Officials adding quake damage
PORTLAND (AP) — State
emergency officials hope to have
u heller assessment of the dam
age caused by Iasi Thursday’s
earthquake early next weak
when Clackamas and Marion
counties plan lo submit their
damage re|K»rts
Damage from the r>:!M a m.
quake, which measured between
5.3 and 5.7 on the Richter si-ale,
occurred mostly in the
Willamette Valley south of Port
land
A team from the Federal
Kmergency Management Agency
in Bothell. Wash., took a quick
look Friday at the damage, but
team leader l.arrv Moon; said
detailed inspections needed by
FKMA will begin next week
estimates of damage were to
have been submitted to the Ore
gon Kmergem y Management
Division on Friday morning, but
many localities had not finished
surveying the damage,
spokesman Tom Worden said
Clackamas County on Friday
dot lared a stale of emergency
and asked for assistance from
Gov. Barbara Roberts
The damage to Molnlln Union
High School alone was about $2
million, according to Clackamas
County commissioners The
gables beneath the roof of tha
throe-story brick building col
lapsed in tha quaktt.
School roprosentatives mat
Friday morning with Interior
Set rotary Bruce Babbitt. who is
in Oregon on a fact-finding mis
sion in preparation for President
Dill Clinton's forest conference
Friday.
"Wo told him we are facing
the loss of housing for two
thirds of our high school popu
lation — and that’s a disaster for
any community regardless of the
sine whether it lie Molalla. Port
land or Washington. D C..’’ said
Steve Barsby. chairman of the
Molalla School Board
Babbitt said he would try to
expedite the pro) ess of getting
federal assistant available to the
area, but he wasn't any mom
sjmi ifn
Worden said 19 jurisdictions
submitted earthquake reports on
Friday They included Polk
County, with $200; the city of
Gresham. $10,000; Washington
County. $900,000, and Yamhill
We are facing
the loss of housing
for two-thirds of
our high school
population.'
Steve Barsby.
chairman of the
Moiaila School Board
County. $616,000 to $717,000
Most of the estimated cost in
Washington County involved
damage to the Forest Grove Fire
Hall. The fire hall was in poor
shape hefore the quake, but now
must tel rebuilt entirely, said
Washington County sheriff's
spokeswoman Arlene Whomev
er.
In Yamhill County, much of
the damage involved buildings
on Newberg's main street Four
teen buildings were damaged,
four of them structurally
The city of Gresham estimated
damage at $10,000. most of it to
private homes
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Continued from Page 1A
Arl work in tin* building Ixilow
iIns domi' camplh nil's the repair
work
"Some of tin* damage threatens
the historic mural* in ilu* rotun
da Wo don't know if wo'll havo
to romovo Ihom to do repairs.
Those typos of olomonts poten
tially add i.ost to the repair
work," ho said.
leach estimated it would cost
anywhere from Slot).0011 to $1
million to do all of the repair
work.
Molalla Union High School, a
three-story hrii k building built
in 1925. sustained major damage.
Crews were securing walls and
11 earing a pile of hrii ks and mor
tar from the si bool's main
entrance
John Rogers, superintendent ol
the school district, said the
s< bool board was Irving to deter
mine how it would house its stu
dents following spring break
Meanwhile, a series of after
slim ks continued to shake West
ern Oregon Hu k Henson, a
research s< lentisl at the Univer
sity of Washington in Seattle, said
more than 45 aftershocks were
rei ordeil by late Friday. Most of
the aftershoi ks were below 3.0
on the Richter scale.
In Mount Angel. St. Mary’s
1A lot of people are saddened by the
damage. A lot of people are grateful
there were not injuries.’
Sharon Walsh,
Settlomier House Caretaker
Catholic Chun h will be dosed
for at least two wueks because of
quake damage, the Koman
Cat hoi i< Archdiocese of Portland
said.
Dirge ( rm ks were found in the
fiell tower and the fiell was jolt
ed off of its cradle in the HI-year
old structure.
The church and street in front
of it were dosed to the public
because of the unstable church
steeple, said Elaine Fennimore.
a bookkeeper at St Mary’s
"It’s a safety precaution," she
said. "We have a lot of farm traf
fic out here, we’re afraid that any
kind of rumbling could cause
something to full
For now. all services at the
church will lie at the Parish Cen
ter next door to the church. Fen
nimore said.
"It's going to have to ho our
church for an indefinite period
of time." she said.
Bricks fell from the church's
facade and cracks appeared on
the church's interior during the
quake. Daylight (>eeked through
the opening left when the south
wall separated from the ceiling,
she said.
The earthquake damaged a
bridge on Highway 1H near Day
ton and repairs on it could take
anywhere from a few days to
more than a week, said state
Department of Transportation
spokesman Prod Ghamiierlm. He
said them wen* adequate detours
available for motorists in the area.
The 102-year-old Settlemier
House in Woodburn lost three
chimneys in the quake Hut
Sharon Walsh. the historic, man
sions caretaker, said every thing's
bat k to normal.
"I think the mood of the peo
ple is a little more cautious." she
said "A lot of people are sad
dened by the damage A lot of
|x*ople are grateful there were not
injuries."
The Oregon Department of
Geology ami Mineral Industries
said it was "as large as any his
toric earthquake to occur in
northwestern Oregon."
“I'm terrified," Walsh said.
Jurors see sides
in LA beating trial
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors in the Rodney King beating tri
al were warned early on that the black motorist is not on trial.
Yet they have heard King compared to a "monster, a Tas
manian devil” and a man with "hulk-like strength.
The jurors have also seen a California Highway Patrol officer
dissolve in tears on the witness stand as she described a smil
ing. dancing King having his head smashed by the baton of Offi
cer Laurence Powell
Which picture was the real Rodney King7
The answer is essential to the outcome of the federal civil
rights trial of four police officers. But oddly enough, the wit
ness stand appearance of King himself, ballyhooed ns a turning
point in the caste may not in* the deciding factor.
His testimony disagrees with some details in most other wit
ness accounts, and jurors could decide that King s memory is
too fuzzy to rely upon.
Now, after four and-a-half weeks of testimony, jurors have
seen both sides. They can balance Sgt. Stacey Koon's image of
an "incredible hulk” against CHP officer Melanie Singer's por
trait of a smiling if bizarre suspect who might have been hand
cuffed peacefully if Koon had not exerted his authority and told
her to get track.
The most threatening gesture Singer could remember Fri
day was King shaking his buttocks at her.
But to Koon. King was a "a monster-like figure akin to a Tas
manian devil" that he hud seen in u cartoon of a PCP suspect
in a police training bulletin.
Koon said the image was with him as ho ordered officers to
tieat King repeatedly after Koon had fired an electronic Taser
stun gun at the black motorist.
"I believed he had thrown approximately 800 pounds of offi
cers off his back." said Koon. who described King as "buffed
out." the muscular look convicts get from lifting weights in
prison.
Koon rememljored King as having a glassy stare, a sign of PCP
intoxication.
' I he look that ho gave mo was that he looks al you and looks
right through you," he recalled "It's a bizarre look. On the street
I had seen it many times Ik;fore in drug suspects."
Although toxicological tests showed no trace of PCP in King's
system, the defense has made the drug the centerpiece of its
case Defense lawyers claim that a person on PCP has super
human strength and officers have been killed in fights with such
suspects.
The defense says just the suspicion of PCP was justification
enough for (renting King into submission.
One witness, school police Officer Paul Beauregard, said,
“The baton was used several times. He was still standing. It
didn’t seem to have too much effect on him. Ho was just stand
ing there as if he didn't know he was Ireing hit."
Koon is on trial along with officers Laurence Powell, 'Iheodore
Briseno and former officer Timothy Wind in the March 3, 1091,
treating that became a national cause colebre when an amateur’s
videotape of the scene was broadcast worldwide.
The officers were tried on assault charges in state court at
Sum Valley exactly a year ago and were ucquitted on most
charges
At week's end. the defense effort to paint King as a fearsome
aggressor had suffered a severe setback.
Singer, who stands over six feet tall, acknowledged King’s
behavior was bizarre. But she burst into tears when she recalled
the moment that she saw Powell’s metal baton strike King’s
head.
"I saw the blood come out of the side of his cheek," she said
"I heard the driver scream the driver then clasped both hands
over his face as Officer Powell came forward and took anoth
er pow'er swing."
Singer said King’s face was split from temple to chin and
recalled Powell continued to flail away.
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