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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1996)
NEWS BRIEFmG A IQOK AT THIS MORNING $ HEADLINES Help slow to arrive for flood victims in more rural areas HIKkENKELl). QnMAII —Stand ml far dm by blurt mi rtver* *nd wt*hmi out rtMtl*. rural v.ifthwm»inm«M are finding (heir self-reliance ie»t«*d by the region's want flooding in tin wins A* river* m mt«d •lowly Sun day. brigades at emmgencv work «r» fannod oul to assist flood victims in cities and suburbs But in the Northwest's backwoods comma. neighbor had to rely on neighbor The Mini raging water* that poured through thousand* of nomas hurt week al*o chewed up mad* and pulled down utility linn*, ttolating somr of the hard est hit area* of Oregon The Northwest floods took sev eo lives — lour in Oregon, two in Montana and one in Washington Three were miming in Oggon: two men who drove a pickup truck into 9 feet of water at the Salem Keizer city limits, and a Troutdale woman whose house was swept down the Sandy River. President Clinton was consid ering a trip to the Northwest to survey the flood damage, the White House said In the evergreen thumb of the Cascade Range that pokes into Ore gon's northwestern comer, wind ing two-lane roads often hug the banks of mountain creeks and rivers. Highway 202. (or example, crosses and nicruaam the NnhaSom River, usually a sparkling, boulder dotted stream, now an ugly brown band ripping through canyons Throughout Clatsop and Columbia counties, churning streams leapt their channels, tak ing out roads and catching rest dents by surprise On the Oregon coast. Tillam ook County dairy farmer Steve Neahring lost at (east 100 of his 173 Holstein and Jersey milkers Presidential hopefuls campaign across Iowa on eve of caucuses NATtOMU SIOUX CITY, l*mi (API - On the eve ofthe town HUttiMn. t;op candidate* went count ng oM'Ottt'ai<nv» Kepubii* an* that pull* suggest are urvdac ided With Bob Dele's load appearing to ttabilits, the real battle termed wound who would he womt A* the rival* moved from town meeting* and rallies to TV talk shows. publishing heir Steve Futbn emerged a* everyone'* favorite target "Forbes i* falling, despite hi* tnaMive amount of negative ad*." asserted former Tennessee Gov Umar Alasander, who hoped to benefit front anv Forbes decline Ten** Sen. Pftil Gramm, trail* tng in the tingle digit* but knott ing he not be counted out. ridiculed Forhe* for complaining about anonymou* phone call* again*! him. Daughter's death by taking methadone hidden by mother BALTMt )RK (API — A Vyrwr old girl died after drinking black* i market methadone, police *atd The modnu illegally houglit the drug meant to treat heroin addic tion and knew her daughter drank it but didn't call for help until the girl wu found dead. »aid Robert W. Weinhold Jr.. a j police spokesman Instead. Jacquelyn Turner. 2«. let her daughter }a*ntln go upstair* to bed. VVetnhold said Prosecutor* tuay need up to a week to decide whether to pres* charge*. Assistant State * Alter ney Timothy J. Ooory said The child drank the methadone Wednesday at about II.30 a m Turner (silted polite at b 45 a m Thursday. Weinhold said Boulder traps bus in collapsed tunnel; rescue attempt fails wo*uo FURUBIRA. kpantAPI — Rm. cu»r% bU»iMl th« «d» of * mouniatn wish dyi)«mtto : Sunday in an altarap! to reach \ w«» 20 people trapped in a col tapaed highway tunnel. but the I’yplntiiin failed to dislodge the boulder. about the tiu of a 20 *tory office building The giant dab of rock peeled off the mountain and crashed 1 through I ho tunnel roof early Sal . unlay. apparently crushing a but : tarrying 19 people The attempt to topple the bool | der into the tea with a blast of | 550 pound* of dynamite only j i rumbled the lower port it at of the i rock into dust Rescuer* were planning anoth> | «r blaat Monday morning that j they hope will allow them to dig i through the rubble Military *paciali*t* had gotten | far enough into the tunnel to tpot i the bus* mangled bumper and a battered I ken*# plate piled over i with rock. They did not hear any ; voices or any other indication* | anyone wa* alive. Yeltsin decides to run for second term; faces low poll ratings MOSCOW (API — Boris Yeltsin'* kip bark to hi* Siberian hometown this week will be a turn log point in his tamer ami in the building of Russian democracy In Yekaterinburg, where he ; once reigned as a Communist i bos*. Yeltsin is expected to for ms !Iy declare that he will seek a second, five veer term as pros ident in June elections That announcement would mark the real beginning of the j campaign for the moat powerful foh in Russia it promt*#* to be brutal for Yeltsin. iPlzxa Pipeline. Get the Real Deal fl < ul« k Wnk <* «»ihI a I air I vl< e'" Eugene Hotline I HI ■» >H| H 824 Charnelton Street 16th Annual 1)0 Craft Center 1996 AM tsxJu&it ty, HO GAafl (UnUA, 7t6\ua\y, 10-18 fllon~7\L 11am-5 pm fat-fun 1 -4 pm emu 7iA Roam, U0, 346-4361 FAMILY ALBUM SHOW OP •os*m«nt oI thm EMU 144 4345 • Tto touard ai kkkk\ to wad't 'noaaar' ndae baton aaftam dung by *a»tol mm n«*m. bring rw tod aad kxb bad br aa bow tod. 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