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West Investigation under way: Boise mayor requests full report on police shooting incident PageE2 Inside Classified Sunday, November 10, 1996 Section nmes-iews inc Backpeddling in motion Land managers seek to placate public after outcry over national monument Briefly in the West Wildlife advocate, nuclear scientist dies IDAHO FALLS RirViarH 1 -IJ1 1 i i ii jf 1 nuclear scientist and outspoken advocate for wuume, aiea or a neart attack Wednesday at his home in Idaho Falls. He was fi7 He was a former member of the Fish and Game Commission and highly respected for his unswerving devotion to the state's wildlife, even though some people called him canrankerous or gruli. "He was arguably one of the best Fish and Game commissioners we've ever had," said Mark' Gamblin, fisheries manager at the Department of Fish and UTT vjdme. ne was a giant wildnte conservation in the Northwest." Schwarz. a West Point orated veteran of the Korean War, receiving rne rurpie Heart ana the Bronze Star with a for valor.

He was a leading nuclear engineer until he renrea in iy4. tie lea the charge on a number of critical nrnierts at tVip THaVi Engineering Laboratory, including the effort 10 turn uquio. nign level raaioactive waste mto a powaer at tne wew waste Calcining Facility. He also worked on nrniprK tn revmrar nrani. um from processing spent reactor fuels and manuiactunng tank armor from depleted uranium.

"He was a substantial force out there," said Jack Combo, former deputy manager for AP photo Theresa Law, a hiker from Colorado, enjoys the view as she strolls through the Partition Arch at Arches National Park near Moab, Utah, on Fridav -I Ill The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY Federal land managers want to kiss and make up with southern Utah after angering area residents with the creation of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah earlier this year. An Interior Department official told a convention of 200 National Park Service rangers and maintenance employees that it's time start working with the communities impacted by national parks, monuments and land policies. "We want to adopt a program that is the opposite from the 'War on the something I'm calling 'Working with the said George Frampton, assistant Interior secretary of fish, wildlife and parks, at a convention in Corpus Christi, Texas. The remarks were reported in The Salt Lake Tribune Saturday. "In spite of or because of the hostility toward the new national monument, I feel that southern Utah is ripe for developing a cooperative planning process," he said.

Frampton said another prospective locations for such a program would be the Yellowstone National Park area, where some locals are angry about the re-introduction of wolves and President Clinton's decision to block development of a proposed gold mine just outside the park's border. In a freewheeling discussion that hit topics ranging from upcoming increases in park-entrance fees to renegade road grading southern Utah, Frampton said he wants the Interior Department to build on regional planning efforts such as the Canyon Country Partnership in southeastern Utah, a collection of county, city, state and federal officials who meet quarterly to discuss land-use issues. While no details of the "Working with the West" plan have been finalized, Frampton said he would like to present the proposal to the White House for inclusion in the Clinton administration's new political agenda. "If we can bring some of the experience in cooperative planning that we've had in other areas of the country to the problems in the Intermountain West, it would be a positive process," Frampton said. Legislators Kimberly's The Associated Press LEWISTON Former Gov.

Robert E. Smylie remembers when the only highway linking the northern and southern parts of Idaho was a gravel road. "Whitebird Hill was a real terror" before pavement, he says. Few people were brave enough to travel from southern Idaho to the Panhandle or the other way around. That's why the biennial meeting of legislators, sponsored by the North Idaho Chamber of Commerce, was started in 1964.

During the weekend, most of the 105 members of the 1997 Idaho Legislature were to gather at Lewiston for a couple of days of meetings and get-acquainted trips around the region. Sunday night, members of both par ties scheduled hold closed-door caucuses to campaign for leadership posts. dinmai ianu3i.ajc weai ui wuiies wds pruiecwa TT.L 1 1 Southern Utah counties are bound to be suspicious. Garfield County, for instance, has already rejected $100,000 offered by the Interior Department to help plan the national monument. Commissioners called it "blood money" from a "cruel, insensitive administration." Earlier in the week, Frampton met with NPS superintendents at Zion National Park to discuss improving relationships with "gateway" communities towns located on the borders of national parks.

Frampton was instrumental in securing $18 million for Zion's new shuttle-bus system, which will include stops in adjacent Springdale. The former Wilderness Society director acknowledged there are some land-use battles between Utah and Uncle earner ims ran Dy Kresiaeni Clinton rrom mining and ry i Sam that have little promise of peaceful resolution. The Interior Department sued three southern Utah counties two weeks ago for improving roads that cross federal land without permission. Some of the roads were in prospective wilderness areas. The counties claim they have rights-of-way based on the R.S.

2477, a 120-year-old statute counties claim grants them passage over federal lands. "It's clear we are not going to make a lot of progress collaboratively with the state of Utah on R.S. 2477 in the future," Frampton said. Meantime, the state and Utah Association of Counties has sued the Interior Department over a re-inventory gear up for next session; Noh joins statewide tour 1 'H istorically, people north of the Salmon River have always been very concerned that their wishes and interests are ignored. Sen.

Laird Noh, Kimberly tne JJepartment ol Energy. Veteran organization seeks service women BOISE State and national veterans organizations are looking for Idaho woman who have served in the military or are serving. So far, only 550 of the 5,100 women veterans who live in Idaho have registered as part of the project. The Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation, broke ground in June of 1995 for a memorial in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. It pays tribute to the nearly two million women who have served in the military, starting with the American Revolution and continuing today As construction continues and planning begins for dedication in October of next year, the drive to locate and register women veterans and active duty females intensifies.

Crews locate, remove explosives from range IDAHO FALLS For years, the U.S. Navy used a section of eastern Idaho desert for aerial bombing practice, naval artillery testing and storage and disposal of explosives. Later, the land became part of the federal nuclear research installation, the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. The government now is well into a $3 million project to locate and remove unexploded ordnance and potentially dangerous residue. Parsons Engineering Science, an MEL subcontractor, has hired Allied Technology Group to locate, detonate and clear material from a land mine fuse burn area.

It's east of the Test Reactor Area, where railroad cars were detonated with explosives. So far, crews have found artillery shells ranging from 3 to 16 inches; partly exploded bombs from 125 pounds to 2,000 pounds; antitank mines, depth charges, smokeless powder and dummy bombs with spotting charges. Idaho drug bust results in art auction BOISE About $100,000 in works of art, seized by federal marshals in drug cases, will be among items auctioned off Sunday. The 22 pieces seized in a drug raid include a seven-panel pen and ink series on AIDS in Africa by esteemed Boise artist Stephanie Wilde Jim Benham, U.S. marshal for Idaho, said it's unusual for art work to be captured in Idaho.

"It depends on what the court tells us to seize," he said. "This is reasonably rare. Normally, the things that are seized are real property real estate, houses, cars." The auction also will put on the block works from private and corporate collections. That group of works includes art by Wilde and other Idaho artists such as John Killmaster, Robert Auth, Quinten Gregory and Fred Ochi. Some 19th century works also are on sale.

Burglars beware: Don't leave your calling card POST FALLS Police Detective Dave Beck has to admit he got some pretty easy clues to. help him apparently solve an August burglary. Steven D. Foraker, 24, Post Falls, is in jail on other charges and Beck says he has admitted taking more than $1,000 in valuables from a Post Falls residence. "What happened was the burglar broke into the house and stole a handgun, a 8mm camera and some coins," Beck said.

"While he was putting the stuff in his pockets, he must have forgot that he had left his business cards on the counter." The cards, were for a lawn maintenance company. Beck called the number and it rang at Foraker's home. Compiled from wire reports some development. of 5.3 million acres of potential wilder ness on Bureau of Land Management land in southern Utah. Frampton said it's possible those lawsuits could "create some bad law" for the government.

Frampton said the Interior Department has not decided whether it will attempt to write new regulations governing disputes over R.S. 2477 right-of-way claims. An previous effort to tighten regulations over rights-of-way died after Republicans swept into Congress in 1994. Some NPS workers wondered why the new Utah national monument was being administered by the BLM rather than the park service, which supervises Please see LAND, Page E2 River group backs Idaho water plans The Associated Press BOISE Conservationists praise some portions of water plans for southern Idaho but have a number of suggestions for better management. The fourth revision of the State Water Plan properly calls for a change in Idaho law to allow transfer of water rights from traditional uses to instream flows, Idaho Rivers United executive director Wendy Wilson said.

"But the plan still gives priority to irrigation and other uses that take water out of our rivers and away from the fish, wildlife and people who depend on healthy rivers," she said. "The state has a responsibility to determine how much water is needed for fish and rivers and start restoring streamflows where needed." Please see WATER, Page E2 U' of Williamsburg ever existed. tfil. APpMo Laird Noh The official votes won't come until the organizing session the first week of December, when new legislative terms start. But hopefuls try to lock up the jobs on the northern Idaho trip.

"I guess if you want to be one of the players, it's kind of important to be there," said Rep. Kathleen Gurnsey, R-Boise. She won't be going for the first time in 22 years because she retires from the mining town 'WiJ Historian preserves location, Legislature this year after 11 terms. In the race getting the most attention, Boise Republican senators Sheila Sorensen and Jim Risch are running for majority floor leader. Senate President Pro Tem Jerry Twiggs and House Speaker Michael both Blackfoot Republicans, are expected to win new terms.

Monday, Gov. Phil Batt will address PleaSe see TOUR, Page E2 to lore of vanished The Associated Press WILLIAMS. Ore. Onlv a few solid traces of a once-thrivine town at thp eastern reaches of Josephine County now remain. But one history lover who tromped the hills around the now-disappeared town of Williamsburg is trying to put a monument on the site so that it won't be forgotten.

Mike Oaks once roamed the area between modern Williams and Provolt for additions to his bottle collection. He found chunks of bottles and an nrra. sional. lock and one long-buried Liberty dollar and one 102-year-old born there who told him stories for two hours of the boomtown that was Williamsburg. Besides the few artifacts, the stories and just three photos in the libraries of Oregon's historical societies, all that remains are the carefullv stacked rocks that made up the races for the mines.

The Chinese moved in affer thp whitp and stacked the rocks carefully, driving the water from ditches down the races. Now the moss-covered stacks a few of them 12- or 14-feet high are the only' indications of human habitation before the dirt driveways and metal-sided homes began popping up in the hills. But Oaks, chairman of the Josephine County Historic Sites Committee, has gathered the $700 required to have a few paragraphs about the place sandblasted into redwood and placed on the road just down the hill from the site of Williamsburg. Once the town boasted about 600 people mostly single men who were itinerant miners but also several families who ran the businesses that supplied the miners' goods and services. The town sprouted from the ground up in 1857, named for Capt.

Robert Williams, a U.S. Army commander known for his cruelty in the Indian Wars that had just been brought to a Please see MINING, Page E2 Mike Oaks stands at the future site of the Williamsburg, marker on Sept. 4. Only a few Items remain as evidence that the gold mining town miners had gotten the best of the gold.