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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
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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
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Conference to attract students remains
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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
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“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. He wants the
government to pass a law making 18
the age o f adulthood - thereby rais
ing the driving age but lowering the
drinking age.
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Grant’s tomb refurbished
The newly restored tomb o f Ulysses
S. 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.
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