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Shooting drunken drivers The Daily News ADvantage, Tuesday, January 3, 1993 Page 5 Quarterly takes a look at-history of Kalama River mfmmm7m', LZJ 2fj'-p- ltW 1 1 1 1 1 ii Mm i vS fl l's. 1 touted this natural product as "a great kidney remedy blood purifier as well as a lax ative. Catarrh is not beyond its reach. Try one jug in your office and drive away that tired feeling." The product was sold in drugstores and saloons, "and persons from as far away as New York came out to sample the cure." "The spring is still there, the pigeons are still there," che writes, "And the taste of the water is the same as it was years ago like a good dose of Epsom salts hydrated magnesiums sulfate." I The hotel burned down in the early 1940s, she explains. I Descendents of the original! owners have sold the property.

Urrutia elaborates on the residents' isolation in "Life on the Lower Kalama" where she I tells of the exploits of native Don Bate who "knew every hole and- ripple" of the river and could always find fish. He nearly missed turning out for high school football because he had to walk 1 so far to get home. Fortunately two teachers volunteered to-drive him home after practice, A second Cowlitz Historical Quarterly on the Kalama River! will follow next year. The magazine is published by thel Cowlitz County Historical Socie-; ty and costs $2.75 in certain local bookstores and $2.50 at the Cowlitz County Historical," Museum in Kelso. As the end of the bicentennial year of Robert Gray's entering the Columbia River closes, the Cowlitz Historical Quarterly celebrates one of "this noble river's" local tributaries the Kalama River.

In the preface, editor Virginia Urrutia poetically describes the Kalama as "never navigable, defying exploration as it rushed through canyons and beneath towering cliffs, cruelly lonely for settlers." She begins with the origins of the name, which generally is attributed to Hawaii native John Kalama who settled on the river in the 1840s. Others say it could be a corruption of Thlakalamah, the name of a nearby Indian village found by explorers in 1811. With Lucia Jenkins Wolfe, who lived on a homestead on Wildhorse Creek, 17 miles up the Kalama River Road, Urrutia takes the reader on a historical tour as far as Pigeon Springs where the county road ends. Along the way, Wolfe, now 96, recounts memories of the isolated lives, bad roads and wobbly bridges of her youth. In a later article, "Not Quite Formal Education on the Kalama" Virgil Elizabeth Hopkins describes Wolfe's career as a teacher in the Kalama River area.

After a year's study at Ellensburg, she began at a salary of "$60 a month, half of which must be paid for board and room." Pigeon Springs, Urrutia writes, once had a hotel and a thriving mineral water business. The Wild Pigeon Mineral Springs Co. had offices in Portland and Daily News photo by Greg Ebersole OSP Trooper Randy Fargher peers into the video monitor in his patrol car. When he spots a car weaving, he turns on the camera. Video may help boost DWI convictions The Pet Boutique 2 Bed, 1 Bath in Kelso Park Location 1 Bed, 1 bath in ii Winlock Park location: Your Choice $395 Per mo.

289 N. Nehalem Clatskanie Phone ML (503)728-2139 Diane Palm Owner, Groomeri MATLOCK WELDING TRAILER U-HAUL By Cathy Lindsley The Daily News COLUMBIA CITY, Ore. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then videos of drunken drivers weaving down the road and stumbling through sobriety tests could be worth volumes. Two new dashboard-mounted video cameras, donated by Columbia County chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, are ready to record the actions and interviews with drunken driving suspects. The first two cameras, which cost $1,600 each, went to work Dec.

18. "Basically we're shooting drunk drivers now but we're shooting them with video cameras," said Columbia County MADD founder and secretary Lynn Chiotti. Oregon State Police troopers in Columbia County typically arrest between one and six drunken driving suspects on a weekend. The cameras will capture their arrests on videotape. So far, drivers have been well-behaved.

Troopers have yet to tape their first drunken driving arrest. MADD donated one camera to the Oregon State Police, and the other to the St. Helens Police Department. Kelso Police Department began using a camera donated by an insurance company last spring. The Cowlitz County Sheriff's Department has four.

In Clatsop County, Oregon State Police have used cameras for two years. Lt. Randy Aveline said they have been useful. Chiotti said the videotapes are convincing evidence for a jury and sometimes even keep a case from going to court. Confronted with pictures of themselves swerv ing and staggering, suspects are more likely to plead guilty.

"I know when they started using them in Texas they were getting 90 percent conviction rate because people were pleading guilty." Kelso Police Chief Tony Stoutt said the department's videos haven't been used in court yet because defendants usually plead guilty. Avaline said he doesn't know of any Clatsop video cases that have gone to court. "Everything from the time of the offense to the arrest is on tape," Chiotti said. OSP Senior Trooper Randy Fargher said he'll use the camera in his car most frequently when he's stopping drivers suspected of driving under the influence of intoxicants (DUII), but for now, he's also videotaping traffic stops for practice. When he spies a weaving or speeding driver, he reaches over to the camera on the passenger side to push the record button, then he flips the switch to activate the wireless remote microphone on his belt.

He can begin taping while driving down the road or once he has the car pulled over. Officers are required to advise drivers that the conversation is being recorded. The auto-focus camera, powered off the car battery, is fixed on the area in front of the patrol car where the officer runs the suspect through a battery of sobriety tests. The officer can then play back the videotape on a 5-inch screen beneath the mounted camera. The cameras also have other advantages.

"It does reduce the amount of time the officer has to be in court," Chiotti said. That leaves more time for officers to spend on the road, she said. "It's a good tool for officer safety, too," Fargher said. Officers never know what they'll meet when they walk up to a driver's door, but because the conversation and actions are recorded, the videotapes protect both the officers and drivers. In Texas, a video camera in a patrol car captured the fatal shooting of an officer and helped convict his killers.

Officers also can remove the camera from its bracket and take it outside the car to videotape crime and accident scenes. As with any new equipment, there are always a few technical difficulties to iron out, like finding the right button in a dark patrol car with one hand while steering down the highway with the other. Fargher recorded one traffic stop only to discover the fogged windshield whited out the picture. Fargher said the camera is "a fantastic tool." "It just takes some getting used to." MADD paid for the first two video cameras with money from memorial contributions, fund-raisers and the fee drunken drivers pay when they attend court-required victim impact panel presentations. Chiotti said she hopes businesses and community organizations will pitch in to pay for more cameras.

"I want to see one in every community." Donations or memorial contributions can be sent to MADD, P.O. Box 933, St. Helens, Ore. 97051 and can be designated tor a particular agency's camera. The Same Great Service now at two locations to serve you better.

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of Scappoose, says she would like to help the port develop long-term strategies to put county assets to work for citizens. She said her experience and background with economic development groups would help her bring responsible economic development and jobs to Columbia County. Johnson owns the land her aviation charter and repair service sits on near the Scappoose airport, which is owned by the Port of St. Helens. But she said there won't be a conflict of interest.

The position is currently held by Tony Federici, who will have to resign before he assumes his new office as District 1 state representative in January. Federici's term expires in June. Johnson is a former president of the Columbia County Economic Development Council. She currently serves on the Columbia County Health District Board and the board of the Federal Reserve Bank. She has also served on the St.

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Berkman's allies have lost control of several county GOP organizations, and some Republicans have said it is doubtful that Berkman will win re-election when the state central committee meets Jan. 16. PORTLAND (AP) The chairman of the Oregon Republican Party says he's seeking the party's national chairmanship despite a messy factional battle in the state GOP between liberals and conservatives. Craig Berkman recently sent a letter to party officials announcing he would definitely seek the national job, to be decided at a Jan. 28-29 meeting of the Republican National Committee in St.

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