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Pain at the pump
Smarty Jones survives a serious accident
to earn a shot at the Kentucky Derby, Page E1
With gas prices above $2 a gallon, some motorists
are changing their driving habits, Metro D1
Sports Extra
MONDAY
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April 26, 2004
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Dog attack kills
8-year-old boy
near Vancouver
U.S. holds off in Fallujah
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U.S. forces, hoping for a political
solution, are taking a softer tone after
warning an offensive was days away
By JEFFREY FLEISHMAN
and TONY PERRY
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Johnny Streeter is mauled to death by one or both
bull mastiff-Rottweilers in a Sifton neighbor’s yard
By NOELLE CROMBIE
THE OREGONIAN
VANCOUVER — An 8-year-old boy who was playing alone
in his neighbors’ yard Saturday afternoon was mauled to
death by at least one of two large bull mastiff-Rottweiler dogs.
John Michael Streeter, known as Johnny, was pronounced
dead at the scene, Clark County Sheriff’s Office officials said
Sunday. Police said no one witnessed the attack, which occurred about 6:30 p.m. in the 14500 block of Northeast 71st
Street in the Sifton area, northeast of Vancouver.
An autopsy is scheduled for today, said sheriff’s Sgt. Steve
Shea. He said detectives from the major crimes team are investigating the attack and will turn over
findings to prosecutors for review.
Two dogs were in the yard at the time
of the attack, police said. The dogs,
which have been impounded by Clark
County officials, are owned by Edward
Miller, police said. Miller lives next door
to the home where Streeter lived with his
mother, Billie Jo Streeter, and sisters,
Samantha, 6, and Kaylee, 11.
On Sunday, a man who declined to
JOHNNY STREETER identify himself but said he was a friend
A playful boy
of the Millers, said the family did not
who climbed trees
want to discuss the incident.
“Both families are distraught,” he said.
A boy answering the door at the Streeter home said the family did not want to comment.
The fatal attack stunned the quiet suburban cul-de-sac
lined with ranch-style homes. Johnny, a second-grader at Silver Star Elementary School in the Evergreen School District,
was often outside playing with neighborhood kids.
One neighbor, Faafe Ngauamo, said Johnny played basketball on the hoop at the end of her driveway. She said he would
always ask for permission before using the hoop.
“He was always a sweet little boy,” Ngauamo said. “It’s just
so shocking. I just couldn’t sleep last night.”
Shea said Johnny visited the Millers’ home Saturday afternoon. He said at least two children, including a 15-year-old,
LA TIMES-WASHINGTON POST SERVICE
FALLUJAH, Iraq — After threatening for days
to storm insurgents in this mortar-scarred city,
U.S. forces Sunday reported signs of progress
toward a peaceful settlement and announced
that U.S. soldiers and the Iraqi Civil Defense
Corps would begin joint neighborhood patrols
this week.
The shift in tenor underscored the complexities U.S. forces face in showing resolve against
insurgents while trying to avoid another round
of bloodshed that could incite new uprisings
across the country. Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt,
deputy director of operations in Iraq, said positive signs were emerging from negotiations
and the military would practice “combat patience.”
Sporadic fighting and explosions echoed
Sunday across Iraq. The nation’s oil ministry
announced production was halted at a main
oil terminal in the Persian Gulf following Saturday’s suicide attack by three small boats that
killed two U.S. sailors and a Coast Guardsman.
In an incident that could rile passions in
Baghdad, U.S. forces are investigating a
shootout downtown between their troops and
rooftop gunmen. The firefight started near
Martyr’s Monument after a roadside bomb
killed one American. Troops carried the soldier
from the scene. When they returned, children
were taking items from their vehicle. Kimmitt
said the unit was then attacked by small-arms
fire from the tops of buildings. There were Iraqi
Please see PATIENCE, Page A7
Breaking polio’s grip
Fifty years ago, millions of
schoolchildren participated
in a public health experiment
that would diminish a disease
By PATRICK O’NEILL
THE OREGONIAN
Please see ATTACK, Page A4
Masses march in D.C.
over abortion rights
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Throngs of protesters assail Bush administration
policies they fear erode women’s freedom of choice
By ROBIN TONER
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of abortion-rights
supporters rallied in the nation’s capital Sunday, protesting the
policies of the Bush administration and its conservative allies
and pledging to fight back in November’s election.
The huge crowd marched slowly past the White House,
chanting and waving signs such as “My Body Is Not Public
Property!” and “It’s Your Choice, Not Theirs!,” then filled the
Washington mall for the first large-scale abortion-rights
demonstration in 12 years.
Organizers put attendance at 1 million. Washington and
U.S. Park police declined to estimate the size of the crowd, but
various police sources informally estimated the throng at between 500,000 and 800,000, according to The Associated Press.
Speaker after speaker declared that President Bush and his
allies in Congress are trying to impose an ideological agenda
on abortion and family planning programs, both at home and
abroad. Advocates warned that the erosion might be stealthy
and incremental — regulations and restrictions rather than
outright bans — but asserted that the trend was unmistakable.
“We are determined to stop this war on women,” said
DAVID FALCONER/1960/THE OREGONIAN
ABOVE: Evelyn Hayes, in an iron
lung, talks to her husband,
Dale, at Multnomah County
Hospital in November 1960
after the birth of their son,
Jerry. Evelyn Hayes had lived
in an iron lung for eight
months before she gave birth.
She died in 1970.
LEFT: Jerry Hayes (right)
visits this week with his
father, Dale Hayes, at the
elder Hayes’ home in Bend.
STEVEN NEHL
THE OREGONIAN
Please see ABORTION, Page A8
Dale Hayes remembers when it all changed.
One day in March 1960, he and his wife, Evelyn,
drove south from their home near Lebanon to Roseburg, where they planned to pick up a Jeep.
“She just kind of felt like she was coming down
with the flu,” Hayes said. “Her muscles hurt.”
When they arrived in Roseburg, his wife complained she had trouble moving her legs. “The next
day,” Hayes said, “she couldn’t move her legs at all.”
Doctors diagnosed polio.
So began the couple’s new life — a world of hospitals, iron lungs
and isolation.
In 2004, it’s
hard to fathom
the fear and panic
that surrounded
the dreaded disease. Polio was
“an absolutely terrorizing threat,”
remembers Dr.
DAVID FALCONER
Dan Labby, a pro1960/THE OREGONIAN
fessor emeritus at Jerry Hayes, 4 pounds
Oregon Health & 7 ounces, sleeps in an
Science Universi- incubator after his birth on
ty who treated po- Nov. 6, 1960. His mother,
lio patients in the Evelyn Hayes, was taken out
1940s and ’50s at of her iron lung long enough
Good Samaritan to give birth.
Hospital. The infectious viral disease ravaged the United States for
decades with cycles of epidemics. Oregon recorded
4,096 cases between 1943 and 1955. Schools closed.
People avoided swimming pools, thought to spread
the disease. And panicky parents rushed their children to the doctor at the first sign of a fever.
If a time could be pinpointed when it all began to
change, it was April 26, 1954 — 50 years ago today
— when nearly 2 million schoolchildren across the
nation began one of the most important experiments in the history of public health. First-, secondand third-graders in Multnomah, Marion and Lane
counties rolled up their sleeves and gave blood
samples to test the effectiveness of a vaccine named
for its inventor, Jonas Salk. The following day, doctors began injecting the vaccine into the arms of
second-graders — Polio Pioneers, as they were
called.
By 1955, polio vaccinations were available to
everyone in the United States. Salk vaccine was followed in the early 1960s by the oral Sabin vaccine,
named for researcher Albert Sabin. By 1991, polio
Please see POLIO, Page A6
THE MONDAY PROFILE
Susan Castillo
rose from being
a secretary,
television
reporter and
legislator from
Eugene to
oversee the
progress of
Oregon’s
550,000
schoolchildren.
A lesson in optimism
Susan Castillo: State superintendent handles life with a smile
By BETSY HAMMOND
THE OREGONIAN
S
usan Castillo is ignoring the tomato ginger bisque
and salad of organic greens that she ordered for
lunch.
A devoted cook, she normally delights in food,
selecting the firmest fish, the shiniest produce, the best cuts
of hormone-free beef for the meals she prepares from
scratch nearly every day.
But she scarcely tastes this soup. She’s focused on the
man across from her in the booth of the Tualatin restaurant,
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Oregon higher education chancellor Richard Jarvis.
Petite and soft-spoken, with the perfect diction of a former
television reporter, Castillo asks a few questions. Mainly she
listens, nodding, as the bearded Brit dissects the challenges
facing education in Oregon.
Voters’ defeat of Measure 30 is just two weeks old, and the
system of public schools that Castillo oversees as the state’s
elected school superintendent will take a $300 million hit.
Higher education’s cut will be much less, $7 million.
But Castillo can tell that her higher education counterpart is
FREDRICK D. JOE
THE OREGONIAN
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