The Olympian from Olympia, Washington • 5

1 Irtl Vi The Daily Olympian Wednesday November 24 1 976 AS Timbs? Owners Protest Agency Finds Jobs For Warriors New Valuation Method By HU Amdolid MtaTCNA Writer Hutson who holds the title of chief of operations says he could be calling his men together by early next -year if either pending contract is concluded He said the domestic training operation would be legal since the clients are interested in self-defense nothing more has nothing to do with any radical political factions or underground or subversive operations It's just some private citizens who want to be he says Hutson quit the Army in 1973 and invested in a Saigon restaurant He fled Vietnam in April 1975 and now attends classes at Seattle Community College Till the troops move out Africa to fight with white Rhodesians We serve any Communist bloc country and we do anything the government might feel is In return for the services of a trained warrior equipped with his own camouflage suit and canteen an employer can expect to pay $800 per man per month for domestic operations' $1200 for foreign work says Hutson Those who want to hire the group must pay all expenses provide food and shelter and be ready with any necessary weapons In addition to canteens and camouflage Hutson's troops who live all over the country must maintain boots fatigues jungle headgear pistol belt and other items Be at SEA The valuations on which timber land property taxes are based are too high because the Department of Revenue is using a new system of setting them timber industry spokesmen say The industry was unanimous Tuesday in opposing the flepart-ment's proposed valuations for forest land at a hearing here The proposed valuations for next year on which county assessors base property taxes on land on which timber is grown sre up an average of about 25 per cent statewide In some categories of land however the amount is much higher than the 1976 figures Under the 1971 state timber tax law taxes sre paid on timber when it is cut and the property tax is levied only on the land Wesley Rickard Tacoma forest management consultant said the ne method results in figures which are reasonable" In the past the department has based the values purely on forest land sain throwing out those which seemed too high or too low In the past year the department's Forest Advisory Committee recommended continued use of the method but use of another method called regression a secondary indicator he new method uses only statistical calculations based on sain to intimate values which are then either accepted or rejected on the basis of statistical tests The department combined both methods weighting the statistical method at 25 per cent Rickard and others sttacked the validity of the statistical method because they said it produced ntimates of value far in excess of those arrived at by the older method For instance gewd quality land in favorable terrain in Western Washington would go from a 1108 per acre valuation for this tax year to $132 under the proposal but would go to $203 if only the multiple regression analysis were used Rickard said Comparable figure for Eastern Washington were $33 $50 and $101 The percentage increase brought by the new system is even higher in marginal land areas and would have the effect of cutting down on production he said Norman Michaelson Spokane timber owner gave an example of land he manages in Ferry County which if harvested jn 30 years would pay an estimated $25000 But during that time he'said taxes would amount to more than $21000 And Norman McDonald Weyerhaeuser Co forest tax expert said the multiple regression analysis system seems to be reflecting values other than the value of the land for growing timber as the tax law requires "The problem has historically been in separating the land value from the timber on he said it is better developed tfie multiple regression analysis should not be Department officials took the opposition under advisement Final adoption of the proposed values or others is set for Monday Cameraman Killed Filming PORT ANGELES (AP) A cameraman involved in filming a' chase scene for the movie was killed Tuesday when the car he was shooting from overturned the state patrol said Charles A Parkison Jr 31 Sylmar Calif was leaning out a car window filming when the vehicle which was supposed to have gone into a skid and slide sideways rolled instead said a state trooper The trooper said the accident occurred on what is called the Old Shine Road a blacktop ped but hilly and curvy county road leading from Port Ludlow to Hood Canal A passenger Thomas Doherty 36 of Sun Valley Idaho received a minor injury and the driver Thomas Huff 32 Sherman Oaks Calif escaped injury Makahs Plan Cultural Center SEATTLE (AP) The Makah Indian Tribe has begun preparations for a museum and cultural center in Neah Bay which the Indians hope will be both a window to the past for themselves and a drawing card for tourists The Makahs have awarded a $11 million contract for the center to the DelGuzzi Construction Co of Port Angeles The museum and center will house many of the artifacts excavated from several 500-year-old longhouses at Ozette Ozette a whaling village on the beach about 12 miles from Neah 'Bay was inhabited by ancestors of the Makahs for thousands of years The last families left 100 years ago Severe ocean storms in the winter of 1969-70 exposed parts of a house that was buried by mudslide 500 years ago The site has become world famous the only prehistoric Indian site along the North Pacific where almost all the items of daily life were preserved The money for the $1 million contract is part of a grant from the Economic Development Ad ministration which also will provide fends for exhibit design in terim financing charges and contingencies Tribal council president Eugene Parker said estimated exhibit construction will cost an additional $450000 which the tribe is seeking from 'governmental agencies The idea is to duplicate as much as possible the atmosphere of one of the longhouses JET HELICOPTER Plumbers'Strike Blamed FRI NOVEMBER 26th at 2 PM MmbbI bvm! tfMyaar doaTgfa 6m real of oar FBEECAMDY FOB AIL SEATTLE (AP) An employment agency for out-of-work warriors? Lee Hutson has formed one and he has two job offers on the line for the group of battle-ready Vietnam veterans he recruited through an advertising campaign The former Army staff sergeant began advertising in August and while he had to reject nearly 70 per cent of the who applied because of weak backgrounds or mental or physical disability he now has a operations on standby alert Hutson won't reveal the size of his group but he says the SOC ss he cells it should be large enough to train a battalion strength unit with some cadre members held in reserve Two employers so far have beaten a path to door One a domestic group wants training In tjrhile the other a firm wants Hutson 'to provide airfield security overseas He said earlier he hoped for a corps of trained former military men interested in advising foreign troops and leading them into battle were more interested in training foreign troops In counterinsurgent and counter-guerrilla operations but we have to be realistic and flexible and take what comes says Hutson 33 a 57-month Vietnam combat veteran consider us mercenaries because we won't take part in anything we feel that we know to be illegal" he maintains have no intentions to go to BC Prison Starts Big Cleanup Job NEW WESTMINSTER Canada (AP) Cleanup begins today in the recreation building of the British Columbia Penitentiary damaged by fires set by prisoners who had been living in the -tin structure since a riot last September at the federal prison Prison spokesman Jack Stewart estimated damage at $50000 to $100000 The building resembled charred garbage dump during a media tour Tuesday There was an inch of water ftum fire hoses on the floor the interior of the music room was burned-out musical instruments were shattered or burned and the floor was littered with hundreds of unopened packages of food cardboard Army ration boxes foam mattresses remnants of makeshift tents and torn blankets OUR SPRI1ELY MODEL' IS MISS TIFFANY COLOMBO Six Delightfully Different Views Select From a Variety of Poses Photographed in Natural Color On Location or in the Studio' Handcrafted Wood Cluster Frame Children Adults Couples or Pots MART when ara sHMs Yaa da aat aaad to I vat ask hasty ter yaar aay 54)0 Gift Certificates 300 GRt CofHfkatss different ago categories For Leak At RICHLAND Wash (AP) A plumbers strike delayed repair of equipment which failed in an atomic reactor causing 60000 gallons of radioactive water to leak into the Columbia River says a government spokesman The equipment which failed in 'the Hanford Reactor Saturday would haw been replaced or modified if Local 598 of the Plumbers and Steamfitters Union hadn't gone on strike June 2 said Jerry White chief of reactor operations for the Energy Research and Development Administration White said Tuesday the decision was made to continue operating the Reactor for another year or at least until the strike was finished The Rtsctor is the only atomic reacnor which produces power in the state A small tube failed in the reac-tor's cooling system causing about 60000 gallons of radioactive water to escape into the Columbia officials -laid The half-inch diameter cooling system tube in a heat exchange unit probably failed from corrosion said a spokesman for United Nuclear Industries Inc which operates the reactor for ERDA The reactor was shut down when the leak was discovered Repairs will take about two weeks UNI officials said White said scientists are studying the heat exchange unit to determine whether to overhaul it or modify it and another unit If the apparatus is modified Solon-Teacher Gets Reprimand TACOMA Wash (AP) A newly elected state representative received a verbal reprimand for allegedly failing to prevent some Stadium High School pupils from drinking beer and li quor at a conference the school principal says Principal At Hayes said Tuesday that Democrat James Sala-tino 27 was criticized for not having done a better job Hayes said the matter will be dropped now 6 WAYSTO SAY SANTA'S HELICOPTER LANDING SCHEDULE Friday Nov 26 at 2 pm and Sun Nov 28 at 2 pm Hanford discharges would be routed into a crib where water would soak into the unporous soil in the area White said The water which escaped had been bled from the primary system that cools 1003 tubes of metallic uranium fuel encased in a hard metal shell A UNI spokesman said the wa-t contained such a small amount of radioactivity that there was no danger to persons living along the river or to fish Lynn Watson a UNI spokesman was critical of front page headlines in Pacific Northwest newspapers about the incident unfortunate that whenever you mention or 'Hanford someone tries to make something of it that isn't Watson said But Dr Peter Lauritzen of Seattle who headed the group 'backing the unsuccessful nuclear initiative on the Nov 2 'ballot disagreed public ought to know right away when something like this happens" he said Lauritzen was referring to the time lag betweenthe reactor incident Saturday and the announcement on Monday by UNI that the reactor had been shut down "Who checks up on these people? 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