The Spokesman-Review from Spokane, Washington • 47

The Spokesman-Review Spokane Chronicle C5 Spokane, Wash Sept. 17, 1989 Dogs need bloodlines, not beauty BSS1SSSZ53 Regional Digest FROM WIRE REPORTS State allows Cenex to drill for oil near Glacier Park KALISPELL The state Board of Oil and Gas Conservation, after two and one-half days of court-ordered hearings, voted unanimously Saturday to issue a permit to Cenex for drilling an exploratory oil well near Glacier National Park. The boards decision, however, included provisions that one environmental attorney heralded as the end of the states issuing blank checks to oil companies. The board ordered Cenex to add 15 conditions to its drilling plan, covering safety in the event of a blowout of hydrogen sulfide gases, garbage containment, firearm restrictions, and public notification should the site become a producing field. Were very well pleased, Cenex attorney William Bellingham said Saturday after the boards decision.

We have no problems with any of the conditions adopted by the board, he said. They dont present any problem, most of them were just a reiteration of what we planned to do anyway. Corey Welter, Cenex well supervisor, said drilling would probably resume Monday and may take up to 40 days to reach the wells objective of 8,500 feet. By John Craig Staff writer The 70 dogs on trial Saturday and today near Medical Lake may not win any ribbons for appearance, but theyll get high marks if they know how to fetch chukars. In one test this weekend, three dead birds were lobbed into the air as shotgun blanks were fired.

Dogs had to find the birds by memory or, failing that, by following their masters instructions. In another test, dogs had to find a hidden chukar by following directions and using their noses when they got close. The trials conducted this weekend on land and in water were organized by the Spokane Bird Dog Association to emphasize performance, not appearance. History has shown that any dog that becomes popular becomes useless as a working dog, said author Richard Wolters, who was a judge for trials this weekend by the Spokane Bird Dog Association. Take the cocker Staff photo by Shawn Jacobson Dan Hasford of Hayden Lake works with Puff, a chocolate Labrador, before Saturdays contest, organized by the Spokane Bird Dog Association.

in protecting the bloodlines. Wolters has written 15 books, three of which have become bibles for hunting dog owners. Originally a research chemist in the national atomic and rocket programs, he later worked 20 years for Business Week and was on the original staff of Sports Illustrated. 1 scoured the brushy scabland for chukars. Among the three major breeds of retrievers in the country, two Labradors and golden retrievers are threatened by beauty pageant breeding, Wolters said.

However, he said the North American Hunting Retrievers Association has succeeded spaniel, he said. He cant find his way to the meat counter in a supermarket, Wolters said. The Irish setter, he added, is a blooming idiot. The 69-year-old Wolters talked about dogs Saturday as Labradors High winds push bum into timber DARBY, Mont. More than 400 acres of the Bitterroot National Forest near here was afire Saturday from what began as a controlled burn until high winds took control.

A force of 240 was trying to control the Overwhich fire, about 40 miles southwest of Darby in the West Fork Ranger District. Information officer Mike Oliver said the blaze began Friday afternoon when winds 30 to 40 mph whipped embers out of a controlled burn and into heavy downed timber. Oliver said the firefighting force included a management team, a bulldozer and 10 fire trucks. Five of the trucks and a team of men came from rural fire departments in the area, Oliver said. He said fire officials were not yet making any estimate of when the flames would be contained or controlled.

He said wind conditions would be the determining factor. Oliver said the controlled burn began Wednesday and was in the mop-up stages when winds spread the embers into the heavy timber. Paid Advertisement State GOP rejects removal of national committeeman WANTED BY FBI CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ARMED ROBBERY; BURGLARY Drug agents trapping each other SEATTLE Like modern-day Keystone Kops, anti-narcotics officers from different agencies in King County seem to be trapping each other in undercover drug deals, a county official said. King County Councilman Ron Sims says there are getting to be so many different undercover drug-fighting operations that narcotics agents end up selling drugs to each other. At times there are as many as five of these things going all at once, Sims said Wednesday in a Metropolitan Democratic Club debate over whether the city needs more police.

They call these (incidents) glitches. Come to find out, theyve been buying and selling drugs to each other for months, he said. King County Sheriff James Montgomery confirmed that he told the county council recently that there have been glitches among the five anti-drug task forces in the field in the King County area. Sims said he confirmed Montgomerys statements with another source, but would not provide details or name the source. Montgomery said Thursday his agency hadnt been involved in any glitches.

Sims appeared at the debate with Seattle City Councilwoman Jane Noland, who is a strong supporter of a bigger Seattle police force. Sims argued that more efficient police are needed, not more officers, and called for a county-wide umbrella agency to coordinate anti-drug efforts. en care of his problems, under the resolution. Summers, a leading apartment developer in the suburbs east of Seattle, has been assessed $7.38 million in back taxes, interest and penalties. The case, believed to be the biggest tax delinquency in state history, resulted in the revocation of business licenses for three of the Centron network of apartment and management corporations in July.

The state attorney generals office is also investigating the Washington Policy Council, a Summers-founded conservative group accused of failing to report $47,665 in 1988 campaign contributions. Summers, elected national committeeman after he successfully engineered a conservative agenda and television evangelist Pat Robertsons caucus victories in Washington, told the state panel he was a victim of biased reporting. Youre getting a filtered story, filtered by the literal media in Seattle, he asserted. Associated Press YAKIMA Republican national committeeman Jim Summers, facing an overdue tax bill of $7.38 million, won his biggest political victory Saturday when the state GOP central committee rejected a move to relieve him of his duties temporarily. In an impassioned plea before the vote, Summers claimed he was the victim of the liberal Seattle media and Democratic politicians.

The panel then voted 36-30 in his favor, rejecting a watered-down resolution that fell short of a recall. I feel great, Summers said afterward. I feel humbled by this support the state committee has shown. Committee member Robert Willis-croft of Dayton first sought to recall Summers, then offered a motion to relieve him of his duties until his tax problems were resolved. The revised motion was a way to make the problem go away and give Jim a chance to save face, said Wil-liscroft.

He could have returned to his party duties as soon as he had tak While Youre Working 9 to 5, So Is He. NORTH IDAHOS Moratorium unlikely, official says PASCO Neither the governor nor the state Department of Ecology has the authority to impose a moratorium on building hazardous waste facilities, state Ecology Director Christine Gregoire told residents of Adams and Grant counties. Gregoire met Friday with 14 people representing a coalition of such diverse groups as cattlemen and Greenpeace. The groups had sent Gov. Booth Gardner a letter stating their opposition to two proposed hazardous-waste facilities in their Eastern Washington agricultural region.

The ECOS Corp. has announced plans for an incinerator and landfill on a site near Lind in Adams County and Rabanco has picked a site in Grant County across the Columbia River from Vantage. The groups said the state should concentrate efforts on laws that would reduce hazardous-waste generation at the point of production. They said a five-year moratorium on locating disposal plants would provide time for the toxics reduction strategy to take effect and would eliminate the need for new facilities. Gregoire told the anti-incinerator group a moratorium would put the state at odds with the federal Environmental Protection Agencys edict for states to come up with hazardous waste disposal plans or lose Superfund money to do the job.

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Friday when it was about 33 miles west of Port Angeles and five miles north of Slip Point, near the west end of the strait, said Petty Officer Sandy Calhoun in Seattle. The Coast Guard cutters Active, Point Bennett and Cuttyhunk responded from Port Angeles, along with an HH-65A Dolphin helicopter, she said. By the time they arrived, the ship had regained about 40 percent of its maneuverability. The Coast Guard vessels escorted the ship to Port Angeles, Calhoun said. Further details were not immediately available.

STARTING SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, STA IS MAKING Minor ru' beWeen Ray Avenues I'nd'se'ard QfoSStOWl minor changes (1 and Haiev help Vu! Firefighter remembered at service SEATTLE Firefighters from around the Northwest and British Columbia gathered with family and friends at St. Marks Episcopal Cathedral to pay last respects to firefighter Lt. Matthew Johnson, who died in an arson fire Sept. 9 on the Seattle waterfront. Nearly 1,100 uniformed firefighters were among the 1,750 people who filled the Capitol Hill church for the Friday service.

Friends and co-workers described the Seattle fireman as a big man with a big heart, of such a gentle nature that many close friends referred to him as Matthew Bear. The 32-year-old Johnson, who was 6-foot-5, had been with the department for nine years. He was married and had a 14-month-old son. The public outpouring of affection would probably have em-barassed his son, said Darrell Johnson at a reception later. He would have also felt humbled, said the father.

He never did things to get accolades for them, the elder Johnson said. He did what he did because he believed it was right. Johnson was one of the first firefighters on the scene the night of Sept. 9 when fire broke out at the old Blackstock Lumber Co. house on Elliott Way.

Johnson and another firefighter pulled a hose into the burning building. His partner managed to stagger out of the fire, but Johnsons body was found early Sunday beneath a pile of debris. EWU sm mm TDD 456-HEAR.