK — The search for the body of a man who presumably drowned trying to save his son Thursday at Lake Billy Chinook will resume this morning with plans to use sonar technology, Jefferson County Sheriff Jim Adkins said. Mark Harris, 37, died after suffering a major head injury in the water, possibly from being hit by their boat or his own ski, and it appears Gene Harris, 73, drowned after jumping in to rescue his son, Adkins said. Search and rescue personnel recovered Mark Harris’ body Thursday. Efforts to find Gene Harris’ body were suspended Thursday evening, Adkins said. A sonar device that is pulled behind a boat and used to map the bottom of the lake is
scheduled to arrive from the Klamath County Sheriff’s Office this morning, Adkins said. Operators of the sonar device can pick out the body from other objects like rocks and logs and use GPS to mark the spot for divers. Both men were avid water skiers and frequented the lake, Adkins said. Mark Harris had recently bought a new ski and wanted to test it. Adkins said several of the search and rescue officers on the scene knew Gene and Mark Harris, members of a prominent farming family in the area. There were no witnesses to the initial incident. A man on shore about 100 yards away reported seeing a body floating in the water near a ski boat and Gene Harris swimming toward it. See Drowning / A3
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A pair of ski boats with volunteers (front) and three search and rescue boats move slowly under the Southwest Jordan Road bridge that spans the Crooked River branch of Lake Billy Chinook as they search for the missing body of a man who drowned in the lake Thursday afternoon.
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Area where Mark Harris’ body found
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — His re-election in doubt, President Barack Obama conceded only halting progress Thursday night toward fixing the nation’s stubborn economic woes but vowed in a Democratic National Convention finale, “Our problems can be solved, our challenges can be met.” “Yes, our path is harder — but it leads to a better place,” he declared in a prime-time speech to convention delegates and the nation, blending Obama resolve about rescuing the nation from near-economic catastrophe with stinging criticism of Republican rival Mitt Romney’s own proposals. Widely viewed as reserved, even aloof, Obama acknowledged “my own failings” as he asked for a second term, four years after taking office as the nation’s first black president. Citing progress toward recovery, he said, “After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.” “Four more years,” delegates chanted over and over as the 51-year-old Obama stepped to the podium, noticeably grayer than he was as a historymaking candidate for the White House in 2008. First Lady Michelle Obama and the couple’s daughters, Malia and Sasha, joined the president on stage in the moments after the speech, followed by other family members and Vice President Joe Biden and his wife. Strains of “Only in America” filled the hall as confetti filled the air. See Convention / A4
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Delegates say Obama lifting Central Oregon By Andrew Clevenger The Bulletin
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Report says U.S. health care system wasting $750 billion every year By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The U.S. health care system squanders $750 billion a year — roughly 30 cents of every medical dollar — through unneeded care, byzantine paperwork, fraud and other waste, the influential Institute of Medicine said Thursday in a report that ties directly into the presidential campaign. President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are accusing each other of trying to slash Medicare and put seniors
at risk. But the counterintuitive finding from the report is that deep cuts are possible without rationing, and a leaner system may even produce better quality. “Health care in America presents a fundamental paradox,” said the report from an 18-member panel of prominent experts, including doctors, business people, and public officials. “The past 50 years have seen an explosion in biomedical knowledge, dramatic innovation in therapies and surgical procedures, and management of
conditions that previously were fatal ... “Yet, American health care is falling short on basic dimensions of quality, outcomes, costs and equity,” the report concluded. If banking worked like health care, ATM transactions would take days, the report said. If home building were like health care, carpenters, electricians and plumbers would work from different blueprints and hardly talk to each other. See Health care / A4
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After spending three days at the Democratic National Convention, members of Oregon’s delegation from Bend said they were excited to see President Obama’s policies help lift Central Oregon. John Mundy said the president’s acceptance speech was a good discussion of economic policy, and showed his honesty and integrity. “He’s a good man who I trust and want to move forward with,” he said. Mundy praised Obama’s plan to educate a workforce prepared for the employment needs of the 21st century, including more advanced technical training after high school. Thanks to Oregon State University’s plan to develop a four-year campus in Bend, the city will be poised to reap economic benefits of being both a resort town and a university town, he said. Bend is still recovering from the economic collapse that saw the housing market crash and unemployment skyrocket. Obama’s policies have helped turn things around, but the job isn’t finished, said delegate Adele McAfee. “Has he done enough? No, but now he needs four more years,” she said. See Oregon / A4
Archaeologists search for Richard III in parking lot By Henry Chu
Los Angeles Times
LEICESTER, England — A parking lot, a parking lot! His kingdom for a parking lot? OK, so those lines may not have quite the same ring as the immortal plea for a horse that Shakespeare gave Richard III
as the desperate king’s final cry on the battlefield. But they could well prove more accurate. Archaeologists have begun digging in the center of this historic city to locate Richard’s lost remains, in a quest to solve a mystery surrounding one of the most controversial and confound-
ing monarchs in British history. If their hunch is right, the last English king to die in battle wound up trading his throne for a final resting place beneath what is now a parking lot here in Leicester. Finding Richard’s bones, more than half a millennium after his death in 1485, could at last clear
up some of the nagging questions and fanciful legends that have grown as thick around him as ivy on a tree. Was he, for instance, truly the “deform’d, unfinish’d” figure, often played as a hunchback, that Shakespeare took such delight in portraying? See Richard / A3
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• A version of Shakespeare’s Richard III opens tonight at the Second Street Theater in Bend. See GO! page 12