The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 3

Local The News Tribune Tacoma Sat July 30 1983 A-3 TWZ7 James Tit-for-tat climb gang Airy result of sharing Rainier training facilities Ckf jJ (1 By JIM ERICKSON PARADISE Mentally honed for the challenge and strong University of football coach Don James and his staff still had some reservations as they set out for the summit of Mount Rainier Their feelings yesterday might have been compared to the uncertainties a coach faces going into a season not knowing bow Us team will perform under game situations James and his crew were being thrown into a flrst-and-goal-to-go situation on 14410-foot Rainier "No one knows what effect the altitude will have on said James as he assembled bis gear prior to the departure But Dr Steve Bramwell the team physician said group members would move slowly and take tbe mountain in three in an attempt to better acclimate themselves to tbe altitude After camping last night near Anvil Rock about HO feet below 10000-foot Camp Muir the plan was to climb to about 11500 feet on the Ingraham Glacier today and camp overnight at Ingraham Flats A summit attempt is tomorrow morning and i team plans to return to Paradise sometime tomorrow The James Gang Is being led by members of a 1004 Mount Everest expedition Among expedition members who left Paradise yesterday were Phil Hawkins a UA Coast Guard commander stationed in Tacoma and Ray Nichols a projects manager at Tacoma Boatbuilding Co The Rainier climb Is sort of a trade-off The expedition members have been using tbe UW weight room fOr training and Bramwell Is using the climbers as guinea pigs to see if weight training Increases strength and stamina enough to i i kJ Owner Joe Sellers signed conditional release for animal control supervisor Jeannette VeHInger above as Rocky right snored in recovery room at Seattle Animal Control Center He said difficult to draw a comparison between the conditioning for playing football and climbing a mountain because the two are vastly dUferenL Trent Walters 39 coach of the defensive backs echoed Woodruffs sentiments When be played halfback for Indiana Urirawy he said he kept in shape by running a lot of sprints But been ruining eight to IS miles and a lot of hill work to build up for Rainier He said confident that ha can make the summit Strength coach Rick HuegU 31 said he has gained a respect for the expedition members and what it takes for them to get in shape for Everest which at 39021 feet is the highest peak players (football) can play when not in the best Huegll said "But these guys (climbers) have to be fit for Everest their Although there are no UW football players on the climb tbe coaches said they thought the Kyers would be watching to see they do And HuegU said the experience of going through training to prepare for Rainier will help them relate to what players go Others in the Rainier team include James' staff assistants Bob Stull and Gary Plnkel 27-year-old son Jeff and accountant and friend Bud Hammack wife) told me to keep an eye on him to be his anchor" said the 51-year-old Ham-mack a bicycling enthusiast who appeared to be in super shape The climbers posed by a snowbank for team pictures before heading up the mountain day is over we can all go James Joked give it the old college Bramwell quipped Port posts wife Shelly filed for the other commission seat Others signing up for Position No I yesterday were former county Licensing Director Gene Carden Jack Rogers of Graham Gary Oldham of Northeast Tacoma and Tacoma residents Donald Moore and Ralph Hubbard Even one of Greco's employees elections-department den Anita Jones an active Republican Party worker filed tor the latter seat There wu one political surprise yesterday Former Democratic state Rep Cathy Pearsall a South Tacoma resident filed for the Tacoma School Board seat to be vacated by 11-year board veteran David fuel Jr Tuell decided not to seek re-election Abo signing up on the last day wu Steven Edward Conway who also lives In tbe South End He and Pearsall fill out a five-candidate field that Includes perennial candidate William Oiovll University of Puget Sound student Brian Sirtes and John Lynn owner of the Lynn Funeral Home City Council incumbent John Ladenburg received a second challenger Tom Sheehy a Democratic Party activist filed against him Earlier South End resident Joseph Hayden who filed an indigent entered the race 30 candidates vie for A St r-VwSrJV Staff ptwtM by BOB RUDSIT Patrick to request that Rocky be neutered That operation was performed at 1:30 pjn in the Seattle animal center with Sellers being assemed the customary IN me Mike Burgwin manager of the Seattle animal center said that became there had been a complaints by Seattle people that they had been bitten by Rocky Selims was warned that if the dog is returned to the city of Seattle he faces tbe possibility of prosecution for harboring a vicious dog a member of the family She hurt a flea The children love Sellers said but he did agree that the dog had been living with his grandmother in West Seattle and guarding her property prior to its brush with file law But banished from Seattle Rocky has a treat awaiting him later today that most humans would relish steak crasy about porterhouse" Sellers said Staff photo by JERRY BUCK Climbers set out for summit outweigh the debilitating effect of altitude The UW coaches have received some mountaineering training and the Rainier climb is the culmination of those labors The H-yeardd James said beea running a lot even during a recent five-week family tour of Europe run up steep Mount Si near North Bend and tested himself on the steps of Husky Stadium said I should do some work with a pack on my back but I done much of James admitted do more than enough work with a pack he estimated his at between SS and 40 pounds this weekend Jeff Woodruff 36 the UW tight-end coach and head of the Junior varsity said never climbed ically and mentally i all competitors and wen give it a good Woodruff said seats among them retired Pierce County Treasurer Maurice Raymond were part of the last-day rush to file for office During the flve days nearly HO person for roughly 170 seats on city and town councils school boards and utility district commissions Twenty positions however remained Without wnHIHatf after the filing period most of them on small town councils and rural sewer and water districts Greco said he would open a special three-day filing period possibly beginning Aug I to allow candidates to sign up for thou seats Raymond 80 who served on the Port commission 14 years before serving an identical stint county treasurer filed for Position No 4 Also entering that race yesterday were Donald Forman a Puyallup resident who is the business manager of the local boilermakers union and (Bud) Butterfield who owns a marine business in South Tacoma ive tried unsuccessfully for commission seats previously The remainder of the hopefuls the Position No 4 contest REPRIEVE: Rocky skirts death at cost of maleness By JERRY PUGNETTI Political Writer The largest field of eandldatee for a Plena County election race In 10 years will vie for two possible new seats on the Tacoma Port Commission When Pierce County Auditor Richard Greco yesterday dosed the week-long filing period 17 political hopefuls had entered one contest for Position No 4 and II others had signed up for Poaition No 5 Tm not against participating how is the in public office but going to many Greco asked makes it very tough on the voters" The last time there were that' many candidates wu in 1971 when II persons filed fOr a vacant Port commission seat following the death of the late Commission-or Robert Copeland Six of them later withdrew and a damn ultimately faced off The two seats that attracted the candidates do not now exist They wUl be created if Pierce County voters in November a prove a ballot propoaitlon Ing the three-member commission to five members Some 11 of thou vying for tbe iber ap- Port Eft COSTELLO Rocky tha pit boll terrier who made headlines around tbe world after be became tha la aa armed robbery in Seattle baa woo a reprieve from Ilk month1 -a -a a UBIBUUOn The dog and Ua maater Joe Mien IS a Parklaad appliance salesman would have beea reon-lted laat night except that Rocky waa sleeping off tbe eflecta of aa operatloa eaphemlatlcally known Tbe process la aimed at making Ua bark trorae thaa kia bite Rocky! plight which ed calla to tha from London Holland Weat Germany aad Puerto Rico came after the dog a mlztara of Americaa Staffordshire and bull terriers waa by Seattle police after obeying a command to attack the victim of a ISO robbery The robber who admitted the crime aad is awaiting sentencing tamed out to he nephew Curtis Anthony Knight 7xT Only after police no longer required the dog as evidence did Mien forward to claim his at least two other dog So So before the animal could be released ownership had to be proved Sellers said he licensed the dog In Pierce County in INI but could find no record of it Seller! arrived at the Tacoma-Pierce County Humane Society early Friday afternoon where manager Ken Patrick made the file of dog license duplicates more than 13000 of them available to him Sellers started to go through more than 1040 duplicates for INI been at it for about 45 minutes and had gained nothing when one of staff on a hunch checked the INI licenses Sure enough there wu the duplicate of license issued June I INS Before be headed back to Seattle Sellers had to buy a current Pierce County license for his ed-ebratedpet He also was encouraged by tradition Chok Heim 14 whose father died in Cambodia four years ago and who now lives with American family said he Joined tha scouts to learn more about America lot of our tradition mean anything to said Whitmore take for granted George Washington and the cherry tree they know what a George Washington or cherry tree In" Since the Cambodians have been la scouting however their ttpooure to the American way of Ufa has been like "getting a drink of water from a fire said thouak yesterday were political un-expand- knowns They wen Virginia At-r kinson of Sumner and Alfred Sortland and Howard Mlllan both of Tacoma Camping old hat to Cambodians But scout troop finds American history traditions something else The camp looked like most other Boy Scout camps: Cents lies amoOldaiea and sog- and socks were strewn The difference was this camp tirlirnml to Tkooo IS aaaraSmbodiaa troop Formed in September tha troop is made up of scouts from either (the mother often that parent) or they Uve with Amer- Most of Troop in about tbotroop the Morman Church they through attendT Twelve members of the IS- they could all draw comparisou and contrasts to camp life a Boy Scout and a refugee in Thailand where they relocated after the Communists took over Cambodia Some said they could not wander very far from camp became of the Communists Others said they lived in houses in Thailand (at Hahobu they were issued surplus pup tents from Fort Lewis) A few said In Thailand they could fish every day and more importantly catch fish every day The diet wu abo a bit different In Thailand the staple wu rice At Hahobas the Cambodians dined on American camp fate: hamburgers maca roni and cheeu and bacon Once at camp Troop mem-ben bore like any other scouts They complained about tha rain early in the week sang scout songs around camp fires got into flrona fights and earned badges in suck skfib archery first aid and rifle shooting Whitmore observed that the Cambodlu troop could do a lot of thingi better thaa the American troops He said they could get campfires started easier and could cook a lot better "You hand them hamburger for only a week patties and lettuce and they get 4' Whitmore Whitmore also noted the Cambodians are learning the scouting songs and the scout oath but most 8eout of them know what tha words mean yet -i Whitmore added that cultural not a big problem for the Cambo- differencee poee soma problems dlaa scouts As refugees from too -nw pimd was a prersquiaita for ear- taawtlt pBeag vUn the time- WlwBle dm Med aji ul ciocu not important ween i 'saisSHSSars Tacoma's all-Cambodian Boy Scout Troop 13 Nned up for i -1 I right to it They wait around The troop added a apodal touch for someone to help said to the wedt-loog camp Thursday Whitmore they sure know by singing Cambodian songs and how to cook performing Cambodian skits for Staff photo by BLAIR KOOISTRA photograph 1 neighboring troops are neat kids and have come a long said Whitmore "Theyreally hadalotof 4 What Whitmore ala -at -Jfc jfr-AA Ji'JC.