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BITUARIES Esther E. Louth Angnst13,1919- Jnly10, 2014 E sther E . L o u th , 9 4 , o f Redmond, OR, p e acefully p assed away o n J u l y 1 0 , 2014. Sh e w a s b o r n t o B lanch and Fr ank l i n W oodlift o n A u g u s t 1 3 , 1 919. i n L os A ng e l e s . She attended High S chool i n S an B e r nardino, and en t ered t h e Women's Army Corps Esther Louth ~AC) in 1 943. Sh e ma r r i e d he r husband, Harold Louth on December 10, 1945. They both enjoyed aviation and obtained their pil ots l i c enses t o gether i n 1 947. Ester a n d H ar o l d m oved t o B e n d , O R , i n 1981. She was very active with her chu r c h an d C hristian W o m en's C l u b . H er h ob b i e s i n cl u d e d painting and crocheting. She is survived by daught er, S h a r i M ar l e r ; an d g randchildren , V an e s s a Klingensmith an d S t e v en K lingensmith. S h e w as p receded in d eath b y h e r parents; husband, Harold, in 2003; and her siblings. A l oving w i f e , m o t he r a n d g randmother w i l l b e f o r ever missed. A graveside service w i l l be held at 1 0:00 a.m., on Tuesday, July 22, at D e schutes Memorial Garden. In lieu of f l ow ers contributions c a n b e se n t t o Eastmont Chu r c h or Wounded Warrior Project. P lease v i si t t h e o n l i n e r egister for t h e f a m il y a t www.niswonger-reynolds. com
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Weather toaid inWashington wildfire fight By Nicholas K. Geranios
areas south of Highway 20
The Associated Press
between the towns of Twisp
S POKANE,
W a sh.
ed the small town of Carlton.
temperatures were allowing
It was not immediately clear how many homes were in-
firefighters to go on the offensive Monday against a
volved in the evacuations.
Highway 20 wa s a l so charred hundreds of square closedbecause offire. miles of terrain in WashingAt 243,000 acres, the Carlton state and is the largest in ton Complex was l arger destructive wildfire that has
state history.
than the Yacolt Burn, which consumed 238,920 acres in
The Carlton Complex of
southwestern Washington ington had burned about 379 in 1902 and is the largest square miles,fire spokes- recorded forest fire in state man Andrew Sanbri s aid history, according to HisMonday. Thatwould make toryLink.org, an online reit the largest wildfire in the source of Washington state state since record-keeping history. The Yacolt Burn started. killed 38 people. "There is optimism in the Firefighters planned to air, but we don't want to give aggressively protect houses the impression that all is near Libby Creek on Monday good," Sanbri said. "Things by keeping the flames from rain to much of the state. But are improving." jumping the waterway, San- it will also bring lightning, The fire was just 2 percent bri said. Okanogan County Koch added. "The benefits of the syscontained Monday. Sheriff Frank Rogers has esfires in north-central Wash-
But the news was not all
timated that 150 homes have
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flame retardant, Sanbri said. Many towns in the scenic Methow Valley remain without power and have limited
landline and cellphone service. Fully restoring power
tem are still up in the air," he
good. The Okanogan County
been destroyed already, but Sheriff's Office announced he suspected that number mandatory eva c uations could rise. The fire is being Monday afternoon of rural blamed for one death.
said. "We may get some rain where we need it, but we may also experience some lightning that could cause some
to the area could take weeks,
Okanogan County Public Utility District officials said.
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Firefighters on Monday new ignitions." had also planned to burn fuel The fire has created smoky on the north side of the fire to conditions and reduced air help build a fire line, but that quality in much of eastern operationwas canceled,fire Washington an d n o r thern spokesman Don Carpenter Idaho. said. One man has died of an Firefighters were ham- apparent heart attack while pered by the loss of elec- fighting the fire near his tricity in t h e a rea, thanks home, Rogers said. to downed power lines and Rob Koczewski, 67, was poles, which hurt communi- stricken on Saturday while cations. There was no esti- he and his wife were hauling mate on when utilities would water and digging fire lines be restored. near their home. Koczewski The forecast for today was a retired Washington called for lighter winds and State Patrol trooper and U.S. l ower t e mperatures, s a i d Marine, Rogers said. Spokane-based N a t ional There are m ore t h an Weather Service meteorolo- 1,600 firefighters battling gist Greg Koch. the flames, assisted by more Then on Wednesday a than 100 fire engines, helivigorous front is expected to copters dropping buckets of cover Washington, bringing water and planes spreading
and Okanogan.That includ-
Calmer winds and cooler
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morning, according to Bend Police. DedigamagePerera, 36, of Ada County, Idaho, wasarrested around 9:20 a.m. in the parking lot of Safeway onNortheast Third Street. Local police were notified by the U.S.Marshals early Monday morning that Perera, a fugitive wanted in Idaho on suspicion of aggravated assault and strangulation, was in the area. BendPolice located Perera's
Idaho fugitive arrested in Bend A wanted fugitive was caught and arrested in BendMonday
vehicle in the Safewayparking lot shortly thereafter. Because Pererawas believed to be a violent offender who may have beenarmed with a handgun, a SWATteam responded to the scene. Perera wasarrested andtaken to the Deschutes County jail without incident. Hewas lodged on a federal fugitive warrant, and his bail was set at $500,000. — Bulletin staff reports
— From wire reports
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Escape
there were technical difficul- being taken into custody in
Continued from B1 "Just after 6:30 p.m., when the kitchen detail was fin-
Blanton blamed himself for ties operating the equipment t h e 20000 block of Cumulus thebreach ofsecurity. "That's not acceptable. It's and getting the alert out to the L a n e. public. S chmidtke w a s tr e a t - my responsibility, and we can On Monday, the Sheriff's e d a t St . Charles Bend for do better than that."
Office received information non-life-threatening injuries Blanton said the last escape do one of our inmate moves t hat Schmidtke w a s before being returned from the Deschutes County from the adult jail back to in the 61000 block of to the jail. He now faces jail took place in 2003, when the work center, and some- Duncan Lane in Southadditional charges of an inmate was at an outside time (between) that time and west B end, a c cord- i, +,+ ; se c ond- and third-de- medical facility and assault— gree escape, s ec- ed a corrections deputy and just after 11 p.m., Schmidtke, ing to a news release, " ond-degree conspiracy escaped. during an all-agency head- and detectives tried to "We have to learn from all count, came up missing," take him into custody. Schmidtke t o c ommit escape, reBlanton said. Schmidtke allegedly sisting arrest, attempt- situations like this, and if we Blanton said a n i n vesti- ran from the home, and Bend ing to elude on foot, and three need to make adjustments in gation quickly revealed that Police and Oregon State Po- counts of criminal mischief, policy we'll do that," he said. Schmidtke had n o t a c t ed lice helped set up a perimeter and is being held in lieu of "We try not to do everything alone and that it was unlikely in the area, at which point $50,000bail. routinely at the same time evhe had remained in the imme- police dogs from Bend PoMe a nwhile, on M onday ery day because as you know, diate area. lice and the Sheriff's Office morning, deputies also arrest- we deal with some pretty Still, deputies searched tracked Schmidtke. He was ed Cecil Archie Turner, 30, on challenging people. ... We the area and Sheriff's Office found in a nearby backyard suspicion of second-degree move a lot of inmates, but it's property, and an alert was is- and was bitten by one of the c r i m inal conspiracy.'Ilirner is not acceptable for one ever sued around 3 a.m. to all near- dogs, Ezel, but allegedly got suspectedofhelping Schmidt- to escape, and we take that by residents. Blanton said away and ran again before keescapefromthejail. seriously." ished, we had occasion to
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Man" in a tradition of Amer-
By Chrislopher Lehmann-Haupt and William Mcdonald ican frontier literature begun New York Times News Service by James Fenimore Cooper. Thomas Berger, the reclu- Henry Miller heard echoes of sive and bitingly satirical nov- Mark Twain in it. elist who explored the myths of the American West in "Little Big Man" and the mores of
Historical fiction was just
one genre that the restless Berger embraced. He took on 20th-century middle-class so- the horror novel in "Killing ciety in a shelf of other well-re- Time" (1967) and the pulp deceived books, died July 13 in tective story in "Who Is Teddy Nyack, New York. He was 89. Villanova?" (1977). He venHis agent, Cristina Concep- tured into science fiction (and cion, said she learned of his Middle American sexual fandeath, at Nyack Hospital, on tasy) with "Adventures of the M onday. Bergerlivedin Grand Artificial Woman" (2004); utoView, a village in Rockland pian fiction with "Regiment of County, New York, where he Women" (1973), in which men had remainedfi ercely protec- have surrendered their grip tive of his privacy. on the world; and the survival Berger fell into that catego- saga in "Robert Crews" (1994), ry of novelists whose work is an updating of "Robinson Cruadmired by cri tics, devoured soe." He revisited the western, by devoted readers and even and his best-known character, assigned in modern American in "The Return of Little Big literature classes but who owe Man" (1999). much of their popularity to The classics were also Hollywood. fodder. He dipped into the "Little Big Man," published
in 1964, is widely known for Arthur Penn's film a daptation, released in 1970, starring
Dustin Hoffman as the protagonist, Jack Crabb. The novel, told in Crabb's
voice at the age of 111, recounts his life on the Great Plains
as an adopted Cheyenne and makes the claim that he was the only white survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
But Berger's body of work was far broader than that, and
Camelot myth in "Arthur Rex:
A Legendary Novel" (1978) and Greek tragedy in "Orrie's Story" (1990), a replay of the Oresteian trilogy. At other times, he reworked popular fantasies: "Being Invisible" (1987), in which the protagonist has the power to disappear from sight at will, and "Changing the Past" (1989), in which a man gets to go back in time to the forks in his road and take
the other path. If Berger had a literary mis-
it earned him a reputation as sion, it was to mine the anaran American original, if an un- chic paranoia that he found derrecognized one. The author underlying American midand scholar Thomas Edwards, dle-class life. "Sneaky People," writing in The New York from 1975, chronicles three Times Book Review in 1980,
hectic days in the life of a used-
called him "one of our most car salesman, a "family man" intelligent, witty and indepen- who keeps a mistress and dent-minded writers."
hires a car washer to kill his
"Our failure to read and dis- phlegmatic wife. "Neighbors" cuss him," Edwards added, "is (1980) records a nightmarish a national disgrace." day in suburbia that parodies To many critics, "Little Big the rituals of neighborliness, Man" was Berger's best novel among them competitiveness, and a worthy addition to the bonhomie (false and otherAmerican canon. (Dial Press wise) and a striving for civility plans a 50 t h-anniversary in the face of a creeping contrade paperback edition this viction that the people across year) "Few creative works of the street ar e b a r barians. post-Civil War America have "Neighbors" was made into a had as much fiber and blood 1981 movie starring John Beof the national experience in lushi and Dan Aykroyd, one of them," the historian and nov- four film adaptations of Berger elist Frederick Turner wrote in The Nation in 1977.
books.
His wife, Jeanne Redpath Berger's biographer Landon Berger, a painter, is his only Brooks placed "Little Big immediate survivor.
Algae
OK to eat, but th e
Continued from B1 Concentrations of the toxins may be harmful to
eating them. The toxins often
people and animals. Health officials advise people to avoid coming
collect in these tissues. Boiling, filtering or treating the water won't remove the toxins, according to the
into contact with the lake's
water, saying drinking the water could be especially dangerous. The toxins may cause numbness, tingling and dizziness that could lead to breathing or heart probl ems, according t o t h e Health A uthority. Other
symptoms of blue-green algae toxin exposure include skin irritation, weakness, diarrhea, nausea, cramps and fainting. Pets and kids may be more susceptible due to their size, the amount of
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