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Good evening this is the Cairo Evening News I'm Gary Justice.
The controversy is heating up and may already be at the boiling point.
Seattle School Board member Ellen Rose started it with some remarkable remarks in a newspaper
interview.
Remarks some community leaders view as sexist and racist.
Our education specialist Essex Porter has the latest.
Ellen Rose controversial statements come in the July issue of the Lake City News.
She is described as saying women are too temperamental and petty to hold positions of authority.
Rose is quoted as saying I wouldn't hire women.
Her comments are especially timely because the school board has just begun looking for
a new superintendent of schools.
Ruth Balfe chairs the education task force for the Seattle chapter of the National Organization
for Women.
I'd like to see the school board make a public statement to the fact that that's not a school
board position.
That's her personal bias and I would like to see if there's some way that she can be
eliminated from the decision making process because she so clearly is going to discriminate
against any woman applying for the job.
Rose comments against racial busing also provoke criticism.
The article quotes her as saying what happens when you put a child whose mother is a prostitute
in Holly Park together with a boy like mine whose parents and grandparents take him everywhere.
Rosalind Woodhouse is head of the Seattle Urban League.
That is very nearly a concentration camp mentality that says that if it so happens that you are
born or live in a certain locale you will have to stay there, you will have to not have
opportunities to improve yourself through our educational system.
Woodhouse says she would not be surprised to hear loud calls for Rose's resignation.
The thought that this may affect the way the school board makes a decision is frightening
that we haven't come any further than that, that there are still people who have those
kinds of attitudes and especially when that's coming from a woman who is perpetuating those
sexist and racist attitudes makes a person throw up their hands in disgust.
Ironically Rose's daughter Rebecca is a senior King County prosecutor and Rose herself attended
integrated schools in Seattle.
Ellen Rose was out of town today but when asked by reporters last night she confirmed
the accuracy of the article.
While reaction and action is still forming to Ellen Rose's comments one thing is certain
they won't be soon forgotten.
Essex Porter Cairo, Eyewitness News.
People in and around Wenatchee are shocked that the owner of a daycare center accused
of molesting children is escaping prosecution.
Prosecutors declined to file charges against James McKinley because they say it would be
difficult to prove the case.
And because the children involved are so young, too young to testify credibly.
The accusations were brought by six families whose children range in age from one to four.
The owner of the daycare center denies the charges.
Some Puget Sound area daycare centers are in trouble.
Insurance companies have hit the daycare industry with very big rate increases.
Rate increases that threaten to put some of the centers out of business.
That story from Linda Coldiner.
The daycare business is crying over high insurance rates.
Preschool and daycare centers are being hit with increases of anywhere from 50 to 500
percent and some companies won't even insure daycare centers anymore.
Why all of a sudden are daycare centers considered a high risk proposition?
One of the biggest reasons is the nationwide scare over child abuse.
The McMartin Preschool in California, site of one of the biggest child abuse scandals
ever.
There were more than fours of children charging they were sexually abused by teachers who
tortured and killed animals as a warning not to tell.
Cases like this, added to the increased emphasis on reporting child abuse, have the insurance
industry running scared.
Jeff Beyer says a child abused in a Washington state daycare center could wait until he's
21 to sue.
This again is something that insurance companies find a little bit frightening.
That when they write that policy and they set the premium they have no idea what kind
of payments they could be facing even 15 or 20 years down the road.
Daycare insurance rates haven't gone up in almost 10 years.
Now those rates are jumping all at once.
But there's another problem.
What's of more concern to me is that we're seeing limits to how much coverage we can
get and we're seeing exclusions for specifically for child abuse and for off premises liability
which allows us to take field trips.
In the end, Pearson says, the concern over child abuse may result in fewer daycare centers
and curtailed services.
And that in a way could make everybody here a victim.
Linda Coldiron, Cairo, Eyewitness News.
Court ruling today that could end up in the United States Supreme Court before we hear
the last of it.
It is about tolls on the Hood Canal Bridge.
Federal Judge Jack Tanner in Tacoma says the state should stop collecting tolls on that
bridge immediately.
Tanner agreed with bridge users that the state should not have put a toll back on the bridge
after it sank and then was rebuilt.
Cascade Airways is being bought up by its chief competitor on service to Northwest City,
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For now, Horizon plans to operate the two airlines separately with few scheduled changes.
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Black Sheep Squadron, they're not just fighter pilots.
They're the best.
Robert Conrad leads the Black Sheep Squadron Saturday at 5.
Governor Gardner told a congressional subcommittee in Washington, D.C. today he thinks the public
confidence it has is at an all time low when it comes to choosing a site for a permanent
nuclear waste dump.
But it seems to him that the energy department is more concerned with deadlines than with
choosing the right site.
Governor Gardner recommended that Congress wait and before doing anything else appoint
a panel to study all the evidence and rate each site.
Governor says that something's wrong when Hanford and Nevada automatically made the
finals without any further study.
While Congress was handed another major Northwest issue today, it is a plan for customers of
the Bonneville Power Administration to buy the PPA from the federal government and run
it themselves.
Kairos Charles Sherrill reports from Washington, D.C. that the proposal has support from members
of the Washington and Oregon congressional delegations.
We know Peter Johnson is about to settle the IOU.
Oregon Congressman James Weaver created the plan that calls for electric users in the
region to buy out PPA's assets and run the system through an elected governing body.
It's the biggest taxing authority in the Northwest.
I want the people in control of it.
Senator Dan Evans, former chairman of the Pacific Northwest Regional Power Council, says Weaver's
plan has merit.
The big obstacle, he says, is persuading members of Congress to sell the system for a price
that would-be buyers could afford to pay.
They believe that, and I think rightly so, that Bonneville is worth a whole lot more
of the facilities than their original cost and that they were going to sell it, would
want to sell it for either replacement value or current value or the value based on the
power produced and what it could be sold for.
Under those circumstances, we'd be hard pressed to find the money to pay for it.
Weaver says a fair price would be somewhere in the $4 to $8 billion range, but a widely
publicized federal study last year set the figure at about $15 billion.
Evans says the higher amount is closer to what lawmakers would want if they'd even consider
Weaver's proposition.
His proposal, as presented, certainly isn't likely to pass any time soon, but it may be
influential in creating some other kinds of change that will be beneficial.
Weaver thinks the effort is worth making even if it does nothing but stimulate debate.
I'm going to hold a hearing and I'm going to get the utility heads of these utilities,
these public utilities and other spokesmen in the Northwest, and say, do you want the
people of the Northwest to control Bonneville, the largest taxing authority in the Northwest,
or don't you?
And make them say, oh no, I want the federal government back in Washington to control our
destiny.
Weaver's credibility sometimes suffers from his confrontational approach to politics and
the satisfaction he seems to find in controversy, but he says he's quite serious about getting
the federal government out of the power business in the Pacific Northwest and he believes most
great payers in the region will someday see that he's right.
Charles Sherrill, Kyra Y.
Witness News, Washington.
The city of Seattle has joined the ranks of the water short and it is now asking the people
who live in Seattle to voluntarily cut back on how much water they use.
That's something that many other Puget Sound area communities have been doing for several
weeks.
The water level is down in reservoirs because Seattleites used 50% more water during July
than they usually use and of course they got 100% less.
Several residents are soon going to be asked to vote for a tax increase, a tax increase
to build more family housing.
Our government specialist, Lee Carter, tells us about that.
According to city records, since 1979 Seattle has spent more than $150 million for building
and maintaining low income family housing, but it's not nearly enough in the wake of
cutbacks in federal housing money to the city.
There's only a 3% vacancy rate reported in public housing with more than 1,600 families
on the waiting list to get in.
What's more, just about half of King County's Indochinese refugees live in Seattle, several
hundred of them here in the rundown, overcrowded Mount Baker apartments.
It'll take millions just to fix it up.
And there's yet another factor in the shortage of low income family housing in Seattle.
There is deteriorating housing in almost every neighborhood.
Milton Carr came to the city council today in support of a multi-million dollar family
housing bond issue.
A bond issue of this nature makes it possible to clear some of that housing and to improve
the neighborhoods, but also first of all to provide housing for people.
The council was reminded that Seattle voters okayed a similar bond issue in 1981 for senior
housing, a project that has seen the building of almost a thousand apartments with enough
money left over for a few other housing needs for the handicapped.
The council's finance committee is leaning toward putting the at least 30 million dollar
bond issue on next year's general election ballot.
Committee members rejected the idea of setting up a special housing commission, at least
for now, opting instead to study the matter themselves, saying they're best equipped to
look at it objectively and in the best interest of Seattle taxpayers.
Meanwhile, families living in the Mount Baker apartments will have to move out while repairs
are being made.
The question is, where?
Lee Carter, Cairo, Eyewitness News.
State Supreme Court Justice Robert Utter made an utterly embarrassing and potentially dangerous
mistake last night.
He landed his small Cessna airplane at the Olympia airport without lowering the landing
gear.
Justice Utter escaped injury.
His plane did not.
It suffered some 25,000 dollars worth of damage.
Justice Utter says he was preoccupied with the plane's rough running engine and simply
forgot to lower the wheels.
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They're, uh, marrying the game today?
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Bet Scottie down the barbershop will have it on.
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Tonight at 11 on Cairo, eyewitness to you's update.
We are rapidly approaching the biggest of the seafare weekend, so let's check in with
Harry Waffler and find out what the weather holds in store for us for the next day or
so.
You know, Jerry, there's a chance that seafare Sunday could look a bit like today because
the pattern seems to be that we have not only this low over us now, but another one off
the coast that will become drifting in by that time.
So clearing is in store for us tomorrow, kind of slow, tentative, halfway clearing, and showers
are likely to be back in the forecast for Saturday and Sunday.
Today what's happened is that the low has continued to be here and moving slowly off
to the east.
Moisture bands have circulated around it, including some with thundershowers in them,
particularly along the eastern slopes of the Cascades.
Wenatchee and Yakima have also been reporting some dusty winds.
We've had rain showers here in western Washington with just over a quarter of an inch of rain
in the past 24 hours.
So our forecast for tonight based upon a continuation of some showers looks like this.
Our skies will be mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers, lows in the 50s
and southerly winds.
You can find a thundershower in the Cascades or in eastern Washington.
For tomorrow at 6.30 in the morning.
There will be some breaks out there, but I think overall it will be probably fairest
to call it mostly cloudy with scattered showers, 55 to 60 degree temperatures.
Now to make your plans for the weekend, here's how the five days look ahead.
Partly sunny by afternoon tomorrow, and I think we'll probably get into the low 70s.
Today's high was 71, we'll top that by a few degrees, but showers are quite likely for
Saturday and Sunday, and even though the showers might be scattered like we've had here, I
think the clouds and the cooling are pretty certain.
So I don't think we'll get a sunburn if you tie up at the lawn boom this weekend.
Okay, but a lot of people are going to have fun anyway.
Sure they will, and I don't think, on the basis of this, I wouldn't say the rain would
be heavy.
Okay, well some of the rain that we've had has already had some good effects, at least
in the woods.
State Land Commissioner Brian Boyle has relaxed the logging and burning restrictions in much
of western Washington until at least midnight Monday.
They'll take another look at it then.
The order was issued because of the recent rainfall west of the Cascades.
Air danger has eased in much of the area, particularly in southwest Washington where
up to an inch of rain fell in some places.
The restrictions on all open burning, including campfires and debris, will remain in effect
in eastern Washington, and several logging restrictions for the Olympics and its nearby
foothills will remain in effect.
But overall, for most of western Washington, the restrictions are off until midnight Monday.
Nationwide, more than 6,000 people die in house fires each year.
Another 57,000 are injured in them.
The deaths and injuries, according to the experts, would be drastically reduced if more
homes were equipped with fire sprinkler systems.
Todd Smith reports tonight that the day is fast approaching in Washington state when
sprinkler systems become the rule rather than the exception.
While four people escaped the fire in this Tacoma home, three did not.
Mother and two children died here.
It was one of those middle of the night fires that burned too long undetected, a blaze that
firefighters say a sprinkler system might have put out.
Building codes have long required that sprinkler systems be installed in all private businesses.
Well the day is coming, experts say, that there may be a similar requirement that sprinklers
be installed in private homes as well.
But that may be easier said than done.
While sprinklers can be installed and save lives in older homes, the installation costs
are still too high.
But as the area's fire experts learned today in new home construction, effective systems
can be installed for a reasonable price.
They tested a system.
Fire they started had the potential of any fire, but that potential was doused in under
40 seconds.
A code requiring new home sprinkler installation is still many years away, but Seattle Fire
Marshal Bob Hanson is among those encouraging builders to begin installing systems on their
own.
Because they operate so quickly, there's so little fire damage and if there's an alarm
given, if there's a water flow, along with some other technology that can tie your telephone
into the fire department.
I think in the future, around the turn of the century probably, we're going to see a
lot of applications for this and we're going to see some real dramatic drops in fire and
life.
In Southern California, where there are some residential sprinkler codes in effect, they're
finding that not only are lives and property being saved, but fire insurance costs are
coming down as well.
Todd Smith, Cairo, Eyewitness News.
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Fire them up, and they've done it out on Lake Washington.
Hey, I'm telling you what, they were off and running today at Lake Washington.
As qualifying continued for Sunday's Gold Cup race, all running except for the pre-race
favorite, Chip Hanhauer's Miller American.
Take a look.
Miller pulled a missed Budweiser today and literally blew up attempting to qualify.
You have to look closely and you'll see some flame in the picture.
There was the flame.
The boat comes to a halt in the water, and in just a moment you're going to see Chip
Hanhauer climb out on top of that boat there with it on fire.
At any rate, not a lot of damage sustained according to crew chief Jim Lacerro, a small
hole in the bottom.
Some fire damage, however, but crews will work all night tonight, get it ready to run
tomorrow, qualifying again tomorrow on Lake Washington.
Four more boats did qualify today.
Let's take a look.
Add to those the four from yesterday.
You see the missed 711 there up on top, 139.633.
Steve Reynolds went back out today and qualified even faster than he did yesterday.
Then Squire Britannia, Executone, Budweiser, followed by KISW, Cellular One, American Speedy
Printing, and Old Boy Alberto at 109.843.
Qualifying again tomorrow.
Saturday they have off, and Sunday, the big race out of Lake Washington.
Stan Sayers-Pitts should be a great one.
Seahawks now, training camp battles continue in Cheney.
Probably none more competitive than at running back.
Kurt Warner, Owen Gill, Eric Lane, a host of rookies, and the old man of the group,
whose X's and O's stand for Xylocaine and Orthopedic.
Quick pass, Dorn out in the flat, cut by Dornick, out to the 40 yard line, 25, 30.
He's got some room to run.
He's all the way to midfield.
Looking for a block, takes it back to the middle.
He's at the 30 yard line, heading for a fire stretch.
It's a 15 to 10, the 5, out to North Seahawks.
It's a long way from Monday night football to the stifling heat and monotonous practices
of Cheney.
The training camp is necessary.
It's the place you learn what you'll be using during the course of the long NFL season.
And nobody knows the importance of continuing education better than fullback and doctor-to-be
Dan Dornick.
I don't know.
I think the whole training camp system is something that you probably just have to put
up with.
But when you get here, I think you can get a lot if you put your mind to it to improve
each part of your game.
So there's good and bad about it.
Dornick enters his eighth season as the Hawks' designated third down back, catching those
crucial passes out of the backfield to keep the drive alive.
But the competition to make the squad is tight.
And Dr. Dan knows to survive, you have to be able to do it all.
Mainly working on all parts of the game, tuning back up, getting accustomed to the blocking,
the pass catching and whatnot.
My role will still probably be catching passes as usual.
Dan is also five years into medical school.
And that probably makes it tough to find the time to get into shape for camp, right?
No, I'm probably in better condition than a lot of the guys here.
Because I kind of cram it all into two months worth of working out.
And when you've worked out the whole off season, sometimes you tend to go a little flat during
the time near training camp.
And so I feel I'm in good condition.
We hope so, Dan, because we're looking forward to your brand of surgery on opposing defenses
this year.
And Dornick putting in 20-hour days there for a while up until training camp.
Some bumps and bruises going on over in Cheney right now, keeping guys out of practice.
Jeff West has a bad knee.
Jeff Comelow, the quarterback, a bad elbow.
Let's see, Kenny Easley's mispracticed with jumper's knee.
Scanzie and Castor, two wide receivers.
They have bad groin.
John Harris has the flute.
A lot of guys missing practice.
And of course, four still holding out, three of them on that starting defensive squad.
Move over to baseball now.
The Mariners' backs can relax today as they travel to the Bay Area for a three-game series
with the Oakland A's.
Seattle has won four of their last five games and remain nine games back of California in
the American League West.
Taking the M's on their trip south will be shortstop Spike Owen, who was reactivated
today from the 15-day disabled list.
Darnell Coles was sent down to the Mariners' AAA farm club, Calgary, to make room for Owen.
Owen should be back in the starting lineup tomorrow.
Incidentally, Commissioner Peter Yubaroff has finally taken his stand on the side of
the fans, he says.
He's trying to put forth a proposal that baseball players and management come together, a $45
million package, a million dollars taken away each day that the strike continue or that
the talks continue until there's no money left.
And that strike deadline, only five days away.
Only five days away.
All right, thanks.
Tonight on Eyewitness News Update at 11, an update on the story that we brought to you
earlier, just how close are we to getting rid of Hood Canal Bridge Toll?
Anita Williamson will have the latest tonight on the effort to put some of that money back
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