The Columbian from Vancouver, Washington • 3

INK clerk' legry By JIM STASIOWSKI drops leadership from our elected bid for tor job such a race in the future Tonkovich 29 a political activist Mid this morning he thinks he has the managerial and administrative experirace to do the job Foster 55 is a 36-year veteran of Crown Zellerbach He mm certainly don't expect to get the job but like someday to move up from local to county Morley 39 Mid he lost his job with the Regional Planning Council in 1981 layoffs Since then he has done consulting work and landscape design and is now a fulltime student at Clark College ByDAVE JEWETT The Columbian The Columbian Mary Legry considered the favorite of the Democratic Party for appointment to become (Hark County Clerk announced today she is dropping from the race Legry said this morning "political convinced her that people "don't believe the appointment can be given to someone holding a (Vancouver) dty council In a letter to Democratic Party precinct officials she said "I believe that the greatest need in government right now is for strong policymakers and that is where my commitment She said this morning the community is better served with her on the City Council than buried in the back of the Even if she won the appointment and tried to serve both on the City Council and as clerk she would resign her council position by June to have time to campaign for election to the seat she Mid Current County Clerk George Miller is resigning Dec 1 to become district court administra- was a lot of trepidation about (Earth passing through the tail) They thought perhaps it might be cyanide gas or something like Freece museum director transit of the earth through the great streak of light that stretches out behind the sky For six hours on May 18 the Earth passed through the tail But the next day a Columbian headline reported "Nothing unusual occurs last After the gnat event or non-event some called it great fake of Freece Mid The new exhibit celebrates the return of Halley's comet in 1985 and is sponsored by the Fort Vancouver Historical Society It depicts an old-time Vancouver which had tripled in population David Freece shows a painting created by Doug Magedanx left depicting the 1910 appearance of Halley's comet Exhibit recalls comet's 1910 visit three to replace Miller Legry was the front-runner with the party it seemed because she has a history of involvement and had written and phoned precinct committee representatives asking for support She was not confident of being the party's first choice Legry said this morning but she believed she would be one of the top three Since she won election to the Vancouver City Council in 1983 Legry has been mentioned as a candidate for other offices most prominently county commissioner She Hid she has not ruled out JEMV COUGNUMTh CUmtM of Vancouver Fire Department members posing with their horse-drawn pumpers a section of an old wooden water main and a leather case for which men attached to their shirts Museum hours are from 1 pm to 5 pm daily except Mondays The museum is at the corner of Main and East 16th streets Besides looking to the past the historical society is assembling present-day materials to be placed in a time capsule and buried with instructions to be exhumed in the year 2061 the next time the comet returns To be included in the capsule are the last bottle of Lucky Lager beer off the line a Hidden brick stamped 1985 a Vancouver Fourth of July '85 poster and many other local items For a $5 donation to the museum anyone may have a business card buried in the capsule Freece Hid A preview of the time capsule material and 1910 exhibit will run from 7 to 10 pm Saturday for historical society members and those who contributed to the time capsule gestion that he just cover Oswald with dirt like a pile of trash Even worse uid Brown wu the suggestion that he give up one of the whale's teeth dad wouldn't part with any part el that she Hid Nonetheless Lessard's son Eddie went to work digging a great grave on the St Helens property But the soil was thick with clay and the going wu rough Brown uid inally fared with the seemingly impossible task of making the hole big enough to cover the great whale and not really wanting to bury the animal anyway Lessard performed some sleight of hand that would have made Houdini applaud Late one night Brown Hid Oswald wu loaded on a truck and driven to Lessard's property near Livingston Mountain The hole on the St Helens farm wu covered over Oregon health officials were Candidates for his post are: Miller's deputy Joanne McBride Dan Tankovich marketing director for a Portland consulting firm Marv Foster a Camas dty councilman and Roger Morley a former planner with the Regional Planning Council The appointment process will start with a meeting of Democratic precinct committee representatives Dec 9 The party will nominate three persons who will then face an interview with Clark County commissioners The commissioners must choose one of the in the previous decade enjoying economic prosperity from a new railroad bridge acton the Columbia River from logging and lumbering and from agriculture especially prune growing Many Vancouver residents worked for the Spokane Portland Seattle Railway which operated maintenance shops here Freece Hid 1910 there were 30 trains a day cmning through In that year 15 miles of electric-trolley lines ran within the city and out to Sifton and Orchards along Fourth Plain Road uid Freece who wrote his master's degree thesis on Vancouver's streetcars Also in 1910 a statewide popular vote ratified women's suffrage Freece Hid with Clark County men supporting the idea of allowing women to vote The previous November Vancouver men had voted 805 to 689 to stay that is allow alcoholic beverages Freece Mid At that time there were 27 Mloons for 9300 people in the city he Hid Visitors to the museum will find such things as a photograph he solution to this leviathan-siicd discrepancy isn't quite amazing although it too hu the elements of a Believe It or Not" story There wu only one whale The confusion stems from a scheme cooked up by Lesurd to hoodwink Columbia County health officials And judging from Sterling's account in The Oregonian the plan worked better than anyone might have expected Helen Brown one of Lessard's three surviving children uid Wednesday that Oswald did indeed reside on the family farm near St Helen for a number of years Sometime about 1949 a neighbor complained that the whale smelled bad Health officials told Lesurd to bury the whale One official asked to have one of the whale's teeth to keep for himself Lessard who had spent yean in the courts defending his right to harpoon the whale and Ming for possession of the animal wu understandably upset at the sug New check promises security he check will be in the mail but next month it will have a new look That'a basically what the Department of the Treasury la telling Social Security recipients in special notices accompanying this month's checks month your Social Security check will look a lot different than the one just received" the notification says confirming some previously announced changes for those who may have missed the first announcement The new checks will feature the Statue of Liberty on a background of pale colors replacing the traditional green government checks Explains the treasury announcement "This new design makes Social Security checks more difficult to alter or counterfeit The new checks will also be printed on lightweight paper saving the government million a year in storage and paper costs" The announcement ends with a line like something from a preview of coming attractions: "Watch for your new Social Security check coming in OU CAN BET that many students and staffers at Fruit Valley and Benjamin Franklin elementary schools were watching KOIN-TV last Friday night at 7:30 The object of interest was the game show and one of the contestants was Vancouver resident Tim Hedges a librarian at the two schools You may recall a Columbian story last month saying Hedges had won a chance to appear on the game show through auditions in Portland last May The program was taped in Los Angeles Aug 13 but it wasn't until last week that viewers got to see how well the 41-year-old trivia buff did For those who missed it Hedges ended up being pitted against a New York attorney who on the previous show had racked up an all-time single-show record of $25400 and was resting on more than $50000 in winnings after four programs However Hedges proved to be a stiff competitor for the whix lawyer At the end id the round the Vancouver man had held his opponent to just $7 300 while scoring $4400 himself The category was Because only the winner gets to keep any money (runners-up get consolation prises) Hedges said he decided to the whole with the hope he could pull ahead of the attorney at the very end The answer was Miss Americas have come from this populous state than any Both Hedges and the attorney asked "What is New which was incorrect California has had six women wear the crown The wager of $2700 gave him the winning score of $4000 Hedges was left with no money but won a trip to Trinidad And he found another reason to rejoice at the outcome "In a sense it was a moral victory to hold this guy down to his lowest score In a Hedges said glad I end up looking like the village AST WEEKEND'S weather I warnings for snow that never materialised here reconfirmed my faith in Jack Cape II as by far the most reliable TV weather forecaster on during the weekends Capell on KGW-TV Channel I has so many years of experience on both radio and then TV he dares to differ with the official Weather Service forecasts when he thinks they may be off So last weekend when the Weather Service was calling for at least I inch of snow and possibly 3 or 4 inches Capell came on the air at 5 pm Saturday and said we'd get maybe a trace at most By 11 pm with the weather warning dill nut Capell said he doubted any snow was coming Gay donor AIDS-type case linked The Associated PraM A doctor uys the Red Cross plans to expand testing of Mood donors for AIDS antibodies in the wake of the discovery of a related illness in a person who received a blood transfusion Dr Fran Peetoom director of Red Cross blood services in the Pacific Northwest Wednesday Hid a person who received a transfusion of blood donated by a homosexual has contracted an AIDS-related complex The disease is a lea severe form of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome a fatal disease linked to homosexuals and intravenous drug users It was the first time anyone In the region has contracted an AIDS-related illness through a blood transfusion Peetoom said He added that more such cases are expected The blood used In the transfusion was donated by a homosexual in a 30-county region covering Oregon and Southwest Washington in March 1983 long before the Red Cross began toting donors for AIDS antibodies Peetoom Hid the high-risk groups toted for signs of AIDS probably would soon be expanded to include promiscuous heterosexuals especially those who have had sex with prostitutes Peetoom Hid seven patients who received blood from the donor have died of conditions unrelated to AIDS and three others are living and show no AIDS-related symptoms Peetoom declined to uy exactly where the donor gave blood but revealed that the donor gave blood to the Red Cron seven times between March 1983 and August 1984 The donor's blood contained the AIDS antibody when he was tested by investigators trying to determine the source of the AIDS-related illness in the transfusion recipient donor Is clinically Peetoom said "There are no other abnormalities other than he has this positive Peetoom Hid the donor described as a homosexual with one sex partner stopped giving Mood when the Red Crou began screening all homosexuals and not jut those with more than one sex partner In addition to conducting screen-ing interviews the Red Chas began testing all donors for the AIDS antibody last March whale convinced their burial order had been followed Lesurd got to keep his whale And although hunters north of the ColumMa River occasionally stumbled acrou Oswald's mammoth corpse moat folks were none the wiser So it isn't really surprising that the story of the whale buried near SL Helen is still swimming around Sterling chuckled this morning when told that the Lesurd's titan shell game had tricked The Oregonian again 36 years later "Is that right?" he Hid "I wu just quoting that story that ran in The Oregoniu in Brown barely able to contain her amusement over the long-running whale tale Hid Wednesday that Lesurd also would have found humor in Oswald's mistaken fate dad would really be laughing today if he knew they thought it wu buried down there" she said wu a great one for By JOHN BRANTON The Columbian A new exhibit opening Sunday at the Clark County Historical Museum will recall the days when trolleys ran along Vancouver streets and comet wm quickening pulse rates all over town It was 1910 the last time the comet was visible from the earth before reappearing this year Front-page headlines in the May 18 1910 Vancouver Daily Columbian read to pass through (comet's) and assure people no possible harmful effects will result" Many feared the tail Hid David Freece the director was a lot of trepidation about that They thought perhaps it might be cyanide gas or something like Others exchanged paper money for coins fearing a fiery fate for greenbacks A Columbian article declared: two or three are gathered together today the chances are ninety-nine to one that some remarks will be made with regard to the approaching Digging Even in death it seems Oswald the whale is still lost Last week The Columbian published an article about the disoriented killer whale who became a tourist attraction when he appeared in the Columbia River Slough in 1931 The plight of Humphrey a humpback whale lost in the Sacramento River recently had brought Oswald's sad uga to mind Our article told of a mu named Ed Lessard of SL Helens Ore who had harpooned the whale planning to exhibit the preserved animal in a traveling aquatic show According to our story the whale's body wu stored above ground near Livingston Mountain north of Washougal util sometime after Lessard's death in 1971 Oswald was then buried in ao undisclosed location in Clark County Readers of The Oregoniu may have noted a column in that paper Wednesday that retold essentially the same story but with one major difference The whale wrote Don- up the truth in tales of a NOTEBOOK By MICHAEL ZUZEL The Cotumbian aid Sterling assistant to the newspaper's publisher wu buried on Lessard's farm near SL Helens in 1949 Hmmm Something's fishy here Wu the whale buried in 1949 or 1973? Is its grave in Columbia County or Clark County? Obviously either The Oregonian or The Columbian wu in error unleu there were different whales! The mind boggles at the possibility of two whales buried at two different inland locations within 30 miles of each other!.