2 Walla Walla Union-Bulletin Thursday, January 13,1977

Size of vote may be hurdle of school levyBy GLEN GIBBONS JrU< tt>,. U"I<1" 8ulM'1IM

Getting out the vote — almost any vote —may be the major obstacle facing supportersof Walla Walla School District's $2.59-millionspecial-tax levy.

That proposal faces a ballot test Feb. 8, anda levy-support committee met for the firsttune Wednesday to gear up for the election.

Several committee members and schooladministrators noted that the large general-election turnout last November means a lot ofvotes will have to be recorded Feb. 8 in orderto validate the election.

State law requires that revenue measuresmuster at least 40 per cent of the district'svote turnout in the preceding general elec-

tion.That means 5,357 persons will need to cast

ballots Feb. 8, according to Gene Myers,school-district administrative assistant.

Last year, 5,138 persons voted in the levyelection; 4,757 cast ballots in a May 25 bondelection..

At least 60 per cent of those casting ballotsneed to vote in favor of the tax measure inorder to pass it.

Even if the levy measure receives less thana 40 per cent turnout, the proposal can bevalidated if the number of approving votes isat least 60 per cent of the 40 per centminimum, that is, 3,2*4 yes votes.

Committee members, including privatecitizens and school-district personnel, were

exhorted by cocnairmen Anne Golden andRuth Gifford to solicit support for the speciallevy, which composes about one-fourth of the1977-78 budget's revenues.

The levy campaign will follow the pattern ofpast elections. Posters, outdoor signs, newsmedia advertisements and telephonesolicitations will be used to encourage afavorable voter turnout.

Endorsements will be sought from in-dividuals and civic, social and educationalgroups. A speakers' bureau is beingestablished to supply levy advocates atmeetings of community organizations.

Supt. Franklin ''Pete" Hanson expressedguarded optimism at the levy's chances forsuccess.

"One of the nice things about Walla Walla isthat generally we can count on citizens to dowhat needs to be done to support education,"Hanson said.

The levy faces an electorate that has passedthe last five special-tax requests put before it.Overall, the district's record on special-taxmeasures is 12 approved, five defeated since1948.

Hanson noted that the levy proposal, whichwould require an estimated tax rate of $7.73per $1,000 assessed property valuation, is lessthan the $2.65 million endorsed by voters lastyear.

That measure, which passed by a 69 percent margin of approval, was reduced when

the district subsequently received unan-ticipated state funds.

The school board rolled back the levy by$400,000 to $2.25 million, this year's actual taxcollection.

Assistant Supt. Charles Clizer said afavorable outlook existed for passage of themeasure.

He cited the generally "good" economicsituation in Walla Walla, the lack of anydouble-levy failure in the district's past andthe high priority that the state legislature hasset on providing adequate school funding.

The committee will meet again at noon nextWednesday in the school-district boardroom,364 S. Park St.

Empty women'sprison could fillovercrowding gapBv CAROLYN LOGAN

Sitting in Walla Walla's backyard isan empty prison that could help buytime for Washington's overcrowdedprisons.

The Washington Legislature mustdecide if it wants to approve the5462,544 in the proposed 1977-78budget to renovate the women'sprison located in the shadow of theWashington State Penitentiary.

Communities resistant to neigh-borhood minipnsons are stalling stateefforts to locate four additionalfacilities.

Warden B. J. Rhay sees a four-yeardelay between present overcrowdingand construction of a proposedmaximum-security miniprison.

But the women's prison could berenovated and ready for occupancyby the summer of 1978 if the statemakes money available this July,Rhay says.

The 1931 prison could hold 75 maleoffenders as a minimum-securityfacility, according to Rhay. Heconsiders it one of several options toclose the time gap.

Rhay says renovation poses thisquestion: Does Walla Walla wantmore inmate families in its neigh-borhoods? Or should the aspect ofinmate families be shared with othercommunities across the state?

A question weighed by some locallegislators involves cost: Is it cheaperto remodel an existing building orbuild a new structure?

Sen. Jeannette Hayner, R-WallaWalla, favors remodeling. So doesRep. Gene Struthers, R-Walla Walla.

"I'm sure you could refurbish it farcheaper than you could build a newprison," Struthers says.

"Refurbishing certainly would takecare of a lot of problems."

"It would be a sensible solution,"agrees Mrs. Hayner. "The women's

Former women's facility awaits decision on future status

prison is a well-built structure."The U-shaped brick building con-

tains single cells overlooking anexercise yard.

Prospects for approval are verygood, according to Mrs. Hayner.

Legislators are more aware ofprison crowding, which creates afavorable climate for the proposal,she explains.

Plus, mandatory sentencing is onthe horizon, forcing legislators to bemore cognizant of the need for furthercell-space, according to Mrs. Hayner.

For starters, the proposal mustgain approval from the Senate Waysand Means Committee chaired bySen. Hubert Donohue, D-Dayton, theHouse Appropriations Committee andthe House Institutions Committee.

Struthers belongs to the institutionscommittee.

The Washington Department ofSocial and Health Services woulddesignate it a special-treatmentfacility. This means drugrehabilitation, primarily.

The $462,544 proposal includes staffsalary to operate the prison for twoyears. Salary for 23 full-time-

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equivalents is listed. Allowing forovertime costs, the actual staff couldnumber between 12 and 17.

Eighteen matrons supervised thepopulation in the former women'sprison. There were 99 offenders — apeak crowd — before the facility wasvacated in 1972-73. offenders weretransferred to the Purdy TreatmentCenter for Women near Tacoma.

Council delays raising business feesBy JO MORELANDO* T'»- Union Bu'leT'n

If you do business in Walla Walla,get ready to pay $15 for the privilege.

And if you don't get a $15 businesslicense, you could be penalized up to$300 a day.

However, the Walla Walla CityCouncil decided to wait Wednesdayfor at least two more weeks beforeadopting a business-license or-dinance.

"I don't believe it has had sufficientpublicity," Councilman Pro Tern RayCuckler said.

Under the proposed ordinance,virtually every business in the city —including the professions — will berequired to have a 1977 license byFeb. 28.

In future years, the license must bebought by Jan. 31.

Half fees will be required forpersons applying for licenses afterJulyl.

In the past, licensing has beenrequired mainly for businessesselling electrical items or requiringhealth or police control.

Fees ranged from $5 for an elec-trical-sales license to $300 for a

cabaret license.In other action, the council:— Appointed a council committee of

Cuckler and councilmen Dan Swankand Harry Drake to outline procedureto implement Law and Justice agencyrecommendations for the policedepartment.

The council also agreed to aneligibility list that will allow hiring ofpolice officers again under the city'srule-of-three hiring policy, now beinglegally contested.

— Decided to contrac* with theWalla Walla-Columbia County LegalDefense Association to providelawyers for criminal defendants withlow incomes.

— Awarded operation of theNineteenth Hole Restaurant at thecity's Veterans Memorial Golf Courseto Harold Osborne of Spokane.

Osborne has a college degree inhotel and restaurant administrationand now operates Imperial CateringService in Spokane. He has bought theFryer Tuck restaurant here.

The city will receive seven per centof the Nineteenth Hole's grossreceipts as rental. The council alsobought the restaurant's equipment

inventory for $4,500.—Formally adopted a new golf-

course fees schedule at VeteransMemorial that will raise greens feesby 12 per cent and season tickets by 20per cent.

— Agreed to submit a prospectusfor federal funds for a $185,200 im-provement project for Melrose Street,between Roosevelt Street and WilburAvenue. The city's cost share will be$37,840, to be paid with gas-taxmoney.

— Adopted a shorel ine-management master _plan for MillCreek within the city limits that willrequire permits for new constructionwithin 200 feet of the creek.

— Agreed to pay $12,000 of a $22,000bill for permanent lighting equipmentat the "Trails West" outdoor am-phitheater at Fort Walla Walla Park.The rest of the bill will be paid with astate Bicentennial commission grant.

— Adopted an assessment roll for$5,013 worth of sidewalk repair thecity did in 1975.

— Decided to tie approval for thefinal plats of two developments —Stone Creek PUD and Stoddard'sSecond Addition — to waterline-

connection rates the city is setting.Developers Jack Stoddard, 22

McKay Place, and Richard Moeller,1895 School Ave., were heated in theirobjections to what they believed to bea change in policy just as they aretrying to complete their plats.

— Declared a proposed self-servicegas station at Nichols Oil Co., 728 N.Wellington Avenue, to be a significantenvironmental action, therebyrequiring an environmental-impactstatement.

City Attorney Tom Baffney said hedidn't think the fact that Cuckler hasa home in the area constituted aconflict of interest in the matter.

Cuckler indicated he may appear asa private citizen against the project ata board-of-adjustment hearing thatwill decide whether a conditional-usepermit is granted for the station.

He voted with the majority in the 5-to-2 decision declaring the project amajor action.

The majority of city departmentheads consulted about the en-vironmental assessment for thestation had recommended seven-to-two that the project be declared anonsignficant action.

Poster bears badnews for in mate

Wall posters can have as un-predictable an effect in Walla Wallaas in China, a Washington StatePenitentiary inmate has learned.

Carl L. Harp, 27, the man dubbedthe "Bellevue Sniper," has lost aWalla Walla County Superior Courtaction seeking his return to theprison's general population.

According to his lawsuit, he wasplaced in the penitentiary'smaximum-cus tody uni t —segregation — last May after hechallenged a prison-administrationmemo.

The suit said the memo forbidprisoners to wear obscene T-shirtsand patches or the clothing would beconfiscated.

Harp's court action says he put up anotice stating the memo might violatethe prisoners' right to free speech andmight result in legal action.

Prison officials said the notice wasactually a 16-by-24-inch poster thatsaid the prison administration had nojurisdiction over the matter.

calendarTonight's events

Learning objectives workshop. 7:30p.m.. Washington School, N. NinthAvenue and Cherry Street; sponsoredby Walla Walla School District; one ofa" series of meetings to discusslearning objectives for math, readingand language arts for kindergartenthrough ninth grade.

TOPS No. 418. 7 p.m.. St. MaryCommunity Hospital, Room 2. Level1.

College Place La Leche League. 8p.m. with Ixw sample, 124 NE "A"St., College Place: fourth meeting inpresent series.

County Extension workshop. "AWill of Your Own." 7:30 p.m.. WallaWalla County Service Bide.. 314 W.Main St.: Barbara Werner. CountyExtension agent and representativesof the county bar association to•;peak: open to public.

Order of the Amaranth. GoldenSheaf Court No. 60. 8 p.m.. MasonicTemple. 607 E. Main St: Men's night

PreM-ott School Board. 7 p.m..Prescott S' h"'i] conference room

Prospcri Point Grange. 8 p.m.. S.Howard Street and Prospect Road;potluck refreshments.

Pythian Sisters. Mistletoe TempleNo. 23 8 p.m. installation of officers.Pioneer Park Garden Ontcr

Southeastern Washington MedicalRecords Association. 7 p.m. potluckin Richland with Joan Rude. 1007J»ng Ave.; Walla Wallans expectingto attend should call Mary AnnCampbell. St Mary CommunityHospital, speaker- Mary Kllen

Swikter, RRA consultant for Wash.State Dept. of Social & Health Ser-vices.

Wa-Hi Class of 1962, 7:30 p.m.reunion planning meeting, Lindscott,Wylie & Blize, 4 N. Palouse St.

Friday's eventsBlue Mountain Shrine Club, 7 p.m.

dinner. 19th Hole Memorial GolfCourse: 6 p.m. symposium.

Ladies Auxiliary PaltriarchsMilitant. 6:30 p.m. potluck. OddFellows Temple. 12 W. Alder Stl;early meeting.

PEO, BI Chapter, 12:30 p.m. withLehla Webster. CI Chapter, 12:30p.m.. Walla Walla County Club vistaroom: program by Penny Andres.

Russell Creek Homemakers, 1:30p.m. with Dorothy Clark; BarbaraWerner, guest speaker.

Baha'i Faith fireside, 7:30 p.m., 978Hobson St.

Lady Elks. Walla Walla Lodge, 1p.m.. Elks Club. 351 E. Rose St.;luncheon, bndge. pinochle: makereservations with Pauline Magnusonor Marcelle Gradwohl.

Walla Walla Valley Chess Club, 7:15p.m.. First Federal Savings com-munity room. First Avenue and AlderStreet

Saturday's eventsWalla Walla County Pomona

Grange No. 27, 2 p.m.. TouchetGrange Hall: business: 5:30 p.m.potluck: visiting Grangers to brinesalad and dessert; 7 p.m. meetingwith 5th Degree to be Exemplified.

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NEWSPAPER!

Because of a reporting error, thedate of a joint meeting of Walla Wallacity councilmen and county com-missioners was incorrect in Wed-nesday's Uni&n-Bulletin.

The meeting wy. held Tuesday.

Hang onto your dog or be prepared to lose a good chunkof money.

A proposed animal-control ordinance for Walla Wallaprovides penalty fees that can't be suspended or reducedof $15 to $100 for dogs caught running loose.

However, the Walla Walla City Council agreed Wed-nesday that every dog is entitled to one freebie — warning— for its first offense in a calendar year.

After that the owner will be convicted of allowing a dogto run loose.

The first conviction factually the second time a dog iscaught loose) will cost $15. the second conviction will be$30 and it will be $100 for each conviction after that withina year.

The council will review and revise the ordinance beforeadoption of it at the Jan. 26 council meeting.

Violation of any part of the ordinance, with the ex-ception of the dogs running-at-large section, can result ina fine of not less than $25 or more than $300.

Licenses will cost $10 for unsterilized dogs, whethermale or female, and $3 for sterilized ones.

A part of the ordinance requiring sterilization of all dogsgiven away or sold is being withheld.

It was pointed out that many such dogs are puppies, tooyoung for the operation.

Licenses will be required for all dogs more than sixmonths old.

Starting in 1978. a certificate of rabies innoculationmust be presented in order to get a license.

Persons who fail to gel a license for their dogs within 30days after the start of the calendar vear can be penalized$25.

Reclaiming a dag that has been impounded will cost $5,plus $4 for each day the animal is held.

Any impounded dog not claimed within 72 hours can bekilled.

Every female dog in heat must be confined in a buildingor secure enclosure in such a way that it can't come intocontact with another dog, except for planned breeding.

The owners of all animals, including horses, will beresponsible for the removal of any excreta deposited bytheir animals on public walks, recreation areas or privateproperty.

Animal control will be resumed Saturday by the cityafter almost two years of humane-society control work.

The city will operate under its old ordinance, with theexception of licensing, until the new ordinance is adopted.

No licenses will be issued until the new law is oassed.

The proposed ordinance met with mixed reaction from alarge crowd.

Curtis Melhus, 1314 Walla Walla Ave., spoke against thelicensing procedures, which require written applicationsidentifying dog owners.

"The only thing you're doing with a license is convictyourself," Melhus said.

"If you didn't have a license you'd be home free."The question of defining nuisance animals and con-

victing their owners was also raised.Under the ordinance, a nuisance animal would be one

which molests passersby or passing vehicles, attacks

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other animals, trespasses on school grounds, is repeatedlyat large or damages property.

It would also be one that barks, whines or howls in anexcessive, continuous or untimely i'late at night) fashionor scatters refuse.

Nuisance dogs could be impounded.Councilman Arlo James noted that if a person com-

plains about an animal and an animal-control or citypolice officer can't observe the violation, the complainingperson will have to file a formal complaint to get legalaction.

The same process will be true whether for barking dogsor animals scattering waste, he said.

"If you haven't got enough nerve to do that (file thecharge ), then don't complain about it," James said.

Bob Rhimer, 320 E. Maple St., who works in an officenext to the Blue Mountain Humane Society's animalshelter wanted to know if the nuisance laws applied to theshelter.

"There are times when you can't ever hear in the officebuilding" near the shelter at Wellington and Portlandavenues, Rhimer said.

Rhimer didn't get a definite answer.

James Harvey, the penitentiary'sassociate superintendent of custody,said it threatened the institution'ssecurity by causing unrest, so Harpwas placed in segregation.

In a memorandum decision, JudgeJohn C. Tuttle has ruled the posterwas an inflammatory act of in-solence, calculated to excite angerand disorder among the inmates.

The decision said the poster in-cluded the words "File Suit! WinMoney!"

Tuttle ruled the prison must rely onrespect for authority in maintainingsecurity.

The poster was intended to erode ordestroy inmate respect for Harvey,and posting it presented a clear andpresent danger to security, the judgesaid.

"If the petitioner (Harp) thought hehad cleverly worded his poster so asto wrap it in the protective cloak ofthe First Amendment, he wasmistaken," Tuttle said.

Mothersto marchfor funds

A "Mother's March" to raise fundsfor the March of Dimes will be held inWalla Walla Jan. 31 through Feb. 2. Inaddition to the door-to-door campaignin the city, mail solicitation will bemade in rural areas and communitiesin Walla Walla County.

Heading the fund drive will beMadeline Hansen, 729 Whitman St.,and Cathy Scott, 714 Crestview Place.

About 200 marchers will be neededfor the drive here, Mrs. Hansen said.Five or six persons to supervise 10marchers each are still needed, shesaid.

Interested volunteers may call Mrs.Hansen.

Forty per cent of the funds raised inthe annual drive remain in WallaWalla County to provide services,according to Ric C. Kindle, chairmanof the Walla Walla Chapter of theNational Foundation, March ofDimes.

Sixty per cent is channeled intoresearch programs to overcome thecauses of congenital disease, he said.

New appointees to the chaptersmedical advisory board are Dr. DaleE. Dietzman. pediatrician at theWalla Walla Clinic; Man, Reed,supervisor of the maternal and childhealth department at St. Mary-Community Hospital; Mary Orchard,head nurse at the hospital nursery,and Sister Ixmise Gregoire of St.Mary's.

Educational advisors are DorisSmith, counselor at Walla Walla HighSchool; Amy Shoop, registered nurse.Walla Walla School District, andNancy Maxwell, family life educationcoordinator. Walla Walla CommunityCollege.

New members of the chapter'sexecutive committee are EricRobanske, vice chairman, and MonaGarland, secretary. Continuing astreasurer is Tonie J. Carney, 2027Cookerly Drive.

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