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The News Tribune Tacoma Mon Dec 5 1983 C-9 Amtrak to leave turn-of-century grandeur behind mmm Modest new station to open by summer Business Plus mm By CARL UZBERG The Nawt Tribune under contract to Glacier Park Co a Burlington Northern real estate subsidiary Mid the station here will be Identical to a new Amtrak station now serving Disneyland at Anaheim Calif information was not Immediately available on how well the Anaheim facility was handling its volume of rail passengers Spear said Total cost of the station here will be in excess of fl million counting track relocation at the site and office relocation All the money to- pay for the station will come from the Tacoma Spur (Interstate 705) project part of the real estate acquisition settlement for the planned Spur project paid from state and federal gasoline taxes Kirkbride uid "The site will accommodate about 75 cars It will be well-landscaped" he Hid "in keeping with the best commercial landscaping in Tacoma trees and ground Charter bus parking and a Pierce Transit stop will be includ- The building he Mid is located in the middle of the site and encompasses 3750 square feet including a small lounge a baggage room office and restrooms The Ernest Hunt and the new car old tires bought AP Laterpholo Sale to Briton a bonanza for tire owner he's getting for his collection But he puts the price tag at 8500000 to 81 million Di'Nithelo is equally happy Hying the deal will help improve transportation in poor countries Site preparation work has begun for a new passenger train station in Tacoma with construction to begin soon according to Am-trak officials The facility which will cost about 1950000 should be ready for rail passengers nest June 1 The modest-looking building at 1001 Puyallup Ave will take over the operations of historic Union Station where trains have been picking up passengers since 1911 Amtrak service must be relocated because construction of the planned Tacoma Spur will cause tracks to be removed preventing passenger trains from reaching union Station The new station spartan in architecture and small compared with Union Station will be a single-story flat-roofed brick and concrete structure described by officials as a "standard Amtrak passenger The building will measure 81 by 45 feet and will be expandable if necessary It is the same design being used across the nation for new Amtrak construction A foundation permit was taken out Nov 17 and pilings have been driven by Granquist Construction Co id Port Orchard to stabilize the site across from Marilyn's restaurant at 924 Puyallup Ave A building permit is under review by the city and Is expected to be issued soon Concern about the size id the station was raised last week by Steve Spear of Sumner secretary of the Washington Association of Railroad Passengers a 170-member consumer group that Spear said was incorporated two months ago Spear said plans for Amtrak station model 75C the one being used here indicate It can serve 75 people at a time with seating for 48 Frank Kirkbride president of Design Collaborative Northwest of Lacey which is providing architectural and engineering services for the building discounted fears that the station would be too small for local passenger volume Kirkbride whose company is DANVILLE NH (AP) The state officials who ordered Ernest Hunt to remove the 15 million tires in his backyard because they posed a fire hazard probably had no idea the tires would be going to Ghana Argentina Nigeria and China "This is a big load off my Hunt Hid "I have the state breathing down my back anymore Now they're breathing down someone else'i back and that makes me feel Another thing that makes him feel good is the money he's making "I got a brand new Lincoln Hunt Hid after getting a down payment from London businessman Mashidialo Di'Nithelo a Ghana native cost 820000 cash And 1 bought a diamond ring a saddle hone for my daughter and a bike for my son I was in really rough shape I didn't know where my next six-pack was coming from not to mention child support" Hunt would not reveal just how much "Most of these countries are so helpless for transportation they are desperate for tires" he uid will make good relations between America and Ghana It will seem almost as a gift" Di'Nithelo also plans to send the tires to Nigeria Argentina and China Dozers destroy Propeller HQ Members angered as Port land cleared for TOTE truck the ceiling painted the walls and installed a dance floor Members built a stage and a podium and installed a public address system The Port on the other hand gave the club a bargain rent on the building 81 a month plus the club's paying the leasehold tax on the building The Port itself occasionally used the club quarters for meetings Kurt Girard Propeller Club president Hid some members thought the Port could have tried harder to uve the building The building has been razed now he uid so the club will have to make do with what it can Club meetings have recently been held at Old Town's Slavonian ByJOHN GILLIE The News Tribune Bulldozers preparing the old si Yard as a new ter- Port Industrial mlnal for TOTE'S Alaska cargo have left Propeller Club without a home The World War II-vintage two-story wooden structure that was the Propeller Club's headquarters for 23 years was demolished to make way for parking space for the trucks and trailers destined for Alaska on ships Port Assistant Executive Director Hugh Wild uid the Port tried to uve the structure and move it to another Port-owned site but the plan was too costly He uid Pot officials thought the building could be moved intact to a foundation near the Naval Reserve headquarters off Alexander Avenue However the cat of the move would have been considerably more than the Port estimated Even if the Port had been able to move the building economically bringing the old structure up to Common Market talks make little headway waiting room takes up almost half the Interior Kirkbride said Brick facing will be featured along with "some fairly stylistic brick trim features both outside and inside "It is a very attractive he Hid is a standard Amtrak building designed in Philadelphia by Amtrak We just adapted the building to the A 1000-foot-long concrete platform will extend around the wilding Half of the platform is covered with a canopy so train riders can walk under cover from their cars to the train Only a few people will be employed at the station Kirkbride uid Amtrak will own the building and lease the site from Burlington Northern The construction contract Kirkbride Hid came in about 850000 below the estimate financial breakdown 'carrying flags and placards staged a rally protesting against proposed cuts in the Common agricultural benefits Nearby an estimated 20000 farmers from Greece Ireland and Italy marched toward the conference site hoisting an efigee of farmer hanging from gallows Police uid there were no dashes Thousands of Italian farmers mostly from the south came here in chartered plana and ferries over the weekend to protest against possible cuts in subsidies to Italian farmers About 20000 demonstrators had massed outside the hall on Sunday shouting "No more and off The rally held in heavy rain was organised by a pro-government Greek peace group Greek Premier Andreas Papan-dreou was expected to ask the Common Market leaders for another firm denunciation of the Turkish self-proclaimed Independent state in northen Cyprus Papan Socialist government also opposa deployment of the 572 new NATO nuclear mis-sila in Europe A frequent pattern of Common Market summits is an apparent urly deadlock followed by last-minute compromise But with navy spending on rising agricultural price supports taking up some two-thirds of the budget of 221 billion all Common Market nations are agreed in principle something must be done trailer parking lot Hall The Port's Wild Hid there may be a way to meet the club's needs for meeting space at the new World Trade Center being built on Port of Tacoma Road The Port plans to buy at least 22500 square feet of space in the new privately developed trade center Part of that space Wild uid would be a conference room for Port commission meetings That space could also be used to stage a Propeller Club meeting he uid Girard uid he's not sure such a room would be big enough The club may decide to build or rent a building of its own as its new headquarters he uid you an count on us' 6 Thompson President one beautiful place FUNERAL HOME MEMORIAL BARK Blvd SW 5844252 High-tech industry wastes may be hazardous to health city building coda would have been prohibitive Wild Hid The city wanted the Port for instance to install an elevator to reinforce the structure and to make other improvements The demolition of the building has left at least some club members miffed Charlie Bevis former Propeller Club president Hid he was unhappy that the Port led the club to believe the building would be uved and then decided to demolish it with a little more than a week's notice to the dub The Propeller Club an organization designed to promote waterfront business was founded in 1936 It moved into the old structure when the Port acquired the Industrial Yard complex from the Navy in 1960 Bevis uid The building originally was used as a petty officer ami officers club when the Industrial Yard was a shipbuilding complex Bevis Hid the club invested considerable time and money in remodeling the structure The dub for instance lowered a leader in a California coalition promoting legislation for the public's right to know more about the effect of toxic chemicals Speaking at a conference on hazardous materials at the Seattle Labor Temple on Saturday he uid a check in the Silicon Valley of 6000 underground tanks containing toxic chemicals showed more than 70 percent of them were taking Winegard Pro Star TV ANTENNAS 40 OFFS? 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