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B2 The News Tribune Monday July 7 1997 pavilion will be first to go Open Mike Police Beat Compiled from Ike Jtssscuns Pins Want to shan your opinions your news your thoughts on any subject with other readers? Call TRIBline at and then punch in the TRIBCode OPEN (ext S736) I have the June 30 paper and I know everybody admired Archbishop Thomas Murphy but you did an injustice especially to children who might gee the paper because it is upsetting to see someone's body lying in this coffin He was a great man and did wonderful things for his church and for everyone in die community But I wish you wouldn'tput dead bodies in the paper I respect this memory and I think The News Tribune did him an injustice at the end -Judy Zekter Sumner Jk inexpensive way to expand floor space at the dome course it shows a loss" said Carol Keaton the Kingdotne's public relations director is being tom down before its The money to retire the final costs and defat service was included as part of the financing package for the new Seahawks stadium Still some people would like to see the pavilion survive Jim Hammond who runs the annual auto show is among them the pavilion there will be no auto show'' he said Hammond said trade-show operators were assured that the pavilion would be moved But Bob Collier the construction specialist working tor Sea-hawks ownerelect Paul Allen said unlikely The often-maligned Kingdome Pavilion will be the first to fall when Football Northwest gets going on the new stadium project for the Seattle Sea-hawks The pavilion sometimes called Worm" or Slug' for its elongated and slightly curved shape is scheduled to be tom down next year only four years after it opened The Kingdome won't be demolished until 2000 with the new stadium expected to open in 2002 By the time the pavilion is tom down the tentlike exhibition hall will have brought in only about $2 milium in revenue for King County even though it cost about $7 million It was sold to the county as an Questions Answers or cuff-wielding man takes off By Kictm Cune The News Tribune KONG Continued from B1 Gat a question about something going on in the South Sound? A We'll try to find an answer Call TRIBline at 596-6500 and then punch in the TRIBCode ASKS (ext 2757) Who belongs to the City Club of Tacoma and what is the South End Club and its purpose? Ptiytlls Barrett Tacoma City Club has too many members to list 530 in all according to City Club administrator Diane Edison It does have recognizable members such as Tacoma Mayor Brian Ebersole US Rep Norm Dicks Lakewood Mayor Bill Harrison and The News TVibune Executive Editor David Zeeck Some companies and organizations are also members such as Columbia Bank KeyBank Pacific Lutheran University The News TVibune and Group Health But Edison added anyone is welcome to join City officials weren't aware of a Sound End Club by name The two organizations they did know of are as Mows: The South End Neighborhood Council was created to do pretty much as the name states address matters of neighborhood concerns in the South End of Tacoma It meets the third Monday of every month at the Firefighters Hall 1109 50th St at 6:30 pm Programs at the South End Neighborhood Center 7802 St are administered by the Metropolitan Park District Barbara Clements The News Tribune see an opportunity for local In time that could be anything from kids' shows to town meetings For now it will be a roving camera that will show up at places and events dear to the people of Western Washington Those forays will run as two-minute vignettes could not do that on KING because our air time is limited to commercial Casazza said want to have some fun with the station We want people to think of it as an accessible community station an opportunity to develop something with a lot of localism" It will not repeat NOT be an opportunity to put giant inflatable apes on tiie Space Needle not going to use the gorilla said Casazza whose formal title is "marketing director KINGKONG" a Turner property and there is a problem with using the movie And as anyone in broadcasting knows little guys who mess with Tfed Turner can end up flatter than a pedestrian under a giant instep Zeus Corp of Washington Inc which is really lased in Pacific Palisades Calif owns KONG Rather than move away from the site of an actual mime-time soap featuring designer bathing suits the Zeus tycoons hare signed a local marketing agreement with owners AH Belo of Dallas (site of the original prime-time soap That means that KING can run KONG even with some of its own staff without owning it a tidy legal loophole through the FCC rule that a corporation can own only (me station in a market Casazza said in time KONG will grow out of its nostalgia package and go to town feel there is a real need in the marketplace for a station to be more Casazza said Lottery k'l Continued from B1 Drawings for Washington Lotto and Quinto Oregon Megabucks and Powerball are on Wednesday and Saturday Others an played daily Call TRIBline at 596-6500 and then punch in the TRIBCode LUCK (ext 5825) Kino: 8 9 10 12 25 27 29 32 33 39 42 43 44 47 50 53 56 60 6880 mjut MMC 5-3-9 lorn (July 5): A Tacoma man was handcuffed and then released earfy Sunday by a man who claimed to be a police officer andor a bail bondsman Tacoma police were initially called to a Safeway grocery store in the 1300 block of South 38th Street at about 12:30 am after someone claiming to be a bail bondsman called for help in making an arrest But when police arrived they didn't find a bail bondsman Instead they found two men who had a story about someone impersonating a police officer A 40-year-old man told police he saw a man knock down a woman on a side street near the store He said he went over to help and the man ran off The witness said he was helping the woman when another man drove by in a blue Chevrolet Blazer said he was a bail bondsman and offered to help The witness related what happened then described the man who had attacked the woman The man claiming to be a bondsman drove off Later the witness walked to the Safeway and found the supposed bondsman handcuffing yet another man The witness went up to the man claiming to ha a bondsman and said that the man he was cuffing wasn't the one who had hit the woman The bondsman uncuffed his prisoner and then left the store refuting to give any information about himself The man who was handcuffed a 35-yearold Tacoma man said he was walking along when the bondsman drove up to him pulled out a gun identified himself as a police officer then handcuffed him -Tacoma police searched the area but did not find the suspect or tiie supposed bondsman Wasmnoton Washnmton 34-23-253441 No winner Wednesday: $3 million Qunio (July 5): But while the trailer hit his car the boat missed it Instead it sailed right over his and one other car before flying off the bridge and landing on the shore hundreds of feet below Nick Miller owner of Tbwn Country Tbwing in Gig Harbor said his crews had to link together three lengths of cable each 150 feet long in order to reach the remains of the boat and pull it up "It took five and a half hours to pull it Miller said was quite a little In mine than 30 years of towing Miller said he could recall only two other times when vehicles hare gone off the bridge One accident was fatal when a tractor trailer went over the side In the other case a van went over the railing Two men inside were hurt but survived Haner said there were plenty of bumps and bruises among the drivers and passengers involved in the accident The driver of the Blazer a 39-year-old Gig Harbor man was the most seriously hurt suffering cuts and back injuries He was taken to Tacoma General Hospital where he was treated and released Saturday The trooper urged motorists towing vehicles to make sure they have appropriate safety chains at-' eat belts and tached He credited seat belts and child safety seats Orsson nuur 4 (July 5): 2-444 OacaoN Mbsisucks (July 5): 10-19-20-23-2444 No winner Wednesday: $725 million Powimmi (July 5): 22-26-284344 Poweiball 29 No winner Wednesday: $15 million 6 i I I cles traveling in both directions A Chevrolet pickup driven by a 24-year-old Puyallup man was towing the boat a Reinell eastward across the bridge when the trailer came loose from its hitch Haner said that afterward he and other investigators tried to find the ball part of the hitch but never did The trailer with the boat sitting mi it went steaming into the westbound lanes of the bridge traffic The first car it hit was a Mazda fourdoor driven by a 34-yeanold Seattle man A Chevrolet four-door also westbound tried to avoid the Mazda and the trailer by swerving into the eastbound lanes but got tagged by the trailer anyway Next in the way was a Chevrolet Blazer which rolled after colliding with the trailer That's when the boat apparently became dislodged from the trailer going up and over the Blazer Level driving in a Ford Explorer behind the Blazer said he saw debris ahead and cars scattering heard tires screeching and then saw the boat was really kind of a helpless Level said was like a missile coming at me" No winner Wednesday: $500000 Looking Back A daily review of stories from The News Tribune and The Daily Ledger of years past Items come from files of The News Tribune and the Tacoma Public Library Photos provided by the Washington State Historical Society with keeping the injuries relatively minor on Saturday was like something out of a Hollywood Haner said were just lucky that no one was Life after Lincoln Continued from B1 July 7 1897 The new bicycle track at the North End fairgrounds has not only verified the predictions of its builders regarding its speed but even in its partially finished condition proved its safety by the entire absence of accidents at the meet yesterday afternoon Considering the fact that die work of building the new track has been rushed to the utmost that it was an open question whether or not it would be completed in time for the meet of yesterday the time made in the different events was nothing short of remarkable July 7 1947 Something mysterious and possibly ominous happened within the past 10 months inside Mount Rainier That event didn't occur deep within the volcano itaelf Rather it was within the snow and ice that are heated like a heavy 500-foot-deep pudding in the bowl of Columbia Crest eastern crater and highest point of the mountain 14410 feet But the sinister possibility is that it just might be a Bymptom of changes deep within the core of the mountain itself July 7 1972 More than 110000 persons turned out to watch a spectacular fireworks display in celebration of Independence Day then were delayed by massive traffic jams from Tacoma's historic waterfront Throughout the county police said the holiday was quiet with no mqjor accidents fires or mishaps As much as Isabel loves to take the tyke to the mall and the'playground she knows kids oily complicate things The betting among her friends was that she would be the next one to mid up pregnant But with the alarm clock blaring at 6 am her jetting to school and jetting hack to clean the house then working in the Party Room at Chuck Cheese Pizza Time Theatre there just time for boys been working at the pizza place for three years stockpiling her $500-a-month paycheck like a tycoon And the 10 bucks die gives her little brother every payday seem a worthwhile investment don't give him as much as I she says sheepishly hiding behind her more than waist-long river of hair At Chuck Cheese Isabel braces herself for a party of 50 Pink theme blares in the background while kids gather at the foot of the towering mechanized animals as if at an altar She breezes through a scheduling crisis as coolly as a coroner think with this job tear all that long hair out" one harried mother mutters under her breath But after holds more than working at Chuck Cheese Isabel starts radiology courses in September at Tacoma Community College stages of recovery and a snippety dog named Brutus Isabel's family celebrated her graduation last month Her mom served pozole a red stew with pork and hominy for about 20 people an intimate group considering the size of family Earlier packed into an auditorium at Wilson High School to watch Isabel be honored at the first Paradigm Recognition Ceremony" Sure picked a hokey name but Isabel agreed with the idea: to recognize students from the high schools and middle schools not just the brains with 40s but those shown gains in attendance involvement attitude Since graduation Isabel's been baby-sitting her sister Lucero's lVfc-yearold every afternoon Angelica a dark-haired toddler with impish eyes sits atop a phone book slinging ramen noodles on a plastic table doth comes here runs around eats helps me dean supposedly and foils asleep until her mom comes and picks her up I speak only Spanish to her a language you gotta keep alive through the generations" Rottweilers apprehended after 2 repotted bttings A pair of Tacoma dogs went on a crime spree Saturday feting at least one woman and a girl before being caught by animal control officers A20-yearold Thcoma woman told Tacoma police that she was visiting at a hone in the 500 Mock of South Cushman Avenue at about 6:30 pm when she saw two rottweilers on the front lawn She stepped onto the porch and the dogs came running up to her One of them- which tiie believed was a male bit her hand She pulled away but the dog kept after her She kicked at the dogs but they leave Finally a brave house cat ran out and chased the dogs away At about 8 pm that same night a 6-year-old girl was playing in the 800 block of South Ttafton Street when two rottweilers ran up to her One of them believed to be the mala dog bit her in the abdomen The girl's father managed to tie up one til the dogs a female Officers with the Humane Society for Tbcoma and Pierce County arrived caught the male dog as well and took both dogs away The Area in Brief Men argue over pool cue so poBco take It away Everett Two Tacoma men with a dis? agreement over a pool cue lost it to the Tacoma police Saturday A 32-yeardd Tacoma man told police he was walking in the 5600 block of South Street at about Washmoton Stmt Hstowcal Socsty Scores of children gather outside the massive ornate Sumner School in this 1890 photograph On The Net httpwwwtribneCoom 1 5:50 pm when a 50-year-old mnn on a motorcycle pulled up in front of him and demanded the pool cue the younger man was carrying The man with the cue refused whereupon the other man threatened to shoot him The younger man ran to a nearly school hid the pool stick in some bushes and hid himself Civil Engineering Landmark The honor from the American Society of Civil Engineers was bestowed Saturday during a ceremony observing the 80th anniversary of tiie dedication The award recognizes the unique mechanical design of the locks and their value in moving thousands of boats between Puget Sound and lakes Union and Washington each year Building the locks and affected the entire region" Baid Edward Groff president of the group was essential to At the time they were built the locks often called the Ballard locks for the adjoining neighborhood were the second-largest such system in the world behind the Panama CanaL They also are the third-most-visited tourist attraction in Seattle drawing people to watch boats pass through on the surface and salmon moving through the underwater fish ladder Iks Assocwb) Press Vancouver Deputy MBs knife-wielding nai A Clark County sheriffs deputy fatally shot a 39-yeaixdd man who tried to assault officers with a knife and hit one of the deputies with a truck Sunday Deputy Mike Cooke said the man tried to knife two deputies and one of the officers shot him The man died at a hospital in Portland the Clark County medical office said Deputies were called to a home early Sunday on a report of a domestic disturbance At one point the man got into a truck and drove into an officer -THeAsSOCWEDACSS Maa died of beating 5th suspect wrested A man whose body was found on the Tulalip Indian Reservation suffered a severe skull fracture and head injuries as a result of a beating Snohomish County authorities said Sunday County spokeswoman Jan Jorgensen said officials know the motive behind the beating of Guy Fritch 19 who was from the Marysville area Jorgensen also said a fifth person a 16-yeanold male was arrested Sunday in the death Fritch had attended a party in the north Marysville area Thursday night at which alcohol and marijuana were used Fou others were arrested earlier including three 16-year-olds and a 19-year-old nude The four are to appear in court on Monday Jorgensen said the 16-yearolds are being held at Denny Youth Center in Everett for investigation of first-degree murder and the 19-yearold was being held in the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of first-degree murder -DcAssocwno Press Howto reach The News staff mini swncnooara 597-8742 Newsroom TRIBnef is The News TVibune graphical and interactive link to the Internet TRIBnet has links to news A information and entertainment sites around the world News rppjTj Tribune stories photos and graphics are available through fCyv TRIBnet including these current features: Images of 96: Hie best photographs from our photo staff during 1996 wwwtribnetcomncwsprojectapoy Search TRIBnet for current stories The younger man told police he won the cue stick from the older man in a pool match about a month ago He suggested that the older man might not remember the incident because they had each con- Burned about five pitchers of been Police found the older man who said the younger man stole the cue stick He admitted having a gurf and admitted threatening the younger man Officers confiscated the gun and the cue stick No arrests were made 597-8686 News Ups 597-8688 riWU! QMK 597-8649 Sports desk 597-8683 Seattle Ballard locks engineering laadraark On their 80th birthday the Hiram Chittenden Locks have been honored as a National Historic Quickscan headlines of the past five days tribnetxomfoewsqulckacanAtp.