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The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 57

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Tacoma, Washington
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57
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The Ntwt Tribun Tacoma Sul Oct 1 1f7i E-9--1 Stiff photos by Warren Anderson Funland rubble left now Burger stand recalls good HSlcmUre tftressteai Funland for Point Defiance? Only such an amusement park would be profitable are coming up to me all the time and asking if my go-kart track is the only action thing to do in the he said don't know why" he added people spend more money on entertainment during hard times I sometimes fed guilty because I see people riding go-karts who probably should be spending the money on their rent But their Mansfield's partners and investors are asking for a 20-year lease on the land 'm 4 times Don Mansfield ANNIVERSARY SALE! MATTRESSES BOX SPRINGS HIDE-AWAY SOFAS The biggest bidding sole ever on mattresses box springs and hMo-away sofa beds Purchase direct from the factory at groat price reductions Hundreds of mattresses and sofa bods to choose from Twin-size mattresses from only $37 Full-size mattresses from only $47 Queen-size sots from ust $144 King-size sots from ust $194 Hide-away sofa bods 120 models In hundreds of fabrics to choose from priced as low as $114 Free delivery and credit terms Sale hours: Friday 9:30 to 9 pm Saturday 9t30 to 5i30 and Sunday noon to 5 Sloop-Aire Factory Sale at Lakewood-VIHa Plaza Shopping Cantor VyiU place where you can take the family not a cap nival nor a boardwalk but a fun is Mansfield's idea for the park MANSFIELD who operates the go-kart track during weekends at Point Defiance has proposed a $l-million five-year development at the eight acre aite near the main entrance The Metropolitan Park Board is considering the proposal and may make a decision within a month As a youth Mansfield sold siuxones near his parents' hamburger stand at Funland "The place is perfect for what we have proposed" he said And AFTER FAIR DISPLAY and TRADE IN A new By MARLOWE CHURCHILL TNT Staff Writer The old Funland site at Point Defiance Park brings back good and bad memories to Tacomans who remember the amusement park during its Second World War heyday and its slow death 20 years later Don Mansfield a 33-year-old Tacoma lawyer prefers to remember the good times Mansfield heads a small group of local investors who would like to reopen Funland the way it used to be when families traveled long distances to spend a day at the amusement park Arabs Old I haven't seen what the park board proposes that would be any better use of that land The land is just a dumping The site is strewn with rubble and the stark remnants of what used to be amusement rides HOWEVER there are some who believe the Funland concept could be more suitably placed outside the park altogether really the ones who will be affected by this" one us ton resident complained I'm not looking forward to the in-creased traffic and noise" Environmentalists have also sounded a warning against giving up pre- neglected ii 2 4-vit All the latest model THOMAS ORGANS used for display are now back on the floor (cleaned and dusted) and now will be sold at mm I LOOK ATTHESE 'ONE-TIME GIANT SAVINGS I cious park land for a development that would increase traffic flow to Point Defiance One of the chief con-- cents of environmentalists is preserving a bluff overiooking the Vashon Island ferry landing Mansfield answers that criticism by stating the bluff area would be the last phase of his deveiop-ment and he would tify the area by landscaping it for picnick- era or creating a point over Com- mencement Bay ANOTHER concern of the park board is obtain-' Pearl ing specifics on Mans- field's financial commitments and actual (dans for the amusement park not going to reveal the identity of my investors I will say that they are aU local and that I've been working on this concept for about three years Mansfield said Mansfield said telling more would reveal to competitors original ideas and plans he has painstakingly formulated over a three-year period Included in the $100000 first phase of the development he offered would be improvements to his go-kart concession plus a cage" where a machine throws baseballs to a batter roads Street handle Funland The road Vashon Funland Street would Street to Sixth summer public The Funland us ton house" not to was proposed would view Bay near Land the just lawn The mostly mixed proposal fed the channeling properly MANSFIELD ALSO is proposing a small train that would travel the per i meter of the amusement area much like the old Funland train Mansfield remembers as a child He would like to build an area for children to play free of charge It would include a haystack Kg Toys and educational exhibits Eventually Mansfield would like to install a boat-ride concession in the location of the old "boat slide" destroyed by high winds in 1951 In Mansfield's opinion the demise of the boat slide started the gradual deterioration of Funland which closed in late 1963 MANSFIELD believes several parking lots accommodating about 1000 cars and one-way access off North 54th wiU be sufficient to the traffic to the site entrance from the leading to the Island ferry landing would be dosed limiting traffic to and from to North 54th Mansfield said this not add to the peak-summer traffic on Pearl which often backs Avenue on warm days when the flocks to the park promoter believes visitors will use Way instead of that puts the traffic right in front of my said a retired Rus-ton resident who asked be identified She concerned that the development hinder her scenic of Commencement THIS Funland thing could be put the Vassault entrance where Never-Never is located I wish park district could make this a pretty and area residents elderly have opinions on the However most chief objection is the traffic Mansfield Is confident tional Zionism and Less than a week after his denial Arab gunmen hijacked an Egyptian airliner and ordered it to Libya EGYPTIAN PARATROOPS blocked the attempt released the hostages and interrogated the captured hijackers They admitted acting on Khadafy's orders Khadafy is a Bedouin bom in the desert He seeks and finds justification for all of his policies in the Koran In 1971 to support his stance on Palestine he referred to the Sacred Book: would not prevent you from fighting those who had chased you from your Bom in 1942 Khadafy already was a young firebrand when Nasser was at the pinnacle of hiLinfl lienee in the Arabprorid THOMAS TRIANON Modal 606-8 Our Rag Price 65595 now only THOMAS Modal 287-2 Our Rag Price 64199 now only Modal 1776 Our Rag Price 64995 now only Modal 2001 Our Rag Price 64995 now only THOMAS KEYBOARD KOMBO Modal 102 4y495 3995 3995 THOMAS CALIFORNIAN Modal 263-2 Our Rag Price 62595 now only Modal 284-2 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had been sent to assassinate him Sadat is said to be on the verge of direct action against Iibya King Khal-id of Saudi Arabia has indicated he may join the crusade Money is no problem for Khadafy His nation's oil income has spiraled from $2 billion a year in 1971 to nearly $8 billion annually HE HAS USED this money to harass Sadat in Egypt to contribute to the bloodshed in Lebanon by giving arms and money to the Moslems His checks have turned up in the form of financial backing for insurgents as far afield as the Philippines and Northern Ireland He also Is a patron of hijackers In a long speech at the nonaligned summit meeting in Sri Lanka in mid-August Khadafy denied emphatically that he supported any terrorist activities those involving the struggle of a people for He said the blame for trumped-up charges that he bankrolls hijacking anlsubversion rests with interna characterisations are mine likely to indude and Is it a quirk of personality or Soviet backing and prompting that make Khadafy such a vexation inside and outside the Arab world? Since the Soviet Uniont relations with President Anwar Egypt have soured Moscow's ties with Libya have sweetened The sweetener arms and international leverage Khadafy's own peers obviously have grown tired of his antics The Arab League and the Organization of African Unity are weighing a joint investigation into allegations by the Sudan and Egypt that Khadafy actively has tried toJsabo-tage the governments of By EDWARD NELLAN Copley News Service There are said to be as many as 100 acceptable spellings of the name of Col Moammar Khadafy president of Libya There are at least that many anecdotes legends tales and rumors about the leader who sees himself as fulfilling the visionary dreams of his boyhood hen the late Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser It has been a dose contest but for sheer deviousness Khadafy has seemed to overtake and pass his ally Ugandan President Idi Amin Both men have been accused by detractors as being mentally unbalanced BUT WHEREAS the word often pops Sp in descriptions of -min the Khadafy MUSK CITY O' 6207MtTocomaDrSW New Location Formerly Country Store 504-1545 HOWS-MMLYIQlof-W 10 to 6-SUN IjteS.

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