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B2 The Morning News Tribune Wed October 18 1989 pierce county in brief Boyfriend accused of molesting girls Their mother told deputies she found out about the girls' claims in August and bought a lock to put on their bedroom door so they could lock themselves in at night She told the man she wanted him to move out and she said he agreed to leave as soon as he find his truck Deputies found him at the home on Monday afternoon In other police news reported Tuesday: Tacoma police seised 52 ounces of suspected black tar heroin a wrapper containing suspected cocaine residue three rifles four handguns and a stolen car in a drug raid at 8:45 pm Monday at an apartment at 9224 Steele St police reported A man 21 and a woman 23 were arrested and bodied into Pierce County Jail on suspicion of by three other youths one of whom pointed a shotgun at them throughout the holdup at 8:20 pm Monday The victims told police the robbers made them lie face down on the sidewalk and threatened to shoot them if they tried to run away according to police reports A man with a knife robbed the Hub Clothing store at 9714 Pacific Ave just after 1 pm Monday He ordered the clerk not to scream and told her to open the register then he reached into the cash drawer took the money and ran the clerk told police Inmate population at the Pierce County Jail was 719 on Tuesday The facility was built to hold 508 Also 28 local prisoners were held in the Clallam County Jail and two were held in the McNeil Island Corrections Center a jail official said ing drugs with intent to sell them and possession of stolen property A second man was arrested and booked on suspicion of possessing drugs with intent to sell according to police reports Two Pierce County sheriffs deputies were waiting at a light on 112th Street Southwest at Bridgeport Way Southwest at 11:15 pm Monday when a man in a compact pickup went wide in a right turn and crashed into the side of the patrol car the lawmen reported The 29-year-old driver was arrested and booked into jail on suspicion of drunken driving Although the patrol car sustained 22500 damage the deputies complained only of soreness and reported they were not seriously injured Two South End teenagers told police they were robbed and beaten By Michael Gilbert The News Tdbune Pierce County sheriffs deputies arrested a Roy man on suspicion of statutory rape after two girls age 9 and 11 told a counselor at their school that their mother's boyfriend for the past year had ben fondling them at night after they went to bed according to sheriffs reports Deputies met the counselor and a state Child Protective Services caseworker at the school Monday afternoon and after hearing the story went to the 47-year-old home and arrested him and booked him into Pierce County Jail DNA test By Dabby Aba The Nows Tribune A DNA test can be conducted to determine whether a bloodstain belongs to a 7-year-old boy or the man accused of raping and mutilating the youngster a judge ruled Tuesday Pierce County Superior Court Judge Tom Sauriol held that prosecutors can test the spot of blood that stains a gray jacket belonging to defendant Earl Kenneth Shriner Shriner has told police he bloodied the coat himself when be scraped his hand In bicycle fall Prosecutors however suspect the blood came from the boy whose penis was severed in a sexual assault May 20 In a hearing Tuesday defense attorney Dino Sepe urged Sauriol not Shriner bloodstain State Guard unit wina national ahooting award A Washington National Guard company won one of 25 awards presented annually to guard units that display the best marksmanship with individual weapons Brig Gen Greg Barlow adjutant general of the Washington National Guard accepted The Pershing Plaque award recently on behalf of the 1041st Transportation Company during the National Guard Association Conference in Detroit The 1041st is based in Ephrata The association established The Pershing Plaque in the 1930s to honor General John Pershing the only soldier who had served as General of the Armies Pershing had a great Interest in marksmanship Ntwt TrlbuM itatf Separate freeway events claim lives of man boy A Tacoma-area man and an unidentified 9-year-old Tacoma boy were killed in separate freeway accidents in the Tacoma area Tuesday night the State Patrol said William Gratser 42 2041 Gay Road EL died after being thrown from his car when it ran off Washington 512 west of Portland Avenue about 5:35 pm He was pronounced dead at Good Samaritan Hospital The boy died after he tried to cross Interstate 5 near Street about 8 pm the State Patrol said Newi TrfbuM stuff Schlafly to speak at PLU on roles Phyllis Schlafly will speak on Changing Roles of Men and Nov 6 at Pacific Luther an Eastvold Auditorium Schlafly who was a leader in the campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment and is a leader in the anti-abortion movement will give an 8 pm address The lecture is sponsored by the Associated Students of PLU Admission is $250 Nwi TrlbuM ituff Spanaway man pleads insanity in shooting of adoptive parents less useful in court than the DNA test Arguing that the state wu not doing anything sinister Corey-Boulet said case law allows the prosecution to destroy samples when testing them particularly when the defense has notice of the test In siding with Corey-Boulet Sauriol also followed her suggestion that defense experts be present when the tests were conducted The decision gave the green light to plans to have the bloodstain tested by Cellmark a Maryland firm that la among only four labs in the country that conducts DNA fingerprinting tests for criminal casework The test will analyse the DNA in the blood sample and determine parent motive except (Langness's) Felnagle said According to psychologists who have Interviewed him Langness believes his adoptive parents are actually his lister and brother-in-law He thinks that they murdered the woman he believes to be his mother when he was 15 according to one Western State psychological report Langness says his real father committed suicide a few months lata Langness thinks the Masons and former Pierce County Sheriff George Janovich were involved in the cover-up of their slaying Felnagle said But his father Robert Westerman said he adopted his son when he was 10 days old and that he does not know who natural parents are the Western State report said Although a friendly and jovial student in school his work began to slip in high school when he began using alcohol and marijuana the Western State report said Going to Vietnam seemed to mark a turning point in his life Acquaintances said the Marine came back a changed man plagued by social and personal problems the report said He began saying his true parents were from Zaire and that he himself became citizen of Zaire the revolution when Kennedy was ing Welton uid Miguel Chaves-Mendoxa 18 of Yakima suffered a gunshot wound and wu in a hospital Welton said appears that Mr Mendoza and Mr Siu-Chang were involved in a Welton uid No arrests have been made he uid Branch campus hearing delayed until November A public hearing scheduled for Monday on the four finalist sites for the University of Washington branch campus in Tacoma has been postponed until November The UW wants more time to evaluate written public comments received about the sites and to study the sites said Connie Miller director of capital projects just thought we'd end up looking Miller said The hearing was scheduled for 7 pm Monday in the Public Utilities Administration Building in Tacoma Miller said the meeting will be held some time in November A date will probably be set by the end of October An Oct 30 public bearing on the five finalist sites for the Bothell-Woodinville campus also was postponed Miller said about 150 written comments have been received mostly about the Bothell-Woodin-ville campus Soliciting written comments is part of the environmental review of the sites Nm TrlbuM staff City makes it official: Thea Foss Waterway City Waterway now is officially Thea Foss Waterway renamed in honor of the Norwegian founder of Foss Launch Co The company that operates tugboats presently is known Foss Maritime Company with operations in Seattle and Tacoma 1 City street crews are expected to erect new signs reflecting the new name this month In August the City Council voted 6-3 to recommend that the waterway be renamed after a request by the Sons of Norway In September the Washington Board on Geographic Names approved the new name that will be officially reflected in maps of the state The state board passed its recommendation to a federal board that also is expected to approve the new name for federal maps Newt Tribune staff Abortion Continued from B1 first saw the ads about a month ago and said she found them to be offensive and misleading She and other members of NOW began working to have the ads pulled She argued the ads imply the fetus is the size of the photograph when aborted In reality more than 90 percent of the abortions in Washington state occur within the first trimester or twelve weeks of pregnancy when the fetus is much smaller creating hysteria They're really projecting false said Meckle basically think of it as false advertising And by having it on our public transportation it implies that this is what the city condones" Meckle said Planned Parenthood of King County has gone through a similar fight when it considered producing bus ads showing dead women in pools of blood after botched illegal abortions Those ads were deemed offensive and kept off the buses Meckle said some point we have to ask she said Meanwhile Kahler said she will Chamber accepting The Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber of Commerce is accepting nominations for its annual Anderson Military Citizen of the Year award The award named for former chamber president and Tacoma Mayor John Anderson is presented to an active-duty military citizen who exemplifies professionalism in contributions to both the military job and the civilian community Nominations must be submitted by Nov 1 to Gary Brackett the manager of business and trade development PO Box 1933 Published as a public service by By Dabby Abo The Newt Tribune A Spanaway man who shot his adoptive parents was committed fa-life to Western State Hospital Tuesday Robert Ronald Langness 41 entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity in the killing of his adoptive mother and wounding of his father in the shooting Psychologists felt Langness posed danger to himself and others Their finding required Pierce County Superior Court Judge Bruce Cohoe to commit Langness to state mental hospital fa life the maximum term possible fa first-degree murder Langness can be released only if a judge rules him safe to return to society Langness a troubled Vietnam veteran who also went by the last name of Westerman originally was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree assault His adoptive father Robert Westerman survived wounds to the head and shoulder suffered in a Feb 22 attack but his adoptive mother Jennie A Westerman did not Psychologists fa both the prosecution and defense felt ijngmtM was legally insane when he shot the couple chief criminal deputy prosecutor Tom Felnagle and defense it- allowed on to allow the DNA typing because the procedure would use up all the sample The size of the bloodstain is slightly smaller than a quarter deputy prosecutor Barbara Corey-Boulet said want to become an accomplice to destroying state Sepe said in court He said It was possible the test results could become the most critical piece of evidence In the case He proposed the test be conducted by a California firm that has been able to test minute portions of samples That way defense experts could also test the stain But Oorey-Boulet said the California lab uses a test that ia different from the DNA test she sought The one in California has also gotten mixed results she said malting it Psychologists for both the prosecution and defense felt Langness was legally insane when he shot the couple torney Doug Tufts said in court Tuesday Under the law defendants are considered insane when they do not know the difference between right and wrong and cannot understand the nature and quality of their actions Langness quietly answered in the affirmative as Cohoe asked whether he understood what he was doing in pleading insane But when asked whether he was admitting he shot hi mother and father Langness said my sister and my Robert Westerman 69 said he hadn't seen bis son for two years until the day Langness walked into the living room of the Spanaway home on Feb 22 Felnagle said in court The father asked his armed son are you The younger man responded by shooting the couple as they sat in rocking chairs this day there remains no ap er location and apparently dumped near the jail Welton said He used a potable cellular phone attached to his belt to make the call and died short time later at a Yakima hospital Welton said Siu-Chang suffered gunshot wounds to the chut and abdomen and also wu stabbed police uid Welton could not speculate on why the man wu wearing handmffu on one wrist although he uid they were not a police model Meanwhile police suspect second shooting about 10 blocks sway wu related to the Siu-Chana slav i whether it came from Shriner a the other court action Tuesday the defense agreed to the admission of statements Shriner made to police Shriner had told detectives that the evening of the attack he had gone to a hair ulon at the Tacoma Man at 5 pm according to a search warrant Finding it closed Shriner said be went to the I drew store on South Tacoma Way About 7 pm he uid he bought a dozen doughnuts at Donut Houu at 7202 Pacific Ave and then went to nearby A Impe's Drive-In where be bought a bacon cheeseburger french fries a gallon of root beer and a root beer shake He denied talking to any children that evening Sepe said he would have presented the statement anyway Army to hold meetings on firing center Fort Lewis officials will conduct public meetings today and Thursday to provide Information about the proposed expansion of the Yakima Firing Center Officials will answer questions about the draft of a supplemental environmental Impact statement released Sept 29 that describes the impact of adding 63000 acres to the 285000-acre training ground north of Yakima Although officials will not listen to testimony regarding the merits of the expansion plan lt will accept written comments All public comment must be submitted to the Fort Lewis directa of engineering and housing by Nov 13 meeting will be at 7 pm at the Eisenhower High School cafeteria in Yakima The Thursday meeting will be at 7 pm at the El-lensburg High School cafeteria in EUensburg Man pleads innocent in shooting death A Graham man pleaded innocent Tuesday to a manslaughter charge stemming from the shooting of a 7-year-old boy David Roose 25 entered the plea to second-degree manslaughter He is accused of shooting to death Troy Door of Eatonville The boy wu shot he rode his bicycle on a rural gravel road near Eatonville on Aug 13 Room says he wu aiming at a tree in a wooded area when a 45-caliber slug he fired from a revolver struck the neck The boy died instantly Although Room contended the shooting death wu accidental a coroner's Inquest jury last month recommended he be charged with second-degree manslaughter GIG HARBOR 6712 Kimball Dr Gig Harbor WA 98335 858-9192 Seattle man found dead after call for help Pro-abortion leaders prepare nationwide rally Activists eager to support abortion rights will have the chance Nov 12 at a nationwide network of marches and demonstrations organised by what leaden say is an unprecedented coalition of rights and labor groups churches and educators The mobilization effort announced in Seattle and other cities Tuesday represents the growth of the pro-abortion movement since the US Supreme July ruling that could allow states to restrict abortions said Nor-leen Koponen of the Washington State National Organization for Women The group has scheduled a demonstration and march through Seattle's University District and a vigil mi the courthouse steps in Tacoma An estimated 50 other cities will hold similar events that day Koponen said be in Tacoma today scouting sites for billboards that will be used to display the advertisement award nominations Tacoma 98401 Nominations must include the name and military unit and outline the reasons for nomination Nominees must be a resident of the Tacoma-Pierce County area an exemplary volunteer in the civilian community professional in military responsibilities The chamber will recognize the nominees and present the award at the Tacoma Rotary Club No 8 meeting on Nov 9 For more information call 627-2175 No matter what blood type you are if a donor the type this world can't live without Please give Red Crons The Morning News Tribune The Assodeted Prase YAKIMA A Seattle man wearing a handcuff wu found fatally wounded a few feet from the county jail after he used a cellular telephone to call fa help police said Tuesday Police suspect a drug deal that went sour said Detective Lt Mike Welton Welton said Norman Siu-Chang 20 apparently phoned police fa help about 7 pm Monday from a street behind the county jail Siu-Chang had been shot st anoth Western Clinic is pleased to announce the association of Jerry Markussen MD Internal Medicine Doctor Markussen joins Doctors Brand Harmon Ruckle Smoots and Vehe in the Western Clinic Internal Medicine Department November 1 1989 Guaranteed under 1 0 month iSMkNrfMSMfaw western dink operating cost always THEOdMPIC HOT TUB CTMftNY FIFE BUSINESS PARK 4803 Pacific Hwy Suite 4 Fife 922-1477 Other local km Seattle I Everett TACOMA 521 South Street Tacoma WA 98405 627-9151 I 1 I.