The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 13

Inside: Prosecutors filed an immediate appeal after a judge agreed to hand two robbers over to a tribal court for possible banishment to remote Alaskan islands B5 Weather B2 B) Obituaries B5 EGa The News Tribune Saturday August 13 1994 Stories of black pioneers find a home in state museum So far there are no other AfricanAmerican museums in the Northwest At least one other effort is under way to create such a museum Another grass roots group the African American Museum and Cultural Heritage Center Board is negotiating to acquire and renovate the old Col-man School in Central Area into a museum said Denice Hunt an aide to Seattle Mayor Norm Rice In Tacoma the Historical Society agreement marks the biggest step so far for the displays said Historical Society Director David Nkandri It also should improve the presentation of blacks' role in state history "Wefoe got pockets of strength in this area but a lot more that needs to be be said By the end of the two-year agreement the state museum should have moved into its new home under construction in downtown TWnmn And emnmitfaw irewnharq fhff museum prqject will be dose to securing its own building to house African-American artifacts and artwork chapter in Tacoma and in Seattle Portland Spokane Alaska and British Columbia Senator John Ryan spread the news of Tacoma's black community in his daily Forum Newspaper oftheeariy 1900s -and later made the news himself as a state legislator Portraits of these and nine other black pioneers hang in the new Gallery of African American Heritage at the Washington State Historical Society museum in Tacoma The gallery and display are the latest efforts of the AncanrAmerican Museum Board a Thcoma-based citizens group working to create a permanent African American Museum "African Americana have always been here pioneering said Jacqueline OBannon group president up to us to let history be The state Historical Society recently agreed to provide free gallery space to the group for the next two years In return the citizens group must organize display and rotate exhibits every three months The venture allows the Historical Society to present 'community-based shows while giving the group a chance to organize By Bobby Abo The News Tribune Their deep brown eyes tell stories of triumph of discrimination of Seats overlooked in most histoiy books But in the solitude of a spacious brick-walled gallery in Tacoma a new exhibit tells their deeds There is George Riley the first black man to live in Thcoma He moved to the City of Destiny in 1869 Nettie Asbeny a tum-of-the century mu-Bic professor led efforts to found the NAACP Mop-up time onfirelines Crews hunt hot spots as blazes mostly tamed By Paul Chaves The News Tribune Mop-up It sounds like janitorial work but really me of the most crucial parts of firefighting With nearly 90 percent of the 220000-acre Central Washington forest fires contained officials said its the job of mop-up crews to protect unburned forests At the massive 121900-acre Tyee Creek fire and the nearby 414273-acre Hatchery Creek Complex of fires mop-up was being handled Friday mostly by US Marines and members of the Washington State National Guard fire information officers said Having these recently framed firefighters on hand means more experienced fire crews can tackle flare-upe or forest fires in other states said Eddie Ramirez fire information officer for the lee Creek fires Mopping up is a lot harder than it sounds said Dennis Bauman a 32-yeamld National Guardsman from Vancouver running 12-hour shifts and quite a bit of he said all pretty tired when we get back" not alone in his fatigue About 2500 National Guard members most from Camp Murray have been deployed to help fight the fires said Lt Natalie Rom a Guard spokesperson one of the largest deployments in 15 years Robb said Bauman who lays pipe when a civilian said mop-up crtews go to work after fires readi the fireline and get snuffed out Please see Mop up B7 Annex takes Pacific across Pierce border By Kevin EM The News Tribune The tiny King County town of Pacific Friday succeeded over Sumner in biting off a tax-rich chunk of Pierce County fin itself The Fierce County Boundary Review Board voted 3-0 to approve request to annex about 377 scree of land in Pierce County land that is worth $265 million If the annexation survives any appeals it would boost the size of Pacific by roughly one-third and marks the dtyk first serious push into Pierce County Right now Pacific has only half a street County Line Road -inside Pierce County This annexation request is the latest in a four-year battle between Pacific and Sumner for the land between the two cities gain is and Pierce -loss disappointed of said Sumner Mayor Bob Moltke still assessing what going to do and what is go- Please see Annex B3 TMHsntsTtw NewsTfeune Andrew Dai 7 runs beneath the i I B43 bomber hie Mrtiobom hctood iicort to Iti Bonn In tfw McChonl Air fllluMMin i a M3: 7Dd seum stafflovingly refurbished the exterior of the bomber one of only five remaining and many helped temporarily remove the wings and escort the plane from a McChord airfield to the museum come out real said aenior airman Steve Cox who spent his lunch hours and off hours riveting sanding and painting the 20000-pound twin-engine plane that once belonged to Howard Hughes These planes did ao much it would've been a shame to turn it into hubcaps or It was a slow and difficult process but the work paid off What was once a dull rusty and damaged old relic is now 9 shiny and freshly painted monument to the men who flew the The nose and tail rudder were painted with the colors of the 89th Reconnaissance Squadron of the Army Air Corps which flew the bombers out of McChord during the war The sense of history it carries moved the volunteers to restore the planet original luster "I want to say because nothing romantic about said Please see B23 B3 Restored bomber brings back memories in McChord museum By Ian Ith The News Tribune The year was 1943 and radio operator Ed Freeborg was flying back to McChord Field aboard a B-23 bomber Passing through a terrible January storm above Idaho the plane went out of control and plummeted into the wilderness just crawled over into the comer and covered my Freeborg recalled "We missed the lake and hit the forest on the other side and the plane was snapping off The crew survived the crash with only a few injuries and Freeborg and two other crewmen hiked through the blizzard to get help Rfty years after the crash Freeborg a retired restaurant designer from Portland still has a certain nostalgia for the rare B-23 bombers So when he came to McChord Air Face Base earlier this week to see a newly restored B-23 like the one he flew HBim Imwr PmHmH mw iMilma halite mmi im H33I that taraa had fate tew a aaRWte vw a vw wwins ws wrwv vwi bvwnp wnss wi ho In 1943 on Its way back to McChord in during the war it brought back a lot of a place of honor Wednesday at the Me-memories Chord Air Museum after almost a decade of With Freeborg riding in the cockpit the restoration bomber with a unique history was towed to Volunteer Air Force personnel and mu Many stirred to speak on possible privatization of liquor sales believe state government ahould totally be out of the liquor business to include wholesaling At the present time I am being deprived of the liquor of my choice because the bureaucracy claimed that I am not consuming sufficient quantities for it to be stocked at the local liquor store that I Bernard Lipski Graham do not believe the state should get out of the liquor business It will only increase consumption and put an added burden on local law enforcement Wanda Carver Eatonville 1 believe liquor should be left in the state liquor stores I dont want my children around it I want to be around it I dont want the possibility of being shot while grocery shopping Leave it alone If it works dont fix Ann Mulligan Gig Harbor do not think it should be turned over to private enterprise I think beer and wine is being stolen fast enough by the little kids And I dont want to see 10-year-olds Lucinda Davis Buckley (Next BackTblk question will appear in Local section) once again the state will mess up a perfectly good system Will they never learn? If it ain't broke don't fix it Now if they want to give out franchises to private enterprise give the casino gambling franchises to state-regelated nonprofit charitable organizations so they can operate like the Indian reservations and not go begging the public for money at every turn" Claire Hayes Tacoma cannot trust private enterprise to curtail sales to underage individuals Tbo many teenagers are drinking and driving and killing Barbara Ruby Puyallup about time the government gut out of the liquor business and its about time that the government got smart and started to take other government entities and privatize them as Sheri Bebbington Federal Way state should not be in any business that can be conducted by fine enterprise That includes selling Walt Hively Tacoma The statek doing a good job now Leave them alone We don't need more availability of liquor or more stores fine the way it Cheryl Larsen Tacoma omentum is building to get the state out of the business of retail liquor sales Washington State Liquor Control Board chairman Joe McGavick this week proposed the state auction off its sales operations to private enterprise The Legislature would have to act to make it happen and judging by the strong responses to this week's BackTalk question the debate would be long and loud The more than 120 callers split roughly into two camps: One cheered the idea as a way to reduce government the other feared it would increase alcoholism especially among the young This question: Should the state turn over the sale of liquor to private businesses? No 1 drug of dunce alcohol has caused more devastation to our aodety than all the other drugs combined through drunken driving through violent crimes through health costs and the terrible birth defects of fetal alcohol syndrome And it goes on and on and on the answer to this? Make it more available It just makes perfect sense Vicky McKinney Tacoma successful retail sales of all liquor by grocery stores in other states proves that free enterprise does work and works well Retail sales are the province of the public and have no place in Barry Murphy Tacoma think they should get out of the selling of liquor and I think a totally archaic practice by the state of Washington Besides that whan the difference? Boope is booze They sell beer and wine Why not hard liquor in the Rom Crawford Ihcoma believe the state should continue doing just what doing with regard to the sale of alrohol for one main reason and teat is revenue I believe that if we deprive the state of this revenue that well be one step closer to a state income Sam Crino Gig Harbor.