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DAILY NEWS Port Angelas, Thursday, June 9, 1977 I i I Geography, Canadians cause problems in hamlet POINT ROBERTS, Wash. (AP) This small United States border community 18 miles south of Vancouver is a place where Canadians do what they want with virtually no fear of arrest, says Deputy Sheriff Don Rakestraw. Rakestraw said drunken motorists rule the road, smuggling is openly condoned and a good time is measured in terms of beer consumed or garbage left behind. "I don't know why they act like they do down here," Rakestraw said in a recent interview. "Canadians think they are above the law down here and can do anything they want." Deputies Rakestraw, 34, and Dustin Hurlbut, 28, have a difficult job controlling as many as 3,000 fun- seeking Canadian visitors attracted every weekend to this peninsula landlocked by British Columbia.

Many are drawn by the cheap Washington beer and Sunday openings at liquor outlets featuring live music. Rakestraw said he fears hundreds of persons would be killed if a major fire should break out in one large local tavern. He has seen three fights break out at once in the crowded development and it is common to have six fights there every Sunday, he says. Harry Johnson, owner of the Breakers tavern, said that half of his Canadian customers come to enjoy the experience of visiting another country and the rest come for cheap entertainment. Rakestraw said that at a local beach which joins another in British Columbia, as many as 1,000 persons enter the United States illegally every Sunday and there is little the undermanned police force can do about it.

"People walk back and forth buying beer and drinking on the beach," he said. The deputies say they do not have time to handle anything but the most serious offenses. The same applies to drinken drivers because an officer cannot spend two hours booking a motorist when his partner might need backup elsewhere in Point Roberts. Rakestraw said some Canadian youths break into homes here and then flee back across the border, making capture almost impossible. Rakestraw said he has caught visitors from Vancouver suburbs dumping their garbage down quiet dead-end roads.

The deputy said people hide garbage In their vehicles when driving through the border crossing, but busy customs officials don't have time to search for it with traffic lineups often extending two miles. Jobs Corps rumor killed Poet is also construction worker Doggerel reflects humor, life GRAND COULEE, Wash. (AP) He calls himself "The Poet Laureate of the Coulee" and "The Best Poet by the Dam Site." Some friends call him "The Outhouse Poet." He looks like what he is a 30-year construction And no matter what your conversational gambit, Clayton "Lindy" Lindbergh, 57, is likely to respond in verse. Even at dinner at the Wildlife Cafe in Grand Coulee, population 1,400, he delivers a piece of doggerel each time the waitress brings more food. "Everything you say reminds him of some of his poetry," says his wife Lela.

His verse usually has at least a touch of humor. Not all is fit for a family newspaper. The poems run as long as 40 four-line stanzas, some telling a tale of Lindbergh's own Invention. Among his 3,000 titles are "The Poet Lauerate of the Coulee" and "The Best Poet by the Dam Site." In a reading, he includes at least a smile and often a belly laugh. Much of Lindbergh's poetry is in his letters, including the of his courtship when Lela was a drugstore employee in Spokane.

A sample from "Letters to You may have a little gray in your hair It's beautiful just the same That goodly soul and heart that's there I'll promise never to shame. And comes the day I can be your spouse That's when I'll give you the proof That I've never judged the warmth of the house By the snow that lies on the roof. "When I see something inspirational, I can make up a poem in no time," Lindbergh says. He says he's been writing poetry since he was 13 years old in Merritt, British Columbia. His parents had moved there from the United States when he was 2 years old.

Lindbergh has lived in the area since January 1935, about a year after work began on the Grand Coulee Dam. It was to become the biggest hydroelectric facility in the United States. His first job was "signal punk" directing workers over a wooden bridge for 50 cents an hour. Later he learned to handle heavy construction equipment While working on a diesel-electric dinky" he helped set a world record to concrete pouring more than 20,000 cubic yards in 24 hours. After being laid off by his employer in 1939, he worked for the Bureau of Reclamation.

In 1946 he became an independent contractor. One of his first prime contracts was backfilling for the First Bacon Siphon and Tunnel irrigation project. Somebody out there wants to do some traveling. And they may have their heart set on a motorcycle! If you happen to have a bike that nobody in the family uses any more, why not turn it into cash by offering it to somebody else through a fast-action Classified Ad? It so easy to place your ad by telephone. Just dial our number and let us get your ad started soon.

CLASSIFIED AD DEPT. 452-2345 He sets down verse whenever the urge hits him, whether he's in his mobile home or running a compressor on the Second Bacon Siphon and Tunnel project. He says he can set down a poem in as little as 15 minutes. And his boss on the current project, Dennis McCarry, says Lindbergh has another talent as well: "He has the most perfect English brogue you ever heard." Lindbergh explains, "You've got to make your own amusement." SEDRO WOOLLEY, WMh. (AP) There aren't enough poor families in the Northwest to justify-Job Corpa centers in the region, a federal administrator says.

U-S. Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall wrote to Rep. Lloyd Meeds, D- recently, saying that, contrary to an earlier announcement.there are no plans to open any new Job Corps centers in the Northwest in the near future. Among the problems is that the proposed site, the former Northern State Hospital complex, is too large, adds Don Buchanan, deputy assistant administrator for Job Corps. The complex can house up to 2,000 persons, while the Job Corps program would involve only about 300 trainees.

The Job Corps program is aimed at providing training foivtettiagers from disadvantagedfafnifles: Labor Department officials told local officials and businessmen in March that a 300-mempet-; Job Corps center was in the worki for Sedro Woolley at the hospital complex. The only federal" training; program that still may.Sfoateriallze is the National Young Conservation Corps, sponsored by the Forest Service. A 300-person camp has been proposed for Sedro Woolley, but Tim Rogan, project coordinator for Manpower programs for the U.S. Forest Service, said chances are slim that the program would see people actually moving into Northern State this summer. May rains helped SPOKANE (AP) May rains were kind to Washington state farmers, but further precipitation will be critical in helping the state's 1977 farm production, says the Crop and Livestock Reporting Service.

In a report based on June 1 statistics, the agency said only one minor fruit crop expected to beat the 1976 harvest. Farmers are preparing for reduced harvests of sweet cherries, peaches and Bartlett pears. The joint state-federal State report agency said farmers also foresaw a drop in winter wheat production. About 99.9 million bushels of winter wheat may be harvested this year, down 25 per cent from 1976 but a slight Increase over the May forecast, the agency said. The wheat yield was pegged at 37 bushels per acre, compared with 46 bushels per acre for 1976.

End to strike sought SEATTLE (AP) -The head of Retail Clerks International Local 1105 says he hopes union members will vote today to accept a proposed settlement in a 19- day strike-lockout at some 200 Puget Sound area supermarkets. Union president Mervyn Henderson said Wednesday he recommended acceptance of the settlement because "I don't think we'll ever get what we wanted." He declined to announce details before the vote but acknowledged that the proposal didn't conform exactly to all union demands. There were indications that the settlement included wages increases of 50 cents an hour in each year of a three- year agreement. Other points reportedly included: assistant manager remaining under contract jurisdiction, clerks displaced by store closures being places in other stores with seniority retained, and a cost-of- living clause in the second and third years of the contract. The strike began May 22 when grocery clerks struck Tradewell stores in King, Kitsap, Pierce and Snohomish counties.

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