The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 13

aiwrfliTfri "3 -J State B3f5 Obituaries B4 The News Tribune Friday June 9 1969 Create jobs to fight drugs Tanner says rniimiitmmm hope hysteria and panic lead to By Stuart Eakanaii The News Tribune gal community as unflinching in his distaste for drug traffickers But he cautioned his business audience against taking the law into their own hands doing so he argued they would take the lead against the fight against drugs In order to get the drug dealer off the street the community must offer him a better option for survival like a steady Job with a fair salary he said hope hysteria and panic lead to in the name of the he said must address the causes (of the drug problem) not the symptoms" said Tanner 70 a past president of the local chapter of the NAACP The drug lord Tanner noted is the biggest equal opportunity employer in the world The board of directors of Safe Streets Pierce County's wide-ranging anti-drug effort does not include representatives of business although business leaders are called upon to participate in the organized battle Shortly after returning from a discussion of Civil Rights Act legislation in 1963 with President John Kennedy Jack Tanner received a letter from a local businessman In the letter Goodwin Chase then-president of the National Bank of Washington vowed that he would he do whatever he could to promote the hiring of blacks in the name of civil rights one has done that (sent a similar letter to Tanner) said Tanner now a US District Court Judge who spoke to 340 people Thursday at the Rotary Club of Tacoma luncheon at the Sheraton Tacoma Hotel Tanner urged the Tacoma business people to follow spirit into the 21st century In Tanner said that he believes business nevertheless can do the most to defeat the scourge of drugs beset the area Because people of color are estimated to comprise half of the available work force by the year 2000 business people have a high stake in ensuring that those people are well-educated and well-trained Tanner said Tanner has earned a reputation among the le- Mrtiiie MonTtw Nm Tribune Judge Jack Tanner challenges businessmen to join the drug fight you can Insist that those that drop out (of society) come back into the Tanner said Indians likely to keep leaders Puyallups voting Saturday on chairman council post By Leslie Brown The News Tribune didates Shortly after last summer's settlement vote a petition drive to recall Sterud could not even garner enough signatures to go before the tribe for a vote An estimated 700 tribal members are eligible to vote nearly half of whom live outside of the Tacoma area some in other parts of the country Interest in the election appears to be running high said council member Gabriel Landry Requests for absentee ballots have topped 100 he said But many think Sterud who received the most votes in the May primary likely will claim another three-year term He already has survived more than 10 years as a member of the tribal council a remarkable feat in a system known for its frequent recalls and roller-coaster politics Thursday Sterud a savvy and guarded tribal leader declined to say whether he felt confident he would win a fourth term Asked about his staying power he quipped lucky I have good people who help me But he as others have noted agreed that election Four years ago shortly after the Puyallup Indians overwhelmingly defeated the tribe's first proposed land-claims settlement a couple of political careers also hit the rocks The tribal chairman quickly was recalled by a majority of tribal members Another council member lost her seat in the first election that followed the settlement vote The mood hardly could be more different this year Saturday council Chairman Bill Sterud and council member Rolecn Hargrove will face two other tribal members in their bids to retain their seats Herman Dillon Sr a former council member and the chairman of the tribal fisheries commission and Frank Bean a 29-year-old who says he wants to bring a younger face to the council But as the first Puyallup tribal election approaches since the members overwhelmingly approved a 5162 million land-claims settlement many believe the two incumbents are strong front-runners In the primary last month Sterud and Hargrove were the top two vote-getters out of a field of 13 can Mf HindeThe New Tribune Candy Baker and son Brandon Cathy Jungwirth with phone and Mary Godwin right say divorce unbalanced Kenneth Gehring Please see Indians B2 Friends say killer not monster Board likely to delay waterway renaming By Kim Severson The News Tribune By Melissa Ramsdell The News Tribune 6 making him out to seem like a Rambo not a Rambo Clara Gehring gunman's mother Jungwirth Court papers filed in the divorce say however that Gehring was controlling and abusive that he was a very emotional and sometimes violent person Neighbors report that he had domestic problems but his friends say that they believed the couple had worked out problems that had plagued them earlier in their marriage Gehring first learned his wife was divorcing him not from her but when he saw it in the newspaper last month He had to ask his friends what dissolution meant Within days Gehring was served with divorce papers and a temporary restraining order and learned his bank account was frozen said Tuesday night when he came over she could have just come out and say want to divorce you I don't love said Cathy Jungwirth boats from her Tacoma waterfront houseboat in 1889 Sutherland said he wants to schedule a public hearing on the proposed name change and needs extra time for the City Council to review its renaming policy think the renaming is a reasonable request and I think it is a doable request I would suggest there would be very little community support to rename (the waterway) anything else" Sutherland said But Councilwoman Karen Vialle said she has mixed feelings about the Foss proposal although she said she would not vote against it the goal is to honor a Scandinavian family for its contribution to Tacoma in the year of the centennial I would prefer the Tollefsons grown up in Tacoma and I know how much they have contributed to the she said The Tollefson family includes a former congressman former Taco- Kenneth Gehring was no Ram-bo He just couldn't handle his divorce the assessment of friends family members and the attorney who spent Thursday trying to figure out what led the quiet sawyer from Puyallup to pick up a rifle and hunt down his wife Gehring never found her Instead he shot three people to death at a Graham dairy farm where his wife was staying as she pursued her divorce Then he shot himself Gehring 35 died hours later at Good Samaritan Hospital his stunned friends and family nearby A spokeswoman at the Pierce County medical office said Thursday the death was ruled a suicide Gehring's mother distraught over the death of her son and the tragedy that hit families of the The state Board of Geographic Names is expected to delay voting today on a proposal that would change the name of Tacoma's City Waterway to Thea Foss Waterway during its quarterly meeting at the State Historical Society Museum in Tacoma The board likely will honor Tacoma Mayor Doug request that a final vote be taken at its next meeting in September in order to give the City Council and the local community more time to discuss the proposal board executive secretary Bonnie Bunning said Thursday The name change was proposed by Tacoma's Norden 2 Lodge of Sons of Norway to commemorate the Norwegian Foss family's contribution to the state during this centennial year said president Erik Balstad Thea Foss a Norwegian immigrant began the Foss maritime business by renting out row three people who died dairy farmers Tom and Nellie Rutheda LaCrosse and dairy trucker Kirby Hull complained that police and news reports about her son were misleading making him out to seem like a Rambo not a Clara Gehring said Thursday The picture painted by his family was one of a man who loved a woman who did not love him and of a man who gave all he could to keep his wife Eileen Gehring the woman who was divorcing a man she had married 13 years earlier had no comment Thursday Her attorney Albert Peter Germano laid she did not want to speak with many people She had moved out of the trailer in April his friends said Ever since that day Gehring would spend almost every day at the Puyallup home of Cathy and Gary Jungwirth who knew him for 17 years and considered him family- Like divorce attorney and his family they said that Kenneth Gehring was a quiet man who loved his wife to the point of possessiveness The divorce was tearing him apart was like a shock to him He just kept saying did I do? What did I said Gary '5-' --V IF Please see Shooting B2 Ptease see Waterway B2 Hat in the ring barely a week and rumors already flying pictures or his name in big dark-blue letters Naw uh-uh nope none of that cynical thinking now still plenty of time for that later Another (rubber) ducky item: Please note that Rose Festival (launching Saturday with the big parade) this year includes the DePaul Ducky Derby It happens June 25 between the Hawthorne and Burnside bridges on the Willamette the same sort of fun and fund-raising deal Tacoma Athletic Commission and Tacoma Firefighters have scheduled for the Puyallup River on Aug 19 with their Great Washington Duck Race Locally call 845-DUCK for info your own town from the ground up Not a NIMBY anywhere in the program either Sounds like it was invented by the Tacoma utility planners but like everything else it comes from California Is anybody else upset that Tacoma high-school sports programs are only 17th (Bellarmine) and 22nd (Wilson) in terms of the statewide annual Morning News Tribune All-Sports Championship? And the fuss those Tacoma middle-school kids are making about having no interscholastic sports does that somehow figure into the equation? I dunno either Headline said it all: The one here I mean over the story last week from Spokane where the Young Lawyers Division of the State Bar Association were blithering It said: would end election of and isn't that just what the world needs now? Historic preservation a delightful cause gets an airing Saturday from 10 a to 1 pm at Steilacoom Town Hall The pros of restoration will answer your questions says Steve Fischer Call him at 581-1912 if curious Hurry too and get the youngsters into the Tacoma Public Aboard for summer reading club It's free Phone 591-5688 beolutoly amazing: No sooner does Brian Ebersole the so-called political whale target the Tacoma mayor's office than things begin happening One of his foes Dawn Lucien says the Ebersole entry is part of a complex strategy to get onetime City Councilman Tim Strege into the city chair which Erling Mork may some day (sooner than you think) vacate The scenario is that Ebersole would cast the fifth and deciding vote for successor I don't know about that but I know timing is crackerjack With the town buzzing about his candidacy on Wednesday the same day's mail brought one of those hefty 12-page legislative "mailers" called Investing in the I even know I lived in 29th District Reside and learn I guess The booklet of course is designed give you information about your school and the role in Not to let you see the big full-of-teeth smile in than 345000 for the Child Abuse and Neglect Intervention Program at Mary Bridge Nobody anymore should wonder about the worthiness of that program Ron Shear (225) and Virginia Barr (111) led the boys and girls respectively for most oysters consumed in 15 minutes And Gary Gerontis at Johnny's Seafood led the individual pledge raisers If somebody can tell me a good reason why the annual US health-care bill has risen from 50 billion to $500 billion in 20 years please do Otherwise go have some more expensive blood tests (courtesy of Pierce County Medical) and take two aspirins Rolling rolling rolling: The centennial heats up with the wagon train rolling through Enumclaw Buckley Orting and on to Fort Lewis And the National Quilting Assoc is staking over the Sheraton Tacoma with the Lakewood Jr Women's Club set to display their quilts Mention walking and right away Rita Adsitt checks in from Spanaway with an invitation to join the thriving vogue of volks marching You too can hike along call the Federal Way-based Evergreen State Volks port Assoc at 838-6981 As for me like Burt Lancaster said to Liz Scott back in 1947 I walk alone I saw itl I saw ill The Newsweek story Fun in a Small May 29 issue) about the new computer game Sim City where you design and build Great idea seconded: Putting the unlimited hydroplane museum in the Municipal Dock building Free tickets to the first one there with an old Miss button and maybe time for Stan Naccarato to dig out the long-buried blueprints and try another Thunder Sunday Why the fuss over American Morpho request for more downtown parking space? Okay so a little juggling is in order But the end result is more action where the city needs it most If Tom Stenger and Ruth McElliott want to complain about something there are oodles of bigger more worthy targets Kudos where kudoe due: Hey forgot to mention that those Engine House 9 oyster eaters raised more Michael Kenyon 's column appears Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays.