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TODAY 0 HIGH: Partly sunny Uw' LOW: Details: Back Page K' DAGiiL Ci LA! ADD3 CALE.M The Lake Oswego- based Bagel Basket picks two downtown sites. 80 Business Y0-YOS' POPULARITY upswing All ages enjoy going around the world and rocking the cradle with the timeless toy. IDLife youth spouts Little League Challengers kick off the summer feature. 1, 4C Sports si Tournal Is race a factor in youth sentencing? By Alan Gustafson The Statesman Journal January 1995. Two black teenagers, Lydell and Laycelle White, confess to the beating deaths of an elderly Salem couple.

The twin brothers draw the toughest possible punishment: life sentences, plus more than 60 years in prison for each. January 1995. A white teenager named Dominic Holmes confesses to stabbing his mother to death. Holmes gets off easy. He's ordered into a treatment program at MacLaren School in Woodburn; he will be released when he turns 21.

June 1995. Another white teen-ager, Willie Wayne Johnson, is convicted in the fatal shotgun shootings of two young men. COURTS Laren School, an institution for juvenile delinquents. Formal sentencing will be Aug. 2.

Johnson's lawyers say he needs treatment and would best be able to get turned around through MacLaren's programs. District Attorney Dale Penn said he didn't think that sending Johnson to a training school was an appropriate disposition, given the fact that he killed two people and wounded three more. "I think overall and particu Siege grips Bosnian capital 7, 1995qJ Inside the Legisliliire About the law Willie Johnson does not fall under the strict sentencing mandates in Measure 1 1 He was accused of murder, but the offenses were committed before the law was enacted. However, even if he had been charged after Measure 11 was imposed, he would not have faced a mandatory sentence because his conviction criminally negligent homicide is not a Measure 1 1 crime. Measure 11 sets lengthy minimum sentences for 16 felonies and applies to those 15 and older.

Senate Bill 1, which passed the House on Tuesday, would implement the law. Page 2A a Bosnian Serb sniper fires upon them nrM iwi ini, rrvcv Jut -i- Pr" Wednesday, June EsnDDep larly in examining the situation from the victims' perspective, this is a very sad situation," he said. The families and friends of the young people killed or wounded feel that justice has not been served. Victims' relatives said they were too devastated to talk. "It's a travesty.

They not only lost their loved ones, but they were slapped in the face after the fact," said Tammy Nix of Stay-ton, a family friend of both Erin Gordon, 20, of Lyons, and Tony Ray Sanders, 17, of Salem, who were killed. Please see Verdict, Page 2A A French armored personnel carrier as a tle daily with the tax code. William Dakin, senior tax counsel for Mobil stacked his company's tax return atop the witness table, balancing the precarious pile. The company, which paid $2 billion in federal taxes last year, spent $10 million and "57 man-years" just to produce the return, he said. Archer, R-Texas, would replace the income tax with a broad-based tax on individual and business consumption spending, with exemptions for medical and some housing expenses.

And then, he would repeal the 16th Amendment that autho (f "Do tf; "ib-vn" 50 cents 40 cents in selected stores 3 A jury finds him guilty of criminally negligent homicide, the lightest possible crime. Sentencing policies mean that Johnson will go to MacLaren, where he could be released at any time. Did race make the difference in the outcomes of these Salem cases? Probably not, according to defense lawyers and prosecutors familiar with the cases. "The situations are really so different. Each case has its own facts and circumstances," said Mark Geiger, a Salem defense lawyer who represented Laycelle White.

"I'm not sure why people tend to jump the gun and see something racial." Please see Race, Page 2A Serbs release 103 hostages The Los Angeles Times BELGRADE, Yugoslavia Bowing to international pressure, Bosnian Serbs said they had released more than 100 U.N. hostages early today. Two buses carrying 108 peacekeepers captured after NATO launched air strikes against Serb positions last month were reported to have arrived at Zvornika, a town on Serbia's border with Bosnia-Herzegovina. A total of 150 U.N. peacekeepers and military observers remained hostage to Bosnian Serb forces.

Bosnian Serbs, meanwhile, told the Cable News Network that they had not captured the American pilot whose F-16 was shot down on Friday. In Washington, the Pentagon said searchers no longer were receiving electronic beacon signals that were reported emanating from the rough Bosnian terrain where the plane fell. ROUNDUP: Fighting continues amid the release. Page 5A BY POUND: William Dakin, chief tax counsel for Mobil holds a portion of Mobil's nine-volume, 76 6.300-page 1993 tax return while testifying on Capitol Hill. Dakin was among the first of 40 witnesses expected to back tax reform.

Associated Press passing on the higher cost of ingredients," he says. And as with anything, it's cheaper for a company to mass produce a product than to make a limited number. Regular potato chips are mass produced; fat-free chips are still a specialty item and are produced in limited numbers. And baking chips to make them lower in fat is a much more costly process than frying them in oil. The good news is that low-fat and nonfat foods will get cheaper as the market for them grows.

FULL STORY: All about fat and prices. A Taste for Living Sarajevans take cover behind a Salem, Oregon By Janet Davies The Statesman Journal Jurors in the trial of Willie Wayne Johnson concluded that he didn't know any better when he fired a single shotgun blast into a crowd of people outside a Subway sandwich shop. They found the 16-year-old guilty of the least serious charges available for killing two young people and wounding three others in the July 29 incident in the 3300 block of Commercial Street SE. The verdict means that he will not go to prison, but will spend all or part of five years in Mac- Leniency may end on marijuana possession By Anastasia Athon The Statesman Journal Oregon's 22-year-old experiment with marijuana would come to an end under a bill approved Tuesday in the House. 1973, Oregon became the first state in the nation to decriminalize the possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.

Two decades later, lawmakers said it's time to take a tougher stand. 't After an hourlong debate, lawmakers voted 43-17 to make possession of less than an ounce of pot a Class A misdemeanor. The bill now goes to the Senate. "I want to know that I did something for the children of Oregon," said Rep. Jerry Grisham, R-Oregon City, the bill's sponsor.

Oregon law treats possession of less than an ounce of marijuana as a violation, more like a traffic infraction than a crime fines run from $500 to $1,000. But under House Bill 3466, possession of less than an ounce would become a crime again. Fines would range from $100 to $5,000. During the debate, several legislators questioned the potential $1 million cost to enforce the measure. But Grisham countered that cost estimates were debatable because more money likely would be generated from fines.

Eugene Democratic Rep. Floyd Prozanski, a former Lane County assistant district attorney, said he's concerned about the negative impact of a criminal conviction on youth. "If you really want to send a message to kids about drugs, you don't do it after they're convicted," he said. "You do it before they get involved." Jeff Kushner, director of the state Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs, thinks the Legislature is sending a good message. "For a lot of people, the higher the penalty, the less chance there will be that they will use," he said.

Inside today's Statesman Journal BAILING Baseball legend Mickey Mantle needs a liver transplant. PageIC WLfD3fi jj The Associated Press in the center of the Bosnian capital. Republican would replace income tax system 'yt The Associated Press WASHINGTON With an eye on the 1996 elections, House Republicans began laying the legislative and political groundwork Tuesday for radical change in the nation's tax system. Opening a week of hearings, the chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Bill Archer, declared the 82-year-old income tax "too broken to be fixed" and said, "It must be replaced." With more than 40 reform advocates scheduled to testify this week, the first ones out of the gate were executives of businesses large and small who wres Index Ann Landers 3D Business 7, 8B Classified 5-1 2C en NewsjifJS.

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He is considering a national sales tax, possibly in combination with a value-added tax, which is like a sales tax but levied at all levels of production. Archer and other income-tax opponents concede a complete overhaul of the tax system probably must wait until after the election. Congress this year is contemplating tax cuts that leave the system in place. Whatever reform ultimately is adopted, he said, should meet four objectives: eliminate individual tax returns, encourage savings, catch tax cheaters and promote U.S. exports.

HEALTH And there's a whopping difference in regular potato chips and corn chips compared to nonfat ones. At Roth's in West Salem, a bag of Diane's tortilla chips were about 15 cents an ounce. Guiltless Gourmet Baked tortilla strips were nearly double. Who can we blame for this? It depends on who you talk to. The profit motive is always there.

Grocers can mark up the popular products a little bit and skim off the cream, so to speak. But some people say that doesn't make any sense, that you Taking out the fat makes prices heftier 7,7 i don't sell products, especially new ones, by pricing them out of reach of the general public. The culprit appears to be the manufacturing process itself. Two companies Kraft and Keebler explain that when you remove the flavorful fat from a product, something else has to replace it. We don't, after all, want our crackers or chips or cookies tasting like the box they are packaged in.

Keebler marketing director Michael Jurgensen says the slightly higher shelf price for that company's reduced-fat and nonfat products is a reflection of the higher production costs. "It's New foods may be more healthy, but they also are more costly. By Tom Forstrom The Statesman Journal We want to look good and feel good, but we're paying the price, at least at the grocery store. The low-fat and fat-free foods we're buying cost more than their original counterparts. A typical example: A 24-ounce bottle of Kraft Ranch Dressing at Fred Meyer sold recently for $3.63.

A fat-free version of the same thing cost $4.27..