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IP' 32 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW AND SPOKANE CHRONICLE Tuesday, March 5, 1991, Spokane, Wash. CONTINUED: FROM B1 Good deal for 'Louie, Louie' fans REGIONAL DIGEST FPO STAFF REPORTS Capsules Two teenagers charged in Apple Cup bomb scare KEYFFM has always tried to be innovative and progressive." The station, at 101.1 on the FM dial, started playing "Louie Louie" at midnight Sunday. Anderson said they are playing dozens of versions of the song, including one classical version set to the tune of Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus." However, on Monday listeners were treated mostly to the Kingsmen's 1963 hit version. He said they will keep it up as "long as it retains its viability" which an unbiased observer might interpret as about 212 minutes. However, Anderson said he "guaranteed" that if you tune in the station today, you'll still hear "Louie Louie." Anderson won't say what format KEYFFM will adopt after the "Louie Louie" binge, but one thing is clear: the station's New Age, acoustic and jazz-fusion format is dead.

Anderson said the station had many loyal listeners, but had trouble attracting advertisers. "Our biggest problem was getting ad agencies to consider that type of format," said Anderson. "We gave it a couple of years, and the audience grew to a certain point and that was it." By Jim Kerstmer Staff writer KEYF-FM, formerly Spokane's New Age and progressive adult contemporary radio station, has gone on a binge of playing "Louie Louie" and Louie and Louie and Louie and Louie Randy Anderson, KEYF-FM programming and operations director, said the station is now the nation's first "all 'Louie Louie' station" 24 hours a day, seven days a week. "Where the 'Louie Louie' just keeps on corning!" crowed an announcer between songs. Anderson insists with a straight face that "Louie Louie" is the station's future.

He denied it was a publicity stunt. However, radio stations have been known to do almost anything to get some quick attention, especially if they want to change their image and prepare listeners for a major format change. "Their purpose is to stir up a lot of speculation and confusion," said Don Morin, general manager of KZZUFM. Anderson seemed shocked at such a suggestion. About the new format, he said, "It's a new way of thinking.

COLFAX The Whitman County prosecutor issued criminal charges Monday for two men allegedly responsible for planting a smoke bomb in Martin Stadium before the Nov. 17 Apple Cup football game. Dirk Van Velzen, 19, of Bothell, and James Eller, 18, of Bremerton, are each charged with second-degree reckless endangerment, a gross misdemeanor, and disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor. Eller, a Washington State University student, faces the charges by allegedly being an accomplice of Van Velzen, a former WSU student who police say built the remote-control "smoke generator." The device was found taped beneath a bench in the student section less than an hour before the scheduled kickoff between WSU and the University of Washington. The game was delayed 45 minutes while hundreds of students were evacuated and a Whitman County Sheriffs deputy disarmed the device.

WSU police arrested Van Velzen and Eller in December after the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms provided them with a list of bomb parts traced to a local Radio Shack electronics store. Police then used store records to track down Van Velzen, Eller and two other suspects later cleared. CONTINUED: FROM B1 Doctor whether Knitter is sincere, but only whether the request for a discharge was properly considered by the Air Force, McNichols said. In the meantime, Knitter plans to keep treating patients at Fairchild's hospital but not to take part in any military activity. "He can't wait until the court makes a final decision," said Halley after Knitter declined to comment outside the courtroom.

"Thousands of casualties recently have made a deep impression on him, and he feels that identifying himself with the Air Force or performing military-type activity would put him in a position of participating in that." Halley added that he didn't feel the case was moot because the war is over. Air Force officials made a similar argument two years ago, he said, noting there was no war when they turned down Knitter's request for conscientious status. Knitter's claims opposing war aren't credible. Rather, it contends he knew a military doctor is part of the overall military mission when he accepted the scholarship. The doctor has offered to repay his scholarship and serve out his tour of duty as a doctor for a public health agency.

"Repayment is not the issue here. The Air Force has money," Shively said. "The Air Force has money, but they have a lot of credit," said U.S. District Judge Robert McNichols. "The Air Force has money," Shively repeated.

"It doesn't have doctors." McNichols, who said he would rule on the request for an injunction this week, called the case extremely difficult. It was possible to envision a situation where "almost anyone would be able to get out" after going through basic training by claiming to be a conscientious objector, he said. The law doesn't allow him to judge Driver charged in death of woman Authorities charged a Plummer, Idaho, man Monday with felony vehicular manslaughter after a weekend accident in which his car struck and killed a Spokane woman who was walking alongside a highway. An Idaho State Police trooper investigating the death alleged that Francis J. Frank, 29, was driving under the influence of alcohol early Saturday when his auto hit Marilyn Brown, 19.

The accident occurred about a mile east of Plummer on state Highway 5. Frank is being held in Benewah County Jail in lieu of $20,000 bail. The accident occurred about 2 a.m. Saturday, ISP Cpl. Marshall Thorp said.

The trooper said Brown was walking east along the highway when Frank's compact car struck her from behind. Brown died at the scene, Thorp said. Thorp said two women who were riding with Frank told investigators they had been drinking with Frank at a bar in Plummer just before the accident. Thorp said Frank submitted to blood tests, and the trooper said he's awaiting the results. Thorp said he was still trying to find out why the woman was walking along the road.

She reportedly was visiting family in the Plummer area. Knitter completed his last two years of medical school on an Air Force scholarship, which required him to serve in the military until the end of August. After completing his medical residency, he went on active duty with the Air Force and attended a course in treating combat casualties. It was at that point, he says in his lawsuit, that his objection to war "crystalized." Earlier this year, Knitter filed the lawsuit and obtained a temporary order that kept him from being sent overseas with Operation Desert Storm while the case was before the court. But the Air Force says that has put a strain on the system, which has few anesthesiologists.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Shively said the Air Force isn't saying A state toxicology lab official said Monday that tests on victim Kathleen Daneker, who died Feb. 11, took two weeks longer than usual. The FBI and FDA did not learn Daneker died with cyanide and Sudafed in her system until late Friday, 18 days after her death. Sudafed warnings were issued a day later.

David Predmore, toxicology lab supervisor, told KOMO-TV that tests that usually take two days took more than two weeks in the case of Daneker, 40. Predmore said he could not explain the delay. In one sign of how difficult it is to detect cyanide poisoning, one of the victims, Stanley McWhorter, 44, of Lacey, was deemed to have been healthy enough just before death that his organs were transplanted to five patients. The cyanide has not affected the organs, which are functioning well, said Dr. Christopher Blagg of the Northwest Organ Procurment Agency, which handled the transfers.

One of the recipients died of causes unrelated to cyanide poisoning, according to an autopsy. The operations happened before it was known that McWhorter, who died Feb. 18, had been poisoned with cyanide. Although the organs were not screened for cyanide, Blagg said he believed they were not tainted, because the poison leav6 the body relatively quickly. In addition, all donor organs are flushed with fluid to remove blood from them prior to transplanting.

"What worries me more is the public perception," he said. "We have more than 22,000 patients in this country awaiting organ transplants, and it is important that this unfortunate occurrence in no way adversely affect organ donation." The manufacturers of Sudafed, Burroughs Wellcome Co. of Research Triangle Park, N.C., said Monday they were considering dropping the capsule form of their product. A similar measure was taken by the makers of Tylenol and the makers of Extra Strength Excedrin after capsules of the medication were tainted in separate incidents in 1982 and 1986. Despite such voluntary steps and other required changes in the way all over-the-counter medications are packaged, there remains no such thing as a tamper-proof product, officials said.

"Consumers have let their guard down because of all the changes, but they still have a responsibility to look things over after a purchase," said Sue Hutchcroft, a spokeswoman for the Food and Drug Administration. Richard Thurston, a spokesman for the FBI in Seattle, said, "Anybody who buys a product that is supposed to have been safety sealed should look twice to make sure nothing has changed." The bureau on Monday took over the investigation of the latest tampering cases. A Sudafed capsule, if tampered with, would look different from the likeness which appears on the outside of the box, Thurston said. Thurston said officials were unsure just how the capsules were contami nated. The Sudafed capsules, labeled "safety sealed," had three protections against tampering one step beyond state and federal law.

Some officials here say the foiled backing may have been slipped back with a razor blade, the capsules injected with a needle, and the foil then resealed. It has been nearly a decade since seven people in Illinois were killed by cyanide-laced Tylenol in the first big case of non-prescription drug tampering. Since then, manufacturers have gone to great lengths to protect their products. Tampering that results in a death became a federal offense. CONTINUED: FROM B1 Badger Southwestern Washington shaken VANCOUVER, Wash.

A mild earthquake early today rattled residents near this southwestern Washington town but no damage was reported, a geophysicist said. The 12:41 a.m. PST quake had a preliminary magnitude of 3 on the Richter scale, said Steve Malone, research professor at the University of Washington Geophysics Center in Seattle. The quake was centered near the Columbia River about 9 miles north of Vancouver and 17 miles north of Portland. Several residents in the Vancouver area reported feeling the temblor, Malone said.

Quakes of 3.0 magnitude are unlikely to cause significant damage. "1 don't think it's that common for them to be in this area, but magnitude 3 quakes can occur anywhere in Western Washington," Malone said. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one number means a tenfold increase in magnitude. Thus a reading of 4 reflects an earthquake 10 times stronger than one of 3.

An earthquake of 3.5 on the Richter scale can cause slight damage in a local area. The 1964 Alaska quake that killed 131 people measured on the Richter scale. Tom France of the National Wildlife Federation said the search for oil below the Badger-Two Medicine. can't be justified, "even if the greatest pool in the world is under there." The federation appealed the two previous decisions on the Fina well. France said there are "real holes" in the most recent environmental analysis, and that no action the government could require of oil companies could make up for the impact of drilling and road-building.

There are no roads near the Fina well site. However, it is officially outside of the Badger-Two Medicine Road less Area, which contains the even more controversial Chevron site 12 miles away. Fina's new permit allows it to build 4.5 miles of access road. However, Gorman's decision includes seven pages of actions the company must take to minimize environmental damage. If the well comes up dry, the road and well pad must be reclaimed "to as near natural conditions as possible." Documents filed with the Forest Service ran nine to one against the drilling, Gorman said, while signatures on petitions ran "probably 50- 50." Republicans Sen.

Conrad Burns and Rep. Ron Marlenee support the exploration, while Democrats Rep. Pat Williams and Sen. Max Baucus oppose it, Gorman said. County governments support the drilling; the National Park Service and Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks have both objected.

The Badger-Two Medicine was designated as a wilderness study area under the Montana wilderness bill, which was vetoed by President Reagan in 1988. been a sacred ground they have used for vision quests, for gathering plants and animals that comprise their various medicine bundles," said association attorney Jack Tuholske. "The Sun Dance has been held on the shores of Badger Creek. The Black-feet place very high importance of the purity of that water, which they feel would be degraded by any activity of this sort." The association plans to file an administrative appeal of the decision, which it must do by mid-April under Forest Service regulations. Tuholske said the group will sue if the appeal is denied.

"You would think given the massive amount of opposition and the pretty high legal hurdles, you think they might leave well enough alone," he said. Tuholske said it was his personal opinion that proponents of drilling "are going to find an extremely sympathetic ear up high in the Bush administration." Fallon, of the petroleum association, disagreed. "We haven't seen a lot of emphasis from the Bush administration on exploration," she said. The Badger-Two Medicine lies above a geologic formation called the overthrust, which Fallon described as "a richly, richly producing area in Alberta and Wyoming." "There's a gas field in Canada less than 50 miles north of the border that has produced more natural gas in 35 years than the state of Montana has in 75," she said. Fina General Manager Richard Lindley called the permit approval encouraging, but because of potential lawsuits doesn't expect the project to come off the company's back burner soon.

"At the time the permit was applied for, it was a fairly good prospective area for us," said the Oklahoma City executive. "It's kind of new and untested territory along a productive trend. It's an environmentally sensitive area and also a very expensive area to drill." Lilac princess chosen at G-Prep The first of 12 Lilac princesses was selected Monday night at Gonzaga Prep, Lilac Festival officials said. Judges picked Taryn Michelle Brinson, 17, of Spokane from a group of five finalists nominated by the school. Taryn, the daughter of Tim and Megan Brinson, is a cheerleader and a member of the tennis team, said John Tombari, one of 99 Lilac Festival directors.

She is a senior and a member of the National Honor Society. Brinsoh is planning on enrolling in the University of Washington's business program next year, Tombari said. Contestants are chosen based on personal interviews, prepared speeches and their answers to impromptu questions. Princesses for 11 other Spokane high schools will be selected at separate programs over the next three weeks. The Badger-Two Medicine lies within Lewis and Clark National Forest and is prime habitat for grizzly bears and gray wolves, both protected under the Endangered Species Act.

In addition to Glacier Park, it is adjacent to the Great Bear Wilderness, Bob Marshall Wilderness and Black-feet Indian Reservation. Fina Oil and Chemical Co. applied to drill there in 1983. The U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management gave the necessary joint approval in 1985.

That decision was appealed, as was a second permit approved in 1987. The Fina application then was combined with one from Chevron USA for joint environmental impact studies. On Feb. 19, the Fina exploration was again approved. Lewis and Clark Forest Supervisor John Gorman, who signed the Fina decision notice, said Monday that it could be fall before a decision is announced regarding the Chevron well.

There are no roads near the Fina well site. However, it is officially outside of the Badger-Two Medicine Road less Area, which contains the even more controversial Chevron site 12 miles away. The potential drilling has made national headlines, in large part because of concerns raised by many Blackfeet Indians. "It's been a very emotional issue for some of the tribal members. It is a religious question for some of the people up there.

We've recognized that for a long time and tried to work with them," Gorman said. The Pikuni Traditionalist Association organized three years ago to light development of the Badger-Two Medicine. The group of Blackfeet tribal members was among the 39 organizations that commented on, and overwhelmingly criticized, the environmental impact statement written for the proposed exploration. "To the Blackfeet, this area has 4' 4' 44 Dynamite found during drug raid A 43-year-old man was arrested Monday when officials raided an lone home and seized drugs and explosives, authorities said. lone police, with assistance from the Pend Oreille County Sheriffs Department, served a search warrant at a residence in the 800 block of Houghton around 7:30 p.m., said Pend Oreille County Sheriff Doug Malby.

A "small amount" of cocaine, 20 sticks of dynamite and 40 blasting caps were found, officials said. Members of the Spokane County bomb squad were called to dispose of the explosives, officials said. Daniel Boggs of lone was arrested and booked on charges of storage of explosives in a dwelling and endangering lifeproperty, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. 1 1 I 9 1 1 rpropr GET FIT NOW SAVE! GET FIT NOW SAVE! (11 $10 DOWN Only $9,13 per mo. HURRY! This is a limited offer.

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Maureen Anderson, Vice Provost for Student Affairs at Washington State University, said the school supports the intent of the bill, but feels student involvement and education is the key to reducing liquor consumption on campus. Rep. Mike Heavey, D-Seattle, the bill's sponsor, said he is "very serious" about addressing the issue but that he would not seek passage of the bill this session. I LI 00141 Spokane's 1 Super Spas! 1 For healthy Happy Trees Shrubs Dormant Spray Now Before the Insects get Active Special Season Care Packages Available 0. IL4r s''.

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Along with the extra helicopters, the local guard unit will expand from 53 people to 71 people. The unit, formerly the 84Ist Medical Detachment, is now part of the guard's 66th Aviation Brigade, which has its headquarters at Fort Lewis. The new helicopters are better able to help with search and rescue missions and to aid law enforcement in the drug war, said Brig. Gen. Herbert G.

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