Longview Daily News from Longview, Washington • 7

The Daily News lnview Washington Friday April 22 1977 Protection preservation is philosophy Teachers to work at local firms DNR sessions explain Forest Practices Act planned for this area are Tuesday in Woodland Thursday in Longview and May 5 in Cathlamet While there is no charge for attendance advance registration should be made by calling the DNR in Olympia The toll-free telephone number is 1-800-562-6010 tions that must be observed by timber harvesters: protection of wildlife habitat avoidance of building landings on steep slopes or falling trees into a stream keeping slash from entering streams and wherever possible avoiding skidding across streams And there are many more The act also calls for reforestation following any clearcutting or partial cutting where 50 per cent or more of the timber volume is removed within a five-year period Use of chemicals in the forests is closely scrutinized in the Forest Practices Act because it is noted that improper use they can have more adverse effects on the environment than any other US Department of Agriculture regulations regarding chemicals are also to be observed and the general idea is to avoid any spills where the chemicals could cause contamination If used near water the chemicals must be kept from entering the water Depending on the type of stream or or other body of water untreated zones on either side can extend from 10 to 50 feet Other one-day training sessions YOUR MONEY IS SAFE in your CREDIT UNION! Each account insured up to $40000 Cowlitz County Chapter of Credit Unions 602s Jack Shero DNR Southwest Area manager at Castle Rock served as chairman assisted by Bob Flye and Lloyd Clark of the DNR and representatives of the Forest Practices Board Industrial Forestry Association and departments of ecology and fisheries Each subject was covered with slides and an accompanying sound track beginning with an explanation of the five classifications given to streams lakes ponds and rivers The different types are defined according to size numbers of fish in them and what purposes the waters are used for It was noted that along some of the bodies of water the Forest Practices Act requires establishment of a streamside management zone where special measures must be taken to protect water quality and stream bank integrity Within such zones DNR approval is needed before work such as tractor yarding road building or tree falling can be undertaken Damage to the zones is to be kept to a minimum to maintain water quality for fish life recreation and in some cases use as a domestic water supply Road construction and maintenance were labeled the key elements in a successful timber harvesting operation The word was forest roads easy on the' no wider than necessary and with as little soil disturbance as possible It was suggested that location of roads in wet areas was to be avoided if possible Stream crossings should be few and DNR approval is required before a road was built on steep or unstable slopes The act has innumerable regula John Power Longview mechanical engineer and chairman of a steering committee for the facilities study emphasized that the committee wants the report to be useful There are too many reports all around the country occupying shelves and representing money down the drain Power said Bids received Board members received bids opened this week for five construction projects which totaled about $100000 more than estimated costs The projects are a Cascade Junior High gym annex Columbia Valley Gardens and Olympic multipurpose rooms a Mark Morris High School shop addition and Monticello Junior High media center addition The building committee will review the bids with the architect prior to a board work session on the building projects at 5:30 pm Tuesday May 3 The next board meeting when a decision on accepting or rejecting bid may be made is Thursday May 5 Bidders awarded contracts were: Oil Co of Kelso to supply 30000 gallons of No 2 truck diesel fuel at $11385 Flegel Longview to supply 120000 gallons of PS-300 fuel oil at $38640 Crown-Zellerbach Paper Co Portland $6658 for roofing supplies Farmers Longview $13896 for construction of a storage shed at the school district maintenance center at 38th Avenue and Olive Way A bid call for a new tractor for the Mark Morris Future Farmers of America was approved after the board questioned why the present tractor was reported to be in bad shape School officials admitted the old tractor had the best of care but they believe that problem has been solved They also said it has many hours of service and has had many drivers It has been wrecked they said and the frame was cracked The tractor to be replaced is a 1972 model HORACE MANN welcomes you to participate in Teacher's Discount Insurance Rates National ducation A ssociation Auto Insurance By Fran Kaiser Daily News Staff Writer A program to place about 12 teachers in area businesses for a month this summer to learn firsthand how business operates favorably impressed the Longview School Board Thursday night The program is being developed by the school district and Longview Chamber of Commerce to acquaint classroom teachers with all aspects of business from top management to distribution of products and services Bill Noel chairman of the Chamber education committee said many types of businesses will be involved The host firm will pay the instructor $1100 for the six-weeks time spent Besides one month on the job teachers will spend two weeks in the classroom with an instructor from Whitworth College Spokane A film outlining a similar program in Spokane showed several teachers who said they had only been giving one side of the story about business in their classrooms but would now give both sides Teachers on the film said they answered many questions about education while learning about business creating a Vince Bousquet of Weyerhaeuser Co also representing the Chamber said area businesses are raising funds to finance the program He expects both education and business to benefit School Director Ebby Williams asked if the two visitors think there is a bad feeling toward business in the community Both visitors however thought there is a good relationship between the schools and business community which will help the program succeed When Williams asked how the program will benefit students Noel said teachers will have a more dynamic understanding of subjects being taught Facilities sfudy Dr Dave Jackman a consultant studying school facilities needs said population data has been gathered and a local economic study is being compiled He said staffs at each building are being contacted to learn the strengths and weaknesses of each building's educational program Staff members are being asked how well they think the building will serve the program they envision five years ahead The structural mechanical and electrical condition of buildings will be analyzed Homeowners Life Mortgage Ins WORKING WOMEN! 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Call DENNY at 423-6736 Personnel By Richard Spiro Daily Newt Senior Staff Writer Protection and preparation is substantially the philosophy behind Forest Practices Act To explain all provisions of the act the Department of Natural Resources and other agencies are holding a series of training sessions for foresters loggers and forest land-owners The DNR was designated by the Legislature to administer the act The two-day session scheduled for Kelso was condensed into one meeting on Thursday The presentation ranged from water-typing to road construction timber harvesting reforestation and forest chemicals 1-5 expansion through Kelso outlined here By Graham Vink Daily News Staff Writer Plans for the expansion of Interstate 5 through Kelso from the Longview Wye to Rocky Point were outlined Thursday evening at a workshop session of the Kelso City Council State Highways Department District Engineer Richard Carroll outlined a four-phase program that will eventually see the highway expanded to three lanes in each direction Now under way is construction between the Longview Wye and the Coweeman River as well as work between the North Kelso freeway access and Rocky Point Carroll said the next job to go to bid will be the two new crossings of the Coweeman as the freeway will be relocated to the west The stimated cost of that project will be $13 million Carroll said with the highways department planning to call for bids in June The next section to be constructed will be from Grade Street near the Coweeman to Allen Street including the Allen Street interchange which will become the major intersection serving Kelso Most of the right of way for the project has been purchased Carroll said but the department is still negotiating with the Kelso Elks for golf course property which is needed for the freeway The Elks have filed a lawsuit to force settlement He said the department hoped to go to bid on that section of the project in Jahuary When work near Allen begins Carroll said the first step will be construction of new frontage roads east of the freeway Eventually he said a frontage road will run from the Longview Wye to Allen He said the department would leave the existing tourist information building at the intersection as long as possible Actual highway construction will follow the usual department pattern Carroll said with a new set of lanes being built first Traffic then will be switched over to the new road while the old roadway is resurfaced He estimated that the entire cost of the road construction between the Longview Wye and Rocky Point could reach $30 million The federal government pays 90 per cent of the costs the highways department picks up the remainder The meeting was held at the Thunderbird Motor Hotel Dinner for councilmen and highways department representatives was paid for by motel chain management which sent two representatives from Portland to hear highway plans The motel now is served by a temporary road which will be replaced by a frontage road Long-time resident of Woodland dies Perle Stratton a 40-year resident of Woodland and son and grandson of pioneers of the Lewis River Valley died March 26 in a Spokane hospital Mr Stratton attended Woodland schools and was a charter member of the Woodland Fire Department A resident of Chewelah Wash for 17 years he worked in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard was a member of the Chewelah Recreation Association the United Church of Christ and the Washington State Horseshoe Club of which he was a state champion He is survived by his wife Marion of Chewelah one son four daughters three foster sons and 12 Phyllis Wells central kitchen employee plans to retire May 31 She has been employed by the district since 1962 Peggy Woodward assistant cook at the central kitchen also plans to retire May 31 She has been head cook at RA Long High School and has been employed by the district since 1954 Abelia Fir Maple Japanese Lace Leaf Maple Japanese Ribbon Leaf Maple Carpet Bugle Silk Tree Bog Andromeda Apple Apricot Monkey Puzzle Tree Strawberry Tree Scotch and Irish Moss Kinnikinnick Aucuba Azalea Bamboo Barberry Birch Boxwood Camellia Catalpa Cedar Redbud Cypress Cherry Mexican Orange Clematis Dogwood Pampas Grass Smoke Tree Cotoneaster Hawthorn Cryptomeria Quince Broom Daphne Enonymus Beech Fatshedera Aralia Fern Blue Fescue Filbert Contorted Filbert Forsythia Ash Wintergreen Heather Honeylocust I vy Hibiscus Hydrangea Holly Golden Chain Weeping Golden Chain Purple Chain Golden Rain Tree Juniper Mountain Laurel Leucothoe Sweet Gum Tulip Tree Honeysuckle Magnolia Oregon Grape Flowering Crab Apple Mulberry Sourwood Heavenly Bamboo Japanese Spurge Peach Pear Photinia Spruce Weeping Spruce Lily-of-the-Valley Shrub Pine Plum Popular Aspen Potentill Laurel Flowering Almond Flowering Cherry Flowering Plum Firethorn Oak Raphiolepsis Rhododendron Roses Tree Roses Sumac Willow Sedum Redwood Skimmia Mountain Ash Spirea Strawberry Lilac Yew Arborvitae Linden Hemlock Elm Periwinkle Weigela Wisteria Viburnum Walnut Yucca Blueberry Blackberry Boysenberry Currant Gooseberry Raspberry Grape Asparagus and Rhubarb Fired corrections officer sues county sheriff YES WE GROW are assigned to persons with the job title of Corrections Officer 2 She also alleges female corrections officers were and are denied opportunities by the county to attend Breathalyzer training school while male employees are allowed to do so This she states denied her equal professional status on the job and in pursuit of her career as a corrections officer She also alleges that since October of 1976 the county has required female corrections employees to take a supplementary training course before being allowed to do fingerprinting Such training is not required for males she claims Further the complaint states the county segregates women employees from their coworkers in their working quarters but does not segregate men Mrs Wallace says the county has denied women corrections officers the opportunity to be regularly scheduled for work in the jail control room although male officers are regularly scheduled for such dutv The plaintiff claims her work was satisfactory but believes she was terminated after expressing opposition to the policies mentioned above She states she was initially terminated last Nov 5 after the county commissioners ordered the sheriff's department to equalize pay between male and female corrections employees pursuant to a grievance she filed but was reinstated three days later with full pay Mrs Wallace is represented by an Olympia attorney Paula Casey Ready noware Allysum Dianthus Fibrous Begonias Tuberous Begonias Bleeding Heart Peonies Tulip Pots Daffodil Pots Primroses Fuchsia Fuchsia Hanging Baskets Ivy Geraniums Martha Washington Geraniums Standard Geraniums Candy Tuft Mums African Daisy Dusty Miller Breath Shasta Daisy Lambs Ears Snow-In-Summer Tears Impatiens Double Impatiens Livingston Daisy Lobelia Forget-Me-Not Serbian Bellflower Marigolds Pansies Violas Jump-Ups Double Petunias Gloriosa Daisy Painted Daisy Salvia Snapdragons Stock Thumbelina Zinnias Gold-Dust Allysum Sweet William Gaillardia Coral Bells Herbs Iberis Lupine Champagne Poppy Broccoli Brusselsprouts Cabbage Cauliflower Chives Soon to be ready are Asters Browallia Carnations Celosia Coleus Heliotrope Hollyhock Ageratum New Quinea Impatiens Portulaca State Fair Zinnias Nemesia Single Petunias Schizanthus Verbena Delphinium Tomatoes Squash Cucumbers Peppers Parsley Misc hanging baskets (Moss Begonias Mixed etc) A woman claiming that sex discrimination was the basis for her dismissal as a corrections officer at the county jail earlier this year has filed a lawsuit in Cowlitz County Superior Court Named defendants in an action brought Thursday by Judith Wallace 31 of Longview are the county Sheriff Les Nelson Undersheriff William Stuart and Rosa Hart chief matron at the jail Mrs Wallace who was terminated Feb 18 after one year of employment says she was given no specific reason for her dismissal but she claims it was a result of her opposition to sex discrimination practices she was subjected to by her employers She seeks an order requiring the defendants to reinstate her to her position back pay for wages lost since her termination an order requiring the county to eliminate sex discrimination with regard to job opportunities and responsibilities and $25000 damages for mental and emotional stress she alleges she has suffered According to information contained in the suit Mrs Wallace was hired as a Corrections Ofticer 1 a job title for which only women are eligible A male corrections officer hired by the county is classified as Corrections Officer 2 a position for which only men are eligible She said the job descriptions are the same except that a Corrections Officer 1 supervises women prisoners while men prisoners are supervised by persons holding the job title of Corrections Officer 2 Mrs Wallace claims that throughout her employment she was discriminated against on the basis of her sex In several respects Specifically she complains that a Corrections Officer 1 Is required to do traditional female chores such as mending prisoners' clothing and linens cleaning matron's quarters and cooking meals for all prisoners None of those duties she points out In the Service Navy Mate Fireman Dannie Meade son of Mr and Mrs Richard Meade of Longview has completed the basic electrician's mate course at the Service School Command Naval Training Center Great Lakes HI A 1975 graduate of RA Long High School Meade Joined the Navy In August 1976 fjfoV YES WE STOCK Fertilizers Insecticides Pesticides Fungicides Lawn Seed Garden Seeds Trellises Planters Hanging Baskets Peat Moss Potting Soil Potato Sets Onion Sets Gladiolus Corms Iris Bulbs Dahlia Tuber Lily-of-the-Valley Pips and Begonia Tuber AND NOT ALL! Educators to be honored vpkSAwr fy NURSERY NURSERY ing Professional Project Award for teaching excellence and LEA scholarships for a Mark Morris High School and an RA Long High School student Tickets at $8 per person can be purchased by the public from 8 am to 4 pm Monday at the LEA office 203 Park Plaza Building 1717 Olympia Way No tickets will be sold at the door In charge of banquet arrangements are Mrs Joan Landau Mrs Margaret Painter and Mrs Buff Antilla The RA Long Blue Notes will sing The Iongview Education Association will honor retiring educators at a banquet Monday evening at the Longview Elks Lodge A social hour will begin at 6 pm with dinner at 7 Five edurators to be honored are Supt Milton Smith Dottie Belle Cairns Cascade Junior High Harley Neu-xchwaneer Monticello Junior High Russell Miller RA Long High School and Don Packard Northlake School All plan to retire this year Awards to be presented by the LEA will be the Citizens Educational Service Award the Outstand and GARDEN CENTER 3829 Pleasant Hill Road Kelso 423-5353 Spring I lours Begin April 24th 9:00 to 8:00 pm daily Sat 9:00 am to (5:00 pm.