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In a news conference, she said, “Among the concerns heard most often is that a new spirit of confidence and renewed trust is needed between people in and out of government . . . that fis fiscal cal responsibility and accountability in government be improved . . . and that both the cost and size of government be reduced.” “A.n additional concern is the fact that only 23 per cent of the eligible voters between 18 and 21 voted in the last general election because they did not identify with any of the candi candidates,” dates,” said Rep. Paulus. She said she will hold “my own modern-day ‘wolf meetings’ throughout the state beginning in January.” In the 1840s, settlers were called together at Champoeg to talk about what to do about wild animals killing their livestock. These were the historic “wolf meet meetings,” ings,” Rep. Paulus explained in her news conference, which provided an answer to the problem and also resulted in writing of Oregon’s first Constitu Constitution. tion. NORMA PAULUS (left) was the speaker; Mary Edwards, president of Lake Oswego Republican Women's Club, presided; Bon Bonnie nie Schrimsher, president of Mt. Sylvania Rep. Paulus Affirms Sec. of State Race Republican Womens Club, assisted at Monday luncheon meeting at VIP’s. - Review photo 155s State Rep. Norma Pau Paulus, lus, R-Salem, has definitely decided to run next year for secretary of state. She told The Statesman that she will file for the position about Nov. 17. Rep. Paulus, 42-year-old Salem attorney, is the first Republican to announce for the race to succeed GOP Secretary of State Clay Myers, who by law cannot seek a third term. State Rep. A1 Densmore of Medford has announced he will run for the office in the Democratic primary next May, and several oth other er Democrats are consider considering ing the contest. Mrs. Paulus is serving her third two-year term in the House. To run for the statewide post she will have to give up her seat in House Dist. 31, which in includes cludes most of South and Southeast Salem. Rep. Paulus was vice chairman of the House Elections Committee in the 1975 legislative session and served on the House Reve Revenue nue Committee.Local-Run State Prison Plan Proposed By Oregon Lawmaker By JAMES LONG Journal Staff Writer Orejtn* /o/'2,/fc SALEM — A member of the Legisla Legislative tive Interim Committee on the Judiciary is proposing that Oregon have small, regional prisons governed by a “civil “civilian” ian” board of directors similar to a local school board. Rep. Norma Paulus, R-Salem, already ms ■ v v v- Mwm m REP. NORMA PAULUS has helped redraft Oregon’s regional jail law — with the proposed new version allowing the construction of regional institutions for felons as well as mis misdemeanants. demeanants. The proposed revision also would allow establishment of regional facili facilities ties for juvenile offenders, and would allow such facilities and regional jails to be operated under contract by private, nonprofit corporations. The proposals will be submitted to the subcommittee at a meeting Oct. 17-18 in Salem. “If rehabilitation programs are going to work — and they don’t work now in our big prisons — we’re going to have to go back to the communities to get the job done,” Rep. Paulus told The Journal. “A community prison doesn't just mean putting a prison back in the com community, munity, physically. The only way to get a community involved is to give the people in that community some sayso about how the prison is run.” Rep. Paulus’s proposals for the Ore Oregon gon prison system come at a time when a growing amount of attention is being focused by state and local government. Gov. Bob Straub announced this week the appointment of a 10-member Corrections Task Force headed by his own legal counsel, Edward J. Sullivan, to review the total prison picture and come up with recommendations for the 1976 Legislature. Two members of the task force, Rep. Ted Kulongoski, D-Eugene, and Sen. Betty Browne, D-Oakridge, also are members of the Legislative Interim Committee on Corrections. Sullivan said the groundwork has been laid for close coordination between the groups. Others on the task force include Cir Circuit cuit Judge John C. Beatty, Portland; Charles Pfeiffer, State Parole Board member; Robert Watson, deputy administrator of the Oregon Corrections Division; Cecil T ibbett, public employes union official; Sen. Fred W. Heard, D-Klamath Falls; Rep. Vera Katz, D- Portland; Sheriff Lee Brown of Mult Multnomah nomah County, and Lee Tanzer, Mult Multnomah nomah County director of Justice Serv Services. ices. The Legislative Subcommittee’s members include Rep. Dick Magruder, D-Clatskanie, chairman; Sen. Bob Smith, D-Burns; Rep. Mike Ragsdale, R-Beaverton; Sen. Wally Carson, R- Salem; Sen. Betty Roberts, D-Portland; and Rep. Curt Wolfer, D-Silverton. “Exactly how the Legislative com committee mittee will relate to the task force is an interesting question,” Rep. Paulus said. Amos Reed, state corrections administrator and the boss of one mem member ber of the governor’s task force, reacted with some skepticism to the idea for regional prisons governed by civilian boards wielding real power. “This is a brand new idea with me,” said Reed. “I wouldn’t want to conjec conjecture ture how it might work.” Reed noted that the State of Wash Washington ington experimented with decentralized administration and ended up with a tan tangle gle of prison policies “and a hatful of problems.” ‘I would view any new proposal with some caution,” Reed said. “Prisons are unique. Many people who make suggestions have little or no experience in criminology or corrections. It’s not like running a popcorn stand.” The two-pronged study of Oregon’s correctional system comes at a time when many penal experts are question questioning ing the worth of rehabilitation pro programs grams and the wisdom of indeterminate sentences that are based on the assump assumption tion that rehabilitation programs usual usually ly work. The studies, observers say, could lead to such changes as shorter, fixed sent sentences ences with some incentive for good behavior; an end to consideration of “rehabilitation” as a condition of release, and some fundamental changes in the parole system — perhaps even its abolishment. Task Force Chairman Sullivan said { the group will meet for the first time r “in mid-October.” He said Jerry Hoff- £ man, corrections analyst for the Oregon ( Law Enforcement Council, will head a six-member staff yet to be hired for the . $50,000 study.Page 14, Sec. 1, Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Saturday, October 4, 1975 Women making gains in Oregon politics By LARRY ROBY Capital Journal Writer PORTLAND - Salem’s State Rep. Norma Paulus said Friday that she is hap happy py to report that most wom women en who get into politics in Oregon do so without the “coattails of their hus husbands.” bands.” And, in her spunky pitch for women to get involved in government, Mrs. Paulus said at the rate things are going, the men had better watch out. “The women’s movement in this state has a strong undercurrent, so more wom women en are going to be elected,” she said. Mrs. Paulus shared the speaker’s platform with three other nationally promi prominent nent Republican women dur Campaigning in Clackamas County ) Poilll IO „ * da°y Thu P r!dL U v 8 in C cl d i? ,e ,0r i he SeCre,ary of Stale ' # otfic «- *P°nt most of the mirninn # M fly B C,ackamaa County. After a presentation at Marylhurst in the ning S Mar r y 8 |hu 8 ri U The°. k 8 e "‘S' 1 C ° U r‘ y 0,ficial6 in the a «ernoon before retur- above M,. T ^,, Cr ?l ary 0141,8,6 i8 ,he chief elections officer and Williams. k# W th Clackamaa County elections official Don ing a panel discussion at the Western States Republican Conference. She noted that 11 of the 90 lawmakers in the state are women “and each woman has gotten there on her own hook.” She said she thinks this has happened because of the “basically agrarian society” of our state. That type of society creates a feeling of strong indepen independence, dence, she said. The Salem Republican legislator had kind words for the Democratic leadership of both the 1973 and 1975 legislative sessions for help helping ing the women legislators erase many of the discrimi discriminatory natory laws against women in Oregon. She said that in her first legislative session (1971), which was controlled by Re Republicans, publicans, the women did not have the successes they shared in 1973 and 1975. Mrs. Paulus also said that if it hadn’t been for the formation of a women’s cau caucus cus of the 11 women legisla legislators, tors, the gains in women’s legislation wouldn’t have been as significant. Mrs. Paulus urged all women to be supportive of each other. “That’s the only way we’re going to make it.” “And to the men out there,” she said, “you have a great resource in our state of able women dying on the vine. So use them in politics and government.” “Like it or not, we are going to have our say.” In another panel discus discussion sion Friday, three West Coast labor leaders got to together gether to tell the Republi Republicans cans that the GOP and or organized ganized labor still aren’t very compatible. The panel included L.B. Day, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 670 in Sa Salem, lem, Harry Bridges, presi president dent of the International Longshoremen’s and Ware Warehousemen’s housemen’s Union and Nellie Fox, recently elected direc director tor of political education of the Oregon AFL-CIO. Day told the group that he doesn’t think the political leaders “sense the (econom (economic) ic) crisis in this country.”FOUNDED 1851 “No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe. "— from first Statesman, March 28, 1851 Charles A. Sprague—Editor and Publisher—1929-1969 WILLIAM L. MAINWARING, PUBLISHER / J? # J. WESLEY SULLIVAN, EDITOR ROBERT PRITCHARD, advertising director \\jk t/ ^ VAN EISENHUT managing editor RODNEY R. MILES, circulation director ' ^ DANIEL W. DAVIES, city editor Better Answer Than ‘Lock ’em Up’ Needed Overcrowding at the State Penitentiary is raising the tension level within that institution, and the growing crime rate is increasing the tension level outside the prison. The two are related, of course, but their interaction makes both problems worse. There is an ominous willingness on the part of people to adopt a “lock ’em up” attitude, and while they may not verbally add “and throw the key 4 away,” they mentally do just that, by dismissing the problem from their minds. Unfortunately, as repugnant as it may be to think about, prison overcrowding and its attendant problems will not go away by ignoring them. The last legislature proved that. The State Emergency Board is working with corrections officials to ease the problem by using other facilities in the state, including Salem city jail, to house prisoners. But the unavoidable fact is that Oregon can’t affcrd to lock up criminals at the present rate. We have few places left to put them and little money to maintain them. The climate for instituting a program of rehabilitation is the worst in 30 years. The public, alarmed by the growing incidence of crime and a few sensational crimes in recent months, isn’t receptive to innova innovative tive programs. Somehow, it must be brought home to people that this state has no alternative but to encourage jehaSniiaTtef^ State Rep^ Norma Paulus^ is promoting the cause otagcentreffizetTrenabilitation efforts — in Oregon’s communities, and with the assistance of volunteers. She is a legislator who has studied the prison problem closely. She suggests, first, that determined sentences be instituted. Today’s indetermi indeterminate nate sentences mean that convicted crimi criminals nals usually are let out long before the full term to which they are sentenced. She believes, and we agree, that deter determined mined sentences would be a preventive measure. Prospective criminals would be less likely to risk breaking the law if they were convinced that a five-year term meant just that. Her second point would envision decen decentralization tralization of prison custody by establish establishing ing regional or local facilities in which to house lesser felons. She suggests they be trained to cook and care for themselves. Local citizen advisory boards would assist in setting policy, within broad state guide guidelines, lines, over work release, social passes and other ways in which the inmates would be allowed to associate with the community. Volunteer “parole officers” would be enlisted. The objective, of course, would be to permit a degree of interaction with the community, so the inmates could be brought back within it — under a con controlled trolled situation — instead of being locked away until a sudden release from prison immerses them in a strange and forbiding outside world. The Statesman has had some concerns about decentralizing the surplus prison inmate population back to county jails. All too often, we have seen this technique used by the state as a means of escaping responsibility and of avoiding costs. The present county jail system is not capable of sustaining a meaningful rehabilitation program. Most of those facilities also are overcrowded. While this would appear to be an inappropriate time to introduce such an innovative approach as Rep. Paulus sug suggests, gests, her program, at least, works to towards wards a solution to the problem instead of an ever-greater burden on society of supporting people behind bars. Before we cast her suggestion aside, we should ask ourselves whether we can afford the alternative, of simply locking up more and more people.I PRICK 15 CENTS m ]^Norma Paulus: |^A Politician Who ptDoesn’t Dodge Issues P I Ve In answer to .criticisms that "she wants more power,” State Representa- ive Norma Paulus (R-Salem) has responded that “to get power I would have to switch parties.” The Marion ■ •^kCounty republican, third term member the House of Representatives, was in ! Lakeview to speak at the Bi-Club l^tdinner on Tuesday night, October 14, 4flPmd the Rotary Club luncheon on i yVednesday, October 15. I I The first event was held at the "^■.akeview High School cafetorium, an annual event jointly sponsored by the ^Lakeview Soroptimist Club and the i^^Lakeview branch of the American f Association of University Women. The ^.Wednesday luncheon was at the Indian : ■^jVillage. j “Women helping Women” was the theme of the Bi-Club dinner. Anne ; ajpSprague Morehouse was the MC, and 0: 3E through her the two clubs honored eleven Lake County and Lakeview women who are not members of either organization but who have contributed in their own ways to helping women. Those honored, guests at the dinner, were Norma Sanderson, Patricia John Johnson, son, Ruth Favell, Grace Pendleton, Zelma Reed, Merle Rice, Dola Flynn, Maye Haught, Josephine Dunham, Ruth Brickey and Bernice Harlan. Recently cited in Oregon newspapers as a candidate for Secretary of State, Rep. Paulus denied that this is true at the present time, but said she does plan to announce formally, one way or the other, about November 1. In the legislative terms since 1971, Mrs. Paulus has become a leader in pointing the state’s direction, not alone in matters pertaining to the rights and responsibilities of women, but in form forming ing financial, environmental and other legislation. A mother of two children, she is a practicing attorney in Salem as is her husband, William Paulus. Rep. Paulus was born in Nebraska and was reared at Bums where she attended high school and worked as secretary to the district attorney of Harney County. She moved to Salem and became secretary to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and began attending law classes at Willam Willamette ette University, achieving her degree. More than 80 women at the Bi-Club dinner heard Rep. Paulus discuss measures she has helped through the state legislature, measures that serve to equalize the status of women. Now the widower as well as the widow can benefit from veterans’ exemptions; now both men and women have equal standing in court; now it is not only illegal for a prostitute to sell, but also for another to buy; inheritance laws now pertain to the “spouse,” not just to the widow; and the speaker said the equal rights amendment will make the family unit more secure because it will not be entrapped. At the Rotary meeting, Rep. Paulus (Continued on page three) REP. NORMA PAULUS, seated right, was the featured speaker at the Bi-Club dinner October 14, sponsored by the Lakeview branch, American Association of University Women and the Lakeview Soroptimist Club. Seated at left is Anne Sprague Morehouse, MC. Standing, left to right, are Dru Styskel, president of the AAUW and Mary Fitzgerald, Soroptimist president. (Examiner Photo' (E COUNTY EXAMINER. Lakeview. Oregon. Thursday. October 23. 1975 Page 3 Paulus ••• (Continued from page one) expressed her distrust of many propos proposals als that seek the backing of the state's bonding strength in support of one facet of Oregon life or another...agriculture, industry. She said bonding power should be protected carefully and used wisely instead of being dissipated in many directions, or the state’s Triple A credit rating will crumble, and she stated that before bonding programs are adopted the state should develop a priority list as a guide, saying her first priority would be housing for the elderly. The speaker said she favors annual sessions of the legislature, because presently the legislature is weak...it meets only every two years and must budget and otherwise plan the state’s course two years in advance. She added that, meantime, state agencies use their own judgment about regula regulations, tions, and this leads to government by bureaucracy rather than legislative law..."when the legislature’s adjourn adjournment ment gavel falls, the agencies do as they please until the legislature meets again." She said the system is antiquated and must be changed “if you want rule by elected people instead of agency rule," and "it is easier to get rid of legislators than oppointed offic officials." ials." In charge of the Bi-Club dinner were Mary Fitzgerald, president of the Soroptimist Club, and Dru Styskel, president of the AAUW. Rotary President Don Hotchkiss presided at the Wednesday meeting at the Indian Village.,' tkJy Ciur.ff Aan Jl2> J c i7p ft# f> Paulus Bids for Strong Legislature T? \r D ¥ T’l 'l¥ D A T To/'ll ¥o pKinn nnrl knnmion <nn UmiA i . •. . By RUTH RAUSCH fashion, and because we have Of the Courier Staff that “power” only six months, Oregonians must strengthen these matters are passed on to the state legislature in order some agency to implement the to achieve a representative laws ... and there’s no one on and responsive system of hand to ride herd on these government. administrative agencies. An “impotent legislature” “The system forces this was the thrust of a talk by Rep. Norma Paulus when she addressed the Republican Women’s Club Thursday as candidate for the Republican nomination for the office of Secretary of State. “Changes must be made, both by the voters and by the legislators before we can return to a truly responsible and responsive system of government. According to the con constitution,, stitution,, the legislature is supposed to be the policy policysetting setting branch of government, and you elect people to that body to do what should be done, but that now is being eroded. “When you refuse to allow the legislature to call inself into session, and refuse to allow annual sessions, you are just cutting off your nose to spite your face,” Paulus said, adding that these two changes must be made to end the erosion of responsible government. She related that under the present system, elected legislators are in power only six months to turn out legislation to carry over for the next 18 months. “Each session is a rat race. Usually there are about 30 new members who are not in interested terested in past proceedings, all of them want to start new ones. “There is no way the system allows for a re-evaluation of previous programs, each time it’s a whole new system and all we do is pile programs on top of programs. “Because we handle the tons of “new” bits of legislation in such a frantic practice ... but it is not representative government. The taxpayer can’t control the agencies and no one can find out who is responsible for the interpretations,” she added. She also noted that under the present system, freshman legislators move directly into the policy-making procedure, without experience, and later serve on interim committees. She advocates that under a new system, the freshmen should serve on interim committees first to “get the feel of government” then move into the policy-making role. “There has been some fear that if the legislature met annually, and if it could call itself into session, that it would just spend more money. That is not possible. In the first place, the constitution prohibits deficit spending and it gives the people the right to vote on any revenue measure, so we can’t spend any more than we can collect in taxes, and you have the control over that.” She also pointed out the emergency board is not representative government, members are appointed, and the board spends more money than the legislature does. “This (emergency board) also must be changed for more responsible government. “Also I feel that Oregonians can govern themselves better from Salem than from Washington, D.C. We have more legislative restrictions than any other state, but if we are going to ward off con continued tinued federal interference, we must strengthen the state, legislature,” she concluded"* Voter frustration ) ■ worrying Paulus By CHERYL WHEELER Capital Journal Correspondent State Rep. Norma Paulus told land landscape scape architects here Saturday that she fears voters will repeal the state’s land-use planning law out of frustration with government. “I fear repeal of the law, not because the majority of Oregonians don’t want land-use planning, but be because cause the system isn’t responsive,” she said. The Salem Republican’s remarks concluded an all-day land-use workshop sponsored by the Oregon Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Her comments came amid recent efforts of eight Oregon citizens groups aligned in a battle against administra administrative tive government. The group, which Mrs. Paulus described as a “curious phenomenon” in Oregon politics, has zeroed in on state agencies such as the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC). Several members are pushing for repeal of SB-100, which created the commission. The result is that a bill which received more support than opposition before, during and after its passage in 1973, now faces a “backlash” in the public sector, she said. “There is one way to get around that alliance,” she added. “Supporters of LCDC need to look at where the money to marshal those forces is coming from and dissipate those efforts.” “The real threat is from special interests who have money to use the media for their purposes,” she added. She attributes the underlying frustra tions which prompted the backlash to a system which renders the legislature “impotent.” “There are more constitutional re restrictions strictions on this legislative body than on any other in the nation,” she noted. She gave special attention to the Oregon law which limits the legislature to biennial sessions. She said this forces reliance on administrative agen agencies cies during the interim, and leaves no time to evaluate the effectiveness of previous legislation. “The public is upset about adminis administrative trative rules and regulations, but we can’t answer their questions. The real law is made through administrative agencies,” she said. And even she can’t find the regulators. According to Mrs. Paulus, the way to control administrative government and restore representative government, is for people to allow annual legislative sessions. This would promote a plan planning ning government and not one which responds to crisis, she says. “The way to make elected officials responsive, is to give them a system which makes them re-evaluate pro programs,” grams,” she added. Mrs. Paulus noted, however, that the solution she proposes has its own problems. “How do you ask the people to change the constitution to allow annual sessions after some of the stupid legislation (she cited the Crimi Criminal nal Information Act which ended in the recent blackout on crime news) we pass?” she asked. She said people will have to look beyond the results of such legislation to the underlying cause. “People of Oregon have got to look at the system. The system is doing us in.”Paulus advocates change in system 0#4/ PL*) /7 ! p VlACt i I fp Bv BILL BREWER Slayton Mail News Editor After three terms in the Oregon Legislature, Norma Paulus thinks that the system ought to be changed. She told a lunch gathering of the Stayton Chamber of Commerce Mon Monday day that the legislative system we now have is antiquated, and must be chang- NORMA PAULUS *0* ed if Oregon is to maintain its basic democracy. The problem, according to Paulus, a Republican candidate for secretary of state, is that more and more state policy is being made either by non- elected officials, or by a small group of legislators who sit on the Legislative Emergency Board or Legislati Counsel Committee “For the 18 months the legislature is not in session,” she said,“state agen agencies cies and these two committees \get policy. This is not democracy.” Paulus said the Oregon Legislature is the most restricted branch of state government and the most restricted legislature of any state. The result, she said, is overkill. Such restrictions as initiative and referendum, the ban on deficit spen spending, ding, and the ease with which tax measures can be referred to the peo people, ple, all would be enough to control legislative excess, the Salem represen representative tative said. But other restrictions that limit the legislature to one term each biennium, and that refuse the legislature the right to call itself into session, are too excessive. The legislature has no control over what goes on when it is not in session, Paulus told the chamber, “as a result we are becoming a state by ad administrative ministrative rule.” The answer, she said, is to give the legislators more control over the state’s destiny by allowing it to meet more often, for shorter terms if necessary. “We could think about our laws before we passed them if we knew we would be coming back into ses session,” sion,” she said, “and we could be sure that administrative rules more closely follow legislative intent. Another benefit, Paulus mentioned, would be in the make-up of the legislature. The largest single group of legislators are teachers”, she said, "because they are the most able to take time away from their jobs.” Other officic ive ive/**'- f “Here is one public who is sick of her public, the apathy is appaling.’’ TcffayCTST tarmers businessmen are professions s'tfCTr?? and self-employed being hurt because they cannot afford the necessary time each two years. “We already have lost the citizen- legislator concept,” she said,"what we have now is social scientists, who write concepts instead of precise laws. Changing the system would allow more to participate.” Another problem Paulus noted is that the rapid growth of the state is jeopardizing the present system’s most reliable protection against graft and corruption, the close contact between the legislature and the people. And she noted that the public apathy seems to be getting worse. “Here is one public official who is sick of'tier public,” she said, “the apathy is ap appalling.” palling.” Although her candidacy for Secretary of State means she will no fonger serve in the legislature, Paulus does not plan to ignore the problems she outlined. She noted that there is a “sleeper” provision in the secretary of state’s functions that could begin to reverse the trend toward administrative policy making. “The Secretary of State is supposed to do an audit of all state spending,” she said. “It would give me, and the legislators, a window into the state agencies.” flk tih til fih fit /ft A A A A A A /i a a A- * VALLEY TIMES/ALOHA TIMES Baaverton, Oregon. Sunday, February 8, 1976 Page 10 Legislative system inept, claims Pau/us “As I go around this state I hear peo people ple qre sick of their public officials. Well,'I’m sick of the public because of its apathy,” stated Normal Paulus (R- Salem) in a vitriolic speech halfway through an already intense town hail meeting at Rock Creek School Jan. 31. In her bittersweet review of how Oregon’s legislature does not work, she also suggested ways to improve its effi efficiency. ciency. Prefacing her speech, however, the candidate for secretary of state re remarked, marked, “It’s great to see so many concerned people at a town hall meet meeting ing on a Saturday. Especially on such a gorgeous day.” The lawyer then explained how her six years in the legislature had been a frustrating experience. There’s a vast hiatus, she said, between the ideals of the Oregon Constitution and the day- to-day realities of how it functions. “In theory, we have three branches. The legislative is the policy-making branch. You elect people here to decide the state’s policies,” she told several hundred persons attending the town hall meeting. “However, there are more restrictions on our legislature than any other state in the nation. Our legisla legislature ture is impotent and not responsive,” she stated. Of the judicial branch, she said it is “very pristine and highly regarded throughout the country.” Of Oregon’s executive branch, she commented “It’s always strong. It doesn’t matter if you have Tom McCall in there or Bob Straub, it’s meant to be strong.” The legislature tended to be her focal point of criticism. She regards this branch as “backwards,” “unrepresen “unrepresentative” tative” and inefficient. “Forget about the personalities. Forget some of the stupid things the legislature has done. I know that’s hard to do. But try to overlook these things a little bit and look at the system itself. It just doesn’t work,” she said. According to Oregon’s state govern governmental mental system, legislators meet every other year for about six months. Dur During ing this period, legislators must allo allocate cate about $2 billion for a forthcoming two-year period, she said. “That’s real really ly impossible to do. Especially if you don’t have a crystal ball and we don’t have one,” she quipped. The emergency board was created, says Paulus, to help channel allocated tax dollars in the right direction when the legislature is not in session. Decry Decrying ing the emergency board as a “neces “necessary sary evil” in our present system, she still labels it as highly unrepresentative of its citizens. The emergency board is designed to ammend where tax dollars go because of changing circumstances, stated Paulus. It has the power to do this about 18 months out of every 24 months. Persons on the board are not elected officials, she stated, they’re ad administrators. ministrators. Further, the emergency board was recently expanded from 9 members to 15 members. A majority vote carries. “This means eight un-elected people can decide where your tax dollars should go,” stated Paulus. One ballot measure in the upcoming May primary may help to allay some of the problems of the emergency board situation, said Paulus. The mea measure sure will ask that the Oregon legisla legislature ture be able to call itself into session whenever it deems necessary. In this way, the legislature would have more control over allocation of funds. “I hope you vote for this because it’ll make the legislature more responsive,” advocated Paulus. The two-year interval between legis legislative lative sessions is also an archaic sys system, tem, believes Paulus. “Last year 63,000 people moved into the state. Our poli policies cies are getting more and more com complex.” plex.” Although the legislature tends to attract honest and devoted public ser servants, vants, it doesn’t always attract the most qualified citizens, believes Paulus. Many of the persons best-equipped to be legislators simply can’t afford to take six months from their job every other year to serve on the legislature, she says. “If I didn’t have someone to support me and my family I couldn’t be there,” she stated. Of 60 representatives in the last House, only seven were lawyers, and, according to Paulus, only one of the lawyers had ever maintained a general practice Partially because of this pau paucity city of legal talent, Paulus says, “We don’t look for precise wording when we pass bills now. We put in weasel words.” “We pass bills that adopt concepts because we don’t have enough time to do anything else. When we adjourn, we pass these concepts over to state ad administrators. ministrators. Concepts can take on new meanings over a period of time and these administrators may interpret the bills differently when we’re not in session. So, it turns out that the admin administrative istrative agencies are making many of the policies,” she said. Paulus advocated that changes will have to be made in order to make the legislature more responsive and repre representative. sentative. “It just doesn’t work well. And the courts can’t change it. The governor can’t change it. The legisla legislators tors can’t change it. Only the people can change it with a constitutional am- mendment,” she said. In parting, she stated, “I believe every citizen has the duty to partici participate pate in government. It’s my belief gov government ernment should be everybody’s part- time job.”Htf IM)* ft a m * a Solar Energy Gets Exploration Paulus It was a cold blustery day with ice and icicles increasing the “chill factor” last Thur Thursday sday and a good day for Norma Paulus to launch into her crusade for exploration not of the sun, but of the solar energy it beams earth earthward, ward, and for free each and every day. Mrs. Paulus, who has filed on the Republican ticket as a candidate for Secretary of State, recounted her solar ventures from her experiences as State Representative for three sessions. She was one of the first Oregon legislators to recognize the importance of solar energy 1 and she has in influenced fluenced other legislators to study the sun as an alter alternative native to fossil fuels. She and others have pushed for solar heating in the Willamette Valley “where the needs are different -- where we need a different collector for the sun’s heat,” she explained. She was influential in requiring that the new music building on the University of Oregon campus be equipped with solar heat collectors. She is recommending that future public schools, libraries, gymnasiums -- buildings which demand con considerable siderable heating, be built to utilize solar heating. She believes that the Oregon lum lumber ber industry would do well to turn to solar heating for drying lumber. She sees the possibility of the massive quantities of fluid waste from Oregon’s food processing plants being recycled with the help of solar heat to a dry state — then pressed into pellets for animal feed. A new building at Chemeketa Community College is incorporating solar heating. — “to save money, electricity and fossil fuels,” she explains. Mrs. Paulus spoke Thur Thursday sday at Marylhurst Education Center at a brown bag luncheon — another proof of her down-to-earth prac practicality. ticality. Her good common sense carried over into her discussion of her proposals should she be elected Secretary of State. In such a position she and her auditing staff would be responsible for the audits of all state agen agencies. cies. In addition to routine auditing of appropriations, income and expenditures, she feels that there should be an honest auditing of services rendered by these funds. Again, she called upon her three full terms of legislative experience to demonstrate the need. "Take a first term legislator, for instance. He comes in with what he feels is a worthwhile program — maybe in the social service area. It appears to be good- and the legislature goes for it. The program is funded and started. Maybe it works out very well. But suppose it needs some correcting — and the legislator who proposed it is not returned the next session. Nobody bothers to push for corrective legislation. So the program hangs on. Other legislators propose other programs relating to the same general area. Their programs are ap approved, proved, funded, layered in.” Mrs. Paulus intimated that this layering process was not exactly in the best interest of the taxpayers. She feels that a "performance” audit of programs would be infor informative mative to the general public and spur legislators to correc corrective tive legislation. Asked about cities, and states going ever deeper in debt, Mrs. Paulus explained that strictly speaking and ac according cording to law, Oregon couldn’t dive into debt, but did stress that state agencies do overspend. “As a Secretary of State, I would know the agencies and how much and I would inform the public,” she said. From her many years in the legislature - Mrs. Paulus has concluded that “the system no longer allows for representative government.” She pointed out that there is an 18 month interim between legislative sessions. “With rapidly changing conditions, inflation, the oil situation, etc., it is practically im impossible possible to budget two years | in advance.” Sr. Nancy Rich and Ginger Theide. Mrs. Paulus, a Republican, has filed for Secretary of State. - IT WAS A BROWN BAG LUNCH at Marylhurst Education Center for Norma Paulus (foreground) last Thursday, and a brief tour of the campus with Jan Wetzel,Paulus felt no discrimination until By DAWN OHRLING Observer Staff Writer “I never felt discriminated against until I got into politics,” said Rep. Norma Paulus, R-Salem. Mrs. Paulus, 42, a lawyer, was speaking to the approximately 60 people at yesterday’s lecture on women in government. She said when she first ran for of office fice six years ago she realized that there were people who wouldn’t want her to be their legislator because she is a woman. ‘‘And it wasn’t the men, but the women in my own age group, that were the most difficult obstacle,” she noted. “I decided I was presenting a threat to them and had to decide how to deal with that.” Mrs. Paulus said she then began pointing out to these women that if she was asking them to be their nurse or school teacher that would be fine — it’s only when she wants to be a legislator, which sounds glamorous, that they automatically criticized her for neglecting her family. She apparently got her point across for she’s now in her third term in the legislature and recently announced her candidacy for secretary of state. If elected, she would be the first woman in Oregon to hold that office. She said the woman who helped her get to where she now is, Abigail Scott Dunaway, who was largely respon responsible sible for getting the vote for women in Oregon. “She has been an inspiration for me,” said Mrs. Paulus. “If I could see her today I’d have to tell Abby we’ve come a long way, but only very recently — most of the time I’ve been an adult, Oregon has had some very discriminatory laws.” She said it wasn’t until her second term that those laws began changing. “The women legislators formed a caucus and together got the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) passed,” she noted. Mrs. Paulus explained that the majority of the women’s bills came out of the Committee of Environment and Land Use because, “there were five women on it and we wanted to get (the bills) out on the floor for a vote.’’ One of those bills, which passed, was the prostitution bill that says if it’s illegal to sell sex then it’s illegal to buy it. “And just for fun we change the law so women can wrestle in Oregon — true, not many women want to wrestle in public...,” she laughed, adding, “The men were so busy talking about that we quietly went about the more serious things.” And some of those “more serious things” concerning women’s rights have halted discrimination in the inheritance and pension laws, and made rape a crime of violence instead of sex, so the victim is no longer tried and questioned on her prior sexual activities. “So we’ve done some really good things and a lot of fun things,” said Mrs. Paulus. When asked if she is a women’s libber, Mrs. Paulus answered, yes, if it means being for equal pay, equal opportunities, and equal rights. “If you mean am I going to take off my underclothes and burn them in the town square, no,” she added. One point Mrs. Paulus disagrees with the women’s movement is on volunteer work. “The movement doesn’t want women to work without pay,” she said. “I think we need to raise the status of volunteers — our com communities munities couldn’t function without them.” Answering an audience member’s question, Mrs. Paulus stated that she believes there is a healthier attitude towards women in rural areas. "1 was raised with the idea you can do anything you want,” she said. Mrs. Paulus grew up in Burns. She moved to Salem when she was in her early twenties and worked as a legal secretary. By passing an examination allowing her to waive her lack of college, Mrs. Paulus entered Willamette Law School, where she eventually graduated with honors and in 1962 was admitted to the Oregon State Bar. In 1958, at the age of 25, she married Bill Paulus, who is also a lawyer, They have two children, Elizabeth, 14, and Fritz, 12. Mrs. Paulus said she has been a longtime “curiosity,” first because she is a woman lawyer, then a woman in politics and now “because I’m that and am also happily married.” She believes that it’s time for society to “open up its arms to women and allow them to have other goals (than being wives and mothers).” Women’s life expectanev is now 79 years, she said, and raising children only takes about 15 years.” “I’m not telling women not to have children or not to take care of them...but women have to reach their own potential,” noted' Mrs. Paulus. “There are so many women in my age group that are suicidal and alcoholic because they have nothing to do. I still have 30 years left with a good mind and body.” She concluded her talk by pointing out that women need to overcome their distrust for one another. “Most of us were raised to compete with other women,” she said, “and we’ve got to be supportive of each other.” (Mrs. Paulus’ lecture was the first of a six-week series entitled, “Women at Work — Today and Tomorrow.” The subject of the next lecture is women in business and law and will be held Feb. 23 at 10 a.m., at the Koinonia House, 9006th St.) entering politicsLa Grande, Oregon, Tuesday, February 17, 1976 WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT —State Rep. Norma Paulus, R-Salem, can candidate didate for secretary of state, was the guest speaker at yesterday’s lecture on women in government. She told the audience of approximately 60 per Phofo by Dawn Ohrling sons, mostly women, that the “only way to feel good about yourself is to contribute” and that “we’ve got to stop putting women in stereotyped roles.”State Rep. 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VV^ A 6 *'?'V ^ T>- ^ eji~. - '$/', X^^\vs®\{y V C v^ V°x \e^ AO^^ xC #.^c^' ** ^>V^V e jOi ^proclaims views As Norma Paulus stumps the state in her white-colored van with the zebra-striped interior, she con continuously tinuously grabs the attention of her listeners by saying that it’s time to return state government to elected officials. “It’s no longer a representative government; but government by appointment,” she says. “We must change the system so it becomes more accountable to the people.” Mrs. Paulus’ quest for the Republican nomination for Ore Oregon’s gon’s Secretary of State brought her to St. Helens last Thursday as a guest at the local Kiwanis Club luncheon. As a third-term State Legislator representing Salem she has seen Oregon become a state where the Legislature has become the weakest arm of the state govern government, ment, she said. “The inability to meet more than once every two-years, precludes precise deliberation,” she said. Since coming to the Legislature Mrs. Paulus has received high marks from other Legislators and government officials for her work on several major committees, in including cluding vice-chairperson of the Elections Committee and member of the Revenue Committee. She was one of the sponsors with NORMA PAULUS, Republican candidate for the office of Secretary of State, was the guest of the St. Helens Kiwanis Club at their luncheon last week. She is touring the state in her mini-van in her quest for the state office. Senator Chuck Hanlon of an initia initiative tive to open the Oregon primary system to independent voters in the state. Under Oregon State Law voters declaring themselves independent do not receive a primary ballot. (Cont. on Page 10) Page 10 THE CHRONICLE Thursday, April 8, 1976 Candidate proclaims views... (Cont. from Page 1) “Since October, 43 percent of the voters have registered in independent,” dependent,” she said. “We all pay for an election. It’s actually tax without representation for these people not to be allowed to vote.” With the surge of independents the state should reexamine its primary laws to allow independents to vote in primaries, she said. “I believe it would strengthen the two parties, not kill the two party system,” she said. She helped draft Senate Bill 100 which created the controversial Land Conservation Development Commission. “We saw the farm lands, parti particularly cularly in the Willamette Valley, being eaten up by urban sprawl and knew something had to be done,” she said. As for the controversy, she said that most of it was caused by the commission’s high visibility, thus being the scapegoat for citizens’ criticism about govern governmental mental interference in their public lives. As for her fight for the Secretary of State’s job, she wants the office to audit all public ac accounts, counts, as the office is authorized under state law to do. “The office needs to be goaded into action,” she said. “There presently are no specific pro procedures cedures for state agencies to follow.” She commends present Secretary of State Clay Myers for working up a policy to audit agencies, but she says it doesn’t go far enough. “There is no sound fiscal account accountability ability in this state,” she said. “The office has been intimidated in the past by the executive branch to stay out of sensitive areas.” Mrs. Paulus also notes that she has been a strong environmentalist and an advocate of human rights. “Ive been a champion of con conservation servation of energy,” she said. “I have been interested in solar energy before it became popular and have advocated its use into space heat in public buildings.” Mrs. Paulus has climbed the ladder of success the hard way. Being unable to attend college following high school, she went to work as a secretary to the Harney County District Attorney and later was secretary to the Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. She was accepted as a parttime law student in 1956 at Willamette University after passing tests which waived the customary college re requirements. quirements. She was admitted to the Oregon State Bar in 1962 and has practiced as an appellate lawyer since 1962. She said her legal knowledge and understanding of state agencies and what the Legislature intended for the agencies will be a benefit to the office of Secretary of State. At 43 Mrs. Paulus believes her chances for the Republican nomination for Secretary of State are excellent and expects to bring about changes in attitudes and con concepts cepts as she did for six years as a State Legislator.She has the machine, tfte will to win This is one of a series of profiles on candidates for state-wide office who will be on the ballot in the May 25 Oregon primary election. State Rep. Norma Paulus certainly is no babe-in-the-woods when it comes to politicking. She has been around politics for several years and has become a mover in political circles. Her strong cam campaign paign organization in her race for secretary of state shows that. Mrs. Paulus is one of two Republi Republicans cans running in the May 25 primary for the secretary of state nomination. At this point, she has far more statewide name familiarity than does her oppo opponent. nent. Chances are, she will walk away with the GOP nomination. Even though she is running for secretary of state, there is a strong undercurrent of suspicion that this race is just a warm-up for a run two years from now for governor of Oregon. /—il By LARRY ROBY Capital Journal Writer Mrs. Paulus, who has represented a south Salem constituency in the legisla legislature ture since 1971, denies this is her ploy. But she does not sell herself short when she is questioned about her qualifications to become governor. Should she be elected secretary of state, that would put her in the No. 2 spot in state government. She would be thrust into the governor’s chair should the governor become incapacitated or leave office. “I don’t look for that job at all,” Mrs. Paulus says. “But if there were some terrible calamity, I would be capable of doing it, because I have a very good understanding of state gov government. ernment. I have the ability to gather really capable people around me. I can get bright, energetic people around me who are interested in good state gov government.” ernment.” Mrs. Paulus’ near-poverty upbringing in eastern Oregon near Burns, where her father thought he was going to strike it rich by digging oil wells, helped the candidate learn what it is like to be poor. It brought a touch of folksiness to her character, and she has learned when and how to use that trait when wooing the rural vote. At the same time, she knows how to be one of the most sophisticated politicians going. Continued on Page 2A Mrs. Paulus is a 43-year-old lawyer who got there the hard way. She is married to a former law student class classmate, mate, Bill Paulus, and they are asso associates ciates in the same Salem law firm. But since her involvement in state govern government, ment, Mrs. Paulus hasn’t had much time to practice law. The Pauluses have two children, Elizabeth, 14, and Fritz, 12. During her legislative career, Mrs. Paulus has been a moderate-to-liberal Republican, who has caused her GOP colleagues to cast many a doubting glance her way when she would come out strongly in favor of legislation not traditionally supported by Republicans. For example, the wrath of the ski- mobilers and the motorcycle enthusi enthusiasts asts fell upon her when she twice By LARRY ROBY Capital Journal Writer introduced legislation that would ban them from certain areas. Her legislative career is marked by a strong emphasis on environmental issues. She has been at the center of gaining more rights for women in Oregon and Mrs Paulus has harped for years about getting meaningful legisla legislative tive reform. As secretary of state, Mrs. Paulus says she would concentrate on making the audits section of that office per perform form better than it has in the past. She said she doubts that the legisla legislature ture would appropriate more money with which to perform the audits function so she would make the office work with what was presently there. She says that her knowledge of state P ft, tK flLH g. gL ft % 9 flLOL ft ft ft O Q O M ft M fUL* tSole GOP Secretary of State hopeful n^>// 7 Norma Paulus to address forum Fri. State Rep. Norma Paulus, the lone GOP candidate for secretary of state, will speak to the Astoria Area Chamber of Commerce noon forum Friday at the Seafare Restaurant. Rep. Paulus, 43, a lawyer and three-term veteran of the Oregon House, will talk on what the secretary of state’s function is. The chamber now is required by the Seafare Restaurant to give a firm estimate of persons attending Friday forums so reser reservations vations are needed. They may be made by telephoning the chamber at 325-6311. A native of Belgrade, Nebr., Rep. Paulus’ life story reads like a rags to riches tale. Her father was a farmer whose land was destroyed during the Dust bowl in the 1930s. He transplanted his family of five children to Bums, but his fortunes didn’t improve. Despite the poverty that surrounded her, Rep. Paulus showed signs of excelling early as she learned how to read before entering school, even though there were no books in her house. In her teens, she was dedicated to tumbling and later baton twirling which taught her poise and con confidence. fidence. It also won her popularity as she went on to become senior class president of Burns High School. NORMA PAULUS Rep. Paulus achieved a 3.9 grade point average, but lacked the money to go to college even though scholarships were offered. Instead, she became engaged and contemplated a life as a mother and a housewife. Her break came when sne was hired because of her secretarial skills by the Harney County district at attorney. torney. Her job gave her a ringside seat to watch the criminal justice system in action. Not only did she see the court function, but she also saw life grinding away in the county’s women’s jail which was below the DA’s office. The exhilaration of the period was lessened when Rep. Paulus’ father and the district attorney who hired her died, and when she contracted polio and was forced to exercise strenuously. To cap matters, her engagement was broken. So she pulled up stakes and moved to Salem where her second break occurred and she landed a job with Chief Justice Earl C. Latourette. Latourette died in 1955 but Justice William M. McAllister asked her to stay on. It was McCallister who allowed Rep. Paulus to report to work one hour late so she could attend nearby Willamette University Law School. She scrimped to save enough money to attend school, including selling her car and moving to a boarding house. It was there that she met her husband, Bill Paulus, who also was a law student. After they were married, she dropped out of school to support Paulus until he finished. However, he arranged to borrow enough money to allow Rep. Paulus to return to school. As a third year law student, she took first in a moot court competition and graduated with honors. Rep. Paulus was admitted to the Oregon Bar in 1962. The mother of two children, Rep. Paulus became in interested terested in politics in 1966 and served as co-chairman for the campaign of her law school classmate, State Sen. Wally Carson, R-Salem. Four years later she ran herself. Considered to be a liberal Republican, Rep. Paulus in her three terms in the House has concentrated on en environmental vironmental matters, civil rights and energy questions. She also is concerned with legislative restructuring. Many observers regard Rep. Paulus as the most promising GOP elected of official ficial in Oregon and mention her as a possible future gubernatorial candidate. This is her first try for statewide office. Running unopposed in the primary, she will face in the November general election the winner of a crowded Democratic primary slate. Secretary of State Clay Myers, a Republican, is barred by the state Con Constitution stitution from seeking another term, and he is running for state treasurer.V V \j W MJ w V % Norma Paulus, if elected Oregon Secretary of State, believes she can bring fiscal responsibility to state agen agencies. cies. “A good many state agen agencies cies could not meet proper auditing criteria now," she claimed when she addressed about 50 women and a couple of gentlemen at VIP’s Mon Monday. day. Sponsors of the luncheon were the Lake Oswego, Mt. Sylvania and River Ridge Republican Women’s Clubs. “When you have watched these agencies for six years, you know where the soft spots are. We are now layering one program on top of another,” said the State Representative who has served three terms from the Salem district, and on her third try received the second highest number of votes of all legislative can candidates. didates. The fact that she is a member of Oregon’s minority party may have prompted the big wide grin with which she accompanied this statement. Speaking more frankly than most candidates both past and present, Mrs. Paulus told of polls taken before it was publicly known that she had made up her mind to desert ther legislature for a field where she believed she could serve better. The state and national Republican committees took some polls a while back and discovered that Mrs. Paulus was the one person most likely to succeed in Oregon in an election for Secretary of State. The two committees also found out why Mrs. Paulus had the best prospects for becoming Oregon’s next Secretary of State. She had the greatest name familiarity of any prospective candidate, “This is not a good reason for people voting for me,” she claimed. "People should vote for well qualified candidates who want to do a good job for the people of Oregon.” The poll also found that Mrs. Paulus had extraor extraordinary dinary name familiarity in the Salem-eastern Oregon areas. “My folks have lived in eastern Oregon all their lives. My husband’s folks have lived in the Salem area all their lives. Both families are very well known,” Mrs. Paulus explained. A second poll showed that Mrs. Paulus has a high at attraction traction for independents and Democrats, — especially in cities of the Willamette valley. “The poll found out that people in this area are so fed up with government that they would almost rather elect a woman,” she said with another of those great big engaging grins. “Somehow they seem to associate women with morality and that’s what they would like now in government.” A graduate cum laude from the law school at Willamette University, Mrs. Paulus en entered tered government after a brief career as a practicing at attorney torney in Salem. While ser serving ving in the State House of Representatives, she held im important portant posts on the judicial, land use, elections and revenue committees. After six years, marked by a steady erosion of her own party, Mrs. Paulus began to consider other governmenta areas where she could be more effective, could better serve the people. She con concluded cluded that she could be more effective as Secretary ot State. Her decision came long Paulus began with Bob Straub and his first bid for the governorship. One of his slogans was “Save the Willamette - make it a Willamette Greenway.” Voters like it. Gov. Tom McCall who bested Straub to win the governorship, adop adopted ted the idea and introduced into the legislature the first Willamette Greenway bill to save the Willamette river banks from intensive development. The Greenway plan became one of the responsibilities of the High Highway way Division. Along with the responsibilities came the power to condemn Willamette river bank property for parks. The farm farmers ers were up in arms. They demanded that the con condemnation demnation clause be with withdrawn. drawn. It was. The 1971 legislature removed the right of condemnation clause. In the meantime, $10 million in federal funds from the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation were standing in the sidelines waiting to help turn the Willamette to a public park. Word began to percolate that highway engineers were out survevins? Willamette river frontage. Mrs. Paulus assured land She did. With other legislators, they discovered that the highway division planned to condemn Willamette River frontage under their general condem condemnation nation power, and then tran transfer sfer the property to the Greenway. Mrs. Paulus succeeded in bringing farmers and legislators together to work out a solution. Farmers agreed that when they no longer wanted to farm their lands along the Willamette, they would give Oregon the first chance to purchase the land at a reasonable market figure. The 1973 legislature gave the Highway Division per permission mission to condemn five major Willamette frontage areas — to this the farmers agreed. Gov. Straub has proposed biking and hiking trails along the Willamette River. This would bring further farmer wrath, Mrs. Paulus believes. Hiking and biking along the farm lands adjacent to the Willamette would not be like hiking in mountainous wilderness areas, she savs. She insists that in dealing, with the Willamette Green- * * t V * nvestigate. State Fiscal Responsibility PossibleBy GLORIA BLEDSOE Capital Journal Women’s Editor Secretary of State candidate Norma Paulus had a party for campaign workers over the week weekend end but it wasn’t the usual type campaign party. It was a Van Warming Party. The candidate’s campaign char chariot iot is a three-quarter ton Dodge van and to launch the wheels in style a party was held in its honor. Big and white, the van has Norma Paulus for Secretary of State printed on the sides along with Norma’s trademark asterisk. Why an asterisk? Only Norma knows. Anyway, the van has a black and white awning over the side doors to allow for rainy day campaign speeches and a nifty interior done by Decorator Doug Raines (who in real life is a travel agent). Spiffy and tidy the interior fea features tures a little counter with black and white coffee cups, a bench of black and white striped fabric and a big black b*an bag chair. For the party the van was filled with red, white and blue balloons. No name yet for the campaign wagon but it and its owner are ready to hit the campaign trail. m m e $ £ BIRTHDAY FETE — Nearly 300 guests gathered Saturday night at the Hungry Horse to file felicita felicitations tions to Norma Paulus, who’s running for secretary of state. The Salem legislator and her husband, Bill, arrived at the party in their new gaily decorated campaign bus which had been duly christened the night before in Salem at a “van-warming” party. Arranging the birthday fete were Mrs. William Babson, Mrs. Kent Holman and Bill Lesh. Among the guests enjoying the banjo band were the John Fausts, Clifford Thiedes, William Gaddies and Phillip Schetkys. . . (Continued on page 4) HAPPY BIRTHDAY . . . Norma Paulus Norma Paulusn»i «.vpa PAULUS NO. 1? Well-Run Campaign Often Wins Election ' JO By DOUG YOCOM Journal Staff Writer Gerald Ford, Norma Paulus, Don Willner and Stan Bunn share a common denominator: They seem to have the best organized statewide political campaigns this year. Judging campaign organiza organizations tions and how effective they are is mostly subjec subjective. tive. It’s difficult — although pos possible sible — to see part of the way into campaign organizations. Just because they have the best organizations doesn’t mean they all are going to win. A good campaign may be their best asset, however. A trip to Eugene and Salem to view the campaign headquarters of the five presidential candidates who are on the Oregon ballot and campaigning here showed Ford has more than a big, showy Broadway street office in Port Portland. land. His opponent, Ronald Reagan, buoyed by recent primary victo victories, ries, still is organizing in Oregon. His Salem office, run by Diana Evans and Helen Turnell, is bus bustling tling with activity. Mrs. Turnell said the Salem office has been handling the organizing for Rea Reagan gan for all of Oregon except the Portland area. BUT REAGAN opened a Eugene office only last Thursday. The telephones still hadn’t been hooked up. But on the same day Margaret Patoine, Lane County co-chairman for Ford, said the Ford’s telephone canvass of 34,000 registered Republicans in that county was all but complete. “This is all we have left,” said Mrs. Patoine holding up a small stack of cards. Candidate for Oregon secretary of state Paulus calls for conservation, school budget reform zr tc x H. Ford also has a Medford office. Among Democrats, Frank Church is the only one of the' three to have storefront offices both in Salem and Eugene. Church volunteers are manning tele telephones phones or doing door-to-door can canvassing vassing in all three metropolitan areas. Church volunteers in Eugene, where the storefront office sits on the Eugene Mall, say they have opened their rest room to volun volunteers teers of the Jimmy Carter organi organization, zation, which has an office three doors away but no rest room. UDALL has a third-floor office in the Oregon Building in Salem but runs his organization there out of Pat Barry’s home in Eugene. A fired-up Udall support supporter er has opened an office in La Grande. Carter has no Salem office. Among the statewide candi candidates, dates, it seems to help to have run for office previously. Political observers, campaign workers and the candidates themselves give Mrs. Paulus, Willner and Bunn high marks for their organiza organizations. tions. Mrs. Paulus, a legislator and Republican candidate for secre secretary tary of state, spent several months putting together a statewide orga organization nization that may be second to none this year. This is her first statewide race. If Don Willner, a Democrat, is selected attorney general, it may be because of Barbara Roberts, his campaign manager. Mrs. Roberts is credited with giving Willner a far better organization than when he ran for the U.S. Senate in 1972 and finished third in the primary. Bunn, a Republican running for attorney general, may be better organized downstate than in the Portland area. 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HATS OFF — Norma Paulus lips her hat for supporters at the Hilton Hotel Tuesday night after learning of her ■■I yjf m/ \j qj m/ w VtfF Kljf '<}£, Secretary State Sen. Blaine Whipple, D-Beaver- ton, has emerged the victor in the tightest statewide primary race Tues Tuesday. day. He defeated four other Democratic candidates to capture that party’s nomination for secretary of state. Whipple will meet State Rep. Norma Paulus, R-Salem, in the general elec election tion in November. Mrs. Paulus easily defeated her only challenger, John Kelting, of Tigard, in the Republican secretary of state primary. With 99.2 per cent of the state’s 2,384 precincts reporting today, Whipple picked up 23.4 per cent of the vote. He received 81,914 votes. That compared with State Sen. Dick Groener’s 22.1 per BLAINE WHIPPLE of state cent of the vote. Groener, a Milwaukie insurance man, received 77,126 votes. Caroline Wilkins, the former state Democratic party chairman, came in third by receiving 19.8 per cent of the vote. That was 69,129 votes. State Rep. A1 Densmore, D-Medford, came in fourth with 19.7 per cent of the vote, or 68,871 votes. Portland businessman Phil McAlmond had 52,533 votes for 15 per cent of the total. On the Republican side, Mrs. Paulus easily triumphed over Kelting. Mrs. Paulus, who has represented a South Salem district in the legislature since 1971, received 140,104 votes, or 56 per cent of the vote. Kelting had 110,248 votes, or 44 per cent. NORMA PAULUSHO 'UO oo« oo S ^ jo \oJ) * I 1