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Jefferson Senior Babe Ruth
team members finish season
and look toward college and
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New Call For
Open Hearings
Thousands of people,
including Liz Bridge (from
left), Jack LaCombe and
Melissa LaCombe enjoy the
food and festivities of The
Bite, A Taste of Portland,
last weekend’s benefit for
Special Olympics on the
Portland waterfront.
New allegations in the Packwood eth
ics case have renewed the call for open
Senate Ethics Committee hearings. One of
the two allegations involved a then-17-year-
old girl, an intern in Sen. Packwood ’s Wash
ington office. She claims Packwood made
unwanted sexual advances toward her as he
delivered a letter of recommendation to her
in her home while her parents were away.
GOP Hopefuls
Go Anti-Abortion
The chairman of the Republican Na
tional Coalition tor Life, says five GOP
presidential candidates have signed a pledge
to support the party’s plank for a constitu
tional amendment to overturn the 1973 Roe
v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing
abortion. The five are reportedly Phil Gramm,
Pat Buchanan, Bob Dornan. Alan Keyes and
Richard Lugar
A movementto defend thelifeofMumia
Abu-Jamal has been followed by a stay of
execution. Philadelphia Judge Albert Sabo
granted the stay on the premise time was
needed for hearings to determine whether to
grant Jamal a new trial. Many civil rights
leaders consider Jamal wrongly convicted
o f murdering a police officer. He was to be
executed on Aug. 17.
Drug Fight
Taken To Area
Apartments
Two Portland apartments have been
awarded federal housinggrantstofightdrugs.
A $94,093 grant to Fremont Manor, 221 N.
I Fremont, will pay for lighting, fencing and
resident education programs. The Plaza (for
merly Piedmont Plaza) at 5802 N. Michigan
will use a $88,000 grant for security gates
and resident education programs. The mon
ies were part o f a nationwide effort to com
bat drugs in privately-owned projects with
Housing and Urban Development (H U D )
assisted rents.
New Dawson Park
Apartments Open
I
Dawson Park Apartments are now open
I at 101 N. Morris St., marking the first new
major housing facility in the north and north
east area in several years. The complex
provides 67 units o f affordable housing for
I families and individuals who live and work
in the Eliot neighborhood. The $4.7 million
project was supported by monies from the
state o f Oregon, Legacy Emanuel Hospital
I and the Portland DevelopmentCommission.
Tri-Met Ridership
increases
Average weekly ridership on Tri-Met
increased 3.4 percent over the last 12 month
period, officials said. M A X light rail alone
carried 8.5 million boardings for the period, I
a 6 .1 percent increase for weekday rider
ship. Tri-Met increased hours o f operation
over the past year by 2 percent and some I
routes and schedules were changed.
Jury Ponders Death Sentences
Multnomah County jury must
two men whom he had gang connections to
now determine if three men
carry out the contract murder.
convicted in the murder of
Reschard Steward, 20, was convicted o f
Christina ‘Tina" Clegg should be face
being one o f the hitmen, participating in the
the death penalty or life in prison.
murder plot and shooting Tenicea Amos,
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The ju ry found each o f the men guilty o f
aggravated murder on Monday for gunning
down Clegg on July 3 0 , 1993 in the offices o f
the Albina Head Start program in northeast
Portland.
Grover C. Clegg Jr. 30, the victim ’ s
husband, was convicted o f being the master
mind behind the slaying.
He arranged to have his brother hire
someone to kill his wife. The plan was to
make the attack look like a botched robbery
so Clegg could collect on a $100,000 life
insurance policy.
Randall Clegg, 2 1, the brother, was con
victed o f being the organizer o f the entire
murder plan. Witnesses testified that he hired
another Albina Head Start worker who was
shot once in the shoulder while sitting in a
separate office from Tina Clegg.
Investigators said Steward was a key to
solving the crime because he called police
several times, hoping to collect on $20,000 in
rewards that were being offered for informa
tion leading to the arrest o f the killers.
Prosecutors said Larry Matthews, 17,
was the person who actually fired the shots
that killed 7 ina Clegg. Matthews was shot to
death in Alabama in an unrelated crime.
The ju ry took five days to deliver the
guilty verdicts, capping a trial that took two
months and included the testimony o f 140
witnesses.
Prosecutor B ill W illia m s said he
wouldn’t ask for the death penalty, but would
“ present the options available by law’’ to the
eight man and four woman jury and let them
decide.
The killing ofTina Clegg had rocked the
Portland area and stunned co-workers at the
head start agency.
On the morning o f July 30, Steward and
Matthews, wearing scarfs and hoods, burst
into the Albina Head Start offices shouting,
“ Where’ s the money? Where’s the purses?”
Matthews stepped into Tina Clegg’s of
fice where she kept the radio near her desk
turned to a Christian station and fired two
shots to knock her down, then three in the
back to finish her off.
Steward went down the hall and shot
Amos.
Community leaders decried Clegg’s v i
olent death, urging citizens to rise up against
a tide o f urban violence.
The community groped for answers.
Some blamed crack cocaine; others blamed
gangs. Still others thought the shootings re
sulted from a botched robbery.
Prosecutors said Grover Clegg was a
greedy, materialist man, desperate to escape
a difficult marriage.
C o -w o rk e rs d escribed how, soon
after the slaying, G ro v e r C leg g jo k e d
about his w ife ’ s death - even asking a
woman for a date as soon as a day after
the murder.
Defense attorneys contended all along
that the murder resulted from a botched rob
bery. They portrayed Grover Clegg as a
loving husband who would never hurt his
wife.
But no money was stolen that day. The
only thing the gunmen took, prosecutors said,
was Tina Clegg’s life.
SMOKING A PEDIATRIC DISEASE
on tobacco is to prevent another generation -
the 3,000 children and teenagers who start
smoking each and every day - from taking up
the habit.
coolness” and maturity,” according to
the FDA, which stated that such "pervasive
and positive imagery... has fordecades helped
to foster a youth market for tobacco prod
ucts."
“ fh e scientific evidence strongly sug
The FDA documents stated, “Cigarette
gests that nicotine addiction begins when
advertising reinforces this
most tobacco users are teenagers or younger
symbolism and links smoking to suc
and, thus, is a pediatric disease," said the
cess, social acceptance, sophistication and a
FD A papers signed by administrator David
desirable lifestyle.”
Kessler, a pediatrician.
The FD A document quotes a Philip
In a Washington news conference fol
M orris Co. Inc executive
lowing the FDA announcements,
describing the rugged and masculine
President B ill Clinton outlined proposed
image o f its Marlboro brand as conveying
restrictions on sales and tobacco advertising
elements o f adventure, freedom.
to youths under the age o f 18
The FD A document also targets Joe
“ We all know that children are especial
Camel, advertising mascot ofthe Camel brand
ly susceptible to the deadly
from R JR Nabisco Holdings Corp.
temptation o f tobacco and its skillful
The macho Marlboro Man and the cool,
marketing,”
cartoonish Joe Camel, giving
Clinton said. “ Industry documents indi
humorous dating tips, “provide imagery
cate that cigarette manufacturers have con
that adolescents can accept as identifying
ducted extensive research on smoking be
badges,” the FDA documents said.
havior and attitudes in young people and how
Those are the two most popular brands
advertisements should be made to appeal to
with young people and some
young people,” FD A documents stated.
studies have found little kids recognize
“ Ih e history o f voluntary agreements
Joe Camel more than Ronald McDonald.
with the tobacco industry is not good, to put
According to the FD A, the adult market
it mildly, Clinton told a news conference.
share was unchanged.
SPORTS
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(from left), Mane Holliday, and Betty Ivory reminisce at Columbia
Park during a picnic for- "The Gathering," the 9th annual get-together of
Portland's black community.
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Fremont Bridge Ramps To Close
lal access to and from the Fremont Bridge will be closed for several weeks in
resurface the freeway with new concrete, the Oregon Transportation
ent said Monday. The upper deck ramp from North Kerby to southbound I-
e closed for two to three months beginning Friday, Aug. 25. The lower deck
n 1-405 to southbound 1-5 is tentatively scheduled todose in mid-September
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