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foifo W'lK -fe'-'ll A-10 The News Tribune Tacoma Washington Saturday March 28 1987 Labor of love Tribe Port reopen talks on Tideflats Land claim environmental issues need resolution before development occurs Preferred sludge site found County has options to buy McMillin sites By JOSEPH TURNER The News Tribune Volunteers are meticulously Staff photo by PETER HALEY rebuilding this B-18 at McChord Air Force Base World War ll-era craftsmen piece together part of past construction that are important to marine life The tribe in return for its agreement to let the Port's development proceed could receive Port land needed to support various tribal projects In the previous agreement the tribe would have received several hundred acres of valuable land to develop Faker said the reopening of the talks was a recognition by both sides that new business could only enhance the fortunes of both the Port and the tribe The limited talks the tribe and the Port said could provide the impetus needed to reopen the larger talks discussions are being undertaken with renewed confidence from both sides and are hoped to provide a positive step leading toward further negotiation efforts The Tribe has expressed a desire to further the economic growth of the Port area so that the Tribe's and its opportunities are enhanced as the joint statement said Both the tribe and the Port agreed not to discuss the specifics of the negotiations publicly while they were ongoing without the concurrence of both parties Conducting the negotiations for the Port are Faker and Port Commissioner John McCarthy The Tribal Council is negotiating for the tribe Staff members of both the Port and the tribe are assisting in the negotiations Faker said the two sides have already held three meetings Another negotiating session is set for April 17 he said Even if the Port and the tribe are able to resolve some issues involving Port development on the Tideflats many other issues remain to be covered in broader talks The talks began in 1984 in an attempt to solve differences in negotiations between the tribe and non-Indians over the ownership of thousands of acres of land in the Tideflats along the Puyallup River and in Northeast Tacoma downtown and Fife Also addressed were conflicting claims of legal jurisdiction and environmental protection By JOHN GILLIE The News Tribune Negotiations to resolve land claims and address environmental problems on the Tacoma Tideflats have resumed on a limited basis between the Puyallup Tribe of Indians and the Port of Tacoma after a 15-month hiatus The new talks unlike the lengthy negotiations in 1985 that led to a tentative agreement on a wide range of issues between the tribe and local governments and landowners will be limited to issues concerning the Port and the tribe That earlier agreement failed a tribal ratification vote The Port and the tribal council in a joint press release said the negotiations have been resumed to immediate development objectives of both the Tribe and the Port while remaining supportive of a comprehensive overall agreement between the Tribe and other non-Indian Port Commission President Joe Faker said the Port needs to resolve the tribe's concerns about changes to the waterfront environment that will accompany several Port development plans The Port has embarked on an ambitious plan to create new con-tainership terminals by building new piers and filling existing waterways The Port needs both city shoreline permits and Army Corps of Engineers permits to begin actual construction on those projects The tribe has agreed to allow the shoreline-permit process to go forward reserving its comments until the permit hearings later this spring The tribe could slow or halt issuance of those permits if it objected to the Port's plans The plans call for filling in an existing fishing boat haven on the Blair Waterway construction of new Terminal 3 north of the Port's Terminal 4 extension of the Terminal 7 pier and filling in part of the Milwaukee Waterway to create new container storage space In the previous tentative agreement the tribe had agreed to let the Port replace with man-made environments areas destroyed by By SUSAN GORDON The News Tribune A 6000-acre plateau east of McMillin is the top candidate for future disposal of sludge from the county sewage treatment plant on Chambers Creek County officials already has an option to buy most of the property from Weyerhaeuser for an estimated $8 million The McMillin sites are listed as the preferred locations by consultants who prepared a draft environmental impact statement on the county's proposed sludge management program The draft EIS was released this week County Councilman Chuck Gordon said the report will become the subject of public hearings before council committee meetings scheduled for May 21 and May 28 "We like the property because we would be basically said Marty Erdahl engineer for the county sewer utility wouldn't have any The preferred sites are northeast of Orting bounded on the south by the Carbon River on the north by Rhodes Lake Road on the west by the Carbon and Puyallup rivers and on the east by South Prairie Creek Orting Mayor Wayne Harman said the last time someone wanted to spray sludge onto property near the city the community packed the American Legion Hall with opponents That was about three years ago when Metro of Seattle wanted to dispose of its sludge on St Regis land south of the city he said people got all up in arms about it" he said Metro sludge went somewhere else Harman said he doesn't know what will happen this time although the site might be less objectionable because it is north of the river a fid up on a hill "I think the biggest argument you'll find will be the trucks traveling to the he said According to the draft EIS spraying sludge on forest land would be the cheapest simplest and most useful way to dispose of it Sludge is a high-powered fertilizer but it also contains some harmful bacteria and toxic metals which could get into the air and ground water Composting and burning sludge also were considered but they would cost more and would pose their own problems according to consultants Erdahl said a private contractor has been hauling the county's sludge to an old coal mine in Cen-tralia That contract runs through 1990 Owning or controlling the county's own sludge repository is preferred by county utility officials and is the first choice of the consultants and a citizen advisory committee he said The McMillin site was chosen as the preferred location because of its relative isolation soils and accessibility Moreover the county wanted to stay away from the Continued on Page A-11 group of retirees interested in the museum's bomber project Morgan a former aircraft maintenance mechanic at McChord and about 20 of his contemporaries gather every Wednesday and work four or five hours on the plane Together Morgan said they have put more than 1300 hours into the bomber's revitalization which for the volunteers is a labor of love The project could take several years but the people doing the work don't seem to mind a lot of nostalgia with this old noted 66-year-old Jim Schmoker of Sumner The last time Schmoker worked on a B-18 was during World War II while he was stationed in England a little part of acknowledged Ken Spencer 25 a Clover Park student who commutes from Port Angeles only thing we ever see at school is little Cessnas We don't ever get to see anything like added a classmate Tim Hall 26 of Steila-coom Twenty-five students guided by Clover Park aircraft maintenance instructor Johnny Rush a retired Air Force major made their contributions at the school where they replaced the fabric surfaces of the bomber's ailerons and rudder a lot of training value in doing Continued on Page A-1 1 A vintage bomber that lost its wings and had begun to waste away in an Arizona aircraft bone yard is being given new life at McChord Air Force Base Resurrection of the former Bolo a twin-engine B-18 built in the late 1930s by the Douglas Aircraft Co has been blessed by base officials who want to commemorate the type of aircraft first assigned to what was then McChord Field Although this particular B-18 Serial No 37-505 was never based at McChord it is one of only five complete planes of its type in existence said Fred Johnsen historian of the 62nd Military Airlift Wing The others are also museum properties The plane's revival is sponsored by the 550-member McChord Air Museum Foundation While the Air Force provided $600 space and a few tools most of the materials and labor are donated said Lt Col Warren (Bud) Foltz who serves part time as museum administrator The restoration effort has combined the time-honored skills of retired aircraft maintenance personnel with the raw talents of students at Clover Park Vocational-Technical Institute Work started in November At that time 65-year-old Glenn Morgan of Puyallup organized a Two school districts have bonds on ballot issue but we just voters out Gregory Paus superintendent University Place with packed classfaoms said Superintendent Glenn Frizzell Under the plan Fife Elementary School eventually will be torn down and the district will concentrate students in two wings at Mil-ton About $15 million of the first issue will be used to make Surprise Lake Middle School more energy efficient Frizzell said The second issue will ask for $115 million to remodel the high school The high school consists of several buildings constructed in stages as enrollment grew The bond would be used to attach all the buildings giving the district greater control and supervision over activities at the school and making the complex more energy efficient Crisson returns to head City Light got now is a series of said Frizzell "It would be turned into something similar to a small Tacoma Both bonds are the largest ever requested by either district In a related matter the Franklin Pierce School District decided this week not to place a failed $81 million bond back on the ballot this spring The district in March fell more than 1000 votes short of the 3132 needed to validate the election About 64 percent of those voters approved the measure feeling was that the board wanted to submit the same proposal but probably in the spring of said A1 Hokenstad director of curriculum for the 12-school district Staff photo by BRUCE KELLMAN By JOSEPH TURNER The News Tribune Mark Crisson a former employee of Tacoma's Department of Public Utilities electrical division By KIM SEVERSON The News Tribune The University Place and Fife school districts will be asking voters on May 19 to approve bonds to help build more classrooms and remodel older buildings University Place officials this week decided to try again to pass a $106 million bond measure On March 10 voters in the six-school district approved the bond but the district didn't receive enough votes to validate the election "Voters liked the issue but we just needed to get more voters out" said Gregory Paus superintendent of the University Place district Paus said the district was close enough to validation to mer is returning to manage the city utility's largest division Utilities Director Ted Coates has announced the appointment of Crisson as City Light superintendent replacing James Thompson McGrail The King County medical examiner listed the cause of death as a blow to the head Caporali was the chief investigator in the McGrail case and the allegations slate that evidence used in the investigation may have been improperly tagged King County Superior Court Judge Liem Tuai released McGrail Thursday on his own recognizance pending the results of the investigation Tuai released McGrail with the stipulations that he must reside with his mother in Bellingham and remain there except for court appearances and meetings with attorneys He must report to his attorneys daily and have no contact with Karen Cooper the baby's mother fi Voters liked the needed to get more it another attempt this spring If the bond issue is approved about $46 million of the money will be used to build a new 22-classroom elementary school to house 500 students The remainder would go to a number of remodeling projects including a major expansion of Narrows View Elementary School So far the Fife School District is the only other district in the Thompson is retiring April 1 Coates also announced that City Light assistant superintendent Lee Searles a veteran of the department has been promoted to assistant utilities director in charge of management services and strategic planning Searles' former job will be eliminated as part of the reorganization aimed at reducing the layers of management Coates said Both appointments were approved Wednesday night by the Public Utility Board Crisson who worked in the light division's power management section from 1977 to 1983 was chosen from a field of 40 candidates Crisson left City Light to become manager of Northwest Power and Public Affairs of Martin Marietta Aluminum Co in Portland Since 1985 he has been executive director of Direct Service Industries Inc which represents large industrial power users who purchase directly from the Bonneville Power Administration Crisson 38 is a graduate of the US Naval Academy and has a master's degree in business administration from Pacific Lutheran University county that will be sharing the ballot with University Place schools Fife School officials announced this week they will be trying for approval of $192 million worth of bonds to improve the four-school district The ballot will be split into two separate issues The first totaling $77 million will be used to build a new wing on Milton Elementary School which is now operating Piling on the work Probe of police conduct to be released in Algona The results of an investigation into the Algona Police Department will be released at 1 pm Monday at a public meeting in the city council chambers Mayor August Schuman has invited the public and press to hear the results of the special investigation into allegations that police Detective Bill Caporali has tampered with evidence and rewritten arrest reports to get better convictions Allegations that Police Chief Dave Norton failed to respond when notified of the problem also were investigated The special report affects a murder case now being heard in King County Christopher Warren McGrail a 23-year-old Algona man is charged with second-degree murder in the Oct 19 death of his 4-month -old son Joshua Workmen along the Point Defiance waterfront are straightening out a problem created by the September 1984 fire that destroyed a boathouse In about a week the deck to support the 302-boat storage area tackle shop and possible restaurant will be under construction More moorage floats should be ready by July 4 The $45 million facility should by finished next spring 4.