PORTLAND, Ore. — Neka, the oldest member of the
Oregon Zoo’s African lion pride, had a seizure and
died Friday night at age 16.
Zoo officials stated that wild female lions rarely live
past 16 years old.
Neka with one of her cubs.
On September 30, 1822, Joseph Marion Hernández (1788-1857)
became the first Hispanic to be elected to the United States
Congress.
Born a Spanish citizen, Hernández would die in Cuba, but in
between he became the first Hispanic American to serve at
the highest levels of any of three branches of the American
federal government.
(by Tanvi Varma and KATU Staff)
PORTLAND, Ore. — A new class action lawsuit has been filed
in Multnomah County court on behalf of people experiencing homelessness.
The lawsuit, filed by attorneys at the Oregon Law Center, says
the camping ban, passed by Portland City Council earlier this
year, is illegal.
The camping ban, which hasn’t been enforced yet, would
restrict camping in public places between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
The plaintiffs in the case argue it unfairly targets homeless
people.
At 5:45 PM on September 30, 1955, 24-year-old actor James
Dean was killed in Cholame, California, when the Porsche
he is driving hits a Ford Tudor sedan at an intersection.
The driver of the other car, 23-year-old California Polytechnic
State University student Donald Turnupseed, was dazed but
mostly uninjured; Dean’s passenger, German mechanic Rolf
Wütherich was badly injured but survived.
Only one of Dean’s movies, “East of Eden,” had been released
at the time of his death (“Rebel Without a Cause” and “Giant”
opened shortly afterward), but he was already on his way to superstardom—and the crash made him a legend.
James Dean loved racing cars, and in fact he and his brand-
new, $7000 Porsche Spyder convertible were on their way
to a race in Salinas, 90 miles south of San Francisco.
Gene Autry, perhaps the greatest singing cowboy of all time,
was born on September 29, 1907, in Tioga, Texas.
While still a boy, Autry moved with his family to a ranch in
Oklahoma where he learned to play the guitar and sing.
The young Autry was quickly attracted to a new style of music
that was becoming popular at the time, which combined the
traditional cowboy music popular in Texas and Oklahoma and
the folk songs, ballads, and hymns of southern-style country
music. Known as country-western.
