Bulletin Daily Paper 08-11-12

Page 1

Classics are king in local car culture B1 •

AUGUST 11, 2012

Monday:

PULSE

SATURDAY 75¢

Serving Central Oregon since 1903 www.bendbulletin.com

Romney’s running mate: Reports say Ryan • A3 Hunters will soon get to use 15,000 acres of area private land

BEND

LONDON OLYMPICS

Water rate changes proposed

By Lauren Dake The Bulletin

SALEM — Two Central Oregon landowners have teamed up with the state to open 15,000 acres of prime hunting grounds. In exchange, the landowners will get help from the state in eradicating invasive species on their properties. Decades ago, it wasn’t uncommon for large landowners to allow hunters to roam their property for game. Jim Wood, whose family owns the Aspen Valley Ranch east of Prineville, near Post, is one of the landowners opening up his family’s 8,000 acres. Wood recalls in the late 1970s when his family’s ranch was open for public hunting. “There was a proverbial rotten apple that spoiled it for the whole bunch,” he said. Six of his family’s cattle were shot, along with a horse. Because of the past, Wood has reservations about allowing hunters on his property. But he’s hopeful it will work well and it will encourage other landowners to open up their properties. And this time around, the state will be administering the program. The hunting parties must be small and the land will be open starting Sept. 29 for rifle season for deer, elk, antlerless elk, cougar and youth hunting. Hunting by archery will not be allowed. Interested hunters need to contact the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Prineville office and not the landowners. See Hunting / A7

TOP NEWS VATICAN: Nuns seek an ‘open dialogue,’ A3

• City officials would like to switch to an entirely usage-based system By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin

The amount of water Bend residents use to irrigate their yards, wash cars and take showers could begin to have a more visible impact on water bills as early as January. For years, city officials reviewed different water rate systems. Many City Councilors now support charging utility customers based on how many cubic feet of water they use. The current system gives customers an allowance of 400 cubic feet and charges them for what they use above that amount. The new rate system city employees are proposing is referred to as “zero allowance,” because it would eliminate the flat fee for the first 400 cubic feet. Instead, customers would be charged for the exact number of cubic feet used. “I’ve been pushing for a long time to just charge people for what they use, and it’s taken a long time for the city to get on board with that concept,” City Councilor Jim Clinton said in an interview late last month. See Water / A7

Matt Slocum / The Associated Press

MEDAL MOMENT A

shton Eaton celebrates on the podium after being presented with the gold medal for the men’s decathlon at the Summer Olympics in Lon-

don on Friday. The event consisted of 10 track and field events over two days. Eaton, a 2006 graduate of Mountain View High School, scored 8,869 points, falling just shy of the Olympic decathlon record of 8,893 points.

AFGHANISTAN: Police officer kills U.S. troops, A3 TODAY’S WEATHER Sunny High 94, Low 50 Page D8

For more on Eaton, see Page C1.

Some win gold, but riches are elusive By David Segal

Vincent Hancock shoots during the men’s skeet event at the Summer Olympics Tuesday.

New York Times News Service

INDEX Business D3-5 Classified E1-4 Comics B4-5 Community B1-8 Crosswords B5, E2 Dear Abby B3 Editorials D6

Horoscope B3 Local News D1-8 Movies B2 Obituaries D7 Sports C1-8 Stocks D4-5 TV B2, ‘TV’ mag

The Bulletin An Independent Newspaper Vol. 109, No. 224, 76 pages, 6 sections

MON-SAT

We use recycled newsprint

U|xaIICGHy02329lz[

LONDON — Vincent Hancock won gold in skeet shooting here this week, missing just two of 150 targets in the competition. It was an extraordinary performance and unprecedented, too. Hancock prevailed in the same event in Beijing in 2008, making him the first skeet shooter to successfully defend his Olympic title. The man is a superstar in his sport. So what riches await this impeccably mannered, 23-year-old Army captain when he returns home? What companies are lining up to write sponsorship checks? What signs are there that his life is about to change?

Rebecca Blackwell The Associated Press

“None, really,” he said in an interview on Wednesday. “I’ll try to go after some of the higher profile companies in November, once I leave the military. But I’m not going to get greedy. I’ll be thankful for anything I’m given.” Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be skeet shooters. Or slalom canoers. Or judo fighters. Or, to be

quite blunt about it, any sport that has an international audience only when the Olympics roll around. Not if you would like your babies to take long, post-glory media tours and pocket wads of cash. The reality is that even competitors in popular sports are likely to find that life after gold is not very lucrative. See Riches / A6

Behind a serious nuclear breach, a nun’s bold fervor By William J. Broad New York Times News Service

She has been arrested 40 or 50 times for acts of civil disobedience and once served six months in prison. In the Nevada desert, she and other peace activists knelt down to block a truck rumbling across the government’s nuclear test site, prompting the authorities to take her into custody. She gained so much attention that the Energy Department, which maintains the nation’s nuclear arsenal, helped pay for a lengthy oral history in which she described her upbringing and the development of her anti-nuclear views. Now, Sister Megan Rice, 82, a Catholic nun of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, and two male accomplices have carried out what nuclear experts call the biggest security breach in the history of the nation’s atomic complex, making their way to the center of the site where the U.S. keeps crucial nuclear bomb parts and fuel. See Nun / A7

AFGHANISTAN

At orphanage, friendship ignores dads’ allegiances By Kevin Sieff The Washington Post

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Hamidullah, 12, and Rahmatullah, 10, have nearly everything in common. They have the same haircuts, the same blue uniforms, the same jokes, the same notebooks with sailboats and convertibles on the cover. They sleep next to each other in a big room where a ceiling fan stirs warm air. They eat together and play on the same cricket team. When they get older, they want to be neighbors. They arrived here — bunkmates in southern Afghanistan’s largest orphanage — under the same tragic circumstances. Just one detail separates the best friends. Their fathers were killed fighting on opposite sides of the war. See Orphanage / A7


Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook
Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.