Tri-City Herald from Pasco, Washington • 1

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B1 IS Monday Sunny with a high of 82 arid a low of 48 WMthA5 Hawks zap Bolts Seattle slips by the San Diego Chargers 26-22 FMm Ntfc Remote-controlled plane enthusiasts compote in Richland A3 Playoffs etafe Mariners head home with magic number at 2 B1 HotII Pasco Kennewick Richland Wash Main office: 582-1500 Circulation: 586-2138 http'7vwwtri-dtyheraJdrom Voi95No265 50 cents Bicyclists remember friend with memorial ride Hermiston man suspect in shooting death Woman was custodian at Hermiston High By TERRY HUDSON Hank Oregon bureau according to the man who said he was visiting his girlfriend with his brother in the adjacent apartment muted the movie a couple of times just to see if we needed to call the authorities or anything We heard shots and then the kid came The witness who appeared to be in his early 20s reftised to give his name Sunday while talking outside the duplex After the boy came to the door the man and his brother ran to the apartment brother stood outside the door and watched him (David Taylor) he said was the first one in and my brother was right behind me I found her in the kitchen and turned around and left My brother called the authorities again from their place While he was making the call I came back over hereto keep track of the Not long after Taylor allegedly HERMISTON A Hermiston High School custodian was shot to death in her home Saturday apparently during a fight with her husband The 7-yearoId son was home atthe time and ran to aneigh-bor for help while the suspect led police on a three-hour 200-mile chase through Eastern Oregon and briefly into Idaho David William Taylor 28 has been jailed on suspicion of shooting his wife Terry Lynn Taylor 30 at their Hermiston duplex at 1285 West Ridgeway Ave Apt say Hermiston police Terry Taylor was found dead in her kitchen shortly after 10 pm Saturday after being shot several times according to reports from witnesses and Hermiston police A man visiting next door said he heard five or six shots were watching a movie and then we heard the HmMMnMRanM turned out for the ride from the Kennewick Star- A group of bicyclists foflow Columbia Avenue into Kennewick on Sunday morning during a memorial ride for fellow cycle enthusiast Jack bucks store to Richland and back again which had been one of Haweil of Pasco who died of a heart attack last week at the age of 48 HaweTs favorite rides see 8HOOTWQ Pape A2fe i i m-i- booze for robbing bank Pair has been bringing basdxril to kids for more than 40 years BY ThsAssodawd Pirns BySTACi A WEST SANTA ANA Getting drunk in the morning and griping about bills with the guys prompted 77-yearold grandfather Ray Boeger to hop in his Cadillac and rob a bank 1 Boeger a businessman now saddled with debts used an unloaded gun and an old Halloween costume to make off with $1100 he told The County Register had beard left in the car since Hal- loweenBoegersaiL He said he asked the teller to cash an $800 check She asked if he had a gun He said yes and showed it to TVro bank employees then started shoving bundles of small bills into his hands Boeger said He thanked them and left with $1108 unaware it contained an exploding dye packet that went off and splattered him with red ink when he got outside the bank On bis way home he said he went to another bar and had a couple more beers A witness near the bank gave police bis license plate number and he was arrested a few hours later Now free on bond he was charged with armed robbery and feces up to 2Syears in prison if convicted never been to Boeger said if what they say I have to do that's what nido" Boeger said his ailing wife is in him so tired all the time and that'll what has me Boeger said her caretaker" Officials acknowledge Boeger is not the typical bank robber Besides having no prior criminal record he once served on the Seal Beach Police Commission and the Orange County Boy Scout Council Regardless of his trial outcome Boeger says his bank robbing days are over guarantee you I do it again Boeger said I'm No distance was too for to walk for the half-dozen boys who craved a chance with the bat and baseball Mitts dangling from hands and bats slung over shoulders the boys trekked more than 20 blocks from east Pasco to baseball diamonds at Memorial Park Vanis and Edmon Daniels -walked the route every day all summer when they were teen-agers They have tele-vision Nintendo or a mall to hang out at It was sports or nothing in the 1850s Though they were used to walking it was an arduous return trip for a young fellow who have any money and had used all your energy and was Vanis Daniels says now more than 40 years later The determination to play baseball stayed with them as they graduated from high school and went to work 1 Over the past four decades they have helped build baseball fields solicit park donations and coached kids as energetic as they once were The Daniels brothers seemed willing to do most anything to play on a real white-lined diamond Memorial Park had the baseball field East Pasco didn't have a park but that stop the Daniels brothers and their friends from creating their own on vacant lots had them every Edmon said would run us off and we'd go make another ((Edmon and Vanis) are the type of people whoaregood role models for kids They have maintained themselves to Jbe very very strong community people 99 3 ChtmotMoid been fTB YOUR drinking CALL Do with some Boeger said were talking about how the banks give loans to small businesses It was money money money And all the money we owed One guy afford to pay his Boeger is a former advertising executive who built a successful electric-car company Bid bad business deals and medical trills for his kidney problems left him hurting financially While downing four pints of English ale Wednesday Boeger got into a heated discussion aboutmoneytroutriesatabaithe newspaper reported Saturday -The beer and bad feelings something in Boeger said A little while later he drove to the Huntington Beach branch of World Savings A Loan armed with an unloaded pistol and wearing a fake mustache and HeraMPaulT Erickson Pasco brothers Vanis left and Edmon Daniels played on the same basebal team as Rile kids Together as kids ihey helped convince a Seattle man to donate six acres to Ihe city of Pascio to be usedasabasebalparkAsadultstheyhelpedstartLMieLeagueinPascoandstiareiTvolvedwIth getting Idds into basebal he would donate the land as a park never heard anything from him the rest of that Vanis recalled we wrote another This time Kurtzman replied and promised to donate six acres fora city parto The city provided used pipe for a water system at the pok while east Pasco parents and children chopped through sagebrush and dug trenches Please see PfTCHMO Page A2 by a man named Allen Kurtzman cleared it Vanis said got us some shovels and filled in the holes and made ua a baseball For the first time the boys have to travel haUWay across town to play ball A neighbor lady noticed them playing one day and asked if they had a park to play on When the group told her no she encouraged them to Undone She helped the brothers and several other Pasco kids write a letter to Kurtzman asking if The boys eventually ended up on a lot owned Othello man working to reopen boarding school Each Monday Km Herald takas a look back at a person or leeue in the rapret But unlike Agape the proposed school would be heavily focused on agriculture Boys would be taught to grow a variety of crops they could eat or sell at a formers market And while Agape was designed primarily for troubled teen-agers Radar Academy would accept students from all backgrounds believe Itt going to take an act ofGod to make this thing Butcher said But for a man who believes in miracles an act of God isn't too much to hope for resembles an empty tomb Peeling paint and cobwebs cling to the walls of the condemned buildings Stacks of dishes coated with dust sit unused on a kitchen counter cloth robes HBRMf which have long Badalgl since lost their 1 shower-fresh scent hang on hooks in the gymnasium locker room Weeds and grass have transformed the tennis courts and ball fields into a wasteland And the simple yet glorious chapel which once echoed lively hymns of praise now seems better suited for silent mourning Gone are the 150 boys who called the Christian reform school home It's been about two yean since the school was forced to abandon the base But in the faithftil eyes of Butcher the memory is not dead just waiting to be resurrected Butcher who was a frequent vol- unteeratAgapehopestocreatea new Christian boarding school for boys called Radar Academy and he's urging the community to support the project Radar Academy would be similar to Agape offering a structured program geared at guiding students toward Christian values and work ethic By KRI8TM ALEXANDER HmUBwin bureau I Othello former Don Butcher pushes on the wire gate at the entrance to the old Agape Boarding School with the strength of a disciple trying to budge solid rock With a creak the heavy gate rolls open and he leads the way inside In many ways the campus at the site of the former Air Force radar base 11 miles south of Othello 1995 ela The photograph was taken shorty before Ihe school dbawllrt lee SCHOOL Page A2 ffirWTO cumminm firsffisEP isnUMHE) GSMMIB (SffinEB OBEIi flMB CEuBEnH re.