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44 cows killed by 5 semis north of Madras
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By Megan Kehoe The Bulletin
Forty-four cows were killed late Thursday evening after a herd of escaped cattle wandered onto U.S. Highway 97 north of Madras and were struck by five commercial trucks. “It was dark, there was a large group of cattle on the road, and it takes a while for those kinds of trucks to come to a stop,” Lt. Gregg Hastings of the Oregon State Police said. “They just weren’t able to stop in time.” The accident occurred around 11:45 p.m. near milepost 77, and partially closed the highway for several hours while crews removed the carcasses. The livestock belonged to R2 Ranch, a 60,000-acre ranch in Jefferson County. Police say that at some point during the night, the herd broke through a gate separating the ranch from the highway, and wandered onto the highway. Five trucks traveling both northbound and southbound struck 44 cows, nearly the entire herd. Two of the trucks took the brunt of the impact, Hastings said, and were towed. See Cattle / A6
By Joel Aschbrenner The Bulletin
MADRAS — Friends and neighbors have rallied to help harvest crops on the Harris farms north of Madras, while the family mourns a father and son who died Thursday in a boating accident at nearby Lake Billy Chinook. While water skiing, Mark Harris, 37, suffered a head injury and died in the water. His father, Gene Harris, 73, apparently tried to rescue him and drowned, said Jefferson County Sheriff Jim Adkins. The Harris family was well-known in the area north of Madras called the Agency Plains, said Scott Samsel, who has farmed and lived next door to Gene for more than 35 years. Friday morning, employees from Central Oregon Seeds Inc. volunteered to harvest Gene and Mark’s crops, and another neighbor offered to move irrigation lines as needed, Samsel said. See Accident / A6
A heavy emphasis on the jobs report, even if it’s wrong By Zachary A. Goldfarb The Washington Post
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Mary Gauthier performs on the Village Green stage during the Sisters Folk Festival on Friday. The event continues through Sunday and features blues, bluegrass, folk and Submitted photo
Five commercial trucks, including this one, struck a herd of escaped cattle on U.S. Highway 97 Thursday night.
Americana performers on eight different stages. All-event passes are sold out, but there are a few shows that are free and open to the public. For more information, including a list of events, a map and “if you go” details, see Pages C1 and C2.
WASHINGTON — The news that the economy added just 96,000 jobs in August will be hotly debated by both sides in remaining weeks of the presidential campaign, but one thing is almost Inside certain: The number is wrong. Only once in the past three • More on the jobs decades has the government report, C3 not revised its estimate of how many jobs were created in a given month. It usually takes many weeks, and sometimes years, before economists settle on the most accurate figure. Over the past three years, the employment report has understated how many jobs were created by as much as 99,000 and overstated it by as much as 86,000. The nation dwells on the number when it comes out, but nobody pays attention when the number is updated. See Jobs / A6
Allergy lifesaver is a growing concern As a coolant is phased out, By Katie Thomas New York Times News Service
It has become an all-too-familiar story in schools across the country: A child eats a peanut or is stung by a bee and suffers an immediate, lifethreatening allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis. If parents and school authorities know about the allergy and a doctor’s prescription is on file, a nurse can quickly give an injection of epinephrine, saving the child’s life. But school nurses in many districts face an agonizing choice if a child without a prescription develops a sudden reaction to an undiagnosed allergy. Should they inject epinephrine and risk losing their nursing license for dispensing
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it without a prescription, or call 911 and pray the paramedics arrive in time? After a 7-year-old girl died in January in a similar case in Virginia, the state passed a law that allows any child who needs an emergency shot to get one. Beginning this month, every school district in Virginia is required to keep epinephrine injectors on hand for use in an emergency. Illinois, Georgia and Maryland have passed similar laws, and school nurses are pushing for one in Ohio. A lobbying effort backed by Mylan, which markets the EpiPen, made by Pfizer, led to the introduction last year of a federal bill that would encourage states to pass such laws. See Allergies / A4
smugglers reap big profits By Elisabeth Rosenthal and Andrew W. Lehren New York Times News Service
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Diane Voelker, a nurse at Stone Bridge High School, puts away an EpiPen that hangs on the wall of her office in Ashburn, Va. Virginia is among a handful of states that have passed laws requiring epinephrine injectors to be stocked at schools, where increasing numbers of children have severe allergies. Mylan, the marketer for EpiPen, has lobbied for such laws.
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MIAMI — The chief executive of the century-old company from America’s heartland shifted nervously on the witness stand here as he tried to explain how a trusted senior vice president had been caught on a wiretap buying half a million dollars in smuggled merchandise, much of it from China. But the contraband purchased by Marcone, a St. Louis-based company that claims to be the nation’s largest authorized source for appliance parts, was not
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counterfeit handbags or fake medicines. It was a colorless gas that provides the chill for air conditioners and refrigerators from Miami to Mumbai, India, from Bogota, Colombia, to Beijing. Under an international treaty, the gas, HCFC-22, has been phased out of new equipment in the industrialized world because it damages the earth’s ozone layer and contributes to global warming. There are strict limits on how much can be imported or sold in the United States by U.S. manufacturers. See Coolant / A6
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