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Portland cars stolen one an hour
PORTLAND (AP) — At 17, Demetrius Vaughn
was so accustomed to tar theft that ho stole cars just
to avoid a short walk
Vaughn, who doesn't even have a driver s license,
figures he stole 100 iers in the past two years
Police say he is no worse than many youths who
have helped increase Portland s car-theft rate by .Ifi
percent this year. Residents reported 4.9M <ar thefts
through July 24 — that's one an hour
"I used to sneak out of my house every night and
steal a car just to go to my girlfriend’s house."
Vaughn said
The bus doesn't run after midnight, he said, and
"1 didn't feel like walking "
While Vaughn may lie an experienced car thief,
he is not a particularly adept one He was arrest
ed by Portland police four times last year
But those arrests and others for assault and harass
ment never landed him in a state training school.
"They just gave me a lot of chances." he said in
an interview at his juvenile counselor's office.
The car theft problem has infuriated residents
and prompted Mayor Vera Katz to appoint a spe
cial task forte to tackle a situation she iuiIIs "intol
erable "
Juveniles like Vaughn account for almost half
of the theft They steal cars with near impunity
hetause they know that the juvenile system is so
dogged with violent offenders that few judges will
send a mere car thief to Hillcrest or Macl-aren. the
state training schools
Vaughn, who said he has given tip stealing cars,
thinks those judges an- making the wrong choice.
I'd just tell 'em to be real hard on them, because
they weren't hard on me." he said
Proses.ulors say the juvenile system allows even
r«p«at offender* to avoid punishment.
"I don't think the general public has any idea
what's going on in the juvenile system until they re
victimized, their car's stolen.'' said Mark McDon
nell. a deputy district attorney " I hen they come
to court and see what's happening and they re
extremely angry "
McDonnell traces the problem to 1985. when the
legislature — with the support of then-House
Speaker Katz — cut the number of beds at MacLaren
and Hillcrest bv about one-third. The move reflect
ed a Ixilief still held by many experts that children
should not be institutionalized
Almost overnight, the state shrank its juvenile
capacity from 750 to 513.
The high rate of juvenile crime in Portland is relat
ed to those missing beds, said Hillcrest Superin
tendent Marv Ellen Eller
"Capping at the '85 number, when gangs were
just a glimmer in Oregon's eye and when the pop
ulation was beginning to skyrocket, just made no
sense at all,” she said.
Vaughn's counselor, Laura Burgess, defends the
current system. She said Vaughn suffered substan
tial penalties for his thefts and benefited when he
finally was sent to Son Village, a group home on
the Salmon River.
"People think automatically that kids should just
do time." she said. "1 think this was far more ben
eficial to him."
Vaughn credits counselors at Son Village for per
suading him to give up car theft. One thing they
told him was that with one more offense he could
go to Macl-aren.
"Three hours of fun for three years in jail." he
said. "It's not worth it
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Former Hajneesnees rignt extraamon
PORTLAND (AH) - Two for
mer Rajneoshees charged m an
alleged pled to kill a U.S. attor
ney in Oregon have fought efforts
to extradite them from Britain in
i ourt — and now are enlisting
the Britisfi pn*ss
Kally-Ann Croft, also known as
I’rem Savitn. and Susan Hagan,
also known as Anand Su, fai e
murder conspiracy and firearms
charges The pair contend they
would not lx* able to get a fair tri
al in Oregon Ins aus*- of their pas!
ties to the serf led by Indian gum
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Croft now works as an at i mili
tant in London. Hagan is an aro
matherapist in Hertfordshire But
prior to September 19H5, they
were among the leaders of the
Rajneesh Nito-Sannyas Interna
tional Commune at Rancho
Rajneesh
The federal murder conspira
cy and firearms charges allege
that Hagan and Croft, along with
the Bhagwan's chief aide. Anand
Sheola. and several others,
formed an elite hit squad,
acquired false identification,
bough! guns and then planned to
kill former U S Attorney Charles
H Turner in an underground
parking garage near the federal
ft is the quickest
route to the hearts
and votes of the
redneck residents
of America’s Bible
Belt.’
The Daily Telegraph,
London newspaper
courthouse in Portland
The Daily Telegraph in Lon
don criticized the attempt to
extradite the women: "As to why
the Oregon authorities should lie
interested in prosecuting mom
l«<rs of a cull whit h left the state
eight years ago, the answer seems
to he that it is the quickest route
to the hearts and votes of the red
neck residents of America's Bible
Belt "
By ron C. Sholdnhl. chief crim
inal assistant U S attorney in
Oregon, said he was startled to
si>e Oregon identified ns the Bible
Belt. "If they're trying to make
a legal point that we waited too
long, the answer is no. we did
not." he said.
According to The Independent
newspaper in London, the British
High Court on July 2‘) ruled that
former British Home Secretary
Kenneth Clarke “had not prop
erly testtsl the reliability of Amer
ican evidence" before he signed
the extradition order in April. A
review of the order is to take
place this tall
Clarke told The Daily Tele
graph in April that “the charge
is a serious one This is a case
where guilt ought to be finally
determined by a comjx'tent court
of law and not by me no by the
judgment of various distin
guished people whose letters 1
have also read and considered
carefully."
Both Croft and Hagan have
insisted that they dropped out of
the murder plot when they left
Rancho Rajnoosh.
But Sheldahl said “once you
join a conspiracy, you've com
mitted the crime at that point."
One of their attorneys, Andrew
McCooev. has suggested that
British authorities are pursuing
the extradition for political rea
sons McCooev urged Clarke this
past spring "not to sacrifice the
lives of two innocent British
women for the sake of Anglo-U.S.
relations.”
Bruce Lee note sells for 529,000
BEVERLY HILLS. Calif. (AP) — A note written
in 1469 by Bruce Lee predicting he would become
famous and worth 510 million went for $29,000
at an auction attended by collectors and fans of the
late actor and martial arts legend.
The personal, handwritten note, catalogued as
worth up to $15,000, read:
"I, Bruce l,ee, will be the first highest-paid Ori
ental superstar in the United States. In return I will
give the most exciting performances and render
the best of quality in the capacity of an actor. Starl
ing in 1970 1 will achieve world fame and from
then onward till the end of 1980 1 will have in my
possession $10.(KM).0<H) I will live the way I please
and achieve inner harmony and happiness."
Lee grew up in Hong Kong and lived several
years in Seattle and California before returning to
Hong Kong. He died in 1973 of acute cerebral ede
ma. possibly caused by an allergic reaction to a
prescription painkiller.
The auction was authorized by his widow. Lin
da Lee Cadwell, who said she felt it was time to
give fans a more complete pit tore of the star of the
movie Enter the Dragon anti The Green Hornet
television series.
Lee's Hong Kong driver's license, estimated to
be worth about $1,200, brought $8,000. His old
reading glasses, held together with wire in the
days before he could afford new ones, went for
$6,000 in the Saturday bidding, w hich attracted
about 150 people.
Items for sale included Lee's essays, auto
graphed pictures and movie contracts. His mar
tial arts outfits, trophies, and the training records
of two of bis most prominent students, actor Steve
McQueen and basketball star Kareetn Abdul-Jab
bar. were also included.
The reading glasses were particularly signifi
cant, his widow said, because Lee held them
together with w ire during the late 1960s, when he
had trouble getting acting jobs and couldn't afford
new ones.
After he became a star, he pledged to always
keep them to remind him of the hard times.