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A2 FROM PAGE ONE Tt IE DAILY NEWS, WASH. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1995 Tomorrow in Washington and Northern Oregon Mouse panel votes to end Medicaid us Bellingham 72 jAN flojf Seattle 73 I Tacoma 72 Yakima "74 Portland 76 kTTTTlMIllllMlllll Horn of the BottomlaM Tub 1 50 DOLBY SURROUND SOUND Any Show hmiininimiimfl CLUELESS (12:45) 7:00 PG-13 WALK IN THE CLOUDS (2:50) 9:10 PG-13 FREE WILLY 2 PG StiowtlmMln()aretrxSirrJayiSunrtavOnry AataSaaaf MOPWWST MORTGAGE uw 740 Ocean Beach Hwy. Call for FREE PRE- nil 1 1 ipi i-rirtll UUALINbHIIUI. I Gary Root i425-2524 1-800-392-4762 LOCAL PROCESSING vs I CLOSING i-J Northwest Forecast Southwest Washington Fair tonight except low clouds and log along coast Lows 40 to 50. Low clouds and fog coast with partly sunny afternoon Sunday.

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Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Low clouds and fog becoming partly sunny in the afternoon Sunday. Highs mid-60s. Extended Outlook Western Washington Cloudy periods with temperatures near normal Monday through Wednesday. Chance of a little rain or drizzle mainly north coast late Tuesday and Wednesday.

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Highs coast 60s. Inland 70s with around 80 south. Cloudy or foggy coast with some patchy drizzle. Around the Nation Medicaid cannot be sustained," said Committee Chairman Thomas J. Bliley "The governors told us that if we got rid of mandates they could live within budget caps.

I have to believe that governors and state legislatures are just as concerned about the poor as we are." Rep. Henry A. Waxman, author of much of the program, called it a "sad day for this committee there is no guarantee of anything." With spending of $155 billion last year, the federal-state program provides health care to 32 million people, more than one in 10 Americans. It pays for more than half of all nursing home care and is the largest single source of federal funds to the states. In a firm display of Republican solidarity, the committee rejected amendments that would have retained a number of federal rules Democrats said were necessary to protect Medicaid recipients and their families.

The committee's proposal would abolish detailed federal nursing home standards that specifically prohibit residents from being unnecessarily tied down or drugged, that prevent nursing homes from unvoluntarily discharging patients, and that set standards for nursing and numerous other areas of care. Also, the proposal would allow states to require spouses of nursing home residents to sell their home or car to pay for their husband or wife's care. Rep. Ron Wyden, charged that without this amendment, "the liquidator will be knocking on the doors of senior citizens," but Rep. WJ.

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86 601.19 Tulsa 58 37 dr Duluth 43 31 cdy North Platte 63 41 cdy 81 55 .78 cdy El Paso 58 50 cdy Oklahoma City 58 38 clr Wichita 57 36 cdy Drive-thru BREAKFAST ESPRESSO At Ocean Beach Dairy Queen Open at 6:30 a.m. The Washington Post WASHINGTON A key House committee Friday took the first step toward dismantling Medicaid, voting to replace the federal health care program for the poor and disabled with slimmed down grants to the the states that would reduce both federal interference and federal funding. Senate Republicans announced plans to push through a similar measure next week as part of the huge omnibus deficit reduction plan before the Congress, but disagreements remained over the most contentious issue in the plan how to divide money among the states. The House and Senate propose to save $182 billion from Medicaid to help balance the budget over seven years, but the White House has threatened to veto a bill making cuts of that size, setting up a monumental confrontation that could shut down the government. After a breakneck three-day markup that ended Friday, the House Commerce Committee voted to wipe out the federal guarantee of Medicaid health benefits for the poor, elderly and disabled.

States would receive block grants, or lump-sum payments, with the flexibility to decide who is covered, what benefits are offered and how much doctors and hospitals ought to be paid. They would be required to spend part of their grant on low-income families, the disabled and elderly poor, and nursing home residents. The grants would increase each year, but at less than half the rate the Medicaid program has been growing. The vote to establish a new "MediGrant" plan was 27 to 18, with only one Democrat Rep. Ralph M.

Hall of Texas joining committee Republicans in supporting the bill. "The double-digit growth in DEPOT CONTINUED FROM PAGEA1 the bus lines to manage the Longview station on Washington Way, said no agreement has been reached to move the station, but Gregory said he is confident the bus lines will move into the depot "We do want to locate there," said Kim Gann, Greyhound customer service manager in Portland. "It's nice for us because it provides a nice atmosphere for customers." The depot also will be a stop for transit buses. "By making it a multimodal transportation center, it's going to make the depot the hub of the city as it once was," Lawrence said. Restoring old-time charm to the Kelso depot also advances a thing that helped annihilate those olden days speed.

The state is investing millions of dollars to restore depots as part of its "high-speed rail" effort to get people on trains and off congested highways. Remodeled depots will encourage travelers to take advantage of the "incremental' improvements taking place to reduce travel times, said Jeff Schultz, state Department of Transportation rail planner. "If you have a cruddy, run-down depot with graffiti on it, what are your customers going to think?" Schultz asked. Having a train and bus station together will allow travelers from, say, Seattle to get off the train in Kelso, "walk across the station and continue their trip to Astoria," Schultz said. "If we don't provide connections to where people want to go, they'll just take their car," he said.

"We think it's the right thing to do. This corridor has a lot of people, and 1-5 isn't going to get any better." Currently, 15,000 travelers a year (that works out to 41 a day) board and Breakfast Sandwich Biscuit or muffin sandwich with choice Beach Hwy QUEEN Spokane 72 DAHO Longview Weather 24-hour rain total at 7 a.m. 00 Rain total in September .58 Average rain for September 2.13 Rain total year-to-date 23.74 Average rain thru September 27.25 Days of rain In September 6 Average days of rain in September 9 Yesterday's high temperature 87 This morning's low temperature 41 Average high in September 73 Average low in September 49 Tides and River Depth Long Beach tides for Sept 24 First high 0:31 a.m. 7.5 ft First low 6:41 a.m. 0.2 ft Second high 12:52 p.m.

8.2 ft Second low 7:08 p.m. ft In Longview, high tide Is 3:33 later than Long Beach; low tide Is 5:26 later. River readings Daybreak Cowlitz 6.0 ft. Sunrise 7:03 Columbla3.0 ft Sunset 7:10 percent. And the cost is becoming apparent in California.

California, home to 12 percent of the U.S. population or just under one in eight Americans now requires life sentences for any felony that follows two convictions for serious or violent crimes. As a result, California prisons took in 713 men and women on third-strike convictions between March 1994, when the law took effect, and the end of August, latest figures show. Enacted by the Legislature and then for good measure by voter referendum, "three strikes" is hitting California's justice system like no quake that ever throttled that state. State studies already show jail populations growing.

Potential three-strikers are demanding trials instead of pleading guilty. Counties are freeing some inmates early to make room for three-strikers. "Three strikes" inmates are getting assigned to higher security facilities. And a new phrase heard in California courthouses is: "strike a strike," meaning subtracting infractions to lower the "three strikes" count Say someone stole for food. "We will strike a strike," said Gregory McClain, deputy district attorney for San Diego County, which created an entire segment of its justice system to handle "three strikes" defendants.

"In one case, I struck two strikes," McClain said. "It was a guy who had a tough record a long time ago. He had a child. He had a wife. He had a city or county job.

He was paying child support, paying alimony. His employer said he was doing a good job." The man had been picked up for driving under the influence of the hallucinogen PCP. "It just didn't seem we should ruin his life, his daughter's life under those circumstances," McClain said. McClain didn't vote for "three strikes." In fact he said he hates it but will do what the majority wanted. "There's no question it's a harsh law," he said, But then, you've got to say this is a way of dealing with repeat offenders." OaaamdAda Retail Display Ads Affcrssflng Proofroom Accounting and Brikng rwninx Ofnoaa Briefs CXy Desk Thai Day 577-2525 577-2562 577-2563 577-2500 577-2508 577-2515 577-2520 577-2541 577-2516 577-2527 677-2571 Soorts Deewat On -aabon TIm Daffy News prlwM racydpl fttfMf nf harnn icanp nr ham TRIANGLE CINEMAS I Check i irhi'i 1 fttti'TiTmi fi LONGVIEW CINEMAS 425-9500 AfTTTI 371 321 1 Ocean DAIRY STRIKES CONTINUED FROM PAGEA1 a police officer and sex abuse of a minor.

Willoughby just saw what looked like his state's first potential "three strikes" defendant skip bail. The man was facing trial for attempted murder after previous convictions for manslaughter and armed assault. "The ordinary citizen on the street may have expected it to be applicable to lots of folks," Willoughby said. For instance, "it's not usual to convict someone three times for violent Those people that commit those types of crimes are not likely to be paroled" in the first place, he said. Said Pamela Lattimore, a program manager at the National Institute of Justice, the U.S.

Justice Department's research arm: "What people don't understand is that most of the horrible offenders get long sentences anyway." Indeed, long before politicians used "three strikes" to pitch justice with a baseball slogan, most states already had habitual offender laws that stiffen penalties with each new conviction. That explains Colorado's lack of use for its "three strikes" law, according to Bonnie Benedetti, Denver assistant district attorney. "We already had an habitual criminal system in place," Ms. Benedetti said. "We used that with good success.

We may well get very lengthy prison sentences (for repeat offenders) before they get all the way to three strikes, and you're out' Alabama has been locking up repeat offenders for life under a 1979 law with questionable results. Alabama mandates a life sentence on a fourth, violent crime for defendants after three previous felony convictions. The 386 Alabama inmates serving life without parole as of the end of July, the latest available figure, comprised just under 2 percent of the prison population of about 20,000. Meanwhile, violent crime in the state has risen 23 percent in the past five years. Property crime is up 9 debark from the four northbound and four 1 southbound trains that stop each day in Kelso.

A a recently added a line between Seattle and 'If you have a cruddy, run-down depot with graffiti on it, what are your customers going to JEFF SCHULTZ STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PLANNER Vancouver, British Columbia, but has no plans to increase service through Kelso, Amtrak spokeswoman Dawn Soper said. The city owns the depot building and leases the ground from Burlington Northern Railroad. The remodeling added 1,850 square feet of retail space below the main floor with storefronts on street level. Gregory said the city plans to use the rent money to maintain the depot. The depot also will have a community meeting room and other amenities it didn't before like insula- tion and separate bathrooms for men and women.

The restoration has won the endorsement of 80-year-old Kelso resident Jack Flagg, who spent much of his long railroad career as a telegrapher for Pacific Northern in the Kelso depot. "It's elegant. It's a long distance ahead of where it used to be," said Flagg, who witnessed a couple of remodeling projects over the years but nothing as extensive as this one. John Jones, owner of Evergreen Press print shop, has been able to watch the depot remodeling unfold from his business on South Pacific Avenue. He said he expects the depot to attract more people downtown.

"People have already started sprucing up their buildings," Jones said. "We started about a year ago fixing up our place, knowing it was coming. I think it will bring more traffic and customers for the different businesses." I I I fYT ilrr. Hi. rt Regular daily showings every 45 minutes of THE ERUPTION OF MOUNT ST.

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