Garfield 44 . Girls Auburn 55 Walla Walla 42 Everett 50 ?w ?95915 st?m Preps- OIl?mpic 54 Girls? Sehome 44 Boys? AA: Centralia?51. AA: Wo?odway 41 :1 .1. WEATHER - Rain, showers. SUNDAY. High near 50. Low near 40. March 13. 1983 Details, 2. the Washington's largest newspaper 238 pages -: -: 4 Copyright, 1983, Seattle Times Company A Another crab boat 7? sinks off Alaska Totaling up state taxes Average family . 4225's . I . I/mrj?yiJuneau said of the spate ?of crab boat sinkings, ?I?m not sure if it is considered unusual. The weather is always pretty bad this time of year." by Susan Gilmore Times staff reporter DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska Another crab boat, the second in as many days and the fourth 000+ ,2 past month, capsized yesterda in may pay the Bering Sea, leaving one woman {of 91;? missing in the icy waters. . by Bill et rich Five other crew members of was Times staff reporter the Sea Hawk were rescued by the . Coast Guard cutter Boutwell after '7 5 spending nearly an hour floating in survival suits. The missing woman, the boat's cook, was tied to a life ring but had I .. no survival suit. C9 The boat was based in Dutch Harbor but owned by Union Bay -. - Fish of Seattle, the Coast Guard by Susan Gilmore said. The five rescued crewmen Times staff reporter . . . . were entatively identified as from DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska Tacoma. . The Coast Guard identified the 5 9 very "early 513?? 0" as the cook of the Anacortes crab boat boat?s skipper as Bill Maxwell. . . . . Other rescued crewmen were Americus before 1? capS'ZEd and Corey Eisenbarth, Allen Dille, sank gering Sea. Bruce and Gregory Sage. r} ay_ she spent ?we? The Coast Guard was uncertain of hours floating in a Slut their hometown, butt Sgt. Gawaine after lied boat, the Dream- LaFevers of the Unaiaska, Alaska, er, to at lover and sank near the police said he understood all five grave 0 ?e AmeTlcus- . Now she doesn know whether. are from Tacoma. .. she Ji?X?d or lucky. were in 300d condition, But Sue Pierce says she?s had suffering mild hypothermia, and enough of crab fishing in the; were expected to be brought . - . ashore early this morning. storany waters on the edge of now ere. The missmg woman was be? Will she fish again? lieved to be Justina Stepetinpondered the question, Sitting in Akutan, Alaska, according to a friend of Stepetin?s in Dutch Har? Dutch Harbor bar ?St hours after? she was rescued With five others- . A h? .. bor kutan is a small fis mg town from the Bering Sea. ?1 have a near Harbor. fishing pole," she said, giddy from- Smith said the 73-foot Sea .. i . Hawk issued a mayday call about {1533335398 from death. ?1 St?Ck, 3:30 pm. Seattle time. The boat . ., was about 80 miles southwest of Pierce, 24' from Seattle, wag. Dutch Harbor, fighting (lo-knot the only woman . aboard the: winds, 8 foot swells, blowing snow Sglattle-based Arctic and visibility of onlyahalf-mile. .?Ch was tossed on "5 it'd-e; The Coast Guard was continu- Fi'day afternoon by gale-force: ing the search for the missing mm?" For more than three 11091:? woman last night. However, the the 51" crew members Played 3?16: life expectancy in the 33-degree yelled f?f help while the? ?Ewell; water without a survival suit is bobbed the 1240?? 5633- They, about seven minutes. were rescued by the Sterling: Smith said the cause of the another crab boat, about 10 miless accident was not known. The north 0f Harbor.. (if. capsized boat sank late last night. there don 31.1.0? ?111: The Boutwell was on routine 3?9? re gomg to or me! 5914? fisheries patrol about 40 miles Pierce, a Bra?uale Slim-crest: away when it received the Sea High School. The big swells jut-m Hawk's distress call. you andthe worst thing I could: The Sea Hawk accident came mm" or 'f I die, ,Who'_5 301313:le only one day after the Arctic get my horse? Whos gomg ?0 89E- Dreamer, - a Seattle-based crab my dog? boat, capsized and sank about 15 miles north of Dutch Harbor. Six crew members five from the Seattle area were rescued from a lifeboat after nearly two hours in the freezing waters of the Bering Sea. The Arctic Dreamer sank in the same area where two Ana? cortes crab boats were lost last month. The Americus capsized Feb. 14 and sank with seven crewmen aboard. Its sister ship it Meet George Washington. Not the George Washington who is the father of his country. We mean a typical Evergreen state father of two lovable but expensive moppets, one of whom is indenturing George to an orthodontist while the other relentlessly lobbies Pap for a home computer. With an income of $25,000 a year, stoic George and his loyal wife Martha find life hard enough without remembering state taxes equal an average . $1,000 from the pocket or purse of every man, woman and child this year. Nor do they like to recall that additional licenses, earnings, tuition, timber sales, the lottery, federal grants and other ?nontax revenue? that?s what the bureaucrats call it will allow state spending to exceed $1,800 per person, or nearly $8 billion a year. Good 01? George can?t help wondering if such averages, which include business taxes, apply to his family. Or how the dime-here and dollar-there method of state taxation seems to add up to more a" than the cost of a wild weekend in Reno. Legislative staffers have asked the same question. They took just the major taxes which . individuals pay directly and calculated the effect of recent tax increases. The result was an average annual direct tax bill of . $429.25 for each of Washington?s 4.29 million people. But that ignores more than three-quarters of state spending and revenue. And it sheds little light on families such as George?s. So curious George has tried to add up his own tax bill for a year. George?s ?year" includes the tax increases recently signed into law, but does not count the sales tax on food, due to expire June 30. Nor did George try to predict any further tax revisions which may occur this spring before the Legislature adjourns. The sales tax sorta snuck up on our hero. It used to seem the kind of nuisance that simply produced penny change for the poker jar. Now the taxman figures George?s family will spend about 40 percent of its $25,000 income on taxable goods which means $818 in sales tax this year. The state?s share of the 7.8 percent rate 6.5 cents equals $660. George should be surprised his sales tax bill is not worse. After all, that $660 is less than half the $1,363 which one would arrive at by simply dividing the state?s expected annual sales-tax revenue by the number of households in the state, 1.54 million. Why does the Washington family seem to get off so easily? Partly because many families have more money to spend than George. And partly because some of that sales tax comes from businesses buying from Others on board the 98-foot: vessel were skipper Les Moren and? Roger Parmenter, both of Seattle}; Don Demain of Bremerton; Milf- chael Walsh of Vashon Island, and . Brian Lehman of Cordova, Alaskarf, A Coast Guard investigator will? arrive in Dutch Harbor today'fo?: try to determine what caused thii.? ship to capsize. Dutch Harbor?? police said the Arctic Dreamer ha?dn' some crab on board but was fag-E: 19? .. ., .. tidb?tf,? 1 is ., See TAXES on A 4 Lon Skeesick Seattle Times Convention Center: Site is key question by David Schaefer Times staff reporter It's a bittersweet problem, a mixed blessing, a gift with strings attached. an opportunity rife with pitfalls. Building a new state convention center in Seattle is a task loaded with conflicts, and little time remains before a key decision will be made where to build the center in a countdown that has taken years to get this far. This week, the Seattle City Council and School Board are to give their opinions on a proposed land swap that would allow the. convention center to be built at the Seattle Center on the site of the present High School Memorial Stadium. For the City Council, it?s a question of backing the mayor?s push for a Seattle Center site, or sitting back and letting downtown interests hold out for their preferred site spanning Interstate 5. Some have urged council members to do more than make a choice. In hearings last week, neighborhood groups urged the council to actively oppose a second freeway lid just north of the one at Freeway Park. Where to put a $90 million convention center a decision that actually will be made March 31 by the nine-member board of the Washington State Trade and Convention Center: is coming down to a photo finish. A third site, near the Kingdome, has been considered, but it just doesn?t seem to be in the same horse race. When the Legislature last year authorized state convention-center bonds to be paid off with a higher hotel-motel tax in King County lawmakers had in mind the freeway site. Those in tourist and retail businesses were in agreement. But neighborhood and other community groups have fought that site, arguing that it would harm the adjacent First Hill neighborhood, where senior citizens have been able to find comfortable, affordable places to live. The Seattle Center site gained momentum, fueled by the mayor's backing and the attractiveness of a land swap with the school district. There are conflicts in this struggle besides downtown versus the neighborhoods, business versus housing. For one, . state and city governments have wound up at odds. The convention center is a state project. If it doesn?t earn money, the state treasury will have to supplement its operating costs. If the King County hotel-motel tax doesn?t earn enough to pay off the construction bonds, state revenues must be tapped. City interests argue that a convention center over the freeway could steal business from the Seattle Center, drawing off city revenues. But others, worried partly about the state treasury, Wonder whether Seattle could attract the conventions it needs to support a center if delegates couldn?t walk to their hotels, if they had to ride a monorail or bus to the convention center. Members of the convention-center board, themselves, have been in the crossfire. Some- times they have been accused of leaning and listening only to the freeway-touting downtown businessmen. Sometimes they?ve been accused of overlooking their responsibility to the state as they consider proposals to help the financial- ly ailing Seattle Center. In a grim economic time, few have faulted the convention center's potential to create 7,000 new jobs and pull $164 million a year from the pocketbooks of free-spending outbf-state tour- ists. But besides being hungry, Seattle-area interests have shovm that they are finicky, as well. IA closer look at the convention'center debate and the competing proposals. issues, A 18. INDEX Rick Anderson 1 Cressword puzzle 0 23 Feeling Good 4 Ombudsman A 25 Travel Section Arts, entertainment Section Dear Abby 3 Golden Years 4 Open House 6 Troubleshooter 5 Erma 30ka 3 Deaths, funerals 50 Horoscope 20 Pet column 50 TV Update A 4 21 Dog news 40 issues A 18-21 Real estate 4-7 What's in a Name 49 Books 5 Don Duncan 2 Jennifer James 4. Socral security 50 Writer's Art 7 Bridge 3 Economy Section Stanley Kramer A 30 Scene Section Classi?ed ads 8-49 Editorials A 20 Northwest 0 1-3 Sports Section Times phone numbers A 4 'i i . :3 Altair, also with seven crew mem- bers, disappeared without a trace the same day. Another Coast Guard spokes- .o .--. See LUCKY on A 4 El Salvador war plan; was used in Vietnam?) Compiled from news services SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador Government troops will soon open a new campaign which in many ways is similar to one used in Vietnam, informed sources say. The plan involves technical help from officials of the US. Agency for International Develop ment, some of them slated for full- time assignment to villages, ac? cording to the sources, most of whom Spoke on condition they not be identified. Some compared the plan to the Civil Operations and Rural Devel- opment Support Agency - known as CORDS that provided medi- cal care and economic relief to war victims in Vietnam in the late 19605. It was coordinated with Operation Phoenix, aimed at liqui- dating the Viet Cong underground in? villages. The CORDS program was viewed as a failure because of the Vietnamese government?s inability to administer it and because of rampant con?uption. dne US. General Accounting Office audit of CORDS in 196830, could account for only $339 million of the allotted $2.1 billion. Asked if the US. government expected corruption to be a prob" lem in the Salvadoran campaign,- one source replied, ?Of course.? The plan, said to be contingent on the Salvadoran government?- getling an additional $110 million in US. aid, calls for about 10,000 soldiers to sweep through a key province in east-central El Salva-' dor. One aim of the month-long sweep will be to destroy guerrilla strongholds; another would be to cut off routes through which the rebels receive military supplies. It would be the biggest oper- ation since the civil war started 41 months ago, with a toll to date of 42,000 people killed. The largest previous operation, lasting three weeks in February in northeastern Morazan province, involved 6,000 .: troups. Guemllas took overLja Salvadoran town in a different part See SALVADOR on A 4. -