The document summarizes local news stories from The News-Review newspaper in Roseburg, Oregon on November 10, 2013. It includes stories about a local high school volleyball team winning a state title, a World War 2 veteran receiving commemorative stamps honoring Medal of Honor recipients, Oregon hiring 400 workers to manually process health insurance applications due to software issues with its health exchange website, and debate around whether to allow logging in a county park to fund improvements or seek other funding sources.

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Roseburg, Oregon Vol. 147 No. 166 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2013
Veterans
edition
inside
today
Days Creek wins state
volleyball title again
Sports, page D1
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NEWS: VFWPost
2468 set to dedicate
memorial to veterans
CLASSIFIEDSSalute to
Veterans
The News-Review honors those who have served • 2013
BEND — Bob Maxwell
was an infantryman in
France in 1944 helping set
up a command post when
it was attacked by Ger-
man soldiers. During the
fighting, he instinctively
dropped on a grenade in the
dark, protecting his fellow
soldiers.
The blast cost him much
of his right foot, and the
selfless act of bravery
earned him the Medal of
Honor. At 93, he is the
nation’s oldest living recip-
ient of the highest military
honor.
On Friday in Bend,
where he lives, Maxwell
was presented a special
commemorative set of
postage stamps honoring
the few surviving Medal
of Honor recipients from
World War II.
The stamp folio includes
images of the Army and
Navy versions of the
medal, and photos of 12 of
the 464 who received the
honor for fighting in World
War II. Maxwell is one of
eight people who are still
living. The stamps are to be
formally issued Monday,
Veterans Day, in Wash-
ington, D.C., U.S. Postal
Service spokesman Peter
Hass said.
Maxwell says he feels
his life was spared “by di-
vine providence,” for some
purpose.
“I’ve been spending the
60 or 70 years since then
trying to figure out what
the purpose is,” he said.
“My main philosophy in
life is to be a soldier. If you
look in the dictionary for
the definition of a soldier,
the first one in the dictio-
nary I have says it is one
who serves.”
After his discharge,
he moved to Oregon and
learned auto mechanics on
World War II hero among 12 on stamp
JEFF BARNARD
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Medal of Honor recipient Bob Maxwell, center,
salutes at a ceremony Friday at Bend High School,
where he received a commemorative set of postage
stamps honoring the few surviving Medal of Honor
recipients from World War II. Turn to STAMP, page A7
PORTLAND — Because
Oregon’s health exchange
website still hasn’t enrolled
a single person more than a
month after its launch, state
officials plan to hire at least
400 workers to manually
process paper applications for
health insurance.
The announcement comes
amid worries that Cover
Oregon could run out of time
to sign up enough Oregonians
by the Dec. 15 deadline for
those who need coverage
starting in January.
Software glitches have
prevented the website from
Cover Oregon
brings in 400
to process
applications
GOSIAWOZNIACKA
The Associated Press
Turn to HEALTH CARE, page A5
Bob Maxwell won
Medal of Honor for
jumping on grenade
TACLOBAN, Phil-
ippines (AP) — The
death toll from one of the
strongest storms on record
that ravaged the central
Philippine city of Taclo-
ban could reach 10,000
people, officials said today
after the extent of massive
devastation became appar-
ent and horrified residents
spoke of storm surges as
high as trees.
Regional police chief
Elmer Soria said he was
briefed by Leyte provin-
cial Gov. Dominic Petilla
late Saturday and told
there were about 10,000
deaths in the province,
mostly by drowning and
from collapsed buildings.
The governor’s figure was
based on reports from
village officials in areas
where Typhoon Haiyan
slammed Friday.
Tacloban city admin-
istrator Tecson Lim said
that the death toll in the
city alone “could go up to
10,000.” Tacloban is the
Leyte provincial capital
of 200,000 people and
the biggest city on Leyte
Island.
About 300-400 bod-
ies have already been
recovered, Lim said. A
mass burial was planned
today in Palo town near
Tacloban.
The typhoon barreled
through six central Phil-
ippine islands on Friday,
wiping away buildings and
leveling seaside homes
with ferocious winds of
147 miles per hour and
gusts of 170 mph. By
those measurements, Hai-
yan would be comparable
to a strong Category 4
hurricane in the U.S., and
nearly in the top category,
a 5.
It weakened today to
101 mph with stronger
gusts as it approached cen-
tral and northern Vietnam
where authorities evacu-
ated more than 500,000
people.
“The rescue operation is
ongoing. We expect a very
high number of fatalities
as well as injured,” Inte-
rior Secretary Mar Roxas
said after visiting Tacloban
Typhoon death toll could reach 10,000
Residents pedal past the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan, today in
Tacloban City, Philippines. One of the strongest storms on record hit the Philip-
pine provinces Friday leaving a wide swath of destruction and thousands dead.
The Associated Press
Turn to TYPHOON, page A7
O
AKLAND — Douglas
fir trees on the northern
boundary of Mildred
Kanipe Memorial Park
began to grow a century ago, about
the same time Mildred Kanipe was
born on her family’s ranch.
The trees occupy 20 acres, about
one-tenth of the park’s timberland,
and are at the center of a debate
over how to preserve the 1,100-
acre farm, which Kanipe gave to
the county for a park upon her
death in 1983.
Some park supporters back
clear-cutting the 20 acres to pay
for an equestrian campground they
hope will make the park self-sup-
porting.
Other park enthusiasts, howev-
er, object to clear cuts in the park
and advocate raising $127,000 in
grants and private donations for
the campground. The county esti-
mates logging the 20 acres would
raise $150,000.
Wherever the funds come from,
time is short to get the money,
Douglas County Parks Director
Gary Groth said.
Logging splits lovers of bucolic park
CARISA CEGAVSKE
The News-Review
MILDRED KANIPE MEMORIAL PARK
County park near
Oakland needs
money; Is a 20-acre
clear cut the answer?
Source: Douglas County Parks DepartmentSource: Douglas County Parks Department
Elkhead Road
DriverValley Road
Oakland
99
5
Suzanne Frary/The News-Review
FernWoodsTrail
Equestrian
staging area
Proposed cut area
Day use area
Mildred Kanipe
Memorial Park
1,000
Feet
Elkhead Road
Turn to KANIPE, page A7
My worst fear is that if no one can agree on anything, the option is selling the park, and I
would hate to have that happen. Whichever way it goes, I just want the park to live.
Norma Talburt, Mildred Park Planning Committee