The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 9

Obituaries B4 Classified B5-12 The News Tribune South King County Edition I Tuesday March 13 1990 DDsttricfi has Senate House meet and Drew sell off adjourn school Dimes By Peter Callaghan The Nawa Tribune By Elaine Porterfield The Nawa Tribune OLYMPIA The state Senate was so busy Monday that it took less than IS minutes to convene salute the flag and adjourn until -linn As if to top that performance the House was in session for less than six minutes and adjourned until Thursday They 5 Proposed changes in Federal Way elementary school service boundaries that would shtft about 1400 students were unveiled to the school board during a deceptively calm meeting Monday night Only a fraction of the parents of the 10000 elementary school students knew prior to the meeting of the proposed boundary changes because only on Monday did the district mail out the information Last year changes in boundaries that shuffled about 1900 students were greeted with anger and frustration by many parents who said they had moved to their neighborhoods to allow their children to attend specific elementary schools Those parents packed a number of school board meetings and public hearings to express their unhappi- even hold a flag salute So went the fourth day of the first special session of the 1990 Washington state Legislature "The people of the state are going to get very impatient very Gov Booth Gardner said just before he left town for Seattle Adelaide Camelot Twin Lakes and Wildwood would all keep their current service areas But all other elementary schools will have their boundaries tinkered with under the proposed changes from just a nibble hoe and there to extensive revamping The changes are proposed by an ad hoc group made up of principals and residents from every elementary school service area in the district The school that would be most affected by the new boundary plan is Panther Lake Elementary according to Dolores Gibbons assistant superintendent for elementary programs Gibbons told the school board Monday that explosive growth in the Panther Lake area has added about 1200 elementary students in the past two years Boundary changes adopted last year shifted some of the growth to neighboring schools but the population still needs to be adjusted she uid Gibbons also said the permanent student body for Mark Twain Elementary would be carved out of the service areas of Star Lake Elementary and Valhalla Elementary under the plan Mark Twain had been serving as a swing school for pupils whose regular schools were under construction Several school board members Hid during the meeting they were sympathetic about the disruption that shifting schools could have on families but said new boundaries simply had to be adopted because of population growth The few lawmakers who even bothered to return to the statefaouse Monday lamented the slow pace "The Senate even check with us before they adjourned until House Speaker Joe King Mid feel the Senate's made up their mind they want to be here for SO days willing to sit here for SO But district officials said Monday that new boundaries are needed again this year to cope with lopsided growth in Federal Way some schools currently have considerably more students than others because of new residential subdivisions and apartments and to create student bodies for Mark Twain Elementary School and an as-yet unnamed school being built in the West Campus area Only four of the 18 elementary schools would not be affected by boundary changes according to the current proposal The people of the state are going to get very impatient very quickly Gov Booth Gardner before he left town for Seattle Judge sets bail for man suspected of murdering his wife days to do it right but we want King Hid Senate Majority Leader Jeanette Hayner spent the day at home in Walla Waf By Elaine Porterfield The News Tribune Through all of this the six members of the budget conference committee met to once spin try to work out the $725 million supplemental budget Some progress was reported but major issues still separate the House and Senate Qaff MindsTh Maw Tribune Looming mountain Though It visible Monday there's a clouds roll In according to our forecast This chance Mount Rainier might be out In all Its shot taken recently shows the mountain splendor this morning before afternoon looming over the Port of Tacoma House Majority Leader Brian Ebersole differed from appraisal think they are interested in leaving Ebersole said of Senate negotiators think we can get our work done by the Seattle remains discovered he was accused of murdering wife The man who wu soaking wet told the neighbor that his wife wu dead police uid When the neighbor showed disbelief Bryant brought the neighbor into his bathroom There Doris Bryant wu nude and lying face down under a running shower the neighbor Hid The neighbor ran next door to call por lice and Bryant ran into the hallway screaming fa help according to police reports When other neighbors ran into the hall Bryant told them he had put his wife under water to try and revive her police Hid An aid crew quickly responded and began efforts to uve the worn: an She wu then airlifted to Harbor-view Medical Center where she died at about 3:50 am Sunday according to the medical office The couple's S-year-old granddaughter who wu in the apartment during the disturbance told police that had blood on police Hid When police tried to talk to Leander Bryant he started screaming that he did not want to live and that officers should out their pis News Tribune staff and The Associated Prees But that's the most optimistic assessment Lawmakers working on the other unresolved issues uid negotiations are producing only slight movement "We think we've finished the intent quipped Spokane Republican Sen Bob McCaslin about meetings on growth management legislation The intent section of the bill contains none of the policy decisions nor the nitty-gritty details of the complex legislation to counties toward tougher lat planning Bail wu set at $200000 Monday for a Federal Way man being held in connection with the death of his wife over the weekend according to the King County office Leander Bryant 22 wu in custody at the King County Jail following his arrest for suspicion of homicide said Dan Donohoe spokesman tar the office Prosecutors have until Wednesday to file formal charges he uid The King County medical office identified the dead woman Doris Bryant 37 No cause of death hu been established pending further investigation officiate uid Monday night It wu the first homicide in Federal Way in more than a year said Maj Ollie Moore commander of the city's police precinct King County police uid Doris Bryant wu beaten possibly with a table leg during a fight that began at about 2 pm Friday Neighbors in the couple's apartment building told police that they bad heard a commotion going on for hours At about 8 pm they heard what sounded like someone being thrown against a wall according to police reports When a neighbor knocked on the door Leander Bryant answered police Hid Owens was last seen the day after he was questioned by police The skeleton of an elderly Seattle man who had been charged with the first-degree murder of his wife whose body wu found under a compost pile at their hone has been found on Mount Si Mar North Bend Dental records were used to iden- found by police in September acting on tips from neighbors who had not seen Mrs Owens a piano teacher since March Her body wu found under a falae floor below a compost pile at the home She had died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head When questioned about her dinp-pearance by family and friends Owens told family members his wife wu going to school in Canada and told neighbors gone to Kansu to care for an ailing relative Owens wu last seen in North Bend the day after he wu first questioned by Seattle police He wu a retired businessman who wu active in real estate transactions tify the man Joe Lynn Owens 70 of West Seattle said a spokesman were filed against him Sept 21 Two North Bend-area residents hiking Sunday discovered what appeared to he a human back bone about a quarter of a mile off the old Mount Si trail uid Maj Jackson Beard of the King County police Police cordoned off the area overnight and combed the area on Monday morning Clothing and more bones were found Owens had been sought by Seattle police for the shooting death at his wife The remains were Sen George Fleming the Seattle Democrat who is brokering a dispute between the House and Senate over local government crime assistance uid the sticking point continues to be taxes House Democrats want to send some cash to cities and counties but also want to authorize local option tax increases Senate Republicans have so far resisted any local taxing authority and shoot him they uid He then charged officers and I had to be for the King County medical office An autopsy was planned today to determine the cause of death Owens diuppeared last September on the day after Seattle police questioned him about the disappearance of his 78-year-old wife Gladys Charges against the missing man forcibly restrained police uid After being placed in a squad car Bryant badly damaged a rear door by kicking it police uid Can food and dance help bring peace to Middle East? 5 nephew wu recently arrested by Israelis and sentenced to 27 months in a desert prison way some day there will be she uid "As long we are getting together here we can get together there All asking now is to stop the killing want the American people please to look at the other The other side is the pain that hu come unto her people the destruction of her kindred happening in the Middle East is responsibility uid Bert Walker we're dealing with gets back to the fact that for generations millenia people have been fighting How do you help people grow out of prejudice? How do we move toward understanding and work together? dealing with a political sceM that's massive think that this hu ever happened not in America not like this with people of such different backgrounds coming together to socialize "Maybe just inching a little bit to our he said The goal is peace "There are American Jews who would condemn this said Charles Davis an American Jew who wu once the national coordinator of the American Coalition for Middle East Dialogue Talking politics while socialising he uid that there exists a wider range of opinion among Jews in Israel than among Jews here ITjere also exists he uid a greater recognition within Israel that she must om day grant Palestinian a homeland "For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my asks Esther in the eighth apter of Esther in the Old Testament It is from story that Jews derive the festival of Purim Sunday wu Purim peoples are too traumatised by their own pain to recogntee that the others are human beings Palestinian have no claim to that land The Palestinian deserve their lives refugees concentrated in camps And these: The pain goes back to 1948 The pain goes back to a time before Esther My pain is greater than your pain There can never be peace Then people will never be able to agree on a solution The American people do not understand the problem because American journalists Infected with an inherent left-wing bias favor the Palestinians American journalists because all media are controlled by Jews favor the cause of Israel Israel controls the UJS Congress Never again Intifada Over my dead body Pogrom Guilt Holy war Holocaust seems to a cycle in these said Davis people get to know each other They team they have a lot in common They start to feel The dance begins on both sides they start to compare views Then we find that read totally different history books and we work through A function such the om Sunday Davis uid can RIH hile the Israeli government spent the day 1 Sunday dancing on tbs road to collapse over the question of peace some 250 celebrants from throughout the Northwest spent the evening at Pierce College in the peaceful pursuit of among other things stuffed cabbage blintses pita bread and chicken kabobs They were gathered at an event called "Ballads Bagels and really the same uid Walker of Tacoma Arabs Jews and Others for Peace It wu that group that sponsored the party "This gathering is absolutely non-political non-religious strictly said Zahi Haddad who helped organize the evening better to know each other and then talk politics than to talk politics before you know each and he said are a very tiny are an article of said Zahi Haddad give up hope Get involved to help us in achieving That involvement he uid will come through education Peace uid Walker will come through wisdom understanding and courage Meanwhile the dancing continued irith hopes and fears of their uid Davis major function of this kind of thing is to remove the possibility of IreneT i Mattar wu born in Jerusalem Arabs Jews and others on Sunday got to know each other by eating each other's food and stepping to each other's music Two bands om Arab om Jewish The stereotypes are these: Israel Is a small nation under siege by its Infidel neighbors The Arabs are all terrorists The Israelis are terrorists The Israelis have stolen the land of the Palestinians The and raised in Beitjala near Bethlehem She is an Arab Palestinian and she spent the whole at the night Saturday and the whole morning Sunday cooking rice and making baklawa Accused of throwing rocks her 20-year-old CR Roberta' column appears Sundays Tuesdays and Thursdays it At the end they played together Idluddad said He does a historic not -V ar jt -is sr t- 1 -r 1 -1 SL A 4 fc g- 2 I hT' jfe- jfc -fr 4-.