5.0 earthquake shook
Puget Sound Saturday
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caused plenty of jitters bul no
serious damage or injuries ll
was a jarring reminder that
the Parifii Northwest is
prime earthquake country,
scientists <uiv.
The magnitude 5,0 quake
struc kat 7:11 p m Saturday
»nd was centered JO-15 miles
south-southwest of Seattle It
was foil as fur north as Van
couver Island in Canada, as
far south ns Salem, west to
lha Oivmpii Peninsula and
east to Yakima
The tremor wasn't strong
enough to cause any major
damage But it rattled plenty
of nerves
"It started shaking the
whole trailer." said Scott
Shaba*. who lives near Fed
eral Way. about 20 miles
south of the epicenter I
have a rude friend that comes
by on* e in a while and likes
to do that with his iru< k
On Vashon Island, close to
the epicenter. Tristan
Huegnmer, 10. was in his car
w hen the quake hit
"It fell like someone was
standing behind mv i at and
shaking it.” he said We
freaked out be* nuse we
thought sometiodv was shak
ing the car "
The quake shattered « few
store windows, knee ked gro
ceries off shelves and carved
some minor hairline era* ks
along the Willis of two aging
brick fire stations in Tacoma
In Seattle, the Kingdome.
which was hosting a fishing
and hunting show, was
i iosed 45 minutes early as a
precaution hut no structural
damage was found
The state Department of
Transportation on Monday
planned to -.end crew* to
inspect bridges and highways
in the region hut no structur
al damage is ex pet led. said
Mytnt Twin, bridge and
structures engineer (or the
stativ
The state’s newer bridges
are designed to withstand
quakes as strong as magni
tude 7,5 and even the older
bridges are likely to survive a
magnitude 5 quake
unscathed, Tw in said
Kuth Ludwfin. a research
si lentist with the University
of Washington seismology
lab, said the quake or.« urritd
less than it) miles from the
earth's surface Aftershocks
of up to magnitude -t 0 < an l**
expected for months
At least I w o minor after
' f, which
could lie felt, were ns orded
late Saturday night
The tremor was the
strongest to hit the Seattle
• re l sill! I' .1 ». I ■ Ittiiljll.li e
struck no \pril ion ,
That quake injured at least 11
people and caused an esti
mated $12.5 million in prop
erty damage
In 1‘M‘I, a 7 1 quake cen*
tered near Olympia killed
eight |asople and rained bricks
and debris onto city streets
The 11)49 and 1065 quakes
were much deeper and origi
nated within the subducting
Jtinn do Fuca plate, a huge,
ihit k slab of rock that is push
ing under North America
tudwin salt) Saturday's
quake was a "crustal" quake,
ik i uning closer to the surfat«
within the crust of the over
lying North A morn an plate
Orphanages may be revived
PORTLAND (AW —~ Talk of reviving th*» orphan
age a* a vxjn! institution appears to bti gaining some
support from people who grew up without parents,
including state Attorney General Ted Kuiongoski
Kuiongoski spent JO years in a Missouri urphnn
ag*». beginning as a A year-old in the 1'i-tOs her anse
his widowed mother couldn’t care for him
Resorting to an orphanage to core for children
from broken families drew loud criticism nation
I ■ • when it IS firs! suggested ' , the new R< pul*
loan leader of Congress, House Speaker Newt
Gingrich
However, some Democrats like Kuiongoski find
themselves agreeing that an orphanage may not
be a had idea for some older children for whom
adoption is unlikely
"Kids need someplace when* then* is some strut
tun*. ditw ipline ami someone who looks after their
interests and is on their side Kuiongoski said
Some child welfare advoi at os have painted the
proposal as nothing more than institutional ware
housing of poor children, tailing it heartless, cost
ly and ineffective
But others say that government. c hurches and
nonprofit agencies can no longer tops with a rising
tide of children from homes disrupted bv drugs,
alcohol or violence
"In reality, there an* so many families who are
(vast our ability to help thorn. ' said John S Powell,
supervisor of the Multnomah County Juvenile t or
rectiom unit
One 17-year-old Portland boy who spent years in
the foster care system before landing in a state Chil
dren s Service* Division teen group home, say* he's
t onvim ed an orphanage could have helped
"It would have made a difference. I'd know what
was going to happen to me every day," said the
teenager, whose name was withheld to protect his
privacy.
Still, some critic s reject orphanages, saying they
are too expensive or fail to provide emotional sup
port
"Little tiny kids don't do well in that sort of insti
tutional setting," said Den de Haan. a former C-SD
administrator who now heads Child Welfare Part
nership. a publn private group Studying child abuse
issues
"Plat emerit m ma nnd-pa foster ram works a lot
better," he said.
Gingrich has praised Hoys Town, the sue cess
ful Nehrnska hased residential c enter, ns a model
orphanage Howev er. critics of orphanages note that
it costs more than $40,000 a year to care for one
child a! Boys Town,
During the 1893-95 budget cyt le, Oregon bud
geted $45 million for residential foster care.
Portland light rail tunnnel delayed
PORT! .AND (API The 2U 1
foot mac hint* that's drilling a
commuter rail tunnel through
tin* i ity's West Hills is supposed
to punch through 70 (<>•*) of rock
on a good day
These* days, th«- $5 million
machine nic knamed "Hon*
Regard" is lucky to plod
through lit feet. Late last year,
he fare adjustments even* made.
It we* getting through only 4 fast
daily
The result is a $25 million
cost overrun and a 10-month
delay m the $04*1 million progs t
to bring light rail to Portland's
western suburbs And it's just
the latest in a senes of
headat hes for Tri-Mel, ofFic tally
known as the I n-L.uunt\ Metro
poiitnn Transportation District
IrlMet planners envision
t: lean-running, smooth-riding
Metropolitan Area Express
trains carrying passengers to
downtown Portland from all
lour directions.
A 15-mile MAX route from
the eastern suburb of Gresham
to downtown Portland opened
in loflfi and attracts about
25.000 riders a day That props.!
came in S? »i million under bud
K*'<
The Ift-mHe line stretching
from downtown to suburban
Hillsboro is the second leg
I-tnes south to Oregon City and
north to Vancouver. Wash., are
still in the planning stage
The west side project encoun
ternd few problems until it came
to “The Tunnel."
Rather than run the tracks
over the s< erui West Mills, plan
iter* decided to go through
them, with two parallel tunnels
3 miles long and 21 feet wide
A year ago, nighttime blasts
woke up residents at the tun
nel's west portal, forcing Tri
Mel !<> build a sound-muffling
curtain.
At tin* east tunnel opening
near Washington Park. Tri Met
i hose to break ground at the foot
of a wooded hillside for aesthet
ic reasons. But it turned out to
be above an am ient creekbed,
which required extra shoring
that ilt up time and money.
The agency also had to pay to
relocate about a dozen coffins
from a cemetery that lies above
the tunnel path after family
members objected to the disrup
tion.
He was referring to Murphy's
l aw , which says anything that
can go wrong, will.
"The problem ts about as dire
as it can get," Tri-Mot spokes
woman Amy Carlson said as she
stood ankle-deep in muck at the
tunnel’s east portal on a recent
ratnv day.
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Officials argue over effects of expensive jails
Ol.YMPlA (AP) Grandview Mayor Jusse
Palm ios was disappointed when Grays Har
bor yy as pit keel over his town (or a new stale
prison and its 635 new jobs.
Not to worn , though, the mayor reflet ted
last Week after hearing the news The state's
14th prison complex, a $160 million fat.ili
tv to hold 1,9 )6 inmates, w ill not tx> the last
"And we'll t«i itt line for the next one if
that's whet the Gitv Council wants," Pala
cios says.
Prisons chief Chase Riveland agreed vsith
Palm ins on both points. There will In- more
prisons built and Grandview is an ext ellent
site for one
But while Palacios salivates at the
prospect. Hive land gets heartburn over the
public s apparent appetite for more prisons
to ac commodate tougher sentenc es passed
by the legislature and citizens He contrasts
that with the public's matc hing appetite for
tuxes reduc tions and less government and
wonders when the collision will come
"The collision w ill come very soon, and
we as u society will have to start making
some tough c hoic es," predicts Senate Major
ity Leader Marcus Gaspard, D-Puyallup.
Every town's gain is a drain on state tax
payers. and Riveland wonders whore the
slate will find the money to continue build
mg find operating prisons Thin now hold
about 11.000 people and are expected to
house 14,000 hv decade's end
Conservatives talk of squeezing fat from
other state agent les to finatu e prison tests,
but Riveland stuffs at that "The ubiquitous
fat we talk alKHit. 1 just don't see it." he says
'The real savings could be in dealing with
some people in ways other than prisons, hut
we're dealing in symbols, not reality We just
aren't able to give our elected off it ta Is per
mission to put reality ahead of rhetoric." he
says
Rive land, and Ins boss. Gov Mike Lowry,
want elected officials to start paving heed to
what Kiveland savs is "excellent research"
show ing that some offenders — thieves, drug
users — "can be suet essfully treated m the
community" and make room in prison for
violent predators to spend more time
Riveland notes that drug offenders are the
fastest growing segment of the prison popu
lation Before 1UH7, drug offenders account
ed for 4 percent of the population Now they
account for 25 percent, thanks largely to
1989 legislation toughening sentences for
drug crimes.
House Law and Justice Chairman Mike
Padden, R-Spokane, is among people w ho
see the growth of inmate populations as
good news, not had it means lie and others
sav, that the Legislature is succeeding in its
war against crime.
Padden says the way to go is to keep
squeezing criminals and search for ways to
cut costs They could include permitting the
private sector to build and operate prisons
with an estimated savings of seven percent
to JO percent.
“I don't agree that prison costs have to be
as high as they are," Padden sa\s Moreover,
he adds. Riveiand's view that too many peo
ple are in prison doesn't square with the
publti view People want tougher sentences
and are ready to pay the cost. Padden says
"We will find the money," House Correc
tions Chairwoman Ida Haliasiotes, R-Mercer
Island, said at a hearing on a new initiative
to toughen sentences for gun crimes.
Senate Minority leader lXin McDonald. K
Bellevue says all the cost estimates fail to
factor in something else —- the savings to
victims and the justice system when crimi
nals are behind bars instead of out commit
ting crimes
Senate budget chief Nita Rinehart, l>-Seat
tle. says she believes the public eventually
will come down somewhere in the middle of
the debate once they have all the informa
tion.
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