On this day, May 5, 1903, James Beard, US culinary expert, author (Delights & Prejudices), was born in Portland, Ore.
Also on this day, May 5, 1945, A Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon, killing Mrs. Elsie Mitchell, the pregnant wife of a minister, and five children after they attempted to drag it out the woods in Lakeview, Oregon. The balloon was armed, and exploded soon after they began tampering with it. They became the 1st and only known American civilians to be killed in the continental US during World War II.
Also on this day, May 5, 1945, Bly minister Archie Mitchell, his pregnant wife Elsie, and five children from Mitchell's Sunday school class were on a Saturday morning picnic. Thirteen miles northeast of Bly, or about sixty miles northeast of Klamath Falls, Mitchell parked the car, and Elsie and the children headed to Leonard Creek. Mitchell later remembered: "As I got out of the car to bring the lunch, the others were not far away and called to me they had found something that looked like a balloon. I heard of Japanese balloons so I shouted a warning not to touch it. But just then there was a big explosion. I ran up there--and they were all dead." It was a Japanese balloon bomb. They were 70 feet tall with a 33-foot diameter paper canopy connected to the main device by shroud lines. Balloons inflated with hydrogen followed the jet stream at an altitude of 30,000 feet.
Eastern Oregon town declares crisis
The laid-back town of Baker City is now hoping to wake up the state of Oregon so as to not be so passive
any longer. Oregon seems to be all about providing sanctuary for various things. We have sanctuary
for undocumented humans and we may be voting on giving even animals
sanctuary in 2022. The business leaders in Baker City approached the
new mayor, Kerry McQuisten, and the city council with a “Common
Sense Sanctuary City†resolution.
It wasn’t a slam-dunk, after all they intended to buck the Governor’s
Emergency Executive Order. So, after a town hall that formed a
work-group to set out a course of action, they wrote Governor Kate
Brown telling her their community and business leaders were left out of
the pandemic decision-making process. Receiving no response, the
work group got busy drafting an Emergency Declaration.
What resulted was an official declaration in RESOLUTION No. 3881
“RESOLUTION DECLARING AN ECONOMIC, MENTAL HEALTH, AND
CRIMINAL ACTIVITY CRISIS DUE TO THE CURRENT COVID-RELATED
STATE EMERGENCY DECLARATION AND RELATING OSHA MANDATES
AND GUIDANCE.†The resolution passed a city council by a vote of 5-2
on March 23, 2021.
WHEREAS, the Oregon Governor’s Executive Order 20-03:
Declaration of Emergency due to COVID-19, and all subsequent
and related OSHA guidance, and present and future executive
order extensions of such are arbitrary, ineffective, and draconian;
and
WHEREAS, we as a municipality have no legal ability to summarily
flout these mandates, guidelines and enforcement by OSHA, and
therefore cannot protect any local business from State-directed
targeting, repercussions and penalties if such local business
personally chooses to;
and
WHEREAS, we also recognize that neither city, county nor state
government has the legal right to flout the Oregon State
Constitution or the United States Constitution;
and
WHEREAS that relate to the right to make personal
decisions, the lack of science to support the lockdowns, misinformation
used, a number of consequences leading to criminal behavior, and
business failures as a result of the mandates. To which they resolved:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that we declare an economic,
mental health, and crime crisis due to the current COVID-related
State Emergency Declaration and related OSHA mandates and
guidances, as a means of loudly and symbolically supporting our
citizenry;
and
BE IT RESOLVED, the City will communicate in writing with the
Governor’s Office to encourage the full opening of our city and
county, re-categorization to low-population status, or suggesting
other means necessary to give our citizens relief from these
mandates;
and
BE IT RESOLVED, the City will support upcoming legislation,
dependent upon its straightforward and unharmful wording,
which provides reparations to business owners who have had their
businesses and income taken without compensation;
and
BE IT RESOLVED, the City will support future statewide ballot
initiatives that limit the duration and extent of Governor’s
emergency powers, which may create similar lock-down scenarios
during future emergencies, natural disasters, and pandemics;
and
BE IT RESOLVED, the City will share this resolution with other
Oregon cities, counties, and media outlets in the hope those
entities will also speak more loudly;
and
BE IT RESOLVED the City recognizes the citizenry of Baker City are
free, sovereign individuals within a Constitutional, Representative
Republic, not subjects or slaves, and will be recognized as such as
we firmly stand to represent them.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Baker City, Oregon and
signed by the Mayor of Baker City, Oregon, this 23rd day of
March, 2021.
The Governor and her staff seemingly have refused to consider a Stanford study and dismissed suggestions from the CDC,
which states that “lock-downs should not be used as a primary method of
controlling this disease and stopping the spread.â€
Mayor McQuisten hopes that other cities will get in the fight against
arbitrary pandemic mitigation measures that have proven destructive.
--Donna Bleiler| Post Date: 2021-04-29 21:08:07 | Last Update: 2021-04-29 22:04:01 |
