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The Daily News, Longview, Thursday, January 27, 1994 B3 Northwest 4 AL i -4." Measure amended to ban gay teachings at colleges 5 'These people are trying to sanitize their Rep. Cal Anderson, D-Seattle if Six-year-old saves family from fire VENETA, Ore. (AP) Bryan Drake and his two brothers were asleep in their triple-bunk bed when fire broke out in an electrical outlet in their room. But Bryan awakened and leaped from his top bunk when he smelled smoke. "I couldn't breathe," the 6-year-old boy said Wednesday.

"I got one of my stuffed animals and put it over my face and ran to my mom in the back bedroom." And that's the reason Bryan and his two younger brothers are alive, Fern Ridge Fire Chief Dale Kamrath said. "He's a hero," Kamrath said. "Bryan, whether he knows it or not, saved three young boys last night, including himself. In another five minutes, they probably wouldn't have been able to wake up." There was no working smoke alarm in the mobile home to alert either the boys or their mother, 27-year-old Richain Drake, and she could smell nothing from her bedroom at the other end of their mobile home. "He ran in and said 'Mom, there's smoke in the bedroom Prison to probe charges of inmate abuse SALEM (AP) Inmates' allegations of brutality by guards in the Oregon State Penitentiary maximum-security unit are being reviewed, according to Oregon Corrections Department investigators.

The review focuses on incidents in November 1991 and December 1993, said John Foote, head of the inspections branch of the Corrections Department. Robert Allen Walker, 29, was sent to Salem Hospital for treatment of a broken nose and gash on his head that required 17 stitches after an altercation on Dec. 26. Walker claims his injuries were caused by abuse. Corrections officials said he was injured when guards wrestled him to the floor.

Corrections officers may, under certain conditions, tackle handcuffed inmates, Foote said. "If the inmate turns on staff aggressively, he's taken to the ground," he said. Walker's lawyer, James Leuenberger of Portland, said that's a euphemism. "I call it a beating. They, of course, deny that," he said.

Records show more than 650 wide-ranging complaints by prison inmates have been filed with the inspector general's branch of the Corrections Department during the past two years. Aswoaied Press photo Bryan Drake, center, and his brother Dustin, talk about their house fire. Fire Chief Dale Kamrath, right, calls Bryan a hero. OLYMPIA AP) Sponsors of an anti-gay rights initiative have amended it with a section that would ban the state's public colleges and universities from teaching or promoting homosexuality as a healthy lifestyle. That addition and a definition of homosexuality were filed with the secretary of state's office earlier this week.

"Homosexuality is defined as the sexual desire for a person of the same gender as determined by the individual's willingness to be openly self-identified with those desires or sexual activity with individuals of the same gender," states the definition section of Initiative 610. The director of the Citizens Alliance of Washington, which is leading the initiative campaign, said the group intended all along to include colleges and universities as places where homosexuality could not be taught, but the provision was overlooked in the original filing. The definition of homosexuality was added "because the Legislature has a way of defining things any way they want to," alliance director Sam Woodward said. Woodward, of Ariel, said the definition is designed to be "fair, accurate, honest and not derogatory." Rep. Cal Anderson, D-Seattle, said academic freedom is at issue.

"The addition of the prohibition of institutions of higher learning is really offensive," he said. "If a professor isn't able to discuss issues surrounding homosexuality, that takes away academic freedom. It stifles debate." major damage. Neighbors who saw the Drake family fleeing their home grabbed a fire extinguisher and managed to put out the flames before firefighters arrived. Bryan took his heroism in stride, writing an A-plus essay about his ordeal the following day for his first-grade teacher.

"I was in a fire last night," Bryan wrote. "I was scared. I could hardly even breathe. But we all got out." S(s3o0 JDq State rips Yakima restaurant inspections and my eyes are burning, she said Wednesday. She ran to the smoke-filled bedroom, awakened 4-year-old Dustin and 2-year-old Aaron and got all three children outside.

"The room was so full of smoke that you couldn't hardly see," she said. "If Bryan hadn't woke up, my kids wouldn't be here today." The fire scorched the bedroom wall, but caused no tefaaafea totto Low As S1S Per Month SAVE s50 mux Mm i. innmim 1 YAKIMA (AP) Inadequate inspections of restaurants by County health officials put the county at a high risk for a food-poisoning outbreak, ac- cording to a draft state report. The report said violations are so rampant that 25 of 43 Yakima-area restaurants reviewed by the state last fall would have been subject to immediate closure had state regulations been followed. The draft report, prepared by the state Department of Health, also found: Yakima Health District inspectors often don't notice critical violations and don't always follow up on repeat viola LOWEST PRICE EVER! Anderson, the only openly gay member of the Legislature, is sponsoring a House bill to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation.

"These people are trying to sanitize their hate," Anderson said. "But the bottom line for me is, hatred is hatred." Other sections of Initiative 610 would: Prohibit state and local governments from granting minority status to homosexuals. Prohibit public schools from presenting homosexuality as a positive behavior. Prohibit people "participating in homosexuality" from becoming foster parents and from adopting children. The initiative states minor children "must never be placed in households where homosexuality is present in any matter whatsoever." Prohibit same-sex marriages and domestic partnerships.

Declare that gender is established at conception, and that physical alterations to the body do not affect the natural sex. Sponsors of the initiative have until July 8 to gather signatures of 181,667 registered voters to gain a spot on the November ballot. tions. Inspections, which are supposed to occur at least once a year, are inconsistent. At one restaurant, more than seven years passed between inspections.

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