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Salvation Army gets extra hatchery fish
to feed the hungry this Thanksgiving
MEDFORD. (Jr.* (Af») — Th® Col.*
NORTHWEST
Rivers Fish I!olch«?ry is donating thou
sands of excess coho salmon that were
returning to the Hogue Kiver this year in
effort to help feed poor families during
Thanksgiving
Koch year, the hatchery raise* 200.000 coho smolts to
release into the Rogue River and migrate to the Pacific,
where they grow to adults in two to throe years
With commercial and sport fishing in the ocean
sharply reduced to protect dm lining runs of wild
salmon, thousands of coho are returning to the hatch
ery this year
In years past, the hatchery has sometimes barely got
ten the (>()() adult coho it needs to raise the next year's
smalts Any excess fish were sold for $1 apiece l^ist
year. Hoskins con vim ed the Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife to allow the hate hery to donate the extra
fish,
!.ocated alxnil 30 miles north of Medford on the Rogue
River, the halt hery has donated more than .3.400 coho to
lot al i hnrilies in the post three vsoeks and expects to
give away ns many as 7.000 this year. Hoskins said
Salvation Army volunteers gathered 120 of the fish,
ranging in weight from b to 12 pounds, to serve at the
Medford shelter, whit ll serves more than 100 dinners
nightly
Tobacco executive's interview gets
former employer all fired up
NATIONAL
I.Ol H.SVU.LF. Kv (API — A tobacco
a*iH utiva whose interview with 60 Mm
utrs was never aired for legal reasons was
sued for theft, fraud and breach of con
tract Tuesday by his former employer,
Brown A Williamson Tobacco Curp
Dr. Jeffrey Wigand. former vie* president of reseatsh
for the Louisville-baaed company. reportedly said in the
CBS interview that HAW had scrapped plans to make a
safer cigarette and continued to use a flavoring in pipe
tobacco that was known to cause cancer in laboratory
animals.
He also claimed that HAW lawyers altered documents
in an attempt to delete any references to the company's
efforts at making a safer cigarette
CBS pulled the segment Ixw.ause of legal concerns, but
portions of the Interview were leaked Inst week to the
New York Daily News Brown A Williamson accused
CltS of leaking the transcript, an allegation that CBS
News President I ric Ober denied
After the suit was filed. Circuit Judge William Knopf
issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting Wigand
from talking about any confidential documents A bear
ing was set for Monday
Brown A Williamson < on ten ds Wigand signed a < onft
dentiaiitv agreement under which he agreed not to
divulge competitively sensitive" information
Agreement reached to end war in
Bosnia, troops may be sent in peace
WORLD
DAYTON. Ohio (AP) — Under US
prodding, Balkan leaders agreed Tuesday
lo end three and a half years of savage
fighting and carve Bosnia into two ethnic
zones President Clinton renewed his
pledge to send 20,000 U S. peac ekeepers
to the former Jugoslav republic: despite congressional
opposition.
The dramatic agreement, which remained elusive up to
the last moment, came after 21 days of hard bargaining
among the leaders of Bosnia. Serbia and Croatia at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base*
The three Balkan presidents initialed the part Tuesday
afternoon in a ceremony at Wright-Patterson and shook
hands stiffly A formal agreement ending the ethnic
bloodletting that has claimed a quarter-million lives is to
be signed next month in Paris.
The agreement provides for Bosnia's division into two
entities, a Muslitn-Croal federation that will control 51
pen ent of the territory, and a Serb republic that will hold
the remaining 40 pHm.ont.Tlto Pentagon said an "enabling
forte" of up) to 2,000 soldiers from NATO countries
would go to Bosnia to prepare the way for the main peace
fori e U S. troops would go only after Clinton approved
U S pinrticipation. hut before the Bosnia pern o deal is
signed in-Paris
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Man pleads guilty
in slaughter of pet
pregnant pig
TACOMA (AH) A 38-year
old CikelMv man pleaded guilty
to theft and animal cruelty in
the death of Star, a 350-pound
pregnant pet pig
in exchange for Steven Val
lev's guilty plea Monday . 1’ion e
County prosecutors dropped a
burglary charge.
Volley and another man were
accused of stealing Star, drag
ging her about -1 1/2 miles
behind a pi< kup truc k and
slaughtering her Sept 20.
The case had generated
dozens of sympathy colls to the
Siburg family, who owned the
pig. and inspired a protest from
animal rights activists.
Wild buck attacks
woman feeding deer
apple slices
ENTERPRISE. Ore (AH) — A
woman trying to feed to deer
was hospitalized after being
attacked by a buck
Mary Slodley. 83. broke her
tall boos cad suffered a sb% ere
cut to her right oar when the
buck attacked her at Wallowa
Like campground.
Stodley bad gotten out of the
<^nr to offer a group of does some
apple slices.
"I got out with the camera and
Morn asked ine to take a pit
tore," her daughter Sheila
Dahlman said.
Dahlman said the does were
pushing her mother, trying to
gift the apples, when the buck
earnest her from her blind side
'He flipped Mom up in the air
and she came down on her
head lb; lowered his head again
and charged her again. She put
up her arms and 1 thought he
was goring her chest and facte
Dahlman chased the buck
away and rushed her mother to
the hospital.
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