Statesman Journal from Salem, Oregon • Page 1

tatesman So rouNoao 1651 Tuesday, July 27, 1976, 9A Quest for federal funding for Lambert Bend bridge starts anew partment of Commerce, which has until Aug. 21. The grants will be available through fiscal year 1977. Action on each application must be taken by the government within 60 days of receipt, the new law prescribes. Marion commissioners said Monday they would seek the support of both Yamhill and Polk commissioners as well as cities that would be benefitted by another river crossing.

An application cannot be made until regulations are published by the De istration of the U.S. Department of Commerce withdrew its $1.5 million grant because of the lack of progress made locally to find supplemental financing for the bridge. A $1.5 million bond issue for the bridge was approved in 1968 by voters in Marion and Ypmhill counties. Since then, however, inflation has brought the estimated cost of construction to more than $7 million. Delays in construction were caused by lawsuits, an environmental study, a change in the Yamhill County Board of Commissioners and most recently, the lack of funding.

The 16-year-old proposal to construct Lambert Bend Bridge across Willamette, River may be revived by Marion County Commissioners. They said Monday they were considering submission of an application for some of the $2 billion in federal public works construction grants approved by Congress last week. A year ago, the future of the bridge between Marion and Yamhill counties 18 miles north of Salem appeared dim because of a federal decision to withdraw partial funding for the project. The Economic Development Admin Ambulance firm's rate hike of 30 pet. okayed by council riW fMlbSi al or company expenses.

He said they were mostly credit card billings and restaurant charges. Purchases of office equipment were all found to be "justified" according to the report. Specific expenditures reviewed covered a nine month period during the fiscal year 1974-75. Armstrong supported the 30 per cent increase and attributed it to inflation and "the balance being necessary to maintain and provide replacement of equipment that has been purchased." Without the increase, the city finance director said, the company would suffer a 28 per cent loss this fiscal year ending Sept. 31.

Even with the increase he estimated a six per cent loss. During fiscal years 1973, 1974 and 1975 Armstrong said the company had a return on investment averaging 22.7 per cent. Adamson submitted a written rebuttal to earlier charges made by employes. ONE ALLEGATION by employes was that Adamson had taken as much as $2,000 per month as a draw in addition to his monthly salary of $1,500. Much smaller draws had been made but they were included in personal income later charged against company profits, as allowed by the Internal Revenue Service.

"When Val Adamson takes these additional draws, he is merely reducing the net profits which would be taxes to him at the end of the year. All such expenses are accounted for in the corporate records," Adamson said in the statement submitted to the commission. The last rate increase granted the company was 13 per cent in April, 1975. Adamson told the commission the increase actually computed out to six per cent, because of a drop in business. The rate increase is computed against an average of 3,500 calls a year.

ALDERMAN GARY Benson was the strongest supporter of the 30 per cent increase during the commission meeting Monday. He said any smaller increase might kill the business off and take ambulance service from the community. "This is peanuts compared to a stay in the hospital," he said. "What we are trying to do is penalize him for some expenditures we think he shouldn't have made." Commission member Ted Stang of Salem Hospital praised the service but said, "Val must learn to live within his means." tor Richard Armstrong reported the findings of his audit. Council action on the rate increase had been delayed after four former company employes charged that the owner, Val Adamson, used company funds for personal expenses and mishandled purchases and employe administration.

OUR OPINION, the fact that some personal expenses were charged to the business was and is a result of carelessness rather than a deliberate attempt to hide expenses in the company books," Armstrong said in his report. The city's chief financial officer, likewise found no specific fault with purchases and personnel policies: "In our opinion purchases of equipment and other changes made by Mr. Adamson since he purchased the business are necessary for the delivery of good service." Armstrong did add that he felt Adamson had "moved too fast" with some of purchases, but offered no judgment beyond that. Armstrong was joined by the city's chief accountant, John Jordan, in an audit described as "cursory" by commission chairman Dewey Rand Jr. Willamette Ambulance had requested a 35 per cent rate increase in March.

At the 30 per cent approved Monday the average ambulance call will raise from $81 to $106. The city is licensing agent for the ambulance service and maintains some control through its licensing ordinances. COMMISSION MEMBERS, however, expressed a concern over spending practices exercised by Adamson. Commission members Monday said they will consider an ordinance that would operate the ambulance company as a franchise. Assistant City Manager Abolt said a franchise would make the commission similar to a "board xf directors for the ambulance operation." All major personnel changes, rate increases and purchases would be routed through the commission.

In the audit Armstrong said he did find "insignificant" examples of personal expenses being charged to the company by Adamson. The expenses, which totaled $176.64 in 9 months, included utilities for Adamson's residence and rental property; gasoline and auto repairs on his wife's car and gasoline charges for a boat. ARMSTRONG SAID questionable expenses totaling no more than $1,000 could not be pinned down as to person SUiesSTn pliito by Gerry Uwin Park is jammed The Waldo Park Redwood Summer streets NE where guitar-strumming Paul tree is alive and well at the age of 104 years, and it Supera (left) and his friends held an informal party hosted a party Monday to prove it The 100-foot-tall there Monday afternoon, tree occupies a 12-by-20-foot plot at Union and The Northwest Report By LANCE DICKIE Staff Writer, The Statesman A 30 per cent rate increase was approved Monday for Willamette Ambulance Co. after an audit of the company books failed to turn up any major discrepancies. Council made the decision after Assistant City Manager Russell Abolt announced the audit had been submitted by the Salem Ambulance Advisory Commission on Monday morning.

Commission members had endorsed the increase after City Finance Direc- Stokely, union holding talks L. B. Day and executives of Stokely Van Camp Albany plant sat down across a negotiating table in Salem Monday night to see if they could avert a strike. Day, head of Teamsters' Cannery Workers Local 670, steered his cannery workers last week to contract agreements with eight Willamette Valley Canneries, ending a five-day-old strike at the Libby McNeil Libby cannery in Salem. But Friday, Day also warned that Stokely Van Camp could expect a strike by his union members Tuesday moming unless plant manager Charles Tracey made a suitable contract offer at the Monday night meeting.

In the meeting, starting at 8 p.m. in the Teamsters office, Day and other union officials met with Tracy and plant union representatives, said Joyce Young, Stokely shop stewardess. Although no official word has been released on the progress of negotiations by press time Monday night both Day and Mrs. Young said a strike was still a distinct possibility. Stokely Van Camp's Albany plant is a pork and bean cannery with 700 workers.

The Federal Mediation Service Friday announced successful negotiations between Day's members and the seven canneries represented by Northwest Packers and Growers Association. Canneries affected by that agreement are Agripac in Salem and Eugene; Albany Frozen Foods, Albany; Smuckers, Woodburn; Stayton Canning, Stayton, Silverton and Salem, and Castle Cooke, Truitt Brothers and Kelley Farquhar in Salem. The general agreement calls for 12 per cent increases the first year for experienced seasonal employes and 26 per cent increases the first year for top mechanics. Man tries to sell drugs, arrested A 43-year-old Eugene man was arrested Monday after an alleged attempt to sell drugs in a tavern on Mission Street SE, Salem police said. Woody James Corman was charged with criminal activity in drugs and bail was set at $5,000, police said.

Three bottles with pills including one suspected of containing phenobarbital were confiscated for laboratory tests, police said. Dog hunted of their Portland home when she discovered a fire Monday morning. Joseph Riker, a neighbor, heard them shouting from the porch roof about 3 a.m. and talked them into jumping off the porch roof into his arms. Riker awakened the girls' mother Kathleen and another occupant of the house, and they got out safely.

The rented house was destroyed. The cost of the damage was estimated at $10,000. The fire probably was caused by smoker's carelessness, said a representative of the Portland Fire Bureau. Radio on sale PORTLAND (AP) The license and equipment of KQIV-FM radio in Lake Oswego were put up for auction Monday. The station went off the air June 18 and was, placed in receivership because of debts it owes.

The two highest bidders were Golden West Broadcasters, which operates KEX-AM in Portland, at $218,000 cash, and Jim Constant, Communico Hartford, for $150,000 cash and $100,000 in a 12-year note. A federal court will review the bids. Saves children PORTLAND (AP) Theresa Ma-lone, 7, got her 6-year-old sister Bob-ette out a window and onto the porch BEND, Ore. (AP) The search continues for a dog that bit a 10-year-old Idaho Falls, Idaho, boy at Tumalo State Park north of here last week. If the dog isn't found by Friday, Deschutes County sheriff's deputies said, Taun Calderwood will have to start a painful series of rabies treatments.

An all points bulletin has been issued for a 1962 van owned by Bruce Clark, Lake Oswego, reported to be in Central Oregon. The dog apparently is in the van. Deputies said the dog will not have to be killed, but merely examined for signs of rabies. Held in stabbing No marks against judges on Supreme, Appeals courts Polk County Records KLAMATH FALLS (AP) Two Klamath Falls 17-year-olds are being held in connection with the fatal stabbing July 19 of Samuel K. Newman, 38, Klamath Falls.

Dist. Atty. Gary L. Hedlund of Klamath County said proceedings would be initiated to remand the juveniles to adult court for trial on charges of murder. To aid docks PORTLAND, Ore.

(AP) Port of Portland directors voted Monday to place an $84 million general obligation bond measure on the November ballot for residents of Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties. The bonds would finance a new large dry dock, added berthing and related faclities at the Swan Island ship repair yard. $6 million fire ENTIAT, Wash. (AP) A fire burning out of control in Central Washington has blackened more than 6,000 acres of forest and grazing land, with losses estimated at $6 million, the U.S. Forest Service said Monday.

Forest Service spokesman Clyde Barthol said a second forest fire, in the Blewett Pass area about 25 miles southwest of the Entiat blaze, also was reported burning Monday afternoon. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Oregon State Bar records on individual lawyers indicate no disciplinary action ever has been considered by the bar against any present member of the Supreme or Appeals courts except Jason Lee. Lee's bar records were requested by Russell Sadler, a Salem newsman, after Lee beat incumbent Jacob Tanzer for a spot on the Court of Appeals in 1974. The bar declined to issue the records but, after legal proceedings that ended in the Supreme Court, followed the court's decision by making available all its records on lawyers.

The records showed the Board of Governors of the bar found Lee guilty of three charges of unethical conduct in 1964 and recommended that he be suspended from practice for a year. The Supreme Court reduced the penal ty to a reprimand. Lee received a private letter of reprimand from the bar, which has both governmental and professional functions in regulating Oregon lawyers, for improperly communicating with a judge in 1972 while representing a defendant in a drunken driving case. The bar received at least four complaints against three of the seven Supreme Court justices, but quickly rejected the complaints as unfounded. The bar received at least four complaints against two judges of the Court of Appeals, but quickly rejected them.

Investigations were conducted in none of the complaints beyond asking for information from the lawyers involved. None of the complaints concerned actions taken by the lawyers as members of the Supreme or Appeals courts. (Municipal Court Mark Lee Polston, 21, of 535 Winter St. NE, found guilty of two charges of driving with a suspended license, fined $225, sentenced to 200 days in jail, 180 days suspended on condition of one year probation. Russel Henry Jr.

and others vs. Robert L. Praegitzer, doing business as LaRo Lumber Complaint alleges breach of contract, seeks dissolution of partnership and accounting of all monies and assets by defendants. PROBATE ESTATES Harry Hirsch: Will admitted to probate, Fred Hirsch appointed representative. Glen Alvin Petersen: Estate admitted to probate, Ron McLaughlin and Kay Peterson appointed representatives.

Fern Marie Ehrich: Final account approved, estate closed. Bertha L. Hayter: Final account approved, estate closed. Edna Gritton: Final account approved, estate closed. Winnie Pettyjohn: Estate closed.

Thelma A. Tetherow: Estate closed. Dorothy Mead Beck: Final account approved, estate closed. MARRIAGE APPLICATIONS Dennis Ray Craig, 25, of 1169 Highland Ave. NE, Salem, cook, and Willetta Jean Freeman, 18, of 1169 Highland Ave NE, Salem, at home.

James Curtis Inman, 69, Vale, retired, and Anna Julia Benner, 69, 1715 Church St. NE, Salem, retired. Melvin George Kliever, 45, of 1240 S.E. Howe Dallas, roofer, and Linda Darlene Johnston, 25, 1240 S.E. Howe Dallas, at home.

Donald James Mackie, 25, Independence Rt. 1, Box 355A, saw mill worker, and Kathleen Marie 25, Independence Rt. 1, Box 355A, cashier clerk. Arnold Leroy Collingham, 29, of 998 S.E. Miller Dallas, electrician, and Sherry Lynn Griff itts, 25, of 998 S.E.

Miller Dallas, secretary. Michael Talmadge Shuler, 29, of 558 Main Dallas, teacher, and Barbara Janet Anderson, 22, of 221 S.E. Pine Place, Dallas, waitress. Michael James Kozisek, 18, of 570 Monmouth Independence, body and fender, and Susan Lynn Ladehoff, 18, of 471 Craven Monmouth, file clerk. CIRCUIT COURT Michael Joseph DuPont vs.

Steven C. Engstrom and Edward Kenneth Engs-trom: Case dismissed with prejudice. State vs. Roger Lee Monhead: Case dismissed. Sherry Kay Carranza and Thomas Charles Carranza: Divorce granted.

State vs. Howard William Franklin: Defendant given 15-year prison sentence on two counts of kidnaping and charges of attempted rape and sexual abuse. Justin Osterlob and Martha Osterloh: Divorce granted. Linda Lee Wilkie and Ralph Wallace Wilkie: Case transferred to Yamhill County. State of Oregon, acting for, Harry L.

Lyda and Judith A. Lyda, vs. Dallas Building Supplies, Case dismissed. Christine Romano and Daniel Romano: Divorce granted. Jane Huff and Everet L.

Huff: Divorce granted. Equitable Savings and Loan Association vs. Mark D. Porter and Douglas E. Moore, doing business as Porter and Moore Construction Court awards plaintiff judgment of $35,099.

Gary L. Simmons vs. Michael Drinkwa-ter: Case dismissed with prejudice. Chong Hak Yi vs. Robert Arthur Soules: Complaint alleges negligence in Oct.

31, 1975, traffic accident on Highway 22, seeks $30,000 general and $4,000 special damages for alleged injuries. Komi Yi vs. Robert Arthur Soules: Complaint alleges negligence in Oct. 31, 1975, traffic accident on Highway 22, seeks $15,000 general and $92 special damages for alleged injuries. State Accident Insurance Fund vs.

Slyh, Bracber, Smith Complaint seeks $1,582 allegedly owed. Gary E. Houser vs. Clark Allen: Complaint alleges negligence in Jan. 14 traffic accident on Highway 22, seeks $50,000 genera and $2,176 special damages for 'alleged injuries.

SEA gives district proposal Salem Area Fire Runs Joseph Benninghoff, administrative assistant to Supt. William Kendrick, referred The Oregon Statesman to Lonnie Mills, Eugene, negotiator for the School District. Mills did not respond to telephone calls to his office. The SEA and the School District have been negotiating teacher salaries for next year, along with an increase in insurance benefits for teachers. The SEA and the school board signed a two-year contract in May 1975 but a jdispute arose last winter over interpretation of economic issues.

An arbiter hired by the SEA and board recommended that the issues be renegotiated. The SEA said teachers are entitled in the second year of the contract to a 6.6 per cent cost of living wage increase and a $360 increase for experience, along with increased insurance benefits. The total amounts to a 9.2 per cent increase. The school board agrees on the 6.6 per cent cost-of-living wage hike but argues that it includes the experience increase and increased insurance 1 Salem Education Association (SEA) gave the Salem School District a formal proposal Monday to settle a teacher contract dispute but neither the SEA nor the district would divulge the offer. Ray Naff, SEA president-elect, called the SEA proposal a compromise but declined to say how much money was involved.

Naff said he wanted to allow the School Board time to study the offer for a "week or 10 days." A school board member, Harold Brauner, aid the proposal has not reached the board. Following are alarms answered by Salem area fire departments in which no major damage was reported: SALEM FIRE DEPT. Monday 10:57 a.m. 1840 12th St. SE, fire rekindled in a fire put out earlier that morning, no additonal damage.

10:15 p.m. 1090 Luradel Ave. smoke caused by overcooked food on fbve..