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ALBANY (ORE.) DEMOCRAT-HERALD, SATURDAY, AUG. 24, 1985 5 OREGONNORTHWEST tm icmseca ov prosnouisio proSiIUilH Saiasm pain' arrested, Mrs. Lewis was convicted in municipal court of violating an ordinance requring her to have a massage license. She was fined $100. One of her employees was convicted of prohibited touching and nudity in massage.

In 1982, agents employed by the Salem Police Department conducted a five-month undercover investigation of the French Quarter and the Maui Club, a lotion studio operated at the time by Mrs. Lewis. The investigation resulted in two civil lawsuits alleging the businesses had been operated as places of prostitution. The Lewises were named as co-defendants in the French Quarter suit. Mrs.

Lewis and Julian H. Burroughs of Salem were named as defendants in the Maui Club suit. subpoenas. John Lewis was appointed to the Salem Ethics Commission in 1983 by Mayor Sue Harris. When controversy erupted over the appointment, Harris tried to get the City Council to rescind it.

However, acting on the advice of the city's legal counsel, the council refused. The commission hears matters dealing with the conduct of city officials. According to city records, the commission has not met since Lewis was appointed. Police records revealed that Lewis and his wife have had numerous brushes with the law. In November 1979, five months after the French Quarter opened, Salem police arrested several employees on charges of violating various city ordinances.

The lotion studios that were raided feature body lotion rubdowns in which one or both parties are sometimes nude. Marion County District Attorney Dale Penn said the arrests stemmed from an ongoing investigation into prostitution In Salem. A Salem attorney representing the Lewises denied the charges. Craig Rockwell said police have harassed his clients over a long period of time. "I think it's a continuing pattern of harassment," he said, adding that similar establishments run by others in Salem were not raided, Grand jury subpoenas have been issued for others involved In the case, Penn said.

But he said it might not be necessary to serve all of the SALEM (AP) A member of the city's Board of Ethics and his wife were arrested Friday on charges of racketeering and promoting prostitution (n connection with raids at massage parlors, Marion County sheriff's deputies said. Sheriff Chuck Foster said authorities think John A. Lewis and his wife. Carolyn, have been operating "one of the major networks of prostitution" In the area. Deputies also arrested three women on prostitution charges.

Foster said Lewis, 43, drew a gun when confronted by officers at a magic shop he owns called Mr. Mystics. Foster said the other arrests were uneventful, Mrs. Lewis, 37, was taken into custody at the couple's home, officers said. The other three women were arrested at another business owned by the Lewises, a lotion studio called the French Quarter, The three were identified as Deborah Johnson, 20, and Chantel Rosenburg, 22, both of Salem, and Kathy Doyle, 29, of Springfield.

The arrests were made about 10 a.m. All five suspects were booked at the Marion County Jail ana released on their own recognizance. Officers armed with search warrants seized "evidence of financial transactions and racketeering" in raids on three businesses and the Lewis residence, Foster said. The racketeering charges brought against the Lewises are broad, Foster said, and allow police to seize any assets purchased through proceeds from alleged criminal activity. Study on old-growth timber, owls finished 'u "frr; 7" fc i "''7'', If I me 3f MMPwwritfw Vft' irr i i ii nfri vi i nr i.

iti 1 Wib imm3 are upset by the potential effect of a stay on logging old-growth in the region's national forests. "We don't know if there's a happy timber operator in the region," he said. Ralph Saperstein, executive director of the industry group Douglas Timber Operators said a stay in. the sale of old-growth timber would be devastating to Roseburg wood products companies and the Douglas County economy. "It would be disastrous, especially for the firms in Douglas County that are significantly dependent on federal timber primarily from the Umpqua National Forest," he said.

If logging in old-growth were suspended for two months or more, Saperstein predicted, "competition for the very scarce resource would drive the price up, and some of the more marginal firms would drop out." Biologists say the spotted owl is an important indicator of how other wildlife species indigenous to old-growth forests are surviving if the owl is surviving, chances are so is other wildlife. If. the Forest Service continued its projected timber sale program through fiscal 1986 as planned, 1.6 percent of suitable spotted owl habitat would be sold for logging, said the agency report. PORTLAND (AP) Timber sold from old-grovth national forests in Oregon and Washington would drop by 43 percent unto a proposal aimed at protecting the spotted owl, a federal report concludes. The U.S.

Forest Service study was undertaken in response to pleas from environmental groups for a moratorium on the logging of timber at least 200 years old. The groups say there is evidence the spotted owl will become extinct within 100 years if its habitat in such trees is not protected. The report also concluded that the moratorium would decrease by 85 percent the available timber from Umpqua National Forest. The study has been forwarded to agency Chief R. Max Peterson, who will make a recommendation to the U.S.

Department of Agriculture. Forest Service spokesman Wallace Shiverdecker said Thursday Doug Mac-Cleery, Department of Agriculture assistant deputy secretary, is not expected to make a decision for three to four weeks on the environmental groups' request. He said tie had no indication whether a moratorium would be imposed. Shiverdecker acknowledged timber operators in Oregon and Washington AP Llfpholo Firo marshal in hot scat Tri-Met may call strike next week PORTLAND (AP) A bus strike that would leave thousands of Portland-area commuters without public transportation may be called next week after negotiations broke down between union and Tri-Met transit agency officials. Tri-Met general manager James Cowen said Friday night that he is prepared to announce next week a date for enforcing a contract rejected Thursday by 1,450 union bus drivers and mechanics.

Union officials said that if Tri-Met enforces the contract, they will call a strike within 48 hours. No new negotiations were scheduled after talks broke down Friday, Cowen said the agency would enforce the contract only if the Amalgamated Transit Union "gives us no other options." After the latest round of talks broke down, Mel Schoppert, the union's international vice president and chief negotiator, said the two sides were at "a total Impasse in our negotiations. I would expect them to Impose that offer on us within a week." The offer contains provisions for $3.7 million in wage and benefit concessions In the first year of a three-year agreement. Cowen said Friday that Tn-Met also will require the same savings in the second and third year of any contract. Schoppert said the union offered about $3 million in concessions over the next 18 months during Friday's negotiating session.

"They wanted $2 million more," Schoppert said, "I don't think they know what they want anymore except a strike. That would save them payroll money and bail out their light-rail monster, which is already a total monetary disaster." Tri-Met is building a light-rail line from downtown Portland to Gresham, an eastern suburb. Civil suit filed against officers of failing firm SALEM (AP) A former Stayton attorney and other officers of Pacific West Mortgage Co. were accused of securities fraud in a civil lawsuit filed Friday by state Corporation Commissioner Jane Edwards. Defendants named in the lawsuit fil- in Marion Countv Circuit Court in State Fire Marshal Olin Greene sits inside a burning house trailer Friday during a demonstration of a new home sprinkler system at tho Oregon State Fair in Salem.

With Greene inside the trailer, a wastebasket was Ignited. Nearby curtains caught on fire and, with the flames climbing toward the ceiling, the sprinkler system switched on 26 seconds later. A crew of Salem firefighters was standing by just iii case things got out of control. Friday was opening day at the fair. WPPSS rejects recommended cutbacks Group slams county that shoots its strays nounced plans to get public comment on the proposal and release a draft report in November, before issuing a final report in February 1986.

"I feel it's important for the community to understand that Managing Director Don Mazur is going to continue the (current) program as it was approved for fiscal year," said board member Don Clayhold, who is manager of the Benton County PUD. "Unless formal action is taken, that is what he's going to do." Bonneville is not authorized to approve WFPSS budgets, but it can reject them. The board also authorized the agency's management to spent up to $2 million to fix a pump which has limited power production at its No. 2 generating plant RICHLAND, Wash. AP) Washington Public Power Supply System directors have declined to implement a recommendation that they reduce spending and cut 41 employees at the system's moUiballed nuclear power plant No.

1 at Hanford. The Bonneville Power Administration recommended the cuts be made by April 1986 to save Northwest ratepayers an estimated S4 million a year. Instead, members of the WPPSS executive board said Friday the supply system would continue with current staff and funding levels while directors reviewed BPA's proposal. BPA officials this week unveiled the recommendation to reduce the staff from 261 to 220 and the budget for technical work from $16 million to $12 million by next April. They an Eionis to yia toy: Jefferson County is the only one that shoots dogs.

To Ms. Kellington's knowledge, it's the only city or county anywhere that does. County Judge Herschel Read, who is Blakeley's boss, says the expense of complying with the bill probably will force the county to close the pound before the measure takes effect in January 1987. Blakeley has shot an estimated 4,000 dogs in his 7' years as dog control officer. "We shoot the dog right in the ears, which goes right direct into the brain," the judge says.

"They're dead instantly, as far as I'm concerned." But Michel J. Scott, manager of the Humane Society of Central Oregon in Bend, says shooting is inhumane. "You have to be an awfully good shot to use a gun that kills the first time, instantly," she says. "If it took me two bullets, I would quit," Blakeley responds. He contends lethal injections can take up to two minutes to kill.

"The dog is whining and in spasms and everything else," he says. But Ms. Scott says lethal injections kill within three seconds. Dogs or cats are placed on tables and soothed while sodium pentobarbitol is injected. MADRAS (AP) When Jefferson County residents bring unwanted dogs to the county's pound, they give Jim Blakeley a job to do.

He secures the animal's neck with a pole, points the barrel of a modified Remington saddle carbine just behind the ear, and fires into the dog's brain. Blakeley, the sole dog control officer In this central Oregon county, says it's the quickest, most merciful way he knows to kill unwanted dogs. Humane Society members are sending up howls of protest. The Southern Oregon Humane Society proposed, and the Legislature this spring passed, a bill permitting only injections of sodium pentobarbitol or other substances approved by the Oregon State Veterinary Medical Examining Board to destroy stray or unwanted dogs and cats. Gov, Vic Atiyeh signed the bill In June.

AH but six Oregon counties already use lethal injections to kill animals, says Sharon Kellington, chairman of the Southern Oregon Humane Society in Medford. Besides Jefferson, the counties are Curry, Josephine, Hood, Klamath and Wasco. They use gas chambers, which are "observably harsh" and terrify the animals, Ms. Kellington says. Salem police raid met meth lab and a handgun with an illegal silencer.

Arrested and charged with possession of manufacture of methamphetamines were James Spier, 38, and Valerie Spier, 24, police said. The two were booked at the Marion County jail and released on their own recognizance, said Salem police Sgt. Jules Martino. SALEM (AP) Authorities have raided a laboratory used to manufacture methamphetamines, arresting two people and seizing equipment and volatile chemicals used to make the drug. Officers also said Friday that they confiscated several weapons, including an automatic assault gun ri-l, UUJ II I I.

I- -ll-l Ul II y' I Angela Holesapple Meet Angela Holesapple who works in the Albany Democrat-Herald's composing room. Angela's job is to construct retail display ads from salesmen's layouts. Her responsibilities also include pasting up ads for the Lebanon Express, composed and printed at the Democrat-Herald. "I enjoy pasting up a challenging ad and seeing it appear in the paper, and I like to think my skills in this area are improving all the time," says Angela. "Also, the people I work with have been just great to me as I learn my job!" Angela was born in Myrtle Point and moved to Albany in 1979.

She attended South Albany High School where she was advertising manager for the school newspaper, the Angela came to the Democrat-Herald within days of high-school graduation this June. Angela lives with her family on Knox Butte Road. In addition to her parents, she has two sisters and two brothers. The family enjoys outings to the mountains or to the beach, likes to play backgammon, Monpopoly and Trivial Pursuit, and looks forward to a visit each evening about the day's events. Angela's outdoor interests are hiking, biking and swim.ning.

She is also an amateur photographer, collects pennies, nurtures a number of indoor plants, and likes to read. Angela Holesapple is one of the more than a hundred people who bring the Albany. Democrat-Herald home to you each day. clude Walter H. Bell, an owner, director and secretary-treasurer of Pacific West.

Bell practiced law in Stayton but resigned from the Oregon State Bar last January Other, defendants named in the lawsuit H. Clay Livengood, Elmer J. Duncan and Linda N. Nuxoll, all of Stayton and all officers of Pacific West. The defendants agreed to a stipulated court judgment by which they are per-manentlybarred from selling securities in Oregon, the state Corporation Division said.

The agency said the agreement isn't an admission or denial of any allegations in the lawsuit. Pacific West filed a bankruptcy petition earlier this month in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Portland, said Bill Brooks, a securities investigator for the Corporation Division. The officers are accused in the lawsuit of selling unregistered securities without having the required licenses and of making false statements that could result in losses tohling SI million to more than 100 Investors. Brooks said the loss figure is an estimate and that actual losses would depend on the outcome of the lawsuit and of the bankruptcy proceedings, The securities, which included mortgages, were sold from July 1982 through March 1985.

New fires break out in Washington state Associated Press New fires burned on Mount Pilchuck in northwestern Washington's Snohomish County and in the Cashmere area of central Washington today after firefighters finally managed to control a week-old 600-acre fire near the Canadian border. A new blaze of unknown origin was reported burning early today on more than 100 acres of timber in Yaxon Canyon near Cashmere. U.S. Forest Service, state of Natural Resources and rural "fire departments were called to the scene. 1 'TITlTl I l-4'i Smith Paint Decorating is proud to introduce the new management team whose prime specialty is service with a capital You can count on us to help you with all your painting and decorating needs.

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