2 Walla Walla Union-Bulletin Thursday, May 5,1977

Olds expected to arrivein Umatilla jail by FridayBy JOMORELANDOl the Unw. fjullHin

Michael Andrew Olds will probably be in theUmatilla County Jail by Friday night-

The 34-year-old Walla Walla man is to be releasedearly Friday to Oregon law-enforcement officers intime for a morning plane flight from Pittsburgh,Pa.

That is where the Washington State Penitentiaryparolee was captured April 11 after a nine-daycrime wave that began in the Northwest.

Olds waived extradition Tuesday to be returned toOregon to face multiple murder and kidnapingcharges.

Two agents from the Oregon State Police and theUmatilla County sheriff's department flew toPittsburgh Wednesday to get the suspect.

•'We're going to turn over certain physicalevidence to them in court this afternoon," MichaelDalfonso, assistant district attorney of Penn-sylvania's Allegheny County, said today.

"This was evidence that was obtained here and itjust might possibly tie in with the Oregon cases."

Olds is charged in Umatilla County with the April

'We're going to turn overcertain physical evidenceto them (Oregon officers)in court this afternoon.This was evidence that wasobtained here and it justmight possibly tie inwith the Oregon cases.'

— Michael Dalfonso,assistant district attorney

in Pennsylvania county

3 shooting death of Walla Walla cab driver Steven F.Schmerer, 23,22 Myra Road, College Place.

The suspect is also charged with the April 6kidnaping of farm worker Marion J. "Nick" Riley,73, of Pendleton.

Morrow County charges of kidnaping andunauthorized use of a vehicle have been broughtagainst Olds in the April 6 kidnaping of widow MaryEmily Lindsay, 75, of lone, Ore.

Her body, shot once, was found the next day 50miles east of Burns, Ore., in Malheur County. Oldsis charged in that county with her murder.

Dalfonso said he has a warrant from JeromeCounty, Idaho, against Olds.

The suspect is charged there with second-degreekidnaping in the April 7 abduction of Grace Davis,63, of Hazelton, Idaho.

Riley and Mrs. Davis were released unharmedApril 7 in Brigham City, Utah.

The Idaho warrant will be given to the Oregonofficers along with Olds, Dalfonso said.

Oregon prosecutors involved in the case areexpected to confer Friday about where Olds will betried first.

Pennsylvania has deferred its charges of kid-naping, assault and firearms violation against Oldsto await the outcome of the Oregon charges.

The Pennsylvania counts were filed in connectionwith the April 11 kidnaping of an Albany, N.Y.,couple and their 7-year-old son at gunpoint in thePittsburgh area.

Dalfonso said if Olds is convicted of the Oregoncharges, Pennsylvania will probably not prosecutehim.

U 8 photo by Ron Carlson

Hospital officialsoppose cost limitsBy GLEN GIBBONS Jt0) thw Urton Bul!* in

Government-imposed limits onhospital costs may be a popularremedy to inflation ills, but WallaWalla hospital administrators wouldconsider the approach bittermedicine.

President Carter last weekproposed a limit of nine per cent onannual increases in hospital rates.

Nationally, the cost of hospitalservices has been jumping 15 per centannually, although Washington heldits increase to 10 per cent last year.

"The remedy isn't putting a pricefreeze or ceiling cap (on charges) forhospital services," said B. JoeYounker, administrator for St. MaryCommunity Hospital, 401 W. PoplarSt.

He said many costs included inhospital bills — labor, medical sup-plies, utilities — were beyond thecontrol of individual hospitals.

"Hospital service is the endproduct," Younker said. "To controlthat, I think, is impossible."

He was joined in those sentimentsby Ron Sackett, administrator forWalla Walla General Hospital, 933Bonsella St.

"The state of the art — medicalpractice itself — changes, whichrequires new techniques, newprocesses, new treatments, thataffect the cost of care," Sackett said.

"One of the reasons that Americaoffers the best medical care in theworld is the advance in technology."

He said controls on hospital rateswould follow the pattern of earlierefforts on price controls: A short-term dam on rate increases, then thelifting of controls because of public

demand, followed by a large-scalecost escalation.

Both administrators praised therate-control efforts of the WashingtonState Hospital Commission, whichthey said had caused lower-than-average increases during recentyears.

Carter's proposal "doesn't haveanything in there to reward peoplewho are doing a good job," Sackettsaid.

He said hospital costs are lower andthe length of stay shorter in this areathan the statewide average.

Younker said he believed rate in-creases will benefit from a taperingoff in labor-cost increases, which hasoccurred in Washington lately.

Hospital wages went up only six percent last year, rather than the nineper cent in previous years, he said.

"For many years hospital em-ployes were, quite frankly, underpaidcompared to industrial workers. Wehave a need for very competent,technically educated people in themedical field as equipment andprocesses become moresophisticated."

Younker blamed part of the causefor the recent price increases onprivacy-seeking patients who expectconveniences and service.

"A patient expects a lot thesedays," he said. "In excess of 80 percent of patients want a privateroom."

That increases nursing costs andexpenditures for furnishings andconstruction.

"You don't find hospitals built witheight- or ten-person wards anymore,because American people don't wantthem," Younker said.

Highway speedersfacing crackdown

Chris Hoyer, 433 S. Eighth Ave., takes a close look at someX rays of the cervical spine during a visit to the Health Fairdisplay at the Eastgate Mall. Fair visitors can also have theirblood pressure tested, learn about nutrition, view a film on

dental hygiene and see an assortment of medical equip-ment. The fair runs through Friday and emphasizes servicesavailable locally.

Oregon and Washington highwaylaw-enforcement officers have joinedto bring stricter enforcement of the55-mile-per- hour speed limit.

A team of two, representing theWalla Walla detachment of theWashington State Patrol and theMilton-Freewater detachment of .theOregon State Police have launched a"public awareness" program.

California, Arizona and Nevada arealso part of the regional campaign toget motorists to heed the nationalspeed limit.

The local team is Sgt. PeteO'Laughlin of the Walla Walladetachment and Cpl. Larry Davidsonof the Milton-Freewater detachment.

The two men will share speakers'rostrums at several meetings thismonth.

"We are using every way we can todrive home the importance of allmotorists heeding the 55-mile limit,"

O'Laughlin said.Both officers said stricter en-

forcement has already been launchedby the two agencies and each has alsostarted the campaign to make thepublic aware of the need.

May has been designated as "55MPH Compliance Month" byWashington Gov. Dixy Lee Ray.

"It is in our best interest to observethe limit and conserve fuel wasted byspeed limit abuse and the manpowerresources lost as a result of highwaycollisions," she said.

Both O'LaughlL. and Davidson saidthe need for more compliance wasgreat as motorists have graduallyincreased speeds on many of theregion's highways since start of the55-mile-per-hour speed limit.

Biggest problem area for speedingis on the secondary roads aroundWalla Walla, the troopers said.

Barges start taking Community garden to escape gophersfish past river dams

Two special barges begin the jobtoday of moving ocean-bound youngsteelhead and salmon around Snakeand Columbia river dams.

It's part of a $714,000 projectbudgeted by the Walla Walla District,U. S. Army Corps of Engineers to getabout eight million of the young fishthrough the dams.

Extreme drought conditions havelowered the river levels and the fishwould be forced to pass throughturbines at the dams, chopping upmost of them.

About 650,000 of the fingerlings areexpected to be moved today fromLewiston and the Lower Granite Dam30 miles downstream and releasedinto the Columbia below BonnevilleDam.

Fish are being moved from theDworshak National Fish Hatcherynear Orofino. Idaho, by truck to onebarge at I^ewiston.

In addition to the barges, the corpswill be using other tank trucks and aseaplane to move migrating smolts tothe Columbia below Bonneville Dam.

calendarTonight's events

l.a Grande Single Adults. 7 p.m.organizational potluck-meetinn. I,aGrande Community ("enter, 808Adams Ave.: bring potluck dish andtable sen-ice.

Beta Sigma Phi. Gamma DeltaChapter. 7 30 p.m. with .'ill Becker.1455 Ixnu-ii Drive; program by SandjSmith.' F( iinorm ."

1-a U-rhi- Ix-ague. 8 p m withDorothj .inrkson. Route 3. Box 3041/anedi'ii Ko.id

Lo-Wa-To Bridge Club. 8 p.m withVinzene'lnlbott

Musk ah "Girl Crazy." 8 p mcurtain, liarper Jo> Theatre. Whit-man College Campus

Pomero> School Hoard. 8 p m .Pomeroy High School

TOPS" WA 4IS. 7 p m . St. MaryCommunity Hospital.

Voiturc locale 271, l>a Sorietc desyuarante Hommes el Hurt Chevaux, 8p m , DcLuca's Restaurant; 7 p.m.dinner to precede meeting,nomina t ions for o f f i ce r s anddelegates to promenade m PortlandMa>*13tol5

Walla Walla '59ers, 7.30p m . WallaWalla Area Chamber of Ci-mmcrceResource Room: 7 p.m boardmeeting

Walla Walla Regional PlanningCommission. 7:30 p.m.. City Hall.Third Avenue and Rose Street

Friday's eventsChurch Women United, noon Maj

Fellowship luncheon. First

Congregational Church. Alder andPalouse streets: the Rev. James Bell,pastor of the First PresbyterianChurch, to speak: "Gifts to claim:"Elizabeth McGoodwin. soloist.

Musical: "Girl Cra?y," 8 p.m.curtain. Harper Joy Theatre. Whit-man College campus

Comedy: "The Remarkable Mr.Pennypacker." 8:20 p m curtain.Little Theatre. 1130 E. Sumach St.

Saturday's eventsBaha'i Faith fireside. 7.30 p m . 978

HobsonSt.Benefit Yard Sale. 10am to 4 p m .

l«reen Park School, sponsored b>school's Third Grade Class to benefitKlucMt Humane Societ>

Comedy: "The Remarkable Mr.Penn> parker." 8 20 p.m curtain.1 -ittle" Theatre, 1130 K Sumach St

Golden Agers. 8 p m dance.Washington Community Bide.. 334 NNinth Ave . refreshments and bineo

Job'*, Daughters public installation.8 p m . Masonic Temple. 607 E. MainSt . reieptnn to follow in Masonicdininc room wi th refreshments

PEO. C\ Chapter. 1 pm dessertwith Msnlois Hulc>. Country ClubRoad

t'matilla Count? Pomona GrangeNo. 26. 10 .in a rn session. Hudson'sHa> Grance Hall, "-i mile westVmapme Srhc^l. noon potluckfollowed h\ ] 30 pm memorialsen ice. Mare Schubert directing, fp m potluck. .lf-e DuPuis of Stan-field, presidint; Pomona master

If you don't have much money, youmight be able to keep that bareMother Hubbard look from thecupboard by growing some of yourown food this summer.

And this year Walla Walla'scommunity-garden participantswon't have to grapple with thegophers for the crops.

"We're coordinating with WallaWalla Community College this year,"says Shelley Von Essen, BlueMountain Action Council (BMAC)assistant director.

"We have space in the garden for 20low-income families "

The garden land will be in thecommunity college area in a spotformerly used to raise Klickerstrawberries, she says.

The project is being operated as acollege truck-gardening class at acost of $20 per family, payable overfour months.

"That covers six college credits andthree workshops." Ms. Von Essensays.

two of the workshops will be aboutcanning and freezing food.

The gardeners wil l be given thematerials and instructions to bmld

their own home dryer — which theywill keep—at the third workshop.

About 15 crops will be grown, in-cluding cucumbers, tomatoes, corn,squash, berries, lettuce, cabbage,peas, beans, broccoli and spinach.

Plants, seeds, pesticides, fer-tilizers, tools and the land will all beprovided to participants in the June 6to Sept. 2 project.

Applicants should notify Ms. VonEssen at BMAC immediately ifthey're interested.

Participants will be selected on afirst-come, first-served basis, ac-cording to their level of need.

"It's not an individual plot for eachfamily," Ms. Von Essen says.

"It's a cooperative plot. Theamount of produce you take homedepends on the amount of work youput into it."

The community garden has beenoperated in the past on a piece of city-owned land at the south end of FortWalla Walla Park.

Ms. Von Essen says the city is nowusing that land for a sod farm.

"It'll be well-aerated with all thegophers there, that's for sure," shesays.

Vocational Trails' needs male dancerseducationtour on tap

The spotlight will be on vocationaleducation at a Walla Walla SchoolDistrict open house Friday.

The public is invited to visit theschool district's vocational educationbuilding at 325 S. Park St. Fridayfrom 8 a.m. to 3 p m Visitors maytour the building and observe classesin session.

In the auto mechanics section,students are offering car washes andsteam cleaning at S2.50 per sen-iceBoth activities are part of the reeularauto mechanics curriculum.

The open house is sponsored b>vocational education club memberswho arc promoting a bond levy for anew vocational education buildingThe election will be held Way 17.

The students have been making anddistnbutinc signs for the lev} thisweek

Participating clubs are FutureFarmers of America. FutureHomcmakcrs of America. FutureBusiness Leaders of America.Distributive Education Clubs ofAmerica and Vocational IndustrialClubs of Amen ca

The student committee includesCharlotte Nessen. Tamm> Ponti.Kath> Pence. Dave Nicholson.Marlene McCasIm. Neil Cochran,Matt Seelmger. Blame Duvall. DaveGratton. Bud Freeland. Donna Neissland Sharon Hui

There are still openings for male dancers in "TrailsWest."

Men who would like to audition for dancing parts in theWalla Walla Outdoor Drama Inc. production are invited toaudition Saturday from 2 to 5 p.m. at Harper Joy Theatre,Whitman College.

Dancers are among the play personnel who will be paid,according to Tern- McConn, "Trails West" officemanager.

Auditions for unpaid singing-acting parts will also beconducted Saturday at the theater.

WW youth to reignA Bemey School pupil will be the king of the 1977 benefit

football game for the Shriner's Hospital for CrippledChildren in Spokane.

Crowning of Stephen Sundberg. 7. will come Friday at a

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special ladies Night function of the Blue Mountain ShnneClub, according to E. R. "M;ke" Hess, president.

Stephen is the son of Dennis Sundberg. 1436 UniversitySt. and Vicki Block, 506 Holly St

Stephen suffered a clubfoot deformity at birth whichwas corrected with surgery in his first year at the Shrinehospital, followed by continuing care after that

He is in the first grade at Befney School.

Waitsburg pool prices risaWAITSBURG — A dip in Waitsburg's swimming pool

will cost about twice as murh this year for season passes.

blue mountain briefingThe Waitsburg City Council Wednesday hiked the rates

of season tickets from $7.50 to $15 for individuals.Family tickets were $15 last year. They will be $25 this

summer.The price of daily individual tickets will remain the

same at 50 cents a swim.Increased prices for paint, chlorine and pool main-

tenance were given as the reason for the price increase.In other business, the council granted a $35,000 building

permit to the Green Giant Co. for construction of a metal,prefabricated building at the cannery here.

The building will be used for storage, according to acompany spokesman.

Circus coming to townA group of performers whose manager admits thev are

paid in "peanuts" is coming to Walla Walla.Three herds of elephants are part of the "tons of fun"

promised at the Continental Circus, appearing May 12 atthe Southeastern Washington Fairgrounds.

Shows will be presented at 4:30 and 8 p.m. Tickets willbe available at the gate one hour before each per-formance.

The American Continental Circus features more thanone hundred performers and as many wild animals intheir three-ring show. Acrobats, highwire artists, trapezedaredevils, jugglers, bareback riders, trained lions andtwo troupes of chimr izees are among the entertainers.

Artists to get awardsAwards in the Walla Walla Art dub's Student Juried

Art Show will be presented at 2 p.m. Saturday at CarnegieCenter of the Arts. 109 S. PalouseSt

£ tS*?**™^?1?^?*** " * f**™* <* the studentexhibition will be held from I to 3 p.m.

Ninety entries from Walla Walla County junior andsenior high school students were submitted f» the Am.