The World from Coos Bay, Oregon • 1

Bandon Coqullle 75 Sluslaw 72 Gold Beach 61 Douglas 60 Reedsport 74 55 Myrtle Point 56 Brookings 68 Girls Marshfleld Willamette 64 South Eugene 48 27 North Bend 47 'Unsolved Mysteries' Robert Stack hosts NBC's 'Unsolved Mysteries," which features a Coos County case on Wednesday. yycTDD A a 6 6 a a 6 a 6 a 6 6 JUL Serring Oregon's great Smith Coast for over 100 years No. 166 1 10th Year Published in Coos Bay, Oregon 97420 Saturday, January 14, 1989 25 Cents Scores: Boys EdI 1 i Search ends Cleanup work is needed Vogel picked for port job i 1 I I By DAVE PEDEN News Editor Paul Vogel, marketing director for the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay for the last two years, was named Friday to succeed Frank Martin as port manager. Vogel, 29, was chosen from among a field of four finalists for the position vacated in October by Martin. A total of 259 applicants sought the post.

Vogel's $45,000 per year position becomes effective Monday. Members of the port commission indicated they supported Vogel for the position in part because of his ability to work with Oregon lawmakers and Gov. Neil Goldschmidt. Vogel worked as a field representative for the Goldschmidt campaign prior to joining the port as marketing 7 nil World photos bv L'alandra Sterling Harry Saftlas constructs the gradients to put his model railroad on the right track. 1 nTinrpTw'i ym pi iiiwiwm 3 WT" 1 I cdd i .1 I i -jgl director in January 1987.

Port Commission President John Stephens said, "After an exhaustive search and agonizing evaluation process spanning three months, the port commission finally came home." He added that the port commission unanimously approved the idea of promoting from within the organization. Vogel said he first came to the port thinking the position of marketing director would offer a chance to "balance marketing and politics. It's a political entity, and I knew the governor would pay a lot of attention to the area. It looked like the right balance between marketing and politics, and there hasn't been a dull moment since." PAUL VOGEL New port manager Vogel said he was encouraged to apply for the position by members of the port commission. Naturally, he said, "I had an interest in who the new person would be." During the last three months, he added, "as I worked closely with the commission, we got to know each other pretty well.

They know my strengths, and I believe my weaknesses will be balanced by the rest of the staff." According to the new port manager, "I was a little surprised they settled on me. They started out looking for someone with experience, perfectly tailored to this place." (Continued on Page 2) r- ,1,11. 'z'tft ft 'ZCr- By CHARLES KOCHER Managing Editor After doing everything possible to help clean up the spill of oil from a Sause Co. barge at Grays Harbor, company president Dale Sause said Friday he would not have it any other way. "You make the best effort to accept your responsibility and take care of it," Sause said of such accidents.

"You take it in stride and clean them up. You do what is reasonable and right." From the initial efforts of the tug captain to keep the loose barge from causing a worse spill through efforts of 1,000 volunteers and workers hired by the company to clean up the oil that did spill, newspaper accounts of the accident and cleanup efforts reflect praise won by the company in the wake of the accident. "The company has been here actively working with us since day one," one U.S. Coast Guard official is quoted as saying in a Seattle paper. "They have been pretty responsible." The responsibility has been costly, though Sause is not willing to release figures at this time because all the claims have not yet been filed.

He said Friday that insurance will cover all of it, and the costs of the accident will not threaten the firm in any way. "There's no pending liquidations, no plans to move out of Coos Bay, no layoffs," he told The World in response to "rampant rumors" Friday afternoon. He told the crew at the firm's barge yard the same thing Friday afternoon, also in an effort to address rumors, he said. The dismissal of six workers in the firm's machine shop earlier this week was "inevitable" despite the oil spill, he said. He called the machine shop closure a reorganization of the firm, saying it would be contracting out the work that it had been doing.

The firm is the third largest towing company on the West Coast, Sause said, operating 30 tugs and 30 barges in Oregon, Washington, California, Hawaii and sometimes the Gulf states. Cargoes range from lumber to chemicals to petroleum products. On its 91st voyage of the year, the barge Nestucca, carrying 2.7 million gallons of oil for British Petroleum, was being towed into Grays Harbor Dec. 23 by the tug Ocean Service when the towing cable snapped. "As far as we're concerned," reports a column in the Montesano Vidette newspaper of Grays Harbor County, "Charlie Mays of Gold Beach, Oregon, skipper of the tug, is something of a hero." According to accounts, Mays was worried the barge would go aground on the jetty, so he maneuvered the (Continued on Page 2) The S.C.

W. Railroad is off and running with its newly converted engine. Train whistles blow again for Bandon rail enthusiast State jobless rate reaches 1 9-year low By CALANDRA STERLING Staff Intern For Harry Saftlas, the train whistles blow at night again. The Bandon resident once called himself a railroad fan, and dreamed in younger years of building his own railroad, on a miniature scale, of course. That was years ago, though, when Saftlas was 12, and for two decades his model railroad was just one of those unfinished childhood projects that clutter the attics and cellars of America.

Recently, however, his mother uncovered the miniature engine and all the carefully crafted cars and signal boxes, and brought them with her on a visit to her son in Oregon. With the railroad fires burning again, Saftlas is reconstructing his long-abandoned project. On a four by five foot plywood bench, he has built new gradients and bridges, and the S.C. W. railroad is running once more.

S.C. Smiling at the memory of his adolescent sense of humor, Saftlas translates. "The Sar-Casm and Western." Some other things have changed since that time, Saftlas notes. "I had problems back then with gradients that were too steep, and things like that. I was good at the artistic parts, but had no idea about engineering." He says that now he has done some reading on engineering subjects, and feels that this new railroad is more practical as a result.

The centerpiece of all this effort is a tiny train engine fashioned of sheet copper and various oddments of hardware. It was originally of Civil War (Continued on Page 2) SALEM, Ore. (AP) Oregon's unemployment rate dropped last month to its lowest level since the early 1970s, the state Employment Division said Friday. The December jobless rate was 5.1 percent, down from 5.6 percent in November, the division said. Meanwhile, the national unemployment rate dipped to 5.3 percent in December.

The December rate for Coos and Curry counties is due to be announced Jan. 20. The November jobless rate in Coos County was 10.3 percent, up from 8.8 percent the previous month and up from 8.2 percent in November 1987. The Employment Division said Oregon's jobless rate in December was the lowest since the state began adjusting the figure in 1972 to reflect season factors. Also noteworthy was the fact that the state unemployment rate last month was lower than the national rate for the first time in 12 months, the division said.

The estimated number of Orego-nians on the jobless rolls in December, 77,200, was down by 1,000 from the previous month. That marked the first decline from a November to a December since 1968, the employment agency said. Timber industry layoffs were less than normal last month while employment levels in other areas of manufacturing showed no major changes, the division said. Ending its best year since 1981, the construction industry added 300 new jobs in December. Two years missing INSIDE TIie( World Jeremy Bright case airs on TV Judith Kobrin quits downtown group missing person case.

"Hopefully, this is the thing that does it. All I need is one call, if I get the right one." The show will be televised at 8 p.m. on Warner Cable channels 5 and 8, along with channel 46 for non-cable viewers. Viewers with information about the case are urged to telephone 1-800-876-5353. Ports dredging The president's proposed 1990 budget could leave vessels high and dry in South Coast ports.

Business, Page 4A. WEATHER 3 EDITORIAL 4 SPORTS 9 CLASSIFIED 13-18 COAST LIFE 1A COMICS 2A ENTERTAINMENT 3A CROSSWORD PUZZLE 3A Good local tip needed, investigators say By MARK FREEMAN Staff Writer The baffling and still unsolved 1986 disappearance of a Myrtle Point teen-ager will be featured Wednesday as part of an NBC television series that asks its viewers to help solve puzzling crimes. A 15-minute "Unsolved Mysteries" segment will probe into the theories behind the vanishing of Jeremy Doland Bright, who was last seen in Myrtle Point during the 1986 Coos County Fair in August. Family members and investigators who have spent 2'2 frustrating years chasing rumors about Bright's disappearance and possible homicide are hoping the show's airing will provide a clue that may solve the case. "I hope someone feels so guilty about not coming forward before the show, that this will get them to come forward now," said Coos County Sheriff's Sgt.

Dalton, the detective who has been investigating Bright's seeing Bright in Myrtle Point as late as Aug. 16 and 17, no trace of him has been found. The search has gone nationwide and sheriff's investigators continue to generate new information in the case. The search will widen Wednesday when "Unsolved Mysteries" host Robert Stack asks viewers nationwide to telephone tips to the television studio, which will relay them to investigators in hopes of solving the case. The show is produced by Los Angeles-based Cosgrove-Muerer Productions, and producer Laura Patterson said about one in four segments is solved because of TV-generated tips.

Most solved mysteries ask to capture a known fugitive whose picture is shown during the show, and the Bright case could be more challenging, Patterson said. "What's tricky about Jeremy's story is that it's local," said Patter-(Continued on Page 2) "Judith Kobrin has resigned as manager of the Downtown Business Association of Coos Bay, effective Feb. 3. She will go to work for Hamlyn Associates, a Philadelphia-based marketing firm, where her first job will be to restructure marketing efforts for Evergreen Court in North Bend. "I think things are just about to take off in the downtown area," said Kobrin.

"I'm sorry to leave the position at this time. I think in the next year we're going to see a tremendous number of changes in the downtown area, all very positive, and I'm glad I'll still be in Coos Bay to see them take place." The association has about 60 members. "I feel the association is stronger than when I took over," she added. Kobrin has been manager for two years. (Continued on Page 2) Showers FORECAST: Showers today with increasing rain late.

Periods of rain Sunday. Winds south to southwest today at 15-25 mph. Highs in the upper 40s, lows near 40. Periods of rain Sunday, highs near 50. TEMPERATURES: High Friday 46 (7.7C), low 40 (4.4C).

Rainfall .61: Total rainfall to date 6.72 inches. Bright was a 14-year-old boy who was anxious to begin high school when he disappeared Aug. 14, 1986, according to police reports. He was separated from his 10-year-old sister near the ferris wheel at the fair and was last seen about 9 p.m. that night when he borrowed money from his stepfather at a Myrtle Point cafe.

Though area residents reported JUDITH KOBRIN Leaves post.