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Daily Sitka Sentinel, Sitka, Alaska, Monday, September 8.1986, Page 3 New-Born Baby Boy Left in Anchorage Bin ANCHORAGE (AP) Anchorage police and social workers are trying to identify a baby boy found abandoned in a box next to a Salvation Army collection bin a few hours after being born. The infant was discovered by two teen-agers who heard his cries as they rode by on their bicycles. The discovery was made 'just minutes after an anonymous caller told police of the baby's whereabouts. "It was crying real loud," said Christian Chain, 15. "The box was closed.

There was no lid, but the sides were folded up on top of the baby. "It was wrapped in a towel, a tan towel," Chain said. "It was real young, not that old at all." Police spokesman Joe Young said the infant was "a few hours old, at most." He said the baby's umbilical cord had been clamped with a plastic-coated wire used to seal garbage bags. The baby was reported in satisfactory condition Saturday at Humana Hospital. Spokeswoman Lynn Whitley said he weighed 7 pounds, 1 ounce.

Young said just before 9:30 p.m. Thursday, someone called police dispatch to say that a baby had been Palmer Police Clean Up in Bust left beside the collection bin in Muldoon. He said by the time police arrived, the teen-agers already had found the infant and taken him home. The boys called police who took the baby to the hospital. A delivery man for a sandwich shop across the street from the collection bin said he saw a young couple acting a little strangely Thursday night.

"I was fixing to go out and make some deliveries, and I was sitting in my car adjusting packages and something caught my eye," said Chuck Argo. "There was a couple in a late model foreign pickup sort of rummaging around in the boxes there. "I thought it was unusual to see people with a truck like that looking in the bin," Argo said. "Then they had a bundle, looked like a bundle of clothes, and just kind of laid it over there in the boxes and took of Drug PALMER (AP) --The Palmer police department has picked lip an extra $25,480 as its share of confiscated money from a three-state drug bust. The investigation began in April, when Palmer police arrested two men and charged them with selling one- ounce bags of cocaine.

Working with agents from the federal Drug Enforcement Agency and the Alaska State Troopers Drug Unit, the police followed the cocaine sales up the ladder to major dealers. Twenty-one people in Palmer, Anchorage, Seattle and San Francisco were arrested, and about $44,000 was seized. Palmer police received $25,480, the first time that a local police department in Alaska has shared the wealth from drug busts, officials said. The reward was made under a year- old federal law that grants state and local police a share of money confiscated from the sale of drugs, said Tom head of the DEA in seized money went into the U.S. General Treasury.

Palmer Police Chief John McKibben said the money will go toward buying narcotics-testing equipment, bulletproof vests and drug enforcement operations. Argo said he didn't think anything of it until he got back and his supervisor told him the police had been there. "It didn't dawn on me it could have been a Argo said. Young said police got another call late Thursday from someone who had seen reports of the abandonment on television. The caller said he had seen "a very pregnant woman in the area of the bin an hour or two before," Young said.

"That's not very much to go on." Police later traced the initial call to a pay telephone outside a nearby restaurant. Assistant Manager Matt Ryan said he remembered seeing a teen-age boy using the phone about two hours before the baby's discovery, but police had not determined whether the sighting was related to the case. The infant, dubbed baby John Doe, is in the custody of the state Division of Family and Youth Services. Dolly Coke, a social worker said the infant probably will be placed in a foster home until permanent placement is arranged. "It's very rare" for a newborn to be abandoned, Coke said.

"I've been here five years, and I don't know of another infant I can remember who was abandoned. "Whenever a child is abandoned, you can usually assume the mother was under a great deal of stress, and may have assumed she could not provide for the child," Coke said. "In these cases, it's my experience the parent will eventually surface. Sometimes, someone who has been pregnant suddenly isn't, and there's no baby, and someone who knows her will call. Or sometimes they have a second thought aribV'the parent, will 'come forward." '---vi- If the'parent or parents do appear, social workers will counsel them and try to decide what's best for the child, Coke said.

Bear Killed Prospector? HOMER (AP) A man missing in the Lake Clark Preserve on a summer- long gold prospecting and camping trip may have been killed in a run-in with a brown bear, the Alaska State Troopers said Monday. Mitch Drake, 30, of Anchor Point, was reported missing after he failed to meet a Kachemak Air Service plane Sept. 2, troopers said. He was dropped off at a lake near Telequana Lake in May. He last was seen June 19.

Searchers found a calendar in a cabin he was using with the days marked off up until Aug. 9, said Troopers Cpl. Dan Weatherly. His canoe was found on the Necons River, about, three miles upriver from the cabin, and one of his shirts was found in the river downstream. Weatherly said the carcass of a brown bear was found about a mile from the canoe.

It had been shot in the head two to four weeks before it was discovered. A compound bow equipped with a fishing reel and fishing arrow was missing, he said. His rifle also.was not found. "What we surmise happened is that he was in a slough bowfishing for salmon which would have been in there in mid-August," Weatherly said. "For whatever reason, he had an encounter with the brown bear, and for whatever reason, he went into the water.

We have not recovered the body." Libertarians Opposing O'Brannon Candidacy Drake's dog was found at the cabin, in good shape but hungry, Weatherly said. It appeared the dog had been living on food in the cabin. Drake's relatives, troopers, Fish and Wildlife Protection Division officers and the National Park Service started searching for Drake on Sept. 3. The search was called off late Sunday.

By DAVID FOSTER Associated Press Writer ANCHORAGE (AP) Libertarin Party gubernatorial nominee Mary O'Brannon says she will not give up her spot on the November general election ballot, despite a lengthy absence and her party's planned effort to oust her. "I don't see how they can get me off the ballot. I won," she said in a telephone interview Monday. She won the Libertarian nomination in the Aug. 26 primary election by receiving 189 votes.

Libertarian Ed Hoch was runner-up with 170 votes, according to the latest figures. Each gathered far less than 1 percent of all votes cast in the primary. O'Brannon, who has been out of the state for months, said she would return to Alaska sometime this week. She said' she still considers herself an Alaska resident. She said a lack of cooperation from the Libertarian Party is what prompted her to leave the state in the middle of the primary election race.

"The party is divided between philosophers and do- nothings," she said. Party leaders say the controversy surrounding her makes her a poor representative of the party. She left the state amid a long-running legal battle with the Anchorage Telephone Utility about her right to publish a telephone directory. ATU sued her, saying the directory violated their copy right. A judge ordered her last year to stop selling advertisements for the directory.

When she ignored the order, he fined her $50,000, which she still has not paid. The party's executive committee met Saturday in Kenai and "voted not to support the candidacy of Mary O'Brannon," said Gene Hawkridge, state party chairman. "There was quite a bit of discussion, but almost all of it negative," Hawkridge said. "I don't think anyone spoke in favor of her at the meeting." The committee instructed Hawkridge to check out whether O'Brannon's name could be removed from the ballot. The party intends to support Hoch, who started out as O'Brannon's running mate bat switched to running for governor when she left the state.

"The party has no plans to actively campaign against Mary O'Brannon should we be unsuccessful in getting her off the ballot. But we will provide no organizational or financial support," Hawkridge said. He cited "her long absence fom the state during the campaign, her earlier failure to appear at several functions to which she had been invited to speak, her legal problems with the state of Alaska, and alleged improprieties." Hawkridge said he called O'Brannon early Sunday at the San Francisco home where she is staying. He asked her to withdraw voluntarily from the race, "which she refused to do, accusing the party and gubernatorial candidate Ed Hoch of being sore losers." Teen to Face Trial as Adult ANCHORAGE (AP) Fifteen-year- old Winona Fletcher can be tried as an adult on charges that she shot and killed three elderly Anchorage residents, the Alaska Court of Appeals ruled Friday. The court agreed with a lower court ruling that found Fletcher probably could not be rehabilitated by the time she was 20, when the juvenile court's jurisdiction ends.

The lower court was justified in concluding Fletcher is "impulsive, manipulative, and a chronic liar, and has no conscience, poor judgment and a low tolerance to frustration," the appeals court said. Fletcher was 14 in April 1985, at the time of the shootings of Tom and Ann Faccio and Emilia Elliott at their Anchorage home. She and Cordel Boyd were accused of forcing their way into the home, robbing the residents and then shooting them. Boyd, 19 at the time, has pleaded no contest to one count of first-degree murder and two counts of second- degree murder. He won't be sentenced until after Fletcher's trial, in which he is expected to testify.

The trial, delayed in May by the appeal of the lower court's ruling, has been rescheduled for Oct. 27, said prosecutor Elizabeth Sheley. GOP Attacks Metcalfe Anchorage to Vote on Ban on 'Table Dancing' ANCHORAGE (AP) The Alaska Republican Party Central Committee says it will file suit next week to try to force Ray Metcalfe off the ballot as an independent candidate for state Senate in the November general election. Metcalfe qualified for the ballot by petition as a "Republican Moderate." He is running against Republican incumbent Jan Faiks and Libertarian Jacob Levine. But GOP chief Jim Crawford said Metcalfe is confusing the voters and has no business using the word Republican.

ANCHORAGE (AP) Table dancing, a euphemism for a naked dancer gyrating inches from a bar customer's nose, would be banned under an ordinance to be introduced Tuesday before the Anchorage Assembly. The ordinance would restrict nude dancing to stages, ban topless or bottomless waitresses, simulated sex acts and naked employees mingling with customers. Its sponsors say. the measure is designed to wliat, is 1 essentially "My concern is'that'what's" going on here gets into sex for hire," said Assemblyman Fred Dyson. "So what we need to do is separate the en- dancers, from the Film Society Sets Annual Meeting The Sitka Film Society will hold its annual meeting 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 11 in the Centennial Building. The meeting's purpose is to select films to be shown during the upcoming season. The film, "Jules and Jim," by director Francois Truffaut will be shown. Admission to the meeting is by membership only which may be purchased at Old Harbor Books for $5 or at the door.

For further information, contact Denise Marion, 747-5018. Dog Mushers Snapping At Mat-Su License Rule WASILLA (AP) Some of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough's 500 or so dog mushers are upset about a requirement that they pay a $25 kennel license and have a certified veterinarian give their dogs rabies shots. Since 1984, a state law followed by the Mat-Su Borough has required anyone owning five or more dogs to get a license and to provide proper housing, food and sanitation for the dogs. Park Service Gets Gifts ANCHORAGE (AP) An old gold dredge and the historic Coal Creek mining camp were donated Friday to the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve in interior Alaska. The gift was presented to National Park Service Director William Penn Mott at a ceremony in Anchorage.

The donation, coordinated by the National Parks and Conservation Association, came from an unnamed mining company. The Coal Creek donation includes 69 mining claims, a floating diesel- powered gold dredge used to work the claims, a mining camp and a roadhouse built by the Yukon River about 1930. "It's a very valuable donation," said Boyd Evison, Alaska regional director of the park service. "One of the purposes of Yukon- Charley Rivers National Preserve is to protect and interpret historical sites and events associated with the gold rush on the Yukon River. This donation makes it The huge gold dredge was the first to operate in the area.

It was purchased in San Francisco, dismantled and transported by steamship, rail and river barge to Coal Creek. The mine operated from the 1930s until the early 1960s. It also operated for one season in 1975, then closed down permanently. "Now that it's in public ownership, we'll be able to take down the 'No Trespassing' signs," said Don Chase, superintendent of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. "In the future, boaters on the Yukon will be able to put ashore at Coal Creek to learn about mining and Alaska history." The National Parks and Conservation Association is a nonprofit group dedicated to maintaining and preserving the National Park System.

Coast Guard Mixed League Now Forming! League Bowls Thursdays at 6 Teams of 2 men 2 women. League Begins Sept. 11 Sign up at the Coast Guard Administration Office or at Sitka Bowling Center! Interested in getting paid for your bowling? Become the League Secretary! For more information call 747-6310. Minnie Fisher, head of the Mat-Su Humane Society, said less than two percent of the borough's mushers are licensed. She said many mushers don't like the costly requirement that a certified veterinarian administer the rabies shots.

She said they prefer to vaccinate the dogs themselves. But there is no proof that a musher has done the innoculations, increasing the chance for violations, she said. A lack of manpower and money has made enforcement of the regulations spotty. The only musher cited for not having a license has been Fred Agree of Trapper Creek. Last week, Agree fired off a letter to the borough assembly- protesting the requirement and blasting the dog pound officers.

"Whenever they get a complaint up here, groundless or not, they bully the mushers into getting kennel licenses. It is punitive and administrative." Agree wrote that mushers are much more conscientious about vaccinating their dogs "than Fido's owner in Wasilla subdivisions." Lavon Barve, an Iditarod veteran, agreed that the requirements threaten the mushers' way of life. Many of them moved from Anchorage a regulations there made it impossible to raise and run dogs. Now the same thing is happening in the Mat-Su Borough, he said. "We're not in the last anymore," said Barve, who holds a kennel license.

"It's a control. It give somebody an excuse to come snoop around the place when you're not home." But he said some kind of regulations are "a necessary evil" to protect people from loose dogs. Woman Drowns NOME (AP) A 52-year-old Nulato woman drowned Saturday in a slough near her village, the Alaska State Troopers reported. Troopers said Theresa Helen Nickoli apparently drowned Saturday in Mukluk Slough, which drains into the Yukon River near the old village site of Nulato. Other details were unavailable.

Parks Panel Meets The Alaska State Parks Citizens' Advisory Board will hold its monthly meeting 7:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Wild Strawberry Restaurant. tertainers, the customers." The focus is on the so-called table dances where naked women do private dances at a customer's table. The ordinance would restrict naked entertainers to a stage at least 18 inches high and six feet from the nearest customer. The law also would prohibit: from working nude or exposed breasts or to.

patrons while naked; --wearing any device that simulates breasts or genitals; --live entertainment that includes a variety of sexual acts or simulations of those acts. "I think this addresses several issues, including physical safety and, for a portion, public health," said Assemblyman Pat Parnell, who drafted the mreasure along withDyson. Parnell and Dyson said they are convinced that more than dancing goes on in Anchorage's strip joints. "There are sexual overtones and gyrations," Parnell said. "The girls are actually moving up close and right up a man's leg.

That is being construed as an invitation to more." Parnell said he hadn't been in "one of those places for years and years and years," but has talked with people who have. Dyson said he has observed the activity at some of the strip joints. "I think all of the owners make some effort to police their operations," he "But there is a real financial pressure on the gals to deliver more, be more intimate and more personal because then they make more tips. "There is a tendency for some of them to say, 'I sure get friendly when I have such and such The guy says, 'Well, let's have "Then he finds out it costs $400 a got a $1,600 bar bill and some gorilla trying to collect that." Dyson said he will meet with city attorneys Tuesday to review the legality of the ordinance. In June, the state approved Metcalfe's petition to be placed on the ballot under the name of his self- created party.

Metcalfe, a three-term veteran of the legislature, was defeated by in the 1982 Republican primary. Assistant Attorney General John Rubini said he approved Metcalfe's designation and since has had 4 with JGOP officials over its propriety. "It's awfully late in the game" for the GOP to be challenging it, he said. By the time the issue is decided, ballots will have been printed, Rubini said. "On the merits, the law is silent" on the matter, Rubini said.

Unless the name chosen is patently confusing to voters which he said does not appear to be the case there is no definsible reason for state election officials to reject it, Rubini said. Crawford said the law is indeed silent regarding legislative races, but does address gubernatorial candidates. He said it seems logical to follow the same legal structure for legislative races. "If he wants to run as an indepedent, that's his business," Crawford said. "I don't think there's a party called the Moderate Republicans." Metcalfe said the possible lawsuit didn't worry him.

He said the state will bear the burden of legal costs fighting the suit. Here's to Your Better Health Murder Trial To be Moved ANCHORAGE (AP) The man accused of shooting Anchorage airline pilot Robert Pfeil will be tried in Fairbanks because his lawyers don't think an impartial jury can be found in the state's largest city. Superior Court Judge Meg Greene agreed to move the trial of John Bright, scheduled to begin Sept. 22. Greene is from Fairbanks, and was brought to Anchorage to preside over a series of trials involving Pheil's killing because local judges either were disqualified or removed themselves from the cases.

The central figure in the alleged murder conspiracy is Neil Mackay, a millionaire Anchorage businessman and attorney. The 22-year-old Bright will be the fourth person tried in the case. The last will be Mackay, who is accused of paying 810,000 to have Pheil killed. There was animosity between the two men ever since Pheil's sister -Mackay's former wife was killed in an unsolved car bombing a decade earlier. Weight Watchers trims bodies AND prices.

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Michael Young, D.C. CEPHALGIA (HEADACHES) AND THEIR CONSERVATIVE MANAGEMENT Headache is one of the most common and confusing symptoms faced in private practice. In this article Fd like to talk about tension headache. In this disorder the muscles at the of the skull are in spasm and cause severe pain and discomfort. The nerves in this area lie close to the artery before it enters the skull and as a result, patients complain of pain in the upper neck region, back of the head radiating to the forehead, temple or behind the eyes.

Frequently the entire back of the skull aches and it is accompanied by tingling or a throbbing ache to the temple area. This condition is usually the result of position or activity. Sitting with your neck twisted all day such as typing, or driving tractor, or painting, or working outside are examples of these activities. It can also come as the result of eye strain, sinusitis, or emotional tension. This muscle spasm causes a fixation of the vertebrae in the upper neck region resulting in nerve compression that can ruin the I whole day.

A chiropractor is I especially trained in evaluating the cause of nerve pressure in these cases. Many times the head is not sitting on the neck squarely. If like a cup resting inside the center rim of a saucer, when it slides out of that center rim, it leans offside and needs to be replaced to its proper position. By a simple technique of manipulation, this disorder can be alleviated and the chances of re-1 occurence prevented. If you suffer I from frequent tension headaches this misalignment can cause these headaches to occur time and time again, and more rapidly whenever you are under stress.

Why not try a natural, safe and painless way to prevent this stressful condition? Try chiropractic for your next tension headache. If you have any regarding Chiropractic, write to: Dr. Young, P.O. Box 2444, Sltfca, 99835. Presented a public by Young Clinic Of Chiropractic 747-5895 310 Erler Paid Advertisement.