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Bonnie Hill lives with her husband in the remote woods near the Alsea River. In 1974, Bonnie, a mother of three children, had a miscarriage. Then she recently heard about reports that dioxin herbicides have caused fetal deaths in animals and experiments. Bonnie knew that herbicides had been sprayed in the woods near where she lives, so she did some research. She found the spray dates coincided directly with her miscarridge. We live right here on the South Fork of the Elsie River. That that whole drainage was sprayed the month preceding my miscarriage. And then we looked at more maps and found that the stream from which we get our water was sprayed, well, not the stream directly, but within a mile of where our stream is was sprayed. Bonnie didn't stop there. She placed an ad in the paper and found eight other ALSIE women who had between them 11 miscarriages, all in the spring months, except for one who miscarried in the fall, and all within weeks after major dioxin spray applications. The women have lived in areas that have been sprayed very close to their homes. Many of us have gravity feed water systems and the dates that they were sprayed are really amazing because all of the areas were sprayed within a month before the miscarriage. Bonnie, joined by the other women, has done careful research into each case and sent the results to federal and other concerned agencies. The women say it might only be coincidence, but they think their miscarriage rate is abnormally high for such a small community. Okay, period. Yeah, I did, and a couple. My cousin, she said she had a miscarriage and a friend of mine, she did have miscarriages. And this was all in this area where they're spraying? How did that make you feel? Leary. Dioxin herbicides are sprayed aerially into these hills by the BLM, by private industry, and by the US Forest Service. Forest Service officials say they can draw no conclusions from the women's reports. They did say that in some cases, minute amounts of dioxin were found in the water after aerial spraying. But any correlation between herbicide application and miscarriage would have to be made by EPA scientists. So for now, there are two sets of facts. Dioxin herbicides were sprayed in this area, and the spraying dates do coincide with a large number of miscarriages by women in this little town. Now, nobody's saying for sure that the two are connected, but the women here are calling for an immediate and thorough investigation. Miranda Dunn, Eyewitness News in LC. And it's being charged that people were... Good evening and welcome to the Wednesday 11 o'clock edition of Eyewitness News, I'm Don Clark. At least 80 witnesses, that's how many people are slated to testify before a special grand jury looking into the county land swap. Teams of reporters and official investigators have been probing that transaction for months and now it all comes down to the judgment of six women and one man. Here's a look at that jury. These are the seven people who must now weigh the mountains of testimony in this complex case. Drawn at random were 59-year-old Viola Jacobson, a Eugene housewife and mother of six grown children, 52-year old Carolyn McKinney, a Eugene housewife, and mother of four grown children. 67-Year Old Lucille Lansing, a retired clerk from the county's finance office. 57-Yearold David Johnson, a eugene postal clerk, the only male in the jury who will serve as the jury's foreman. 24-Year-old Laurel McKenzie, a Eugene homemaker and mother of three young children. 35-Year old Gloria Rodikowski, a Eugene homemaker and mother three children. And 29-year Old Mary Soderstrom of Eugene, who lists her occupation as a self-employed artist. Assistant DA Doug Harco Road, a specialist in white-collar crime, is in charge of the case. Harco road's boss, Pat Horton, concedes the difficulty presenting a case of this complexity to ordinary citizens, but says testimony will be given at a pace everyone can keep up with. We want to be thorough and we want to make sure that each individual grandeur understands the various aspects of the investigation. So we're going to go at their speed and we can estimate how long it may take. Horton says, whatever these jurors decide, he will probably release the findings of his investigation to the media. Don Clark, Eyewitness News at the courthouse. US Supreme Court Justice Warren Burger has suggested creating juries with special expertise to hear complex cases, especially those involving sophisticated fraud. Pat Horton, says that idea merits careful consideration. Thank you very much. A tree could fall from wind blowing it over, or if the ground was extremely wet, then the roots would be soft and the roots could fall out. In this case, so I don't know, because there was no wind, as far as we know, and the ground obviously isn't wet. Can you describe maybe the condition of the tree? Very rotten dry tree. It's been in jeopardy and since 1970... This is where the gruesome story began about three years ago. Young Andrea Tolentino was asleep with her brother in the back of a family station wagon, while her parents were drinking inside the cougar room. When they came outside, Andrea Tolantino was gone. Certain bones were discovered there at the Oregon State Police crime laboratory at the present time. They appear to be human, they appear to be a child. The information was acquired through an inmate at the oregon state penitentiary who gave us certain information, contacted us, and gave us the information about where the body might be found. The person who told us that is not a suspect in the case. In fact, he was in the Oregon state penitenchery at the time that she disappeared. Mickey, I notice you're wearing a whistle while you're running. Have you always worn that? I always wear it when I run alone because I've had some incidences where I've been kind of suspicious of some people who were around the trail. Like what? Well, it's mostly people sitting in cars near the trail and one time wherever I went, you know, the guy was sitting there in a car right beside the trail, he just was kind of following me and it was really scary. Now, in light of what happened, say to Kay Turner, does it make you any more leery of running alone? Yeah, it does. I usually try to run with somebody else, but I don't really, you know, I really think this is a nice place and I don�t think women should be precluded from running on here. College and club women in high school at Squaw Valley at the old, you know, the 64 olympic side. What we're most concerned about is Pree's Trail, of course, because it's so isolated. And I just tell them not to go by themselves. It really seems like there's safety in numbers and just two people, even if they're both women, seems to prevent any kind of problem. The other thing is of course you don't go over there at night in the dark. And The other thing that we do is we go over there in mass. The people in the police department have told me that if we can not give up that area to the transients and other strange people, and just have a lot of people over there, you know, incidents are not going to happen. And so we do more training over there than we've ever done before just because we want to keep a really high profile with a lot a lot bodies over there. 3, 2, 1, come on, revert, rever, reever, reaver, reaver, c'mon, let's go, take it, go, go go go, all the way back, let go, cmon cmon, cmo back, change the right, reiver, get the ball Alright, good Yeah, it's all right, we're gonna go down. Bring the ball up a little bit, good effort, bring the ball up. All right, now, you're not hitting me. Okay, strike the ball. All right, let's. Okay, fire him in there, Joe. Fire him. I can't feel it, there's nothing to do with it. So you have to relax your hands. And as you come with it, now is when it tenses up. It's just not what you want to do. Now the other thing is, is you want to meet the ball at what we call the far point. Which is what? The farthest point away from your body that you can touch the ball, as you bring the ball to you, the chance of catching it comes from here to here. You've got that more of a time. For an opportunity to come up with a ball. At the same time, if somebody hits you from behind and all you've done is extended your arms, well you have no give, you have not play. So this way you have play so that nothing matters what happens in your body, because you have the play with your hand. Those are the kinds of things we wanna start thinking about. Far point, bring it to you. Being nice to it. Attacking, would be nice to you, okay? 62, back where you were, right. Coming here like this, tuck your toes up underneath your heel, behind, like this. Good. Very nice. Very good job. Very Nice. Lina, let's go back to the box. I asked what does people love to do? They're strictly meat eaters they're you don't have to worry about your kids though, but I had a lot of trouble with that, but they are they're strictly meat eatters and you have to watch what you feed them because there's certain that they don't get along with, you know. The last place she was spotted was sitting over here on his grass. And then after she stood on his three-foot-long thing... I must admit. I don't know if I get one. We opened up the front door when I wasn't there, you know, and they don't keep their eye on things like I do, you now, because she's more important to me, so I'm going to watch after her. And she just took off, and I don't even see how they didn't see her. I really don't, but people just don't pay attention to things like that. Does she run very fast? But she walks at a pretty steady pace, and she doesn't stop. So I don't know where she is. She needs worms. Want to see me? Yeah, sure, I'll show you. Can you bring some out here? You want a good story. You ought to see my German shepherd go. I don't know what I'd do if I really ran across a three-foot lizard walking down the street. Probably run real fast. But I don't know. Sounds like a great title for an excellent science fiction movie, The Lizard That Ate Springfield. In Springfield, I'm Debbie Segura for Eyewitness News. She's so much smaller and Grim's so much bigger that it doesn't make no difference because Grim just slaps them with the tail. What's this one eat? This one eats worms. Want to see me eat? Sure, I'll show you. And then talk to them, they give him an honorary of, let's say, $5,000, which is, in a way, actually, and Islamic countries who support also Palestine. They give him an honorary of, let's say, five fashion units. So it's not in our national interest, besides the... I think it's a great tragedy that the United States and myself as an American citizen see that the U.S. Government is supporting the Israelis, sending arms, weapons, financial aid to suppress the Palestinians. Actually, or directly, or indirectly, the U.S. Government is so. If in fact there is action, then believe me, there is. In fact, there is action in the courtrooms, and believe me there is. I think we're at a time in our society where apparently too much of the action is in the courtroom. I think decisions are being made in the Courtroom that ought to be made in legislature, in the school board, in city council, in accounting commission. By her gentle ability to enlighten, often to drive humor, but not to alienate. Her friends, who are known for her human abilities, the last to... Is a more challenging judicial job in the country. More challenging to me, at any rate, than the public in January of 1981. Because it's the area where the action is. In fact, there is action in the courtrooms. And believe me, there are. I think we're at a time in our society where entirely too much of the action is in the courtroom. I think decisions are being made in the Courtroom that ought to be made in legislature, in the school board, in city council, and the county commission. Be made in the federal courtroom and endorse that, but that is what is happening today. And so it is an extremely active and interesting job, and it's religious. And then, of course, as we've heard, things go well before the Senate, people have said, I see that you decided to go on the federal bench and not be thinking of your retirement. But even though I talked to federal judges, and I keep talking, they'll tell you there's nothing about retirement on the Federal bench today. It's getting to the point that it's political harassment now, because they had me testify and then during the time I was testifying, Horton was giving the media, telling the media that I'm not credible as a witness, and why he would do that to a grand jury witness, I don't know. Have you called Horton on this at all? Oh, yes. And has he, what is he saying to you? Monday and that's when he threatened me. What do you say? I can't tell you. See, the people want to believe in the system. So anything I'd say, he's going to say he didn't say it. And until such time as I can prove it, what can a guy do? He's top cop. Well, how do you prove what he's saying is being against you? You have to get somebody to witness what you're saying? And have been used very successfully, woodchips, when we store our... Well, we certainly will go along in every way the county can to help all those Chalmers and to work with them because we feel this is a tremendous benefit to the entire community as the last step before landfilling to recover all possible resource from what we used to just know as garbage. Yeah, I definitely feel it will be going. I can't say exactly when. I wish I could, I wish i could say it was going right now in great shape but I'm sure it will be. OK. Thank you. That reforestation workers work seasonally. We're trying to give them also a safe approach to their work so that they avoid the injuries that are typical in reforestation. We're also trying to train them to do high quality reforestaion work, which has become necessary in this industry. I I really think that there is a real need for trained people out working in the field where before there was such a large turnover of workers just basically because of that reason. You think that your fellow workers here share your opinion? Yeah, I do. Quite seriously. Obviously, what you see going on behind me will never be taught in a college classroom. The organizers of this program hope that the skills that they're teaching and the methods that these people are learning will not only help the reforestation industry, but also get these people jobs that they want and jobs where they really know what they're doing. John Ray, Eyewitness News, and the Siusla National Forest. Well, it allows me to use somebody else's million dollar bull for a very minor cost. So I can get the advantages of the superior quality that companies take a lot of time and money to raise. We all know, of course, about the birds and the bees, fundamental law of nature. But that law of Nature is being aided now by man. And it looks like it's turning into more the birds, the bees and the bottles. For Eyewitness News, this is Kathy Randall in Coburg. I think that the reasons are largely philosophical. I think at the college level, this is almost all that the teachers are taught. If you go to college to be a science teacher, you are taught that evolution is a fact. You are taught there are no scientific alternatives to it. And as a general rule, you believe that. I did when I went through school. And you go out to teach it. And so I think the problem really lies at the College level, probably, and in people's philosophies. We have an exciting season planned for this coming year, but all the time as we make plans for this year and for the future, we're thinking about moving to the new harvest. We'd like to come in 1982, 83, and we need very much to expand our audience during the intervening time. So after this year, in which we're playing the usual five pairs of concerts, next year we're planning to step this up to six. And give three performances of each concert. Hereafter, we'll be moving up to seven concerts, and so we're in an effort to build an audience so that when we do move it in the hall, we'll able to fill it, or very nearly fill it right from the start. That's what they do, that's true. Would you have been able to find something like this without the aid of a group like the rehabilitation vote? No, I don't believe I could have, because at my age... Need somebody to push you and give you confidence. They were right there all the time encouraging me to go, go, go, and that I did, because I felt if I didn't do it, I'd be letting them down. But I'm getting more and more professionals who feel guilty about the fact that they spent all the years that they did to get where they wanted to go and then found out that that wasn't where they want to be and don't know what to do now. And education doesn't seem to make a difference in helping people really make good decisions and how to end up making vocational changes. Thank you. That's what I'm talking about. The hardest thing to do is look at it. And you're lost on your place It's a peculiar day at the grand jury landswap hearings today. Bob Wood's ex-campaign aide, Ken Whittaker, who went storming out of the jury room last week, was back to testify today, along with his wife, Susan. But after refusing to talk privately with an assistant DA outside the jury room, he was abruptly released. He went home. Whittacker and his wife and his baby Holly sat with reporters just outside the room. Uh... Waiting to be called. Susan went in first but was inside only about ten minutes. Whitaker refused to talk to anyone except the grand jury and so he was told he wasn't needed. We followed Whitaker out of the building to his car and in the parking lot they told us the grand jury had shown an interest in their version of how Bob Wood had handled some of his own campaign contributions. Yes, they asked me about the check Bob Wood gave my husband in exchange for a contribution to the campaign. How did that check work, Ken? Well, we met at lunch at the campaign headquarters. And Bob Wood pulled out a stack of $100 bills. And he handed me one and asked me to write him a check so that I would show up as a contributor to his campaign. And he said, I'm going to have other friends and relatives and people in the campaign that are working for me do this also, but don't tell anyone. So you wrote him out a check and he gave you a hundred dollar bill. That's correct. Did he say where that stack of $100 bills had come from? Well, he said he had gotten it from a campaign contributor at lunch. And with that interview the Whitakers left for their home just off river road sources close to that investigation now say the remaining fifty witnesses will be heard but at an accelerated pace but the target wrap-up date just about two weeks away Grand jury witness Ken Whitaker is also a key figure in another major story that's now beginning to unfold and that story concerns the alleged power structure of heavy drug dealers and smugglers in Lane County But as a man who allegedly has spilled the beans on both the dealers and the cops Ken Whitacre is in a very precarious position The 41-year-old Ken Whitaker is seldom far from a gun these days. Perhaps it's theatrics, perhaps it's paranoia, or perhaps it is because his disclosure of an alleged target list of 70 local drug dealers has left him with few friends and many enemies in both the drug world and the ranks of undercover narcotics agents. Whitaker's is an enigma. Agents tell you off the record not to trust him. One's own hunches say to take what he tells you with a grain of salt, but so far his information checks out and to that extent he deserves a hearing. Whitaker once worked as a teacher in the 60s for an Illinois school system. He has a young family. He is an ordained minister in something called Today's Church, an organization founded by the late Al Phelps and still based in Cresswell. Somewhere along the way, Whitaker began to work as a police informant, both for excitement and for the money. His files contain what he claims to be an identification number for the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency, showing his aliases and listing his area of investigation as Eugene Springfield. Whitaker gives the following chronology of that investigation. In September last year, Whitaker allegedly goes to work as a federal intelligence operative with the secret assignment of helping to compile a list of the county's major drug dealers. Eight months later, on April 12, 1979, Whitacker allegedly meets at the federal building with the chief of the Lane Interagency Narcotics Team and hands over a list of 70 names for further investigation. On April 16th, Lint Chief Ron Williams allegedly shows Whitaker intelligence files on people on the list, confirming that many of them are involved in drugs. Stakeouts and phone taps are allegedly put in place. And finally, from last May until now, phone taps continue, backup buys are made, and evidence is compiled, all pointing for a major crackdown on the big dealers, possibly before Christmas. Whitaker explains where the investigation is now. The investigation is to the point now that they are beginning, there is surveillance going on, there are a number of people on the list who have their phones tapped illegally, and they are making buy bus now, or backup buys to prepare the credibility of the informants and the dealer's ability to deliver. Whitaker says he's taken some extraordinary precautions to guard against the consequences of his disclosures. At this point, he says, he's got nothing to lose, and going public may be his best defense. We do have a safe house, and a safehouse is where someone, an agent, can hide. We also have methods of escape, and we also have personal protection in the form of weapons. And sometimes there are still friends left in the agencies who will flag someone if they know somebody's after you. They will flag those people and warn you in advance that they're coming. Do you live in fear of your life? Well it's a control fear, Don, because you realize that when you do this kind of work there are ultimate fears, but it's control fear. Whitaker may have to live with that fear for a lot longer, because if his story is true, he is walking a swaying tightrope over a river full of crocodiles, and he's got a long way to go before he reaches the other side. Don Clark for Eyewitness News. Again, Eyewitness News has been investigating the veracity of Ken Whitaker's list for the past six weeks. That investigation will continue. Well, it's going to be entirely up to the mediator, but I would expect that after we had a chance to talk to him, he's just come back to our room after meeting with the association that will be meeting publicly sometime along the way. The two options that we came up with were go with the same project and resubmit it with a system. Lowering their deficiency points so that they would lower their fire premium rents. I am very disturbed with a couple of things and what our fire chief do. He's just the same boat I am. He has got a mind of his own. He can talk to anything he wants to on the thing. He could say anything he wanted instead of getting wrecked over the coals. I don't believe this and what's going on here and I can't, for the life of me, change my mind. That's what I say, hooking it in with this existing system would be no more than adding storage, and that's all it would add. Back to the agreement that if you haven't got enough pressure, you can put in that pump so you'll have the pressure. The agreement's long past due, that isn't an irrelevant issue compared to what we're talking about. 1,168 deficiency points. 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