Trident sub silently slips out of Seattle Dort
SEATTLE (AP) — The Trident nuclear
submarine Ohio, welcomed by friends
and foes alike when it arrived Aug. 12 at
its Hood Canal home port, departed
Monday with no fanfare, said a Navy
spokesman
The submarine left the Naval Submar
ine Base at Bangor, west of Seattle, in the
morning, said Master Chief James
McDonough, media relations officer
He said there was no send-off cer
emony. and he had heard of no protes
ters in sight of the submarine
Representatives of Ground Zero, near
the Bangor base, could not be reached
by telephone
Asked its destination, he said, "We
don’t discuss our submarine opera
tions.”
However, the sub presumably was
headed for a normal cruise operation, its
first Test cruises, said McDonough,
were all conducted on the East Coast "
Bangor is home port for the Trident
submarines The second Ohio-class
warship, the Michigan, is scheduled to
arrive at Bangor for outfitting and its
nuclear weaponry "sometime next
year," said McDonough
McDonough said it was routine opera
tion for the submarine to depart Bangor
on the surface, but that it would be
possible for the ship to leave submerged
Seven other Tridents are under con
struction at Electric Boat at Groton.
Conn , which built the Ohio and the
Michigan The 1983 federal budget in
cludes funding for a tenth submarine
The Tridents are 560 feet long and
displace 18.750 tons They normally
carry 24 missiles, each with several nu
clear warheads and a range of 4.000
nautical miles
Atiyeh asks limits in SAIF probe
SALEM, (AP) — Gov Vic Atiyeh has asked special
investigator Les Anderson to limit his probe of the State
Accident Insurance Fund Corp to allegations that the
board of directors got ' sweetheart deals” on their
workers' compensation insurance rates
Atiyeh met Monday with Anderson to tell the former
Eugene mayor what he wants him to accomplish,
hopefully before the Nov 2 general election
Atiyeh said he wants Anderson to find out whether
any of the SAIF board members, including Atiyeh s
campaign treasurer Leroy Livermore and long-time
political allies Lynn Newbry and F F "Monte "
Montgomery, benefited illegally from their appointment
as corporate directors
Anderson said he didn't think his acquaintance
with Newbry and Montgomery would bias his mvestiga
tion
Atiyeh told Anderson to avoid duplicating the work
of state auditors and legislators who also are looking
into SAIF's business practices
A joint House and Senate task force was appointed
last week to determine whether SAIF, a semi-public
corporation, has achieved the goal of lowering workers'
compensation rates Secretary of State Norma Paulus
and Insurance Commissioner Jo Driscoll have asked
their auditors to examine both the finances and the
performance of the company
Among other things, auditors will be looking at the
board s decision to give big raises and cars to corpor
ate executives, and its policy of allowing large surpluses
to accumulate instead of lowering rates or increasing
dividends
Lottery tickets probably’ legal
SALEM. (AP) — Oregon district
attorneys probably won t prosecute
people for having Washington state
lottery tickets in their possession, a
special counsel to the state attorney
general said Monday
There simply won't be any pro
secution,'' Special Counsel John
Reuling said. "It would be very im
practical to try to enforce it "
An exception would be made for
someone possessing so many tick
ets that it appeared he was trying to
sell them. Reulmg said
Washington state lawmakers this
year adopted a state lottery to raise
$20 million by June 30. 1983 Of
ticials say $49 million worth of $1
tickets will be sold beginning Nov
15 Winners will receive prizes rang
ing from $2 to $100 Hundred-oollar
winners will be eligible tor one of two
$1 million drawings
Oregon law does not prohibit the
purchase of an out-of-state 'ottery
ticket, Reuling said, but it does ban
possession ot illegal lottery records,
including individual tickets.
He said if an individual ticketh
older were prosecuted, the ticketh
older might argue that the Washing
ton lottery was legal and that the ban
didn't apply Reuling said he doesn't
know whether a court would accept
that argument, but he said district
attorneys are unlikely to spend much
time trying to develop a case to test
the law
KOIN-TV challenges
federal subpoena
PORTLAND, (AP) — A Portland television sta
tion is challenging a subpoena seeking transcripts of
news broadcasts since Feb. 5 about five people
facing federal charges stemming from a Portland
bank robbery
Ted Bryant, news director of KOIN-TV, said the
station's attorneys have filed a motion in U S District
Court in Portland seeking to quash the subpoena.
Two defendants in the case. Stephen M Kessler
and Donald G Booth, were among six inmates who
escaped from Multnomah County's Rocky Butte Jail
in July and later were recaptured
A defense lawyer in the case, Ronald Hoevet,
said the three other commercial TV stations in
Portland had agreed to comply with modified ver
sions of subpoenas
Hoevet said the news material will be used in
arguing for a change of venue on grounds of pretrial
publicity. The case stems from an April 1980 holdup
Bryant said the motion filed Thursday argues
that the subpoena was unclear, unreasonable, op
pressive and failed to meet some requirements of
federal law
He said complying with the subpoena would
require reviewing scripts of every news show
because the station's filing system doesn't include
all news materials that aren't accompanied by film
Other defendants in the case are Patrick O'
Shea, who was arrested following a high-speed
chase July 16 near Eugene, Cynthia Walker, who
was arrested with O'Shea, and Inez Guerrero.
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