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iiendersonlndrug00.....00case: gets Canal group hears salmon issues a year and a day from legal and tribal persp(00ctlves It will take agency teamwork for entities that submit habitat- Swimming in Hood Canal re- O. Henderson, 38, was on Wednesday, Sep- n Mason County Supe- . to 366 days in prison ,lracy to manufacture ' le. 'sentence followed a guilty by Deputy Prose- inlay and defend: Valley. Henderso .end, Stefani Brock, . March 5 in an in- of illegal-drug activity unit at the Jarrell's adlady told police that mt found materials methamphetamine moved into a place for- ied by Henderson and € Were arrested when ack to the marina to r belongings. not an active manufac- He was helping to move out," Valley The original charge of posses- sion of chemicals with intent to manufacture methamphetamine was reduced after negotiations between Finlay and Valley. Judge James Sawyer gave Henderson 12 months of super- vision after his release and or- dered him to pay $484.80 in court costs, $500 to the crime victims' fund and a $4,000 drug fine. Tip line alerts law to violence A new toll-free number at the Shelton Police Department lets people report school violence, or threats of violence, to police with- out being identified. Shelton Police Chief S.R. John- ston said callers will remain anonymous. The number is 1-877- 379-SAFE (1-877-379-7233). worked them, but among regular folks the prostitutes were pretty much accepted, if not openly em- braced. "I remember riding a train during World War II between Denver and San Francisco," says Bob. "I struck up a conversation out of Wyoming with a rancher, and he had been reared on a ranch in Eastern Nevada, I be- lieve. "And he was telling me how when he reached adolescence his father, who ran the ranch, in- structed the foreman to take him to a woman's house out on the plains - the desert country - and introduce him to his first sexual experience. She was a prostitute, but she lived by herself out there and she serviced the cowboys. "AND SO THIS fellow took the kid, gave him five bucks and told him to go in and get some - what was it? It wasn't eggs. It wasn't milk - something that he was supposed to go in and ask for. So he did." Bob grins. "And so she very soon set him straight as to what he'd come in for. And afterward he went out there, and the guy was still wait- ing on his horse for him to, uh, complete the adventure. "And he demanded, 'Well, where's the eggs?' - or whatever it was. And he said, 'They don't have any. They cost twice as much' - or something like that. "But it was the same way in early-day San Francisco. It wasn't unusual for a father to take a maturing son to a house of ill fame, where he knew the mad- am and would introduce the boy to the madam and the madam then would introduce him around to the girls and ask which one he might care to be with. "Well, so various cultures han- dle it differently..." REGISTRATION UNDERWAY at OLYMPIC COLLEGE SHELTON Because YOUR FUTURE can't wait. Credit Classes: FALL QUARTER September 27-December 17 e.d as a messenger for as a young man Bob, and the ex- him more than !0fthe things that I took 'a of pride in," he that I saw all aspects cling the sordid side. rally you'd be sum- of ill repute. reputed' best one was the main post office, kt Hotel. It was ning house. there one day a telegram and what- to deliver a boot to a il, or whatever. And I ng at the desk, waiting tdara to complete the n and make up her SkY, ALL at once there ie,°Pened above, and ar the patter of bare U.ses, an impish grin g to get the better of i _tae madam spoke to n here.' OUrse what it was was aadY Was going to the ,_er Servicing a client. "-tied I couldn't hear tvas that?'" ;&ts, his grin now -e throes of a thor- arraing little laugh of ee. here!, ,, he repeats, .'thing akin to a Voice. "And I still Played the dummy, e laughs out loud. l y she yanked me in- s didn't observe this [1..." ,LY, SAYS Bob, no- 'nOtwithstanding, ! of ill repute weren't llied when it came to it. Oh, the upper lety indeed looked Ose at those who and a lot of citizen effort if threatened salmon runs are to be restored in Hood Canal, speakers told those attending a Hood Ca- nal Environmental Council pro- gram in Belfair last Friday. Master of ceremonies Gary Cunningham, at the session in the Mary E. Theler Community Center, described the 30-year his- tory of the Hood Canal Environ- mental Council as a grassroots citizens' effort to maintain the quality of a fragile waterway. He told listeners how the group's first effort was successful in establishing a degree of zoning in Kitsap County, noting that the catalyst was a small-lot develop- ment proposed for Stavis Bay. SALMON WAS the focus for Friday's meeting. Michael Rossot- to, a 1992 graduate of Stanford Law School and an attorney with the Washington Environmental Council, talked to those gathered about the major aspects of the Endangered Species Act as it per- tains to Hood Canal salmon. In- terpreting the Endangered Spe- cies Act, Rossotto said, is some- thing of a cottage industry in it- self. He told the group that a key portion of the act, Section 9, in- volves the "take" of fish listed as threatened or endangered. "Take," he said, involves harass- ment, harm or disruption of habi- tat. Fresh-water fish and land Michael Rossotto mammals, he said, come under the protection of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, while ana- dromous fish like salmon, as well as marine mammals, fall under the jurisdiction of the National Marine Fisheries Service. The former group makes no distinc- tion between threatened and en- dangered species, but for salmon, regulation of "take" applies only to endangered species. NMFS, he said, can regulate the activities defined as "take" but has not yet made any regula- tions, deferring to the counties and states involved. Section 11 of the act, Rossotto said, allows for citizens to sue for its enforcement in cases where its provisions are violated. He noted Michael Pavel that a 60-day notice of intent is involved, and that governments will often respond with enforce- ment even without the suit pro- ceeding further. ANOTHER TOOL for activ- ism, he told the group, is Section 7 of the act, which requires per- mitting and funding entities to ensure that projects are not harmful to endangered or threatened salmon populations. The most publicized section of the Endangered Species Act, Ros- sotto said, is Section 4D, which requires involved agencies to is- sue rules to protect threatened species. The weakest aspect of the act, he said, is Section 10, which al- lows for incidental-take permits conservation plans in the permit- ting process. Unfortunately, he said, the permits have a span of 50 years, so if they are based on inaccurate science or prove inade- quate, a great deal of damage to critical habitat can be done. The most important task at hand, Rossotto said, is restoration of habitat so that the trend of threatened salmon to decline can be reversed. He urged people to walk streams, be observant, keep accurate records of observations and communicate with lawmak- ers and other entities to avoid further degradation of Hood Ca- nal salmon habitat. TURNING TO A cultural re- sponse to salmon issues, the group heard from Washington State University Associate Pro- fessor Michael Pavel, a member of the Skokomish Tribe, who told the audience how the salmon was integral to his tribe's way of life, both economically and spiritually. His mother's people, Pavel said, lived on Hood Canal for per- haps 10,000 years, and their sto- ries reached back to the receding of the glaciers of the last ice age. He set the scene for his remarks by singing one of the Twana peo- ple's historic songs, and from the audience, his mother, Anne Pavel, echoed the music. "The relationship between Hood Canal and my people has gone on for millennia," he said. "For us, this water is alive, and has given us life." cently, he said, he put himself in the salmon's place and thought how the fish would feel if the wa- ter were polluted, their power di- minished. But they have all but disappeared through other caus- es, he noted, jeopardizing a way of life. "OUR FUTURES are tied to the environment," he observed. Historically, he said, the Twana people have involved themselves with respect and reverence for that environment, formed part- nerships with it and with others caring for it, and worked to be good neighbors. He described touring the Sko- komish estuary with Tribal Natu- ral Resources Director Jim Park, who showed him a slough cleaned out by the removal of a log jam at an old bridge. "I saw fish there. ! saw life there," he said. In anoth- er place, culverts were being re- placed to make the stream flow more natural and inhibit flooding, which is destructive of salmon habitat. Pavel told his listeners the trees, which hold the waters in the soils against erosion and flooding, "are teachers to us," and said the tribe is interested in partnerships that enhance salm- on habitat throughout the Hood Canal watershed. "If we pollute our environment, if all the salmon die," he said, "we may all die. And if we are not the first, consider how sad to be the last." AT THE END of the presenta- tions, in a question-and-answer Fire districts 5, 3 agree on more joint planning, response, training session, both Pavel and Rossotto noted that fishing has often been treated as a scapegoat for the ef- fect on salmon populations of hy- droelectric generation. "We've ratcheted down our commercial, sport and tribal fish- ery again and again," Rossotto Mason County fire districts 3 and 5, in the course of joint plan- ning, have agreed to a stronger and more fully coordinated joint response to emergencies in their adjoining districts, say their chiefs. The two districts have agreed to implement joint training of firefighters and first responders, say Fire District 5 Chief Richard A. Knight and Fire District 3 Chief Mike Uglow. In a press release issued last Friday, the chiefs of the two fire districts praised their two-year- old first response agreement as having "improved the emergency response to residents in both districts." BOUNDARIES established years back for the two districts leave the Grapeview Fire District 3 landlocked by Fire District 5, WhiCh' extends" north past Allyn and south to the Shelton city lim- its. Residents in both districts have benefited from faster re- sponses and more personnel and equipment within both districts, the chiefs said in their press re- lease. The automatic joint re- sponse instituted in 1997 "has al- Fire District 5 board will meet at 7 tonight Fire District 5 commissioners services levy on the November will hold a meeting at 7:30 to- ballot. night as a continuance of their The session will be held at Sta- September 8 meeting to consider tion 53 on Mason-Benson Road. putting an emergency medical Hood Canal award nominations due The deadline for Hood Canal Coordinating Council's 1999 En- vironmental Achievement Awards is close. Award nominations in five cat- egories, including individuals, nonprofit organizations, industry and business, public agency and government, and students and schools, are due by Wednesday, September 22. Forms and guidelines are available from coordinator Donna Simmons by phone at 877-5747 or at dsimmons@hcte.eom via e- mail. They are also available at the Mason County Commission office at 411 North Fifth Street, the Skokomish Tribal Center and at the Mason County-Washington State University Cooperative Ex- tension Office. Completed forms and support- ing materials should be sent to HCCC Awards Program, P.O. Box 5002, Quilcene, 98376. GOING OUT OF BUSINESS. Most MOVIES for 2104 Olympic Hwy. N. • 426-1596 ready proved beneficial in several residential fires within the cen- tral part of District 5," Knight said. "District 3's quick response with their water tender and crew has provided us with additional resources to quickly stop fires." Uglow 'ii0ted "that the response of extra personnel and equipment from Fire District 5 during the daytime hours as an example of the benefits to Fire District 3. The new agreement extends the agreement for a much strong- er and more fully coordinated joint response in both districts, and allows for "a full program of joint training between the two districts to ensure that personnel will work together effectively at emergency incidents," the two chiefs said. • STAFFS OF the two fire dis- tricts, the chiefs said, will meet on a monthly schedule "to contin- ue to find ways to work together." Both chiefs said their goal is to provide quality service to the citi- zens of the two fire districts in the most efficient manner possi- ble. South Sound Stove Fair '99 Best Buys of the Year All Brands on Sale WE WILL BEAT PUYALLUP FAIR PRICES Special Event Hours: Thursday 9116 Friday 9/17 Saturday 9/18 Sunday 9/19 3775 MARTIN WAY EAST • OLYMPIA 491-4060 said. "The fishermen have made the biggest sacrifices of all." Both speakers urged grass- roots efforts to ensure that work- able measures be taken to move ahead with habitat restoration for the salmon. Protecting salmon habitat, they said, is one way to keep Hood Canal the productive, pure waterway it has been. 00,(ouy£ts by gift & Leslee McComb Thursday, September 16, 1999 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page THE GOOD WITH THE BAD If desperate times call for desperate measures, shouldn't happiness be recognized with a measure of gratitude? There seems to be such a high ex- pectation of health and tran- quility on the part of human nature that we may tend to take these things for granted when they prevail. When things be- gin to go awry, however, there is no shortage of prayer with the intention of putting things right. The fact is, though, that we should take the good with the bad, and recognize them in equal fashion. As Kahlil Gibran once wrote: "You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abun- dance." It is never easy to accept the loss of someone we love. The experience can be made more complicated by having to make arrangements for a burial and service. At McCOMB FU- NERAL HOME, we offer pre- arranged funerals so that you can save your loved ones from the burden of making these decisions. At first it might seem difficult to consider, be we con- sider it a loving act for your family's sake. For further infor- mation, call us at 703 Railroad Avenue West (426-4803). Grief counseling is also available. QUOTE: "Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape." Austin O'Malley iiii ii ii i 17 II IBm iiendersonlndrug00.....00case: gets Canal group hears salmon issues a year and a day from legal and tribal persp(00ctlves It will take agency teamwork for entities that submit habitat- Swimming in Hood Canal re- O. Henderson, 38, was on Wednesday, Sep- n Mason County Supe- . to 366 days in prison ,lracy to manufacture ' le. 'sentence followed a guilty by Deputy Prose- inlay and defend: Valley. Henderso .end, Stefani Brock, . March 5 in an in- of illegal-drug activity unit at the Jarrell's adlady told police that mt found materials methamphetamine moved into a place for- ied by Henderson and € Were arrested when ack to the marina to r belongings. not an active manufac- He was helping to move out," Valley The original charge of posses- sion of chemicals with intent to manufacture methamphetamine was reduced after negotiations between Finlay and Valley. Judge James Sawyer gave Henderson 12 months of super- vision after his release and or- dered him to pay $484.80 in court costs, $500 to the crime victims' fund and a $4,000 drug fine. Tip line alerts law to violence A new toll-free number at the Shelton Police Department lets people report school violence, or threats of violence, to police with- out being identified. Shelton Police Chief S.R. John- ston said callers will remain anonymous. The number is 1-877- 379-SAFE (1-877-379-7233). worked them, but among regular folks the prostitutes were pretty much accepted, if not openly em- braced. "I remember riding a train during World War II between Denver and San Francisco," says Bob. "I struck up a conversation out of Wyoming with a rancher, and he had been reared on a ranch in Eastern Nevada, I be- lieve. "And he was telling me how when he reached adolescence his father, who ran the ranch, in- structed the foreman to take him to a woman's house out on the plains - the desert country - and introduce him to his first sexual experience. She was a prostitute, but she lived by herself out there and she serviced the cowboys. "AND SO THIS fellow took the kid, gave him five bucks and told him to go in and get some - what was it? It wasn't eggs. It wasn't milk - something that he was supposed to go in and ask for. So he did." Bob grins. "And so she very soon set him straight as to what he'd come in for. And afterward he went out there, and the guy was still wait- ing on his horse for him to, uh, complete the adventure. "And he demanded, 'Well, where's the eggs?' - or whatever it was. And he said, 'They don't have any. They cost twice as much' - or something like that. "But it was the same way in early-day San Francisco. It wasn't unusual for a father to take a maturing son to a house of ill fame, where he knew the mad- am and would introduce the boy to the madam and the madam then would introduce him around to the girls and ask which one he might care to be with. "Well, so various cultures han- dle it differently..." REGISTRATION UNDERWAY at OLYMPIC COLLEGE SHELTON Because YOUR FUTURE can't wait. Credit Classes: FALL QUARTER September 27-December 17 e.d as a messenger for as a young man Bob, and the ex- him more than !0fthe things that I took 'a of pride in," he that I saw all aspects cling the sordid side. rally you'd be sum- of ill repute. reputed' best one was the main post office, kt Hotel. It was ning house. there one day a telegram and what- to deliver a boot to a il, or whatever. And I ng at the desk, waiting tdara to complete the n and make up her SkY, ALL at once there ie,°Pened above, and ar the patter of bare U.ses, an impish grin g to get the better of i _tae madam spoke to n here.' OUrse what it was was aadY Was going to the ,_er Servicing a client. "-tied I couldn't hear tvas that?'" ;&ts, his grin now -e throes of a thor- arraing little laugh of ee. here!, ,, he repeats, .'thing akin to a Voice. "And I still Played the dummy, e laughs out loud. l y she yanked me in- s didn't observe this [1..." ,LY, SAYS Bob, no- 'nOtwithstanding, ! of ill repute weren't llied when it came to it. Oh, the upper lety indeed looked Ose at those who and a lot of citizen effort if threatened salmon runs are to be restored in Hood Canal, speakers told those attending a Hood Ca- nal Environmental Council pro- gram in Belfair last Friday. Master of ceremonies Gary Cunningham, at the session in the Mary E. Theler Community Center, described the 30-year his- tory of the Hood Canal Environ- mental Council as a grassroots citizens' effort to maintain the quality of a fragile waterway. He told listeners how the group's first effort was successful in establishing a degree of zoning in Kitsap County, noting that the catalyst was a small-lot develop- ment proposed for Stavis Bay. SALMON WAS the focus for Friday's meeting. Michael Rossot- to, a 1992 graduate of Stanford Law School and an attorney with the Washington Environmental Council, talked to those gathered about the major aspects of the Endangered Species Act as it per- tains to Hood Canal salmon. In- terpreting the Endangered Spe- cies Act, Rossotto said, is some- thing of a cottage industry in it- self. He told the group that a key portion of the act, Section 9, in- volves the "take" of fish listed as threatened or endangered. "Take," he said, involves harass- ment, harm or disruption of habi- tat. Fresh-water fish and land Michael Rossotto mammals, he said, come under the protection of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, while ana- dromous fish like salmon, as well as marine mammals, fall under the jurisdiction of the National Marine Fisheries Service. The former group makes no distinc- tion between threatened and en- dangered species, but for salmon, regulation of "take" applies only to endangered species. NMFS, he said, can regulate the activities defined as "take" but has not yet made any regula- tions, deferring to the counties and states involved. Section 11 of the act, Rossotto said, allows for citizens to sue for its enforcement in cases where its provisions are violated. He noted Michael Pavel that a 60-day notice of intent is involved, and that governments will often respond with enforce- ment even without the suit pro- ceeding further. ANOTHER TOOL for activ- ism, he told the group, is Section 7 of the act, which requires per- mitting and funding entities to ensure that projects are not harmful to endangered or threatened salmon populations. The most publicized section of the Endangered Species Act, Ros- sotto said, is Section 4D, which requires involved agencies to is- sue rules to protect threatened species. The weakest aspect of the act, he said, is Section 10, which al- lows for incidental-take permits conservation plans in the permit- ting process. Unfortunately, he said, the permits have a span of 50 years, so if they are based on inaccurate science or prove inade- quate, a great deal of damage to critical habitat can be done. The most important task at hand, Rossotto said, is restoration of habitat so that the trend of threatened salmon to decline can be reversed. He urged people to walk streams, be observant, keep accurate records of observations and communicate with lawmak- ers and other entities to avoid further degradation of Hood Ca- nal salmon habitat. TURNING TO A cultural re- sponse to salmon issues, the group heard from Washington State University Associate Pro- fessor Michael Pavel, a member of the Skokomish Tribe, who told the audience how the salmon was integral to his tribe's way of life, both economically and spiritually. His mother's people, Pavel said, lived on Hood Canal for per- haps 10,000 years, and their sto- ries reached back to the receding of the glaciers of the last ice age. He set the scene for his remarks by singing one of the Twana peo- ple's historic songs, and from the audience, his mother, Anne Pavel, echoed the music. "The relationship between Hood Canal and my people has gone on for millennia," he said. "For us, this water is alive, and has given us life." cently, he said, he put himself in the salmon's place and thought how the fish would feel if the wa- ter were polluted, their power di- minished. But they have all but disappeared through other caus- es, he noted, jeopardizing a way of life. "OUR FUTURES are tied to the environment," he observed. Historically, he said, the Twana people have involved themselves with respect and reverence for that environment, formed part- nerships with it and with others caring for it, and worked to be good neighbors. He described touring the Sko- komish estuary with Tribal Natu- ral Resources Director Jim Park, who showed him a slough cleaned out by the removal of a log jam at an old bridge. "I saw fish there. ! saw life there," he said. In anoth- er place, culverts were being re- placed to make the stream flow more natural and inhibit flooding, which is destructive of salmon habitat. Pavel told his listeners the trees, which hold the waters in the soils against erosion and flooding, "are teachers to us," and said the tribe is interested in partnerships that enhance salm- on habitat throughout the Hood Canal watershed. "If we pollute our environment, if all the salmon die," he said, "we may all die. And if we are not the first, consider how sad to be the last." AT THE END of the presenta- tions, in a question-and-answer Fire districts 5, 3 agree on more joint planning, response, training session, both Pavel and Rossotto noted that fishing has often been treated as a scapegoat for the ef- fect on salmon populations of hy- droelectric generation. "We've ratcheted down our commercial, sport and tribal fish- ery again and again," Rossotto Mason County fire districts 3 and 5, in the course of joint plan- ning, have agreed to a stronger and more fully coordinated joint response to emergencies in their adjoining districts, say their chiefs. The two districts have agreed to implement joint training of firefighters and first responders, say Fire District 5 Chief Richard A. Knight and Fire District 3 Chief Mike Uglow. In a press release issued last Friday, the chiefs of the two fire districts praised their two-year- old first response agreement as having "improved the emergency response to residents in both districts." BOUNDARIES established years back for the two districts leave the Grapeview Fire District 3 landlocked by Fire District 5, WhiCh' extends" north past Allyn and south to the Shelton city lim- its. Residents in both districts have benefited from faster re- sponses and more personnel and equipment within both districts, the chiefs said in their press re- lease. The automatic joint re- sponse instituted in 1997 "has al- Fire District 5 board will meet at 7 tonight Fire District 5 commissioners services levy on the November will hold a meeting at 7:30 to- ballot. night as a continuance of their The session will be held at Sta- September 8 meeting to consider tion 53 on Mason-Benson Road. putting an emergency medical Hood Canal award nominations due The deadline for Hood Canal Coordinating Council's 1999 En- vironmental Achievement Awards is close. Award nominations in five cat- egories, including individuals, nonprofit organizations, industry and business, public agency and government, and students and schools, are due by Wednesday, September 22. Forms and guidelines are available from coordinator Donna Simmons by phone at 877-5747 or at dsimmons@hcte.eom via e- mail. They are also available at the Mason County Commission office at 411 North Fifth Street, the Skokomish Tribal Center and at the Mason County-Washington State University Cooperative Ex- tension Office. Completed forms and support- ing materials should be sent to HCCC Awards Program, P.O. Box 5002, Quilcene, 98376. GOING OUT OF BUSINESS. Most MOVIES for 2104 Olympic Hwy. N. • 426-1596 ready proved beneficial in several residential fires within the cen- tral part of District 5," Knight said. "District 3's quick response with their water tender and crew has provided us with additional resources to quickly stop fires." Uglow 'ii0ted "that the response of extra personnel and equipment from Fire District 5 during the daytime hours as an example of the benefits to Fire District 3. The new agreement extends the agreement for a much strong- er and more fully coordinated joint response in both districts, and allows for "a full program of joint training between the two districts to ensure that personnel will work together effectively at emergency incidents," the two chiefs said. • STAFFS OF the two fire dis- tricts, the chiefs said, will meet on a monthly schedule "to contin- ue to find ways to work together." Both chiefs said their goal is to provide quality service to the citi- zens of the two fire districts in the most efficient manner possi- ble. South Sound Stove Fair '99 Best Buys of the Year All Brands on Sale WE WILL BEAT PUYALLUP FAIR PRICES Special Event Hours: Thursday 9116 Friday 9/17 Saturday 9/18 Sunday 9/19 3775 MARTIN WAY EAST • OLYMPIA 491-4060 said. "The fishermen have made the biggest sacrifices of all." Both speakers urged grass- roots efforts to ensure that work- able measures be taken to move ahead with habitat restoration for the salmon. Protecting salmon habitat, they said, is one way to keep Hood Canal the productive, pure waterway it has been. 00,(ouy£ts by gift & Leslee McComb Thursday, September 16, 1999 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page THE GOOD WITH THE BAD If desperate times call for desperate measures, shouldn't happiness be recognized with a measure of gratitude? There seems to be such a high ex- pectation of health and tran- quility on the part of human nature that we may tend to take these things for granted when they prevail. When things be- gin to go awry, however, there is no shortage of prayer with the intention of putting things right. The fact is, though, that we should take the good with the bad, and recognize them in equal fashion. As Kahlil Gibran once wrote: "You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abun- dance." It is never easy to accept the loss of someone we love. The experience can be made more complicated by having to make arrangements for a burial and service. At McCOMB FU- NERAL HOME, we offer pre- arranged funerals so that you can save your loved ones from the burden of making these decisions. At first it might seem difficult to consider, be we con- sider it a loving act for your family's sake. For further infor- mation, call us at 703 Railroad Avenue West (426-4803). Grief counseling is also available. QUOTE: "Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape." Austin O'Malley iiii ii ii i 17 II IBm