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1 TV looks at Elvis TVWeek Panorama City battles Legislature Mike column Page IB One All-Stars today Page 1C Page ID February 7 1988 Olympia Washington $125 -v J- i 4 4 4 s- i 4(- h4 11 ikv fAMI MM -n i in ty 'jc'J8 Sunday Cloudy High today 52 Low tonight 32 Sports scores The end of a line Terry Frederickson standing in front of gas pumps at his East Olympia Grocery opposes moving the train depot He says he's long wanted improvements to the existing Rich Road-area depot located a few hundred yards from his store DickMHHgan Tha Olympian to tain dlepofi Prep basketball MM Knight 61 South Bend 52 College basketball Santa Barbara 71 UNLV 66 UAB 102 BYU 83 NC State 77 Duke 74 Temple 84 Rutgers 53 Oklahoma 120 Missouri 101 Kentucky 83 Mississippi State 59 Syracuse 79 St John's 62 Iowa 101 Michigan State 72 Connecticut 66 Georgetown 59 Louisiana St 94 Vanderbilt 79 Oklahoma St 80 Iowa State 78 OT Indiana 75 Illinois 74 Auburn 58 Florida 57 Bradley 85 Drake 67 Saint Martins 80 Whitworth 79 Trident missile self-destructs CAPE CANAVERAL Fla A Trident 1 missile exploded Saturday 18 seconds after it was launched on a training test from the nuclear submarine Simon Bolivar the Navy reported' A brief statement said the first stage fired as planned after the unarmed missile was ejected from one of 18 launch tubes as die submarine cruised submerged several miles off Cape Canaveral in the Atlantic Ocean Brazen thief purloins pair of rare cockatoQS SAN DIEGO A thief who apparently worked in broad daylight has stolen the San Diego Zoo's only pair of Australian gang-gang cockatoos rare birds with a combined valued of $20000 zoo officials say By Virginia Painter The Olympian EAST OLYMPIA A joint plan by local governments to move the longtime Amtnk station out of this community has its residents confused and disappointed just understand -why doing said Terry Frederickson owner of die East Olympia Grocery a mom-and-pop style convenience store near the station have wanted this station fixed up for a long time and they could run bus service out here so people could get to the train Instead going to move it and spend a bunch of money in a place just as isolated as The present station is a three-sided shed and bench located on a rocky roadbed off Rich Road The closest telephone is a block away at store There is no bus connection and Olympia is 10 miles away Officials from local jurisdictions and rail groups said they want a better rail connection for the state capital area Their group called the Amtrak Depot Commit tee is asking Amtrak to move its Olym-pia-area stop by spring of 1989 to county property about three miles up the tracks from the present station a East Olympia There they said they Will build a station with bus connections 4q town restrooms telephones and park and ride lots The governments have donated $30000 for engineering work to be supervised by Thurston County Engineer Jerry Hendricks Last week committee members met with visiting Amtrak officials to learn specifications for a platform lighting mid shelter Thurston County Commissioner George Barner who originally sparked the depot project said he tried for nearly 10 years to get Burlington Northern which owns the tracks and surrounding land to improve the East Olympia station Burlington Northern officials have given an unofficial nod to use of the tracks near the Yelm Highway Barner said Barner said the county never had the option to make improvements there and the location is too far off the See Station Page 4A Anacortes barge2B Snow freezes Deep South East even Mardi Gras feels the cold jackpot pegged at $2 million No one picked the six winning numbers in Lotto drawing a Washington State Lottery spokesman said The $15 million jackpot will be increased to $2 million for Lotto drawing Dick Paulson said He said 109 people picked five of the six correct numbers to win $644 each while 4323 people had four numbers correct for $31 each The winning Lotto numbers were 6 8 11 32 37 and 42 From staff and wire reports Old sunken barge looms as threat By Bob Partlow Gannett News Service While workers frantically try to clean up an oil spill from a sunken barge near Anacortes a few miles to the south lies what one diver calls atom bomb wait- ing to go It too is a barge owned by Foss Launch and Tug Co It sunk in 240 feet of water IK miles off Point Partridge on the west shore of Whidbey Island west of Coupe- ville on July 20 1969 It carried 600000 gallons of light diesel oil some of which leaked out Eighteen and one half years later still there still loaded with oil and according to diver Stan Eike who surveyed the barge when it went down just waiting to rust and leak out the rest of its cargo remember one meeting where old Henry Foss he was running the company at the time looked at us and said may not be in my lifetime or your lifetime but it may be in in our lifetime that barge is going to come part and start That was his very statement" Eike recalled The sinking of that barge and its cargo See Sunkenback page with a Mardi Gras parade at Mobile Ala The sky was sunny over the South on Saturday but by late morning the temperature at Biloxi Miss on the Gulf of Mexico was only 34 degrees Unseasonably low temperatures covered the entire nation east of the Rockies and readings were below zero from the northern Plains to northern New England the National Weather Service said Record lows included 10 degrees at Huntsville Ala 15 at Wichita Falls Texas 5 at Nashville Tenn zero at Lexington Ky 4 at Calico Rock Ark 5 below See Frozen back page By Roger Patterson The Associated Press Bitterly cold air covered the Deep South on Satunlay after a night of snow as far south as northern Florida and New Orleans and more than a dozen cities from Alabama to Maine shivered with record low temperatures more than ever seen 26 years old and I built my first said police dispatcher Christella Cullivan in Evangeline Parish The sleet snow and brisk wind canceled the first three major Mardi Gras parades of New Carnival season along Statehouse Central America opens door to regional peace pact The top story on Statehouse page In the Local section is a report on the status of key bills in the Legislature Other Statehouse news in today's Olympian: Political Editor Mike Oakland writes about the struggle between the Legislature and Panorama City over Panorama tax statusPagelB Area votes for the week are chartedPage 3B Index Olympian staffer Stephen Bray spent two weeks visiting Costa Rica in January By Stephen Bray The Olympian SAN JOSE Costa Rica In January Costa Rica a small Central American nation played host to a stream of distinguished foreign guests In die minds of taxi drivers the most noteworthy visitors were the touring West German soccer teams who played a series of well-attended games with local squads But most of the media representatives came to Costa Rica to observe a different type of sport For two weeks San Jose the Costa Rican capital offered a busy schedule of high-profile diplomatic encounters In the hectic pace of meetings and appeatances of top political figures the usual sense of distance that gives Central American issues their abstract and hazy tone suddenly vanished On Jan 15-16 the five Central American presidents met to discuss the status of a regional peace agreement they signed last Aug 7 in Guatemala City Attending the summit were Vinicio Cerezo (Guatemala) Jose Napoleon See SummitPage 5A BusinessIE-SE 9E Movies9C Classified 9E-20E Nation3A Crossword 3C OpinionIA-9A Dear Abby3C Sports1D-6D Horoscopes19E TV TV Week LMngIC-IOC WeatherIOA Local 1B-6B Wonderword16E World 2A Staptnn Bray The Olympian Costa Rican President Oscar Arias right meets in his office Jan 27 with US special ambassador to Centrsd America Morris Busby Arias was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts A Gannett Newspaper Copyright 1988 Tin Olympian 'f i 8 K- I I.