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Monday, September 20,1976
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Turkish air crash kills 155
WW voters to narrow field in primary vote Walla Walla County voters go to the primary-election polls Tuesday to nominate finalists in state and local races for the Nov. 2 general election. Final winners will be chosen in some races. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., and locations are listed today on page 9. Voters will narrow a field of nine running for governor to two party nominees, who will face each other in the general election. Leading Republican contenders are King County Executive John Spellman and King County Assessor Harley Hoppe. Strongest bidders for the Democratic nomination are: former Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Dixy Lee Ray; Seattle Mayor Wes Uhlman; and Seattle attorney Marvin Owning. In another crowded race, three Democrats are fighting Insurance Commissioner Karl Herrmann's bid for the Democratic nomination. Three Republicans seek party nomination. Local races drawing attention are for a Walla Walla County Superior Court judgeship and two Republican races for nomination to the Walla Walla County commission. Madison Jones is challenging Judge James Mitchell for the court position, which will be decided Tuesday. Commissioner James Stonecipher faces a challenge by Harmon Johnson for the Republican nomination to district 2's commission seat. Democrat Lee Mantz Jr. of Waitsburg will take on the winner in November. In the district 1 commission race, Felix Fletcher is opposing Arlo James for the GOP nomination, with the winner facing Commissioner Eugene Kelly Nov. 2.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Rescue workers set to the grim task today of separating the remains of 155 bodies from the wreckage of a Turkish jetliner that crashed and burned on a mountainside in central Turkey Sunday night Police said there were no survivors among the 147 passengers and eight crew members on board. Police and airline sources said the passengers included 85 Italians and 18 West Germans bound for vacations on the southwest coast of Turkey and 22 Turks. The nationalities of the other passengers were not known yet The Turkish airline at first reported there were six crew members aboard. Later it said there were seven, and today it announced there were eight The wreckage of the three-jet Boeing 727 and the bodies were spread over a large area, local police said. "Unfortunately, bodies are torn into pieces and identification is difficult," said the police chief of Isparta, a town near the crash site. The plane crashed into the mountain at an altitude of 3,700 feet But Turkey's communications minister said the plane might have exploded in the air. Persons in Isparta, seven miles away, said they heard a loud explosion. "First I saw a flaming red cloud, then I heard a deafening explosion," reported one person in the town. The jetliner was flying from Milan to Antalya, a Mediterranean resort on the southwest coast. It made stops en route in Rome and Istanbul and crashed about 75 miles short of its destination. The burning wreckage caused a fire in the wooded area that kept rescue workers from reaching the wreckage for two hours. The crash was the worst to occur inside Turkey's borders, but a Turkish airliner was also involved in the worst crash in aviation history. It was a DC10 that crashed near Paris in March 1974, killing all 346 persons on board.
Commission races are by district. District 1 covers greater Walla Walla and district 2 covers the WaitsburgPrescott area. Voters may decide the outcome of two state races involving Walla Walla candidates on Tuesday. Prosecutor Art Eggers is in a three-way race for Washington Supreme Court. He faces incumbent James Dolliver and James Dore, a former state senator. School administrator Philipp Scott is among three seeking the post of Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction. Opponents are incumbent Frank "Buster" Brouillet and Jim Moore, a'Seattle teacher defeated by Brouillet in 1972. If one candidate gets more than 50 per cent of the vote Tuesday, he is declared the winner. Some other races are unopposed. For example, Sheriff Ron Kespohl, a Democrat, is the single contender for his post after Republican C. A. "Chuck" Gunzel withdrew. It was too late to remove Gunzel's name from the ballot. It was also too late to remove the name of congressional candidate Chuck Kimball, a Republican who died in a plane crash. Democratic U.S. Rep. Tom Foley is temporarily unopposed for the Fifth Congressional District post, which covers most of Eastern Washington. GOP leaders expect to name a GOP opponent to Foley in the general election. Two measures on the ballot would create a Borleske Park and Recreation District and a five-member board of directors. If a simple majority approves, a bond issue to finance a new Borleske Stadium will probably be placed on the November ballot.
Starbuck man dies in crash Sunday morning
Carter stands firm on revising tax code WASHINGTON (AP) - Jimmy Carter's views on tax reform are being assailed by Republicans and loom as a potential- centerpiece of his debate Thursday with President Ford. Carter discussed tax revisions in an interview with The Associated Press released Saturday. In a fresh statement of his intent Sunday, he said the purpose of tax reform should be to shift the burden to those with higher incomes and away from poor-and middleincome families. Republicans, particularly vice presidential nominee Sen. Robert Dole, immediately asserted that Carter means to increase taxes for anyone making more than $12,000 to $14,000 a year, and termed his original statement a major campaign blunder. But Carter replied Sunday that "the interpretation of what I said by Mr. Ford and Mr. Dole and the Republican spokesmen is certainly completely distorted." He said he had no quarrel with the AP accounts of his statements. They "are very accurate," he said. Waving a four-volume copy of toe UJ5. tax code, Carter promised a St Louis audience that as president "I'm not going to add a tax burden on working families and the medium income categories, $15,000 income." The tax controversy arose from Carter's responses, as follows, after he was asked at the AP interview what he meant when be said he would shift the tax burden. A. That means people who have a hiKher income would pay more taxes at
a certain level Q. In dollar figures, what are you thinking of as higher? A. I don't know. I would take the mean or median level of income and anything above that would be higher and anything below that would be lower. Q. The median family income today is somewhere around $12,000. Somebody earning $15,000 a year is not what people commonly think of as rich.... A. I understand. I can't answer that question because I haven't gone into it I don't know how to write the tax code now in specific terms. It is just not possible to do that on a campaign trail.... Carter said the aim of his program would not be to either raise or lower government revenues over-all. "The over-all effect would be to shift a substantial increase towards those who have the higher incomes and reduce the income (tax) on the lower and middle income taxpayers," Carter said. In a partial transcript of the interview, transmitted on AP wires Saturday for use in Monday afternoon newspapers, the words "and middle income" were dropped because of a transcribing error. After the controversy arose, a tape recording of the interview was reviewed and the omission was corrected. (Related stories, pages 10,17)
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Prison's 'Hell's Half Acre' blooms under inmate's care By DICK COCKLE
Andy McLean looks out over what he calls "Hell's Half Acre" and smiles. "Hell's Half Acre" is a 50-foot-wide no-mans-land lying between the walls of the Washington State Penitentiary and the fenced compound inside where convicts are permitted to walk. Until inmate McLean, 54, took it on three months ago, the 750-yard-long lawn beneath the gun towers was a place of patchy grass and a few ragged hedges. He has transformed the lawn into a verdant green, and given it color by transplanting 10,000 marigolds from the prison nursery into edgings and clumps. McLean and two inmate helpers also painted the fire hydrants on the lawn and got permission to give the prison's rock walls their first coat of whitewash in at least 16 years, prison officials say. "When I first came here we didn't have nothing out here. It was dead." McLean says. "I named the front lawn 'Hell's Half Acre.' I used to get so mad at this place when I started." McLean has encountered problems most gardeners never have. One is cave-ins. "There's 10,000 tunnels if there's one in this institution," says corrections Capt D.L. Griffin. "If you water out here too long, you're liable to have a cave-in. It happens all the time." The tunnels aren't old convict escape holes, but were built for steam and water pipes, he says. " About two years ago. a guy pulled in here right behind Eight Wing in a truck, and all of a sudden he disappeared "'
The truck had to be hoisted out of a four-and-a-half-foot-deep hole with a crane, according to Griffin. McLean had a similar thing happen to him while gardening. ' 'I was walking around in the back out there and fell in up to here," he says grabbing his belt "My partner thought I was gone." But his main problem has been getting gardening tools cleared through prison custody officials. Griffin says practically everything McLean needs to take care of his garden is a potential weapon. Gasoline from the power lawnmpwer and the nitrogen-phosphate fertilizer for the lawns have the potential to be made into bombs. And the hand clippers McLean uses to trim hedges could be transformed into knives. They are lowered to the inmate by rope from one of the towers when he needs them, and returned the same way. Finding convict helpers has also been difficult McLean claims. "It's hard to get the guys to work. We've get 1,566 men in here. When you ask somebody to work, they look at you like you're nuts." A convicted forger, McLean came to the penitentiary the first time in 1952. He returned to the institution for parole violation 11 months ago. During his last stay four years ago. he took a course in landscaping and nursery work at the prison college. Three \ears before that he planted some of the hedges bordering "Hell's Half Acre" "1 just like outside work I like flowers." he savs. "I like to beautify- a
'It's hard to get the guys to work. We've got 1,566 men in here. When you ask somebody to work, they look at ypu like you're nuts.' — Andy McLean, Inmate with green thumb
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Forecast for Walla Walla Valley: Fair tonight: mostly suny Tuesday: lows tonight 45 to 55; high Tuesday » to 85; winds variable to 19 m.p.h.: chance for rain less than 10 per cent through Tuesday. Extended outlook Wednesday through Frida>. Continued dry and mild: highs in the 80s: lows in the Ws and 58s. (Weatber report page 91
Seattle schools may start Wednesday
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STARBUCK - A Starbuck resident died Sunday morning and another remains hospitalized following a singlecar accident near here early Sunday morning. Russell L. Tobias, 19,301 Pataha St. Starbuck, died at Dayton General Hospital about three hours after the 1:15 a.m. accident, according to the Washington State Patrol. A passenger. Henry R. Snow, 22, of Starbuck, remains in satisfactory condition this morning, according to a hospital spokesman. He suffered a shoulder injury along with lacerations and abrasions. According to the patrol spokesman, the Tobias vehicle was northbound on the Kellogg Road about one-half mile south of Starbuck when it ran off the roadway and rolled. Tobias was thrown from the vehicle. The death was the fifth traffic fatality in Columbia County in 1976.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP> - Seattle's 62.000 school children will return to their classrooms Wednesday — two weeks behind schedule — if striking teachers ratify a tentative contract agreement hammered otrt in nonstop weekend negotiations. Both Seattle Teachers Association officials and representatives of the ScatHe School Board praised the proposed one-jear pact after reaching agreeme-t early today. Teacher
ratification meetings will be called later today and Tuesday, said Pete Newschwander. STA president Teachers and administrators are scheduled to return to the schools Tuesda) for a teacher preparation day with pupils joining them on Wednesday for the year's first day of stnke-free school Gov Dan Evans and state Supt d Public Instructor, Frank Broaillet participated ir the weekend negotiations
"We're ver> pleased." said Newschwander. who declined to outline specifics of the proposed contract before teachers haie a chance to w<e on it "All of the major items, such as layoft recall and rehmng of staff, union secunt} and amnestj for strikers, have been settled." he said We're all arunous to begin work " We feel it's great" Seatlie School Supt DaxTd Moberh said :>f the contract We've won a contract far the
kids of Seattle We're bok-ne forward V' working together to make sure this contract reflects on classroom instruction in the cm Am labor dispute v.as some nffca'v.-. e effect an the publ:c," Moberly added, and we're conctrned about that We'r? i>th school officials and teachers -iedcated ; reou.kiing that confidence