Tri-City Herald from Pasco, Washington • 18

Sunday January 5 1984 Guerrillas financing Crew Needed To CCeep Columbia Riverboaf Going LIFETIME Solid Stainless Tableware 895 so Piece Service For Eihj Excellent BaUneeanr gss IS ONLY LARGE BATH TOWEL 2 FOR 7 Colors To Choose From 12 Dozen In Our Solo Improve In Viet Nam Therm-O-Ware PORTABLE MIXER 698 The Handiest Mixer ol Them All Durable am Lota of Power IN Watf Motor 9 ONLY REFRESHMENT TOASTMASTER STAINLESS PERCOLATOR 12" SET 149 HOMEMAKER BEDSPREADS 20 OFF Pitcher end Six Matchlna Glaasea In Good Colore A Very Good Value SI Sets Entire Mock Good Selection Wide Price Banfe -Every Color Over Dox Yea The Famous TOaatnuu-ter Stainless Steel Automatic Percolator 18J5 BETTES HUBBY ONLY SAIGON South Viet Nam Despite losses of more han 1000 men a month the lard core ranks of Communist luerriHa forces have swelled during the past year into a stronger better-armed fighting force a US military spokesman said Saturday Even with the heavy losses through death wounds capture and desertion the high-ranking officer estimated the hard core Viet Cong force at between 22-000 arid 25000 men Partly armed irregulars estimated between 60000 and 80000 ast January may have lost force But more important the US spokesman said the hard core ranks are better organized and mistered by an influx of Communist-bloc arms are stepping up their infiltration program Although lost territory made harder for Communists to operate in some areas Western sources counted 1880 Viet Cong nridenb in December the highest total for any month in the ong grueling war except November The American spokesman said 95 per cent of the problem is to win support of more rural Vietnamese for the US-backed war Government troops generally Ight hard But slow reaction time in the military chain of command has enabled Communist forces to complete some maneuvers unhindered by Saigon reinforcements PARKING AT OUR STORE DOOR 'Washington Hardware Furniture LARGE ASSORTMENT WATER TUMBLERS 6 Dozen excursion up McNary pool July 20 Unless its owner cures the financial woes that halted operations the riverboat is destined to return to Seattle EACH SS Columbia Queen has seen better days and better dockings than these makeshift winter quarters on Clover Island Kennewick The steam-powered riverboat has been tied up just north of the Coast Guard dock since its last 24 In Stock 30 Cup Automatic WEST BEND PARTY PERCOLATOR 49 school classes to political conventions Houstons says she went through skippers and crewmen at about the same rate as boilers in her early runs When the last able pilot quit and headed back to Seattle Houston had to dock his dreams of becoming a riverboat king And they are still up in Not all of the future is dark and cloudy though Houston says he is negotiating with some Tri-City motel people to promote financial backing and customer interest Naturally Houston hates the thought of having to pilot the Queen back to her berth in Seattle What wondering now is does anybody else share those sentiments? 10 minutes old and the craft not clear of the Clover Island harbor when she ran aground on a sand-bar Again the Coast Guard came to her rescue But for the next two months the stately Queen plied her trade routes with all the grace and good fortune of a royal flagship She catered to all comers from fun-loving high- LARGE SALAD OR FRUIT BOWL Over 4 Dozen THIS WEEK ONLY UNTIL JANUARY 11th Boy IS Admifs moral Eight Bridges Don't Meet Specifications Established For Low Bridge At Vernita By TOM HARRIS Herat Mad Writer The riverboat SS Columbia Queen may make one more trip downriver on the Columbia ail the way down Owner Jack Houston Richland says the 300-passenger excursion boat may have made its last romantic midnight cruise or its last sightseeing trip through the locks at Ice Harbor dam MONEY CREW NEEDED The only things that will save the double decker river steamship are some much-needed financing and a good crew passenger interest was real promising last said Houston know the potential is here but we had so many troubles with the crew and machinery last year that in danger of losing The days were ill-fated from the time she nosed into the river at Portland last spring and blew one of her boilers The upstream journey to her new berth in the Tri-Cities resumed after repairs but her troubles had just begun PLUG BLOWS The sturdy but 42-year-old craft blew another plug near Sacajawea State Park and her glorious homecoming was ruined She had to be towed to her berth on Clover Island by the Coast Guard The dignity was further soiled on the night of her maiden voyage Her midnight run up McNary pool was only HGERATQR The proposed Vernita bridge would have a 10-foot vertical clearance at high water and a 46-foot clearance at low water A 200-foot section would be used for barge travel OPPONENTS ASKED FOR A bridge with a year-around vertical clearance of 405 feet and a horizontal clearance of 300 feet Those supporting the Highway Department noted the importance of the bridge to development of the Hanford Highway McCormack told Col Perry the bridge is to the Yakima Valley the Columbia Basin and the ST PETERSBURG Fla Police said a 15-year-old toy a husband and father has admitted raping and killing hree one 67 another 75 the third 80 The youth was in jail today awaiting charges Police said he admitted in his oral statement that he assaulted two more elderly women both of whom survived the choking attack And finally they said they lave evidence placing him at the scene of most of the crimes All of the victims were white police said MANHUNT Police Chief Harold Smith said the Negro Steve Washington Jr was arrested Friday in a climax to the most sweeping manhunt In the history The nude battered body of Eva Miller 80 was found cm her bed last Tuesday and since that time police had questioned 1547 persons Smith said fingerprints found at the scene led to arrest The attacks all of which occurred within a 10-block neighborhood began last Aug 28 when a 52-year-old woman was attacked raped and choked On Sept 2 another woman was at Eight bridges across the Columbia River do not meet the specification established for a low bridge at Vernita State Sen Mike McCormack D-Tri-Cities said Saturday McCormack listed the bridges for Col Ernest Perry district engineer for the Seattle District of the Corps of Engineers and said this tends to weaken the arguments of the opponents of the low Vernita Bridge OPPONENTS SAID AT A hearing on Nov 20 the bridge proposed by the Highway Department would be an obstacle to navigation on the river McCormack said there are eight bridges downstream from Wenatchee which do not meet the specifications of the bridge proposed at Vernita They include the Milwaukee Railway bridge at Beverly the Northern Pacific at Pasco the Union Pacific south of Pasco highway bridges at The Dalles and Hood River the Oregon Trunk Railway bridge an interstate highway bridge between Portland and Vancouver and the Spokane Portland and Seattle Railway bridge at Portland The UP bridge has only a 10-foot vertical clearance and 113-foot horizontal clearance McCormack said Dr Joseph Molner Draining Cysts Isn't Recommended DEAR DR MOLNER: it necessary to douche after menstruation? I am 27 and never have done so because frankly I know the first thing about it LE No it necessary and many gynecologists feel that Library Has Films WWT needless douching can even be harmful at times Douching is however often of use as a means of medication DEAR DR MOLNER: I was surprised to read your article on keeping orange juice in the refrigerator for several days I understood that it loses its vitamin content in no time refrigerated or otherwise After that it is sugared water ML afraid you are misquoting me refrigeration has scant effect on the vitamin content (since canned juices keep indefinitely) The vitamin loss is principally through contact with the air Keeping it in the refrigerator for a day or two lesults in some los but the juice is still worth drinking My feeling is to squeeze (or mix) juice in such minimum quantities as are possible If you can have freshly mixed or squeezed juice each day so much the better But if you have such quantities but must mix more at a time think that a day or two destroys its value like a lot But it is few as compared to the many thousands of the glands which continue to work normally These cysts are not related to cancer Indeed when more than one lump (more than one cyst) appears it is a good sign Cancer ordinarily begins as a single painless lump However while the presence of cysts is in no way an indication that cancer is likely neither is it a guarantee that cancer may NOT appear The danger is in taking for granted that a new lump is another Therefore report it to your physician so he can determine its nature DEAR DR MOLNER: A friend is using a bleach to lighten the hair on her Up She gets sores and pimples in her nose almost every time although it seem to hurt her lip been telling her the directions say not to use it on any part of the face there anything harmless on the market to use as a Up bleach? VP Hydrogen peroxide is about as harmless a bleach as you can use Evidently she is sensitive to something in the present bleach and ought to abandon it if only because the pimples enhance her appearance They could of course become the site of tacked but survived She was 72 BODIES FOUND On Sept 26 the body of Mary Pawliw 75 was found in her home She had been raped and strangled On Oct 21 the partially decomposed body of Oleeta Lavina Beard McWaters 67 was found The autopsy showed she had been strangled but rape was not established police said Smith said Washington has a 15-year old wife Gwendolyn whom he married last October They have a 2-month old daughter he said Sagvold Named To Park Board Bill Sagvold 1335 Cottonwood Drive Richland has been appointed to the Benton County Put and Recreation Board Sagvold will fill the unexpired term of Lyle Mineer who resigned when he moved from the county He was appointed by the Benton County Commissioners A resolution was signed authorizing the improvement of East 17th Avenue where it crosses the Columbia Irrigation District canal near South Oak St The area will be dosed' during construction from Jan 10 to April 15 DR MOLNER: What your opinion of draining cysts in the breast instead of removing them by surgery? I had two removed in less than a year and now I find I have another on the other breast Is there a higher risk of can-cer when you are prone to get these cysts? I am 51 FVC f' There much point in draining cysts whether in the breast or elsewhere A cyst by definition is a sac-like or hollow enclosure In medical practice it most frequently means that the sac a gland of one type or an-other and has become closed Thus the material which should flow from the gland cannot escape and the cyst swells and becomes painful If you drain such a cyst the discomfort is relieved because the pressure is removed But the cyst then seals over and the whole process recurs And that why removal rather than draining is preferred Some people have trouble with cystic mastitis cysts on one or both breasts The breast tissue of course is full of small milk glands Why a few of them tend to become cysts in some individuals and not in others is not easy to answer but this happens When several become en-cysted it seem like a to the patient It seems SPECIAL PRICE WITHOUT TRADE 28995 EXTRA REFRIGERATION SPACE COMPLETELY CLYAMATIC FROST FREE BIG SUPER COLD FREEZER DOUBLE GUARANTEE Films on pianist Arthur Rubens tein and painter Vincent Van Gogh highlight the films avail-able at the Mid-Columbia Library in Kennewick during January Other films include American Road Great River of the West Marshes of the Mississippi New Adventure in Living (Florida) Southern Highlander Great Smokey Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee Harvest in the VaUey (New Brunswick) Yukon Old and Yukon New and Wildlife in the Rockies Other films include Portrait of Holland Tale of the Fiords Honolulu Portrait of Democracy Philippines-Economic Progress Unchained Goddess and Song of the Clouds Two co Jor for children are Hippo and Shoemaker and the Elves OUT PRICES 1963 FRDGIRABRE SCID To Meet South Columbia Basin Irrigation District board will meet a 209 Third Ave Pasco Thursday at.