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nu twoty herald at Judge suggests Coe get at least 60 years More teachers vote not to strike School as usual Monday in Kennewick Pasco Kennewick teachers met with KEA representatives throughout the week to By MARYFRAN JOHNSON lSEATTLE (AP) Kevin Coe should serve at least 60 years be-Wnd ban for die three rape coo-vktiooa in the Spokane South Hill rape case a King CountySupe-rior Court judge recommended Thursday Judge Patricia Aitken said she supported the minimum term her to make either no recommendation or the minimum of three yean on each count When Aitkin asked Coe if he had anything to say he responded After the hearing Hansen said Coe would be transferred by Wednesday from the King County Jail to the state prison system Corrections Center discuss their reaction to the proposed iidpushes five years of inadequate state funding Police say rapes there were more than 40 committed in the quiet South Hill area of Spokane from 1978 through early 1981 came to a halt after Coe's arrest roles after first convictions Defense lawyen Richard Hansen ami David Allen had asked tt The teachers were united In their opposition to the governor's budget but they were split about 50-50 on a walkout 99 Sally Storm MnnOWICK OUCBuOn AoSOCtaitOn high number of teachers who wanted to walk out but there was a lot of concern that parents be able to join us in aprotest during the working day have tightened their belts for five years now and done it she added we feel the governor should have to freeze education funding for kids so he can have a savings She was referring to attempts to build a 9300-million cash reserve in the 1985-87 biennial budget while freezing state spending in some areas and slashing it in others Storm said the most positive aspect -of the budget crisis is that are realizing what an important issue this believe how many calls been getting from parents They're really she added Ricki Schmeeckle of the Pasco Education Association said Pasco teachers decided Thursday night not to join the Please see TEACHERS Page B2 Kennewick and Pasco teachers will stay on the job next week despite their frustration with Gov Booth budget freeze the presidents of the Kennewick and Pasco education associations said Thursday Sally Storm of the Kennewick Education Association said teachers in-stead's asking the public to join them Monday at 7 pm in me Kamiakin High School gym to support a demonsrtation in whictia host of education reports and now-dead legislative measures calling for educational excellence will be in a custom-built pine coffin The fur-lined coffin will be delivered to the governor Storm said Inside the box wul be proclamation of 1965 as the "Year of the she added Richland school teachers decided Wednesday not to join to opposition they were she for schools were united in their budget but i split about 5880 on a walk-said was surprised at the to the Prosser honors Ike Anderson person "Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of earth Where never lark or even eagle lew And while the silent lifting mind trod -the high untrespasted sanctity of apace Put out my hand and touched the face of God" from Dancing The Skies by John Gillespie Margee By GALE METCALF -a-h uaia nwwo ran wrmr 7 The wind rustled through the trees of Prosser City Park down across the stage set for services and through an estimated 800 to 900 friends and family members gathered together Thursday to honor Henry Anderson Jr It fluttered leaves about in the park he knew as a boy and last visited hours before his death for Easter Sunrise Services lifted a lapel here unsettled a lock of hair there and tilted some of the many flowers set out in memoriam It was a wind that might have been appreciated by the man who died at 11:14 am on Easter Sunday doing one of the many things be loved flying A wheat rancher most of his life certainly he knew the wind so common to the rolling hills and that he loved and with his family shared hosting the National Chukar Field Trial i every year 1 wring gulleys of the expansive Anderson Ranch at Prosser by hosti Cnampii A man who loved flying with a passion dating back to his teen-age days he surely knew the wind that was his companion in the air when he first the surly bonds of in an open cockpit biplane and swept across the wheat fields of the Anderson ranch A large framed color photo of Anderson piloting the biplane as it swept over the earth below sat center stage on Thursday for a service that drew people from their shops their homes and their farms to remember mis son of Prosser who was Please see IKE Page B2 A crowd of 800 to 900 gathered in the Prosser City Park to honor Henry HaraldRon Feny Anderson noted area rancher who died in a plane crash Sunday Building code passes despite Mid-Columbia opposition against the bill on the Senate floor saying there is no proof that stricter building standards' will increase energy savings enough to be cost-effective Please see COPE Page B2 most tedious issue of their cal careers was appn state Senate 32-16 Thursday was almost too said Senate Majority Leader Ted Bottiger D-Tacoma following the vote He had heard rumors of more attempts to amend the energy-efficiency bill but the efforts materialized If the Thursday vote was easy the weeks of preliminary maneuvering were not legislators said The Bonneville Power about 60 percent toward compliance That should be enough to avert a surcharge he said All six Mid-Columbia senators opposed the measure Minority leader Jeannette Hayner R-Walla Walla spoke istration has threatened to put a 10 percent surcharge on Northwest electrical users if stricter energy standards outlined by the Northwest Power Planning Council are not adopted Bottiger said the bill goes By LARRY GANDERS mma miwn vwwngm hiiin OLYMPIA A new state home building code described by 'several legislators as the Cancer-radiation links being sought By EDWARD MERRIMAN have any accurate way to measure those he said The concept of combining the slogy that identified DNA New numbers for old roads I Hertfd twn WArtUnqton bureau OLYMPIA Changes in the names of southeastern Washington roadways were approved by the state Legislature Thursday and the bill is awaiting Gov Booth signature The Senate approved the bill unanimously Thursday after the House approved it unanimously in February Jie number changes in one yaan a number elimination state Route 12 between Pasco AndTProsser will become Interstates 82 and 182 a "State Route 12 between the Richland and Kennewick will be renamed State Route 240 7 The only State Route 12 remaining is the highway that runs from near Pasco to Wallula along the Columbia River currently known as State Route 395 State Route 730 now known as State Route 395 is the short stretch along the Columbia which runs from the Oregon border to the junction near Wallula a The current State Route 14 between Plymouth and Kennewick is dropped from the state highway system It becomes US Highway 395 and Interstate 82 State Route 143 from the Oregon border to Plymouth will be known as Interstate 82 the building blocks of genes and 40 years of radiation research at Hanford has never been tried before but Wood said he was optimistic the combined knowledge would lead to a better understanding the link between radiation and cancer you determine how cancer is induced there is no way of sorting out what claims are legitimate he added the government is liable for getting cancer then we ive a responsibility to compensate for that but we want to be faced with the possibility of paying huge settlements for cancer that resulted from natural he said Experts attending the tank meetings this week included: Eric Hall of Columbia University RB Setlow Brook-haven National Laboratory Anthony Carrano Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Dr Paul Neiman Fred Huchin-son Cancer Center and Dr CE Adams Harwell England Woods said nuclear research conducted by the government over the last 40 years has led to advances in medical technology Identifying the link between radiation and gene mutations that cause cancer was the topic of a Department of Energy sponsored that could lead to new contracts for Battelle Northwest Laboratories Robert Wood director of physical and technical research for the Department of En the DOE brought top biology and radiological scientists to Hanford as part of a new federal program aimed at identifying the levels at which radiation exposure causes cancer He said officials are concerned with the prospect of paying billions of dollars in court settlements to people who develop cancer Those concerns could lead to some new research contracts for Battelle Wood said One in five people die of cancer but Wood said there is no research to identity or repudiate the link between low levels of radiation exposure and the natural causes of the disease want to address the very real concern on the effects of low level exposure to radiation but unfortunately we HeraMDorotfiy Adcock Artists in Action Children were fascinated by wool spinning at the Artists in Action show sponsored by Beaux Arts at Columbia Center in Kennewick Thursday Bev DeMerehman right holds raw wool for a youngster to touch as Mardine Campbell spins Artists will be demonstrating the rest of this week a.