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MotoristHurts Elbow

A f rac tured elbow wassuffered by a motorist in one offour accidents reported Fridaybe the Washington State Patrol.

Troopers said Greta J.Damm, 24, Route 1, was takenby a private party to St. MaryHospital.

Mrs. Damm was eastboundabout a mile and a half south ofWalla Walla on the old MiltonHighway when her stationwagon crossed the road andstruck a utility pole, accordingto patrolmen.

V e h i c l e d a m a g e w a sestimated at $325.

Elinor F. Skeate, 36, Route 3,complained of a stiff neck afterher car and one driven byDenice L. Duff, 18, 1458 CircleDr., collided just south of WallaWalla on Bryant Street,troopers said.

They said both autos werewestbound when Mrs. Skeate'svehicle slowed to avoid a dogand her car was struck by Ms.Duff's.

About $400 damage occurred.Robert L. Nelson Jr., 41,

Portland, suffered a head bumpand $300 damage happened tohis pickup truck when Nelsonfailed to negotiate a left curvesix miles north of Dayton onRoute 12, patrolmen said.

They said the truck drove intoa ditch and rolled over once.

No injuries occurred butvehicle damage was $1,000when trucks operated by RobertL. Gano, 25, Pomeroy, andOliver P. Bowman , 40,Pendleton, collided head-onthree miles west of Waitsburgon Highway 124, said troopers.

Sunday, June 24,1973 Walla Walla Union -Bulletin 5

Walla Walla Union^BulIetin

Prison Lockup Continues,With No End in Sight

ColdOpening

U-B Photo by Don Cline

Mitzy McCall may be shivering a bit, but she is one of thefirst hardy patrons as the pool in Veterans MemorialPark opened yesterday. Opening of the pool was delayedtwice. And yesterday's temperatures took a sizeable dropfrom the day before, but Mitzy and a few others werewilling to take a chance, if not undaunted altogether.

A total lockup of 750 prisonersins ide the p e n i t e n t i a r ycontinued this weekend withoutany indication it would endbefore tomorrow.

The prison's administrativeassistant. Vince Lombard, saidyesterday he had been told tostay by the telephone, but thelockup remained in effect.

The cell confinement insidethe w a l l s was o r d e r e dW e d n e s d a y m o r n i n g b yPenitentiary Supt. B. J. Rhayafter a surprise work strikecalled by some of the prisoners.

The prisoners' ResidentGovernmental Council (RGC)has issued a list of 11grievances.

The most urgent appears tobe a demand for dismissal of theprison doctor. Dr. H. I. Stearns.

Rhay could not be reached

Saturday for comment but thewarden said late Friday nomeetings with inmates wereplanned Saturday or Sunday.

Asked if he thought theremight be an end to the lockupsoon, Rhay replied, "I don'tlook for anything over theweekend."

The warden said Friday'sregular weekly staff meetingwas "lengthy", wh'le officialsdiscussed procedures forhandling the situation.

Meanwhile, twice dailysandwich lunches are beingtaken by guards to the inmatesin their cells.

•'In place of the usual threehot meals a day. with coffee, teaor milk. I now receive twosandwiches of foul bolognasmeared with greasy margarine,slapped into a brown paper bag.

without benefit of wrapping,and one container of coffee." aprisoner wrote the Union-Bulletin in protest against thework strike.

"This culinary delight isoffered twice daily. 10 in themorning and six at night."

Pr i son employes h a v edescribed the strike and lockupas a "confusing situation," withmany of the inmates uncertainabout why the work stoppagewas called.

Rhay said the strike beganafter an impromptu midnight• 'op in ion poll" Tuesday ,conducted by a member of theRGC and without the sanctiono f t h e g e n e r a l p r i s o npopulation.

One man has cut his wristssince he was locked up but theinjur ies weren' t serious.

according to Rhay.The warden has not reported

any additional disturbances ordifficulties since the strikebegan.

Visitors have been prohibitedfor the confined maximumcustody prisoners at the mainprison" complex but is stillpermitted at the minimumsecrity building (MSB).

The 208 men at MSB havebeen u n a f f e c t e d by thedisturbance inside the wallk.Routine continuer as usual atthe minimum security facility.

Also operating normally isThe B r i d g e , a 15-manrehabilitation unit in the formerwomen's prison. It's located afew hundred feet outside thewalls.

Weather, Fires Cause Power Outages

New Guidelines Established forMinimum Security at Penitentiary

A wind and lightening stormfollowing Friday's 100-degreeplus heat caused a minorelectrical power outage in theWalla Walla area but hit hardestin . M i l t o n - F r e e w a t e r .completely knocking out thatcity's power.

High winds sent a tree branchdown on a 12,500-volt powerlinenear KUJ Radio station, west ofWalla Walla on the PascoHighway, said Wayne Goin,manager of Pacific Power andLight Co.

Goin said about 20 householdslocated along the PascoH i g h w a y were w i t h o u telectrical power from 9 p.m. to1:15 a.m.

HitchhikeProbeTo Continue

Investigation is continuing inthe case "of a man who said hewas assaulted by a hitchhiker.Walla Walla County sheriff'sdeputies said this week.

Gary G. Johnson. 25. WallaWalla, had been beaten when hewas left for treatment at St.Mary Hospital, according todeputies.

They said Johnson told themhe had picked up a hitchhikerwho beat him and took his car.

A set of car keys'was found inJohnson's possession, deputiesreported.

StuntShowToday

Dick Ryan. Hollywoodmotion picture and televisionstunt artist, will put on a stuntshow today with his horse"British Wonder" in theparking lot in front of PaylessDrug Store, at the EastgateMall

Ryan, who has been doingstunt work for 35 years, willperform at 2 p.m. today,depicting some of the stunts hehas done in pictures whiledoubling for the stars, whoincluded Spender Tracy andErrol Flynn. He also perfromedyesterday.

The stunts include jumpingover (with his horse i a tablewhile girls are lunching.jumping over two beds whilegirls are lying on them and.lumping through a ring of fire.

The show is sponsored byPayless. There is no admission•charge.

Ryan, who has "hit thehospital about a dozen times"with injuries, including twobroken backs, has also beeninvolved with television work inthe last decade, with spots in"The Virginian" and "BigVallev."

'Gef AcquaintedIn Umapine

The Umapine School Boardwill hold a "get acquainted"regular meeting Monday nightat 8:30 in Umapine Scliool forboard members to meet thenew assistant clerk and newschool superintendent WilliamMulendyke.

The board will also interviewprospective teachers for twoelementary school positions.

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A b o u t 2 5 i n d i v i d u a lhousehold fuses in the WallaWalla vicinity were alsorepaired by PP&L workers.

Earlier Friday, about 6:15p.m., Goin said a tree branchfell on a 7,200-volt power linesouth of Walla Walla in theYellow Jacket Road area.Power to the 30-40 householdswhose service was interruptedwas restored about 9:15 p.m.

Another six houses in thisarea had power cutoff whenindividual fuses blew. Goinsaid.

Other customers may haveexperienced dimming of lightsas a result of the storm, he said.

"We were very lucky as far as

n u m b e r s (o f householdsaffected) were concerned." thePP&L manager said. "Theoutages weren't in strategiclocations."'

Residents in the Stateline.Milton-Freewater and MountWeston areas were not so lucky.according to Harold Cantrell,area manager for the BonnevillePower Administration (BPA).

Electrical service to theseareas was interrupted at 5:08p.m. Friday afternoon, he said.

All Milton-Freewater andMount Weston area outletsserved by the Umati l laElectrical Coop were withoutpower for 37 minutes. Stateline

residents, served by theColumbia Rural ElectricalService, lost power for 3 hours39 minutes.

Cause of the outage was afire, apparently caused bylightening, which burned grassand wheat and set a pole on firetwo miles south of Umapine. hesaid.

Further trouble caused adelay in returning power whenthe Walla Walla-Pendleton69.000-volt line was also burnedin another lightening fire.

Boardman. lone. Heppnerand Lexington also had poweroutages, said Cantrell.

New custody guidelines forthe penitentiary's minimumsecurity building (MSB) wereannounced Friday after a rashof escapes this year from thefacility.

Jan T o w n s e n d . pressrepresentative for the prison,said the guidelines were givento the 208 inmates at MSBWednesday in a meetingconducted by Penitentiary Supt.B. J. Rhay. "

The new rules include onestating classification counselorsmust prepare a comprehensivereport at least two days prior toan inmate's appearance beforet h e p r i s o n ' s s c r e e n i n gcommittee to allow committeemembers more time for

evaluation.Major points in the report will

be sentence time remaining andtime already served: escapehistory, including juvenilerecord and parole boardcomments.

A prisoner's emotional andmental stability and history, awritten report on his work,conduct and attitude; his futureplans and the reason he wantsminimum security are also to beconsidered.

Other f ac to r s will berecommendations an inmateh a s f r o m t h e S h e l t o nCorrectional and DiagnosticCenter, and previous insti-t u t i o n a l a d j u s t m e n t i nWashington 's correctional

system or those in other statesas well as the federal system.

A prisoner's family status.whether he has relatives livinglocally or elsewhere in the state,his relationship with them or hislack of family will be noted.

Medical information and acounselor's recommendationwill conclude the screeningcommittee reports.

"These criteria have beenu t i l i z e d i n p r e v i o u sclassification considerations butthese are more explicitguidelines for the use of thecounselors in preparing theirreferrals." said Mrs. Townsend.

About three weeks ago.Warden Rhay cut off prisoner

Court Order Expected inRogers' Injunction Request

Elks Club Leaders Here to VoteTo Eliminate White-only Clause

A court order is expected tobe entered soon involving ani n j u n c t i o n requested inconnection with Rogers' WallaWalla Inc.'s labor camp.

The injunction was sought bythe State Human RightsCommission last week in WallaWalla County Superior Court.

The commission asked that itsa g e n t s be p e r m i t t e dunrestricted access to about 200

Spanish-speaking workers at thecompany's labor camp for astudy of alleged discriminatorylabor practices.

A hearing was conducted at3:30 p.m. Friday in Judge"Albert N. Bradford's Court.

Court sources said it wasagreed by both Rogers and thecommission that a temporary-order would be entered.

permit t ing a commissionrepresentative and interpreterto interview workers at thecamp if the laborers agreed totalk with the two men.

The commmssion injunctionpetition said commission agentshad been refused unhampered

. admission to speak with thecamp residents, who areasparagus cutters.

It Did Reach 100 FridayA cold front moved into the

Walla Walla area Fridayevening, bringing coolertemperatures, gus^y winds anddropping some rain in North-eastern Oregon.

To the Tri-Cities area, itsmost notable contribution wasin stirring up dust. Gusty windskicked up dust east of Connell.making visibility limited, formotorists on Highway 260.

The State H i g h w a y

Department chose to ushermotorists Saturday through theworst spots on the roadway,instead of closing it to use.

The windstorm left poweroutages in Walla Walla Friday-evening. The wind recorder atthe National Weather Serviceo f f i c e he re i s ou t ofcommission, meterologist TomWeitzer reported. Winds up to29 miles per hour were recordedat City-County Airport Friday.

Weitzer said less wind isexpected todav.

The mercury, which reached100 degrees here Friday. haJreached only 71 Saturdayafternoon. The cooling trend isexpected to continue Sunday,with a high of 82 expected.

Some drops of rain fell in thearea. Weitzer said, mostimmeasurable. Pendletonr e c e i v e d .09 i n c h ofprecipitation and Hanford .01.

Food, Money, Stuffed Dog Stolen

The leader of the local Elkslodge agreed this week with aprediction that the organizationmay drop its whites-onlymembership policy.

Richard L. Moore, exalted-ruler of Walla Walla's BPOE287. also said he intends to voteagainst the exclusionarypractice at the Elks" nationalconvention in July.

"We have a lot of goodcharitable and philanthropicprograms that we wish tocontinue." Moore said.

Moore expressed the policychange opinion when askedabout remarks made by theincoming head of the nationalorganization. Robert Yothers.Seattle attorney.

Yothers said at the stateconvention in Pasco last weekthat he thought the restrictedm e m b e r s h i p w o u l d bediscontinued at the July-convention.

A similar belief has beenstated by Francis Smith,present grand exalted rulerfrom Sioux Falls. S.D.

He has urged nationalconvention delegates to vote to

change the memDersn iprestrictions.

"Our licenses (liquor andfood) are in jeopardy," Smithsaid.

"We need the licenses toretain the survival of thelodges."

Moore said it was the firsttime in his memory a grandexalted ruler had adviseddropping the whites-only policy.

He said he thought the ruler'sadvisory letter would have morebearing than anything else onsuch a vote at the nationalconvention.

A majority vote of the WallaWalla lodge last year favoreddropping the exclusionaryrestriction. Moore noted.

The new Elks lodge at 351East Rose will open tomorrow.

and the grand exalted ruler'sletter will be read to membersat a Tuesday meeting, he said.

Moore said the matter couldbe called for a vote at that time.

"But I don't see as it'snecessary" because of the smallnumber of persons who usuallyattend summer meetings.Moore said.

Another Elks Club member.Art Schoessler. said that in thematter of national conventionvoting, a local exalted ruler"normally is guided by hisconscience."

assignments from maximum orm e d i u m c u s t o d y to theminimum security building.

The embargo came after 23men escaped from MSB thisyear.

W e d n e s d a y ' s m e e t i n gincluded all employe staff withany affiliation with MSB. suchas counselors, correctionalofficers and work supervisors.

Mrs. Townsend said theclampdown on movement ofprisoners from inside the wallsto cells at MSB will continue atleast until after the presentlockup (total cell confinement)of all inmates in the main prisoncomplex.

WWCC SummerSchool Short

Students enrolled for the sixthsummer session at Walla WallaCommunity College number 345less than students enrolled lastsummer.

Friday Charles Cottingham,Dean of Admissions, said thepreliminary headcount was 539.The ful l- t ime equivalentstudents (F.T.E.'st was 231.2.compared to 363.8 in summer1972.

An F.T.E. is a unit whichdesignates a student carrying afull-time college load of 15credits three quarters of thevear.

Food, money and a stuffeddog are among items stolen in aseries of burglaries reported to -Walla Walla Police.

Detectives said Friday S165worth of food, a S200 emeraldring. S50 cash, a box of clothesand a new set of pots and panswere stolen from the apartmentof Marsha Sherrick. 329 Grape.

In addition, her dog and catwere turned loose, they said.

Mike Palmer. 532 >J. Sixth,told police a portable television

set and a three-foot high stuffeddog with the word "SEX"across its eyes were taken fromhis residence.

A 16-gauge double-barreledshotgun and two camerasvalued at about S38 are missingfrom the Ron Coursen home!721N. Sixth, police said.

Jem- Ledford. 338 S. Third,told officers $65 was stolen fromhis residence and Rolene Boyd.725 N. Sixth, is missing S60.

A boat burglary occurred at

August "Bud" Fix's house. 420Grove, said police.

The covering on Fix's boatwas cut and a tackle box andfour reels were taken.

Police said a candy andcigarette machine were priedopen in a recreation hall at theMelrose Arms.

A S35 coat and five cartons ofcigarettes were stolen from avan owned by -Jack Bush.Spokane, while the vehicle wasparked downtown.

Local Pharmacist ArrestedA co-owner of Central

Pharmacy, located at the Big Yshopping Center on West Rose,was arrested Saturday fordelivering drugs withoutprescriptions.

Bernard Ivan Sutliff, 44. 2363S. Wilbur, was arrested byWalla Walla County sheriff'sdeputies at 12:20 a.m. Saturday.

He was released on hispersona] recognizance by WallaWalla County Prosecutor ArtEggers.

Bail was originally set at$5,000.

Sutliff is charged in WallaWalla County Superior Courtwith one count of delivering adrug other than a controlledsubs t ance w i t h o u t aprescription and two counts ofdelivering controlled substanceswithout a prescription.

A controlled substance isdefined under state law as adrug or substance which maylead to abuse or physical or

mental dependence.The first charge involved the

drug Didrex and the second andthird counts were bothconcerned with phenmetrazir.e.sold under the trade nameEndurets. according to theSuperior Court informationfiled.

Didrex is listed as a moodelevator and phenmelrazine as astimulant.

"The arrest is the result oflengthy investigation bySheriff's Deputies Ron Kespohland Scolty Ray. in cooperationwith the* Federal Bureau ofN'arcostics and DangerousDrugs, the Washington StaleDrug Control Assistance Unit,the Washington State Board ofPharmacy and the Walla WallaCounty Prosecuting Attorney'soffice.'" said Sheriff Art Klundtin a prepared statement issuedSaturday.

The statement said furtherinvestigation is continuing and

additional arrests will be niade."More detail cannot be

supplied because of the natureof the case and the many areasof involvement." Klundt added.

The arrest was made after aprolonged search of thepharmacy which began with thestore's closure by officials lateFridav afternoon.

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