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Oregon A4 ALBANY (OR.) DEMOCRAT-HERALD, TUESDAY, JAN. 7, 1997 In Oregon Second-graders won't be charged New forest chief outlines his vision BY SCOTT SONNER Associated Press Writer establish criminal responsibility, he said. Three of the four boys are suspended from Bush Elementary School. The fourth is no longer enrolled at the school, school district officials said. The girl returned to school the day after she was attacked Dec.

16; After the hearings with the parents, authorities could order treatment or evaluations for any of the participants, but the boys cannot be sent to reform school, Penn said. SALEM (AP) Prosecutors will not pursue criminal charges against four second-grade boys accused of trying to suffocate a girl classmate. Dale Penn, the Marion County district attorney, said the boys' parents would appear in closed hearings to examine each child's home life and what might have motivated last month's attack. The boys were accused of pinning the 7-yeav-old girl to the ground at recess. One boy pinched shut her nose and another covered her mouth.

The boys let the girl up when she began having trouble breathing. Authorities said the girl was attacked because she broke off a relationship as the girlfriend of the leader of the boys' group. The girl went to teachers after the boys let her go. "The law adopts the age of 12 as being the normal age when children are criminally responsible for their actions," Penn said. Although it's possible to file charges against younger children, 7 or 8 is "just too young" to 'We must maintain healthy, diverse and productive ecosystems Mike Dombeck Water supply still a worry in Ashland WASHINGTON (AP) The new chief of the Forest Service plans several changes to strengthen the agency and help end perceptions of bureaucratic infighting and conflicting agendas in U.S.

logging icy: "Few believe that we are operating as smoothly as we should," Mike Dombeck said in a speech on Monday, his first day as chief of the agency. "Effective conservation and the strength and credibility of the Forest Service are weakened by perceptions of bureaucratic infighting, end runs, conflicting agendas and insufficient attention to basic business areas such as financial controls and communications. "I will strengthen the chief's office so we can function more effectively," he said in a speech to about 500 Forest Service workers in an auditorium at the Agriculture Department. For example, he intends to add a new senior staff attorney to serve as a liaison among the Forest Service, White House and other federal agencies. He also is creating a new slot of Forest Service chief of staff to help articulate service policies.

The floods compared Selected rivers and their crests, compared to the crests, in feet, during last February's record floods: He told his workers to make protection and restoration of national forests their top priority and disregard those who want to gut U.S. environmental laws. "We must maintain healthy, diverse and productive ecosystems," Dombeck said. "We cannot meet the needs of the people if we do not first conserve and restore the health of the land. So our first priority is to protect and restore the health of the land.

Failing this, nothing else we do really matters," the former fisheries biologist and guide from northern Wisconsin said. "My expectation is that everything we Ho every environmental impact statement we write, every timber sale, recreation plan, mining plan or allotment management plan we approve will not compromise the health of the land," he said in setting the tone for his tenure. rover Feb. "36 crest Jan. '97 crwt Willamette at Albany 27.2 30 Willamette at Corvallis 23.5 21.6 Willamette at Salem 35.1 29.3 Willamette at Portland 28.6 23.5 Santiam at Jefferson 23.2 17.0 Body of naked man found in Medford alley MEDFORD (AP) A 59-year-old man was found dead, wearing nothing but his socks, in an alley about two miles from his home.

Gary R. Edwards of Medford had been beaten about the head. A motorist driving through the alley in a west Medford neighborhood found the body on Monday morning. An autopsy was to be conducted. It appeared Edwards had been dead for some time.

No clothes were found near the body, Sgt. Gary Bates said. Edwards' girlfriend, who declined to give her name, told the Mail Tribune newspaper that Edwards was a nice guy with a drinking problem. Snowy owls in Oregon ASTORIA (AP) A group of snowy owls are visiting Oregon, down from the frozen tundra of the Canadian Arctic. About 10 owls have been seen at Fort Stevens State Park in Clatsop County, in Tillamook County, and at Leadbetter Point on southwest Washington's Willapa Bay.

Bird waters have reported spotting them as far south as Florence and east to Bend. The owls show up every seven to eight years, said Mike Patterson, an Astoria High School biology teacher. The owls tend to show up when the birds' populations outgrow their usual winter habitat on the prairies of western Canada, and "most birds that leave in these eruptive events don't make it back north," Patterson said. Getting hit by cars and a vulnerability to infection are some of the biggest risks. Man, retarded girl sought OREGON CITY (AP) An arrest warrant has been issued for a man who disappeared with a 17-year-old mentally retarded girl, sheriff's deputies said.

Joseph B. Barnett, 51, of Mil-waukie was wanted on charges of sex abuse, kidnapping and custodial interference, Clackamas County sheriff's spokesman Deputy Damon Associated Press ASHLAND (AP) Initial inspections indicate businesses damaged by flooding in the downtown Plaza did not suffer severe structural problems, but merchants in this picturesque southern Oregon town have a major cleanup job on their hands. Normally placid Ashland creek jumped its banks last week and roared down the middle of town, depositing rocks, silt and water in the historic business district. "You see the Plaza and you think Ashland," city Planning Director John McLaughlin said. "This is a cornerstone of our economy.

We can't lose this." Ashland residents have been without water and sewer service six days. Water service may not be available for another week. Sewage service was also down for two-thirds of the town because of a broken line. Employees of Munchies Restaurant and Bakery formed a human chain to remove buckets of sand and water that damaged 75 wooden chairs at the basement-level eatery. "This is our livelihood," said owner Darren Bucich, who just signed another 10-year lease after a decade in business.

"To give up is not an option." Other floods have hit the Plaza in 1891, 1927, 1948, 1955, 1964 and 1974. Smith's Plum Valley Water Co. has been busy connecting restaurants in Ashland and Talent with tanks to get them back in business while city water is turned off, and to give its employees some work. "It was just heartwarming to see people washing their hands. They didn't even care if they were eating off of paper plates," said Rolar Yondorf, owner of Omar's restaurant in Ashland.

Man captured after fleeing with girl in South Hadley, on Sept. 19. Barbara Lofland said her daughter had befriended LeGate and brought him home. She allowed him to stay with her family for five weeks after he told them he was 21 and down on his luck. LeGate vanished with Karen after the girl's father, Jim Ryan, ordered him out of the house.

"I didn't know this guy was like this," Barbara Loflund said Monday. "He was just a con artist." PORTLAND (AP) A man accused of abducting a 14-year-old girl from her home in Massachusetts 3'2 months ago is a con artist with a knack for manipulating young girls, according to the FBI and his Jimmy Ray LeGate', 41, was scheduled for arraignment today on charges of kidnapping and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. LeGate allegedly abducted Karen Lyn Lofland from her home mM SUhr nit nuii mm" 7 Entire Stock Of RUBBER STAMPS and ACCESSORIES 25 50 -OFF Now thru January 15, 1997 Located in Country Corner Gifts, 204 First, Albany Barnett met the girl at the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Mil-waukie and had expressed a romantic interest, Coates said. Her foster parents, who live in Beavercreek, reported her missing Wednesday. Investigators confirmed the pah-had stayed at a motel in Redding, Calif.

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