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Serving Oregon's great South Coast (or over 100 years No. 9 111th Year Published in Coos Bay, Oregon 97420 Friday, July 14, 1989 35 Cents On WcmEPflcdl irds ferkeiri Sim Friend action sought mmie. dltf 4r 'JjvSU By GREG GERSON Staff Writer Daredevil aviator Joann Osterud broke two world records Thursday afternoon by flying 208 outside loops in a row at the North Bend Municipal Airport in two hours, three minutes and 34 seconds. "I feel so good that I could fly another 100," Osterud radioed down to the crowd when she passed the 200 loop mark. "But that would be dull." "Gee, I have a world record now, a kind of weird one," she said when she was back on the ground.

The stunt was a preview to the 1989 North Bend Air Show, which runs Saturday and Sunday. Gates open at 8 a.m., and the show starts at noon both days. Osterud broke two records: 180 men's outside loop mark set four years ago and a 58-year-old woman's record for women when an Oregonian, pioneer aviator Dorothy Hester Stenzel set the milepost on May 17, 1931, by flying 69 loops in a row. Stenzel came to North Bend from Portland to witness the event. Four to five years ago Stenzel saw Osterud fly in a woman's aerobatics competition and P0 asked her when was she going to try and break her record.

"I shook her hand back then because I told her I might not be around when she finally broke the record," Stenzel said. To help localize the record breaking attempt, Osterud and North Bend Air Show Director Susan (Continued on Page 2) SALEM, Ore. (AP) Gov. Neil Goldschmidt has asked the attorney general to prepare a friend of the court brief in the spotted owl lawsuit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

In a letter dated Thursday, the governor told Attorney General Dave Frohnmayer he was concerned the lawsuit brought by the Portland Audubon Society had interfered with the federal forest planning process. "If the planning process is going to work as envisioned by Congress, federal land management agencies must be able to implement the plans when they are completed," Goldschmidt wrote. "If new information becomes available during the planning cycle, it can and should be addressed in the new plans. This is what I understand the BLM intends to do." The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has restored an injuction barring BLM from offering for sale any old growth timber within 2.1 miles of a spotted owl nest in Western Oregon.

The agency has estimated the action means as much as 400 million board feet ot timber, a third of the agency's annual harvest in Oregon, can't be offered for sale this year. The U.S. Fish Wildlife Service has since begun considering the spotted owl for listing as a federal threatened species. The owl, which depends on old growth forest for nesting and hunting, is estimated to number less than 6,000 in Washington, Oregon and Northern California. In the latest ruling in the lawsuit, U.S.

District Judge Helen Frye agreed with environmentalists that BLM acted arbitrarily and capriciously by failing to take into account new information about the effects of logging old growth timber when preparing the latest manag-ment plans for the spotted owl. ii J' r-n I I --7 '-'K- 4j -'J I i J. World photos by Greg Gerson An exhausted Joann Osterud is help from her plane after flying 209 outside loops in about two hours. Old record holder Stenzel offers praise. Uim0imsaysfimiiirale' pilot reportedly slhiofi MIAMI (AP) A pilot who miraculously survived an 800-mile flight while he was unconscious had been shot through the abdomen at some point before he crash-landed in the Bahamas and swam to rescuers, police said today.

"It was unquestionably a gunshot wound," said Hollywood Police Chief Richard Witt. "The surgeons at the Hollywood Hospital said there was a wound that passed through the left rib cage, (and the colon), exited and struck him in the arm and exited again." Authorities have not recovered the small-caliber gun and believe it would have gone down with the plane. Authorities earlier had speculated that Thomas Root may have had a heart attack or inhaled carbon pened. He said he didn't know. He said he passed out in the plane, and the next thing he knew water was coming in and he was sinking." Rahman, who found no signs of a heart attack and said Root had no history of diabetes, speculated the veteran pilot may have passed out from carbon monoxide poisoning in the cockpit.

But the federal official leading an investigation into the incident challenged that theory. "I personally don't think carbon monoxide was the cause," said George Prellezo, regional director of the National Transportation Safety Board's Miami office. "If he was exposed to carbon monoxide for that length of time, there would be more medical problems. dria, slumped in the cockpit. "I thought there was no way he was going to survive that crash," said Air Force Staff Sgt.

Scott Tracy, one of four specially trained rescuers who parachuted to the crash site, about 15 miles east of the island of Eleuthera and nearly 800 miles from his planned destination. Wearing only pants and socks, Root managed to swim clear of the craft minutes before it sank in nearly 10,000 feet of water. Coast Guard Capt. James Rahman, a doctor who treated Root in Nassau, Bahamas, said Root may have been jarred awake by the impact and flood of water. "It's definitely a miracle he's alive.

He's a little confused by it all," the doctor said. "I asked him what hap The chief said a powder burn indicated Root was shot at close range, but did not say it was self-inflicted. He said the gunshot apparently occurred in the air and the investigation may come under federal jurisdiction. Authorities have said there was no one else visible in the plane. Root was in stable condition, recovering from internal injuries at Hollywood Hospital today.

His odyssey started on a flight from Washington to Rocky Mount, N.C., and ended when he crashed after his single-engine plane ran out of fuel 10,000 feet above Bahamian waters early Thursday afternoon. For nearly four hours, military jets shadowed the Cessna 210 Centurion as it traveled down the East Coast on autopilot with the 36-year-old lawyer from Alexan Sister City Park proposal adopted Clinic is closed Wafer gardens centerpiece of plan TlicCfVbrltl temporarily vV 1 World leaders meet Leaders of the world's seven richest nations, turning from partying to politics, opened their annual summit today in Paris. Art for everyone Art is for everyone," says the diminutive Miwako, whose newest watercolors go on display Saturday at the Second Street Gallery in Old Town Bandon. Page 5. EDITORIAL 4 COAST LIFE 5 COMICS 6 ENTERTAINMENT 7 WEATHER 8 CROSSWORD PUZZLE 8 ASTROGRAPH 8 SPORTS 9 CLASSIFIED 10-14 Cloudy skies FORECAST: Becoming cloudy tonight with lows of 50-55 and north wind 10-20 mph.

Saturday will be sunny after morning clouds and local drizzle. Highs 65-70. TEMPERATURES: High Thursday 66 (19C), low 56 (13.5C). No precipitation. Total rainfall to date: 35.86 inches.

developing the small pond behind the existing foot bridge and planting of timber bamboo. The bridge is scheduled for installation within the next month, according to Public Works Director Doug Ellinger. Cost for the first phase of the plan, including the boardwalk construction, is estimated at about $40,000. Mayor Gould has targeted completion of phase one to coincide with the Bay Area Fun Festival in September. Gould indicated that the next step is to move forward with fundraising efforts for the park through creation of a Sister City Association and a brochure describing plans for the park.

In May, the Coos Bay City Council authorized $7,000 for Murase to develop plans for the Sister City Park. The fee paid to the architect thus far covers the preliminary drawings presented to commission members Thursday. Additional detailed drawings and assistance may be contracted on a per-hour basis, Murase said. Murase's drawings will be on display at the Coos Bay City Hall early next week, Ellinger said. By JANET PAULSON Staff Writer Water gardens enhanced by natural vegetation are the centerpiece of plans for the long awaited Choshi Gardens Sister City Park, unveiled Thursday afternoon by a Portland architect.

The plans call for landscaping in the Japanese tradition extending beyond the footbridge at Mingus Pond. The Choshi Gardens Steering Committee and Coos Bay Parks Commission adopted Robert Murase's proposal as the official plan for the Sister City Park. The plan utilizes existing trails, water and vegetation. Murase said the existing park will serve as an excellent beginning for the Japanese-style garden. "It's a naturally wonderful place right now.

You just need to clean it up and add to it," Murase said. Murase's plan is designed so that work can be accomplished in phases over a period of years, as funding is available and other factors are resolved. Murase estimates costs for the deluxe model for the park, including two pavilions, boardwalk, and waterfalls at $368,000. However, the costs are extremely variable depending on what the city wants to do and how much volunteer i vv By GREG GERSON Staff Writer The Bay Area Prenatal Clinic was temporarily closed by its board in an emergency meeting Thursday, sending at least 186 current clients to private medical care for the next six to eight weeks. Rita Bauman, BAPC board member and Bay Area Hospital director of nursing, said that services are being curtailed temporarily at the prenatal clinic.

"We're in an transition period right now and the clinic could be operating at full speed in six to eight weeks," she said. "Women in need of prenatal care will be seen by obstetricians and family practitioners at North Bend Medical Clinic," she said. Bay Area Prenatal Clinic Director Gert Welsh did not attend the BAH meeting; she is recovering from surgery and was unavailable for comment today. Bauman said services had to be curtailed while Welsh is recovering because she was the only certified nurse midwifenurse practitioner at the clinic. (Continued on Page 2) I World photo by Matt Andrus Architect Robert Murase describes park plans.

labor and donations are available, Murase said. City officials indicated willingness to move forward on the first phase of the plan, which includes rehabilitation of the existing lake edge, landscaping and stonework, as soon as possible. "I think it's a wonderful plan," said Mayor Roger Gould. "The front section can be done with volunteer labor working in conjunction with city staff." Phase one will also include installation of the Japanese style bridge, torii gate, clearing brush,.