REGIONAL BRIEFS
Frohnmayer's child listed as critical
EUGENE (AP) Kntlt? Frohnmayur, tho 12-year-old
daughter of Oregon Attorney Gonoral Dave Frohnmay
er, whs listed In critical condition Monday at a Eugene
hospital.
Kalin, who has a rare bono marrow disease, suffered
a stroke Aug 3 while on a trip with her family to Salt
Lake City
Hor condition Improved somewhat after that and she
was transported by air ambulance to Snored Heart Hos
pital in Eugnno on Aug. 27.
Howovor, a spokeswoman at the hospital said Mon
day that Katie’s condition had been downgraded to
i ritir.nl. The spokeswoman dor liner! to provide further
details.
Katie's IB-year-old sister, Kirsten, also has I men di
agnosed with tho disease, Panconi's anemia
The only known cure for tho disease Is a bono mar
row transplant, hut the family's search for a compati
ble donor so far has boon unsuccessful.
The Frohnmuyors have turned their hopes to scien
tific advances In gone therapy anti have founded the
Fanconi Anemia Research Fund to raise money for fur
ther study of the disease
Man steals ambulance, robs store
PORTLAND (AP) — A man stole an ambulance on a
rescue call anti later used It in a grocery store robbery,
police said Monday
Unit "Rescue 3" from Portlund Fire Bureau Station 3
hod been called to a northwest Portland address Sun
day night to help a 72-year-old man who was having
trouble breathing when lilt; ambulance was stolen, salt)
Neil Heesackur, fire spokesman.
'I he vehicle was taken at <1 4B p in and recovered at
10 52 p m. in a church parking lot It frail linen dam
aged from a minor collision in tho parking lot of a gro
cery store that hud been mbbod while the ambulance
was missing, Hoesacker said.
The clerk in the store said the robber was wearing a
firelighter's coat with blue jeans and construction
boots.
Hoesacker said officials are considering additional
security to prevent such a theft in the future
No suspects had been arrested this morning, he said
Few show for mayor’s fund-raiser
PORTLAND (AP) A black-lie dinner aimed ut
paying off Mayor Bud Clark's $71,(150 campaign debt
drew only '*<) people to the Oregon Convention Center
Saturday night
Clark supporters sent out lfl.BOO invitations to the
S100 ahead dinner They had hoped 500 people
would come
(dark said hi1 incurred most of the debt through tele
vision advertising for his 1WB re election campaign.
Although the turnout was relatively small, event or
ganizer Michael Burgess said many supporters sent
< ontributlons instead of attending
Council to vote on salmon plan
1‘ORTLAND (AI’J The Northwest Power Planning
Count il meets this week to consider increasing flows
on the Columbia and Snake rivers to help salmon anri
steelheud survive the dangerous journey to the Pacific
Ocean.
The council will hear a far ranging staff recommen
dation when it begins its meeting today Members will
go over the proposal on Wednesday, and vote on u re
vised version on Thursday.
The proposal, which would amend the council's Co
lumbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program, will he
subject to a month of public: comment
"I think it's safe to say that this is one of die most
important decisions the council has ever made,'' coun
cil spokesman John Harrison said Monday
It may he one of the most controversial us well In
creasing river flows would affect all the Interest groups
that use the rivers, Including hydropower operators,
recreational users and farmers
The National Marine Fisheries Service has proposed
that Snake River so< koyo, fall chinook and spring sum
mer chinook t>e listed as threatened under the Endan
gered Species Ac t The council wants to come up with
a plan to save the runs before the federal government
imposes its own proposal.
Juvenile salmon and steelheud are more easily
caught by predators if the water is moving slowly Less
water also means higher temperatures, which can kill
the small fish.
The staff report says some reservoirs will have to lie
kept at minimum levels to boost river flows.
It also says schedules should he written for install
ing screens to keep fish from entering dam turbines.
The report also calls for reduced harvest levels for
certain fish stoc ks, and suvs law enforcement should
lie stopped up to decrease; illegal fishing It also urges
curtailing use of ocean drift nets
A number of projects should tie undertaken to im
prove hahttn' for the fish, the report says It notes that
a third of all salmon and stoelhead habitat has been
lost, and that much of the remaining habitat has been
degraded through erosion, siltntion or changes in water
quality and water temperature
Salmon and stoelhend need improved habitat for
spawning, eating and rearing offspring, the report says
Harrison said ho doesn't export federal agencies
such as the Bonneville Power Administration and the
U S Army Corps of Engineers to oppose the council's
proposal
''I haven't heard that anyone's balking at it," ho said
Under the Northwest Power Act, federal agencies
must lake the council's fish and wildlife program into
account at "every relevant stage of decision making,"
Harrison said
Board calls for inspection of 747s
SEATTLE (AP) — The National Transportation Safe
ty Board has called for inspections of the cargo-d<x>r
wiring on :i(>0 late-model Boeing 747s, reviving a con
troversy about the doors' potential for opening in
flight
The NTSB recommendation was made In an Aug. 28
letter to federal Aviation Administrator James Busey,
The Seattle l imes reported Monday.
The recommendation was prompted by a June 13 in
cident at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York in
which a stray electrical signal from chafed wires un
latched the aft cargo door and lifted it. No one was op
erating the switches on the 4-year-old United Airlines
747-200B jumbo jet.
As a result, Chicago-based United — which lost nine
passengers when a 747 cargo door tore off in a flight
near Honolulu, Hawaii, in February — discon
nects all potential sources of power to cargo doors on
all 74 7 flights before they depart.
After United cargo doors aro closed, a mechanic
opens a circuit breaker and disconnects all wiring to
the cargo doors.
The move is intended "to maximize the safety of the
operation until a permanent fix can be applied," Unit
ed spokeswoman Sara Dornacker told the Times. "It is
extraordinary, but it does have FAA approval."
FAA spokesman Dave Duff said he did not know
whether other airlines are tuking similar precautions.
Tho FAA so far has not required any 747 operators to
disconnect cargo-door power nor to inspect a flawed
conduit blamed for the New York incident and consid
ered susceptible to potentially dangerous cracking.
The NTSB. which investigates accidents but has no
enforcement powers, sent a copy of its Aug. 28 letter to
Boeing, which forwarded it to airlines worldwide but
has taken no other formal action, said Boeing spokes
man Christopher Villiers
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