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A skiff that was once used
The NewYorkTimes included the paper's publisher, Arthur Suizberger)
— Art hu r
Gelb a n d Rosenthal jointly
Gelb, who by sheer force of edited several anthologies of personality dominated the T i mes articles, columns and newsroom at The New York obituaries. They also became Times for decades, lifting its embroiled in a well-publicized metropoli tan and arts cover- controversy over the author age to new heights and helping Jerzy Kosinski, their friend, to shape the paper in its mod- whom The Village Voice acern era, died on Tuesday at his cused of plagiarism and other
the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera
in New York, said the cause was complications of a stroke.
l i t erarycrimesin 1982. Attacked for shield-
ing him, they commission e d a 6 , 000-word
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riposte in the A rts &
f '. Gelb
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Leisu r e section arguing that Kosinski had been the victim of a smear
Hired as a copy boy campaign engineered in 1944, Gelb rose to become a bythe communist government singular Timesmaninthesec-
o f h i s n a tive Poland. Years
ond half of the 20th century, later, reviewing a Kosinski leavingalargestampascritic, biography, the critic Edward chief cultural correspondent,
N e uert wrote on Salon: "It is
metropolitan editor, deputy c lear now that Kosinski's most managing editor and man- e nergetic construction was his aging editor, the post he held life." when he retired at the end of Kno w n for nurturing young 1989. talent, Gelb developed a long No matter the role, Gelb, a roster of proteges, including gangly 6-foot-2, was relent- Maureen Dowd, Paul Goldless, fidgety and in-your-face berger, Ada Louise Huxtable, — whether in passionate re-
M i c h ik o K a k u tani, F r a n k
sponse to a potential scoop Rich and John Rockwell, the or in fevered reaction to the
c h i e f rockmusiccritic.
"He has that surprisingly whimofafellowboss,typically the equally relentless A.M. rare quality in an editor," the Rosenthal, who had been two
a u t hor Renata Adler, a former
ahead of him in The Time s
He al s o c u ltivatedasecond
years his senior at City Col- T imes movie critic, said. "He lege and perpetually a step m akes you want to write."
hierarchy, finally reaching the career, with his wife, Barbara, newsroom's top post, execu- as an authority on the playtive editor. wright Eugene O'Neill. They Gelb, writing for the culture published two definitive volpages, discovered stars in an umes testifying to O'Neill's inexpanding off-Broadway uni- f luence as a major American verse. His reviews and news cultural figure. coverage helped propel the Gelb met Barbara Stone,the fledgling careers of, among niece of the violinist Jascha others, Woody Allen, Bar- H eifetz and the stepdaughter bra Streisand, Dick Gregory, of The New Yorker writer and Lenny Bruce, Jason Robards, playwright S.N. Behrman, in Joseph Papp and Colleen The Times newsroom, where Dewhurst. both were working as clerks. As a top editor he played They married in 1946, the a vital role, beginning in the same year he graduated from 1970s, in conceiving and ex-
by someone near Sendai washed ashore in January on
Under Gelb's watch as met- t o work for me when I was an ropolitan editor, The Times' e d i tor. I was well aware that
Westport, the state Ecology Department said. Scraping away years of seaweed growth revealed a
and foam dock that washed ashore in December 2012 on an Olympic National Park beach. It was similar to the Washington State Ecology Departmentvia The Associated Press
sulate back to the Miyagi Pre- A seaweed-covered skiff that washed ashore at Twin Harbors fecture, where Sendai is the State Park in Westport, Wash., was recently confirmed as debris from the March 2011 tsunami in Japan.
"The former owner does
not desire to have it returned,"
said Ecology spokeswoman it through the Japanese conLinda Kent. sulate, Kent said. Two similar skiffs covered
All the boats have been
ban girl's secret other life as a free," he said. "The first four I drug addict and the illicit prov- approached claimed they were enance of an ancient Greek tied up on assignments I'd givvase that had been smuggled en them earlier. The fifth, Peout of Italy and prominently
t e r M i l lones, allowed that he displayed in the Metropolitan was available. 'Here's a ticket
Museum of Art (whose board to the World Series,' I said."
inthe Pacific foryears. "Over time it will probably
coast so far this year — almost
get harder and harder to tell whether it's related to the tsu-
twice as many in a typical
nami event," she said.
found on the Washington There has been a "slight up-
debris that has been drifting
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Developerbuyshistoric San DiegoCountyfires site of OregonCity mil now largelycontained By Veronica Rocha
The Associated Press
close, The Oregonian reports. I t turned ou t
OREGON CITY — A Ta-
h e l i kes
coma developer has bought sites that have an industrial a defunct paper mill at Wil- past, faded glory and a lot of lamette Falls in Oregon City, potential. on the site of historical signifiHe acquired old Abitibi cance inthe state. paper mill i n Steilacoom, British fu r
t r ader J ohn Wash., last year and part of
McLoughlin built a sawmill there in 1829, and a paper mill operatedthere for more than
Aggressive firefighting prevented a series of blazes at LOS ANGELES — Cool- Camp Pendleton from worsener temperatures have aling, authorities said. "Their execution was welllowed firefighters to gain the upper hand on a series planned and flawless," said of wildfires plaguing north- Brig. Gen. John Bullard, comern San Diego County. manding general of Marine The devastating Cocos Corps Installations West, said Los Angeles Times
the former Olympia brewery
fire in San Marcos, which
in Tumwater in 2010. He also
destroyed 39 homes and blackened nearly 2,000
bought a 3 30,000-squarefoot Nalley Foods warehouse complex near Tacoma.
a century until 2011. Then the Blue Heron mill
went into bankruptcy proLike the Oregon City site, ceedings, its executives say- they are all in the planning ing they couldn't compete stage. with Chinese competition. Heidgerken acknowledges The mill site is 23 acres, he jumped in the Oregon City covered with about 50 build- deal knowing little about the ings, many immense and un- site or what he would do with sightly. It was on the market it, although he has notions for more than three years. such asa "very active"farmThreedevelopersmade offers ers' market, perhaps a hotel, and then backed out. A pro- art galleries and architecture posal for a city-county-Metro that showcases Willamette purchase fell apart. Falls. "I look at this project as The buyer who emerged was George Heidgerken, of- glass ... glass and steel," fering $2.2 million and a fast Heidgerken said.
in a statement.
Fires at Camp Pendleton and
acres, was 93 percent con-
the Naval Weapons Station Fallbrook burned 21,900 acres,
tainedby Tuesday. Three fires in San Mar-
which officials said was nearly 18percent of the twobases.
cos and at Camp Pendleton
In all, more than 27,000 acres
continued to burn, so far burned. scarring more than 23,000 acres. Still, authorities said
it appeared firefighters had gained control and mop-up efforts were well underway.
One thing that helped: moderating temperatures.
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o t h er i f h e h appened to be
be responsible for throwing up
9.
to c h ase down the countless
sion, which prompted reforms. ticularly frustrating cat-andGelb also initiated or over- mousegamewithhisstaff. "Just before noon one day, I saw prizewinning investigations that exposed a virulent walked around the city room American Nazi's hidden Jew- asking one reporter after an-
er debris was high-floating, pushed more by the wind."
al Oceanic and Atmospheric
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Most of the debris should
should call authorities, Kent sald. floating a bit lower in the waWinter storms and seasonal ter," she said Tuesday. "Earli- changes in the currents may
Jan. 15 was confirmed on May tick" this year in the amount
for disposal.
isters, Kent said. "This was stuff that was
held at Ocean City State Park while the state and the NationAdministration try to identify
dock that landed at Newport, in June 2012. They were cut up
simply be thrown away by beachcombers or the volunof possible tsunami debris teers who help keep beaches found on the Washington clean. If someone finds a procoast, including oil drums, pane tank or something else small propane tanks and can- potentially hazardous they
There have been more than 20 fuel tanks or oil d rums
revelations by Officer Frank (i f sometimes dubious) leads I Serpico, redeemed the paper's proposed — and some eyed me sometimes gushing embrace as though I were some kind of of MayorJohn Lindsay's ad- madman." ministration and led to the creB u t he remembered getting
ish heritage, a modest subur-
was a boxcar-sized concrete
number that was tracked with the help of the Japanese Con-
investigation of systemic po- not every reporter was eager
ation of the Knapp Commis-
on Washington beaches. The largest piece of tsunami debris
the Washington coast near
N Y U . She survives him. Be-
ecuting daily s t and-alone sides his son Peter, Gelb is also sections — Sports Monday, survived by another son, MiScience Times, Dining, Home, chael, who designs and builds Weekend — as well as special homes i n Ma s sachusetts; magazines on Sundays. All of four g randchildren (includthem expandedand deepened ing David Gelb,who directed news coverage while becom- the documentary film "Jiro ing durable vehicles for adver- Dreams of Sushi"); and one tising in challenging economic great-grandchild. times. Other newspapers emuG e l b himself conceded: "I'm lated them widely. not sure I would have wanted
lice corruption, spurred b y
the first tsunami debris found
in seaweed and barnacles scraped to remove any possiwere found April 23 at Long ble invasive species of marine Beach and April 28 at Ocean life. Shores. The Long Beach skiff It takes quite a bit of detechas no identifying informa- tive work to confirm whether tion and has been disposed or not debris is likely from of, but the Ocean Shores skiff the March 2011 tsunami, Kent had some markings. It's being said. The skiff that was found
Gelb helpedshape
home in Manhattan. He was 90. His son, Peter Gelb,
Dozens of buoys of the type used off Japan were some of
Beach, Calif., and built into the
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Marybelle Wolfskill Kowolowski, 98, passed away peacefully on May 4, 2014 at St. Charles Madras. She was born in Los Angeles, Calif. On March 27, 1916 to john Milton Wolfskill and Minta Marie Mummert Wolfskill. She graduated from Inglewood High School in Calif. In 1933, earned aBAdegree in English from Texas Tech in 1939, and attended one year of graduate school at U.C.LA. Marybelle met Louis Kowolowski in Tulelake where she was a telephone operator. They were married in Reno, Nev., April 26, 1941 and settled into their first home in Tulelake which was built by Louis. They moved to Madras in 1943 where her husband worked with the Army engineers during the construction of the Madras airbase. When construction was completed, he stayed on as project engineer until the airbase was closed. She was a bookkeeper for Louis, who was a general contractor, and they also owned Madras Redi-Mix and Madras Sash and Door until his retirement. Following his retirement, they traveled for three months in Europe, spent winters traveling and fishing in Mexico, and made several summer trips to Alaska. Marybelle was a past Grand Guardian of the International Orderof Job's Daughters in Oregon, past Matron of ConcordiaChapter¹133 Order ofthe Eastern Star,m ember of Nydia Temple ¹4 Daughters of the Nile, past president of Three Sisters Nile club, and life-long member of the Hpiscopal Church. She helped with the Red Cross Blood Bank and the Smart readingprogram formany years.In herlateryears, she enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren, baking, water and chair aerobics, and gardening. Marybelle is survived byherson,Fred,ofRedmond; daughter, Bettie Ann(Larry) Crambiett of Cascade Locks; grandchildren, Julie Cramblett, Kerstin (Luis) Robles, David (Kristin) Cramblett, Louis (Katy) Kowolowski, Brian (Kim) Shore, and eight great-grandchildren. Marybelle was predeceased by her husband, Louis, her parents, and her brother John and sister, Sammie Whealy. Graveside services will be held May 23 at Mt. Jefferson Memorial Park Cemetery at 10:30 a.m. followed by a memorial service at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd at 11:30 a.m. and concluding with food and fellowship at the Madras Senior Center at 1 p.m. Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd/St. Ma rks Episcopal.