Longview Daily News from Longview, Washington • 11

tea Kksras SECTION Friday, December 5, 1986 The Daily News Records B2 Northwest B4-7 3 BPA offers low rates to v. 1 Daily News photo by Roger Werth A scoop shovel plunges into a swimming pool on Cascade Way in Longview. Work began today to tear up the pool, which lies in the path of a flood control project. Swimming pool cleared from flood project's path When Dr. Clarence Spellman built the home in the early 1960s, there was an open drainage ditch in his back yard that carried runoff from the hill.

The district granted him a permit to install twin 36-inch culverts and fill over the ditch. But Spellman never got permission to build the pool and tennis court over the culvert, said District Engineer Ron Colbert. Spellman sold the home to Don Beattie, who sold it to Jeff Edmonds. Edmonds sold to Rainier Bank in 1984. It's the bank that is the loser in this case.

After a two-day rainstorm flooded streets east of the yard last February, district officials decided the twin culverts were a bottleneck in the drainage system and should be replaced with a single 72-inch-wide culvert. Seaboch said. "I just don't want to discuss it any further." The bank will rebuild the tennis court which will be partially ripped up next week as the project proceeds at its own expense, Beattie said. Colbert said by replacing two small culverts with a large one, and by reducing the overall length of buried pipe, water will drain abouLSijercent faster. That will hetpT9fflff Hooding similar to what happened last February on South Clark Street, he said.

If there is any lesson to be learned by the pool's loss, it's this, Colbert said: "Basically, it's fine to put in a pipe like that and improve your yard, but don't put anything permanent on top of it." The bank tried to talk the district into rerouting the culvert around the pool. But Colbert said that would have cost $40,000, more than three times the pool's value. "There just wasn't any other way around it," Colbert said. Loss of the pool and the accompanying muddy mess forced the bank to cut the home's selling price from $105,000 to $80,000, said real estate agent Linda Beattie. The home's latest assessment by the county was $128,800.

"We've got our attorneys working on it to find out how this happened," said Sandy Seaboch, an agent with Rainier Bank. "We're trying to sell the house, and we don't want any more notoriety over this," By Dell Burner The Daily News Public progress triumphed over private pleasure this morning as a $12,000 swimming pool crumbled under a diesel shovel's blade. The pool's fate, a Diking District 1 official said, is a clear and rather costly case of what can happen when a landowner builds on an easement without a permit. A crew tore into the concrete swimming pool today as it forged ahead on the first phase of a $220,000 job to improve drainage off Longview's north hillside. The pool and a tennis court were built directly over a 60-foot-wide drainage ditch easement in the back yard of an expensive home at 2010 Cascade Way.

NW utilities The Daily News andAP SPOKANE Cowlitz PUD officials don't know yet whether they'll be able to take advantage of a new Bonneville Power Administration program to sell cut-rate surplus power in the Northwest rather than to California. The BPA says it will offer low rates to Northwest utilities and other wholesale customers that can find new markets for additional electricity. To get. the lower rate, utilities must be able to prove the power is serving customers who otherwise would not be buying electricity. Aluminum companies, whose rates are tied to aluminum prices, cannot participate.

New sales spurred by the lower rates "could ripple through whole communities, creating jobs and income for many, many people," BPA Administrator Jim Jura said in a news release. "This is power that has not previously been available to all Northwest customers," Jura said. "Now we are offering to sell this power right here in the Northwest if utilities can use it to increase their sales." A Cowlitz PUD official said this morning he knew of no one locally ready to take advantage of the reduced rates to start a new business or restart an idle business. "Right now I can't see (any new' sales) out there, but we'll be looking at it," said Don Hughes, manager of engineering and planning for the Cowlitz PUD. The PUD learned of BPA's new plan this morning.

Hughes said there are three or four idle electric boilers at the PUD's three large industrial customers, but they are already covered by a similar BPA plan started three years ago. Under BPA's new plan, utilities that now pay 2.28 cents per kilowatt-hour could buy added power at 1.3 cents per kilowatt-hour between Jan. 1 and May 30. The rate would increase to 1.7 cents from June 1 to Sept. 30.

Utilities must submit proposals for using the power by Jan. 16. BPA spokesman Ed Mosey said Thursday the new consumer could be a homeowner willing to padlock his wood stove and use electric heat. But Hughes said the PUD's residential is low enough that BPA's reduced rate would not be a good enough incentive for local homeowners. The PUD's residential rate is 1.78 cents a kilowatt hour.

Mosey said businesses with a boiler capable of substituting electricity for some other fuel may also be able to take advantage of the lower rate. Other businesses might be able to restart marginal production operations, he said. Mosey said BPA officials have no idea how much power might be purchased, or what types of marketing proposals the utilities might come up with. "It's like throwing a stick of dynamite into a lake," he said. "We'll just see what comes up." Mosey said the incentive rate equals the price California customers are paying.

He said other Northwest utilities have surplus kilowatts they can sell in California to replace electricity BPA redirects into the Northwest. Out-of-control car sends 2nd car into porch A 17-year-old Longview boy escaped injury Thursday night in a traffic accident that demolished two cars and damaged a house in the 3500 block of Ocean Beach Highway. Longview police charged Brent J. Lewis of 3741 Sunset Way, Longview, with leaving the scene of an accident and having no driver's license on his person. According to police, a car driven by Lewis was westbound shortly after 9:30 p.m.

when it went out of control, crossed the eastbound lane and struck a parked car belonging to Jeanie L. Kilgore of 3537 Ocean Beach Highway. The crash knocked the parked car sideways into a porch at Kilgore's residence. Police were told the impact of the car hitting the porch shook the house, causing the front door to fly open. Glass from the parked car's shattered windshield flew into the house through the open door.

Witnesses told investigating officers Lewis ran from the accident scene. However, he later returned and told police he was the driver. He said a defective steering mechanism caused him to lose control of the car. Patrolman Mike Milosevich reported both cars were listed as total losses. Damage to the house was apparently confined to the porch.

Tree farmer and ex-Demo chairman eye House seat Local speakers try to. sort out reasonable force from abuse timber growers. "I'm interested in influencing areas of action. I don't like standing on the sidelines and just griping," said Jaeger. Shero said he hears there is much sentiment in local political circles that Tanner's replacement should come from the Cowlitz County.

Tanner is from Ridgefield, and the other 18th District House member, Republican Linda Smith, is from Hazel Dell. If one of two Clark County candidates competing for Tanner's seat gets the post, east Cowlitz County would have no lawmaker of its own in the 18th District. "I understand there is a strong feeling that there should be someone from the north end. If they want one, I feel I'm as qualified as anyone," said Shero. Shero lost a 1982 bid to unseat incumbent Cowlitz County Commissioner Van Youngquist, a Republican.

Democratic precinct committeemen from Cowlitz and Clark counties will meet at 1 p.m. Saturday at Woodland High School to nominate three candidates each for Thompson's Senate seat and Tanner's House seat. Cowlitz and Clark commissioners will make appointments from among the nominees. By Andre Stepankowsky The Daily News Two more candidates, including -former Cowlitz Democratic chairman JJack Shero, have emerged as con- tenders for a possible vacancy in the state House, bringing the number of contestants for the local seat to six. Shero, 62, of Castle Rock, said today he would seek Rep.

Joe Tanner's 18th House seat if Tanner is ap-; pointed to a Senate vacancy as ex- pected. The other new contestant is Howard Jaeger, a 53-year-old tree farmer from Kalama. Tanner's seat would become vacant if he is appointed to a Senate seat vacated two weeks ago by state Sen. Alan Thompson, who became chief clerk of the House. Democrats must be ap-' pointed to both 18th District seats.

The district includes portions of Cowlitz and Clark counties. Jaeger, a retired U.S. Army major, acknowledges he is a long shot because he has not been involved in Democratic Party politics. Jaeger is a Cowlitz Conservation District supervisor, an elected, nonpartisan position in an agency that runs, programs to help farmers and small hypothetical situations to help clarify gray areas in the law. Participants included Kermit White, Cowlitz County commissioner and former Longview police chief; Prosecutor-elect C.C.

Bridgewater; Longview pediatrician Dr. Blaine Tolby; Debra Perko, director of children's outpatient services at the Lower Columbia Mental Health Center; Katy Kjallin, director of the mental health center; Ann Watkins of Child Protective Services; the Rev. John Steppert of Kelso Presbyterian Church; and Brenda Bigeagle, a Kelso High School student. In one scenario, a 13-year-old girl is beaten and sent to bed without dinner every night for three weeks by her father because he thinks her growing interest in boys is "evil," Maher said. Her situation surfaces in bits and pieces as she and her father come into contact with the doctor, minister, mental health center and finally CPS.

The consensus of the panel was that deprivation of food was not a reasonable punishment. Bridgewater and Watkins saw grounds to place the girl in foster care. In the second scenario, an 18-month-old boy is battered with a wooden spoon by his alcoholic father. In that case, panelists said, the mother has a responsibility to protect the child by leaving the home and taking the boy with her. Between 50 and 60 people attended the forum sponsored by the Cowlitz County Council for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect.

By Laurie Smith The Daily News Speakers at a public forum in Longview Thursday evening tried to sort out some of the new laws on child abuse, using hypothetical examples flavored by cases that have come before the local courts. The discussion highlighted the difference between abuse and reasonable force exercised in parental discipline and focused on new reporting requirements for school and health professionals. Under recent legislation, doctors, nurses, teachers and social workers who have reasonable cause to believe a child has suffered abuse or neglect are required to report their suspicions to law enforcement authorities within 48 hours. In the next legislative session, lawmakersmay propose the same requirements for attorneys and members of the clergy, said Jean Soliz, lawyer for the Washington State Senate's Human Services and Corrections Committee. "There will be some lively argument if that's tried," she said.

In other changes under consideration, legislators probably will rewrite the legal standards of abuse and humane treatment, Soliz said. State law now defines abuse as any act "that is likely to cause and which does cause bodily harm greater than transient pain or minor temporary marks." Longview attorney Dennis Maher, who moderated the discussion, questioned the nine panelists on two Amnesia Family copes with a girl who's no longer herself Meeting old friends: PageAl Gloria said, but the doctor said Kyra has such a rare form of amnesia that he didn't know how to treat her. He referred Kyra to another Portland specialist, but Kyra said she doesn't wMsee him now. Several tests, including a CAT scan, have showed no signs of permanent physical damage, Gloria said. Kyra also lost her sense of taste and smell.

Yet she sometimes smells printer's ink when no one else can. When that happens, a rash in the shape of a hand forms on her throat, Gloria said. Gloria thinks it's a psychological reaction to Kyra's mugging, and the hand print appears with the subconscious memory of being grabbed from behind. Kyra mailed a package at the Longview post office on Sept. 8, and Gloria thinks Kyra was in the post office right before the mugging, which may be why printer's ink triggers the reaction.

She's still furious at whoever mugged Kyra. "It's the same as taking somebody's life taking someone's memory," she said. now says is "obscene." She uses the phone less. "She used to live with that thing glued to her ear." She used to read books for fun, but now she will read only the books necessary for college classes. Kyra watches situation comedies on television in her spare time-.

She is less independent and more willing to take suggestions and ask for Her manners are more formal. She has a shorter temper. Gloria said Kyra also has trouble remembering things that have happened since Sept. 8, which makes rebuilding her life even harder. "She's learning quickly, but I'm curious to see how much she retains," Gloria added.

There's the threat that if Kyra regains her memory of what happened before Sept. 8, she will forget everything that happened since, Gloria said. Kyra also has problems thinking ahead, her mother said. Kyra often writes herself a reminder note but then forgets the note. "She's having major problems rebuilding her memory structure," Gloria said.

Kyra has seen a neurologist in Portland, By Kevin Dolan The Daily News It was like taking an alien into her home. But the guest wasn't a stranger she was Gloria Cook's 18-year-old daughter, Kyra. "It was really weird, like somebody from another planet," Gloria said. Gloria, her husband, Terry, and their son, Kyle, have slowly adjusted to having a new member in the family since Kyra's memory was erased three months ago. "That's her, but it's not her, and it may never be," Gloria said.

"You never know." While Kyra's parents and brother are adapting to life with someone they've known for 18 years, Kyra is getting to know her family again. "I'm used to them, but it's more like a boarding house than a family," Kyra said. Gloria said Kyra's amnesia often seems to be harder on her family and friends than on Kyra herself. "It's not devastating to her" because she doesn't know what she's missing, Gloria said. "It's devastating to all the people around her.

"(The past) means nothing to her and now I can understand that. How much do you want to know about before you were three?" After what her mother believes was a mugging in R.A. Long Park Sept. 8, Kyra can remember most of her vocabulary, can still speak German and can do algebra. But when Kyra first came home from the hospital, Gloria said, Kyra didn't recognize anything in her room, was baffled at the site of a toothbrush and toothpaste and didn't know what she would find when she cautiously opened the refrigerator door.

Not only are things new to Kyra, Gloria said, but Kyra's personality has changed since Sept. 8: Kyra is less interested in her "image" and wears plainer clothes. She'll ride the bus now, though she wouldn't think of doing it before. "Getting things done and doing things is more important," Gloria said. Kyra is preoccupied with growing perfect fingernails.

Gloria said Kyra used to "chew her nails down to the quick," something Kyra.