The Columbian from Vancouver, Washington • 2

A2t The COLUMBIAN I IL(3Al DC3 COMPILED FROM LOCAL WIRE NEWS 80URCES Pace of RCA plan criticized meeting Monday at 7 pm If the council approves the plan as expected building permits can be issued and construction can begin McCray while not accusing officials of acting illegally criticised the speed with which decisions are being made saying the community is being left out of the process McCray whose organization represents about 500 households in neighborhoods near the plant site said there are unanswered questions about the safety of chemicals that will be produced and used by the RCASharp facility He also said he is concerned about how prepared emergency crews in Fire District 4 would be in case of an By MICHAEL ZUZEL The Cotumbian CAMAS A spokesman for residents living near the site of the RCA Sharp Microelectronics Inc plant says city and state officials are moving too quickly in approving the plans Dan McCray president of the Fisher-Mill Plain Neighborhood Association says community members are being given neither the time nor the information necessary to participate in decision-making on the facility "The people in the Fisher Basin have been told we would be involved in the process" McCray said Wednesday "This is a pet "It's nothing against RCA he said "I think we have to as best we can welcome them to the community just that we want to work with the Mike Parker assistant city engineer conceded that the project is on a tight time frame but said it is necessary if construction is to begin before the onset of bad weather Approval of the site plan is only the first of many steps through which the company will be required to go Parker said Reviews of buildings storage and chemical handling also will be necessary as the project proceeds he said Man awaits word on lost daughter By CHARLES MASON The Cotumbian BATTLE GROUND Alton Anderson says he sits quietly alone these days wondering if he may have lost another loved one Anderson 86 whose wife died last year lives in the Meadow Glade area south of Battle Ground He was notified last week that his 42-year-old daughter is miming after her boyfriend was found murdered in southern Pierce County- Ruth Cook daughter and the mother of five children went camping with Stephen Harkins in a secluded area near Tula Cook's disappearance The officer in charge of the case said Tuesday investigators are considering the possibility that Cook was kidnapped by her boyfriend's murderer "We know what to call it right said Capt Mark French "We are very concerned for French said the concern is heightened by the fact that both Volswagen station wagon and her shoes were found at the murder scene Both Cook and Martins lived in Tacoma Meanwhile Anderson said he sits alone in his home worrying LOCAL Sandie Schwary only person seeking vacated Camas post CAMAS A businesswoman and mother of four is the only person to file for a Camas School Board Mt being vacated by Karen William tiSendie Schwary 48 of 2105 NW Couch SL will be the lone candidate miming for William' District eeaL William resigned last week because she ii moving to Salem Ore i-' Schwary earned a bachelor's degree in business management from The Evergreen State College She is a real-estate agent for Columbia United fyoperties Inc of Camas and co-owner with her husband Richard of a motel and ministorage facility She also serves on the Board of Adjustments for the city and is a vice president in the American Business Women's Association Com rustlers steal from Woodland farmers WOODLAND If yon hear the rustling of corn on farmland near Woodland it might not be the wind It might be com rustlers Just a perennial said fanner George Tboeny Sr come in the middle of the night and back in with their pickups so you see Tboeny said he and several other fanners grow about 1500 acres of sweet com on the Woodland bottoms under contract for a cannery in Cbehalis In one field on Kuhnis Road The first 10 rows in that field you wont get one ear of corn out of be said Because losses can reach several hundred dollars per year Thoeny will file a complaint if he catches a thief he said Fines in the event of a conviction can range as high as $5000 for misdemeanor theft of lea than 1250 worth of com Jail terms also are possible Minister will speak about policy in Nicaragua BATTLE GROUND Longview pastor Dan Gerhard will speak in Battle Ground here next week on Realities of UA Policy in Nicaragua" Gerhard traveled to Mexico and Nicaragua in June as part of program called People to People coordinated by a Washington State University ministry and a Methodist missionary in that country He will apeak at 7:30 pm Monday at the Battle Ground Community United Methodist Church First Street and North Clark Avenue feostwick elected to board of parks society Margaret Bostwicfc recreation manager for the Vancouver Parks and Recreation Department has been elected to the American Parks and Recreation Society board of directors Bostwicfc will serve a three-year term on the board of the organization which represents more than 6000 parks and recreation agencies across 2he nation The society is an information source and lobbyist for parka jupporters The society is the largest branch of the National Recreation and Parks Association Bostwick has worked in recreation activities far Vancouver for 17 yean 8be oversees IS full-time and 100 part-time employees and an annual budget of 12 million Orientation Aug 27 at Cascade Junior High Cascade Junior High School will conduct an orientation session Tuesday Aug 27 for this seventh-graders Students will be able to find their lockers and classrooms with school counselors and upperclassmen available to lend a hand Seventh-graders with last names beginning with the letten A through should be at the school at 9 am Those with names beginning with through should arrive at 1 pm transient asks to face charges in New Mexico Tom Jim Jr a transient who turned himself in to police on a 1981 ipurder told a judge this morning that be wants to return to New Mexico to face charges In a barely audible voice Jim 26 told Clark County Superior Court (fudge James Ladley that be understood he was waiving his right to fight extradition Vancouver police Tuesday responded to a downtown call that someone 'bad information on a murder Police then located Jim in Vancouver Jim liter claimed he had been involved in a fight in Gallup NM in 1981 'during which a man was stabbed 99 times He later died Am told officers hewn ready to turn himself In after living on the road during the intervening years Mark Beam deputy county jpoaecutor said Gallup police will be notified that Jim can be picked up here Gallup police Incorrectly told The Columbian Wednesday his name was Jim Tom project of the and doing one hell of a Job to grease the However assistant city engineer said officials are "quite with the pace at which the RCASharp project proceeding The latest step came Tuesday' night when the Camas Planning Commission voted to recommend approval of plans for the site of its 9260 million electronic-microchip production facility The plan includes details on the size and location of buildings parking areas and landscaping The proposal is set for consideration by the City Council at its know whether alive or dead worried Alton Anderson Lake on Aug 10 body still in a sleeping bag was found four days later by a passer by Police say the 27-year-old man had been shot in the head dog was found by police several hundred yards away The dog also was dead from a ballet wound to the head The Pierce County Sheriffs Office is investigating the murder and Brewing Co Tumwater before getting into talks In Vancouver Bale would not speculate on whether some Lucky workers might get Jobs at the Tumwater plant which has been operating at about 50 percent capacity Don Millkfc president of the Lucky Lager Credit Union said grain used in the Lucky beer making process is already being diverted to Olympia Millich said even with the plant closure the credit union will continue to operate successfully because only 50 percent of its membership Is employed at the plant The Lucky plant closure comes as no surprise to thorn In the beer business Ever since Kalmanovits bought Pabst ia early March there has been speculation the Lucky brewery operation would bo consolidated to the more modern Tumwater facility "Kalmanovits has a history of buying up breweries ckwing them and using the labels elsewhere I know the people at Lacky did their best to forestall this closure but it make much sense to run botb said Bruce Vaughan general manager of the Blitx-Weinhard Brewery in Portland Ron Vogel general manager of Great Western Malting Co Vancouver said the closure would not significantly affect his malt production "The plant has been one of our mailer customers in recent years" Vogel said "Financially it will not affect us but emotionally it wilL We have many people here who came from the Lucky plant Lucky was once a Mg label" that his daughter might be dead "I know what to said Anderson "I '1 know whether she's alive or dead Fm worried Anderson said he last saw his daughter when both she and Harkins visited him three weeks ago was a nice enough he said of Harkins Anderson owned and operated Bicycle Shop near Dollars Corner for 22 years before closing it three years ago "Since my wife died last year fvekeen -alone with little to he said "I want to lose my daughter MUM CNUCKOWCNffla The first at 9 am Wednesday is for students with last names beginning with letters A through Those with names beginning with through should come at 9 am Thursday Aug 29 School handbooks and class schedules will be distributed and lockers assigned At Junior High incoming seventh-graders and their parents are urged to attend an evening orientation Thursday Aug 29 at 7:30 pm Classes in the Evergreen district begin Sept 4 Met alternatives Julia Pomeroy an aide to city Commissioner Margaret Strachan estimated The buses serve Multnomah Clacks mas and Washington counties as well as Clark County "We're looking at several things to help alleviate any traffic said Pomeroy who ia in charge of transportation development and planning far the city Union members were to hear the formal proposal at the beginning of shift changes at 19 am 2 and 9 pm today Bryant said The vote results win be announced tonight or Friday morning be said At issue are major wage cats and changes ia work rules The agency says it needs the cuts to make up a loct in its federal subsidy He's got rhythm About 50 area youngsters watch Vancouver Wednesday The youngsters were children and talent acts This segment to break dancer Rick Martinez 15 and participating bi the season kickoff show be broadcast 4 pm Monday Sept 9 and brother Ryan 7 left during a visit to the "Kids on Cable" a Cox Cable television 7 p-m Wednesday Sept 11 on cable outdoor plaza at Seafirst Financial Center program The show features stories for Cnamel 25 OREGON 3 Evergreen junior highs to have fall orientation tion also will be in two sessions Three Junior high schools in Oregon crash kills 3 including Carson man CHILOQUIN A brother and sister from California and another brother from Carson Wash died Tuesday after their car veered into the hath of a tractor-trailer on UA Highway 97 about 90 miles north of Klamath Falls Oregon State Police reported Police said Brad Hawkins 17 the driver and his sister Teri Ejawkins 20 both of Anaheim Calif were killed in the crash Their brother Sean Hawkins 19 of Carson was taken to Meric West jfedical Center in Klamath Falls where he later died 7he Hawkins car a 1970 Honda hatchback was southbound and veered across the center line into the path of the northbound truck police teported The accident occurred about 11 am The truck driver received minor cuts police said COMPILED BY JAMES HOLMAN CORRECTIONS Lucky From Page A1 ment those labels will now be produced at the Olympia Brewing Co Tumwater also owned by SAP Earlier this year Kalmanovitx acquired the Olympia brewery when he paid 962 million for the giant Pabst Brewing Co Milwaukee Wis In addition to General Brewing SAP also owns Pearl Brewing Co and Falstaff Brewing Corp With the Pabat buy last spring the Kalmanovits group could have nearly fl billion in annual revenues in 1985 Although Kalmanovits said in a I960 Columbian interview that he did not buy breweries to close them he has a reputation as a liquidator of breweries The Wall Street Journal has said Kalmano-vits has "made a career of buying regional breweries and running them on a General Brewing officials refused to comment beyond Mullen's announcement Laythell Bales secretary treas-urer of Teamsters Local 58 in Longview which represents the Lucky workers said he had been notified by the General Brewing Co main office in Vancouver be would be receiving a letter today from the company Lucky employees have been working without a anion contract since last ApriL Bales said his group has been waiting for the completion of contract negotiations for workers at Olympia Evergreen School District will be giving seventh-graders a preview of their new schools before the official start of classes Cascade Junior High will have its seventh-grade orientation in two sessions Tuesday Students whose last names begin with letters A through are asked to arrive at the school at 9 am Those with names starting with letten through should come at 1 pm Student will be given their fall schedules locker assignments and a tour of the building Covington Junior High's oriento- Portland weighs Tri PORTLAND (AP) Car-pooling bicycling and flexible work schedules are being promoted by city officials to get Fortland-area commuters to work if the Tri-Met transit agency calls a bus strike Driven and mechanics for the bus system were to vote on the latest union contract offer today However if union memben reject the new offer a strike win not be called immediately said Anton Bryant financial secretary-treasurer of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757 The latest offer emerged from last week'll negotiating sessions between union and Tri-Met officials Tri-Met buses keep 21000 can out of the downtown area daily 4 Liquor revenues down 4o in first half of '85 yj Clark County liquor-sales revenues were down about 4 percent in the first six months of 1995 compared with the same period in 1904 A story published in Wednesday's Columbian quoted a county financial report as laying that the decline in liquor revenues had been 91 percent but the story did not contain a disclaimer from county administrator Jerry Fay that the figure might be incorrect The quote from Fay was erroneously dropped from the story The Columbian strives for accuracy ia all its stories Yet errors still might be made If you have seen a mistake la any of oar lews stories ptatse call ns at 694-1991 U4-411S for Camas residests so wc cas nuke a correction Callers should ask for Information Editor Mary Rkfcs la the news department between 6 am and 9 pm Mondays through Fridays LOTTERY WINNERS Here is Wednesday's winning number "Triple Lottery game: 979 in the Washington state On-Line.