Port Angeles Evening News from Port Angeles, Washington • Page 1

Gfy Council Cresfhaven LID fey GlNNY The city Council passed an ordinance creating Local Improvement District I9t following a lengthy hearing in crowded Municipal Chambers Tuesday, The Cresthaven LID wlllpro- vide paved streets and storm sewers on Ennls Street from the alley between Fourth and Fifth streets to Lauridsen on Fifth street between the two portions of Ennisj on Seventh street from Ennis 600 feet west and on Alder Street from Ennis approximately 520 feet north. Following a decisive hand vote from the audience, the council to delete the portion of Fifth Street from Ennls to Lib. erty and from Ennls to Alder, which had been included in the original version of LID 191. The council also agreed to assume 20 per cent of the total project cost Instead of the 000 originally planned. The money will come from the city's Arterial Fund.

According to Director of Public Works John Warder, total cost of LID 191 will be approximately $97,000. Property owners within the district will be assessed for the storm sewers on a square footage basis. Assessments for the paving will be made two-thirds on a square foot basis and one-third according to zone termini (the closer the property is to the improvement, the higher the assessment will be). Several people at the hear life protested the method of assessment, claiming that it discriminated against owners of property which was less valuable or less directly benefited by the improvements. Residents within the improvement district have 30 days to protest their assessments.

Protests should be written, along with a description of the property, and sent to the city clerk. The protests must be made Individually, not by petition. If 60 per cent of the property owners In the district protest their assessments, the LID will automatically be cancelled. The council authorized the engineering department to call for bids and the sale of bonds and IN OTHER BUSINESS, the council passed an ordinance regulating the installation of septic tanks. According to the new ordinance, "it shall be unlawful for any person to modify, repair or construct, or reconstruct an individual sewage disposal system without first having obtained a permit from the Health Officer." It also forbids "any person to deposit or allow raw sewage to flow upon the surface of the ground or to be discharged Into any lake, stream, or body of water or to otherwise pollute waters of the state." The ordinance requires that sewage disposal systems be Inspected by the Health Officer be- fore the systems are covered With earth; Wednesday, June 3, 1970 Commercial installers are! required to have a per mil, Issued by the Health Officer or the The council also passed an ordinance requiring approval of the Planning Commission and the City Council prior to Installation of a new septic tank (this ordinance does not apply to repair or replacement of existing units).

A hearing was held on the six- year Comprehensive Street Improvement Program, followed by a resolution adopting the program. All of the projects In the program are contingent upon availability of funds. The council accepted a bid of $14,459 from Ruddell Chevrolet for a Hell garbage packer. In Planning Commission business, the council approved construction of a heliport at Olympic Memorial Hospital. Variances from the city's setback requirements were granted to Clarence A.

Edwards, 1019 S. and Vern Bates, manager of the Arctic Circle Drive-in. ort Angeles JTuemna Neuis 48th Issue of 55th Year 20 Pages 10 Senate rejects proposal No free hand for Nixon in Cambodia Wallace win likely prelude to '72 race Youths questioned in dynamite case Sheriff Harley Bishop said today three juveniles were questioned at their homes Tuesday night as suspects in the May 2 attempted bombing of Port Angeles Police Sgt. John Sweatt's car. The youths are also suspects in t- theft last fall of more than 70 sticks of dynamite and two dynamite planting incidents at Elwha Bridge on Highway 112 April 6, Bishop said.

All three incidents are thought to be interrelated, the sheriff concluded. He said there was not evidence to connect the Juveniles with an earlier car bomb- Ing Involving Sweatt. An anonymous led sheriff deputies-to a location'-east of the Elwha River almost directly under the Highway 112 Port Angeles now 16,169 According to preliminary census counts, the population of Port Angeles is 16,169, City Manager Donald Herrman announced at the City Council meeting Tuesday. It is still not too late to be counted. Anyone who was not counted during the census should send their census forms to City Hall.

bridge where 72 sticks of dynamite were discovered In an abandoned car body. The tip also named one of the suspects, who in turn enabled authorities to trace down two others allegedly involved. Bishop said he intended questioning other juveniles as well. None of the boys, ages 14, 16 and 17, all from Port Angeles, were arrested. Names of juveniles are not disclosed In criminal cases.

Bishop described the recovered dynamite as In a softened, jelly-like condition, which Is considered extremely dangerous. He said an Army explosive expert had been summoned to 'dispose of the- recov'erfefr-iiyna- mite. Bishop said the dynamite apparently was stolen from a storehouse near Lower ElwhaDambe- longing to Crown Zellerbach. Crown reported to the sheriff the theft of dynamite from there this week, indicating it had been stolen sometime since last Thursday. The sheriff said he believed the dynamite was taken last November and the theft only discovered by Crown workmen this week.

He cited new state explosive laws that make It Illegal to possess dynamite without a permit from the Department of Labor and Industries. Unlawful posses, sion and negligent use of explosives Is considered a gross misdemeanor. Electrical workers take strike vote As a show of strength prior to the entrance of a federal mediator, dissatlsifled electrical workers here are taking a strike vote this week, according to the chairman of the union negotiating committee. Raymond Scott indicated results of the strike vote would be available Friday night. Union members of Local No.

997 of the International Brotherhood of Workers and the Public Utility District are locked In a wage dispute over an additional three cent per hour wage increase. The lingering dispute was thrown Into federal mediation by the union after they rejected the PUDs 40-cent, 7.6 per cent wage offer. Electrical workers are seeking wage parity with other PUDs in Western Washington at $5.65 per hour. The 40-cent hike would make their salaries $5.62 per hour. PUD management claims em- ploye fringe benefits more than offset the extra three cents they demanding.

Scott and the negotiating committee think otherwise. Scott cited statistics from a Northwest Public Power supply System publication showing Clallam County ranks llth among 20 PUDs in fringe benefit allotments. The first federal mediation conference is now slated for June 9. Scott said the federal mediator told him it was useless to enter negotiations unless the union was serious in its wage demands. Scott said the strike vote would be used as an Indicator of just how serious employes are.

Strike action here comes in the wake of seven-week strike In Grays Harbor where employes ultimately settled for $5.65 per hour. By CARL P. LEUBSDORF AP Political Writer George C. Wallace has won his recapture Alabama's governorship the likely prelude to another presidential race in Jess Unruh claimed the Democratic nomination against Gov. Ronald Reagan of California.

Wallace, who overcame a narrow first primary loss, promptly celebrated his victory in Tuesday's Democratic runoff over Incumbent Albert P. Brewer by demanding President Nixon "Give us back our schools." Nearly complete returns gave Wallace 542,154, Brewer 510,. 442. In California, Unruh, a slimmed-down version of the man known as "Big Daddy" while speaker of the state's Assembly In the mid-1960s, easily outdistanced Mayor Sam Yorty of Los Angeles. Reagan was unopposed for Republican renoml- nation.

That state's battle of two antiwar Democrats saw Rep. John V. Tunney, son of former heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney, ahead of Rep. George E. Brown who once threatened to launch impeachment proceedings against President Nixon because of the U.S.

attack into Cambodia. The winner faces Incumbent Sen. George Murphy, the onetime actor and dancer, who defeated millionaire industrialist Norton Simon In the GOP primary. Murphy Is a strong supporter of President Nixon's policies in Southeast Asia. In New Jersey, Williams, a 2- to-1 victor over state Sen.

Frank J. Guarini, will meet Nelson G. Gross, former state Republican chairman who easily whipped two opponents. Both Williams, who once supported U.S. Involvement in Vietnam, and Gross, who broke with President Nixon's Southeast Asia policies over the Cambodia attack, have become opponents of the Indochina war.

The year's, busiest politica day so far, with balloting In eight states, saw the renomina- tlon of four Democratic senators Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana, John C. Sten- nls of Mississippi, Harrison A. Williams Jr. of New Jersey and Joseph M. Montoya of New Mexico.

WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate today rejected a proposal to give the President a free hand In Cambodia so long as Communists hold Americans prisoner there. The vote was 54 to 36. The setback for the administration came only hours before President Nixon was scheduled to go before a national television-radio audience with what is expected to be an optimistic progress report on the campaign In Cambodia. The Senate test was on an administration-backed proposal by Kansas Republican Robert J. Dole designed to negate the Cooper-Church amendment that would bar funds for U.S.

operations in Cambodia after June 30. Although defeat of the Dole proposal, which called for allowing the President to use U.S. forces in Cambodia as long as American troops were held prisoner there, had been expected, the action reportedly would not affect Nixon's remarks, scheduled for 6 P.m.. PDT. The President set his speech after meeting with defense and Meanwhile military leaders over the weekend when he reportedly was given optimistic accounts of the month-old Cambodian campaign.

The President's Indochina policy also was under attack in the House today where antiwar members argued for a rider to a bill raising the national debt limit that they said was aiiffed at forcing a faster withdrawal of U.S. -troops from' Southeast The vote on the Dole proposal was the first real indication of Senate feeling concerning the measure sponsored by Sens. Frank Church, D-Idaho, and John Sherman Cooper, to curb Nixon's powers in Cambodia after June 30, the date the President set for withdrawing all American forces from that country. Chances for a quick vote on the Cooper-Church amendment Itself remained dim since three senators Tuesday accepted the President's invitation to go on a week-long tour of Cambodia and Vietnam. THE CLOCKS Logging truck driving through town with one great big cedar boy and girl on way to school stopping chatter when she bopped him over the head with her sack lunch, Laugh-In style Students trying to get car out of ditch by college parking lot youngsters In bathing suits cooling off in lawn sprinklers.

orld news roun WASHINGTON (AP) Soviet Union has agreed to resume talks with the United States in an effort to find a political solution to the Increasingly war-like Middle East situation. However, the U.S.S.R. has refused to disclose its purpose in supplying pilots and missiles in increasing numbers to Egypt. TEL AVIV (AP) The Israeli military command has announced that Arab guerrillas In Jordan have fired two waves of rockets at a frontier town, killing two school children and wounding at least seven others. It marked of casualties, i A dren in two weeks.

WASHINGTON (AP) The director of the National Institute of Mental Health resigned Tuesday in a letter strongly attacking President Nixon's mental health programs. Shortly after the letter, which set a resignation date of July 1, was released, the director was publicly fired. The exchange was an outbreak in long-simmering unrest within the federal health establishment. WASHINGTON (AP) A poll taken by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce magazine shows three of four businessmen feel presidential antl-inflation measures are not working.

LIMA (AP) Bad weather and blocked roads continue to hamper rescue efforts.in areas shaken by a massive earthquake Sunday in Peru. As many as 30,000 persons are feared dead. MADISON, Wis. (AP) Scientists have created a gene in the laboratory, a feat that raises questions about the possibility of starting life itself in a test tube. S.

Viets move to join weary unit SAIGON Five turn- dred South Vietnamese troops made a helicopter assault today to link up with the weary defenders of a mountain ridge artillery base battered two days of attacks in the northwest Following up an early morning hammering by U.S. B52 bombers, American and South Vietnamese fighter bombers dropped antipersonnel cluster bombs on lower rldgelines within half a mile of beleaguered Firebase Tun Tavern, while the relief force flew into a landing zone about the same distance from the base on the opposite side. Field reports said there was no resistance as the reinforcements and their U.S. advisers joined the remnants of Tun Tavern's defenders to begin e. sweep around the base.

At noon, North Vietnamese mortar crews were still hurling shells into the helicopter pad of kidney-shaped outpost four riiiles east of the Laotian border as American medical helicopters wheeled in to take out the dead and wounded. One helicopter was hit and destroyed this morning. Losses continued to rise on sides in the battle for the occupies- ridge 1,600 feet above the Da Krong River valley. Field reports put government casualties at 50 killed and 119 wounded. The allies say 81 North Vietnamese have been killed.

One American adviser was killed and several U.S. and Australian advisers were wounded in the fighting Tuesday at Tun Tavern, which lies in rugged jungle mountains 21 miles south of the demilitarized zone. Spokesmen at Quang Tri City said two prisoners captured early today reported gunships which circled the beleaguered base all night firing rockets and mlniguns had ruined plans tor another full-scale ground assault. Port Angeles Senior High Class of 1970 graduates tonight BHr I These 1970 Port Angeles Senior High School student? begin the traditional procession at 8 o'clock tonight. A list of the graduates is on page 10.

Evening News photo by Grayson Hulse.