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B-4 Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho Monday, September 21, 1987 Idaho Claude Dallas: Conditions superior at Nebraska prison The Idaho Vote The following is a summary of votes cast by members of Idaho's congressional delegation during the week ending on September 18. U.S. House delegates; Richard Stallings Democrat Larry Craig Republican 1 (3 In Washington: 1318 Longworth Washington, D.C. 20515 (202)225-6611 the pilot and Tim McNeese, executive assistant for the Department of Corrections. The attorney said the flight departed about 10 p.m.

Thursday, stopped in Wyoming for refueling and landed in Lincoln about 4:30 a. m. Friday. Nebraska prison officials said Dallas was booked into the jail at 4:50 a.m. Churchill said Dallas' transfer might be expensive because of all the appeals pending in Idaho courts.

He said he filed a habeas corpus action against the state prison in late August in an effort to regain Dallas' one year of good time that he had built up prior to his escape. The habeas corpus action also seeks relief for prison guards' treatment of Dallas, "which is a moot point now that he's in Nebraska," Churchill said. Dallas also may need to appear in Idaho court to defend himself in a civil suit filed against him by an insurance company that represents the estates of state Fish and Game officers Conley Elms and William Pogue, Churchill said. Dallas also may need to appear in the appeal of his manslaughter conviction, Churchill said. "That certainly will require his presence at some point." Dallas' escape trial focused on the state prison and corrections officer Lt.

Wayne Nimmo, who had reportedly told other correctional officers that he intended to kill Dallas if given the chance. But Murphy said no changes personnel or otherwise were planned at the prison. Churchill said when he visited Dallas at the Idaho prison after his acquittal, Dallas had been placed in a maximum-security isolation cell and was not allowed to mingle with other prisoners. Corrections Director Al Murphy said the transfer should have come as no surprise. "I said I was going to do that even before he was captured," Murphy said.

"States have to get rid of high-risk prisoners," he said. "It's a very typical thing. We do it all the time," Murphy said Dallas was considered high risk because of his escape and denied that the transfer had stemmed from Dallas' recent acquittal on a felony escape charge. He said Dallas' transfer Thursday was kept secret for security reasons. Dallas, who killed two game wardens in 1981, was captured March 8 in Riverside, after escaping from the Idaho State Penitentiary on March 30, 1986, and eluding authorities for almost a year.

His year on the lam included travels to San Francisco, Nevada and Mexico, where he had $3,000 worth of plastic surgery done on his face. Dallas was acquitted of felony escape by an Ada County jury Sept. 5. The jury found that Dallas' life had been threatened repeatedly by prison guards, that he might have been killed in a prison riot, and that his escape was justified to save his life. Churchill said Dallas was flown to Nebraska in a small airplane that seats eight people.

He was accompanied by two prison guards, House legislation: 7 Sept. 1 6. House approves Import quota bill. By a 263-156 vote, the House endorsed a bill JL to Impose stiff quotas on textile, apparel and shoe Imports. The bill Imposes an annual 1 percent growth cap on some 1 85 categories of textile and garment Imports, while holding 1 5 categories of shoe Imports to 1986 levels.

Craig: NO. Stallings: NO. U.S. Senate delegates: Jim McClure Republican a -fes In Washington: U.S. Senate Washington.

D.C. 20510 (202)224-2752 In Twin Falls; 734-6780 Senate legislation: (7 Sept. 15. Senate abandons campaign financing reform. For an unprecedented seventh time the Senate failed by a 51-44 vote to Invoke cloture against a filibuster on a bill that i would create a series of voluntary spending limits In Senate primary and general election races and limit the amount of money House and Senate candidates could accept from political action committees (PACS).

McClure: NO. Symms: NO. Sept. 17. Senate reaffirms curb on SDI testing.

The Senate voted 58-38 to retain a provision of the fiscal 1988 defense authorization bill that would restrict development of President Reagan's anti-missile strategic defense Initiative (SDI). The provision would bar the administration from conducting anti-missile testing In space In violation of Ihe traditional Interpretation of the 1972 anti-ballistic missile (ABM) treaty, unless such testing was approved by Congress. McClure: NO. Symms: NO. Times-News graphic ON ALL USED '83 or NEWER CARS TRUCKS BOISE (AP) Convicted killer Claude Dallas finds the conditions at a maximum security prison in Nebraska more favorable than at the Idaho State Penitentiary, his attorney said.

Dallas was transferred to the 700-bed prison in Lincoln early Friday. Idaho corrections officials said Dallas' transfer was a routine one for a high-risk prisoner. Boise attorney Lance Churchill said he had talked to his client on Friday morning. "He said he liked Nebraska a lot better," Churchill said. "He's got a lot more freedom there than he did here.

They're letting him walk around with everybody else." BSU fire forces an evacuation BOISE (AP) A fire that broke out Friday at Boise State University's Student Union Building caused more than $100,000 in damages and forced about 100 bowlers and pool players to hotfoot their way outside. The flames were sparked as a result of spontaneous combustion in a storage room next to the campus bookstore, said Renn Ross, an investigator for the Boise Fire Department. Ross said rags stained with oil started the fire in the room, which was stocked with piles of paper, books, plastic folders and other school supplies. The fire spread into the ceiling of the bookstore and spewed smoke into the building's recreational area and both cafeterias. Smoke even seeped into freezers and contaminated food, food managers said.

The fire was ignited about 11:41 p.m. Friday and was fully mopped up by 3:30 a.m. Saturday. It caused little structural damage, but extensive smoke damage and a lot of confusion. When the fire ignited, about 100 people were forced out of the ation center through the doors on the building's south side, said Greg Hampton, the facility's manager.

David Foster, 21, who watched firefighters douse the flames, said smoke billowed from the building. "You couldn't see anything but smoke," he said. "Everything was back with soot." THERE'S 1 THE ITEMS CALL PLACE Man's slaying still a mystery Daughter waits for break pUP TO 60 MONTH MHAHCItJO TIMES-NEWS CLASSIFIED In Washington: 1221 Longworth Washington. D.C 20515 (202) 225-5531 In Twin Falls: 734-6329 Steve Symms Republican In Washington: U.S. Senate Washington, D.C.

20510 (202) 224-6142 In Twin Falls: 734-2515 hair, was clean shaven and was wearing sunglasses. "My father was a pretty friendly guy and although he warned me about picking up hitchhikers, he sometimes didn't follow his own advice," Ms. Walker said. "He was very vital, very energetic and thought he could take care of himself." Ms. Walker noted that her father, who was about 5-feet-ll and 165 pounds, had been a boxer in the Navy.

The woman conjectured that her father, a recovering alcoholic, probably just wanted someone to keep him company on the trip. Ms. Walker and authorities believe Smith was killed somewhere around Buhl. The killer then dumped his body and continued on his way. The Pocatello woman did not suspect anything was wrong until she was contacted by her aunt who called to tell her that Smith had never arrived in Vancouver.

It was shortly afterward that Smith's body was identified, based on body tattoos and fingerprints. Nurses Robin Young said. "I don't feel nurses are paid commensurately to their education and responsibility." St. Luke's management refused comment about the union drive, but Gilbertson issued a written statement acknowledging that some of the hospital's employees were disgruntled. "Some of our employees have expressed concern about compensation, benefits and personnel practices," hospital President E.

E. Gilbertson said in a written statement. Part-time St. Luke's nurse, Patti Day, concurs with the St. Luke's philosophy and said she is opposed to the union because of "the potential for strike.

As a nurse I couldn't do that (strike) to my patients, fellow employees or even to the hospital." had a hand in Ms. Cochnauer's and Thielen's triumph, since it took neighbors with a front-end loader and a truck to get the entry to the fair. She also had an opportunity to rub it in against Gibb, since she pulled up behind him at the pavilion when they entered their pumpkins, and Gibb helped her weigh and move into the exhibit hall the pumpkin that beat his 1 86-pound er. Kip, a year older and wiser, trundled a 220-pound pumpkin to the fair to take second place. POCATELLO (AP) It's been almost four months since Brenda Walker's father, Donald Edward Smith, was brutally murdered and his body dumped in a gully northwest of Buhl.

His killer remains at large. For the Pocatello woman, the nightmare of her father's death the 55-year-old Californian was struck on the back of a head with a blunt object won't end until the person responsible is apprehended. Smith's badly decomposed body was found on May 27, but it took a number of weeks to make a positive identification of the body which apparently had been in the gully for several weeks before its discovery. Ms. Walker, the mother of Smith's two grandchildren, said efforts to find a suspect in the killing have led to dead ends in Idaho and in Colorado, where a hitchhiker who had been seen in her father's company was last seen.

It was in Denver that Smith's truck was found abandoned after being involved in a May 16 hit-and-run accident. Inside the truck, police found a blood-covered IKS CDAYS UNDER ONLY! THE TIMES-NEWS AND YOUR AD TODAY! Union targets St. Luke's tire iron and a key to a Denver motel room. Some of the dead man's clothing was found in the room, but there was no trace of the suspect. Smith's 24-foot-long travel trailer has never been found.

The Pocatellan last saw her father, a resident of Hemet, on May 11 when he came through Idaho to see her during a summer vacation. He apparently stopped in Blackfoot, where Ms. Walker lived before returning to Pocatello recently. She was away from home on a fishing trip and her father drove on to Springfield, where he found his daughter. Smith's ultimate destination was Vancouver, where he was planning to visit a sister.

It was at Springfield, in a tavern, where Ms. Walker last saw her father alive. The memory of that visit remains vivid as does the description of the man traveling with him when he left the area. The hitchhiker was a black male about 5-feet, 10-inches tall and 160 pounds. He had short cause nursing unions to spread through the state.

St. Lukes's 500 registered nurses are being canvassed to find out if enough support exists to hold a union election, Hawley said. If at least 50 percent of the nurses support the idea, an election will be held as early as October, Hawley said. Hawley said a union is needed because St. Luke's needs to increase nurses' salaries, improve benefits and improve working conditions.

A union would give nurses the collective bargaining power needed bring about the improvements, she said. "I've been in nursing 25 years. An Albertson's checker with 3 years experience and without a college education makes $9.00 an hour. That's a $2 less than what I make," St. Luke's emergency room nurse seminar.

This year, Gibb got blindsided by one of his own employees. Tiajuana Cochnauer of Genesee, the UI's minority student coordinator, came out of nowhere with a 241-pound pale yellow giant, from New Jersey seed stock and nourished on Alaska fish fertilizer, that swept the competition. Ms. Cochnauer entered her great pumpkin with Allan Robert Thielen, of Genesee, and gives additional credit to Mix the watchdog. A good-sized segment of Genesee nnHHnninn BOISE (AP) Union organizers are attempting to get registered nurses at St.

Luke's Regional Medical Center to join the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. If the union succeeds, St. Luke's would be the first hospital in Idaho to have a nurses union, organizers said. The union also is trying to organize other hospital workers, but is concentrating on the nurses, said Jane Hawley, a St. Luke's nurse and a union organizer.

Tve been getting a lot of telephone calls from nurses at other hospitals about what we're doing," Hawley said. "They're just waiting to see what will happen." Hawley said a successful union effort at St. Luke's could have a domino effect on other hospitals and A IM BE EFFICIENT ELECTRIC WATERHEATERTO FIT YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR BUDGET cum From $12138 Several Models To Choose From Pumpkin contest is one weighty matter EFFICIENT ELECTRIC ENERGY Rsas 1 it LOW INTEREST IDAHO POWER FINANCING AVAILABLE MOSCOW (AP) Ten-year-old Kip Mayer of Genesee might be in second place in the pumpkin growing contest at the Latah County Fair, but he's one up on University of Idaho President Richard Gibb. Last year, Gibb won the lair contest with a 175-pounder. In the process, he far surpassed Kip, who had entered a 68-pounder he felt sure would win.

Gibb, magnanimous in victory, invited the crestfallen Kip and his parents Dwight and Jody Mayer to his home for a pumpkin-raising Twin Falls Jerome Ooodina 733-5571 324-8161 934-8427 Owpert DurUy 436-4245 678-8368 BUILDING MATERIALS CENTERS.