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A2 SPOKANE CHRONICLE, FEB. 20, 1990 REGIONAL FROM WIRE REPORTS Cycle helmet bill on fast track LEGISLATIVE ACTION Associated Press SE CITLE Man takes joyride on speeding train A man drove three Burlington Northern Railroad locomotives at speeds approaching 70 mph with the brakes on before being stod nd arrested, police and railroad rod officials said. PS The half-hour joyride ended Saturday in Tukwila, a suburb south of the city, when the runaway engines were trapped between a freight train and a pur' suing switch engine, said police and Howard Kallio of the rail OLYMPIA Here is a look at action Monday In the Washington Legislature: GOVERNOR No major action. SENATE Ways and Means Chairman Dan McDonald presented a proposed S437.8 million supplemental budget that includes money for school construction and textbooks, but not for welfare-grant increases nor pay boosts for teachers and state employees. The Law and Justice Committee approved and sent to the full Senate HB2888, which would modify child-support payment rates.

HOUSE a The Capital Facilities and Financing Committee approved and sent to the full House HB295I, which would provide for expedited environmental reviews and time limits on court challenges to decisions about where to put new prisons. The Revenue Committee approved and sent to the full House HB2833, which would authorize additional taxing authority for cities and counties to raise up to SIM million next year to meet rising criminal-justice costs. The bill also would provide $45 million in direct state aid. The Health Care Committee approved and sent to the full House SB6190, which would require adult motorcyclists to wear helmets. LEGISLATIVE HOTLINE For more information, call 1400-562-6000.

"You are being exploited, and you are being exploited right now" by being brought to Olympia to lobby for farm interests, Prentice said. But other legislators, some of them farmers, extolled the virtues of summer field work for children. An estimated 75 Mount Vernon junior high school students were assembled in the House chamber, and some agreed. Prentice said later that child field work is not a choice but a matter of survival for thousands of migrant farm families, whose children not only miss school but are exposed to pesticides from a very young age and injured in farm accidents. 111 HATE CRIMES: A bill that would require law enforcement agencies to collect reports of "hate crimes" based on race, religion, disability or sexual orientation reached the Senate Law and Justice Committee Monday.

The bill would establish a crime reporting system that sponsor Rep. Cal Anderson, D-Seattle, said would help law enforcement agencies prevent hate crimes and would inform lawmakers and the public so they can better respond to the incidents. But Sen. Jeannette Hayner, RWalla Walla, said gathering statistics won't changing attitudes on prejudice. If the bill is approved, the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs would be required to establish and maintain a central records collection of all bias crime reports.

The bill has already passed the House of Representatives. GEORGE, ash. Free cake provided on Presidents' Day For those who didn't fill up at Martha's Inn, there was free cake on Presidents' Day at the rural Washington town named for the country's first president. The population of George, swells to more than three times that on at least two days a year: Presidents' Day and Independence Day, when there's free cherry pie. This year the cake was frosted in a quilt pattern with a likeness of George Washington in the center, said Carol Michael, president of the Community Hall where the festivities are held.

The cake was baked and decorated by the Georgettes, a community group. After the cake was gone the town planned to play bingo in the Community Hall. BEAVERTON, Ore. Four firefighters injured in blaze Authorities said four firefighters suffered minor injuries in a blaze that severely damaged a Willamette Industries warehouse. The fire Monday night quickly engulfed the suburban warehouse filled with cardboard and paper.

The firefighters were hurt when the roof collapsed. Several dozen firefighters retreated to safety moments before the collapse of the roof of the warehouse, which is the size of two football fields. The fire was reported about 7 p.m. and was under control four hours later. The plant employs 100 people, but no one was at work when the fire broke out.

The blaze went to six alarms. A company representative said the building, equipment and supplies were valued at $25 million. The warehouse is in a complex that includes offices, a storage building and an ink plant. Nearby warehouses and businesses in the industrial area were not threatened. road.

Ka Ili said the coupled locomotives were idling outside the railroad's Interbay shop when someone climbed aboard one of the engines, sounded the horn and set off to the south. The crew of a freight train ahead of the engines was told by radio to speed up to avoid being caught from behind in a tunnel beneath the downtown area. When the engines emerged they were going nearly 70 mph, and that was with the brakes on, Kallio said. The engine's horn was sounded at each road crossing, but it was going so fast all the barriers may not have had time to operate, Ka Ili said. The freight crew ahead of the engines slowed down gradually, stopping the speeding locomotive at the Black River junction in Tukwila.

OLYMPIA 75 child car seats turned in to agency More than 75 child car seats have been turned in to county health departments under a pro': gram that pays $5 to anyone taking an unsafe child restraint de': vice out of circulation. People who turn in the seats receive a postcard to be mailed to the Safety Restraint Coalition, which mails out the money. The program has a ceiling of 500 rewards and 10 per person. The program is sponsored by the Safety Restraint Coalition, county health departments and the Washington Traffic Safety Associated Press OLYMPIA A bill that would require all motorcyclists to wear helmets continued on a fast track by passing committee and moving one step closer to the House floor, where quick ap- LEGISLATURE proval was expected. House 41 The 1111 Health Care Corn- mittee passed the bill 9-2 Monday.

Similar measures have traditionally enjoyed wide support in the full House. Supporters argued mandatory helmet laws save lives and spare the public money when a motorcycle accident victim is hurt but can't afford medical expenses. But an opponent, Rep. Max Vekich, D-Cosmopolis, said: "I feel some legislators may be picking on a specific group because they wear leather jackets and have long hair." Under current law, only riders aged 18 or younger must wear helmets. The bill, SB6190, would make protective headgear mandatory for adults as well.

Helmets would also be required for people riding mopeds, but would not cover off-road riding. In other action: CHILD SUPPORT: Legislative leaders predict the fate of a controversial measure to reform child-support laws will rest with a special committee including members of both the House and Senate. The bill is backed by non-custodial parents who complain that current child-support levels after divorce or separation drive them into poverty. It passed the Democratic-led House last week, but in a watered-down form that does little to change existing law. However, a version that passed the Senate Law and Justice Committee on Friday would make more significant changes, reducing payments by as much as 25 percent for some non-custodial parents.

The bill, HB2888, now awaits a vote by the full Senate. The House took a more cautious approach, with many liberal Democrats arguing that no economic data had been presented showing a need to change the existing payment schedule adopted in 1988. Key sticking points include how much child-support rates should be reduced, and to what degree noncustodial parents who temporarily care for their kids should receive financial credit for covering food and other expenses during those times. HEALTH CARE ACCESS: The makeup of a commission proposed by Sen. Jim West to study healthcare access was criticized by senior citizens and a key House member Monday.

Two groups that represent the elderly asked West's Senate Health and Long-Term Care Committee to require that consumers be represented on the commission. The Spokane Republican's bill calls for the commission to study health-care availability, costs and Or 1, It .4 oh, tio''''''' -1 'kt II 11, 't 1 i .1 1 1. 4 Ill'A i A. 4. 4 444,.

V. .1.,. i AP photo Rep. Marlin Appelwick, D-Seattle, discusses child support payments during a recent floor session in the House. WEATHER PESTICIDES: An agribusiness lobbyist was confronted by a top House lawmaker after she learned he was quietly pushing to exempt pesticides from a hazardous-wastecontrol bill, HB2390, that has already passed the House.

Lobbyist Mark Triplett of the Agribusiness Coalition had just emerged Monday from a Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee hearing, where Sen. Pat Patterson, R-Pullman, asked him about the amendment tucked in Patterson's briefing packet on the bill. "You didn't bring this up in the House then?" Patterson asked Triplett. "No sir, we did not," said Triplett, who was at a loss to explain the proposal for a major change in the measure. Rep.

Nancy Rust, D-Seattle, the bill's sponsor, listened in the audience, and confronted Triplett outside when the hearing ended. "You didn't tell us you were going to do this," she said heatedly, to which an embarrassed Triplett answered: "This is a mistake. This amendment isn't what we're going to be asking for." The amendment would remove pesticides from the bill's definition of hazardous substances and exempt distributors or commercial users from the measure's INLAND NORTHWEST Prc Of SEATTLE I 5040 SPOKANE I I MissooLi 40250. 'k Spokane Airport 33 Downtown 33 Coeur d'Alene 29 Colville 30 Ephrata 31 Grangeville 30 Hanford 36 Kalispell 24 Lewiston 39 Missoula 32 Mullen 41 Omak 27 Pendleton 30 Airport 33 Downtown 33 Coeur d'Alene 29 Colville 30 Ephrata 31 Orangeville 30 Hanford 36 Kalispell 24 Lewiston 39 Missoula 32 Mullen 41 Omak 27 Pendleton 30 predators" during a fiery speech to a crowd of startled school children. Prentice, D-Seattle, a champion of migrant farm workers whose children routinely work long hours in the fields and groves of Eastern Washington, contrasted sharply with other lawmakers who encouraged the Skagit County children brought here to lobby against age limits on child field labor.

Such limits are being considered by the Department of Labor and Industries, which would issue them as rules under legislation that passed last year. Prentice asserted Monday that the agricultural industry "exists on the backs of children because they (growers) don't want to pay adult wages." alternatives. They would report to the Legislature by July 1992. The governor would appoint members of the commission, including representatives of hospitals, providers, insurers and higher education. But the bill doesn't specifically require citizen or consumer members.

A similar bill sponsored by Braddock also lets the governor name the commission. But it says the 17- member commission must include three representatives of employee groups and three citizen representatives, including a senior citizen and a current or former Medicaid recipient. II CHILD LABOR: Rep. Margarita Prentice lit into farmers who rely on child labor, calling them "the moral equivalent of sexual PORTLAND 5139 PORTLAND 5139 BOISE 4428 PARTLY CLOUDY CLOUDY BOISE SCATTERED SHOWERS 4428 it MI SHOW 11 I cdy 17 .02 cdy 20 cdy NR cdy 22 plc 17 cdy 23 pc 12 cdy 27 cdy 17 cdy 16 cdy 25 oc 20 pc Pullman 30 29 cdy Sandpoint NR NR cdy Walla Walla 29 23 pc Wenatchee 33 26 pc Yeklma 32 26 pc PACIFIC NORTHWEST Bellingham 46 35 .24 pc Boise 40 22 oc Eugene 47 34 pic Hootlam 46 37 Vs5 oc Olympia 40 32 4415 oc Portland 41 35 pic 50 25 pc Seattle 40 34 667 pc CANADA Calgary 47 25 Edmonton 32 17 cir Montreal 36 NR .01 Toronto 35 12 .01 cir Vancouver 40 32 .26 ClC pic pic pic pic pc pc dr dr dr dr pc Wednesday's outlook Budget disputes may force special session with a big reserve and with few commitments for future spending. McDonald claims budgets favored by Gov.

Booth Gardner and Democrats, who control the House of Representatives, would lead to a tax hike next year. "He's not going to negotiate into a tax increase next year just to go home. If that results in a special session, that's the way it goes," said the aide. growing counties and making other significant changes in land-use laws. Members of the Senate are badly split on the issue, with some favoring strict growth controls and others believing no action is needed right now.

Transporation. There hasn't been a single hearing on Gardner's proposal to increase the gas tax and other transportation fees for road building and mass transit. County and city aid. The House and Senate are far apart on plans to give cities and counties more money for police, courts and jails. By Lonnie Rosenwald Staff writer OLYMPIA A key lawmaker Monday suggested that the Legislature could go into special session because of disputes over the supplemental state budget.

According to a Senate aide, during a closed-doors meeting of Senate Republicans, Senate Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan McDonald, R-Bellevue, said "he's willing to stay here as long as necessary" to see that the Legislature approves a supplemental budget trolled House and the Republican-led Senate: The budget. Major differences remain between how to spend a $725 million state surplus. The Democrats want big chunks for teacher and state employee raises and welfare increases, while the Republicans proposed Monday dedicating much of it to "onetime-only" targets such as school construction and new books and computers for students. Growth. The House wants a comprehensive law requiring land-use planning in all large and fast National Weather Service and Associated Press Cloudy; 50 percent chance of snow or rain mixed with snow during the evening.

Partial clearing during the night; southwest winds 10-20 mph. Partly cloudy Wednesday; 20 percent chance of snow or rain Warmer. High, near 40; low, near 29. EASTERN WASHINGTON: Chance of snow or freezing In the northeast tonight; otherwise cloudy with the of rain. Partly cloudy Wednesday; slight chance of a few showers in the east.

Highs, 40s; lows, upper 20s low 30s. IDAHO: Milder. Occasional light snow or freezDig rain tonight. New snowfall of 1 to 3 inches. Mostly 'Cloudy Wednesday; light snow likely near Montana bor.

der; chance of light rain or snow elsewhere. Highs, 40s; lows, upper 20s. WESTERN WASHINGTON: Partial clearing tonight and Wednesday. Highs, near 50; lows, upper 305-low 405. Spokane's temperature: High Monday, 33 at 12:30 p.m.

'(formal 40); overnight low, 11 at midnight (normal 27) Records: Monday, 61 In 1950; minus 13 in 1882 today, 56 in 1982; 13 in 1890 Wednesday, 60 in 1958; minus 2 in 1894 Monday's precipitation: Trace Month-to-date precipitation: .98 inch; normal monthly total, 1.61 inches Year-to-date precipitation: 3.41 Inches; normal two-month total, 4.08 inches 4 Month-to-date snowfall: 17.7 inches; average February Snowfall, 7.5 inches Season's snowfall to date: 34.3 inches; seasonal average by the end of February, 46.8 inches Tuesday Wednesday Flow of Spokane River at Spokane: 8,410 cubic feet per Wood With just 17 days to go in the session, here are the major dividing the Democrat-con Samples of oil on beaches investigated by laboratory Associated Press 0191 nal LUX 1 VA LAG( Monday's winning lottery number 833, I MIMS. LI Prc Ot lk ci .24 cdy .01 Or .01 cdy rn cdy cdy cdy rn .01 cdy .05 cdy .01 cdy clr clr clr clr clr .01 cdy cir clr rn .07 elr cdy cdy clr cdy .01 dr cdy .23 cdy dr cdy cdy .01 cdy cIt rn cdy rn 1.51 rn .02 rn cdy .01 rn .16 cir edy clr clr .15 cdy cdy cdy .15 cdy cdy .36 rn .14 clr dir rn cdy fil ,03 clr clr clr clr cdy edy .03 dr clr cdy cdy cdy rn clr CIT cir Id cdy .12 clr rn cdy .02 cdy Coast Guard aircraft searched the beaches and the Pacific up to five miles offshore over the weekend but found nothing that might be a source of the oil. The Coast Guard expanded its search Monday. Oil-soaked birds were spotted several days before the oil began showing up on shore. Cleanup crews arrived Friday morning but found most of the oil had washed back to sea.

Later tides brought in more oil, and a dozen workers spent the weekend cleaning and surveying area beaches. By Sunday, 15 bags or barrels of oil had been collected, said Petty Officer Chris Buell of the Coast Guard station at Warrenton. Samples of the oil were sent to a Coast Guard laboratory in Groton, for analysis. ASTORIA, Ore. Samples of oil found washed up on beaches on the northern Oregon Coast have been sent to a laboratory as part of an effort to determine its source.

The U.S. Coast Guard searched up to 20 miles offshore Monday for an oil slick or other evidence that could be linked to the tar-like oil that began showing up on the beaches near Cannon Beach last week. Blotches of the thick substance were found from Seaside to Rockaway Beach, but the only significant concentrations were discovered near Cannon Beach. Thick brown algae resembling oil also was reported at some area beaches. The Coast Guard said the clumps of oil, known as "tar balls," ranged from silver-dollar size to 6 inches in diameter.

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