Brown & Haley candy magnate is dead at 92
Published 9:00 pm Wednesday, April 6, 2005
TACOMA – Fred Haley, a savvy businessman who helped open international markets to Brown &Haley’s signature Almond Roca candy and became a stalwart champion of civil rights, has died.
The Tacoma native was 92 when he died at his home on Monday.
After serving in the Navy in World War II, Haley returned home to assume the presidency of Brown &Haley, succeeding his father, J.C. Haley, one of the candy company’s co-founders, in 1954.
Haley quickly immersed himself in local causes. The same year he started running the company, he won a seat on the Tacoma School Board, where he fought for desegregation and the hiring of minority teachers.
In 1985, the American Civil Liberties Union gave Haley its William O. Douglas Award for his work fighting for civil liberties.
Associated Press
Vancouver, Wash.: Two men commit suicide
The bodies of two men who are believed to have committed suicide were found Tuesday, one at the Marine Park boat launch and the other at Waterfront Park. It was not known immediately whether the two knew each other. A city employee found the first body floating in shallow water near a boat launch, Richard F. Wanzenried, 61, is believed to have drowned in a suicide, the investigator said. A note intended for a family member was found on Wanzenried’s body. Another man, believed to have died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, was found about 1 p.m. in a car parked in the same area. He, too, was 61 and a Vancouver resident, and was found with a suicide note, the investigator said.
The Columbian
Mount St. Helens: Quakes get stronger
Bigger than normal earthquakes have been shaking things up in Mount St. Helens’ crater since Sunday night, but fog and rain have kept scientists from seeing just what’s going on. Scientists think the quakes are related to the erupting lava dome inside the volcano, said U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Seth Moran. “One possibility is that the earthquakes are occurring in the dome right now” as it pushes against the volcano’s crater wall, Moran said Tuesday. Another possible cause of the quakes could be clogs in the “straw” up to the lava dome that break loose, Moran said. About a half-dozen quakes have had magnitude 3 or greater since Sunday.
The Daily News
Moxee: Drought shuts off irrigation water
An irrigation district that serves about 1,400 farmers in the Yakima Valley shut off the water supply Wednesday for what is believed to be the first time ever in April, yet another sign of the region’s severe drought. The shutdown marked the earliest date the 72,000-acre Roza Irrigation District has interrupted water for irrigators. District board members hope to have the water running through canals again in three weeks.
Associated Press
Idaho: Boise police say stripping isn’t art
Art night at Erotic City apparently wasn’t artistic enough. Police raided the Boise bar Monday night for violating the city’s nudity ordinance, which requires that dancers wear at least pasties and a thong unless they are engaging in a performance with “serious artistic merit.” The club had tried to beat the ordinance by distributing pencils and sketch pads to patrons during special twice-weekly “art nights,” when dancers performed nude.
Associated Press
