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Sir Wheelchair air athletes to compete for $6,000 By KIM CROMPTON race, entrants. compared with last year's record competitors hours who have marathons under channel Riverfront participants off the streets and ing Athletes has sanctioned the prize-monStaff writer 22,210 two to their credit. into Park, said this year's race ey run, which will be the fourth stop on a This year's Lilac Bloomsday Run will in- First-place male and female wheelchair Organizers announced that this year's director, Sylvia Quinn. nine-race circuit this year. clude for the first time ever a world.

finishers each will receive $1,500. Prizes of run will feature several other changes. The -shirts will be distributed south of Despite the increase in prize money, the class field of male and female wheelchair $1,000, $500 and $300 will be awarded to The finish line has been moved from the the finish line on Post and east on Main in a entry fee will remain the same. A $5 fee who will compete for more than the second-, third- and fourth-place male previous location at Spokane Falls Boule- new setup which organizers believe will re- will be charged for registrations before the in prize finishers, while the second- and third-place duce or eliminate problems encountered April 19 deadline and a $12 fee for late athletes $6,000 money. forms for the female finishers will win $900 and $400, re- last Distribution of 75,000 entry For year.

the second registrations. Tuesday as or- spectively. Distribution of 75,000 participants also will year, other for Bloomsday money, vide the Organizers said the for run local again businesses will proseventh-annual of the Inland Empire's running ex- last compete opportunity to event began started their countdown toward George Murray wheelchair will return entry forms began Tuesday but the pot of gold at the end of the race sponsor teams in the second annual ganizers of Lutz, year's the big travaganza May 1 event. Officials said 10,000 to defend his title against Jim Knaub of has increased from $30,000 to $40,000. Bloomsday Corporate Cup.

Bloomsday winner, forms have been printed, some of which al- Beach, Jim Martinson of Bloomsday prize money begins at $6,000 Kardong said about 30 teams took part ready have been mailed to outlying areas. Long Puyallup, and Phil Carpenter of vard and Wall to Spokane Falls and Post, each for the male and female winner in that competition last year and predicted next to City Hall. compared to $5,000 last year and pays that number may jump to near 100 this Don Kardong, president of the Lilac The change which will reduce the ac- 15 places for men, 12 for women. Last year. Holiday, Fla.

Bloomsday Association, about said at a 25,000 press con- Bloomsday spokesmen are predicting a tual distance of the run from about 7.55 to year, 10 the race paid 12 places for the men Information on Bloomsday events may off- ference Tuesday that people new course wheelchair record this year 7.45 miles was made to improve the T- and for the women. be obtained by calling the Bloomsday are expected to take part in this year's with a field that includes no less than four shirt distribution system and to better Once again, the Association of Road Rac- ice at 838-1579. THE SPOKESMAN REVIEW wednesday, page A6 march 9, 1983 washington Bond: Military strength best road to peace By DAVE WORKMAN Olympia bureau OLYMPIA Republican State Rep. Dick Bond of Spokane told a small but sympathetic crowd in the Capitol rotunda Tuesday that U.S. shouldn't make any arms freeze deals with "the big Russian bear." Arguing against state legislative support for a mutual and verifiable nuclear arms freeze, Bond called the Soviets "the greatest agreement-breakers in the history of the earth." Instead of a freeze, he urged legislative approval of his own memorial to Congress and 'President Reagan, which advocates U.S.

"military and technological superiority over the Soviet Union" as the best road to peace. He calls his memorial a "peace through strength" approach. In effect, Bond's approach is to scare the U.S.S.R. into remaining peaceful by creating a "strategic defense and a civil defense that would protect United States citizens against nuclear war at least as well as the Soviets defend their citizens." Bond's memorial which is COsponsored by Republican Reps. James West and Mike Padden of Spokane and Darwin Nealey of LaCrosse urges the federal government "to accept no arms control agreement which in any way jeopardizes the security of the United States or its Addressing a small noon rally sponsored by the conservative Young Americans for Freedom, Bond said, "The United States has already been frozen (militarily) for the last 12 years." Although the U.S.

continues to develop new nuclear weapons, Bond claimed the U.S. has lost superiority to the Soviets. His memorial seems to have little chance of passage. The House is more likely to approve a memorial which the Senate passed overwhelmingly, urging Congress and the president to "seek negotiation of a permanent, international and multilateral nuclear weapons ban subject to rigid verification." Although such legislative memorials traditionally have little effect on national leaders, Democratic State Rep. Dennis Dellwo of Spokane told The Spokesman-Review REP.

DICK BOND Don't make freeze deals Staff photo by JIM SHELTON Recovering from surgery are Alma Parsons and grandson Kyle Black in the arms of his mother Sandi Black. Family full of patient hearts 3 generations suffered heart ailments last month By BILL SALLQUIST Staff writer Randy and Sandi Black of Colfax may be forgiven for doubting the old bromide about lightning never striking twice in the same place. Three generations of their family, ranging in age from 5-month-old Kyle Black to 79-yearold John Hager, have had heart problems in the last few weeks, and Kyle and his maternal grandmother, Alma Parsons of Oakesdale, were hospitalized simultaneously in Spokane for surgery. The story, began to unfold at the time of Kyle's birth last September in Pullman. Kyle weighed only 3 pounds, 3 ounces at birth even though he was just two weeks shy of being full-term.

Shortly after birth, he was transported by helicopter from Pullman to the neonatal intensive care unit at Spokane's Deaconess Hospital where he remained for 10 days. Sandi Black, Kyle's mother, said physicians determined that her son had a condition known as patent ductus, an abnormality which results in improper blood circulation, and a small opening between two chambers of his heart. Doctors hoped that the conditions would correct themselves in time or present no immediate problems, she said. Kyle gained enough weight to be discharged from Deaconess and go home Colfax, where Sandi works for Seattle-First National Bank and Randy is employed by the Whitman County Bridge Department. All went well until Kyle developed a midwinter "cold." His condition worsened and doctors decided to proceed immediately with surgery to correct the patent ductus problem, Sandi Black recalled last weekend.

In the meantime, however, Sandi's mother, Parsons, became ill. "She just started having some trouble before Christmas," Sandi said, explaining that Parsons Black is philosophical about the run of heart problems. had no previous history of heart problems. Feb. 23, surgeons at Deaconess Hospital operated on Parsons, replacing two valves of her heart.

Two days later, on Feb. 25, Kyle was wheeled into surgery at Deaconess. Unlike Parsons' operation, which was an open heart procedure, Kyle had less extensive surgery. Surgeons closed off the duct through a five-inch incision in the child's side, avoiding a major incision down the sternum, Sandi said. Kyle was discharged just three days later, on the 28th.

"He's just doing so much better now," Sandi Black said. Kyle's appetite has improved markedly and he's sleeping much better than he did before the surgery, she added. In the first week following the operation, he gained enough weight to surpass his former high mark, she said, and now weighs nearly 9 pounds. his mother's opinion, Kyle is "a lot happier boy." Doctors remain hopeful that the second heart problem will resolve itself without additional surgery. If not, an open heart procedure may be necessary later, Sandi Black said.

But the odds are in Kyle's favor, she said, with about a 65 percent chance that he won't require another operation. Perhaps back-to-back heart surgeries in the same family can be written off as coincidence. But there's more. At about the same time Parsons and Kyle were becoming candidates for heart surgery, Kyle's great-grandfather, John Hager of Waldport, and El Centrol, had a heart attack. Hager, Randy Black's grandfather and a former Boise College instructor, also is reported doing fine following treatment.

Meanwhile, Parsons, whose husband Harold is a retired farmer, has been discharged from Deaconess. Sandi Black reports her mother, like Kyle, is now "feeling really well." Black is philosophical about the run of family heart problems. "They say it (bad luck) comes in threes," she said. "We've had our three." Man arrested on medical al charge By TIM HANSON Staff writer The former operator of an East Spokane health club whose infant daughter died during delivery in a whirlpool bath there last fall was arrested Tuesday for practicing medicine without a license, court records indicate. Authorities said Donald Gary Young, 33, E1221 29th, was arrested at his residence about 2 p.m.

and later was booked into the Jail on one count of practicing medicine without a license. He remained in jail Tuesday on a $10,000 bond. The arrest was the result of a three-week undercover investigation involving police and. investigators from the Washington State Department of Licensing, authorities reported. Tuesday afternoon that he hopes legislative approval of a mutualfreeze memorial would add to the nationwide momentum.

He said he would even support unilateral arms reductions by the U.S. in the hope it might take the pressure off the Soviets to develop increasingly deadly weapons. Dellwo said the U.S. already has enough weapons to destroy the world, and a unilateral reduction is advisable "because we would never use those nuclear weapons and, if we did, it would be a horrible mistake." Dellwo said Bond's "peace through strength" memorial is "of the old school where strength and might make He said the continuing arms building hasn't "gotten us anywhere" because the Soviets "match us at each step." At Tuesday's rally, retired Admiral James Russell, who once commanded NATO operations in southern Europe, said, "Ladies and gentlemen, the way to prevent that nuclear war is to be strong." And he said the U.S. must be "smarter than the other guy." But Dellwo said, "I don't think improving our capability to destroy Russia is in any way constructive when you are trying to make Redistricting panel reaches consensus SEATTLE (AP) Washington's redistricting commissioners forged a compromise plan Tuesday night for redrawing the state's eight congressional districts including a shift of Everett back to the 2nd District.

The plan, hammered out in hours of hard-nosed, often partisan negotiations in caucus, will mean boundary shifts for every Western Washington district. The two Democrats and two Republicans stopped just short of formally approving the plan, saying they want to see firm population figures and boundary lines for each district before voting. But the four informally agreed they had found middle ground. Formal approval is scheduled for Friday. The citizen members of the Washington Redistricting Commission were appointed by the Legislature last month to do the court-ordered redrawing of congressional boundaries.

The plan is to be presented to the Legislature by Monday. Lawmakers will have 15 days 2. to approve the proposal and may make only minor population shifts. The most dramatic effect of the plan is to grant Everett citizens' wish to return to their traditional 2nd District. After the Legislature put Everett into the Seattle-oriented 1st District last year, angry citizens challenged the plan in federal court.

A three- panel threw out Washington's districting plan, saying it violates the one-man, onevote rule by allowing too much population variance from district to district. By shifting about 56,000 Everett residents into the 2nd District, the commission was forced to make domino shifts in other WestWashington districts. Another key aspect of the plan is to unite the Grays Harbor twin cities of Hoquiam and Aberdeen. Hoquiam, now in the 2nd District, would join Aberdeen in the 3rd. The Eastern Washington districts were approved days ago.

The plan calls for shifting several thousand people in the Burbank area in western Walla Walla County from the 5th into the 4th. The 4th also would gain some population in rural Clark County near Camas and Washougal. Everett representatives in the audience burst into applause and cheered when it became apparent agreement had been reached. Republican commissioners Ron Dunlap of Bellevue and Don Eldridge of Olympia, had been pushing for a simple modification of the plan which passed the Legislature last year and had opposed more dramatic shifts urged by Democratic commissioners Pete Francis of Seattle and James Gillespie of Spokane. But Tuesday night the two sides agreed on a politically balanced way of swapping population in the 1st and 2nd districts.

Information prepared by Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Clark D. Colwell and filed in Superior Court alleges that Young made offers to deliver a baby and to treat cancer. The information states that Young offered to "detect the presence of cancer in another" by taking a blood sample which he later would "interpret." Authorities said the offers were made in the presence of undercover investigators for Spokane police and the Department of Licensing. Young also offered to determine the "nutritional needs of another person during pregnancy by drawing blood and interpreting the results of a blood test," the information stated. Young does not have a valid unrevoked licence to practice medicine, Colwell stated in the court documents.

Young last fall told police he was the owner of the Golden Six Health World, E4204 Sprague, where his infant daughter died Sept. 4 during delivery in a whirlpool bath. County Coroner Lois Shanks said the child, daughter of Young and his wife Donna, probably would have lived if delivered under more conventional conditions. Shanks said the child apparently remained under water in the bath for almost an hour before she was removed, but the infant's death certificate attributed the death to cardiac arrest, not drowning. "It was a perfectly normal, healthy little girl," said the coroner at the time of the child's death.

"There's no reason why she should not have lived.".