The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 10

B2 The News Tribune Sat Oct 15 1988 Help asked in search for missing mom Local in brief By Dan Voelpol The News Tribune Tacoma police are asking the public for help in finding a woman POLICE BEAT last seen leaving her Tideflats shipbuilding job last Saturday Christine Blais 27 left the AK-WACo 401 Alexander Ave when her shift ended at 4 am Since then neither daughter who stays with an uncle white her mother works came home from church Sunday morning and notified relatives that her mother there Reports indicate her work clothes were in the house as if she been home after work Mann said police checked out several leads but locate Blais or her white 1981 Buick Skylark Washington license KJX 667 need the help to locate Mann said was very caring for her daughter always called to check on her so this is very Mann asked that anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Blais or her car call 911 She is described as 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighing 115 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes doorstep Thursday night screaming for her teeth When he let her inside she threw a cue ball at him that missed him but struck a mirror the report said Deputies booked the woman into Pierce County Jail for investigation of malicious mischief An armed robber escaped with the receipts from the University Place Sea Galley restaurant Thursday sheriffs deputies reported The man described as in his late 20s or early 30s leveled a gun at the hostess and took the cash aat bout 5:05 pm the report said The manager chased the robber to a silver Datsun station wagon but the robber escaped deputies reported The robber was about 6 feet tall weighed 150 to 160 pounds and had shaggy brown hair and a mustache according to the report In other police news: A Parkland dog owner wants Pierce County sheriffs deputies to arrest her neighbor whom she suspects shot her dog with an arrow Another neighbor told deputies a man sneaked around the house white the owner was away The man disappeared behind the house and the piercing screams alerted the neighborhood Deputies said the arrow penetrated the right hind teg of the dog which is expected to recover The witness told deputies that the assailant lives nearby Deputies arrested a drunken Gig Harbor woman who attacked her ex-husband after he immediately hand over her teeth a sheriffs report said The man told deputies his 31-year-old ex-wife showed up on his have been seen done an extensive investigation and led us said Mark Mann police department spokesman indications are that foul play It be like her to just Mann said 8-year-old McChord sergeant wins prestigious post A 24-year-old noncommissioned officer at McChord Air Force Base has won an assignment with the Thunderbirds the Air elite precision flying team Sgt Scott McFarland base media relations officer will join the three-man public affairs team Nov 10 at Nellis Air Force Base Nev As the junior member he will produce literature to be distributed at air shows and travel with the flying team as media representative McFarland whose hometown is Martins Ferry Ohio won the assignment in competition with applicants from throughout the Air Force A private pilot he has served in the Air Force for four years mostly at McChord Non Tribune itatt Third medical team aids victims A third Pacific Northwest medical relief team will depart Sunday for Cancun Mexico to assist victims of Hurricane Gilbert which struck the Yucatan Peninsula Sept 14 Sponsored by Medical Relief Ministries the team will include leader Greg Rumpel of Youth With A Mission in British Columbia firefighteremergency medical technician Jerry Nev in of Federal Way video production specialist Don Nelson of Federal Way Jeff Griffin of the Port of Seattle Fire Department and nurse Mike Unruh of Harborview Medical Center in Seattle Mw Tribunt Half Fraternity run to help homeless in Tacoma Members of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at the University of Puget Sound will spend 24 hours jogging around the campus next week to benefit a charity for the homeless in Tacoma Members are seeking sponsors for their half-hour jogging shifts Oct 21 and 22 The money will be donated to Nativity House which provides food clothing and shelter for the homeless To sponsor a jogger call the fraternity at 756-4262 Nnwi Tribune staff Health alert extended for tainted oysters A public health alert has been extended for Minterbrook brand oysters harvested in southern Puget Sound after a Woodinville woman became ill from red-tide poisoning because she ate a Minterbrook product The alert covers Minterbrook oysters with sell-by dates of Oct 7 to Oct 26 the state Department of Social and Health Services announced Friday Those varieties include extra small special cocktail small and medium Products previously recalled have been destroyed Small-sized Minterbrook oysters now being recalled also will be destroyed Medium-sized Minterbrook oysters have been placed under a hold order and will be tested by the DSHS shellfish sanitation section All other Minterbrook products and other commercially available oysters meet state and national standards for consumption DSHS said The woman became ill from red-tide poisoning Sept 25 She was treated in Seattle and released Commercial and recreational beaches in the affected area will remain closed to shellfish gathering until further notice Shellfish samples will continue to be tested for the next two weeks Newt Tribunt stiff Man shot by police in stable condition A 30-year-old man who was shot by a King County police officer Thursday in White Center was listed in stable condition Friday night at Harborview Medical Center according to a nursing supervisor The man Reginald Boond is a suspect in several Seattle armed robberies He was shot when he got out of his car and pointed a gun at two police officers after they had pulled him over for driving a stolen car according to King County police One of the officers Steve Lantor fired his gun mce hitting Boond in the chest according to police The shooting occurred at the intersection of Southwest Roxbury Street and Eighth Avenue Southwest Ntws Trlbunt ittff Break Continued from B1 paid back $50 toward the initial debt according to officer Pennington Then he took off again That was on Sept 30 a Thursday On Friday the clerk surrendered to police a second time and was booked into Auburn Jail for investigation of second-degree theft Pennington said He spent the weekend in jail then was released Monday on his personal recognizance Pennington said Raden said the clerk showed up at the store the same day looking for his paycheck He get it are prosecuting this Raden said Pennington said the clerk confessed to both thefts His statements and police reports have been referred to the King County office which will decide whether to file felony theft charges against him The episodes have soured Raden some but not entirely He said he still believes everybody needs a break so if it happened again he might give the employee a second chance The clerk declined to speak to reporters saying in enough trouble a beer purchase on Denelle's birthday She told him to No in the finals He didn't Donald Wohlers of Helena Mont did and won top prize of $100000 Kristine Triboulet of Orting took fourth winning $5000 Tacoman Barley Eckhoff hugs his 10-year-old daughter Denelle after winning second prize of $10000 Friday In a Rainier Brewing Company drawing in Seattle His wife Kris is at right Eckhoff won his spot in the finals with Research Continued from B1 County Prosecutor Norm Maleng called the report lawyerly analysis of whether the commission followed its own (For the most part the report says the commission did) our position that public confidence in the judiciary and in the process for disciplining judges will only be restored when the whole file is Lasnik said would be republish seems to be giving it a prominence it said Robert Ericksen a history professor at Olympic College a community college in Bremerton Ericksen who specializes in the Hitter years said hypothermia research done by Nazi scientists is of questionable benefit today He said the research of German academi cians was tainted by Nazi ideology is a surprisingly large amount of charlatanism that got into German Ericksen said Pozos will continue to consult the University of Minnesota at Duluth on research projects he helped start (News Tribune staff reporter Steve Maynard contributed to this report) and physiological measurements of human subjects placed in vats of freezing liquid often to the point of death according to those familiar with tiie study had some of the experts doing research in these Pozos said make them correct in terms of But a local authority on Nazi Germany said republishing such studies planned to analyze and republish a little-known World War II text Treatment of Shock from Prolonged Exposure to The study conducted by doctors at Dachau includes observations Jury finds Campas guilty on the couch Huffman dashed from the house and called authorities Roche said Campas meanwhile had taken VCR money and car keys and driven her car to downtown where he hocked the VCR Roche maintained In his closing argument Thursday Thoenig suggested a scenario in which Campas made a sexual advance toward Thomas who then rebuffed him by grabbing a knife Roche replied that theory made no sense especially since Huffman testified that Thomas was lying on the couch when they left her house we to believe she got up off the couch got the knife and then laid back on the he asked jurors Thursday Save Your Newspapers for Two Weeks and Help United Way Help Your Hometown Saturday October 22 9 am-5 pm Campas said he remember what happened when he returned to home Defense attorney Ray Thoenig said Campas have the mental capacity to formulate in his mind an intent to commit robbery The jury believe it finding that Campas kilted Thomas in order to perpetuate his plan to rob her which justifies first-degree murder Deputy prosecutor Jim Roche had suggested to the jury that things Campas said and did after the stabbing indicated that the man was in control of his senses Campas had summoned Thomas Huffman the second man who attended the late-night get-together into home after the stabbing had occurred Roche said Campas told Huffman to rummage through purse and to refrain from touching anything After seeing a bloodied Thomas moaning By Stuart Eskanazi Tha News Tribune A Pierce County Superior Court jury took a half day Friday to convict Nick Campos of first-degree murder for robbing and stabbing a woman he had met in a tavern hours before The victim 31-year-old Linda Lee Thomas had invited Campas and another man to her home on May 15 after they shot pool together at a South End tavern After three hours of conversation and drinking beer with her new friends the men left according to trial testimony But Campas 31 returned moments after he left Thomas was lying on her couch when Campas stabbed her attorney argued during the trial that his client suffers from a chronic addiction to drugs which affects his short-term memory Little Continued from B1 removing them from the offices Wesley Nuxoll a Colfax attorney who chairs the commission said that body opposes releasing the records on constitutional grounds and because it would compromise the confidentiality of people who file complaints with the commission He said the attorneys who prepared the report on the Little affair James Danielson of Wenatchee and George Cody of Lynnwood had access to all records on the case and gave a "very thorough and report Pullen who has a reputation for championing little-guy causes said the judicial argument doesn't hold water If the report is complete and thorough he said nothing is lost by allowing access to original files If the report is not complete he said the commission must have something to hide But Nuxoll said the commission opposes setting a precedent for releasing confidential investigatory film to legislative bodies this file is available then when does the next file become he asked Talmadge countered that the commission already has set the precedent by its full public handling of former Pierce County District Judge Mark Deming's judicial disciplinary case in 1985 and 1986 The Seattle Democrat said he has confidence in Danielson one of the report's authors because "I know Jim and he is a fine Pullen said he call the report a but he said its defects outweigh its value Bob Lasnik chief of staff for King Commuter alert Highway 512 project will begin next month Improvement work on Washington 512 between Interstate 5 and Pacific Avenue in Pierce County will begin Nov 1 according to Clint Williams field engineer for the Department of Transportation The project involves the widening of 512 which has four lanes to eight lanes in places widening the South Steele Street undercrossing reconstruction of the South Park Avenue overcrossing realigning ramps at the Washington 512-Interstate 5 junction and resurfacing and paving Williams said that crews will probably widen the South Park Avenue overcrossing first Minor backups may occur but two lanes should be operating in both directions at all times Flaggers and cones will help motorists through the project which is slated for completion in mid-July or the first week of August 1989 Exterior unsafe at Tacoma school By Bandy Natson Save your newspapers for two weeks and then deposit them in special recycling trailers at the locations below All proceeds will go to United Way to help them meet human service needs in Pierce County Recycling locations: Lakewood Mall Fred Meyer 19th Stevens a Fred Meyer 72nd Pacific Albertsons 21st Pearl Galaxy Restaurant Fred Meyer in Puyallup surgery to nearly $161000 District engineers identified structural problems with Jason Lee years ago when the Citizens Committee for School Facilities Planning began to study each building to evaluate their repair needs said facilities director Don Buck Their suspicions were confirmed Thursday by structural engineers who bad studied the building and determined that the poor wall supports posed a safety hazard Buck said the deterioration has taken place since the building was first built because the brick facade was not tied back adequately will buy us some he added will be built above each entrance Nebgen said The Tacoma School Board approved an emergency resolution Thursday night allowing a waiver of trie bid process if the fence and decking exceed $20000 really a stop-gap temporary Nebgen said district anticipate the need to close the school white repairs are being made" Replacing the pins that bind the veneer to the concrete structure could cost as much as $134000 according to district business manager Ben Soria The engineering study cost about $8000 which brings the total cost of emergency cosmetic The News Tribune An emergency face lift is needed at Jason Lee Middle School to reconnect the school's brick facade to its concrete structure according to Tacoma School District officials District engineers learned Thursday that the metal pins holding the school's brick veneer in place have deteriorated to such a degree that the brick walls might not sustain an earthquake said Deputy Superintendent Mary Nebgen Until the district can find a contractor to repair the facade a fence will be installed around the 64-year-old school and protective decking Crash Continued from B2 Watch for a United Way recycling scoreboard ad after the drive and sec which site collected the most newsprint For more information call 597-8560 son said Law who suffered a broken shoulder and broken left ankle was reported in satisfactory condition Friday night at SL Joseph Hospital a nursing supervisor said A passenger in the truck Daniel Paul Goter of Puyallup had his seat belt fastened and was not injured Wilkinson said Somehow troopers reported the truck did not collide with any other vehicles However the impact ruptured the tanker and spewed diesel oil onto the highway All lanes of traffic were blocked for about 30 minutes white the Tacoma Fire Department sprayed the road with water to disperse the oil Wilkinson said The backup stopped traffic be- yond the South 56th Street interchange troopers said Later in nearly the same location a semi-truck and trailer collided with a car The truck jackknifed and blocked all lanes of northbound 1-5 at about 4:35 pm No one was seriously injured Wilkinson said As traffic began to pile up behind the jackknifed truck five cars attempting to exit 1-5 at South 38th Street bumped and skidded on the rain-slickened pavement But as troopers police and fire department personnel rushed to the two accident scenes not all were aware at first that they had two wrecks with which to contend Wilkinson said an initial rush of ambulances went to one scene and had to be redirected Ay YOU AND UNITED WAV curve south of the Tacoma Dome the State Patrol reported The truck jackknifed at about 2:35 pm and slammed into the cement barrier between the northbound and southbound lanes said Linda Wilkinson communications officer for the State Patrol Driver Michael Joe Law who did not have his seat belt buckled was thrown out of the truck onto the pavement The truck continued to skid back across all four lanes of traffic and off the side of the road before it stopped on its own Wilkin- NewsTnbu: ne I A A.