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A Sunday, Aug. 2, 1 992, Spokane, Wash. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW B5 Intelligent, polite robbers hit grocery stores Duo has gotten away with $1.5 million tems and with police investigative techniques. They seem to have more than a casual knowledge of all this, he said. He speculated the men could work in security or have a background in military policing.

They also may work as deliverymen or have experience in the grocery business, he said. The refinements in their techniques have been minimal because they seem to have been doing things pretty well from the outset, Newman said. Theyre professionals. They control themselves and they control their victims. The FBI publicized the investigation this week hoping to generate new leads.

FBI spokesman Bart Gori said the agency has gotten several dozen phone calls and agents were following up. Nobody has been hurt in any of the robberies, but one robber fired his gun when a store employee tried to run during a July 1991 robbery in Roseburg, Ore. The latest robbery occurred July 19 in Astoria, Ore. Why the men continue has police baffled. They dont seem to be stopping, in spite of having successfully taken well over a million dollars, Newman said.

into a bag or cardboard box taken from inside the store. The robbers drive away in an employees car, abandoning it a short distance away. Robberies have occurred in towns stretching from Spokane to Medford, Ore. The men never hit the same store twice. They dont appear to be drug addicts and generally treat their victims well, Newman said.

The robberies are well-thought out and well-executed, he said. Theyre not into the power aspects of the robbery, he said. Newman said the men seemed familiar with the grocery business, with security sys Associated Press PORTLAND Two robbers responsible for the longest and most expensive string of robberies in Northwest history are cool professionals who probably lead outwardly normal lives, a police psychologist says. Theyre probably not appreciably different from the guy next door, said Richard Newman, a clinical psychologist for the past 20 years. Police say the two men have robbed 35 grocery stores in Oregon and Washington since 1987.

The robbers have gotten away with $1.5 million, averaging $43,000 per robbery. Newman developed a psychological profile of the two men after joining the investigation 18 months ago. I think, first of all, that theyre very bright, Newman said Friday. The men hide in the stores and, disguised with ski masks, confront store employees shortly after closing. One man holds employees at gunpoint while the other orders the manager to open the store's safe and empty currency, rolled coins and postage stamps Recycling soul of Oregon shoe firm ATTENTION: PET OWNERS! PET LICENSES ARE REQUIRED FOR ALL COUNTY DOCS CATS Tags Are Available At The Following: (Some agents charge $1 .00 Handling Fee) VALLEY NORTH WEST King's Vet Spokanimal Care Spok Cnty Courthouse Spokane County Animal Shelter Aslln Finch Feed (2 stores) Evergreen Pet Shop Heart Arrow Veterinary Millwood Animal Clinic Thunder Mountain Dog Supply Valley Feed Seed Aslin Finch Feed Chattaroy Feed Store Companion Veterinary Clinic Spokane Humane Society FEES Cat 9 SpayedNeutered 13 Not SpayedNeutered 5 Discount for New Cats Dog 18M SpayedNeutered RY MAIL 26 Not SpayedNeutered i ivif-tih $1000 Discount for New Dogs Send In Breed, Sex, Color, Owner's Info Phone: SPOKANE COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER N.

2521 FLORA SPOKANE, WA 99216 Deja Inc. aims at new environmental market Associated Press PORTLAND Take some old tires, pop bottles and wetsuits, add some leftover coffee filters, hospital gowns and disposable diapers, and what do you have? The makings of a pair of DejaShoes. The shoes, which are recyclable as well as made of recycled materials, will be introduced next month at an industry trade show in Las Vegas. Executives at Deja Inc. in suburban Portland figure environmentally conscious Americans will jump at the chance to buy a well-designed product thats also good for the planet.

Tbe pace and speed with which this environmental sensitivity is coming to the general population is an explosion. What a tremendous marketing opportunity, Deja president Dean Croft said. A few years back, Deja founder Julie Lewis was a homemaker with two lads, a concern for the environment and an idea about creating markets for recycled materials: How about using old tires to make the soles of shoes? Initially, I was thinking just the recycled rubber soles, she said. Then she saw a woman weaving bread bags into rugs. It looked like fabric.

That could be the upper, she thought. She called recyclers and fabric companies to get them interested in the idea. They said, No. Who are you? Lewis recalled. A man who made speed bumps of recycled tires suggested she call Bill Bowerman, the former Ore- Oregons shoe guru, as Lewis calls Bowerman, helped her get a prototype made at a laboratory in Eugene.

His contacts at Nike helped Lewis gain credibility with the fabric mills and obtain a grant from a local recycling program to produce 5,000 pairs of shoes. Nike probably doesnt know that they helped, she said. Nike has been working on its own process that recycles ground-up shoes as outsole material for new shoes. Lewis had sold 300 pairs from her house when a lawyer at a party told her about Croft, former chief executive with Portland-based Avia Group International Inc. I walked over to his house and knocked on his door, she said.

Croft recognized opportunity. I was generally aware that there was a big green movement that was on the verge of becoming a mass movement, Croft said. Secondly, she did have a prototype. If she could do it, people with broader resources could do it." During the three years Croft was with Avia, sales grew from $8 million to $220 million as the athletic shoe industry capitalized on another trend: the growing number of women buying fitness products. When the wave is coming through, thats the place to be, he said.

The number of families willing to adjust their buying habits (for environmental reasons) has grown from 10 percent to 25 percent in just 18 months, Croft said. We believe 50 percent will adjust their buying habits in the next 15 months. Lewis and Croft obtained $2.5 million in venture capital from various investors. 1982-1992 HIRED! 10 AN INTERFACE GRADUATE it motivated perton It trained with handt-on akillt it proficient In word procetting knows accounti receivablepayable hat excellent computer tklllt IN JUST SIX MONTHS YOU TOO CAN HAVE THE SKILLS EMPLOYERS NEEDI INTERFACE COMPUTER SCHOOL AP photo Julie Lewis displays a shoe made from recycled materials at her Portland office recently. gon track coach who helped found Nike Inc.

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