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OREGONNORTHWEST 8 ALBANY (ORE.) DEMOCRAT-HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 30. 1984 1 1 1 Downs gives her side of matrimonial rriiii-yp something to do. When you're In prison, you need to find ways to pass the time. You need little milestones like that, things to look forward to. "Then wt had this one wager where if I lost this certain thing, then he would get to marry me," Ms.

Downs said. The marriage bet was the one Ms. Downs was most sure of winning It was on the outcome of her murder trial. "As it turned out, It was the only wager I lost:" She was convicted June 17. One month later, July 16.

Woodfield wrote a letter to KEZ1-TV reporter Anne Bradley claiming he was to marry a woman he didn't name, but who could have been Ms. Downs from the description. have never met. Woodfield began writing her shortly after she was arrested as a suspect in the shooting of her three children, she said. "He was very kind and compassionate.

He said he knew what I was going through, and he told me a lot about now to get along in prison, what the good points are and what the bad points are," she said. "He was very helpful." Ms. Downs began to return Woodfield's letters, and soon they were writing two or three times a week. Through the mail, they became friends, she said. "One of the things we do in our letters is wagering," she said.

"Wagering on things like basketball games, the weather, the se of my baby. It was "This wedding talk is the biggest thing going. Just about everybody says 'aren't you afraid of Ms. Downs said" Friday night. She was convicted last month of the murder of her daughter.

"No, of course I'm not afraid of him. I have no reason to be. The only Randy Woodfidd I know is the person I have met in his letters." Woodfield said Thursday from his Oregon State Penitentiary cell in Salem that he is engaged to a woman in ashington, and he denied having asked Ms. Downs to marry him. Ms.

Downs saia the matrimonial confusion stems from correspondence between the two. who EUGENE (AP) Convicted murderer Elizabeth Diane Downs says concern (or "1 Bandit" Randall Woodfield's privacy and pride prompted her to say last week that they planned to be married, ahough she knew in her heart it wasn't "I thought that's what he thought, and I didn't want him to be publicly humiliated," she said in a short interview at the Lane County Jail. Since Wednesday, when Downs announced the wedding plans to a Eugene TV station, she said her normally monotonous prison routine has been replaced by a barrage of questions about her relationship with Woodfield, the convicted killer known as the 1-5 Bandit. County arrests woman staffing booth at fair ROSEBURG (AP) A woman operating I Douglas County Fair booth Emoting legalization of marijuana been busted under the county's new ordinance barring sales of drug paraphernalia. Douglas County Sheriffs Department Capt.

Raymond Duncan said Monday the citation was the first Issued under the county ordinance adopted April! "It sure brought me down." said Dianne Weiker of Roseburg, who was staffing the booth for the organization called Balance when she was cited on Friday. "It made me lose all my faith In democracy, 'First Amendment rights and freedom of speech. I'm not selling drug paraphernalia at al, as far as I'm concerned," she added. Duncan said Ms. Weiker was cited for selling gem Kales that could be used to measure small amounts of drugs.

The ordinance carries a maximum fine of $500. Ms. Weiker said Balance is registering voters and raising funds for the legalization of marijuana for adult use. The booth sells buttons, posters, copies of "ScnsemilU Tips" magazine and gem scales, she said. The ordinance applies to areas In Douglas County outside the city limits of the cities.

Over 10,000 gather for Creswell Air Fair A 1 CRESWELL AP) More than 10,000 people craned their necks, shaded their eyes and clapped in hearty appreciation for the aerial acrobatics at the revived, expanded Creswell Air Fair over the weekend, a spokeswoman says. The fair commemorated the 200th anniversary of women in aviation with spectacular performances by woman stunt pilot and two daredevil women wing-walkers. A 72-year-old woman aviation pioneer was guest of honor. The 1984 air fair organized under the direction of Creswell Airport Manager Rebecca Nelson was the first two-day show. It was the first designed to raise money for airport expansion and futore development.

The airport has three years to raise $200,000 needed it can be designated as a reliever airport to Eugene's Mahlon Sweet Field, said spokeswoman Sandra air fair is the main fund-raising event, in that campaign. Sponsored by the Creswell Air Fair Association, which took over the reins from the Creswell Chamber of Commerce, the event was a fair both on the ground and in the air. About 20 booths, most set lip by Creswell civic groups Police apologize to PORTLAND (AP) Portland Police Chief Ronald R. Still has apologized to a former mayoral candidate who was stopped and searched by police in the city's Old Town neighborhood without apparent justification. Cliff Walker, 40, said he received a July 13 letter of apology from Still last week.

Walker accused police of misconduct after be was stopped by a policeman and a policewoman on the evening of Greenpeace members paddled beside the Antonia Johnson. Sunday after it docked. Ship eludes Portland protesters PORTLAND (AP) Despite plans for a demonstration against the cargo of Norwegian seafood it is carrying, a Swedish ship slipped past protesters unnoticed and docked without incident at the Port of Portland. Members of Greenpeace Northwest had planned to launch a flotilla of canoes, rubber rafts, and molorboats to greet the "Antonia Johnson" as it headed into dock Sunday. Greenpeace has urgeed that Norwegian seafood be boycotted.

Norway is one of three countries that has said it will continue commercial whaling even though the International Whaling Commission has voted on a moratorium to take effect in 1986. Japan and the also plan to continue the hunts. Greenpeace members, armed with colorful signs and banners, gathered in the Port of Portland parking lot before 4 a.m. to plan the protest. After some discussion, several canoes were hauled down to the river bank to await the ar rival of the Antonia Johnson.

Protesters milled around for almost 30 minutes before word filtered down that the ship already had docked and the captain was asleep. Undeterred, members took to the water and floated next to the 615-foot long ship. Demonstrators displayed their signs and yelled at two crewmen to boycott Norwegian seafood. The crewmen yelled back that they were Swedish. Meanwhile, port officials met with a Greenpeace officials and a representative of the steamship company that handles the "Antonia Johnson." Greenpeace officials were told there was no way the shrimp could be sent back to Norway.

It was agreed that the steamship company would send i cable to Johnson Scan Star, owner of the ship, advising the company of the protest and of Greenpeace spokesman Alan Reichman's warning of future demonstrations. Reichman, of Seattle, said he was surprised officials agreed to meet with Greenpeace members. Bank's roof colhpscts In British Columbia CRANBROOK. British Columbia (AP) The roof of the Bank of Montreal In this southeastern British Columbia city collapsed today, but the building was evacuated in time and there were no injuries. A bank official said that shortly after I a m.

the staff heard a number of structural sounds and the roof was seen to be sagging. Bank records and money were replaced in the vault and the staff was evacuated. About 60 minutes later, the roof fell into the bank. The cause of the collapse was not Immediately known. A structural engineer was brought in to inspect the collapse.

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Saturday's schedule featured a breakfast, celebrity golf tournament, and an air show followed by a dance. A breakfast and the annual Hobben-siefken Run preceded Sunday's air performance. The guest of honor. Dorothy Hester Stenzel, is an Oregon woman who first flew in 1927 and paid for her flying lessons with money earned from air show parachuting demonstrations. She still holds the world record for inverted snap rolls and the women's record for consecutive outside loops.

Ms. Stenzel is said to be the first woman to do a solo outside loop; she did 69 of them in a row in 1931, two days after having done 56 inverted snap rolls. She flew 17 different kinds of airplanes, performed aerobatics throughout the United States and owned a flight training school. Fair organizers said the 1964 event coincided with the 200th anniversary of the balloon ascent of Madame Thible in a balloon in France in 1784. ex-candidate Oct, 7 while walking in Old Town carrying a paper bag.

Police searched the bag, in which he was carrying an unopened bottle of wine, before letting him go. The Police Internal Investigations Auditing Committee subsequently recommended that police apologize to Walker for making an "unjustified stop and search without probable cause' after Walker filed a complaint. Jol Pritchard Tests show no cancer He has said since the late 1950s, when he first served in the state Legislature, that no one should serve in any elected office for more than 12 years. As for the future, Pritchard isn't sure. "I haven't really settled on anything," he said.

"As soon as we get through this next few weeks, I'll start doing some serious thinking about what I'm going to do." firo that killed 2 apartment resulted in the deaths of John Kim, 15, and David Kim, 19. Four others were injured in the blaze and required hospitalization. Bum patterns of suspicious origin were found on the exterior of the building, leading investigators to suspect the fire was deliberately set, Elford said. A cash reward is available for people offering information on the fire. JJ dm 1 9 mm price good thru S-1-S4-- pr not deter him "1 figured this is the least I could do," he said.

"If I can be an inspiration for anybody to vote no on the initiative, it's worth it." At the prison, the Lifer's Club, a group of inmates sentenced to life in prison, organized minute-long silent vigil to coincide with and "show solidarity" for the protester's gathering outside the penitentiary, organizers said. Prison officials said that if the protest occured. it was not widespread. In lam, Oregonians voted to reestablish the death penalty, but the Oregon Supreme Court struck down the measure as unconstitutional in 1981. The rally was sponsored by the Religious Community for Equal Justice.

the afternoon sunshine. Burton told the crowd she opposes the death penalty because of a "deep-standing moral revulsion at the thought of delibrately taking an other life." Bell cited other reasons for his opposition to capital punishment. "There is every to fear that reimposition of the death penalty will bring to death row the same disparity based on race and class that now marks our prisons, where 10 times as many blacks as whites are serving time," he said. The crowd heard the speakers at Willson Park before marching miles to the prison, chatting and talking politics. Richard L'kena, a 37-year-old minister of a Portland church, made the walk on crutches.

Ukcna's broken ankle, suffered in a soccer match, did SALEM AP) University of Oregon law school Dean Derrick Bell was one of eight speakers who denounced capital punishment during a rally held near the state prison to protest two death penalty ballot measures. Bell joined Willamette University law Professor Claudia Burton Sunday to decry capital punisment as discriminatory, inhumane and ineffective in deterring crime. Two measures on the November ballot would reinstate the death penalty, which has been in force in Oregon off and on since 1903. Protest organizers said prison superintendent Hoyt Cupp was scheduled to address the group outside of the penitentiary facility, but he was called out of town Friday. Amid pastel-colored balloons that gave the protest a picnic atmosphere in Hlan charged in robbery, rape, assault WASHINGTON (AP) US.

Rep. Joel Pritchard said Sunday that he was "feeling all right and going to work in the morning." A swollen lymph node removed from his groin in Washington, D.C., July 19 was determined to be malignant. But preliminary tests run Thursday and Friday at the Mason Ginic in Seattle showed no other cancer, Pritchard said in a telephone interview just after be arrived at his Washington, D.C. home. "It's a nice result," he added.

"I certainly am in good spirits." Pritchard said be wouldn't know until the end of the week whether he will undergo further testing or treatment. And he said be is not in any pain. When asked why he returned to Seattle for the tests, Pritchard said, "I feel better going to the Mason Clinic. I have a lot of faith in those people. Whenever you have serious questions, you like to go to people that you know." On Saturday, Pritchard said he Elayed tennis with friends on Vashon iland in PugeTSound.

Tests run at the clinic included the CAT scan, blood tests and bone marrow tests, he said. Earlier this year, Pritchard, 59, announced he would not seek re-election to the House for a seventh term. His decision came long before the surgery, he sail Arson suspected in BATTLE GROUND, Wash. (AP) -Arson is suspected as the cause of a blaze which killed two youths and injured four other people, police said early today. A criminal investigation was started in the Friday fire after the Clark County fire marshal's office determined that arson was the cause, Battle Ground police patrolman Montie Elford said.

The early morning fire in a duplex NESKOWIN (AP)-A 19-vear-old Cloverdale man was arrested for investigation of robbery, rape, burglary and assault early Saturday after he and two other people were shot here Saturday morning, the Tillamook County Sheriff's Department said. A department news release identified the suspect as Joseph Leon Porter, who was hospitalized in fair condition with a gunshot wound. Also hospitalized in fair condition was Betty Gean Brown, of Portland, who was stabbed. Roger A. Seifer, 42.

of Neskowin, was hospitalized in fair condition with a gunshot wound. All were in North Lincoln Hospital. The news release said the incident began early Saturday when a man approached the Neskowin summer home ot Mrs. Brown and her husband, Richard G. Brown, 57, of PortlaH, and demanded gasoline.

The report said the man forced entry into the house, stabbed Mrs. Brown, bound her husband's hands and feet with telephone cord and robbed and raped Mrs. Brown. Her husband managed to free himself and went to the home of his neighbor, Seifer. Seifer and Brown returned with Seifer's gun.

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