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ALBANY (OR.) DEMOCRAT-HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1987 9 in the Northwest 73 ES SALE AP Laserphoto Workers celebrate Thousands of Boeing employees gather around the first 757PF (package freighter) at the company plant in Renton, Wash. Wednesday during a ceremony to commemorate completion of the jet. The initial airplane is one of 20 ordered by United Parcel Service and features a windowless fuselage with a main-deck cargo door. The 757PF is the only standard-body jet freighter in production today. CARPET SQUARES While they last! comments in an appearance Wednesday in U.S.

District Court. Agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms arrested Nick Chris George, 51; Bill Chris George, 48, and Peter George Chekalas, 48, in Portland on Wednesday. The three had owned and operated the Bonfire Restaurant in downtown Portland until an arson blaze destroyed the business in August 1984. The three were among 11 people named in a 28-count indictment Tuesday in Chicago.

The 11 are charged with participating in an arson-for-hire enterprise that was responsible for five arson tires in Illinois and Oregon since 1981. Wind turbines for sale PORTLAND (AP) For sale by the federal government: three giant wind turbines with 300-foot-diameter blades plus related equipment. The wind turbines cost the U.S. Department of Energy $4.5 million each in 1980, when they were were constructed on 200-foot towers near Goldendale, overlooking the Columbia River. The turbines were part of an electricity-generating research project called Mod 2.

It cost the government $55 million when the project was ended last year with the decision to sell the turbines. The project showed that the turbines, rated at 2.5 megawatts, would work mechanically once a a shaft problem and other difficulties had been solved. Portland gets grant PORTLAND (AP) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has given the city of Portland a grant that is designed to complete a 10-year proiect aimed at preventing sewer overflow into the Willamette River. The $4,163,873 grant will allow a large sewer interceptor to be finished that will increase the capacity of the sewer system inm southeast Portland.

A spokesman for the EPA says completion of the project will prevent overloading of sewers and subsequent damage to the Willamette River. Trainer files suit PORTLAND (AP) A trainer of greyhound racing dogs has filed a lawsuit in Multnomah Cwaty Circuit Court against the Multriomah Kennel Club and the Oregon Racing Commission. The lawsuit filed by Thomas E. Williams of Estacada, charges that the defendants are penalizing him for the club's sanctions against his business partner. Williams said he had leased for life five greyhounds owned by Charles R.

Olsen of Gresham. The lawsuit said the racing commission suspended Olsen and his (fogs from the race track after Olsen was seen using cocaine at the track Williams said that the suspension of the dogs through the end of the racing season will deprive him of income US West pitch SALEM (AP) State officials have taken the first official step toward trying to persuade US West to build its new research laboratory in Oregon. On Wednesday, Economic Development Department officials handed to the Denver-based company Oregon's pitch for tte proposed $50 million, laboratory. Oregon officials previously announced they would make a bid for the center. US West announced in May it would earch its 14-state region for a site for an advanced technologies research center.

US West is one of the regional operating companies resulting from the breakup of David Lohman, deputy director of the economic development agency, said Oregon has five potential sites, all in the Willamette Valley. Oregon is finalist SALEM (AP) Oregon is one of 13 finalists for a national high-tech research center, Gov. Neil Goldschmidt's office says. The governor's office said Oregon is bidding to become headquarters of "SEMATECH," a facility that's to be established by the U.S. semiconductor industry to develop new technology.

The center would have an annual budget of $250 million and employ 700 people. Oregon's proposed site is located in the Cornell Oaks Center in Washington County, Goldschmidt's office said Wednesday. Oregon man elected SALEM (AP) Kevin Concannon, administrator of the Oregon Mental Health Division, has been elected president of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. Con-cannon was elected to the post during the group's meeting Wednesday in Arlington, Va. The organization, which is affiliated with the National Governors' Association, represents state agency directors of mental health and retardation programs throughout the nation.

Warrants issued KLAMATH FALLS (AP) Murder warrants have been issued for two people in connection with the bludgeoning death of a 65-year-old Klamath Falls man. Klamath County District Attorney Ed Caleb said Wednesday that Donald Klebart 34, and Carol Sue Heath, 29, are named in the warrants in the Saturday death of Carl Fodge. Klebart and Heath lived a few blocks away from Fodge and knew the man, Caleb said. Arson-for-hire PORTLAND (AP) Three brothers charged with participating in an arson-for-hire operation say they won fight extradition to Illinois. The trio made the Bank robbers given 124-year sentences Dec.

29, 1982, bank robbery in Oklahoma City. While being tried in that case, he and Conner escaped from U.S. marshals on June 19, 1985. Conner and Dougherty also face charges in a hostage-taking and bank robbery in Milwaukee in September 1985 The U.S. Marshals Service and FBI has said the two men are wanted for Questioning about bank robberies in Michigan, Missouri, Reno, Phoenix and Salt Lake City.

Officials of the two agencies said Wednesday they did not have specific details on those crimes The two judges said the men must be imprisoned the rest of their lives to pro tect the public They recommended the defendants should not be eligible for parole until serving 33 years of the 99-year penalty for the robbery and hostage-taking counts Dougherty and Conner also were sentenced to an additional 25 years each on two other counts. TACOMA, Wash. (AP) Two men wanted for a string of bank robberies around the West and Midwest have been sentenced by federal judges here to 124 years in prison for a June 1986 robbery and hostage taking near Vancouver, Wash. U.S. District Judges Robert J.

Bryan and Jack Tanner in Tacoma imposed the sentences Tuesday on Joseph Dougherty, 47, and Terry jee Conner, 43. They were watched by members of three families that Conner and Dougherty are Recused of taking hostage Dougherty was convicted of, and Conner pleaded guilty to, four counts stemming from the robbery of $266,576 from First Independent Bank in Hazel Dell on June 30, 1986 The night before, the men took bank executive Raymond Deering, his wife, Verona, and their 20-year-old son hostage in their home and forced them to accompany them to the bank. Doughtery faces sentencing for a Tree-spiking threatened in California forest URIAH, Calif. AP) An anonymous letter, the second tree spiking threat received in two days, warns that areas where logging is taking place may already be sabotaged. "Please be aware of this fact and be careful," said the letter received on Wednesday by the Ukiah Daily Journal.

The message said "loggers and miliworkers" should be aware that "any and all areas where trees are being logged may, in fact, have been subject to spiking." On May 14, mill worker George Alex ander, 23, sustained severe facial injuries in Cloverdale when a huge saw blade broke apart when it hit a nail driven into a fog he was cutting. The tree had been harvested by LP from the Mendocino Coast. The letter said the writers were "appalled about and sincerely regret" the accident. On Tuesday, a warning was sent to Louisiana Pacific timber company offices in Fort Bragg and the San Francisco Chronicle Santa Rosa office saying some trees near Guerneville in Sonoma County have been spiked with ceramic objects and marked with an That message was signed by the Sonoma County Coalition to Stop LP. ONE ONLY! DESK Convention center QK'd ONE ONLY! CLUB CHAIR $199 out grant applications Supporters are hoping to receive state and federal funds for the project The project was proposed by Francis McLean, publisher of the Ontario Argus-Observer, and John Kirby, an Ontario businessman It would consist of a museum as well as a performing arts-convention center complex The Ontario area includes a large Japanese American population.

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