The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 5

Local Inside: Pleroe County Executive Doug Sutherland want taxpayer to approve a $275 million bond iaaue Sept 20 to pay for a new Jail that would have 680 beds B3 Weather B2 Obituaries B3 Communities B5 Democratic hopehils rip an absent Gortorf By Joaeph Turner The News Tribune Haiti to restore its democratically elected president Wineberry James and Hardman said they would as a last resort Sims said no won't he said an inappropriate This early in the campaign US Senate candidates are used to being ignored So they must have been heartened by the reception they got TViesday in Seattle from the King County Bar pdicy to ever put on the James and Sims said they don't ad- Wineberry i vocate a welfare-reform proposal that oil for kicking women off welfare if they have more children This is the wrong way to approach the James said yourself tf have another child for an extra $60 a Said Sms: 1 believe itf appropriate to punish children I do not want to see them out there Tb each other they were polite Four of the six candidates in the Democratic primary occasionally made some distinctions among themselves on issues but ever so slight James said he supports universal health-care coverage but would prefer to see the federal government simply oversee a system run by private companies in competition with one another dont think a government that pays (700 for toilet seata is qualified to run something like health can he said Hardman said he wants a system that covers everyone doesn't exclude people for pre-existing health problems and keeps coverage intact when employees change jobs the only way to do that is single-payer then I would (support it) but it wouldn't be my first he said Wineberry said he supports a government-run health-care system Sou ducked the question and was chided by James for apparently softening what had been more ardent support for a single-payer system only a few weeks ago too often debate the mechanism" Sims said When asked whether they would support President Clinton if he decided to send troops into payer then be my first Association Even though it was a beautiful 75 degrees outside and the Mariners were putting on a nine-inning lunch just down the street there must have been $6000 worth of billable hours spent listening to four Democrats complain about the Republican incumbent Sen Slade Gorton was aa the lawyers would say in absentia He was invited but begged off And he could have used a defense attorney State Rep Jesse Wineberiy King County Councilman Ron Sims former TV news anchorman Mike James and Seattle businessman Scott Hardman took turns shellacking Gorton They said he lacks leadership Ihey said he is divisive instead of inclusive They criticized his atand on gun control They said he exploits events to advance hia political agenda like hia gunboata-to-Canada response to the salmon fishing dispute Wineberiy noted the Legislature passed a law to reduce benefits for those on welfare more than four years but kick anyone off welfare Hardman talked of needing to give welfare mothers a pathway into the job market but did not answer the quekion dirertly James mid Hardman said they supported con-i of the Ninth American Free Robert SwfeeAssociated Press Frank Soichet of the King County Bar uses a lottery to determine which 4 Democratic candMates for 113 Senate would speak first They are horn left Jesse Wineberry Mho James Ron Sima and Scott Hardman B3 Favorable vote expected todayj on VA cemetery Killer stabbed man as woman watehsd Terrified student-computer enthusiast was then taken away and also slain By Um Kramer The News Tribune East of Kent therek a 160-acre lot where thickly dual a will be ret tered alders firs and cedars probably soon ByJohnHuhbofl The News Tribune placed by solemn rows cf veterans' graves Dm US House is expected to vote today to spend (106 million to build Washington's first national cemetery Legislative aides said they expect no difficulties fixf the bill that requests money for the departments ofVetc Rochelle Robinson watched as her friend Michael Johnston was stabbed repeatedly Monday on an cmty Spanaway road deputies Then she suffered a similar fate on a wooded back road four miles away deputies said Beyond that Pierce County deputies had little to say IWsdaysa they investigated the double alayiiqE Six detectives interviewed several of the pairk mutual friends and deputies posted fliers in search of leads erana Affairs and Housing and Urban Development -It also should be approved easily by the Senate and President Bill Clinton aides said because he requested the money for the cemetery in his draft of the budget' News of the passage would be sweet for Eric Sanitation a Lakewood veteran who aays hefc worked 40 years to get a veterans cemetery in Washington want that cemetery so badly because I think the veterans deserve Sandstrom said Dieeday gave an awful lot to do what they had to do I just hope 1 and pray everything goes all Sandstrom 74 is a past national cnmnumdar of the Tfeterane of Foreign Ware Hell aoan head to Guam to ori-ebrate the 50th anniversary of the invasion of that Pacific island He was one ofthe first to hit the beach there' -he said Veterans are entitled to a free grave site burial stone flag and perpetual care of their plot Die nearest national cemetery now for Washingtonians who want to be buried with their comrades is Willamette National Cemetery in Portland quite a ways away and getting filled Sandstrom said Washington is one of only 11 states without a govern- ment-run national burial ground for veterans Diare are 130 national cemeteries 114 of them run by the De- partment of Veterans Affairs Die new cemetery will be a little competition to Moun- tain View Cemetery in Auburn said cemetery coordinator- -Araie Galli who didn't sound too worried was found later in the parking lot of Spanaway Junior HighSchooL Robinson had recently broken off with a boyfriend said her mother Lynn had gotten out of a relationship about four months ago and was playing the she said Lynn Robinson said Michael Johnston was often welcomed into the fondly home aa a friend of their daughter They got along she said had things in common and they just eqjoyed Friends say the two met earlier this year at Pterce College School officials confirmed both were enrolled for winter and spring terms Information remained sparse on Johnston a day laborer who was married and had two children friends remembered her aa a young woman who forged friendships via her computer modem and hoped to one day teach the third grade They described her as an upbeat student who was close to her family and had few enemies want the world to know what a wonderful sweet peroon she said Gina Watson sitting outside the Spanaway Taco Bell where she worked with Robinson for nearly two years Detectives said they have no su- Cand said little about the well-somewhat clandestine couple who found friendship through their Pierce Community College and a role-playing card game they eryoyedjust before their deaths The body of Johnston 25 was found shortly before 5 am Monday nt of gray four- in front or itooinson gray tour-door 1988 Mazda near the Tacoma Club on Canyon Road East Deputies believe Robinson saw an attacker force Johnston from the car stab him repeatedly and slash his throat is a very good Galli said adding only because of all th makes We believe she watched her friend being killed and believe she had to be in extreme shock and spokesman Curt Benson said did this is really Watson said was my best friend in the whole world Deputies believe the killer then kidnapped Robinson taking her four miles due eouth to a secluded tree-shrouded access road off of 66Ui Avenue East before killing her in similar fashion have" Die Washington cemetery would be between Kent arid Maple Valley on Southeast 240th Street next to Tahoma High School about a 20-minute drive from Fedr eral Way on Washington 18 Die cemetery should please local veterans who have" with Sandstrom hoped for a local resting place Each time the state Department of Veterans Affairs publicizes something about the cemetery personally get' a barrage of calls from people wanting to reserve their said Adolfo Capestany department spokesman Capestany said he doesn't keep a waiting list Die i cemetery will be handled by the Seattle office ofthe UB Department ofVeterana Affairs he said "Ut There are about 670000 veterans in Washington 1 Capestany said Die cemetery will accommodate about 96000 grave I sites within 43 acres of the property It tentatively is scheduled to open in November 1997 Bill Jayne said i Jayne is spokesman for the National Cemetery Systeni Former boyfriend Scott Murphy said he had hoped for a future with foe cheerful red-haired woman who had just taken up the guitar would have probably ended up getting engaged within a couple of he said I wouldn't have minded that at Die friends say Robinson was a computer enthusiast who served as a system operator for a computer bulletin board Using the pseudonym Robinson spent hours chatting via keyboard with other uaera of the bulletin board Many doee friends fear her activity there might have connected her with the killer Benson said detectives were reviewing Her body was found fay an area resident shortly after 5 pm Die pair were both by their killer said Benson who declined to elaborate on the scene of the Johnston killing Autopsy results are expected from the medical examiner today Police say Johnston and Robinson were last seen leaving the houae of a mutual friend shortly after 11 pm Sunday They had just completed a session of "Magic the a popular role-playing serial card game the two played re-Kgwusly They left in separate cars and see Cametarjt B2 FWay district considers cameras on school buses MT HMsThe News Tribune rant from left John Rscancx Gina Watson George Hohnebehn and Scott Murphy: The News Tribune Surveillance cameras may be used to deter stu- dent misbehavior on Federal Way School District buses next foil according to a $25000 proposal being considered by the school board today -If it adopts the proposal Federal Way would join others including Kent Bethel Yelm Fife Univer- sity Place Clover Park Spokane and Ihcoma with cameras on buses Report cites staff errors in death fit By Martha Brackontmiutfi The News Tribune Under the proposal about 70 of Federal i would be eqi buses would be equipped with decoy camera health care said Fat Arthur a Seattle lawyer who last year brought a class action making such claims against the prison Barrow was a member of the class action think our lawsuit is helped by the report although I think not comprehensive she said Die prison is still investigating Barrowk death and has come to no conclusions assistant attorney general Cheryl Carey said Tuesday But the report is going to be Carey said The prisonis increasing its medical staff and is committed to giving inmates adequate health care spokeswoman Kim Shaffer said Prison officials refused to identify staff members mentioned in the report and blacked out their names saying Barrow 41 died May 16 Die convicted cocaine dealer from Vancouver Wash had been held at the Washington Corrections for Women since January 1993 serv-ing a Si-month sentence An autopsy showed her ulcer had burrowed through her stomach and leaked a liter of fluid into her abdominal cavity something an ulcer specialist said would caum great pain After Barrow died the prison appointed an independent team of two doctors and a nurse to investigate University of Washington physician David Dugdale led the three person team in its review cf Barrow's death He wouldn't answer questions about the investigation and the prison would not identify other members of the team The report proves prisoners aren't receiving adequate A prison medical worker misdiagnosed the infected stomach ulcer that killed a Purdy inmate in May report by three medical investigators found A clinic worker also gave her medicine that might have aggravated her ulcer and foiled to send her to the emergency room when nurses recommended it said the report released Tuesday by the prison That -combined with poor supervision of the dinic too many patients violation cf patient-evaluation policies and communication problems with nurses brought about "the sequence of events leading to the death of Gertrude 140 boxes and five surveillance cameras would be ro- tated at random among the buses district spokeswoman Judy Wall said Officials from districts using the cameras have said the unseen cameras help them document stu- -dent misbehavior and even the presence ofthe de- -coys helps keep children in line Tacoma will begin rotating 10 cameras among' dummy boxes in its bus fleet next foil The decoy boxes coet about $210 each while cam- eras range from $1800 to $2400 in price said Transportation Director Jim Stevenson according to the report fay a three-member or death medical team that investigated her seeEmnB3 MS.