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'Cuckoo's Nest' hospital to be torn down
By BRAD CAIN
Associated Press Writer



SALEM, Ore. (AP) _ So long, Cuckoo's Nest.

Oregon State Hospital, the mental institution where the 1975 movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was filmed, is making way for a new complex. Most of the dilapidated, 125-year-old main building will be torn down and replaced starting this fall.

Although mean Nurse Ratched was pure fiction, the Oregon State Hospital has struggled with some very real troubles over the years, including overcrowding, crumbling floors and ceilings, outbreaks of scabies and stomach flu, sexual abuse of children by staff members, and patient-on-patient assaults.

Politicians had been talking for years about the need to replace the hospital, but didn't get serious about it until a group of legislators made a grim discovery during a 2004 tour: the cremated remains of 3,600 mental patients in corroding copper canisters in a storage room. The lawmakers were stunned.

"Nobody said anything to anybody," said Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney, who dubbed the chamber "the room of lost souls."

The remains belonged to patients who died at the hospital from the late 1880s to the mid-1970s, when mental illness was considered so shameful that many patients were all but abandoned by their families in institutions.

"It just created such an emotional momentum" for replacing the hospital, said Courtney, who led the effort to build a new institution.

Although "Cuckoo's Nest" was filmed here, neither the movie nor the 1962 Ken Kesey novel on which it was based makes any specific references to Oregon State Hospital. Kesey drew on his experiences working at a veterans hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., and set his satirical story at an unnamed institution in Oregon.

Actor Michael Douglas, co-producer of the movie, scouted various West Coast locations and chose the Oregon institution because then-Superintendent Dean Brooks agreed to give the moviemakers unfettered access.

"They wanted to make it on location with real patients," said Brooks, now 91, who was given a speaking part as a weak-willed doctor who acquiesces to Nurse Ratched. Brooks said 89 patients were hired as extras.

Douglas, Jack Nicholson (who played the rebellious Randle Patrick McMurphy) and Louise Fletcher (Nurse Ratched) were regulars at the hospital during shooting.

Milos Forman, the director, lived for six weeks at the institution and had his actors study real patients, according to a 1975 account in Rolling Stone magazine. Nicholson became depressed because of what he saw, including electroshock being administered to a patient.

 

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For Off Air Monitoring: IMPORTANT!!!
the day you are on severe weather duty you are also responsible for monitoring off air.
*listen to the station when you are able to and make sure we are on the air with no problems.
*also if listeners hear problems they can call the office and when no one is there they can leave a voicemail reporting a signal problem and THAT MESSAGE is sent to the department cell phone.
here's how it works:
1. after the message has been left, a machine will call the department cell phone. it's an 866 number. ANSWER IT!
2. the machine will tell you that a message has been left for (and then my voice comes on and says) signal problems. then it says if that person is available then press 2...PRESS 2!
3. then it will ask you for a password. the password is 7444.
4. then you are in the voicemail system and you can follow the voice prompts to listen to the message.
5. write everything about the message down because Pam will need the info for the report.
6. once you hear what the problem is then determine if you can fix the problem or if you need to call an engineer and make the appropriate actions to get us back on the air.
If you need me to go over any of this with you then please get with me and i can explain it in more detail.
Thanks

 

Housekeeper finds Brooklyn couple dead in bed



NEW YORK (AP) _ A housekeeper has discovered a couple dead in their bed at their quaint Brooklyn home, bloody from head wounds.

Police say the bodies of 50-year-old Mark Schwartz and his 48-year-old wife, Christina-Maria Petrowski-Schwartz, were discovered at around noon Wednesday. The housekeeper called 911.

The couple were pronounced dead at the scene. The medical examiner is determining the causes of their deaths.

The couple lived in a single-family home in the Marine Park neighborhood, an area residents call "the suburbs in the city."

Police say the incident is under investigation.

 

I'd go out on a limb and say it's because of the bloody head wounds.



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Henry contributed 11 total points for the Rising Stars.

 

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FOIX, France (AP) — French police detained Spanish cyclist Moises Duenas Nevado on Wednesday after he tested positive for the banned blood booster EPO during the Tour de France.
Police detained Duenas Nevado, who rides for Barloworld and was 19th overall in the Tour, from a hotel in the town of Tarbes, where his team stayed. He remained in custody Wednesday for questioning, notably about where he may have obtained EPO, a police official said.
Claudio Mansata, a Barloworld spokesman, said Duenas Nevado has pulled out of the race and was immediately suspended by the team. The seven other team riders still in the race started Wednesday’s 11th stage.

 

Joe DiMaggio’s hitting streak of 56 games is stopped by Al Smith and Jim Bagby of the Indians before 67,000 at Cleveland.

 

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