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* .'liW y • •X j t jfr & £ ÌB i £?4Ä< P agi A3 T he P ortland O bserver • A prii . 30, 1997 loy Scout executive arrested P o l i c e JVerrs Theft subject wanted • The Portland Police Bureau, in cooperation with Crime Stoppers, Is asking for your help in locating and a pprehending M ic h a e l Chermack. An arrest w arrant, charging Chermack with Failure to Appear on Two Counts o f First Degree T h e ft, is on file in Mutlnomah County. Additional arrest warrants are on file in both Washington County, where Michael Chermack is w anted for First Degree Theft and First Degree Theft by Deception, and in Clark County, Washington, where he is wanted for Bail Jumping. The warrants reportedly stem from a roo f repair scheme, in thich elderly home owners were targeted. Michael Chermack is a 39-year- old white male, DOB August 05, 1957. He is 5’ 8" tall and weighs approximately 135 pounds, w ith black hair and brown eyes. Aliases inclu de M ik e M itc h e ll, M ik e Smith, M ike Reed, Frank Ristick, Dino Ristick, Dino Chermack and Mark Morello. Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward o f up to $ 1,000 for inform a tion, reported to Crime Stoppers, that leads to an arrest in this case, or any unsolved felony crime, and you do not have to give your name. Call Crime Stoppers at (503) 823- HELP The nation’ s top Boy Scout ex ecutive was arrested after a security scan showed a loaded revolver in a bag he was trying to carry onto a flight, police said. Jere B Ratcliffe, ch ie f executive o f the Boy Scouts o f America, was picked up Sunday morning at M i ami International Airport after an X-ray revealed the 32-caliber gun in his bag Guards who opened the bag discovered it was loaded The Boy Scouts, based in the Dallas suburb o f Irving, Texas, called the gun-carrying an "honest mis take," spokesman Gregg Shields said today. According to Shields, Ratcliffe had been traveling on vacation to his Nearly 900 high school students from the Portland metropolitan area w ill gather at Smith Memo rial Center at Portland State U n i versity on Thursday, May 1, 1997 for the annual Law Day obser vance. The event, coordinated by the Classroom Law Project, is part o f an American Bar Association national observance o f Law Week. The day long series o f events includes 18 workshops exploring a variety o f contemporary, social and legal issues such as workplace harassment, censorship on the internet, date rape and prayer in schools among others. Since 1981, over 16,000 Oregon and SW Washington high school students have attended the Portland Law Day Conference, featuring d i verse workshops on “ hot” legal is sues. Law Day 1997 begins at 8:30 on Thursday, May I in Smith Memo rial Center on the Portland State University campus located at 1825 SW Broadway. Supporting organi zations in addition to the Classroom Law Project include Portland State University, Northwestern School o f Law o f Lewis and Clark College and the D aily Journal o f Commerce. The Classroom Law Project is a nonprofit organization o f attorneys, educators and community leaders working to build strong com m uni ties by teaching students to be ac tive citizens. Other activities coor dinated by the Classroom Law Project include the statewide high school Mock Trial Competition, We the People Competition, Court house Experience program fo r 3,000 students, statewide training for elementary, middle and high school students on conflict resolu tion and peer medication, and train ing for over 500 teachers on new law related education materials and teaching strategies. Wanted Suspect - Racketeering “ KBC47” tattooed on his upper left arm, "R IP I II. M IK E ” tattooed on his upper right arm, and "S EB” tattooed on his chest. Crim e Stoppers is o ffe rin g a cash reward o f up to $1,000 for inform ation, reported to C rim e Stoppers, w hich leads to an ar rest in this case or any unsolved felony crim e, and you can re main anonym ous. C a ll C rim e Stoppers at (5O3)823-HELP. The Portland Police Bureau’ s Gang Enforcement Team, in co operation with Crime Stoppers, is asking for your help in locating and apprehending Quantrell Tho mas Bright. An arrest warrant, charging him with Racketeering, is on file. Quantrell Thomas Bright is a 25-year-old black male (D O B 090871), 5’ 7", 200 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. He has • permit. From th© M arch 21. 1997. draw ing l i t prize - $1,000 plus jacket John Taylor. Eugene 2nd prize - $500 plus jacket 3rd prize - $100 plus jacket Human remains found at the site o f an A - 10 Thunderbolt crash have been positively identified as those o f Capt. Craig Button, the pilot who llew 800 miles o ff course before going down, the A ir Force said. Positive identification was made through DNA testing by scientists at the Armed Forces Institute o f Pa thology in Washington, D C., o ffi cials at Davis-Monthan A ir Force Base in Arizona said Sunday. Button was on a routine training mission April 2 when his A-10 veered from other planes in his formation. Wreckage o f the plane and frag ments o f body parts were found F ri day in the rugged mountains south o f Interstate 70, ending a three-week search. National Guard helicopters w ill continue training missions over the crash site looking for the four 500- pound bombs that were on Button’ s plane. O fficials believe the bombs are covered by snow. An A ir Force board has been ap pointed to try to determine why Button's plane flew to Colorado. cealed weapons permit - and even if he did, it w ouldn’ t have allowed him to bring the revolver into the airport terminal The Texas Department o f Public Safety, which issues concealed hand gun licenses to Texans who pass a classroom course and demonstrate shooting proficiency, said there was no record that Ratcliffe holds a Texas MEGABUCKS DOUGH WINNERS Frank McGonigal, Corvallis Pilot Conference to attract students remains identified Michael Chermack rural cabin and simply forgot he had the handgun in his carry-on bag “ I simply forgot that I had the gun with me,” Ratcliffe said in a state ment. Ratcliffe, 59, was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, a felony. I'he M iam i Herald initially reported the arrest. Police said Ratcliffe, o f South Lake, Texas, has no Florida con Dale Thiel, Bend Danny O'Rourke, Clackamas Portia Hams. Reedsport Nicki Fredenck, Salem Jule Eleison. 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MEGABUCKfi DOUGH, Second-Chance D raw ing I Send four consecutive nonwinning MEGABUCKS tickets for drawings doled Novembei 13,1996 through June 14,1997, will, this entry foe o dwnce lo win! Enter os many limes os you fike this entry is good fot one drawing only. I I N a m e _ I Address State ■ City _ 1 Phone Zip Nome & location of store where you bought your ticket(s): Send entry in a ploin white envelope no larger than 4 'h' x f ' l ’ Io: MEGABUCKS DOUGH SecondChance Drawing, |K )B o x 14280,Salem,OR 97309 “Precinct Reporter” Founder Enshrined A rth u r P a tric k T ow n sen d, founder o f the “ Precinct Reporter” and the “ Tri-County Bulletin,” and J. Lowell Ware, founder o f the “ A t lanta Voice,” were recently en shrined in the Black Press Hall o f Fame in ceremonies held at Howard University in Washington D C. Mr. Townsend and Mr. Ware jo in a sterling group o f African A m eri can publishers who have shaped and nurtured the Black Press over the last 170 years since John Russwurm and Samuel Cornish established the first Black newspaper, “ Freedom's Journal,” in 1827. The publisher o f the “ Precinct Reporter” in San Bernardino and the “ Tri-C ounty B u lletin” in O r ange County, M r. Townsend was a longtime member o f the National Newspaper Publishers Association. The “ Tri-County B ulletin” is the only Black-oriented weekly news paper in Orange County. A rt Townsend is the first pub lisher from the West Coast to be enshrined in the exclusive Black Newspaper Press Hall o f Fame. Arthur Patrick Townsen A founding member o f the West Coast Black Publishers Association, Mr. Townsend was a former branch president o f the National Associa tion for the Advancement o f C ol ored People (N A A C P ), and was largely responsible for council dis tric ts being redraw n in San Bernadino during the 1960s, paving the way for the election o f the first Black official in the history o f the area. Teens talk in Washington Teen-agers are speaking out this week in Washington. T hey’ ll discuss youth-related ideas with members o f congress as part o f the RespecTeen National Youth Forum. The 51 students were selected from a field o f thousands who en tered a letter-writing contest on na tional public policy issues. Among the winners is 14-year- old Ry Culver o f Seaford, Delaware. He says age inconsistencies in fed eral and state law need to be ad dressed. Culver says it doesn’t make sense that you can drive at 16, but can’ t vote until you're 18. 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Grant was rededicated one hun dred years to the day after he was interred with a ceremony befitting a C ivil War hero and ex-president. Three-thousand people gathered at the towering granite structure overlooking the Hudson River for the Sunday celebration Grant’s Tomb - a 150-foot-tall mausoleum - was a tourist landmark for decades, drawing some 500,000 visitors annually before official ne glect in the 1980s allowed it to dete riorate. Ulysses Grant D ietz, G ran t’ s great-great grandson and leader o f a delegation o f descendants, said the fam ily was “ very happy with what’ s happened so far,” and doesn't want the tomb to run go to seed again “ I’ d like for Americans today to see this tomb the way everybody saw it 100 years ago when it was new,” said Dietz, 41, a museum curator in Newark, N.J. BankAmerica BankAmerica Mortgage A Division of Bank of America. 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