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The Olympian from Olympia, Washington • 1

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Otct yr tile news staff of The Olyvpba takes a special kind of look at the Sooth Sound reckw For 1988 these 5c lect(MIS examine the lfres of those here Last week explored oar wor Inside Olympian the second of two sections showing the Sooth Sound at play Olympia Washington beats Dukakis in Michigan Jackson By Evans Witt The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) Jesse Jackson won primary-like caucuses on Saturday blowing past Michael Dukakis for an industrial state victory that tightened the Democratic presidential race For Richard Gephardt third place meant the end was near for his White House hopes Jackson defeated Dukakis by almost 2-1 by running strongly across the state and winning huge majorities in Detroit That broad support meant the preacher-turned-politican scored a delegate plurality as well is a message of Jackson said in Milwaukee are responding to authenticity and message and soul over just money and mechanics is not my night alone" he said going to go home tomorrow and meet with our family and have some word for you the first of next Gephardt said in Milwaukee decided anything going to go home and have a family However a Missouri state party leader State Rep Anthony Ribaudo said he spoke with Gephardt by telephone late Saturday and that Gephardt has informed me like to proceed with his career in Congress The congressional seat becomes (his) No 1 Ribaudo the Missouri House majority leader said he was told Gephardt would fly Monday to Jefferson City Mo to file for re-election even while keeping his presidential candidacy alive in some form With returns from 94 percent of the vot 1 a 4 i $125 ing sites in Michigan Jackson had 107689 or 55 percent to 55337 or 28 percent for Dukakis Gephardt had 24995 or 13 percent Sen Paul Simon of Illinois had 4069 for 2 percent and Sen Albert Gore Jr of Tennessee had 3818 for 2 percent Neither man put significant resources into the state Jackson won enormous majorities in Detroit In the 1st Congressional District Jackson beat Dukakis 25427 to 1808 and in the 13th the margin was 17715 to 1536 The Michigan raw votes translated into national convention delegates Initial calculations gave Jackson 61 Dukakis 43 Gephardt 22 and 12 undecided among the 138 pledged delegates See Delegateaback page State aims tax pitch at voters By Bob Partlow Gannett News Service spring-training time at the state Department of Revenue The ace of the staff Director Bill Wilk-erson is warming up the pitches he will use on state residents this summer and fall to build support for tax reform Wilkerson made it clear he intends to play hardball in the first major-league effort in 15 years to change the tax system in the 1989 Legislature then let voters decide if they like the changes in November 1989 think it is possible to craft an alternative to the present system that is he asserted Wilkerson has taken his show on the road already trying out his ideas on newspaper editorial boards and other groups around the state Soon a 20-member commission to be appointed by Gov Booth Gardner will try the same process in a more formal way leading toward a recommended package to the 1989 Legislature Governors repeatedly have put together tax plans and tried to sell them to the people But this year state officials from Gardner on down will go first to public meetings to see if support exists for any plan If so they want to know what plan that might be about 0-for-8 the other way so about time to try something said Wilkerson strategy is to build enough grassroots public support for a proposal to put pressure on the legislators two-thirds of whom must approve the plan before it can go on the ballot He says he has no idea what shape the See Taxesback page Ex-Reagan aide airs inside info WASHINGTON (AP) Getting President Reagan ready for a news conference was reinventing the wheel" says former White House press spokesman Larry Speakes in a gossipy new book portions of which were published Saturday Some tidbits from the book entitled by Speakes and Washington writer Robert Pack were included in the April 4 edition of US News World Report Despite the difficulties preparing the president for news conferences Speakes describes him as a super guy according to the magazine But Nancy is to stab you in the back" when stirred up while daughter Maureen is a who is the right of Attila the the book states Speakes says Marine Lt Col Oliver North a former National Security Council aide who has been indicted in the Iran-Contra affair is not a favorite of Nancy even though her husband -has referred to him as recently as Friday as a Speakes left the White House in February 1987 to accept a communications position with Merrill Lynch in New York we the working people stand together we win and we make America It was a disappointing night for Dukakis who has been tried to break away from Jackson to become the front-runner for the 1988 nomination think I did very well in the Massachusetts governor said as he congratulated Jackson The news was not all bad for Dukakis as he picked up a win Saturday in North Dakota and was gaining strength in the Iowa county conventions For Gephardt the did not happen Aides had said the Missouri congressman probably would withdraw from the presidential race and file for re-election to his House seat with such poor results Lewis County The detective division has known happier days Until 1984 the division had managed to solve all homicides although two mysterious missing person cases were on the books A 17-year-old Randle girl Glenda Rylander vanished March 9 1980 they said There been a whisper about what happened to her Austin said The second -missing person mystery began Oct 9 1983 when Salcum resident Donna Haynes disappeared from her home just off Highway 12 The 53-year-old woman was last seen entering her house a complete Austin said is probably the most frustrating missing person case of them all Although Haynes is missing her purse and glasses were left in her house which showed no signs of being disturbed by intraders Murder cases however began stacking up Aug 4 1984 when the partially-clothed body of Monica Anderson was pulled from the Chehalis River about a half-mile south of the Thurston County line Anderson a 31 -year-old prostitute from March 27 1988 Sunday Partly cloudy High today 48 Low tonight 29 Sports scores NCAA tournament Oklahoma 78 Villanova 58 Duka 63 Temple 53 NBA Washington 99 New Jersey 88 Atlanta 109 Cleveland 102 Boston 118 New York 106 Chicago 109 Indiana 100 Dallas 131 San Antonio 112 Houston 115 Portland 109 Milwaukee 107 Utah 105 Detroit 108 Phoenix 103 -Denver 131 Golden State 108 Sacramento 114 Los Angeles Lakers 92 Seattle 131 Los Angeles Clippers 98 Meese finances under scrutiny LOS ANGELES Attorney General Edwin Meese personal finances are under investigation to see there was an unexplained amount of coming to him a newspaper reported Saturday The primary purpose of the investigation is to determine whether Meese derived any benefit or promise of benefit from his relationship with his longtime friend Robert Wallach while Wallach was representing Wedtech Corp and the promoters of a $1 billion Iraqi oil pipeline the Los Angeles Times reported Mysterious deaths continue in Britain LONDON A lawmaker called for a government inquiry Saturday after the body of a guided missiles engineer was found inside a car filled with exhaust fumes the latest in a mysterious string of deaths of British scientists Mason County roads searched for fugitives SHELTON The 10 Washington Corrections Center officers hunting for three escaped prisoners have lifted a Highway 102 roadblock and are searching Mason County roads in vehicles a prison spokesperson said Saturday Missing from the prison since Wednesday night are Sean Stevenson 17 considered dangerous because of his first-degree aggravated murder and first-degree murder convictions Gary Curtis Van Winkle 17 convicted of at? tempted first-degree murder and first-degree burglary and Patrick Rice convicted of taking a motor vehicle without the permission and four counts of second-degree burglary No one picks winner in Lotto Nobody correctly picked all six Lotto numbers in $1 million drawing pushing Lotto pot to $15 million Washington state lottery spokesman Dick Paulson said There were 133 people who picked five of the correct numbers for tickets worth $453 each Another 4978 people picked four of the numbers Their tickets are each worth $23 Lotto numbers: 13-14-18-22-38-40 From staff and wire reports Index Business1E-5E Movies13C Classifled8E-18E Nation3A Crossword 3C Opinlon12A-13A Dear Abby3C Sports1 D-6D Horoscopes18E TV TV Week Uvlnfl1C-14C Weather14A Local1B-6B Wonderword15E World 2A A Gannett Newspaper Copyright 1968 Tho Olympian I Notebooks of data on unsolved murders surround Lewis County Det Dave Stow Bloom Tho Olympian Neiser Baffling deaths haunt county Tacoma who immigrated from Germany after marrying a soldier was last seen June 25 1984 She had accepted a ride on Commerce Street She got in an older-model brown van with no side windows in back She died of asphyxiation investigators said The driver who picked her up was described as 25 to 30 years old about 5-feet-10-inches tall with brown hair police said Speculation circulated that the Anderson murder was linked to the Green River murders a series of murder cases believed to have originated in the Sea-Tac area and Seattle Most of the Green River murder victims were prostitutes But Anderson is not one of the 37 Green River murder victims nor is she one of the nine women on the Green River missing person list according to Dick Larson spokesman for the Green River Task Force Four months after Anderson disappeared the body of 24-year-old Wendy Mae Wilcox a Donut Shop employee in Portland was found by hunters on a logging road nine miles north of Packwood She was abducted June 14 1984 during a robbery of the shop Investigators are not discussing many details of the slaying because the investigation is open Among the details they refuse to discuss is how she was killed See Bodiesback page Dave Hendrick Olympian CHEHALIS Lewis County deputies und what they were looking for on a ad end road seven miles from here The bodies of Ed and Minnie Maurin i elderly couple known for driving at a pace around the county were und shot to death and dumped Dec 19 185 on Steams Hill Road The find was another on a long list of imicide cases already taxing the five-ember Lewis County detective division ime speculated the rural county had rned into a dumping ground for victims violence There are seven unsolved murder cases id eight bodies have been discovered The workload is so heavy iat all of them would have to work into eir retirement years to solve back-to-ick all of the pending murder cases pole say I could keep three or iur more people busy said Chief Detectives Glade Austin He plans to for more detectives to be assigned to le division No new positions have been eated in the department in 12 to 14 ars although the county population has eadily increased and the body count has sen to an exceptional level Austin said created a lot of pressure a lot of he said Prowling suspect By Brad Sevetson The Olympian After escaping in an inflatable rubber dinghy a Tacoma man caught prowling a sailboat was arrested after his second vehicle a pickup truck crashed into a Marine View Drive stop sign An Oregon man sleeping on his sailboat in West Bay Marina awoke when Michael Deyoung 24 Tacoma boarded the boat in an apparent search for property Olympia police reports said The man said Deyoung offered several caught despite escape in dinghy second pickup parked near the Ebb Tide Inn a wet man asked them what they were doing to his vehicle Ron Garvey 23 Seattle later admitted to police that he also was on the sailboat but jumped into the water before the owner saw him the report said Deyoung was arrested by Olympia police in investigation of first-degree vehicle prowl and possession of burglary tools and was held Saturday night at Thurston County Jail in lieu of $3000 bail Garvey was arrested in investigation of first-degree burglary prowl and was released after posting $2500 bail explanations for his presence on the boat but departed in the motor-equipped dinghy when he realized the man was going to call police Police looking for the dinghy near the Ebb Tide Inn on the waterfront at the end of North Washington Steet heard a motor approaching then saw Deyoung enter his pickup When police tried to stop him Deyoung headed south on Washington Street at about 50 mph before losing control while attempting a turn onto Marine View Drive the report said When police attempted to impound a i i.

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