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MUSIC
Nostalgia on vinyl
Longview part of nationwide trend toward old-fashioned records
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Feds OK
flushing
at lake
Agency compromises on smelt
restrictions that could have left
Sacajawea stinky and gross
Brooks Johnson
bjohnson@tdn.com
Bill Wagner, The Daily News
To accommodate a growing demand in vinyl records, Jeff Whitted and Tiffanee Jones are remodeling their Longview store.
Marissa Luck
mluck@tdn.com
T
he Blue Album: that
quintessential sample
of The Beatles hits, from
the ballad of “Hey Jude” to
the contemplative “Strawberry Fields”, formed the
soundtrack to Longview native’s Phil Groh’s childhood.
“When I was a kid, I had
brother who’s four years
older than me, and my mom
would order through Columbia House,” said Groh,
45. “We each had Beatles
albums, I had the Blue and
he had the Red one, and the
Kiss double.”
Groh never stopped listen-
percent jump in sales compared with 2013.
And the vinyl trend is
Record Store Day started in 2008, as a way to draw attention to
starting to catch on locally.
nearly 1,400 independent record stores nationwide. Hundreds of new
“We’re anticipating a 50
titles will be released exclusively on Record Store Day, from artists such
percent
increase in sales of
as Metallica, Foo Fighters, Joan Jet, Mumford and Sons and The White
vinyls”
based
on current
Stripes.
trends, said Jeff Whitted,
This year Square Dog Books, Movies, Music in Longview will be hostowner of Square Dog Books,
ing a Record Store Day event on April 18.
Movies, Music at 1142 Washington Way in Longview.
“We’re going take our music
Groh is part of small-buting to vinyl records. He said
growing niche of music lovers department, which is our
you can hear more detail on
pushing sales of vinyl records biggest area of sales, and
vinyl compared with digital
to the highest levels in two de- split it so it’s half vinyl.”
music. But now he doesn’t
Whitted said his store has
cades. In 2014, 9.2 million new
have to rely exclusively on
thrift shops or garage sales to vinyl recordings were sold, the invested $15,000 in expandget his fix, because more re- highest number since Sound- ing its inventory from 1,200
cord companies are releasing Scan started tracking sales in
freshly made classic and new 1991, the Wallstreet Journal
reported. Last year saw a 52
hits every year on vinyl.
Vinyl / A4
Saturday is ‘Record Store Day’
Good news for people with
keen noses — the flushing of Lake
Sacajawea will go on.
Federal fish and wildlife officials
have backed off proposed requirements that could have shut down lake
flushing in the name of protecting
smelt in the Cowlitz River.
Without the ability to pump fresh
river water into the lake, algae blooms
and other unwelcome microbes cause
the lake to stink.
“This is fabulous news from my
perspective,” Public Works Director
Jeff Cameron said at a City Council
workshop Thursday night. “There
are no limits to us pumping this year
or next.”
The National Marine Fisheries Service had proposed closing lake flushing at the Fisher’s Lane water intake
should even one smelt egg or larvae be
“taken” by pumping during May and
June — when lake flushing normally
begins and when smelt larvae are
present in the river.
The proposed rule came in response
to a city application for a permit to
clear the intake of silt and to construct a new, more efficient intake in
the future.
Getting permits with the heavy
smelt protections would have been
risky, as flushing could have been
shut off at any point should a smelt
show up in the intake in May or June.
Foregoing the permits would have
led to silt completely clogging the intake, also shutting down flushing.
At a meeting with the fisheries
service earlier this month, a compromise much more favorable to the city
was found.
“I was amazed how accommodating they were that day. They totally
flip-flopped,” Mayor Don Jensen said.
Flushing / A4
Woman says her father is the State Auditor indicted
mystery rescuer from 1948 on charges of tax fraud
Gov. Inslee calls on
Troy Kelley to resign
Casey Parks
wig, were both adventurous
types. Spring begged her father
The Oregonian
to walk down into Vanport with
her to see what had happened.
PORTLAND — To the world,
“Dad and I went down to the
he was the mystery man in white
shirt and fedora, an unknown Sa- edge of the water,” Spring said.
“Then he saw that little boy. He
maritan carrying a boy through
said, ‘Here, babe, hold my coat,’
the Vanport flood.
and he just went right in. He saw
Lorraine Spring just called
the emergency.”
him dad.
Woods was 5 then and sure
Spring said this week that her
he wasn’t going to make it to 6.
father rescued Earl Woods in
He’d been trying to swim out of
1948 after the Columbia River
Vanport, but the Columbia River
flooded Oregon’s second-largwater was too much, he told The
est city.
Oregonian last week.
Spring, now 82 and living in
“I was done in,” Woods said.
Kalama, was 14 the afternoon of
“I didn’t believe I had any more
May 30, 1948. She and her famstrength. I think it was the
ily were driving home to Vanadrenaline then going into the
couver after attending church
cold water. I was pretty dogin Portland.
“When we got to Kenton, there gone tired.”
Spring said she watched from
were hundreds of people walking
up the road toward us, crying,”
Spring remembered.
She and her father, Roy LudRescue / A4
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Allan deLay, The Oregonian
For 70 years, Earl Woods, the boy
being rescued from the 1948
Vanport flood on the Columbia
River, wondered who was the man
in the fedora saving him in this
Oregonian photo? He recently
learned it was Roy Ludwig,
the father of Kalama resident
Lorraine Spring.
SPORTS
Prarie ends
Kelso’s
unbeaten
streak / C1
ley mostly read from a written
statement, then ducked out a
back door while his attorneys
answered questions.
“I never,
Jordan Schrader and
ever thought I
Melissa Santos
was breaking
The News Tribune
the law, and I
still do not to
Washington State Auditor
this day,” KelTroy Kelley kept stolen money,
ley said durlied under oath and evaded
ing his brief
taxes, a federal grand jury
appearance.
has charged.
Kelley said
The grand jury in Seattle
he plans to
charged the 50-year-old firstterm auditor and Tacoma Demo- take a leave
Troy Kelley
of absence
crat with 10 counts of criminal
‘I did not break
activity Wednesday in an indict- starting May the law.’
1, but expects
ment made public Thursday.
On Thursday afternoon, Kelley to prove his
innocence and return to work.
pleaded not guilty to all chargBut prominent Democrats
es at his arraignment at U.S.
quickly abandoned Kelley.
District Court in Tacoma, and
Within minutes of the federal
was released without having to
post bail.
Appearing before reporters
after his arraignment, KelKelley / A4
WORLD
Al-Qaida
making big
move in
Yemen / A2
BUSINESS
Oregon
prospector
calls off
armed
supporters
/ A6