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SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 1999 Escapee csmught after 13 years flue. num. The convicted armed robber was tracked down in Illinois. The Associated Press The first time Marcia Diane Glimpse made a break for freedom, she was caught after 18 minutes. The second time she stayed free 13 years, until police in Galesburg, 111., knocked on the door of her trailer house.

"She came to the door, identified her self as Marcia Cadwell," said Galesburg Police Sgt. Thomas Camper. "She was asked if she knew why the police were there and she said yes, she was wanted out of Oregon." She offered to be handcuffed. If she had not fled, she would have been free in 1988. Using computer database searches, the Oregon Department of Corrections Fugitive Apprehension Unit tracked Glimpse to a tiny trailer park on the outskirts of Galesburg, about 160 miles southwest of Chicago.

Glimpse, now 47, was sent to prison in 1982 after robbing several Portland convenience stores. She tied up her victims at gunpoint and fired a shot when they were uncooperative. She was convicted of two counts of armed robbery. Two years into her sentence, Glimpse escaped as she and two other inmates were being walked back to the correctional center after attending classes at the Oregon State Penitentiary adjacent to the women's prison in Salem. "She just dropped her books and bolted," said Perrin Damon, a corrections spokeswoman.

Despite two warning shots, Glimpse fled and hid in a nearby apartment building. She was captured 18 minutes later. Then in 1986, after earning her way into a weekend release program, Glimpse failed to return to the prison. That program has been discontinued. Corrections investigators pulled together a list of aliases Glimpse had used and locations where she'd been sighted.

Glimpse, using a phony name, had been arrested in California several years ago on drug charges and auto theft but was released before her identity was discovered. It is not known how long Glimpse had lived in Illinois. On the morning of July 28, Galesburg police knocked at the door. Officials in Oregon and Illinois said they know little about Glimpse's life since her escape, except that she had gotten married and changed her last name to Cadwell. She has no arrest record in Galesburg, Camper said.

Glimpse will be extradited to Oregon. The Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision will determine her sentence. 6C STATESMAN JOURNAL 4" Police think man lolled others Retiree works artwork dowe to the bone i IV' I I i i The accused Forest Park killer was questioned in two 1987 slayings. The Associated Press GRESHAM Police are looking into whether Todd Reed, accused in the slayings of three women in Portland's Forest Park, killed two Gre-sham girls in 1987. Police questioned him at the time, but he was never charged or arrested.

"While we suspect that he was the person who killed both those girls, we didn't have enough evidence to convict him," said Gresham police Sgt. David Lerwick, who helped investigate the deaths of Jennifer Tchir, 15, and Mindi Thomas, 12. Tchir was reported missing July 3, 1987; Thomas was last seen Aug. 3, 1987. Tchir's remains were found July 8, 1988, and Thomas' that October.

The remains of both were found in wooded areas on the eastern side of Gresham, about three miles apart. Both had been strangled, as had the victims in the Forest Park killings. James Lang, one of Reed's attorneys, said Friday that police had not talked to his client about the two Gresham deaths. Reed was a suspect because his girlfriend, Gail Bennett, was the last person seen with each girl, Lerwick said. Bennett married Reed, but but they divorced in 1997.

Gresham police have reopened the cases and assigned new detectives to investigate. "We are reviewing the physical evidence that was collected at our crime scenes 1 images of ships, sea creatures, seafaring men and the women who occupied their dreams. Much of the early American scrimshaw work took place in the early 19th century, during the heyday of whaling, Hornfelt said. It was a time when whalers often spent a year or more at sea. While Hornfelt uses permanent India ink, shipboard artists often would color their work with soot from lamps or tobacco juice, leaving images that faded with time.

As top scrimshaw sailors improved their work, they became prized members of whaling crews, with ship captains claiming some of the artwork in exchange for raw ivory. At the end of the voyage, Hornfelt said, sale of the scrimshaw work would bring a profit for both the captain and the sailor. The end of the whaling boom also brought about a decline of scrimshaw work in the U.S. It didn't die out, but artists dwindled until a resurgence in the 1960s believed to have been spurred by President John F. Kennedy's love of scrimshaw.

The growing popularity of scrimshaw, coupled with the killing of whales, elephants and other creatures for their ivory, helped bring about a 1977 international agreement restricting trade in any products from endangered species. The United States was a parry to that agreement, enforcing rules that virtually cut off the availability of ivory for American scrimshaw artists. Hornfelt supports the ivory ban and is happy to work on pieces of antler and horn, turning out bolo tie sliders, belt buck- The 70-year-old man recaptures the whaling-era art of scrimshaw. The Associated Press FLORENCE Archie Horn-felt calls it his scribe: a penlike tool with an old-fashioned steel phonograph needle for a tip. He lowers the steel to a piece of hand-polished antler and begins to scratch, applying considerable pressure in the process.

"It gets hard on the fingers," the 70-year-old man said. "I only just work a little while at a time." He calls himself a "scrimshawer," a practitioner of an art practiced for centuries that can produce pieces of exquisite beauty. After a few deft strokes of his long fingers, he rubs India ink on the smooth white surface. When he wipes it off, a cartoon face formed by ink captured in the scratch marks grins up at him. It's an art form that takes time and patience, said Hornfelt, a retired professor of technology at Eastern Washington University in Cheney.

One slip of the steel point and the piece is ruined, forcing him to grind off his scratches and refinish the bone a process that can involve hours of hand sanding and polishing with progressively finer grades of sandpaper. But Hornfelt rarely makes mistakes. Favoring the creatures of the wild eagles, elk and wolves he makes hundreds of intricate scratches to give their bodies lifelike definition. Whaling ship sailors gave the art a special flavor, scratching Th Associated Prsss GROWING IN POPULARITY: Scrimshaw artist Archie Hornfelt etches an elk image into a soon-to-be belt buckle made from an elk antler bud. Hornfelt calls himself a "scrimshawer," a practitioner of an art practiced for centuries that can produce pieces of exquisite beauty.

It's an art form that takes time and patience, said Hornfelt, a retired professor of technology at Eastern Washington University in Cheney. -V ship on a sperm whale tooth he collected before the ivory ban. It'll be mounted on a piece of rose quartz and become a family heirloom, not for sale. Hornfelt knows his work will outlast him, just as much of the work by the early scrimshaw artists became their legacy. And that's one reasons he finds the work so satisfying.

"This is the way I guess I can leave part of me behind," he said. Lightning cuts power in Portland The Associated Press PORTLAND Thousands of homes lost electricity overnight when lightning struck dozens of transformers in the Portland area, a spokesman for PGE said Saturday. "Lightning is attracted to high objects and the transformers are on poles," said Mark Fry-berg, spokesman for the utility serving Salem north through the Portland area. A total of about 14,000 to 16,000 customers were without power Friday night, but the number was reduced to about 400-500 Saturday morning, he said. Most of the damage was concentrated in southeast Portland, particularly the Sellwood neighborhood, Fryberg said.

Scattered repairs were needed throughout Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties. CRUSH RESISTER III I Installed over 7 lb pad 'Removal and disposal and furniture moving extra 90dayi amtu oub, OAC store kit, -y1 lit i La to see what further tests might be done on them," Lerwick said. Police Chief Bernie Giusto said clothing of the two girls, is Reed being retrieved to see if DNA can be recovered Police say DNA evidence links Reed to the deaths of Lil-la Faye Moler, 28; Stephanie Lynn Russell, 26; and Alexandria Ison, 17, whose bodies were found in Forest Park in the spring. All were homeless and had histories of drug use, and at least two were involved in prostitution. Giusto said that at the time there was not hard DNA evidence to work with in the case of the two girls.

Lerwick would not discuss other details of the 1987 cases, including whether the girls had been sexually assaulted. Reed was arrested July 19 at the produce warehouse where he worked. He is charged with seven counts of aggravated murder in the Forest Park cases. Tchir's mother, Mary Tchir, said she had known all along that Reed was a suspect in her daughter's death and was glad the police had a case against him in the Forest Park slayings. "I am just thrilled," she said.

"They've got him for something. Even if it's not my daughter, they have him for something." www.StatesmanJournal.comJobs SALEM 71 A service of the Statesman Journal Club Greet" tiT G)7tJ labels www.lancastermall.com 1 If 6K Congress OKs plan to deepen Columbia Take Home A Special Hand-Made Craft At The Next les, pins, earrings and cribbage boards. He's been at it for perhaps 15 years, first attracted to the art by reading a magazine article on how to "spoon scrimshaw" etch images onto plastic spoons. Hornfelt gives his artwork to family and friends, takes some orders, and said he may start selling items in local galleries. One of these days he'll gather enough nerve to do his masterpiece a magnificent sailing "NEAR AS I CAN TELL, WE GOT EVERYTHING WE WERE AFTER.

I WAS PLEASED." REP. EARL BLUMENAUER, D-ORE. tala, executive director of the Columbia Deepening Opposition Group in Astoria On Aug. 17, the corps is expected to release its final environmental report, which will include a recommendation to Congress. The corps' draft report recommended approval, and that isn't likely to change, said Laura Hicks, project manager for the corps.

Along with the channel project, the Water Resources Development Act includes federal assistance for Willamette River flood plain restoration and environmental improvements to the Columbia Slough. "Near as I can tell, we got everything we were after," said Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore. "I was pleased." Kid's "Meet ((' 4 i r- a TV- i5 said the project which would dredge 114 miles from the river's mouth to Portland is needed to accommodate a new generation of bigger container ships, they said. "Our economy is directly tied to our wheat and agriculture trade, which is dependent on the types of vessels and amount of cargo that can go through the channel," said Sen.

Slade Gorton, R-Wash. Environmental groups say nobody is weighing the damage that dredging millions of cubic yards of sand and blasting loose rock could cause to a delicate estuary at the river's mouth. "It's always been rather surprising to me that this process is on such a fast track in that here we have authorization heading to the president's desk for signature before we even have an environmental impact statement finalized," said Peter Huh- Environmentalists fear the project could threaten salmon. The Associated Press Congress approved a $183 million project to deepen the Columbia River shipping channel, a move supporters say will help keep Portland competitive in the shipping business. The plan comes as part of a massive water-projects act passed by the House and Senate on Thursday, but it still awaits final scrutiny of an environmental impact report being prepared by the U.S.

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