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I’ve got to get out of here.” T h er e are guards here, of course, but a visitor, walking feely about the premises, is likely to encounter a number of astonishing sights: Bearded, long-haired and ci civilian-clad vilian-clad inmates casually approaching the prison super superintendent intendent to discuss a prob problem; lem; pretty young college girls conversing intently with pris- By Philip Hager Los Angeles Times _-.iers on sofas outside their cells; and convicts sketching diagrams on a blackboard ex- paining their own theories of penology in an orientation 'ass for new inmates. It is all part of an unprece unprecedented dented experiment in prison reform and an attempt to pro provide vide the 1,200 inmates here a major voice in the operation of the penitentiary. “If we s u c c e ed, we’ll be telping all the institutions cross the United States,” ays Johnnie C. Harris, a Jack, 44-year-old inmate who vas just re-elected the presi dent of the Maximum-Security Resident Governmental Coun Council. cil. “We’ve all been failures in the past—that’s why we’re here — but now we’ve got a chance to come out winners.” B. J. Rhay, superintendent here for 15 years, observed: “It used to be that my only instructions were not to rock the boat. But the old ways of doing things aren’t adequate now. What we’re trying to do is keep these men thinking and involved in what they’re doing ... so they’ll be better prepared when they leave.” Rhay and other authorities stress that it is too early to assess the innovations that have been instituted in the past six to 12 months. But they do say, and many inmates agree, that tensions within the institution have been reduced markedly and that assaults and other incidents have de declined clined sharply. Race relations appear par particularly ticularly improved. .Blacks, whites, Chicanos and Indians mingle easily around the pris prison on yard. Since inmates were given the privilege of selecting their own cellmates, at least a dozen cells are shared by blacks and whites. “When this first started, I thought it would just be more of the same old B.S.,” says Ron Lincoln, a white inmate from Portland, Ore. “Now I’d say we had the best race rela relations tions in the country.” James Hunter, a black in inmate mate from Los Angeles, adds: “I’ve done time in California and there you got back at the Establishment by creating ten tension sion among the races. Here the tension has lifted.” The experiment began late last year when state authori authorities ties ordered an end to mail censorship and prohibition on inmate telephone calls at their own expense. These orders were implemented immediate immediately, ly, but a fourth, to create an elected inmate self-govern self-government, ment, ran into delays — caus causing ing a sit-down strike by prison prisoners ers in protest. Since then remarkable changes have taken place. Dress and appearance regula regulations tions have been sharply modi modified, fied, visiting room rules re relaxed laxed and inmates permitted to sit in on staff meetings, disciplinary hearings and pris- o n classification committee meetings. Some 26 prisoner organiza organizations tions —ranging from the Mod- el A i r p 1 a n e Club to Winos Anonymous — are now flour flourishing. ishing. Two resident governmental councils — one for maximum security, one for minimum se security curity — have been formed. Members elected, governed by a constitution and subject to recall, to represent the in inmates. mates. The maximum-security council hopes among other ac activities tivities to set up its own em employment ployment agency within the prison. Several members have been asked to appear before the Washington State Legisla Legislature ture next winter to speak in support of reform measures they have drafted for prison training and rehabilitation pro programs. grams. Council members and other inmates say they have been pleasantly surprised by the en- t h u s i a s m expressed by the dozens of legislators who have visited the prison in recent months. “In this day and age every everyone one is looking for change,” says inmate Roy Cole. “None of these people wants an Atti Attica ca or a San Quentin.” Transactual analysis, known at “T.A.,” provides new in mate Gordon M. Allen. “He has two children and a Shet Shetland land pony ... I hadn’t been out in seven years and I want to tell you it was fantastic.” The experiment, as might be anticipated, has not been with without out problems of controversy. As the rules were relaxed, gambling and drug dealing were openly observed. (In (Inmates mates — by a vote of 7-1 — recently approved a set of new regulations providing punish- “How do I know you’ve got one coming?” As the innovations were in instituted, stituted, many officers found themselves in confused and chaotic situations. Five of some 237 staff mambers re resigned signed because of it (“There would have been more if the job market were better,” notes one officer). An associate superintendent quit, saying the inmates were in control of the institution Open Forum Retarded also are people So-called civilization hasn’t really changed the mental atti attitude tude of even educated people has it? The Oct. 16 headlines: “Parents let Mongoloid chil children dren die by refusing opera operation” tion” and the follow-up article quoting from a medical text- b o o k' advising surgeons “to avoid tragedy, make sure a careful examination is made before surgery ... in case the baby is Mongol,” the implica implication tion being that if" the infant ihas that form of mental retar- jdation the doctor should elect ?not to operate and should let 'the infant die testifies to that. \ And our own year of real-life experience with our darling ' town’s Syndrome baby, and issociation with many such af- licted dear children here in Iregon and across the U.S. verifies the situation. But I have at least found lat there are some doctors nd some compassionate peo- le who do not think they are od, and who do regard town’s Syndrome as a disabil- ly requiring treatment the ‘me as any other affliction. I have just returned from ! t i s e, Idaho, and a heart- rming red-carpet reception en Dr. Henry Turkel of De- torit, Mich., by doctors, par parents ents of D.S. children, and oth other er concerned people who are eager to learn of his 25-year study of Mongolism, and the success he has had in its treat treatment. ment. In Oregon we have encoun encountered tered suspicion and indiffer indifference ence from a good majority of doctors. The genetic depart department ment of the U of 0 Medical School does not appear to have much interest in the progress of the children here who are on Dr. Turkel’s medication, but seem to be willing to write it off without even a fair trial. In Idaho, doctors showed an interest in finding out what they could learn. The Oregon Association for the Retarded offered no assist assistance ance or recognization of Dr. Turkel when he was in this state in June. In Idaho, the retarded association welcomed him and paid his hotel bill. We wonder at the contrast, we wonder at the arrogance of those who do not consider the retarded as people in need of help the same as anyone else. Mrs. EDWARD A. GOMSKE Route 1, Box 248-A Woodburn mates their own special orien orientation, tation, stressing self-pride and the importance of education and job training. “If a guy comes here and spends all day talking about dope and rob robbery, bery, that’s what he’ll turn to when he gets out,” says T. A. member Mickey Morris of Oakland, Calif. “That’s why they call prison a college for criminals.” One of the unique organiza organizations tions here is the Lifers With Hope Club, with an active membership of 80 of the pris prison’s on’s 153 1 i f e -t e r m inmates. Members hold keys to the Li Lifers’ fers’ compound and the club has instituted a wide range of activities, most recently a pro proposal posal to expand its own elec electronic tronic repair shop to service appliances belonging to people UW , M j 0URNAl , Slltni orcmn, Tuesdai, «o>. 2, 1971, Sk. 1, 9age 5 in the outside community. ment for gambling and the use of intoxicants). Several inmates have re refused fused to work, openly insulted guards and sought to embar embarrass rass visitors. When Washing Washington ton Gov. Daniel Evans went through the prison recently — unescorted — one inmate, termed a “dissident” by his comrades, called to Evans, “Hey, Governor, how about a shot of dope?” Evans, inmates recalled, turned and answered, “People have a stereotyped Image of the lifer,” says club president Hank Griffith, now in his 15th year in the peniten penitentiary. tiary. “We want to be able to show that we’re responsible people.” Another program, called “Take a Lifer to Dinner,” per permits mits guards to take life-term life-termers ers into the city for a 12-hour period. “I went ice skating and then went to my sponsor’s home for dinner,” recalled in- “under threat of sit-downs, burnings and hostages,” and a group of officers’ wives wrote the governor, expressing con concern cern for the safety of their husbands at the prison. Sgt. Robin Moses, 30, who initially opposed many of the changes, thought about quit quitting, ting, and then decided not to. “We’re still not sure what we’re supposed to be doing,” says Moses. “There wasn’t ad adequate equate planning in advance by the state. They were trying to make everything inside the same as it is on the streets, when not everyone was ready to go along with it. It seems to me that if they’re going to institute all these changes, they’d better train us for them. As it is, they’re just kind of ignoring us.” Some of the inmates, while pleased with the accomplish accomplishments ments of self-government, are still highly critical of other prison programs — particular particularly ly those operated in the names of rehabilitation. “I learned in prison how to open a safe, rip off a super supermarket market and all about drugs and prostitution, says Gordon Graham, the 38-year-old presi president dent of the Minimum-Security Resident Governmental Coun Council. cil. “That is what ‘rehabilita ‘rehabilitation’ tion’ has done for me.” Nonetheless, both staff mem members bers and inmates frequently voice their criticism in the context of general optimism about the future. “We realize we’re still going to have to be policemen to at least a portion of the inmate population,” says Lt. B. J. Ledford. “But the rapport be between tween us is much, much better now. You can just feel the tension going away.” No reform or correction Our prisons don’t work ‘Okay, you win ’ iader doesn’t want prayers lanks for putting Della ds straight (Open Forum, 29). Additionally, I re reed ed several pamphlets desi- ig Scripture to set up doc- al myth; one by Esther .com using Scripture to de defools fools and she said in her W: “ . . . you aren’t very irt; and we are praying for ” But, in a consideration veen peace, conscience and , it’s so important to ana- the motivating forces. ie advocate s’ survey /ed that 96 per cent of ricans hold membership ■me church. Of this num- 93 per cent are the self- : Christians (25 per cent lies; 68 per cent Protes- Now, under democracy, majority rules. I, there- -nake the deduction that are the ungodly sinners with the bad conscience who try to pawn off on Jesus and the derelicts (publicans) re responsibility sponsibility for their problems. Jesus came, remember, eating (associating) with the publi publicans cans (the 4 per cent) and was crucified with the ungodly at the hands of the religionists who thought they possessed God. Why don’t you come off that rinkydink myth-mentality. The greatest majority of people are out accepting Jesus, but nothing changes. We are not all born sinners (Jacob and Esau are examples). It is those who are under the law that Paul said were all sin sinners. ners. Religion is not God; but it is the works Paul con condemned, demned, and religion is the law. Noise pollution is bad; but mind pollution, of which the proponents of religions are the very worst offenders, has destroyed nations, and it even eventually tually will destroy the world. Religionists. Don’t pray for me by yourselves or your (symbols of your) idols. What does “repent” mean? MICHAEL D. MERRIFIELD 550 Summer St. NE EDITOR’S NOTE — Mr. Merrifield refers to his earlier letter complaining about “noise pollution” from church churches es ringing bells and playing chimes, and the response to his letter from Mrs. Della Woods. I am 5’2” tall. My husband is just under 6’ tall. According to him, I get my kicks out of life by moving the car seat up to within three inches of the steering column and leaving it there. The other morning, he stag staggered gered into the kitchen, slumped into a chair, panted heavily and announced, “Okay, you win.” “What are you talking about?” “I am too weak to fight you a n y m o r e. My kidneys have been destroyed by a door han handle. dle. I have bums on my neck from being flogged with a shoulder seat belt. My head is bleeding from a clip by the mirror and I tore my pants on the turn signal.” “Is that what you were blowing the horn about?” “I was blowing the horn be because cause everytime I exhaled, my belt buckle blew the horn.” “You are upset.” “Aren’t you quick? Next year, you may even get tie shoes.” “There is no need to be sar sarcastic.” castic.” “That’s easy for you to say. You have never tried to fold a pair of legs into a parachute and ‘drop’ into your own car before. Look at these,” he shouted, putting his feet on the table under my nose. “Do you know what these are?” “They are feet,” I said soft- ly. “That's right. They were Syndicated Column! at never meant to be folded, spin- died or mutilated." “Then why are they forked?” “Because I have just res rescued cued them from the jaws of the glove compartment. I thought perhaps if I crawled in from the pasenger seat I could wind my legs around my neck and then unwind them under the steering wheel.” “What happened?” “I was attacked by a sun vi visor sor and in the skirmish my foot was half eaten by the glove compartment.” “I don’t leave the seat up on purpose,” I began. He jumped from his chair. “Oh, but you do. You have never really gotten over not marrying the Hunchback of Notre Dame, have you? Now, HE could have fit in your mini-car, couldn’t he? Or Ken. You’d like one of those card cardboard board cars whipping around with Barbie and Midge. Or Ed Eddie die Arcaro. You should have married a jockey. Or Mickey Rooney. What a two you would have made sitting on your pil pillows! lows! Or Dick Cavett. Storing a picnic basket under your feet. Or what about that guy on top of the wedding cake?” He’ll feel better when his legs heal. WASHINGTON - Prisons don’t work. Or at any rate they don’t do the things we keep saying we want them to do. They don’t reform or correct behavior, no matter how much we call them reformatories or correctional institutions. They don’t rehabilitate. They don’t prevent crime (except during the period when criminals are actually locked up). They may even exacerbate crime by a d d i n g one more Raspberry handicap—a prison record—to J the people whose economic, so- Washington cial, educational, and moral Post .hTdi-an* landed them in jail in the first place. All they do, in far too many cases, is punish. And what is the value of punishment if it does not change behavior? And yet, precious few of us are willing to abandon punish punishment—however ment—however ineffectual—of those whose antisocial behav behavior ior is such a curse on all of us. What we do instead is to try somehow to make our prisons institutions of both punishment and rehabilitation. At least one prison authority has suggested that we ought to separate the two functions. A counselor at the D.C. Ref Reformatory ormatory in Lorton, Va., pro proposes—quite poses—quite unofficially—that any attempt at rehabilitation should be postponed until pun punishment ishment is over. “When you get punishment out of the way,” she said, “at that point you can assume that the debt has been repaid, that the slate is clean.” At the very minimum, her clean slate means the elimina elimination tion of continuing the handi handicaps caps that make evey sentence a life sentence—denial of citi zenship rights (including the vote), blocks to employment, parole supervision. She’d like it to include expunging of criminal records as well. With the punishment out of the way, rehabilitation can be- come a realistic possibility, she believes. And while she By William would be willing to start small —vocational training for in instance—in stance—in order to make the concept salable, she has no compunctions about extending it to include college, or even graduate, education. “What should be the aim,” she s a i d, “is providing the means whereby a man will have no further need for crim criminal inal behavior.” Her notion of education and skills training as a means for giving a criminal a real alter alternative native to a life of crime is, of course, not new. But she says she has accumulated “a lot of nonstatistical evidence” that few people are able to learn well while they are incarcer incarcerated. ated. “There is simply too much ambivalence involved when an institution attempts to punish and help at the same time,” she said. “The two functions tend to neutralize each other.” She may be right about the counterproductive ambivalence involved in simultaneous pun punishment ishment and education. But separation of the two functions introduces special problems as well. For instance, wouldn’t it have a bad effect on a man’s learning ability to have to wor worry ry about rent money, clothing, food, family pressures and the other things from which prison provides a respite? She would meet that one by nrqyjding a stipend for Irain- ees Until they were able to sustain themselves. There also is the question of what to do with an ex-convict who serves his time, under undergoes goes rehabilitative training and then commits a new offense. Do you put him in jail again? And for what purpose? Or what about the guy who robs and steals not because he can’t support himself with a legitimate job but because he can support himself at a far higher standard by robbing and stealing? Can he be reha rehabilitated bilitated short of helping him to land a $25,000 a-year job? 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Three of those four are considered extremely dangerous by government officials because of the potential damage they might do to the public purse. Considering history for just a mo moment, ment, though, there would seem to be little for governmental types to worry about. Since 1929, when Oregonians adopted a state income tax to relieve the burden of a state property tax, the way people tax themselves has been kept virtually intact. In all that time, the one major de departure parture from the status quo, when voters decided broadly to give the state a bigger chunk of their money, was in 1969 when they voted to match up the Oregon income tax to the federal tax code. About the only other tax mea measures sures to pass in that time span have been increases in cigarette and gas taxes. Sales tax proposals have been savaged seven times and property tax limitations have been defeated five. Also going down to defeat have been a variety of plans to restruc restructure ture the financing of schools. In Included cluded was the famous trashing of Tom McCall’s plan to take over school finance at the state level with an increase in income taxes and a statewide business property tax. But for all that negative history, what do we have coming up on the November ballot but yet another sales tax plan, another property tax limitation, a homestead exemption and an increase in income taxes to decrease property taxes. In the event that Oregonians sud suddenly denly reverse a voting pattern that has prevailed for a half century, gov government ernment types now are asking them themselves selves what happens if more than one of these money measures should pass? Well, aside from chaos, the an answer swer is in a state law that basically says that if measures conflict the one receiving the most yes votes prevails. And make no mistake, these money measures do conflict. The most striking of these con- Commentary Ron Blankenbaker flicts is between Measure 9 and Measure 7. Measure 9, the proper property ty tax limitation, repeals a whole section of the Oregon Constitution dealing with tax limitation. Measure 7, the sales tax, appears to be de dependent pendent on retention of the same section of the Constitution. And the sales tax, proposed by the Oregon Education Association, has its own version of a IV2 percent property tax limitation to put it in conflict with the IV2 percent proper property ty tax limitation measure proposed by 80-year-old Ray Phillips and Or Oregon egon Taxpayers United. Meanwhile there are potentially interesting conflicts within Measure 11, the homestead exemption, which contains its own provision for self- destruction if other property tax re relief lief measures pass with more yes votes. And, the homestead exemption, estimated to cost nearly $300 mil million lion in lost property tax revenues the first year, has another potential zinger. Eighty percent of its financ financing ing is to come from higher state in income come taxes provided by the passage of Measure 12, the companion in income come tax. If the income tax proposal fails and the homestead exemption passes, Measure 11 requires that the Legislature come up with some other method of making up the loss in property taxes. Speculating on how all these con conflicts flicts might be identified, much less legally resolved, is probably prema premature. ture. So far it’s been rare when even a single money measure passed, much less two or more at the same time setting up a possible conflict. Ron Blankenbaker is a Statesman-Journal writer. His column appears on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Massachusetts What really made state prosper? BOSTON — Animosity is the ox oxygen ygen of politics, and many conserva conservatives tives savor their animosity toward Massachusetts. Today this state’s economy is a gaudy spectacle and as lacerating to conservatives as, say, pornography. Massachusetts’ prosperity is, at least in the eyes of, say, Texas (un (unemployment employment higher than 11 per percent), cent), obscene. Massachusetts’ un unemployment employment is 3.7 percent. That is too low: Labor shortages are inhibit inhibiting ing growth. New workers are on the way, drawn by wages up 29 percent in three years. There are growing pains: The median price of a house in the Boston area, up 70 percent in two years, is $149,000, about $70,000 above the national average. But personal income in Massachu Massachusetts setts is fourth in the nation, behind only Alaska, Connecticut and New Jersey. Many conservatives loathe “The People’s Republic of Taxachusetts,” partly because Harvard is here, partly because the state voted for George McGovern, partly because until recently it was a paradigm of the Frost Belt in decline — a high- tax welfare state. Now, in a fresh af affront front to conservative sensibilities, Massachusetts’ boom coincides with the tenure of a highly popular Dem Democratic ocratic governor whose defeat in 1978 was an early tremor of the con conservative servative volcano nationally. His re return turn to political prosperity in 1982 was especially insufferable because he had spent part of his exile at. . . Harvard. When asked the reason for Mas Massachusetts’ sachusetts’ boom, Gov. Michael Du Dukakis kakis unhesitatingly answers: “a great governor.” Then he laughs. Actually, he ranks himself third on the list of Massachusetts’ blessings. First is the fact that Massachu Massachusetts setts is planted thick with colleges and universities — 120 of them, a garden of talents. Second is the state’s quality of life — this city, Cape Cod, the Berkshires. People come here to school, acquire skills, and stay. Half the 2,000 Ph.D.s pro produced duced here each year stay. Massa Massachusetts chusetts Institute of Technology graduates have started more than 1,000 businesses. The third cause of the boom, says Dukakis, is, well, aw, shucks, the governor’s aggressive industrial pol policy, icy, involving state spending on in infrastructure frastructure (roads, schools etc.), and loans and other subsidies to en encourage courage new industries to rise on the Commentary George WiU rubble of the old shoe and textile in industries. dustries. Hundreds of businesses are in partnership with the state gov government. ernment. But conservatives should mind their manners about reviling this: If this is socialism, socialism works. Actually (brace yourselves, con conservatives), servatives), a fourth cause of Massa Massachusetts’ chusetts’ prosperity is another gov government: ernment: Ronald Reagan’s. Accord According ing to one estimate, 16 percent of the state’s growth in the Reagan years has resulted from defense spending. Massachusetts ranks 11th among the states in population but fourth in defense contracts. A fifth cause of the state’s pros prosperity perity is the conservatives’ club for beating Dukakis: Proposition 2 l A. In 1979, Massachusetts had one of the nation^ highest tax burdens. In 1980, two years after California’s Prop. 13, Massachusetts voters passed Prop. 2 1 /2, limiting property taxes. Today Massachusetts is eco economically nomically robust. But you might as well admit that it is hard to establish causal connec connections tions in complex societies. And in politics, if you are sitting there when good things happen, you get credit. Besides, when it comes to tax-cut tax-cutting, ting, Dukakis is born again. Massachusetts’ GOP, known as the Chernobyl of the national Re Republican publican Party, has not won a state statewide wide race since 1972 (Sen. Ed Brooke). It is not even contesting most congressional and state legisla legislative tive races, and the two leading can candidates didates to oppose Dukakis evaporat evaporated ed in the heat of scandals. When he wins in a waltz, will he think about running for president? After all, New Hampshire is next door. Dukakis laughs, saying that a lot of people moved to New Hampshire to get away from him. Note that that “answer” is not a “no.” George Will, formerly Washington editor of the National Review, won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize tor commentary. In addition to writing a column, Will is a political commentator on television. Opinion Wasco County memorial Statue may reopen wound Ironically, the zeal of those pro proclaiming claiming Wasco County’s victory over the Rajneeshees may prolong the controversy. A statue of an antelope, placed as a “Freedom Memorial” on the lawn of the Wasco County Courthouse last Sunday, carries the following in inscription scription “Dedicated to all who steadfastly and unwaveringly op opposed posed the attempts of the Rajneesh followers to take political control of Wasco County, 1981-85.” The $12,000 cost of the statue was raised by donations and its location was approved by the Wasco County Commissioners. But that location poses a problem for Circuit Judge John Jelderks, whose jurisdiction includes Wasco County. I had lunch with John last week. Our association goes back more than 25 years to when, as a se seventh-grader, venth-grader, he was a member of my Sunday school class. Among other things, the topic of conversation turned naturally enough to Rajne^shpuram. John i^ the judge upon whom the burde>i<of much of the legal decision-making fell during the bitter, divisive strug struggle. gle. / This controversy is far from over, as he faces the prospect ot presiding over the trial of Ma Ana\ad Sheela on four charges, including accu accusation sation that she attempted to p&i$on the people of The Dalles through- spreading salmonella. Despite the pressures associated with the Rajneesh dispute, Judge Jelderks found stimulation in the legal challenge “rather than in more divorce cases.” But as he looked at the statue and its inscription this past week, he asked himself whether it would be possible for defendants in Rajneesh cases to pass that statue with its in inscription scription on the way into the court courthouse house and still believe they could get a fair trial inside. He is considering diverting future Commentary J. Wesley Sullivan cases involving the Rajneeshees to another county. I had raised the issue with him because when I read the inscription on the statue I found myself asking the same question. I surely could understand the emotion that in inspired spired its promoters. The unwillingness of any other place in the world to provide asylum to Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh adds emphasis to our sense of relief that he is gone^___—— Bufc-tfratdoes not dismiss or eras?'* ■"'tire legal issues associated with the,, case. Evidence points quite conclusive conclusively ly to a Rajneeshee attempt to over overwhelm whelm the Wasco County ballot box in the 1984 election — an effort thwarted in part by Norma Paulus’ plan to hold hearings on individual new voters. But the 1981-85 dates aijcL'llie ^wording of the inscriptierrt^carry a coTTrmtation of-emTspiracy from the beginning rather than an evolving set of objectives. This is far less ap apparent. parent. It’s important that we learn the right lessons from the Rajneesh ex experience. perience. We should recognize it as an affir affirmation mation of our system of checks and balances. Rajneeshpuram illustrates the dangers of unbridled govern governmental mental power, held in the hands of a few, unchecked by the many. It shows the danger of a theocra theocracy, cy, in which governmental decisions are handed down as though they are divinely inspired. In the euphoria of the Rajneesh experiment thousands of its members suspended their nat natural ural reasoning, questioning natures, opening the way for a buildup of abuses. It demonstrates the need for legis legislation, lation, to protect the voting privi privilege lege against efforts to overwhelm the ballot box and to prevent incor incorporated porated cities from isolating them themselves selves from public access. But on the other hand, the Raj Rajneesh neesh experience also demonstrates how, under provocation, the public may become angry enough to threa threaten ten vigilante action to expel an un unwanted wanted group. Once polarization is set in motion, it is easy for it to cross legal barriers. Across the street from the second entrance to the Wasco County Courthouse stands a cast-iron stat statue ue of a little black boy, used as a decorative hitching post in front of a ■“private home. Judge Jelderks says it has been pointed out to him by black people that tnis is an offensive reminder of the demeaning status of blacks in our h/story as they enter the court courthouse house seeking equal justice. Tne statue is on private land. It is /dot government’s responsibility. But the statue of the antelope and its inscription is government’s re responsibility sponsibility because of its location. Public opinion surveys show re repeatedly peatedly that while the people ap approve prove the protections of the Bill of Rights, as matters of principle, they are willing to override them if their own status or privilege seems threa threatened. tened. That’s why it is important to have impartial, sensitive judges, to pro protect tect us not just from others, but from ourselves. J. Wesley Sullivan, retired chairman of the Statesman-Journal Editorial Board, writes a weekly column. Texas governor race Reagan tips the scales DALLAS, Texas — When Presi President dent Reagan comes here Wednesday to raise funds for former Texas Gov. Bill Clements’ comeback bid, it will dramatize the national importance of the battle for control of this still- proud center of the newly humbled Sun Belt. If there is any single race that tests the long-term political ef effects fects of “the Reagan revolution,” it is Clements’ grudge rematch with Democratic Gov. Mark White, who ousted him from office four years ago. Clements is more than 20 points ahead in recent private polls, partly because the energy-industry crash has pushed Texas unemployment to 10.5 percent. Facing a $3-billion gap in the biennial state budget, White last week was forced to call the legis legislature lature into emergency session in Au August. gust. The incumbent has antagonized educators, state employees and other elements of the Democratic coalition. He has flip-flopped on enough issues that Clements’ polls show White with a near-terminal disapproval rating of more than 50 percent. Still, Republicans acknowledge that White is a crafty campaigner who defeated favored opponents in the 1978 attorney general race and the 1982 battle with Clements. At 69, Clements is hardly a fresh face, and the beaming, chuckling person personality ality he displayed through a three- way Republican primary last spring and in an interview the other day may or may not survive White’s barbs this fall. Democrats think Clements can be goaded into re reminding minding voters of the testy, imperi imperious ous fellow he sometimes was as gov ernor, and then his own negatives will soar. If Texas were still the basically Democratic state it was considered until Clements became the first Re Republican publican governor in 1978 by a scant 20,000 votes, White might have a chance for another upset. But there is strong evidence that Reagan has remade the fundamental political equation in the state. Clements describes the shift this way: “In 1978, when I first ran, the state was 35 percent Democratic, 20 percent Republican and 45 percent independent. Today it’s 35-35-30. It’s shifted 15 points from ticket- splitters to acknowledged RepublL cans in eight years. That’s Reagan.” ’ His pollster (and the president’s), Richard Wirthlin, puts the shift in a longer time frame: “Given the turn turnout out patterns, Clements can get 72 percent of the votes he needs for victory this year from self-identified Republicans. When George Bush ran his last Texas race in 1970 (los (losing ing to Democratic Sen. Lloyd Bent- sen), he could count on Republicans for only 36 percent of the votes he would have needed to win. That’s how much it’s changed.” The change has been gradual. Clements’ 1978 victory was one landmark, and Reagan’s 1980 win was another. But the 1984 re-elec re-election tion campaign was a political earth earthquake, quake, as Reagan’s coattails swept out of office hundreds of seemingly safe courthouse Democratic officials in rural Texas counties as well as the fast-growth metro areas. While the Democratic presiden presidential tial vote was essentially stable at around 2 million votes in 1976, 1980 and 1984, Republican totals grew from 1.95 million to 2.5 million to 3.4 million in successive elections. Paul Burka wrote in the July issue of Texas Monthly that an even more striking phenomenon was the in increase crease in Republican primary vot voting. ing. In 1982, there was one Republi Republican can primary voter for every five Democrats. This year, it was one for every two. GOP voters will be targeted for special mailings and phone calls from the Clements’ campaign, using some of the money Reagan will raise on his visit Wednesday. This is what a popular party-minded president can do to help convert his personal success into a long-term political realignment. And if Mark White greets Reagan by repeating his charge that admin administration istration policies are to blame for the energy and agriculture recession in Texas? “I would encourage that,” Bill Clements said. “Reagan has a 75-percent approval rating in Texas. The more my opponent talks about his failings, the more people he. irri irritates.” tates.” David Broder is a Washington Post columnist. He won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Page 3E. Letters American flag I agree with L. L. Morris that we should show our colors by flying the . American flag on those special days,; as she stated in her article on patri patriotism. otism. It so happens that my 3-by-5 American flag, on a nice aluminum pole in my front yard, was stolen ; just prior to Flag Day. I highly doubt the patriotism of the one that stole it, as I’m a veteran ! and love my country. This just con- - firms that there are still some sick ; minds and hearts out there. What was promised to Solomon j in 2 Chronicles 7:14 also applies to 5 Salem. I’ll probably buy another flag to ; fill the empty pole, as I’m proud to < be an American. Gene de Vries Salem Rehabilitation I resent Jewel Goddard’s expecta expectation tion that teachers take on the re- ! sponsibility for rehabilitating juve juvenile nile offenders. Teachers are already wearing several hats besides the teacher’s hat for which they were hired. Classroom teachers are not certified for psychological counsel counseling ing or behavior modification. They are certified to teach. Putting students with criminal problems into the public school so they can learn how to get along does them a disservice. They get the mes message sage that it’s unnecessary for them to change their behavior because so society ciety will adjust to them. It won’t. Also this proposal is not fair to those students who want to learn what is being taught — the reason schools exist and property owners pay taxes to support them. It takes only one student with a negative at attitude titude to deteriorate severely the en entire tire educational process in a class classroom. room. It’s a no-win situation for ev everyone, eryone, especially the student with the problem. Please don’t foist juvenile offend offenders ers on our public schools when what - they need is to be adopted by U.S. ; Marines. Dorothy Diehl Mount Angel Blood donors I have no gripe to air, no wrong to right. I simply would like to com commend mend people for their caring and concern as blood donors. Last fiscal year, 1985-86, more than 12,000 units of blood collected in Marion and Polk counties went to patients in Northwest hospitals. Wo had goal of 12,360 units. But our work is not finished. July represents the beginning of a new (fiscal) year and a time when blood ’ donations traditionally begin to drop. Blood donors, busy with vaca vacations tions and warm-weather activities, are hard to find. Blood users, how- ' ever, who depend on blood and blood products as part of their life lifesaving saving treatment, are not so hard to locate. Throughout our region they number in the hundreds and thou thousands. sands. As the volunteer Blood Services chairman for the Willamette Chap Chapter ter American Red Cross, I hope all healthy and eligible blood donors will suport the program. Quentin Rowland Willamette Chapter American Red Cross Salem Organ donors Your editorial dated June 25 in indicated dicated that without a national clearinghouse for donors and in intended tended recipients, the situation of organ transplants becomes a circus. On Nov. 3, 1985, Channel 2, the TV program “Believe It Or Not” had a program on referring to the North American Transplant Asso Association. ciation. It is completely compu computerized terized and helps to get everything coordinated perfectly. Our lives are in the hands of a computer — believe it or not! Betty Freauf Turner GOP and Packwood So the GOP is urging Lutz sup supporters porters to vote for Packwood. If the GOP had any respect for the vote of the people, they would never make such a suggestion. The vote for Lutz was a vote against Packwood and abortion. This suggestion is a blatant exam example ple of politicians not listening. Both jj parties should realize that we Baby Boomers don’t vote party lines. We vote the issues, even to the extent of changing party affiliations in order to vote against politicians like Packwood. Nann Fleck Mount Angel About letters The Statesman-Journal welcomes letters from readers. Letters to the editor must give the writer's address and must be signed. They must include street address or post office box num number ber (not for publication, but for verification). Copies of letters to other individuals or publica publications tions will not be published. Writers are limited to one letter a month. So more letters to the editor l can be published and so they can be printed in a timely fashion, letters should not exceed 150 / words. Longer letters may be published at our / option, condensed or returned to the writer for/' condensation. Letters should be sent to Letter/ to the Editor, Statesman-Journal, P.0 Bq 13009, Salem, Ore. 97309-1036. Additio/ rules governing letters may be obtained urf request. / /By STAN FEDERMAN of The Oregonian stall For many a year, any Oregon secretary of state election race usually has Deen a dull affair, a race Consistently dominated by Republican incum incumbents bents or their heir appar- ents. Republican candi candidates dates usually have won by wide margins, even in the face of recent mount mounting ing Democratic voter reg registration istration rolls. In state political circles, the office always has been consid considered ered Republican “territo “territory-" ry-" The fact is, there hasn’t been a Democratic secretary of state since Stephen Chadwick was elected in 1874, 102 years ago. But this year, because of Oregon’s two-term re restriction striction on statewide of offices, fices, Secretary of State Clay Myers is ineligible to run again. So, for the first time in years, the Democrats won’t have to face an incumbent with a built-in “name” and per performance formance record. This time around, it is the Democratic candi candidate, date, state Sen. Blaine Whipple of Beaverton, a veteran of a dozen years of politics, who probably carries the better name identification in the race. Whipple, 46, has ap appeared peared on many ballots in recent years. He has made unsuccessful bids for Congress, won and lost elections to the state legislature, and won two races for national Demo Democratic cratic committeeman. His" Republican oppo opponent, nent, Rep. Norma Paulus of Salem, is well known and respected in the state Capitol political arenas and the mid-Willamette Valley area. But she has little name familiarity with voters outside the valley region. Rep. Paulus also faces another major Republican problem this year — a 270,000 Democratic voter registration lead. To win, she- must obtain a strong Democratic crossover vote. But at 43. Rep. Paulus is po ordinary candidate. She is a competent legis legislator lator who in her three terms has become a lead leading ing problem-solver and GOP spokesman in the House. A determined, in independent-minded dependent-minded legis legislator, lator, she has successfully fought for the bottje bill, Willamette Greenway. bike trails and tougher penalties for drunken drivers. A strong envi environmentalist, ronmentalist, she also has been a constant propo proponent nent for a healthy busi business ness climate. telligent and knowledgi able about the issues, sh usually has instant raj port with audiences an has the reputation of be ing a highly visible an intereSting-to-hear candi date on the campaigl trail. But Whipple is n< slouch as a campaignei either, although he ha* lost as often as he has won. Yet adversity at the polls always seems to spur him on again. De Despite spite two U.S. House de defeats feats and a state Senate loss, he has managed to win successive terms as national commjtteeman and in 1974 finally made it to the Oregon Senate. In his first term, he authored a successful bill requiring lending institu institutions tions to pay interest on mortgage tax reserves and another bill that pro prohibited hibited the state from taxing the federal income tax rebate last year. He owns his own real estate brokerage firm and has held various state of offices fices in the industry. He appears to have made an astute study of both busi business ness and politics and has found out whatever it takes to be a success in both. He has a modish look about him and a cer certain tain show-biz outlook on campaigning (He man managed aged to get TV’s Bionic Woman to campaign for him in the May primary). Whipple cannot match Mrs. Paulus on a podium. He is not as good an off-the-cuff speaker and prefers to read his speeches. But he is thor thorough ough and usually puts his ideas down well on pa paper. per. Mrs. Paulus has been campaigning for the of office fice for more than a year. At present, she is cover covering ing some 1,000 miles a week by van. Her constant cam campaigning paigning and her ability to raise campaign funds in what has been a tough money year for all politi politicians cians makes her a dan dangerous gerous foe for Whipple, despite that big Demo Democratic cratic registration lead. Perhaps because of this, Whipple has revert reverted ed to his role as a politi political cal street fighter.* LE 0* QJ has at- his foe special anking >ts, al- alayed s with velop- /le has er to imary feud. Groener recently criticized Whipple for “trivally attacking a woman," when he should speak out on the issues instead. Groener, who fin finished ished three percentage points behind Whipple in the Democrats’ hotly con contested tested five-candidate May primary, blames his de defeat feat on Whipple’s dis distribution tribution during the cam campaign paign of derogatory news clippings about Groener. Groener has publicly accused Whipple of run running ning a “dirty campaign." The Milwaukie senator’s displeasure was trans transferred ferred to the normally pro-Democratic Oregon AFL-CIO, an old Groener ally. The AFL-CIO has refused to endorse Whip Whipple ple in the November elec election. tion. However, under pressure from the state Democratic Central Com Committee, mittee, Groener, in a backhanded letter which stated “I can never for forgive give you for your pri primary mary behavior,” has re reluctantly luctantly endorsed the Beaverton Democrat. But the letter has failed to change labor’s unhappi unhappiness ness with Whipple’s cam campaign paign tactics. Whipple insists he doesn’t run “dirty" cam campaigns, paigns, and claims that his primary action against Groener was merely an effort to "question my opponent's judgment." And he says his reason for attacking Mrs. Paulus is simply to make the public aware of her stance on certain is issues, sues, such as Ballot Mea Measure sure No. 7. Mrs. Paulus, no shy As he did so success- I fully in his 1974 Senate | campaign against Repub- , lican Tom Hartung, and | in his 1976 Democratic 1 primary race against Sen. Dick Groener, D-Mil- ! waukie, Whipple ’is now I attacking his opponent heavily on all fronts. In press conferences, campaign literature and radio spots, Whipple has especially attacked Mrs. Paulus for her opposition M/% 7 o X violet in politic ing, is so far g teeth under W1 tacks and ren lent. She has : she refuses to “mud-slinging ity fight" with There are differences be candidates on fecting the se■ state’s office. | Both stress for tougher pel audits of state q agencies; each | act as a ta “watchdog” ini spect. Both also! “sunset law” tj force agencies their existence certain time or budgets termin In the usm can versus Der dition, she i “open" primal allow indepe vote for major is against it, n lows crossov which woul weaker candic chosen,. Although tary of state line of succes governor, nei date has touch major state is voters this fa the nuclear i measure or th planning repea Whipple raise a campai $44,000 this I ments that N will “probabl me by 3 to l.’j Mrs. Pa' raised $45,00 pie’s $30,000 mary, disagrc for the man” who had an impressive sounding name. Others think her failure to campaign strongly in the Tri-Coun Tri-County ty area, preferring toVes- tablish herself in rural areas first, cost her a lot of votes. In recent weeks, she has rectified this and has been campaigning hard in the Portland metro area. "They’ll know who I am by November.” she says. Both GOP and Demo Democratic cratic leaders see the race as being close, although Whipple, with that heavy Democratic registration lead, is considered the fa- H vorite at now. He and Mrs. Paulus remain wor worried ried about a small voter turhout and how it would affact them. Most voters seem un unaware aware of the race. But if Whipple continues his slashing attacks on Mrs. Paulus and she decides to answer with her own verbal arsenal, it obvious obviously ly could heat up before Nov. 2. Meanwhile, however, it remains, as do most election contests this fall, a race which so far has been unable to generate any great voter interest, one way or another. NORMA PAULUS Paulus, Whipple for Secretary of State Oregon’s Secretary of State will have served the maximum number of years permitted by the state constitution by tne end of his present term. That’s always a mouth-watering prospect for political hopefuls. It’s easier to run for office if a candidate is not opposed by an incumbent. The prospect of doing so has brought out an unusual number of candidates, in each party. Five Democrats want their party’s nomination for the office. They are A1 Densmore, a Medford teacher and legislator; Dick Groener, an Oak Grove insurance man and legislator, Phil McAlmond, a Portland businessman and perennial candidate. Caroline Wilkins, a Corvallis housewife and Democratic party functionary, and Blaine Whipple, a Portland-area broker and legislator. Two Republicans want to appear on the fall ballot. They are John Kelting, a Tigard contractor, and Norma Paulus, a Salem lawyer. Republicans have the easier choice this spring. Mrs. Paulus has been an outstanding person since her school days in Burns. She has a first-rate mind, and is not afraid to use it. She is a good lawyer, and has been an outstanding member of the Oregon legislature. She would make an excellent Secretary of State. The choice for Democrats is more difficult, if only because there are more candidates for the job from that party. Three of th e five — Whipple, Groener, and Densmore — have legislative experience. Two — Wilkins and McAlmond — have been active in party business, either as workers or regular candidate's. Of the lot, Whipple shows the most promise. He has a better grasp of state government than some of the others. He has been a persuasive and able legislator, with a better record of ac- \ complishment than some of the others. If the fall ballot, as a reult of the May 25 primary, contains the names of Norma Paulus and Blaine Whipple, the people of Oregon will have been well served by the preliminary election. Either has the capacity to fill the state’s second-highest office with distinction.State Rep. 3| ican today to file' ,re ' D-Medford, grew up in Burns. said, ‘‘Among the pint Of confidence anri^ 'lability m governril Nei-ma Pauius • : * 3 for the sec already has fj]. She has se- 1 ' he rest and additional concern is uible voters between 1™an /--fijeydidnotid^ -ngfiSMJSif.rs Meetings married to a 1 ™ol teacher ive no children It to bok ju bnd, at Sow, i [‘most pon” o isn’t w Ah I laws i |chargi I sides 1Page 38, Sec. 4, CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon, Friday, July 16, 1971 Insurance reforms to ease anxiety Insurance is supposed to offer protection and peace of mind. But too often a policy holder winds up with ulcers trying to figure out what land of protec protection tion he’s really getting. While it may be impossible to make insur- once as simple as ABC, the last legislature this year passed a series of bills that draw the lines a little clearer. He may not be able to decipher it—or even find it in his policy—but after Jan. 1, the holder of an automobile liability policy will be automatically protected if he is injured in a car wreck. Such coverage will become manda mandatory, tory, and all companies writing automobile liability insurance in Oregon will be required to include it in their policies. While it may not ease actual suffering, by providing $3,000 per person for “reasonable and necessary” expenses for medical and hos hospital pital bills, the provision should provide relief from the anxiety that unpaid bills can cause. The coverage also will extend to members of the policy holder’s family, passengers in his car at the time of the accident, and anj pedestrian who might be injured. And it doesn’t stop there. If the injured person is wage earner and unable to work as a result of the accident, he may receive up to 85 per cent of his salary during the time he is incapacitated. “Loss of income payments” will start 14 days after the accident, and will continue until he is able to go back to work. Unemployed persons also will come in for some benefits under the new legislation. Al Although though there is no wage scale to go by, he will be paid for expenses for essential services during the time he vas ut of circulation. There is a limitaon on the amount of income payments andheir length of duration. They will be limited 1 $500 per month and will not be paid for morehan 52 weeks. However, the nevlaw requires that benefit payments begin as ion as proof of loss has been submitted to tl insurance company that issued the policy. Just as importar to the person who has been injured in an acident is the stipulation that payments musbe made regardless of who was at fault. This is a sweepir change from the present practice in which arinjured person sometimes waits for months vthout medical or income benefits while the iiurance companies haggle over “who gets wha” Related to this isinother bill that takes the pressure off insurare companies which make payments before tl degree of liability has been determined. Tiile an insurer is now required to make jompt payments to avoid prolonged suffering y the policy holder, they now will not be regrded as an admission of liability. And if an injurd person later sues the company that has nade the advanced pay payments ments the amount a eady paid can be deduct deducted ed from any damags awarded by the court. This has the effect c giving the injured party prompt financial rehf without committing the insurance company » ultimate damages. One measure thatwill probably come in for any number of inteDretations later on is the one that replaces th< “contributory negligence doctrine.” Under that doctriE, a person involved in an automobile accident could not collect damages if he was found to be negligent in any way. That concept no longer exists. It has been replaced by one called the “comparative negli negligence gence doctrine,” which allows a driver to col collect lect damages if he is less negligent than the person from whom he is trying to collect damages. The degree of negligence is the key here, and should both drivers be equally negli negligent, gent, neither is entitled to damages from the other. As it now stands, the new law is a rather nebulous doctrine. The degree of negligence and damage payments in specific cases will have to be determined either by insurance companies or courts. Although it provides a more equitable meth method od of assessing damages, some in the insur insurance ance field don’t believe firm guidelines will be set until precedents have been established in the courts. It is a commonly held belief that all insur insurance ance companies get richer by the day. Some do, but once in a while one goes under and policy holders are left holding the bag. One of the measures passed by the last legislature will eliminate that possibility. It creates an Oregon Insurance Guaranty Asso Association ciation which will pay claims an insolvent insurance company may leave. Actually, the association will be an insur insurance ance company in its own right. It will be financed by an assessment against member insurance companies to create a reserve fund which will be used to take care of claims not paid by an insolvent company. According to the law, all member insurers in the state must belong to the association. If they refuse to join, they will be prevented from doing business in Oregon. The association will be managed by a board of directors. Members will be chosen by mem member ber companies, but their appointments will be subject to the approval of the state insurance commissioner. In the last few years, insurance companies have been reluctant to extend coverage in some areas where the risk of property damage runs high. This is particularly true in areas where there are threats of rioting, violence or vandal vandalism. ism. Some property owners have drawn a blank when they approached insurance compa companies nies for coverage. Under a bill passed by the last legislature this will be changed. Instead of one company footing the bill for damage done in high risk areas, all companies writing essential property insurance in Oregon will be required to carry part of the burden. It is called the Oregon Fair Plan Associa Association, tion, and will assure property owners in the state of getting coverage for all insurable property regardless of location. As a requirement to do business in Oregon, all companies providing property coverage will have to be a member of the association. The companies will be charged a percent percentage, age, determined by the amount of business done in the state. This will be placed in a fund to defray the association’s obligations and ex expenses. penses. Proponents of the bill say it will stabilize the insurance market for certain property in the state and at the same time guarantee coverage for property on which insurance would not otherwise be available. Now it’s ‘let the seller beware d cash, and got a little bit Nevertheless, Jones says, a city-county- school finance committee will regroup for the 1973 legislature. Oregon’s cities and counties did get impor important tant new revenue in the form of authorization to levy an additional $10 for motor vehicle registrations. The vehicle fee bill, HB 1979, will bring in about $15 million a year for cities and counties if all of them choose to levy it. By comparison, the 3 per cent tax would have produced about $116 million a year—half to the schools and the remaining to the cities and counties. There was some objection to the fact that the license fee revenues are earmarked for street construction and maintenance, traffic control and parks. This is how state highway funds can be spent, under the state constitu constitution. tion. But most cities surely can use the money in the specified areas. The intent of the tax is to free funds which in the past have been used in the areas HB 1979 is addressed to. Cities will receive a total of $7.5 million from the extra fees if they all levy it. The levy is optional but most cities are expected to take advantage of it. Basically, the bill means that counties will receive $5 and cities will receive $5. Certain vehicles do not have to pay the extra fee. They are campers, travel trailers, mobile homes, government-owned vehicles, certain commercial vehicles and certain other trailers. Cities which decide to levy the fee immedi immediately ately may receive some funds during the 1971- 72 fiscal year. Salem, for example, is looking forward to the revenue this year. The city will receive about $220,000 for 1971-72 and $400,000 in subsequent years. Anticipating the passage of the bill, Salem City Manager Robert Moore and his staff iden identified tified a number of projects which would be completed if the money became available. The list included the widening of Mission Street at Airport Road, storm drains on Fair- view Avenue, traffic signals at Mission and Airport Road, fencing along River Road S. and the hiring of policemen for traffic control. Some cities, Jones says, have budgeted an anticipated ticipated revenues from the bill; others have not, but could by adopting supplements to their 1971-72 budgets. Looking at other revenue measures, city shares of state highway and liquor revenues will increase but the share for cigarette taxes is down. Highway revenue allocations for 1971-72 will total $13,668,112 or an estimated $11.50 per capita. The total for 1970-71 was $12,820,104. Liquor revenues will be $7,509,848 or $6.26 per capita, compared to $7,102,724 last year. The cigarette tax revenues for 1971-72 are estimated to be $2,989,000 for 1971-72; the total for 1970-71 was $3,057,995. Oregon cities were disappointed because three bills failed which would have provided state payments for local fire protection. Salem, for one, was counting on $48,000 for 1971-72 from SB 706. The bill was to make assessments against certain state agency budgets for payments to cities where state buildings are located. SB 270 would have allowed cities to collect for “ex “extraordinary traordinary services” such as fighting a major fire in a state building. HB 1221 was to provide cigarette tax revenues to cities that wanted fire protection reimbursement. “There seems to be a continuing if not growing interest among legislators to do some something thing about local payments for fire protec protection,” tion,” Jones of the League of Oregon Cities says. Rep. Jack Anunsen, R-Salem, was asked the day after the legislature ended what became of the fire payment measures. He said they were defeated but promised they would be back in 1973. Two other revenue bills—HB 1049 which asked for a cigarette tax increase for city park use and HB 1050 which wanted vehicle taxes for arterial streets—never got beyond second readings and committee discussion. Three bills allowing cities to levy hotel-mo hotel-motel tel taxes also failed. Oregon cities are going to have extra expen expenses ses as a result of the passage of a number of bills. One is HB 1849 which expands benefits through the Public Employes Retirement Sys tem for police and firemen. Even if cities are not members of the system, they have to provide comparable benefits. Cities have mixed emotions about HB 1700. It requires them to spend for footpaths and bicycle trails not less than 1 per cent of the money they receive each year from the State Highway Fund. Any city which receives less than $250 a year from the fund is exempt. The League of Oregon Cities opposed the bill, Jones said, because it had no impact on small cities and because the league felt it was wrong to earmark the funds. However, the large cities, including Salem, are planning bicycle trails because of demands by bike enthusiasts, so the money will be put to immediate use. In Salem, planners are integrating a bike and footpath system into downtown urban re renewal newal planning and a linear park system along 1-305, the highway which is to run from the Chemawa Indian School to northern downtown. And cities believe they can use the funds for sidewalk construction since walks certainly are footpaths and in some cases bicycle tho thoroughfares, roughfares, too. Representatives of Oregon cities meet each fall to discuss their common problems. This year, the League of Oregon Cities convention will focus on what happened in Salem in the legislature and what can be done two years from now. Again, the emphasis will be finance. Farm labor bill stirs controversy The old doctrine of “caveat emptor” — let the buyer beware — came in for some rough handling during the last session of the legisla legislature. ture. With the creation of a Consumer Protection Division, the state is stepping into the market marketing ing arena with enough legal muscle to make free - wheeling merchants out to deceive con consumers sumers long for the good old days. From now on the attorney general will be in charge, and any attempts by unscrupulous merchants to revert to their old ways will come to his attention through a clearing house he has been authorized to set up to handle consumer fraud cases throughout the state. It will allow him to establish new rules to control deceptive trade practices. It empowers courts to issue injunctions against violators, which will bolster the Deceptive Trade Prac Practices tices Act already on the books. Under the new rules, merchants will find regulations that tighten up the practice of selling merchandise on credit. In the past, a seller could repossess mer merchandise chandise when the buyer failed to make his payments. He could then sell it, and if money was still owed, he :ould come back on the buyer for the differeice. This is called a leficiency judgment, and the buyer was reqtired to make payments until the debt had b:en satisfied even though he no longer had use of the merchandise. The new consumer legislation prohibits this prac practice tice if the amount owed by the buyer is less than $700. The seller can still repossess — or sue for a judgment — but he cannot do both. However, if the amount due is more than $700, the seller can repossess and sue for a deficiency judgment if the legal action is brought within 90 days of the repossession. Proponents of the new legislation say it has a twofold effect. It will make merchants think twice before selling for a low down payment, and it also will help keep consumers who jump at easy credit from getting in over their heads. The new division also will protect a credit buyer in the event the creditor sells his con contract tract to a bank or lending institution. There is nothing wrong with that as long as the merchandise is good. But some buyers in the past have found they’ve been cheated only after the original contract had been trans transferred ferred to another party. Under the doctrine of “holder in due course” — the legal term used to describe transfer of a contract from the seller to a bank or lending institution — the buyer had recourse only against the seller of the merchandise. But if he had disappeared into thin air — which was often the case — there was no way the buyer could get relief. He was still stuck with the faulty merchandise — and required by law to finish paying off the contract. Not so anymore. The new law abolishes the holder in due course doctrine. If a buyer gets burned by a fast talking merchant who sells his contract and skips town, he can come back for relief on the party to whom the contract was sold. This puts the bank or lending institution on the spot and will make them more selective in their transactions with those wishing to sell contracts. Door - to - door salesmen didn’t fare too well, either. From now on they won’t know for sure whether a sale has been made until three days after the contract has been signed. The three - day “cooling off period” was written into the law to give buyers a chance to cancel a contract if they believe they have He would have held hearings and taken testi testimony mony on which to base his decision, which would have been announced no later than 25 days after his selection. By the time he got around to handing down his recommendations, 30 days would have elapsed from the date of the original strike notice. That is what farm workers didn’t like. They believe that much delay would have blunted any effect a strike might have had. Two measures — one a house bill, the other a resolution — passed by the Legislature could turn part of the Eastern Oregon desert into a fertile farmland. The resolution — House Joint Resolution 14 — will put on the ballot in the next general primary election a proposal which authorizes the state to issue bonds to create a Water Development Fund. If voters approve, the state can issue bonds not to exceed one per cent of the true cash value of property in Oregon to set up the fund. The fund would supply money for building irrigation projects in Oregon, and House Bill 1303 will channel the funds into the areas where they are needed. While certain areas of Eastern Oregon are being discussed as prime irrigation targets, proponents of the measures think that the Willamettte Valley will ultimately benefit as much as any other area. Legislators also took a bead on buyers who are in the practice of hauling off a farmer’s commodities and paying him when they get around to it, even though a date of payment has been agreed upon. Under new regulations just passed, any pro processor cessor who fails to make full payment 30 days after he has accepted the last delivery of an order will be required to pay a 1 per cent a month penalty fee on the balance. However, a cooperative processor in which the farmers hold membership, will be excluded from the provision of the law. Consumer groups in Oregon have been com complaining plaining for some time about the lack of infor information mation contained on the labels of products they buy. They want to know how much an item is costing them by the pound or ounce, or wheth whether er they are buying a gallor^or a quart. Legislators decided during the last session that consumers were entitled to that informa information tion and they cracked down on big stores doing a gross business of $2 million or more yearly. They passed a bill requiring that the “unit price” be clearly stated, either in a place near the commodity for sale, or on the commodity itself. However, the law does not apply to any person operating a retail business where the gross take is less than $2 million during a 12-month period. been bamboozled by a fast - talking door banger. There are a couple of exceptions: if the contract is for less than $50, the buyer is stuck with it. And if he has asked the seller to deliver the merchandise — or contract for his signature — to relieve an emergency situation, he also is legally bound. Along these same lines is a regulation in the new legislation that requires telephone salesmen to identify themselves within the first 30 seconds of their sales pitch. And for the first time in Oregon, a new law prohibits certain types of referral sales. This is the old gimmick of offering a buyer a break on the price of his purchase if he supplies the seller with a list of prospective customers. There are usually two catches to this type of deal: the merchandise is already marked up so there is no loss to the seller if he cuts the price, and the buyer gets the rebate only if the prospective customers also buy. Drafters of the bill, while admitting it opens the door for punitive actions against sellers, say the “paramount purpose of the legislation should be to protect the consumer rather than punish the merchant.” Cities The The legislature handed Gov. Tom McCall a very hot potato when it passed Senate Bill 677, The bill supposedly would have kept peace in Oregon fields. Instead it erupted into a bitter battle between farm workers and grow growers ers — and the governor got caught in the middle. At almost the last minute, McCall decided to veto the bill. He said he was advised by Attorney General Lee Johnson that portions of it were unconstitutional. But farmers — and farm officials — said he had been pressured into vetoing the bill by Cesar Chavez, who threatened to pull all farm workers out of Oregon fields if he signed the bill. Chavez said it would take the right of strike away from workers. The bill set up provisions for strikes. Farm workers said that if they followed the proce procedures dures outlined, the harvest could be over be before fore they could legally walk out of the fields. The bill required that the employer be noti notified fied ten days before a walkout. He then could call for an arbitrator, whose recommendations might either be binding or non-binding. The arbitrator would have been selected by the parties to the dispute from a list of five persons picked by the board. However, if they could not agree within five days after the official notice was filed, the board could ap appoint point a person to handle the arbitration. City government’s big desire from the 1971 legislature was simple: Money. Somewhat quixotically, city officials marched to the capitol with hopes for a 3 per cent local income tax to help solve their per perennial ennial problem of financing. “The tax was our number one priority,” says Don Jones of the League of Oregon Cities. “We came away without it.” The odds were strongly against it, mainly because the House leadership pledged at the beginning of the legislative session that there would be no new taxes. But the cities, joined by Oregon counties and school boards, tried anyway. The tax mea measure sure never got beyond a second l the House Revenue Committee.CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon, Friday, July 16, 1971, See. 4, Page 11 Pay raises are 4 kind ? but not generous Legislative action concerning salaries and fringe benefits hits especially close to home for 32,000 Oregonians, many of whom live in Sa Salem. lem. They are the people who are employed by the state. An official of the Oregon State Employes Association said the legislature was more kind than was anticipated at the beginning of the session, but not as generous as was hoped for. A $44.7 million pay and fringe benefit pro program gram was approved for the state employes. Tom Enright, OSEA executive secretary, said in the June edition of the organization’s publication that he and others already are preparing a pay and benefits proposal for 1973. The legislature approved a $14.6 million pay plan for classified employes. It provides for at least a five per cent raise after July 1. Some 2,700 employes, including 1,400 psychi psychiatric atric aides in state mental institutions, will get a 10 per cent, or two-step, increase in pay. Academic employes will receive a four per cent raise based on the first $10,000 of salary. In addition, selective adjustments of one per cent of payroll this year and funds totaling^ three per cent of payroll next year were appro appropriated. priated. The total pay program for higher education is $8.2 million. Classified employes are also to receive a| five per cent pay raise on July 1, 1972, the; beginning of the second year of the biennium. That raise will total $8.3 million. cost as much as $150 million over the next 30 years. It calls for an increase of $10 a month toward employe medical-hospital group insur insurance. ance. It calls for increases in pension benefits for 30-year employes from 20 to 35 per cent, de depending pending on salary. A state contribution of $10 a month toward employe medical-hospital group insurance will total $3.2 million. It includes all state workers — classified, unclassified and academic. It goes into effect July 1, 1972. The five per cent salary increase was ap approved proved by the State Emergency Board after l the regular legislative session adjourned. Con- Salaries for city and county employes are . sideration was given to a report which said decided locally by city councils and boards off that appropriations for increases were short by commissioners. Most Salem and Marion Coun County ty workers are going to receive a five per cent raise. The total 1971 pay and benefits package off $44.7 million is some $19 million short of what; : the 1969 legislature approved. In classified pay alone, the difference was about $30 million. Retirement benefits through the Public Em- $ ployes Retirement System (PERS) will in- ; on July 1. crease by some $10.4 million. The plan may Another reason was an increase from the 45 some $3.5 million in the general fund. The board approved measures which would insure the salary increases and make up for the deficit. The shortage occurred for a number of reasons. One apparently was the employe asso association’s ciation’s move to include 2,255 workers who were not, under the original plan, to get raises per cent limitation on annual merit increases to 85 per cent and subsequently 75 per cent in each year of the biennium. The legislature also allowed a number of employes to be shifted from dedicated fund to general fund agencies. The passage of HB 1397, which improves the PERS, will effect all Oregon ‘cities and coun counties. ties. The bill provides for police and firemen program improvements and requires cities who are not PERS members to provide compa comparable rable benefits. The total increase that (regon cities under PERS will have to pay i; about $1,045,500, according to estimates by ;he League of Or Oregon egon Cities. Only 36 cities aie under PERS. The financial impact oi cities not under PERS is estimated at about$240,000. Some cities have retjxenent programs un underwritten derwritten by private insirance companies. These include Salem, Dalas, Silverton and Woodburn. Some cities have only Social Security bene benefits, fits, which is the minimun required by law. These cities will have to pa' from 6.9 per cent to 12.1 per cent of their plice and fire pay payrolls, rolls, depending on the city. The individual impact of the 24 cities with private programs hasn’t been calculated yet because PERS has to evaluate each program to determine what additional benefits, if any, are necessary. The Association of Oregon Counties esti estimates mates that passage of the PERS program is going to cost counties a total of $600,000 a year beginning January 1973. A breakdown by coun county ty wasn’t immediately available. The counties believe the PERS changes will add a financial burden that is not offset by the increases in revenue that will result from legislative action. The main revenue measure, allowing the counties and cities to charge an additional $5 each for motor vehicle registrations, cannot be applied directly to the PERS expenses because those funds are earmarked for streets, roads, traffic and parks. Public employes were disappointed with the legislature, as were other segments of the state, because certain bills were either voted down or did not get off the ground. These include, for public employes, a mea measure sure to establish legal procedure for strikes and a bill to improve and strengthen collective bargaining procedures. Boundary boards given ultimatum Oregon’s population is relatively small, but we Wave so many units of local government that some legislators are concerned. The state has an estimated 1,800 special service districts and local governments. That’s one for every 1,000 persons. In Marion and Polk counties alone, there are 242 units including city and county govern governments ments and special districts such as street light lighting ing and water. “Now what the hell they all are, I don’t know,” said Rep. Jack Anunsen, R-Salem, “but the boundary board is going to see if this is the best way it can be done. Most people in special districts don’t even know they are in; them or who runs them.” One thing the 1971 legislature did which will', affect special service districts is to attach a; footnote on the appropriations of boundary boards such as the Marion-Polk Boundary Commission. The footnote will make the boundary boards work pretty hard in the next few years be-; cause if they don’t do what the note says after’ the first year, they may not get any more funds. The boundary commissions are directed to look closely at special single or dual purpose j districts in their areas and determine, as An Anunsen unsen puts it, “if this is the best way to fly.” If it is found that a district is not the best way to go, the boundary commission will initi initiate ate mergers or consolidations or transfer the functions to the counties. HG 1056, which basically is a rewrite of the boundary board law intended to clean up prob problem lem areas, was amended to strengthen the appropriations footnote. The amendment says that when boundary boards make mergers or initiate proceedings to transfer services to the county, there is no remonstrance proceeding. The decision of the boundary board is final. Anunsen believes the residents of Marion and Polk counties will benefit from the merg mergers ers and elimination of unnecessary special service districts. For one thing, he sees a chance for financial savings, show,” Anunsen said. “Most people know their “You will also know who is running the county commissioners, but not special district officials.” County governments are flexible enough to handle the job of administering special ser services. vices. Anunsen believes this is true of Marion and Polk counties. And he also believes that most people are primarily concerned about get major items whether they are economially provided with the services, not who provics them. The special service distict problem is not as great in Salem as it s in Portland or Eugene. The new directionwill be significant in Eugene because it will aable the distribu distribution tion of water to be consolidted. The passage of HB 1603neans that county special service districts inareas where there are boundary boards will h?e new powers and functions. One part of the bl, which prohibited new districts from forming was taken out as being too controversial. Anunsen said he believ< it wasn’t neces necessary sary because new district! still have to win approval from the boundarcommissions. “I think this package isignificant legisla legislation,” tion,” Anunsen said. “If tl boundary boards assume the responsibility tly are expected to, we will have many less urs of local govern government. ment. Also, counties will bidoing more of the modern governmental jot they should be doing.” Anunsen said the passag of HB 1054 is one step toward a more region approach to gov government. ernment. This bill allows e consolidation of cities and counties when ties have popula populations tions of more than 300,000. It is expected that the :atter will come to a vote in Portland and Muiomah County in a few years For the most part, lotion aimed at regional government did rn make it through the legislature. Some feel it is because the concept is too new in Oregon. Anunsen said he has found from participat participating ing in national conferences that other areas of the country are in the same boat — they have regional problems that they can’t fight because of existing governmental systems. He also believes there is a lack of total commitment on the part of local and state government officials, including those in Or Oregon. egon. “Oregon likes to think it is unique and innovative, but it isn’t,” he told a recent meeting of the state’s four councils of govern governments. ments. “We do have ideas, though, and I’ve found that in most parts of the country they don’t even have ideas. They just throw up their hands.” The 1971 legislature did very little in the area of changing annexation laws. Bills calling for a change in the remonstrance procedures and allowing cities to annex non-contiguous property failed. “This is an area local governments have to decide on if we are going to leap into the 20th century and talk about spheres of influence,” Anunsen said. He believes annexation policy decisions are going to have to be made that cities and counties will accept as law. “If local governments want something, they really have to get together and fight for it,” Anunsen said. State employes: They’ll be better paid Counties didn’t Among the things Oregon counties wanted from the 1971 legislature were major new non-property tax revenues and the power to initiate more ordinances. They didn’t do very well in either area. The Association of Oregon Counties esti estimates mates that major bills may bring in as much as $15 million in new revenues for the counties, but additional expenditures are quite high. Increased revenues will result primarily from four bills. SB 394 increases numerous court and filing fees that the counties charge. HB 1185 expands the use of pollution control bonds for solid waste disposal site use. HB 1384 increases certain surveyor’s fees. HB 1979 allows the counties to charge for vehicle license registra registration. tion. The big revenue measure, which would have produced $116 million a year for cities, counties and schools through a 3 per cent local income tax, failed to get off the ground. There are a number of bills on the expense side, and forest receipts have been decreased by about $200,000 a year. County officials believe HB 1770, which failed on a third reading, was extremely signif significant. icant. It was designed to allow counties to enact new ordinances on “matters of local concern.” What “matters of local concern” actually meant was not clear, but the ordinances would not have contradicted state and federal laws. “Most counties supported the measure,” said William Penhollow of the Association of Oregon Counties. “It would have gotten us out of the treadmill of running back and forth to the legislature each year. “We wanted to be allowed to meet local problems like the cities do.” Rep. Robert Elliot, chairman of the House Committee on Urban Affairs, said in the June issue of the Oregon Voter it was his commit committee’s tee’s feeling that “county governments best understand county problems and thus should have the authority to solve their problems as they arise. . .” Elliot said that passage of the bill would have greatly reduced the number of county bills necessary in future legislative sessions. Like the cities, Oregon counties are looking forward to the new revenue they’ll receive from increasing vehicle registration fees. The bill has a local option rather than mandatory requirement; it is up to each coun county ty to decide whether it wants to levy the extra fee. The five Mid-Willamette Valley counties— Marion, Polk, Yamhill, Linn and Benton—al Benton—already ready have said they will take advantage of it. The $10 additional fee is to be divided by county and city governments. The county association has estimated' that Marion could receive a total of $480,000 a year. Polk County could levy $102,000. The amount is based on the number of vehicles and popula population. tion. The measure is effective Sept. 1, so the additional registration fee may be added begin beginning ning in October. Marion County was able to balance its bud budget get for 1971-72 and make a few additions that had been recommended for rejection early in the budget preparation process, thanks to HB 1979. The county is taking advantage of the intent of the legislators, which was to free money normally used for traffic improvements and parks. Transfers were made from the county road department for park improvement and other projects. The road department budget recom recommendation mendation was reduced by $125,640. The Association of Oregon Counties is pleased about the passage of HB 1333, which restores the 6 per cent tax base growth as permitted by the state constitution. After the 1969 legislature adjourned, a draft drafting ing error was found in legislation designed to relieve county financial participation in wel welfare. fare. The errors resulted in a tax base “freeze” which affects the entire 1971-72 fiscal year. HB 1385 is of particular interest to Polk County. It revises local boundary commission law to require that annexation election costs be paid by the body to which the annexation is being made. Polk County officials have complained in the past because annexations to the City of Salem which required elections have cost the county money they couldn’t afford. 1 A recent example was the election in the College Heights area. Polk County officials delayed the setting of the election for more than a year because the outcome, they said, was inevitable. They were right. It was voted down. Marion County’s Commissioners have com complained plained about the same thing. They believed Salem should pay for annexation elections. That’s how it will be after September when the bill takes effect. Th' counties: ‘New’ tax to share New philosophy is reflected in tax relief measure For the most part, the legislature this year turned its back on the state’s tangled tax structure. One important measure was passed, howev however. er. The lawmakers approved an increase in the cigarette tax, from 4 to 9 cents per package. All the proceeds, estimated at up to $15 million a year, will go toward property tax relief. More significant, perhaps, is the new philos philosophy ophy under which property tax relief will be applied. The revenue will not provide across- the-board relief to just any individual or corpo corporation ration that pays property taxes. Instead, the relief will be applied on the basis of individual income. Theoretically, it will ease the property tax burden primarily on the elderly and those with low incomes who really are hard-pressed to pay. The legislature virtually ignored the over overriding riding question about taxes in the state — that is, what should be done to offset the growing dependence on the property tax as the primary source of revenue for local governments, in including cluding school districts. • It also chose not to explore various possibil possibilities ities for adding revenue to its own treasury — a step which many feel must be taken before the growing demands for public services can be met. The reason for the legislature’s indifference toward the basic tax structure is obvious. For a number of sessions, the lawmakers dealt feverishly with the question of tax reform. All sorts of plans were proposed and revised, hashed and rehashed. The legislature itself failed to reach any consensus about what should be done. And permeating all efforts was the feeling that, no matter what new forms of taxation were proposed, the public wouldn’t buy them. That feeling was reinforced in the wake of the 1969 legislature when voters overwhelmingly rejected a proposed 3 per cent sales tax. The feeling now seems to be that the shot shotgun gun approach will not work in regard to taxa taxation, tion, and that reforms will have to be institut instituted ed a bit at a time as money becomes availa available. ble. Evidence of this philosophy is inherent in two bills passed during this session. The legis legislature lature increased state aid to local school dis districts tricts (the basic school support fund) by a total of $25.5 million above the current bien biennium. nium. This hopefully will lessen the need for local districts to increase property taxes in order to carry on educational activities. The legislators also approved a provision under which counties may levy a $10 fee for automobile licenses. This fee will be in addi addition tion to the $10 already charged by the state. Proceeds from the fee will be divided between city and county governments for use in im improvements provements in streets and highways — includ including ing additional police protection. This again is an indirect approach to prop property erty tax relief, since the money raised from the license fee will be used on projects which might otherwise be financed by increased property taxes. One measure which would have provided substantial relief from local property taxes was ignored by the legislature. That was a proposal for a 3 per cent income tax surcharge to provide additional funds for cities, counties and schools. The formula approved for applying the di direct rect property tax relief fund — which is now a part of the state general fund — is a complex one. There is some feeling that the program will be an expensive one to administer. Basically, the new law provides that home owners whose property tax totals more than a certain percentage of their “household in income” come” are entitled to property tax relief. The amount of property tax relief obtainable is not tied to the value of the property, as it has been in the past — but to income. However, the definition of “income” used in the property tax relief law is not the same as is used for state income tax purposes. (An idea of how the law will affect those in various income categories is contained in the table below.) State Department of Revenue officials esti estimate mate that 170,000 persons in the state will be eligible for property tax relief under the new law. An estimated 60,000 of these will be per persons sons with incomes low enough that they do not have to file a state income fcx return. An explanation of the jew property tax relief law will be included in property tax statements issued by county issessors this fall. Those who feel they are (ualified for prop property erty tax relief will have two methods of apply applying ing for it. Those who own their property outright may apply directly to the assesso - for credit of the amount due them. The couity then asks for reimbursement of the amoun from the Depart Department ment of Revenue. The taxpayer has until April 1 the following year to "make up the difference. The second choice for tie taxpayer is to make full payment to the county, and then to apply directly to the Department of Revenue for the amount due him in tax relief. This provision was included primarily to accommo accommodate date persons whose tax payments are part of their monthly payments to a mortgage ac account. count. Another measure approved by the legisla legislature ture will have an effect on the state’s tax revenue outlook. The federal government re recently cently approved a more liberal tax deprecia depreciation tion allowance for businesses, which means that many firms will not be taxed as heavily on the federal level as they have been in the past. Until now, the state’s business depreciation allowance has been tied to the federal tax rate. The legislature removed that tie in order to let the state tax businesses at the same rate as it has in the past. Household Income Taxpayer’s Basic Share State Will Pay Up To Less than $1,500 3% of household income $400 Over $1,500 but not over $3,000 $45 plus 4% of excess over $1,500 $400 Over $3,000 but not over $4,500 $105 plus 5% of excess over $3,000 $300 Over $4,500 but not over $6,000 $180 plus 6% of excess over $4,500 $300 Over $6,000 but not over $8,000 $270 plus 7% of excess over $6,000 $200 Over $8,000 $410 plus 7% of excess over $8,000 $100 In the above table, the taxpayer will pay the indicated amount of his basic share, and the state will pick up the remainder up to the in indicated dicated amount. Any property tax in excess of the total of the two amounts will be the responsibility of the taxpayer. Example: If a taxpayer has a household income of $6000 and property tax of $600, his share of the property tax would be $270; the state would pay the next $300, and the taxpayer would be responsible for the excess, or an additional $30.Secy, of state/c ontest revolves around verbal assaults, Tlie most disappointing statewide race in Oregon this year is the contest for secretary of state between Republican Norma Paulus and Democrat Blaine Whipple. At best the campaign has revolved on petty, extraneous issues. Neither candidate has dwelled on ways to improve the administration of an office most observers think could stand im improvement. provement. Whipple, 46, a first term state senator from Beaverton, has returned to his usual campaign strategy—verbally assaulting his opponent. His acerbic tactics gave him a narrow victory in the May Democratic primary, but it cost the support of organized labor as he bitterly assailed his opponent State Sen. Dick Groener, D-MUwaukie, the darling of the Oregon AFL-CIO. Rep. Paulus, 43, a three-term legislator from Salem, has a much smoother political style. In fact, many observers think she is the best woman campaigner in Oregon as she blends feminine charm with political toughness. But she has failed to capture the imaginations of the electorate in her campaign, largely because she hasn’t nailed her candidacy to any one issue. TTie one issue she mentions con consistently-establishing sistently-establishing a single ballot primary in Oregon so registered In Independents dependents can vote—failed to go anywhere this year and probably is past its prime. Most polls show the race is close. Because Rep. Paulus has more funds— one estimate says she will spend $120,000 in her general election cam campaign—she paign—she will be able to mount a last- minute media blitz that could carry her to victory Nov. 2. Tlie question is whether a blitz can overcome Whipple’s better name familiarity, ihe result of appearing on the ballot numerous times and of being out front on such campaigns as George McGovern’s presidential bid. Paulus aides concede that is their major hurdle, especially on the coast where polls show the GOP candidate trailing. But despite his name familiarity, Whipple’s biggest problem will be the large number of Democrats who simply can’t stand him, and probably never would vote for him. It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly why people don’t like Whipple. But the kind of thing that turns them off was Whipple’s introduction of presidential candidate Frank Church in the May primary. It was overly cutesy, it cut down all the other Democratic can candidates didates and it nearly was longer than Church’s main address. Another thing that has galled some Democrats—and appalled others—is Whipple’s brash statement he may run for governor if elected secretary of state. Whipple says Rep. Paulus, who generally downplayed her ambitions in the next four years, isn’t coming clean with the electorate. He says he is being more candid when he admits he would seek the governor’s chair if the situation was right. In truth, many Republicans feel Rep. Paulus is the Oregon GOP’s hope of the future to recapture the governorship. But her campaign so far hasn’t given them cause for rejoicing. TTie main issues she raises—aside from the so-called open primary—are largely negative. She lashes at Democrats, including Whipple, who voted to add on to the Capitol. She calls it “misplaced priorities.’’ Rep. Paulus also rips Ballot Measure 7, an outgrowth of a bill introduced by Whipple, that would provide partial public financing of general election campaigns. Whipple says while Rep. Paulus was railing about the Capitol construction project, she was pressing for more money for the state fairgrounds. And, he rejects Rep. Paulus’ charges that Ballot Measure 7 would result in runaway public expenditures on political campaigns and wouldn’t achieve its goal of creating more access to the political system for candidates without large reservoirs of cash. Whipple’s zingers are aimed at Rep. Paulus’ ties with Tom McCall and Clay Myers, the outgoing secretary of state, and with her large campaign con contributions tributions from big timber companies. Claiming she has been chauffeured in a timber company’s Lear jet, Whipple says Rep. Paulus earned big timber’s support because of her opposition to timber taxation changes last legislative session. Rep. Paulus denies any favors from timber companies, saying, “I voted against the timber tax bill a long time before I knew I was going to run for secretary of state.” Another issue Whipple usually trots 1 out is the fact his opponent is a woman. He cunningly sidesteps the charge of being a male chauvinist by taking the tack that Rep. Paulus has the ad- j vantage because “she is a woman.” "I’m a tough campaigner, but I at- n tack her too hard,” Whipple said. "I i come off looking like a bully. She definitely has the advantage.” . On substantive issues, the candidates * don’t differ drastically. Both favor the : secretary of state improving its financial auditing and moving into 5 performance auditing of state agencies, j Rep. Paulus says performance auditing could be done by the existing ' staff. Whipple disagrees. He says he would go to the legislature and seek funds to enlarge the staff. If he didn’t get them, he would drop the idea. Both candidates appear to support generally state land-use efforts and . oppose a ballot measure to do away I with the Oregon Land Conservation and , Development Commission. Whipple has accused Rep. Paulus of sneakily urging the repeal of LCDC and , placing state land-use decisions under the three-member Land Board, of which the secretary of state is part. He says that would be disastrous and result in even more delegation of authority than now because statewide officials, especially the governor, already have too much to do. Rep. Paulus calls his charge a "distortion.” Noting the original version of SB 100 few issues called for land-use planning to fall under the Land Board, she says, ‘‘I merely have been trying to float ideas aimed at meeting concerns of people who think appointed state boards and commissions are faceless.” Neither candidate has said a great deal about the secretary of state’s Land Board duties. Whipple declined com comment ment on the state’s leasing program for submerged and submersible state lands, claiming he wasn’t conversive on the issue. Rep. Paulus hasn’t really commented on the issue either. Each candidate has generated a few proposals for the job of secretary of state if elected. Whipple wants to provide a mechanism for publicizing in advance new rules being adopted by state agencies and commissions. He also proposes, through the auditing process, to keep a close eye on timber sales from state forests to en ensure sure there is competitive bidding Rep. Paulus seems to have fewer specific proposals. She says she has assigned someone to monitor election functions of the secretary of state’s office so, if elected, she would be able to “devote all my time to the auditing division.” Getting to know her... NORMA PAULUS, the second woman ever to be elected from Marion County to the Oregon House of Repre Representatives, sentatives, first in 1970 . . . again in ‘72 ... and again in ‘74 has been effective in helping keep Oregon liveable. She has fought for the conservation of our natural resources. One of the first to recognize the importance of solar energy, she has influenced others to study the sun as an alternative to fossil fuels. She has worked diligently to make the legislature an equal partner with the executive and judicial branches of state government. NORMA PAULUS has brought about changes in attitudes and concepts of human rights in Oregon in a dignified, quiet, yet forceful manner. She studies the issues, researches the facts and makes careful, considered decisions. Sensitive and concerned about people, she always has time to listen. Her intelligence, quick wit and sense of humor make her a good friend and a formidable opponent NORMA PAULUS was one of a large family who moved from Nebraska’s dust-bowl to Burns in the height of the 1930’s depression. Though a high school honor stu student, dent, family finances made college an impossibility. She became secretary to the Harney County District Attorney, later to a Salem law firm, and in 1955 to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court NORMA PAULUS was accepted as a part-time law student at Willamette University after petitioning to waive cus customary tomary college requirements. Full-time employment and part-time education continued until 1961 when she became a full-time student. Judged first in Moot Court Competition and an honor student, she was graduated and admitted to the Oregon State Bar in 1962. She has since been a self-employed appellate lawyer. NORMA PAULUS has been active in numerous civic and political campaigns for individuals and local issues. She was on the Salem Human Relations Commission, Marion-Polk Boundary Commission and the sub subcommittee committee to INTERACT - Human Resources Center. NORMA PAULUS married Salem attorney Bill Paulus in 1958. They live in Salem with their two children, Elizabeth, 14, and Fritz, 12. As a family, they partici participate pate in many community events and whenever possible enjoy sports activities in Oregon’s mountain and coastal areas.Whipple, Paulus tough it out By STEVE FORRESTER Tuesday after Labor Day: After a foggy morning, it’s finally turned into a sunny late summer afternoon. Norma Paulus is resting on a makeshift couch in the back of her white campaign van as it travels down the Willamette Valley. She has been up since before 6 am, when she and her driver left her home in Salem for Portland, to be at Hyster Corporation’s plant on NE Clackamas Street to greet workers at a workshift change at 7:30 am. “Hi. My name is Norma Paulus. I’m a candidate for secretary of state.” Paulus is a Republican, running against Democrat Blaine Whipple. Downtown for a one-hour newspaper interview. Then to Cascade Corp., for a walk-through of the entire plant to meet workers, and on to a noon speech before a group of assembled Kiwanis Club presidents at a restaurant in Montavilla. The interior of the campaign van is decorated with political bumper stickers representing a few years of Oregon elections. The outside sports a large “Norma Paulus for secretary of state” emblem. Getting up from the couch, Paulus says, “Packwood won on the theory that if you could win Eastern and Southern Oregon and hold your own in the [Willamette] Valley, you could win the state.” The van leaves the freeway, passes through Salem and heads for Dallas. In Dallas, Paulus meets a Polk County Republican party official. They were to greet a shift change at a Willamette Industries plant, but the Kiwanis luncheon kept them too long in Portland. So they will walk through the Polk County Courthouse, a marvelous old ivy-covered stone structure with a chiming clock tower and a picture of President James K. Polk in the main reception room. Paulus will end her campaign day with a dinner speech to the Professional Mortgage Women of Marion County in Salem. Blaine Whipple was up before 5 am Tuesday. By 5:30 he was on the road to Grants Pass, logger country. En route he stopped in Sutherlin to visit with everyone he could find on its main street and the publisher of the town’s newspaper. He arrived in Grants Pass at 11 am and spent the day doing radio and newspaper inter interviews, views, a Kiwanis meeting, two shift changes at plants and a public coffee. By 7 am on Wednesday he was addressing the Medford Chamber of Commerce. The downstate swing is critical to Please turn to page 6 PAULUS AT HYSTER Can she raise the money! • LIt will be Whipple vs. Paulus By The Associated Press Blaine Whipple, longtime Democratic party worker and real estate developer who bills himself as a consumer advocate, won a tight five-person race for his party’s nomination for secretary of state in Tuesday’s primary election. With 99.2 per cent of the returns counted, Whipple had 23.54 per cent of the vote. State Sen. Richard Groener of Milwaukie had 22.1 per cent. Caroline Wilkins had 19.8 per cent and State Rep. A1 Densmore 19.7 per cent. Whipple finally began talking like a winner at 6:30 a.m. today, saying, “I feel safe. It looks like I’ve won it.” His opponent in the November General Election will be State Rep. Norma Paulus, 43, who defeated John Kelting in the Republican race. In other statewide partisan races, Republican Clay Myers won a lopsided victory for the state treasurer nomination. He’ll take on Multnomah County Auditor Jewel Lansing in November. State Treasurer Jim Redden won a surprisingly easy victory over Don Willner in the Democratic race for attorney general. Redden’s Republican opponent will be Assistant Atty. Gen. James Durham. Whipple, 46, a Democratic national committeeman and a two-time un unsuccessful successful candidate for Congress, trailed the 59-year-old Groener much of the evening, but surged ahead in the later returns. Groener trailed Whipple by about 3,000 votes. Mrs. Wilkins, 39, vice chairperson of the Democratic National Committee, and Densmore, 29, a three-term legislator from Medford, were both some 12,000 votes behind the leader. Portland businessman Phil McAlmond got 14.6 per cent 15 per cent. Kelting, ?2, a Tigaj-d.fclujiding contractor, ran-a surprisingly strong rape,against Rep. Paulus in the Republican secretary of state race. He got 44 per cent of the vote despite a low-profile campaign. Myers, who will be 49 Thursday, re recorded corded the most one-sided triumph. He got 73.9 per cent of the vote. Irvin Mann, 57, former director of the state agriculture department and the candidate endorsed by most of the state’s newspapers, got just 17.5 per cent. Lake Oswego businessman John Smets received 8.6 per cent of the votes. Mrs. Lansing received 44.6 per cent of the Democratic vote for state treasurer. HERBERT SCHWAB BILL RICHARDSON NORMA PAULUS BLAINE WHIPPLE ’ 1 I 1 I I I t and Durham vs. Redden Multnomah County Commissioner Mel Gordon got 36 per cent while Marvin Hollingsworth, 39, a Portland lawyer, got 19.4 per cent. , Mt Redden, 47, gqt 67.2. per,,centnf the vote , for .attorney’ general. 'Don Willner,' 49’, a' 1 former state legislator who spent $20,000 on his campaign, got just 38.8 per cent. Durham, 38. got 46.2 per cent of the vote compared with 21 per cent for Lyndon “Tuck” Wilson, 37, and 17.5 per cent for State Rep. Stan Bunn, 29, of Dayton. William Jolley, 57, Willamina, received 15 1 per cent. Circuit Judge Berkeley Lent of Mult Multnomah nomah County received 63 per cent of the vote in defeating District Judge Shirley Field of Multnomah County for the Oregon Supreme Court post to succeed retiring Chief Justice Kenneth J. O’Connell. Chief Judge Herbert Schwab, 60, was retained in position 3, getting 65 per cent of the vote against Portland lawyer R W Kitson. .. District Judge William Lloyd Richard Richardson. son. 44, of Multnomah County. oUsted Judge William Fort, 65, for position 3, taking 54 per cent. Atty. Gen. Lee Johnson, 45, took 54 per cent to defeat Robert Lucas of St. Helens, with 26 per cent, Henry Kane of Beaverton’ 12 per cent, and Steve Chez of Eugene 9 per cent. Johnson will be on the court with the man he beat in the 1968 attorney general’s race — Judge Robert Thornton, who was unopposed. Jacob Tanzer, who was unopposed, will serve with Jason Lee, who beat Tanzer for the appeals court in 1974 and was not up for re-election.OREGON BUSINESS WOMAN VOLUME LXVIII OCTOBER, 1976 No. 2 OREGON FEDERATION ENDORSES SECRETARY OF STATE STATE TREASURER For the first time in history, the State of Oregon has women running as nominees of the major parties for two top fobs at the capital By vote of our federation at last convention we are endorsing Norma Paulus, who won the Republican primary nom nomination ination for secretary of state. As result of recent mail ballot of the clubs, we are also endorsing Jewel Lansing, who won the Democratic nomination for state treasurer. Norma is an attorney and has served six years in the Oregon legislature; she is a member of Salem BPW. Jewel is a certified public accountant and elected Auditor of Multnomah County; she is a member of the Portland BPW Club. Both are highly qualified for the positions they seek and have earned the respect of all who know the work they have done in public service for good government in Oregon. All Oregon BPW members join in recommending Norma and Jewel to the voters of our state. NORMA PAULUS JEWEL LANSING S UJ Ppp oft £ A e P <j 0 . Oft 7 £ 4 e 7 ip •*o, > '°*r Qd s t> ■y s p d '*«/> 7 *4. ip ^Pd <Te 'ip. it Of . < I ■^7 7.! It just wasn’t Norma’s day That woman jogging through Hillsboro Monday clutching a pi pioneer oneer dress in one hand and a purse in the other was State Rep. Norma Paulus, R-Saiem. Rep. Paulus, a candidate for secretary of state, was due to ride in the Happy Days Parade dressed as a pioneer, and she was late. She was driving from Neskow- in when smoke started coming from the motor of her station wagon. She abandoned the vehicle and hitched a ride to the outskirts of Hillsboro, where she encountered a traffic jam. She jumped out and asked a policeman where the parade was to start. She ran and walked 12 blocks. Her float was to begin moving in three minutes. She needed a place to put on her Bicentennial dress. She ran into a trailer and found three men drinking beer. They let her change in the rest restroom. room. “1 felt like sitting on the curb and crying," she said. She got on the float in time. The float, sponsored by Tom Van Dyke, Forest Grove, won first prize in its division. Rep. Paulus also had some bad luck with the family’s other car a few weeks ago. She was an announcer at a Salem soap box derby. Someone handed her a note, saying a parked car had been hit by another car. She announced: “Will the owner of the Car with the license number . . . oh my gosh, that’s my car." (AP) Norma Paulus Committee, 1645 Liberty S.E., P. O. Box 426, Salem, Oregon 97308 1/2/76 for Secretary of State Norma Paulus Committee, 1645 Liberty S.E., P. O. Box 426, Salem. Oregon 97308 4/5/76GOP opens wallet to aid Mrs. Paulus By MELINDA S. EDEN Associated Press Reporter CD "O c o u. O "C > % ! 1 * The Republican Party has pumped more money into Norma Paulus’ cam campaign paign than her Democratic opponent for secretary of state, Blaine Whipple, has spent for the entire race. In reports filed Tuesday night with the secretary of state’s office. Rep. Paulus, R-Salem, said her organi organization zation had spent $117,387, compared with $32,638 by Whipple. The Oregon State Re Republican publican Central Commit Committee tee has contributed $33,941 to get Rep. Paulus elected in the most expensive of the statewide races for office this fall. Campaign spending re reports, ports, which cover the pe period riod from Oct. 4 to Oct. 21, also indicated that Repub Republican lican Jim Durham has gone into debt in an effort to win the attorney gener general’s al’s office ov6r Democrat Jim Redden. And Clay Myers, GOP candidate for state trea treasurer, surer, reported a $6,000 campaign deficit while continuing to outdraw and outspend Democrat Jewel Lansing, who has a $531 surplus. In the last three weeks Rep. Paulus forked out $52,841 and collected $53,- 931 in contributions. She has a deficit of $26,875 and estimates she will spend another $21,000 before the Nov. 2 election. Whipple, a state senator from Beaverton, reported spending $20,394 from Oct. 4-21 and taking in $13,426 in contributions for a total of $27,695. Rep. Paulus said she had received $29,506 in contributions of less than $100. Whipple said his total of small contributions was $18,669. In the attorney gener general’s al’s race, Durham collect collected ed three times as much in contributions as Redden during the second report reporting ing period — $21,504 to $6,485 for Redden. But Durham also spent $19,993 during the period for a total of $46,161 in the race, compared with $6,485 and $42,445 for Redden. Durham has received $15,215 from the GOP and $5,134 in small gifts. Red Redden den drew $2,000 from pub public lic employes’ groups and $3,334 in amounts less than $100. Redden estimated he would spend another $11,- 000 before next Tuesday. Durham’s estimate of spending was $10,000. In the Lansing-Myers contest for state treasurer both candidates said they planned to spend another $5,000 before the election. Myers has outspent Mrs. Lansing $54,044 to $31,792 for the entire campaign and $24,414 to $14,656 in the last three weeks.Candidate Paulus Seeks Votes, Can a “responsible en environmentalist" vironmentalist" and an “ardent feminist" find hap happiness piness (and votes) in Wal Wallowa lowa County? Norma Paulus evidently thought so when she brought her campaign for secretary of state to the county last Saturday. The blonde, 43-year-old iawyer from Salem first appeared in Joseph for some hand handpumping pumping during the morn morning ing shift-change at the Boise Cascade mill. She then spent more than an hour at Wallowa Lake's Alpenfest before returning to Enterprise, where she was interviewed by KWVR and the Chieftain. Paulus, who easily won the Republican nomination for secretary of state in last May’s primary election but who was clobbered by a two-to-one margin in Wallowa County, conceded that her image as an environmentalist didn’t help her local showing. “I’m very pro-environ pro-environment,” ment,” she said, citing her efforts on behalf of the Oregon bottle bill, alterna alternative tive energy sources and other issues. (She also opposed the use of DDT on the Tussock Moth epidemic a few years ago.) “But I think I've been a very responsible environ environmentalist, mentalist, and that’s why the timber industry is so supportive of me,” she said. One of the reasons for that support, she said, was her vote against a new method of timber taxation that she feared would have cost jobs in the industry. On the issue of wilder wilderness ness areas, Paulus did not sound exactly like a typical environmentalist, claiming that selves in" by locking up so much land. “There's a big crunch coming in the conflict of use in the wilderness areas. Most people think it’s coming from the timber industry. It isn't. It's coming from every Oregonian that’s a recreationist.” Four-wheel drivers, snowmobilers, skiers and other recrea recreationists tionists are going to end up “butting heads on the Cascades" if wilderness acreage keeps increasing, Paulus warned. She acknowledged that the balance of political power is swinging away from the commodity inter interests ests and in the direction of the environmentalists, and maintained that an equilib equilibrium rium is needed. In addition to enviorn- mental issues, Paulus thinks that she may have been spurned by the voters of Wallowa County be because cause she was a woman running against a man. “If there is a block of people who would be reluctant to vote for a woman for high office it’s in the conser conservative vative Republican ele element,” ment,” she said. But even though she is an "ardent feminist,” she said she is running as a qualified person and not as a woman. “It’s about time that people elect people on the basis of their qualifica qualifications, tions, understanding and articulation of the issues rather than sex and name familiarity,” she said. Now that the primary is behind her, Paulus is running hard against Bea Beaverton verton Blaine Whipple. Two of the issues Paulus is discussing most in her . _ open pri maries and the rapidly expanding bureaucracy. As secretary of state, who is the chief enforcer of the state’s election laws, Paulus said she would advocate open primaries, mainly to draw independ independent ent voters into the two- party system. “There are now about 150,000 inde independent pendent voters in the state,” she said, “and most of them are young people who can’t identify with either party. I think we should get them into the system to the fullest ex extent tent possible.” But unlike many others, Paulus thinks an open primary would strengthen rather than weaken the two major parties. “It would make them shape up their acts to woo those 150,000 people back into the fold.” The candidate is also advocating a “sunset” law modeled after the famous Colorado legislation that sets a time limit on the lives of all new govern mental agencies and pro programs. grams. Paulus ties that kind of legislation to the secretary’s auditing re responsibilities, sponsibilities, and said “it is the only way to get a handle on state agencies.” Those agencies, she said, “are just starting to grow Hip Topsy and we don't have any real accounting from them. The situation is really in miserable shape.” Paulus had these things to say about other issues that concern Wallowa County residents: Gun Control “I'm against it, 100 per percent.” cent.” She said that before moving to Salem she used to carry a six-gun all the time, “because you never knew when there was going to be something you’d want to shoot at.” The only way any kind of gun control could be imple implemented mented anyway, she said, would be at the federal level, and the administra administrative tive costs would be “enor “enormous” mous” and it would mean setting up a whole new bureaucracy. On Issues Speaks Out ja. rr *< - 3 . <‘ a —j i s * s " S 3 ^ 63 _ S' I | 3 0 3 2. 5 3 0 3 !• 2 5- 5' & O 'is jg% . 3 ° c» oo o ° cr <3 rr> pr 5 3 v: < 2. O 8 _ 8 5- 5- S M'||I§ I S O I D ||SS = a-' 2 cl o r> 3 3 C CJ Z S' »2 a 2 p s s. e. s | S<S£ S g| =r 5" ' o 63 S 3 q cl cl ^ 3 o ~ =r — n jS o r-» q 05 o =r = <« —• o OQ = 3 BJ O ~ 2. X - - re = 2. o £ 033 3 S 52 S? 2 « i- “ ©• o (t w „ _ o ~ 5 ss: Ills* 8||g CL 03 o ^ nj "O ~ =r =r &3 —■ T, 2 2 3 |55.» 3 < „ 3 m w ; I 3 I g _ o o> c n o =3 ^ 3 eg ^ 3 63 ~ cr fM r? ° “ g ? Z 3 g S a> *< -i rp cl n > S =^ 3 • - a> 3 o. a 5 s s I cr ■6' o' 2 5 = v> " 3 3- ^ 03 O 3 o: 5 “ 3 O ~ M » “ w =-^ 1/1 2, O “ 3- O < 73 <* —, ~ CD 73 ■< r* 3T g 2 „ o » oSSn ~1 -, - CD ; —- fD * r> 63 S’ 2 S’?" “ =T 5 ? »■ p- s. _ H 15 ^” B) ft S' ° g-H. S5 tn re ^ 2 3; B3 h qSaS n n < £ ~ ~ S 63 C/f O 06 2 o 3' £ < 3 o rp o 3 q q: ^ o np C NORMA PAULUS “I’ll do a four-year term” BLAINE WHIPPLE I won’t pledge four years” 3 65 50 s ; ? T3 C ? ST “ o 3 CL T3 3- C cr 03 n X 03 O •o E. 8 & -■ 3- o & CL CD = O ° -■ q 3 g s'S o - “ = c_ o ^ CO = W ^ f 3°5'«: *< ^ 3 f "Ig! O 3 ? f n i£ L S » 3 £ 2 :? OJSL : ° q 2. s= - 3 m h cl 3 do *< a 2 _ o vi ro ' aT V3 00 03 U „ » « w m ■ O Cl = -O 3 g-':i Sg 1 Si- a3 Tz I s. O O CD 3 CD 3 CQ to ~o Q c CO < c (t 2.-0 51 cra-o ~ ° <3 • 3 = - 3 - • 2. E" 3 g o c « 5 SPOTLIGHT ON POLITICS Whipple Tactics Make Few Friends State Sen. Dick Groener, D-Milwaukie and an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomi nomination nation for secretary of state, is angry with Sen. Blaine Whipple, D-Beaverton and winner of the nomination. Groener said Whipple “ran a dirty campaign against me” in the primary, and he isn’t letting Whipple forget it. When Groener hosted a party to clean up some of his $40,000 deficit, he didn’t invite Whipple. He did invite_Norni2L. Republican nominee for secretary of state and Whipple’s opponent in the Nq,v. 2 election. She came. ,ocom And apparently she enjoyed herself. “1 know he is bruised,’’ said Whipple. “I wrote him a letter complimenting him on his campaign. I wrote him asking for his support. "I know it’s hard to lose a close race. I have been involved in a couple of close ones myself,' Whipple added. Groener said Whipple distributed a packet of newspaper articles about Groener and Great Western Mortgage Co., which invested union trust funds in real estate mortgages before it was forced into trusteeship. Groener said Whipple tried to tie him in with Great Western, but Groener said that when he worked for the company he sold only stock in a bank proposed for the Labor Center and some to do with their mortgages,” Groener said. He plans to “sit out” the general election cam campaign. paign. Groener, who has been president of the Senate Labor Committee, said he thinks organized labor “would be out of their minds” supporting Whipple. “He went to Eastern Oregon and told them I was backed by the Portland labor gang. He solic solicits its money from non-union contractors and then he turns around and writes the unions asking them for their support,” Groener said. Groener is the second person defeated by Whip Whipple ple who complains about Whipple's campaigning. Two years ago Whipple defeated state Sen. Tom Hartung, R-Beaverton, by 300 votes. Har- tung credits Whipple’s victory to a last minute mailing, a yellow card that urged, “stop the $10 million interest rip-off.” The card said Washington County homeowners could have saved $10 million if the Legislature had passed Senate Bill 72, which would have required mortgage lenders such as banks and savings and loan institutions to pay interest on accumulated funds. Hartung twice; voted against the bill. The card pointed out that Hartung is on the board of directors of Far West Federal Savings & Loan. . Whipple, of course, carried through on the issue after he was elected and sponsored SB 269, which passed in 1975 and allowed families to earn inter interest est on their property tax reserves. Doug Yocom £ ^ 2. v) o 1 3 -O o < rt> o : 3 << (y, Cl 3 3 CL • _ 3" fcj fD ■O ~ E 8 o‘ 5 •§. SL 8 I CD = P 63 ! S- 3 g 3- £i “I CL (TO "O 0 3 2 7“ v> • V) ? 3 Si ■a 5 2.1 c ao << , 3 3 3. 63 3Cro . _, o ° r? Sr ~ v a, = ' aS l 2 »=3=3 £52? 3 n — zr > i »?2 SgJ =3 ?23?g< : v> cr —■ 5 c/3 i * » “ =' 3 ( z» s® ! o 2 — 2 — o o O' 3- S’ o 3 Cf-O v, So =3 ~r 3 T’ CD 0 1 "6* CD (S' C CL _3 3 eQ 0^ 3 s © z Owning a van for a different reason is Rep. Norma Paulus. As a candidate for secretary of state, Rep. Paulus uses the van as a traveling office and billboard. Volunteers built and installed the inside shelves, closet, couch, and car carpet. pet. Pillows and curtains, and the black and white awning also were stitched by volunteers. So, political candidates seeking office or just someone on a decorating binge, the possibilities for van interiors are endless and only limited by the imagi imagination. nation. ‘vantastic ‘Let’s j£ FW> play house. You be the husband that goes to the office and I’ll be the wife that goes into politics.” foldoutocrFile17a foldoutFile17a BLAINE WHIPPLE I won’t pledge four years NORMA PAULUS I’ll do a four-year term Owning a van for a different reason is Rep. Norma Paulus. As a candidate for secretary of state, Rep. Paulus uses the van as a traveling office and billboard. Volunteers built and installed the inside shelves, closet, couch, and car carpet. pet. Pillows and curtains, and the black and white awning also were stitched by volunteers. So, political candidates seeking office or just someone on a decorating binge, the possibilities for van interiors are endless and only limited by the imagi imagination. nation. von fast ic Let’s play house. You be the husband that goes to the office and I'll be the wife that goes into politics.” OC 3 3 O mm • C/5 3 CTO O cr -o CO o 3 •BLAIME WHIPPLE,. . „ As of this point in time, we've spent 520",000,00 in our campaign and she has spent v 85,000,00 in the campaign. And 530,000.00 of those dollars has come from one source. And I think the people of Oregon have to be very concerned about one source contributing a $30,000.00 contribution to a campaign. That source, of course, being the Republican Party. Wow the Secretary of State <bs the watchdog for the people of Oregon, by that, he watches, makes certain that things are conducted in a -Lair, impartial manner. In terms of auditing, he makes sure that there is competent fair auditing. And I think accepting a $30,000.00 contribution raises questions in the average minds of the Oregonian too. If pressures are brought, if she were to be elected by the republican Party, will she be able to withstand that? $30,000.00 is an i-iwfully large single contribution, I've checked the records and so far as I've been able to determine, never before in Ofegon political history has a candidate received a contribution as large as $30,000.00. WHAT ELSE IS NEW? State Sen. Dick Groener, groaning under a more than $30,000 campaign defi deficit cit after his unsuccessful bid for secretary of state in the Demo pri primary, mary, will charge for his annual back yard barbecue for the first time Aug. 13, proceeds to help get him out of the hole. “It’s a bigger party than the Oregon State Fair," says Groener, “and I’m only charg charging ing $12.50, hope to raise $12,000." Groener says he’s invited every Or Oregon egon legislator save one. That would be State Sen. Blaine Whip Whipple, ple, his primary opponent, still un unforgiven forgiven for what Groener says was a dirty campaign. Paulus, Whipple clash over donations By Frank Wetzel Of The Associated Press PORTLAND — Blaine Whipple and Norma Paulus, the Democratic and Republican candidates for secretary of state, clashed Friday over her campaign donations. In a debate before the Portland City Club, Mrs. Paulus defended her campaign expenditures to date of $84,500. With the exception of $30,000 from the Republican party, Mrs. Paulus said, most of her contributions came from many individuals and none was for more than $500. “There’s nothing mysterious about my campaign spending report,” she told Whipple, a Democrat. “If you wanted to see it, why didn’t you ask? I was delighted to get the $30,000 from the Republicans because I need it to overcome the name familiarity you have gained by running so many times.” Whipple said he had in fact tried to see her books, that his treasurer had made the request of her treasurer, but didn't get a response. Later in the debate, Mrs. Paulus said she doubted that any such attempt was made. Whipple also attacked Mrs. Paulus for her statement in the Voters’ Pamphlet that Ballot Measure 7, which would partially finance political campaigns of candidates for state office, would permit unrestricted use of citizens’ tax dollars. “Do you stand by that, by what I deem to be a gross mis misstatement?” statement?” Whipple demanded. “Yes,” replied Mrs. Paulus. “I don’t see the need...If public tax funds are to be spent, they should be spent for public forums. They also should be used in the primary election.” “But is it the use unrestricted?” Whipple persisted. “Yes, it is as to use,” she replied. “I just don’t think we should use public funds to overcome name familiarity.” They were asked if they supported Ballot Measure 9. which would impose strict safety restrictions on construction of future nuclear plants. Mrs. Paulus said she hadn’t decided how to vote. She said she was delighted the question was on the ballot, and outlined what she felt were the salient points of each side. Whipple said, “We’re only 16 days from the election. Unlike Norma, I know how I’m going to vote — but I made a decision that I’m not sharing that with the people of Oregon.” His answer was greeted by derisive laughter and groans. Paulus says no mystery to late gifts There’s no mystery about the $40,000 in late campaign contributions which Sen. Norma Paulus has received, the Republican candidate for secretary of state said Friday. State Sen. Blaine Whipple,'her Dem Democratic ocratic opponent, challenged Mrs. Paulus in a Thursday address in Eu Eugene gene to disclose the sources of what he described as “mystery money” she has received to meet a large campaign defi deficit. cit. In campaign financial statements filed earlier in the week, Mrs. Paulus reported spending $84,567 in her cam campaign paign so far, the largest of any candi candidate date in the state. She reported contribu contributions tions of only $37,632, leaving a deficit of some $47,000. Whipple noted in a Thursday appear appearance ance before the Demo Forum in Eugene that Mrs. Paulus had reported receiv receiving ing some $40,000 in additional contribu contributions tions since that report was made. But Whipple, noting that the spend spending ing reported by Mrs. Paulus is four times the expenses he has reported, said he had called on Mrs. ‘Paulus to disclose the source of the $40,000 wind windfall. fall. “If they were small contributions, Whipple declared, “she would have dis displayed played them.” Whipple also contended the Paulus campaign is being financed by “fat cats” in the lumber industry. Told of Whipple’s statements Fri Friday, day, Mrs. Paulus said $30,000 of the some $40,000 that has been contributed since she made her financing report came from a Republican party fund supporting statewide candidates. Of the some $10,000 in other contri contributions, butions, no single one is more than $500, she said. “Mr. Whipple has a right by law to inspect my records, which he has not done,” she added.Paulus awaits ri Republican secretary of state candidate Norma Paulus behaved like a perfect lady Friday. Scheduled to debate with her Democratic oppo opponent, nent, Blaine Whipple, before the City Club, Mrs. Pau Paulus lus was told to begin her presentation even though Whipple had not yet arrived at the Benson Hotel for the debate. He was delayed at Portland State Universi University, ty, where California’s Democratic Gov. Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown was speaking. ‘‘Anything I have to say," Mrs. Paulus told the City Club crisply, ‘‘I would prefer to say in Mr. Whip Whipple’s ple’s presence.” She resumed her seat at the head table until Whip Whipple ple appeared 10 minutes later. In the subsequent presentation — with each candi candidate date receiving 10 minutes for general comment fol followed lowed by five-minute rebuttals — Whipple, a state senator from Beaverton, and Mrs. Paulus, a state representative from Salem — were less than diffident with one another. Whipple apparently went for laughs, and Mrs. Paulus was direct. Saying she had entered politics “because I like it and I’m good at it,” Mrs. Paulus, 43, icily asked Whip Whipple ple why he hadn’t asked to see her financial records "rather than charging over the radio in paid advertise advertisements” ments” that she was the recipient of “mysterious and unreported funds.” Whipple made these charges, she said, without the courtesy of telephoning her financial manager. “You know,” she told Whipple, "that state law requires a report on campaign contributions — and that report will be forthcoming.” Whipple countered that he had, indeed, called Mrs. Paulus’ financial manager — but the call hadn’t been returned. “I didn’t ask a second time," Whipple said, “be “because cause there had been no response to the first request.” Mrs. Paulus said there was no secret about her campaign funds. “I received $30,000 of it from the Republican Party,” she said, “to fight the name familiarity you’ve gained by running for office so many times.” A second round of financial reports on the status of all Oregon’s political candidates is due Oct. 26, Mrs. Paulus noted, and at that time “my mysterious funds will no longer be a mystery.” Mrs. Paulus said Whipple had charged that “tim “timber ber interests” had placed a Lear Jet at her disposal. Not so, Mrs. Paulus said, although “I have ridden in the jet." Use of the plane, she said, was listed in her financial report as an “in kind” contribution, "which is perfectly legal." "I was scheduled to appear in a parade in Madras,” Mrs. Paulus said, “and, while I was in Tillamook, I was told that Madras was socked in. “But,” she said, “I was determined to get there — and get there, I did. In the Lear jet.” Also, Mrs. Paulus said, she had clocked 25,000 miles in a leased van and had hitch-hiked twice to speaking engagements. Whipple, 46, said he thought it peculiar that Mrs. Paulus should be opposed to the Land Conservation and Development Commission. “She’s trying to knife it (LCDC) in the back,” he CANDIDATES DEBATE — Republican secretary of state candidate Rep. Norma Paulus, Salem, keeps stiff upper lip while Democratic opponent, said, “while ostensibly supporting land- use planning. Mrs. Paulus, Whipple said, wants land-use plan planning ning to be placed under the secretary of state’s office. “Land-use planning is too complex,” he said, “to be given part-time supervision.” Asked by a City Club member if any inference could be drawn from the reports that most of his financial support in the campaign had come from real estate interests, Whipple said it would be suspect if he did not have such support. "I’m an investment counselor,” he said, “and I sometimes build. Contributions to my campaign from realtors is a testimonial. It would be strange if I didn’t receive some support from these people. It would show a lack of confidence in how I make my living.” Another club member asked the candidates to state Sen. Blaine Whipple, Beaverton, addresses City Club Friday. In center, William Webber, club presi president, dent, maintains neutral stance. their positions on Ballot Measure 9, which provides for nuclear power plant safeguards. Mrs. Paulus said it was a “sticky wicket." “But I’m delighted it’s on the ballot,” she said. “I’m skittish about nuclear power, because we have no plans for storage of nuclear waste. “It may be,” she said, “that in 10 years we’ll find that nuclear power plants cost too much for their energy return.” On the same question, Whipple said, “First, I signed the petition to put the measure on the ballot. “I’ve made up my mind how I’m going to vote,” he said, "but I’m not going to share my vote with the people of Oregon. “It’s something,” Whipple said, “that you will have to decide for yourselves.” val Whipple before opening fire But Paulus encountered one It wasn’t planned as debate An appearance before University of Oregon law students by Norma Paulus, Republican candidate for secretary of state, turned into a virtual debate Thursday when she was confronted by supporters of Democratic opponent Blaine Whipple. The supporters challenged Mrs. Paulus with accusations about her cam campaign paign spending and her stands on state ballot measures, an answer for each challenge. One of the Whipple supporters, Scott Barlett, a university senior, noted that Mrs. Paulus has outspent Whipple 4 to 1 and suggested that’s why she’s opposed to a campaign financing measure that will be on the ballot. Mrs. Paulus said her campaign is financed by many small contributors who make an average contribution of $50 and she said she opposes the financ financing ing measure because it’s based on a “half-baked bill” supported by Whip Whipple. ple. She reiterated her contention that candidate spending under the measure is “unrestricted,” a claim Whipple has asked her to retract. She said she also opposes the measure because it should apply to primary as well as to general elections. Besides, Mrs. Paulus contended, successful campaigns in Oregon are based on “shoe leather and time,” a stategy she said Oregon Democrats have used successfully in gaining con control trol of the legislature. “That’s what Oregon politics is all about,” Mrs. Paulus said. Challenged to take a stand on the nuclear safeguards ballot measure, Mrs. Paulus said she’s still making up v>pf mind. She said she’s concerned that the measure would create unemploy unemployment ment and that because it requires two- thirds approval by the legislature, it amounts to a ban on nuclear develop development. ment. But, she added, “If you can get Mr Whipple to come out and make a stand, maybe I will.” Responding to Whipple’s criticism of her vote against funding for the Wayne Morse ranch, repeated Thursday by his supporters, Mrs. Paulus said she did so because it was part of a highway appro appropriations priations bill that included tourist advertising, which she opposes. Mrs. Paulus said she didn’t support Oregon’s property tax relief program in the legislature because she was sup supporting porting Gov. Tom McCall’s tax reform package, which was being considered at the same time. Before the debate during a question period, Mrs. Paulus emphasized her concern that the executive branch is more powerful than the legislature in Oregon. She described the situation as “dangerous.” One of the reasons, she said, is that too much legislation contains “weasel words” which give more and more pow power er to state agencies. Such powerful agencies are one of the reasons for the current initiative measure to abolish the state Land Con Conservation servation and Development Commis Commission, sion, she said. She said she has learned that most people aren’t opposed to land-pse plan planning ning but are “just sick to death about having these agencies running ttyeir lives.”c REGISTER-GUARD. Eugene. Ore., Tuesday, August 10. 1976 J aulus lashes out at legislators for $15 million Capitol addition By DON NELSON Of the Register-Guard COTTAGE GROVE - Norma Paulus, Republican candidate for secre secretary tary of state, departed from her usual campaign talk Monday to instead dis dismiss miss something she said all state resi residents dents should be enraged about - the construction of the two new legislative office wings on the state Capitol Build Building. ing. In an appearance at the South Lane Public Issues Forum, Mrs. Paulus said construction of the office wings is “a lousy priority” and criticized the fi financing nancing of the project as “an incredible way to finance the state’s business.” Mrs. Paulus, a Marion County repre representative sentative during the 1975 legislative session, said she did not vote to author authorize ize construction of the office wings — and she said there’s not much anyone can do about the project pow that con construction struction is under way. But she said the wings can serve as a future warning of what can happen if state officials - including the secretary of state — are not more watchful. Mrs. Paulus said -the building now is expected to cost $15 million, more than the original estimates. And the money to pay for the construction is coming out of the state general fund she said. “It is an inexcusable act . . . to put legislators’ creature comforts above some of the problems facing our state,” she said in criticizing the priority given the new office wings. Norma Paulus She said that during the 1975 ses session, sion, the Oregon Building Authority was created by the legislature to sell revenue bonds to finance construction of the wings. But because of delays in setting up the building authority, legis legislative lative leaders began to look for other ways to get the money quickly so that the new offices would be completed in time for the 1977 session, she said. They tried at first to borrow from the Public Employes Retirement Bene Benefit fit Fund and the State Accident insur insurance ance Fund, she said, but were prohibit prohibited ed from doing that by an attorney general’s opinion. The opinion was re requested quested by Norma Paulus. But the capitol construction appro appropriations priations bill gave the State Emergency Board authority to fund the project, Mrs. Paulus said, and the board author authorized ized the General Services Division to . borrow the money out of the state gen- ( eral fund. The legality of the Oregon Building Authority is being challenged in the i courts now, Mrs. Paulus said, and if the ( building authority is found not to have | any authority, the 1977 legislature may have to find a way to pay for its new offices. Mrs. Paulus said that the State ' Emergency Board should be abolished and some other way found to take care of the state’s business between legisla legislative tive sessions. On other topics, Mrs. Paulus said: • The legislative process should be streamlined by limiting the number of bills that can be introduced during a session. • The state’s juvenile courts system should be revised and more emphasis placed on juvenile responsibilities as well as juvenile rights. • The state voters pamphlet, pub published lished by the secretary of. state, should indicate more clearly that contributors to the pamphlet are responsible for the truthfulness of its contents. • She wouldn’t vote to repeal SB 100, the land use planning bill, but would like to see administrative rule-making powers curbed and the building permit system simplified. Norma When a river is termed a navigable waterway, the state becomes owner of the submersible lands at the bottom of the river. State law also says that land owners who own property to the edge of a stream also own the submersible land to the mid middle dle of the stream. This conflict is currently tied up in the courts, and Mrs. Paulus said there is little the land board can do until a judicial decision is made. Paulus during the depression. Lack of funds made it impossible for her to attend college, but she became a secretary to the Harney County District Attorney and advanced her herself self to secretary to the Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court in 1955. Accepted as a part-time law student at Willamette University, she later became a full-time student after petitioning to waive custom customary ary college requirements. She was admitted to the Oregon State Bar in 1962 Alarmed by pension costs Budget alert system explained by Whipple Blaine Whipple, Democratic candi candidate date for Oregon Secretary of State, says he'd install an “early warning system” in that office that would keep the state out of financial difficulty. Elements of that system, Whipple told a Demo Forum luncheon in Eugene Monday, would include a requirement that state agencies submit a statement of need for each program offered. The information would provide the legislature with the data needed to de decide cide whether programs sould be contin continued, ued, changed, expanded or eliminated, Whipple said. During a question period, Whipple declared that his proposals would go beyond the scope of Colorado’s “sunshine law,” which automatically limits the life of new regulatory agen agencies cies and requires legislative action to continue such agencies. Whipple said he supports a “sunshine law” for Oregon, but he add added, ed, “It’s not going to do the kind of job I’m talking about.” While praising Oregon’s constitu constitutional tional requirement for balanced budget budgeting, ing, Whipple said the requirement doesn’t include pension funds. Pension costs, which Whipple said are “escalating rapidly,” aren’t includ included ed in the current cost of government. But he said they should be. Unfunded state pension costs now to total tal more than $100 million, Whipple said, while those in Multnomah County total about $30 million. Blaine Whipple Other elements of the “early warn warning ing system,” Whipple said, would in include clude a requirement that a depart department’s ment’s entire budget, not just increases in budgets, be justified by the depart departments. ments. Whipple also advocated a uniform accounting system for all state agen agencies. cies. This would make comparisons eas easier ier and would aid in computerizing the budget process, he said. E NEWS GUARD, Lincoln City, Oregon, Thursday, September 9, 197( Secretary of State candidate addresses waterways problem State Rep. Norma Paulus, Salem, says she will work toward solving the problems of land owners along navigable waterways if she is elected Oregon Secretary of State in November. The Secretary of State has a seat on the State Land Board, a body which admin administers isters streams termed “nav “navigable igable waterways” in Oregon. The board also determines what streams are navigable waterways. Rep. Paulus, in a recent visit to The News Guard, said the state land “must make some kind of policy decision in the matter.” What the board can do, she said, is to set a policy on the fees the state has been charging to dock and marina owners along navigable waterways. These private businesses have pylons which are on the land be beneath neath the water-land which the state owns. Rep. Paulus was the sec second ond woman ever to be elect elected ed from Marion County to the Oregon House of Rep Representatives. resentatives. She was elect elected ed in 1970 and reelected in 1972 and 1974. Rep. Paulus was one of a large family who moved from Nebraska to BurnsStatesman photo by Dan Poush Back to Hollywood’s good old days Classic cars and movie stars share spotlight for theater Harlow, arrives while Don Edwards, master of ceremonies, party Tuesday night benefitting Norma Paulus’ campaign for announces arrival to the crowd. Theater party guests were secretary of state. Carolyn McFarland, garbed as Jean costumed as film stars. (Picture also page 2A.) anon, taleo Ore,,. Wed., Otf. 6, 1976 viuuu overling lauies ana gentlemen, this is your announcer outside the Elsinore Theater in downtown Salem, Oregon, at the showing of that great motion picture — “That's Entertainment Part Two.” We're here to honor Norma Paulus, who's running for Secretary of for our audience? Mrs. Paulus? Sorry, folks, we weren't able to reach her State. That’s of Oregon, not but believe me, she was just Doctor Kissinger’s office. Anyway, the theater is packed with celebrities. We can see W.C. Fields and that toothy devil Count Dracula and Jean Harlow, the blonde bomb and ... and there’s Mrs. Paulus arriving in Rex Lucas’s classic Hudson. Let’s move in close now and see if we can get a comment from the star. The crowds are swelling. I'll hold my microphone up so you can hear the cheering for Mrs. Paulus. (roar, roar, cheer, cheer...). Oh Mrs. Paulus, Mrs. stunning. So were the others who attended the big benefit performance. T JLfch Star Norma with Bob McKellar Dracula, Jerri Bryce. Jim Schunk, Cathy & Gary Pederson Ted & Diana Haring Paulus, can we have a word alias Fred & Ginger. Jefl Walton alias W.C. himself. George Schunk In hackmt Martha & Steve Und, R.W. Staly. VHopes to close lead in area ■ -■ '«■” ~ rj,- Paulus campaigns on coast By GARY CONKLING Of The Daily Astorian Norma Paulus, Republican candidate for secretary of state, began a swing today “Auditing is a very im important portant issue,” she said. “But it’s not charismatic. It’s dull.” The race also has been If) £ <D along the Oregon coast to try disappointing, Rep. Paulus to erase her Democratic said, because her opponent opponent’s lead here. has campaigned negatively. To help her gain exposure, "It’s very difficult to com- she was accompanied by bat,” she said. “I don’t want former U.S. Rep. Wendell to look like I’m coming out Wyatt who called her one of scratching.” the brightest hopes in the One of her big issues is Oregon GOP. He also said it’s creation of a single ballot time “competent women’’ primary in Oregon, allowing are elected to high state of- registered Independents to vote. The issue didn’t get Rep. Paulus, a three-term anywhere last year, but Rep. legislator from Salem Paulus thinks its time is making her first bid for coming, statewide office, conceded “There are 150,000 Democrat Blaine Whipple is registered voters, many of better known on the coast, but them young people," she said her latest overall poll said. “Now that the Vietnam shows her leading in the race, war and Watergate are over, She said she is well-known many of them are ready to in the Willamette Valley and take a chance on the system in eastern Oregon where she again. Right now they are grew up. She isn’t as well disenfranchised." known on the coast “because Opponents have claimed I haven’t spent that much the single ballot primary time here," Rep. Paulus said, concept would weaken She also attributed her poor existing party structures, showing on the coast to Rep. Paulus says it would concern over her pro-land- strengthen them by “forcing use positions. Rep. Paulus them to woo the registered took credit for helping author Independents.'' the land-use legislation that is Whipple has speared Rep. the subject of a repeal drive Paulus for suggesting land- in Ballot Measure 10. Asked why her race with Whipple had generated so little interest, Rep. Paulus said it was mainly because most Oregonians don’t know what the secretary of state does. use planning decisions should be placed under the three- member Land Board, made up of the governor, secretary of state and treasurer. He says those officers already have too much to do and would delegate authority to staff members. However, Rep. Paulus said today Whipple has distorted her position. She said she merely has floated some ideas aimed at meeting ob objections jections of Oregonians who are frustrated and mad at appointed boards and commission. “They think these boards and commissions are faceless,” she said. “I don’t think we can turn a deaf ear to their concerns. 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E o: 3 4) OT3 “ gJillia >y~ w O Q, Mrs. Kauius saia sne - doesn't think the fact that she is a woman should influence how a person votes. “I want people to vote for me as a qualified, knowledgeable person whose goal is good government. I hope people in the future will choose on that basis and not on reasons of sex or religion. She thinks more women are going to become involved in politics, and, she added, “I would like to see more people involved period.'' Concerning abortion, she said she doesn’t thjnk the state should enter into the matter at all. “It s between a woman, her doctor and her conscience," she said. The candidate said she has spent most of her life working. She moved with her family to Burns from Nebraska during the 1930's, and after graduating from high school, became secretary to the Harney County District ’ Attorney, later to a Salem law firm, and in 1955 to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. She graduated from Willamette University and was admitted to the Oregon State Bar in 1962. Since then, she has *- =en a self-employed appellate iwyer. Mrs. Paulus married Salem ttorney Bill Paulus in 1958 hey have two children, llizabeth, 14. and Fritz, 12. My family has been very upportive of me," she said. ‘The kids are learning they not >nly have rights, but >bli'gations. . and my husband s very supportive l couldn’t lave survived without that support."NORMA PAULUS Battling for secretary of state Norma Paulus was curled up on the black and white striped couch in the Dodge van as it sped along the freeway carrying her to her first campaign appearance of the day. She looked sleepy and tired. She had not gone to bed until about 3 a.m. that morning. It was now 8:30 the same morning and she was on her way to Portland for an appearance at Mt. Hood Community College. The Republican candidate for secre secretary tary of state didn’t get to bed earlier the night before because she had been having fun dancing and socializing after a fund-raising movie showing at Salem’s Elsinore Theater. Besides the short night of sleep, Mrs. Paulus was in her tenth day of sucking on throat lozenges and sniffling on tissues — her own remedy for the 10- day-old cold she had been nursing along. Her day was only beginning. After the college visit, she was due to "debate” her Democratic opponent at the CPA wives’ club noon luncheon in downtown Portland. Then she was to talk to workers at the Western Kraft plant in Beaverton. Then back to Salem for an hour’s rest before jump jumping ing on an airplane to Ashland that night for a candidates’ forum. Then finally back to her home in Salem at an undetermined time. The hour would be late. The next day would be more of the same. But Mrs. Paulus says she likes campaigning. This is the first time she has put on . a statewide campaign. For six years, she has been a state representative in the Oregon Legislature from the Salem area. Politics and campaigning are not new to the attractive candidate. Mrs. Paulus is a member of a two- lawyer family. Both she and her hus husband, band, Bill, are attorneys. They have two teen-aged children and live in an exclusive South Salem neighborhood. She promises the State of Oregon that she will serve in public office for 16 years. Already she has six of those years behind her in the legislature. That means that if she is elected people. Watergate is still on their minds.” But then she said, "Look at all the good things done in this state. Most of them were done by Republicans.” "It just adds to my image — being a Republican,” she said. At the college in the morning, Mrs. Paulus visited with students in the cafeteria and lounge areas. "My name’s Norma Paulus. I’m a candidate for secretary of state. So, if you think of something to ask me, I’ll be around here for a few minutes.” Her approach caught most of the students off guard. Few. had any questions because most of them were too busy studying or visiting with their friends. However, in the lounge, one student asked Mrs. Paulus to explain her position on the timber tax. The student said that she had heard a radio ad where Mrs. Paulus’ opponent had at attacked tacked her for being too closely allied with "the rich timber barons” of the state. Mrs. Paulus was a.member of the House Revenue Committee in 1975 and that committee spent a lot of time discussing the issue of timber taxation. Basically, the question was whether to tax timber in Western Oregon at the time it was harvested or include it in the property taxes every year. Mrs. Paulus said she voted against the timber tax because she did not feel comfortable with the tax redistribution formula devised by the Democratic leadership. Furthermore, she said, at that time the timber industry was in a slump "and I thought that the timber tax would be damaging to some.” To counter Whipple’s charges that Mrs. Paulus would cater to the timber industry because she was getting large sums of money from them for her campaign, her staff computed the dol dollar lar contributions of timber-related in industries dustries to the Paulus campaign. Karen Whitman, campaign manager for Mrs. Paulus, said she estimates that 12 per cent of the contributions as of Oct. 3 had come from the timber industry. "That doesn’t strike me as being bought by the timber interests — does it you?” Mrs. Whitman asked. Mrs. Paulus doesn’t try to sidestep the timber contribution issue. "Sure, I’m being supported by the timber interests — but other groups as well.” "When Blaine goes around talking about my timber backing, that gives me more credibility with the business community,” she said. That has been lacking in the past because Mrs. Pau Paulus lus has a reputation of concerning herself more with social issues rather than financial issues and now she says people are beginning to see that she is also interested in fiscal responsibility. The van pulled up in front of the private Aero Club of Oregon in down downtown town Portland. Mrs. Paulus, who had been wearing slacks and a black sweater, yanked a plaid suit and white blouse from the wardrobe in the van. She jumped out, went to the club receptionist and asked directions to the women’s restroom. A few minutes later she emerged in the new suit of clothes — something more fitting to be seen in before a group of CPA wives. The candidate told the women that she and her opponent don’t have deep disagreements over how the secretary of state’s office should be run. However, she said that her "reputa "reputation tion as a first-rate lawyer” would be "crucial” to the operation of the office. That legal background, she said, would better equip her to "bring the audits division of the secretary of state’s office up to snuff.” She said that by being a lawyer and having six years experience in the legislature, she has a "better knowl secretary of state, she could serve at least six years in that position. That would leave four years for Mrs. Paulus to serve as governor. The candidate denies that she has her eye on the governorship, but most observers say otherwise. At any rate, Mrs. Paulus thinks it is premature to talk about that step - if it is ever made. Right now Mrs. Paulus is in what she calls "a real horse race” with her opponent, State Sen. Blaine Whipple of Beaverton. He has behind him strong name familiarity and a hefty Demo Democratic cratic voter registration majority. "I don’t think I have the name familiarity problem now that I did two months ago,” Mrs. Paulus said as the van moved through the downtown Port Portland land traffic out to the Western Kraft plant. "I think I’m closing the gap. I don’t think I’m behind now. My Demo Democratic cratic friends tell me I have him on the run.” Mrs. Paulus obviously is banking on a lot of Independent and Democratic support in the Nov. 2 election. Many people were surprised that Mrs. Paulus did not do better than she did in the Republican primary where an unknown candidate gained a lot of votes. She was filing her nails when she talked about a Republican party poll taken last year that said it would be difficult for a woman to get the nomination, particularly if she were tc liberal. Mrs. Paulus has been tagged moderate-to-liberal Republican by mo: political observers. She is somewhat < a maverick among the GOP hardline) - something of the same mold £ former Gov. Tom McCall. "Of course it is a handicap to be Republican,” Mrs. Paulus said. “Esp daily when you talk to the your There’s time for a joke at Western Kraft shift change edge of the soft spots in state agen agencies” cies” than does Whipple. For example, Mrs. Paulus said, if the legislature would refuse to give the secretary of state the additional audi auditors tors she thinks it would take to make the audits division perform better, she could handle the job with the existing staff. By being a lawyer and former legis legislator, lator, Mrs. Paulus said she could zero in on particular state agencies that had paid no attention to audit remarks. If need be, she said, "by being a lawyer, you could sue the agencies and goad the executive branch into action." The Paulus campaign budget is set at $65,000. Some $40,000 of that amount is to be used on television for advertis advertising ing the last two weeks of the cam campaign. paign. At the 3:30 p.m. shift change at the Western Kraft container plant, Mrs. Paulus shook the hands of about 35 workers as they came out to punch the time clocks. Before that she met with several workers in the cafeteria. She was proud to tell them that her Democratic opponent did not receive the endorsement of the AFL-CIO. Nor Normally mally that labor group gives its sup support port to the Democratic candidates. Even though Mrs. Paulus didn’t receive that labor endorsement, she has the endorsement of the Joint Council of Teamsters in the state. That makes her happy. But the candidate turns a little unhappy when the discussion turns toward her public image. Many people say that Mrs. Paulus just doesn’t come off as the type of person who can relate to the middle class person’s problems. "I’ve been accused of being aloof,” she acknowledged. "But I don’t think I am. I might be pre-occupied with other matters, but I’m not aloof ” She likes to point to her days as a poor girl growing up in the Bums area as proof that she can relate to the troubles of the everyday world. "If I got any more down to earth . . . You can’t come from a back background ground like mine and not ... I hardly run into anybody who has had a more meager beginning than I have had Her frustrations over this point run deep. For the time being, at least, Mrs. Paulus banks on her personal exposure for rectifying "that misunderstood im impression pression I sometimes project.” She claims that the more people who meet her personally, the faster this bad public image will disappear. She is just hopeful she will meet enough people between now and Nov. 2 to make a difference in that image problem. Statesman Journal photos by Ron Cooper v . yWestern Kraft plant workers listen to candidate Paulus Mrs. Paulus explains an issue at Mt. Hood Community College Getting to know the students at Mt. Hood Community College% ©te&oti POUNOIO 1651 talesman “No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe. " — from first Statesman, March 28, 1851 N. S. HAYDEN, President and Publisher JOHN H. McMILLAN, Executive Editor J. WESLEY SULLIVAN, Editor O An enthusiastic vote X ^ for Norma Paulus Paulus breaks the barrier If The Oregon Statesman is predictably supportive of Rep. Norma Paulus in her bid for the secretary of state position, it is because we have watched this dynamic woman carve out a place of influence in the legislature far beyond that normally achieved by a minority party member of the lower house. We have watched her use a combination of lawyer’s logic and political astuteness to safeguard the interests of her Salem constit constituency, uency, and we feel the interests of the state as a whole would be safe in her hands. We recognize that the secretary of state is the successor to the governor, and we see in Rep. Paulus a person fully capable, in temperament and that elusive quality called “charisma,” of fill filling ing that position. Norma Paulus is. a living exam example ple of “The Oregon Story.” She was a force behind the enactment of the Bottle Bill and other envi environmental ronmental protection legislation. But she is a stickler when it comes to safeguarding Oregon’s Constitution against such legisla legislative tive “end runs” as the recently invalidated Oregon Bonding Au Authority. thority. She has the mental capacity to be an effective member of the Criminal Law Revision Commis Commission sion and the compassion to work for reforms within state institu institutions. tions. She doesn’t do this from afar but by working within the institutions themselves. Her opponent, State Sen. Blaine Whipple comes into the race with more statewide name familiarity and, as a Democrat, a sizeable margin in voter registration. We find him to be qualified to be secretary of state, in terms of his understanding of issues, his experi experience ence in government and his back background ground in business. But some of his qualities of tenacity, to the point of conten contentiousness, tiousness, and insistence on pursu pursuing ing issues, to the point of abrasive abrasiveness, ness, do not equip him to be understudy for the governor or a member of the State Land Board, one of the most important posi positions tions held by the secretary of state. We, in Salem, have benefited from Norma Paulus' service. An important share of the credit for the legislation increasing the pow power er of the State Capitol Planning Commission belongs to her. This is the foundation upon which coordi coordinated nated planning for the State Capi Capitol tol area, between city and state, is based. This is but one important legacy she has left us. We now would share her talents with the state as a whole, con convinced vinced that the public’s best inter interests ests will be served by her election. The enthusiasm with which she rallies support behind causes and inspires others we now return in the enthusiasm of our endorse endorsement ment of Rep. Norma Paulus for secretary of state. No contest in Oregon’s general election had more pleasing results than the solid victory of Salem lawyer Norma Paulus, our next secretary of state. It is an especially sweet triumph for Mrs. Paulus, who came to Salem from tiny Bums, worked her way through Willamette Universi University’s ty’s law school, ran successfully for the legislature and now is the first woman elected to statewide office in Oregon. The wide margin of her victory over Democratic State Sen. Blaine Whipple of Beaverton, after a nar narrow row win over a virtually unknown challenger in the Republican prima primary, ry, reflects the vigor of her general election campaign. Although Mrs. Paulus has said she will not run for governor two years from now, she almost certain certainly ly will consider a bid for that office seriously in 1982. And at this point, Mrs. Paulus is the brightest star in Oregon’s Republican party. We congratulate Mrs. Paulus for breaking the sex barrier in Oregon politics, and we are confident her performance as secretary of state will confirm the soundness of the voters’ judgment. Suicide? What suicide? I'm out here because it's the only place safe from muggers!’ Give Oregon our best! Norma Paulus FOR SECRETARY OF STATE LET ME LEAD — A jubilant Norma Paulus dances with Melvin Pihl, president of Northwestern Transfer Co., at her election night party as she celebrated a 3-to-2 lead over Democrat Blaine Whipple in the secretary of state race. /t/rfCeituA ZTou rfJG-ljt Norma Paulus rolls to By LARRY ROBY Capital Journal Reporter While the voters of the state were out giving Norma Paulus a resounding victory in her bid for secretary of state Tuesday, the candidate was rollerskat rollerskating. ing. Rollerskating? That’s right. It had been 26 years since she had Salemites did ok Three Salem residents did well in Tuesday’s election. The three, Jim Redden, Norma Pau Paulus lus and Clay Myers, each won election to. high statewide office. Redden was elected attorney general, Mrs. Paulus secretary of state and Myers state treasurer. One other Salem resident in the statewide sweepstakes, Jim Durham, didn’t fare as well. He was defeated by fellow Salemite, Redden, in the attor attorney ney general’s contest. But, three out of four isn’t bad representation for the Capital City. wheeled around a rink. But at the end of a year-long campaign for the office of secretary of state, Mrs. Paulus sought some levity. She found it when three of her youthful campaign workers, George Schunk and Will and John Denecke, challenged her to a whirl on the roller rink. “I couldn’t resist,” said the pleased Mrs. Paulus this morning from her Benson Hotel suite in Portland. “After lunch, we all jumped into the van and drove out to Oaks Amusement Park. I used to be pretty good at skating When I was a girl.” “I took three really nasty falls,” she said. “But it was fun.” Mrs. Paulus has become the first woman to be elected to one of Oregon’s top three constitutional offices. She defeated rather handily Democratic State Sen. Blaine Whipple in this secretary of state’s race. With nearly 95 per cent of the state’s precincts reporting, Mrs. Paulus has received 60.4 per cent of the vote compared with Whipple’s 39.6. The vote total is 558,830 to 366,526. How did the female Republican can candidate didate pull this one off? “I have worked for one solid year and tried to meet as many people across the state as I could,” she said. “I have been in every nook and cranny of this state — most of them twice.” She also complimented her smooth campaign organization that was direct directed ed by Karen Whitman, Portland. As far as being a woman and winning, Mrs. Paulus said that it proves women have to stick together if they want to get anywhere in the world. She said that in the past, “women have been the obstacle” them themselves selves to not achieving higher rewards in public office. She said lhat during the past four years she has taken time out whenever called upon, to “go anywhere to talk about women in the legislature.” “Women have to be supportive of each other.” Mrs. Paulus says she has known all along she would win this contest. “I felt really pretty confident we would win by a big margin,” she said. She had these vibes because "every "everywhere where I went, people were speaking in a positive tone.” easy victory On the subject of “positive tones,” Mrs. Paulus said she thinks the lack of positive tones from her opponent is what led to his defeat. “I think Whipple’s negative approach hurt him,” she said. “He attacked me on my voting record and I think that turned people off.” Mrs. Paulus’ husband, Bill, and their two children, Fritz and Elizabeth, were with the winner during her victory party at the hotel. They remained overnight at the hotel, went out for breakfast, and then Bill returned the children to Salem and their classrooms at noon today. Mrs. Paulus said she plans to take the next week off “and just sit in my home.” The Pauluses live in South Salem. After that week off, she wants to start the transition work in the secre secretary tary of state’s office. She will be working with Secretary of State Clay Myers as he prepares to move across the Capitol rotunda to become state treasurer. “I will spend as much time as I can there without being a nuisance to Clay. He has been very cooperative.” • NORMA PAULUS She relaxed on skatesFor those who play the numbers game, women came out one ahead in the Oregon Legislature during the 1976 general election. Senate repre representation sentation remains steady, with three women among the 30 solons, while three new faces found places in the House — Gretchen Kafoury, Sandra Richards, and Mae Yih. The gain is counteracted by the loss of Reps. Grace Peck and Norma °aulus, the latter having become a new standard bearer — the first woman secretary of state and the first of her sex to be elected to state statewide wide office in Oregon. By ELLEN EMRY HELTZEL of The Oregonian staff Rep. Norma Paulus, wife, mother and politician whose soft-pedaled femi feminist nist perspective has won support of ooth sexes, this week became the first woman elected to statewide office in Oregon. After a year of active campaigning, the secretary of state-elect acknowl acknowledged edged her first priority now that the election is over. “I’m going to go home and stay there for a while,” said the weary legislator, who shared a victory breakfast in Portland with her husband, Bill, and their two children before head heading ing for her destination, the couple’s res residence idence in the Laurel Springs neighbor neighborhood hood of south Salem. The 43-year-old Mrs. Paulus, a three-term state representative and a Republican, has been a spokesman for women’s rights and suggests her own sex has often been responsible for hold holding ing women back. Her own narrow vic victory tory in the Republican primary last spring, against a relatively unknown male challenger, is blamed on the fact that voters unfamiliar with her record opted for the man. "I’m glad for people like Bella Ab- zug,” she once acknowledged, referring to the feisty U.S. representative who wore wide-brimmed hats and women’s liberation as if they were badges. By taking the frontal attack, militants like Rep. Abzug make more moderate femi feminists nists like herself look acceptable, she said. But Rep. Paulus is buoyed by the results of this fall’s election, including her victory and that of Dixy Lee Ray, Washington State’s new governor-elect. “In the past, the problem has been that women wouldn’t support a woman can candidate," didate," she observed. “But we’ve final finally ly learned to stand behind each other.” The one person whom Mrs. Paulus credits for always having given her support is her husband, lawyer Bill Pau Paulus. lus. As fellow law students at Wil Willamette lamette University, where she was ac accepted cepted without a college degree and was graduated with honors, the couple started marriage on the kind of footing that has since permitted Rep. Paulus to pursue her career. After graduation, both began prac practicing ticing law in Salem, where Paulus has maintained his career while his wife has increasingly turned from trying cases to tackling legislative duties. In the past year, while campaigning for secretary of state, Rep. Paulus gave up the practice of law altogether. “Obviously, the only reason our marriage and careers work, and work well, is because of my husband’s atti attitude tude and commitment,” Rep. Paulus noted. "It would be easy to do if it weren’t for the children.” NORMA PAULUS Having children and two careers in one family, she said, requires choices which have largely meant restricting social life to accommodate the needs of the couple’s 15-year-old Elizabeth, a student at South Salem High School, and 13-year-old Bill, who attends Leslie Junior High. Even during campaigns, Mrs. Paulus said, she has not sought live-in household help, but has relied on a long longtime time housekeeper and her family to pick up the cleaning and cooking chores for which she has little time. l-qs. n> % i. &r tq ?r 3 § 3 § 3 <x> O. C£ ■» 5 K : $ g b » u o ! 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Attractive and articulate, the legis legislator lator looked like a promising candidate to the state Republican Party, which threw $30,000 into her race. She spent $120,000 in total on this year’s effort, but gives credit to hard work and orga organization nization rather than her financing. “That amount isn’t really so much for a statewide campaign. Ivancie and Goldschmidt spent more for the mayor’s race,” she said. While the secretary of state’s post has in the past been a springboard to the governorship for some, Rep. Paulus doesn’t forecast similar direction for herself at this point. “If I wanted to run for governor, I’d have to do it in two years, when Straub’s term is up,” she reflected. She thinks former Gov. Tom McCall may be a more likely candidate for the state’s top office. In the meantime, Rep. Paulus will have her hands full with the administra administrative tive duties of her new job. As secretary of state, she will oversee auditing of all state agencies and serve as the chief elections officer. She will also join State Treasurer-elect Clay Myers and Gov. Bob Straub on the State Land Board. The newly elected official, whose legislative career was characterized by a generally liberal stand on social issues with a more conservative approach to fiscal affairs, said one of her first tasks will be to review recently completed recommendations of a task force which studied state audits and advised a uni uniform form system, with more frequent and detailed accountings, for all agencies. Reflecting on her new office, Rep. Paulus stressed that her work won’t carry a political label. “The office of secretary of state," she observed, “should rightfully be non-partisan.”Capital Journal photo by David Weintraub After the ceremony, Norma Paulus spoke to supporters Norma Paulus takes oath Norma Paulus was sworn in Sunday as Oregon’s 30ti^ecretary of State. Mrs. Paulus£43js a Republican and the first woman to hold a statewide elective office. She will assume the office next month. The oath of office was administered by U.S. District Judge James Bums, Portland, who is Mrs. Paulus’ godfa godfather ther and former boss. The swearing-in ceremony was held outside Mrs. Pau Paulus’ lus’ home. She told newsmen after the ceremo ceremonies nies she hopes to see the Republican party become more liberal and broad- based. "I think that is the direction to go" Mrs. Paulus, an attorney, said she has no plans to seek the Republican nomination for governor in 1978, and added that she is looking forward to her new duties “very much.” In administering the oath, Judge Burns said Mrs. Paulus has “had setbacks and disappointments” but these have never diverted her from her goals in life. She was his secretary when Bums was Harney County Dis District trict Attorney in the 1950s, adding he encouraged her to go to law school. She received her degree from Wil Willamette lamette University’s School of Law after scoring high on the entrance examination despite the fact she did not attend college as an undergraduate. Mrs. Paulus served three terms in the Oregon House. She and her hus husband, band, William, also an attorney, have two children. (UPI) r i! fGloria’s Friday: Tom McCall is warmly roasted ies and guests into the ballroom with a melodious blast on his coach horn. Then Gov. and Mrs. McCall, preceded by governors of four Western states (minus Ronnie Reagan, of course) were ushered in by the Clan Macleay Bagpipers piping “Scotland the Brave.” Thirteen hundred persons paid $12.50 apiece for a meal which, in addition to the “edibles” listed above, included: Salad Epicurean, Roast New York a’la Bordelaise, Potatoes Rissole, Vegetable Souffle, Ice Cream Bombe, Burgundy and coffee; the latter I never received but —n||- capital / Capital Journal / Life Salem, Ore., Friday, Jan. 10, 1975, Sec. 3, Page 17 By GLORIA BLEDSOE Capital Journal Women’s Editor It was a menu of rib roast rare, buttery toast and plenty of ham on the side when soon-to-be-ex-Govemor Tom McCall was griddled Thursday evening at the Portland Hilton. Seated under a giant gold-flecked caricature of himself, the governor, obviously relishing the whole thing, listened to friends needle him with such jabs as his “being the first man ever to receive a mouth transplant” and “a legend in his own mind” and his twangy accent described as “barnyard Ivy League.” A high spot of the program was a segment of the never seen “60 Minutes” television show hosted by Mike Wallace. The TV crew, in Oregon last spring, spent $100,000 shooting the McCall spot, which was never released. Roast guests and viewers were treated to “$300 worth of the $100,000 segment” with special comments added personally to McCall by Wallace. The “Roast and Toast” of Tom McCall began when Vem Serex, in complete hunting regalia, tootled dignitar ‘That’s a Gerry Lewin’ says McCall to wife Audrey and son Sam could smell enticingly at surrounding tables. Among the 1,300 were four chartered busloads of Salemites, plus many more who drove their own cars. Mrs. Straub rode up on our bus and husband Robert was anxiously pacing the red carpet at the Hilton waiting for her arrival. I bussed up and found it most desirable. We left the driving to you-know-who and drank champagne as we sped through the darkness. Ordinarily, I do not go into what everyone was wearing, but since this was an extraordinarily dressy affair I feel I should make a few fashion comments. Some of the standouts were the “new” slim, svelte, Rep. Grace Peck, who was glamorous in swishy black and floral print evening pajamas; Rep. Norma Paulus in a chartreuse satin shirtwaist, and red-haired Frankie (Mrs. George) Bell in sheer black with a ruffled neckline. An unknown, amply-endowed young lady fascinated onlookers by wearing an emerald green gown with a neckline which appeared, to the naked eye, to be cut to the floor. Many black velvet suits were in evidence-so many, in fact, that I may never wear mine again. I felt as if I were in uniform. Former McCall administrative assistant Bob Davis was noticed table-hopping in the crowd, having flown in from Washington D.C. for the tribute to his former boss. Davis is now with the Federal Energy Office in the Capitol. Some of the Roast and Toast highlights were hilarious. Some were tense. Some were warm. Some were poignant. Such as: • Television master of ceremonies Jerry Pratt at the pre-show, shaking Robert Straub’s hand far too many times, to the future governor’s obvious consternation. • Topsy Albin, top waitress at the Capitol Coffee Shop, having the time of her life greeting all her customers. • An anxious Darrel Buttice, coordinator of the event, sternly holding back five Western governors so they could be televised properly and in the right positions. • L. B. Day, Land Conservation and Development Commission chairman and roaster, laughing hard at his own jokes and the audience laughing equally hard at L. B.’s gruff but infectious laugh. • The pre-show bewilderment of Capital Journal photographer Gerry Lewin at being told he was not to place a card telling viewers who took the 50 pictures of McCall that were hanging in the foyer; then being happily surprised by being one of the few singled out for special tribute by McCall, who called the CJ photog “one of the world’s greatest photographers.” Of course we agree. • Gov. McCall, during the Roast, nonchalantly taking off his spectacles to wash them in his water glass. • And the look of love and adoration Tom McCall gave his wife, Audrey, as she appeared as a “mystery roaster” in one of her uifrequent public speeches. And Audrey, drawing many laughs at the times “Tom’s put his big foot inbit rhouth.” Webster /Stines “to roast” as “to ridicule or criticize severely*/ but when it’s a governor, unique, respected and lovable, the roast becomes a warm and toasty tribute of affection and respect. Aulrey McCall and Idaho Governor Cecil Anaus; rear, Mrs. Mike O’Callaghan, wife of the Nevada governor