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Guard fires shot to cool inmates By DICK COCKLE
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A tower guard fired his rifle in tne air Thursday night to scatter about 20 to 30 Washington State Penitentiary inmates threatening two other correctional officers. Prison officials said no one was injured in the 6:40 p.m. incident, the second of its kind this month. The shot was fired after the guards attempted to search the inmate in the telephone room in the maximum-custody compound's "Big Red" dormitory, ac-
cording to A.J. Murphy, prison information officer. "He turned and ran down the stairs, and the two officers chased him down to People's Park," a grassy area beside the chapel, Murphy said. They tackled the inmate and were handcuffing him when 20 to 30 other prisoners, responding to the inmate's cries for help, converged on them, he said. That prompted tower guard Frank Marietta to fire a warning shot from his .30caliber rifle, and the crowd dispersed, he said.
calendar Tonight's events
Golden Agers, 8 p.m., Washington Community Bldg. Trails West, 8:45 p.m., Fort Walla Walla Amphitheater.
Baha'i Faith fireside, 7:30 p.m., 532 S. Sixth Ave. Trails West, 8:45 p.m., Fort Walla Walla Amphitheater. Sunday's events
Fort Walla Walla Museum Saturday's events Complex, 1 to 5 p.m., Fort Fort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Park. Complex, 1 to 5 p.m., Fort Trails West, 8:45 p.m., Fort Walla Walla Amphitheater. Walla Walla Park.
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W.Wilkins, Moses Lake. Discharged: Rhonda J. Buck, Allen C. Casey, Jessica Patients Freel, Mary K. Herres, Claire (Thursday) G. Martin, Jason Ponti, Mrs. Walla Walla Bernard Sutliff, all of Walla General Hospital Walla; Mrs. J. W. McConnell, Admitted: Mary McNall, Dayton; Mrs. Joe Hall, Union, College Place; Suzanne Ore.; Mrs. Harvey Stevens, Niemeyer, Alma Dell Flisram, Missoula, Mont. both of Walla Walla; John Sullivan, Milton-Free water; Dayton Pamela Ongers, Prescott. General Hospital Discharged: Geneva Dill, Robert Hazel Morgan, both of Walla A d m i t t e d : Walla; Mary L. Kerns, Nicholson, Dayton; Richard Katherine Northrup, both of Long, Hazel Brown, both of Milton-Freewater; Nellie Waitsburg. Discharged: Louis Heinrich, Dees, Ellensburg. Dayton. St. Mary Community Hospital Garfield County Admitted: Mrs. Stanley Ball, Dorsey Cole, Mrs. Memorial Hospital Charles Dillon, Jeannie Anderson, all of Walla Walla; Admitted: Alice Yochum, Mrs. Larry Wright, Milton- Emory Dye, Peggy Herres, all Freewater; Mrs. Frank of Pomeroy. McKinney, Prescott; Mason Discharged: Jerry Alwes, E. Folsom, Hermiston; Scott Pcmerov.
A subsequent search of the inmate uncovered about 23 Darvon tablets. Darvon is a muscle relaxant often used as a pain killer, prison officials said. The inmate, 39, was serving a life sentence as a habitual offender in the rake of a 1968 Snohomish County conviction for violating the controlled substances act, a spokesman said. He was placed in a segregation unit. Walla Walla police said no charges had been filed this morning. On Aug. 9 a tower guard fired a shotgun in
the air to disperse a crowd of inmates converging on a guard who was searching another inmate for drugs. In that incident, a quantity of suspected heroin and cocaine was found. That inmate, too, was placed in a segregation unit. This month's incidents marked the first time shots were fired to scatter inmates since a December, 1974 riot at the prison. Guards fired in the air at that time to disperse inmates picking up narcotics thrown out of a window at the prison hospital, after three prisoners succeeded in capturing part of the hospital.
Participants in certain Walla Walla Community College professional workshops and occupational courses have gained an option in how their records are kept. In a meeting Thursday, WWCC trustees approved institution of a Continuing Education Credit which may serve as certification of participation in a course or workshop. The credit could be accepted in place of a formal transcript record, which usually costs a student $5 for copies. Certificates of completion of the course would be issued instead, according to Donn Adams, WWCC director of continuing education who proposed the alternative. Adams said many professionals who take WWCC courses as part of licensing requirements prefer not to have the workshops or graded courses added to their academic records. Many workshops don't fit into the transfer-transcript formula, but participants still have to show their employers or licensing boards records of their study. These include such fields as nursing, real estate, emergency medical training and fire-department training, Adams said. Course and workshop offerings would remain the same, he
Football gives lift to Pomeroy donations
Two men held up the desk clerk of the Black Angus Motor Inn early today to take more than 1400 from the cash register. According to Walla Walla police, one of the two men brandished a short-barreled pistol during the robbery at 3:05 a.m. The clerk, John Griffiths, was locked in the office, after being ordered *o turn over mopey to the two men, police said. "They ordered me not to make a move for 10 minutes," Griffiths said. It was more than!5 minutes before he was able to get out of the office following the departure of the robbers, police said. Police said the two men were wearing casual street clothes and were about 25 to 30 years old. Police said total loss in the robbery was $418.70.
Changes mark fair including extra day By BARB REYNOLDS Of the Union Bulletin
Some posters for the Southeastern Washington Fair and Frontier Days may say Sept. 1-5, but don't let that fool you. The horses will be running again Sept. 6. While the rest of the festival will fold Sunday, the race track will be open Monday for bettors who couldn't get enough in five days last year. "We had a 33-per-cent increase in the mutuel handle last year, so we convinced the state racing commission to let us go another day this year," says fair manager Frank O'Leary. If the fair's flavor isn't horsey enough already, the Washington State Horseshoe Pitching Association will make its debut here with a championship on 24 courts now in the last stages of construction near the east end of the pavilion. The park surrounding the pitching courts is also new, said O'Leary. Picnic tables will be up during the fair and barbecue pits will be added later, he says. A new surprise for the fair exhibitors will be a cattle washer, also under construction. "Our cattle-washing facilities have been inadequate up to now, and it's cost us some points when the state fair commission grades us," O'Leary says. Points, in the fair commission's evaluation, determine the amount of money a fair will get from the state, O'Leary says. says. The state provided more than $35,000 to the Southeastern Washington Fair last year. Two new parking lots will be opened this
year, O'Leary says. The fairgrounds infield will be opened for public parking after the horse races Thursday through Sunday, and exhibitors will have their own lot on the corner of Orchard Street and Ninth Avenue, he says. Country-western singer Tanya Tucker will open the fair with a concert Wednesday night, which will include the coronation of the fair queen, Joanne Buckley. Thursday is Kids Day, with a 25-cent admission for children under 15 until 5 p.m. Afternoon activities for children will include a wild calf chase, haystack money scramble and play day. Free ice cream will be served. Thursday evening's feature will be a demolition derby. Evening activities will pick up Friday with the first rodeo of the weekend. Not to be overshadowed are a Wa-Hi Band Concert and Thunderbirds Baton and Drum Corps show earlier in the evening. The three events will have the same schedule Saturday and Sunday evenings. The horseshoe pitching championship will be Saturday and Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. The Frontier Days Parade will be 10 a.m. Saturday on a route through the downtown district. Opening day for the fairgrounds will be four days later than planned, O'Leary says, because weather has inhibited painting and concrete pouring, and there has been a shortage of workers. The grounds will be open Tuesday, one week and one day before the fair opens. Barring rain, says O'Leary. "We need the weather to clear off," he says.
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WWCC approves credit-keeping alternative By GLEN GIBBONS Jr O* the Unioo Bulletin
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said. Satisfactory completion of the various programs would be based on meeting minimal criteria agreed on by the student before taking the course or workshop. No changes in the content or financing of the workshops and courses is involved in the new system. Also at the meeting, the trustees decided not to pay themselves a $25-per-day salary for attending regular board meetings. Although legally entitled to the remuneration, board members agreed that they should serve without pay. Board members will still be able to claim compensation for mileage and other expenses involved in attending regular or special meetings. Trustees also voted to sign a "hold-harmless" agreement with the city in a legal dispute over the coverage of an environmental-impact statement. The city had refused to approve further construction of new WWCC-campus buildings unless a new statement was prepared applying specifically to the additional faculties. However, under the "hold-harmless" agreement the college will assume any liability that the city might incur in case the environmental-impact statement is successfully challenged as inadequately covering the additional construction.
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Two WWCC students were introduced to the board as recipients of $500 scholarships from the Crown Zellerbach Foundation. They were Lynn Montgomery, 615^ E. Rose St. No. 1-W, a third-year nursing student, and Dan Beebe, 426 Lincoln St., a liberal-arts major in the school's academic-transfer program. In other business the board: — Learned that the college's new campus was featured in an article in the June issue of Interiors magazine, a monthly publication for interior designers. — Approved a 1976-77 fee schedule. The tuition portion is set by the state, while laboratory and other use fees are established by the college. — Granted a one-year leave of absence for George Fuhr, an English instructor, to complete a doctorate program at Washington State University. Dixie Cross, a part-time instructor at WWCC, was hired to replace him— Employed Ray Barnes as a full-time instructor in agricultural mechanics and Shirley Fulbright as a nursing instructor at the Clarkston campus. — Learned that the State Board for Community College Education would meet in Walla Walla Oct. 20. —Set 4 p.m. Sept. 16 for its own next regular meeting.
WWCC budget up 7.7 per cent
Education at Walla Walla Community College will be a $3,499,299 business next year. POMEROY — Rearranging rehiredf the district's high That was the figure for a final 1976-77 budget approved by spending priorities has school ootball coaches, Don WWCC trustees Thursday. brought a surge of voluntary McGee and Bob Kirk. The total cost represents a 7.7 per cent increase from last donations for Pomeroy School Student-body-activity cards year's expenses of $3,248,673. will be issued at the same price District. As usual, salaries and benefits garnered the bulk of the Pomeroy School Board as last year: $20 for adults and budgeted expenditures: $2,684,714, or 76.72 per cent of total members Thursday approved $9 for students. costs. the new list of priorities Football replaced an adSalaries and benefits will cost the school 11.69 per cent recommended by the Save Our ditional position for a grade more than during 1975-76. Schools (SOS) Committee, school teacher, which may no Operations costs are down 3.7 per cent to$814,585. which advanced varsity and longer be needed due to lower Financial support will come primarily from state sources junior-varsity football from fif- enrollment. with $2,963,533 or 85 per cent of revenues. The new priority list is as th to fourth position. Grants and contracts and local revenue, including tuition Contributions rose from the follows: sixth-grade teacher, and fees, will contribute the other 15 per cent, $535,766. $35.000 lev-el early in the week music teacher, elimination of The tightest budgetary pinch will come in expenditures for to more than £43.000 as of fourth-fifth-grade combination supplies and travel costs in the instructional budget toda;.. according to SOS Com- room, football, high school Travel was cut $14,818 from last year; supplies and mittee Cocbairman Richard study hall, Future Farmers of materials, $25,667. Waldher. America and F u t u r e Waldher expressed growing Homemakers of America, all AetaaOv Mg<*4 confidence that the group's other athletics, elimination of mot TV* n-n goal of $57.030 to replace items another combination room, SM7.447 4- JB.1S2 cut from an "austerity Spanish teacher, art teacher. Personal-service tracts budget" following special-tax- Money raised so far is suf- Svppttes and materials . nan . . 7JK .7.7H 4 IS levy fai'ures would be ficient to fund the priorities Travel Equipment . i,n - i.ia through the high school study Benefits reached 32.182 - ],23t The school board aJso hall, Waldher said. Total ^jf vcian) XJJM BUM -t «7.«5
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1 bus-crash victim remains in hospital Only one victim of the Aug. 8 wreck of a College Place senior citizen tour bus remained today in a Canadian hospital. Winona Wagner, 64, of College Place was in Southern Okanagan General Hospital, Oliver, B.C., seven miles from where the bus overturned with 45 persons aboard. "It is our understanding that she will be discharged in about another week. Her condition is good," said hospital administrator Laird Fawcett. Dr. and Mrs. Wells Carey of College Place were discharged Thursday from Kelowna Hospital, Kelowna, B.C. The Careys, both in their 60s, had suffered back injuries when the tour bus overturned on a wet roadway.
2 fires cause fittte damage Walla Walla Fire District 4 and the Walla Walla Fire Department responded Thursday afternoon to a stubble fire in a field adjoining the Plaza Shopping Center, Plaza Way. There was no damage. A District 4 spokesman said the fire, which originated in cheatgrass at the edge of the field, was possibly caused by a passing motorist The city department also responded at 4 p.m. to a minor fire which started in an old chair leaning against the Little Theatre building, 1130 E. Sumach St. Cause of the fire is under investigation, a department spokesman said.
Autopsy says brothers drowned Two Milton-Freewater brothers found dead at Fishhook Park on the Snake River died from drowning, according to an autopsy report. "There weren't any unnatural causes," said Walla Walla County Coroner Henry Liebmann. Jose Enriques, 20, and his brother, Francisco, 16, both Route 2, died July 24. Liebmann said that one brother was apparently trying to rescue the other when both went under.
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Sometimes federally created jobs have such narrow qualifications they are hard to fill. The Walla Walla Senior Citizen Center is still searching for any applicant whose income Calls below $1800 annually. Or below $3,700 for a two-person household. The center most find two qualified seniors by Monday or lose the federal money. Duties of the part-time jobs could range from doing chores for disabled seniors to assisting in the schools.
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Victims tried to avoid fatal crash, troopers say have been released. The Washington State Patrol is still The victims of a three-car crash east investigating the crash on the business of Walla Walla Tuesday apparently route of tLS. Highway 12. tried to avoid the smasbup, according Troopers reported a station wagon to the Washington State Patrol. driven by Charles L. Hathaway, 19, of Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Sinclair, 1044 BeUingham, Wash., crossed over the Bonnie Brae St., and a passenger in highway's centertine. their car, Steven R. Nelson, 21, of It struck Sinclair's vehicle, also a Spokane, died of injuries they suffered station wagon, and forced it into a car that had been traveling behind Sinclair, in the 8:45 p m. accident. Five persons remained hospitalized troopers said. today, three others who were injured That car was driven by Marlene K. By JO MORE LAND
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Franklin, 29,30 E. Birch St. Sgt. Pete O'Laughlin, commander of the Walla WaDa patrol detachment investigating the crash, said today witnesses have said the Sinclair and Franklin cars were stopped or almost halted. "Sinclair had moved to the side of the road and was almost stopped, according to a witness," O'Laughlin said. The patrol is making speed tests to determine how fast Hathaway's car was going at impact
Witnesses have told troopers it was traveling at high speed. O'Laughlin said the results of blood tests and other materials sent to a Spokane laboratory won't be available for at least a week. No charges have been ffled in the case. Hathaway's condition at Walla Walla Genera] Hospital has deteriorated from serious to critical, a hospital spokesman said today. He said both Hathaway and a
passenger in his car, Rick McBae, 16, of Ellensburg, Wash., are now in the hospital's intensive care unit McRae was moved there Thursday following sorgery. A passenger in Sinclair's anto, John R. Corneous, 22, of Yatona, remains in critical condition at St Mary Community Hospital. Another Sinclair passenger, Carla Grisby, 11, daughter of Jnantta Grisby, 433 S. Eighth Ave., is listed in satisfactory condition at St. Mary.
Pam A. Massey, 16, f71 Hobson St, who was in Hathaway's car, is also in satisfactory condition at St. Mary. Mrs. Franklin and two passengers in her car, Rebecca Pofcmeni, 30, also of 30 E. Birch St, and Mike W. Skecter, II, 6M Portland Ave., were released from General after being treated. Nelson and Cornelius were accompanying the Sindain to Camp Kiwanis, where the Grisby girl vas to join her Camp Fire Girte mfc, according to a family friend. iWSPAPERI