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A-4 Tocom Tml Fab 12 1980 The News Tribune Raymond: elect 7 commissioners ErHIbARBQCCrS TWiluc This Leap Year Give Him Flowers for ty and also would be the custodian of those districts' bond issues he said running a bank with $1 billion a year in cash flow and with a $250 million investment portfolio and doing it with only two people And it fair we need more staff help there" he told freeholders Raymond said he would not oppose a home-rule charter drawn up by freeholders However he urged freeholders to retain the office under an elected official He said King County has an appointed treasurer who is called a comptroller but noted that the King County office produces no more revenue from investments than Pierce County's elected treasurer because of restrictions in state laws Raymond also favored a charter which would provide for a review committee to evaluate county government every four years Citizens testifying at the meeting urged freeholders to develop a charter which somehow would provide for increased police protection in unincorporated suburban areas such as the Gig Harbor Peninsula South Hill and Prairie Ridge a large mobile home development near Bonney Lake By ROB TUCKER TNT Staff Writer PUYALLUP Maurice Raymond Pierce veteran treasurer urged freeholders last night to expand the three-member board of county commissioners to seven to bring legislative input into local government" He urged freeholders to draft a charter that allows voters to elect two commissioners from each existing commission district and one commissioner from a countywide at-large position Raymond said the charter should restrict the county commissioner who is elected from the at-large position to one two-year term way get needed new opinions in county government every two years" he said RAYMOND beginning his 13th year in office suggested that a seven-member county commission including six elected by commission district would avoid the problem of redistricting that freeholders will have if they write a charter providing for only five county commissioners County commissioners ought to retain both legislative and administrative powers and FREEHOLDERS should be allowed to appoint their executive to carry out day-to-day administrative policies he said Turning to his own office Raymond said the tax-collecting duties of the treasurer should be integrated with the county office a type of reorganization which has worked well in California counties Such a combination would better serve taxpayers and avoid unnecessary duplication he said UNDER California plan the office would be maintained in a home-rule charter as the department responsible for investing and accounting for public funds The treasurer would be the accounting agency for the 81 taxing districts in the coun it seem only natural that you ladies should give flowers to the man in your life this Valentine's Day? 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GtilbARBUGGI'S Tkiitikc By BETTY ANDERSON TNT Education Writer Northeast Tacoma residents who call themselves "the forgotten heard some startling revelations about planned development in their area and left a meeting last night not so sure that all this development is in their best interest The residents were told that: In possibly 20 years there will be 18000 people where there are now about 2100 Some 3600 new residences are scheduled for completion by 1985 A 22-acre shopping center is planned for the area within the next few years A new elementary or junior high school could be built within the next four years The proposed Tacoma Spur may not include a super highway branching off from it to provide better access for the Northeast residents to downtown Tacoma These are all in the future and the residents were told to write letters attend hearings and make themselves known to public officials at the city state and federal levels who make decisions on growth in their area The meeting was sponsored by the Browns Point-Dash Point Parent-Teacher Association as an informational night for residents concerned with the rapid growth in the area Some 150 persons attend the meeting in Browns Point Elementary School A panel included Acting Superintendent Del Cross of Tacoma School District Jim Davidson of the Norpoint Area Boosters Club City Councilman Rick Evans Tacoma attorney Thomas Fish-burae Karla Hansmann of the Audubon Society Bob Arletb of the city Planning Department and Andy Grobins of the Metropolitan Park District Most of the citizens who spoke said they against development but are concerned about lack of a master plan to control growth The residents expressed concern about having schools to meet the growth and about more recreational and cultural programs in the area or access to them in downtown Tacoma Cross said the district plans to build within four years a 335 million school to accommodate 500 to 750 students Residents were encouraged to contact local state and federal representatives with their concerns about access to downtown Tacoma Meanwhile Northeast Tacomans can expect: Six portable buildings at Northeast Tacoma Elementary School to ease overcrowding there Development to continue mi a 75-acre site near the new fire station and library for possibly a park or open field area Little if any federal funding for the area because they have the highest per capita incomes of any residential area of the city The funds are used mainly for impoverished areas A 76 million bond issue on the March 18 ballot which they are urged to pass since it includes money to remodel Dash Point Elementary School This would add about four classrooms Soviets receiving unexpected grain WASHINGTON (AP) Despite the US trade squeeze more grain is reaching the Soviet Union than had been expected a few weeks ago according to an Agriculture Department analysis But the Soviet Union's grain needs are even greater and will begin to put severe pressure on available supplies by this spring the report said Monday As it looks now the Soviet Union will import about 28 million metric tons of grain from all foreign sources this year 809 Pacific Avenue Phono 8272147 Villa Phono 584-0770 Visa and Master Charge Welcome flu epidemic waning County By JIM ERICKSON TNT Staff Writer 509 off if you bring in the coupon That's not all Candy is nice for Valentine's Day Nice and boring peaked at 49 last Wednesday and dropped to 27 by last Friday Peterson reported She know if the flu had spread out of the schools and into the general populace as reported elsewhere in the state hard to get Peterson said we had a volunteer system Dick Paulson Type flu is caused by a different virus than type A flu and generally produces a longer illness and more side effects health officials say But this cases are nowhere near the number of last year's type A Brazil flu epidemic Most adults and the elderly are usually immune to type flu Paulson said spokesman for the state Department of Social and Health Services reported that 50 to 80 percent of patients in some King County nursing homes were ill with flu symptoms last week But Peterson said she knew of only one nursing home in Pierce County with a problem that one reporting 13 cases out of 100 occupants So why not give your sweetheart some- We're also donating 509 to the Variety thing different? 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Come to Pizza Haven The recent flu epidemic appears to be on the wane in Pierce County Evelyn Peterson coordinator of the communicable disease clinic for the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department said the number of schools reporting absenteeism above 10 percent tapered off at the end of last week The 10 percent rate is the point at which health officials decide a contagious disease has become an epidemic The flu a type variety was at an epidemic stage in 36 of the 170 public schools on Feb 4 Non-stnokim sections available at all Pizza Haven locations TNT phone listings The following oro soma of Tho Nowi Tribune's most frequently called telephone numbers: Cty News 597-8686 Suburbon News 597-8686 Sports scores and news information 597-8629 Sports department 597-8680 Denny MocGougon 597-8638 John Lawrence 597-8638 North Tacoma 2803 6th Ave383-1797 Lakewood 6007 100th SW 584-5881 University Place 40th Bridgeport 564-4 542 Puyallup 505 Meridian848-2366 Federal Way Sea-Tac Mall839-1520.