-State representative candidates
Frohnmayer: law-minded
Dave Frohnmayer, a law
professor and special assistant to
University President Robert Clark
is a candidate for the GOP
nomination for the Oregon House
of Representatives.
An Oregon native, Frohnmayer
received his bachelor's degree in
now is better pricing policies on
prescription drugs and emergency
care services in outlying areas. He
feels that nursing home care must
be dealt with by involving people
of different ages in caring for the
elderly.
Frohnmayer has been verv
government from Har
vard College, studied
politics, philoshophy and
economics at Oxford
University as a Rhodes
Scholar and received his
law degree from the
University of California
at Berkeley.
Prior to joining the law
faculty at the University
of Oregon, Frohnmayer
practiced law in San
Francisco and then
served as a special
assistant to the U.S.
Secretary of Health edu
cation and Welfare
(HEW). While there, he
dtieu as cruei policy
coordinator for former
HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson
in the development of national
health-care policy.
Frohnmayer is a public interest
member of the Oregon Field
Burning Committee, which is
pushing alternatives to the current
methods of field burning. Last
year he was appointed by
Governor Tom McCall to the
Select Committee on Conflict of
Interest Legislation. He was also
appointed by students involved in
OSPIRG to be its original advisor
in 1971.
Frohnmayer chairs the American
Council on Education's Equal
Employment Opportunity Task
Force in Washington, and he has
served as a consultant to the Civil
Rights Division of the Federal
Department of Justice.
Regarding education, Frohn
mayer observes that com
pensation for professors hasn't
kept pace with inflation, and he
feels that more funding should be
allocated to support the
university, which is vital to the life
of the state. ''The University
should not be alienated from the
community because of its
genuine, visible contributions.”
says Frohnmayer. “Students are
the human resource that makes
the difference.”
National health-care strategy has
never been drawn up before. But
Frohnmayer would like to help
devise a coherent national
policy. Vet he is impressed with
how much can be done at local
levels and this is where he would
like to begin working.
One of his specific interests right
Dave Frohnmayer
concerned with reforms in the
structure and processes of
government. "Oregon has a long
tradition of clean government,
and the Legislature is an indispen
sible watchdog in protecting that
tradition."
"Disgust" and "outrage" are the
words Frohnmayer uses to
describe how he feels about
Watergate. Vet he says it has
some value because it has
"gotten the constitution out of
lawyers' law books onto the front
page of the newspapers where it
belongs." At the Dorchester
conference, Frohnmayer voted to
urge the people to bring the
president to trial.
Frohnmayer feels that it is im
portant for a state representative
to understand how to work with
the legislature. There have been a
number of serious technical errors
made in the 1973 legilative
session, and Frohnmayer traces
the major responsibility for those
errors to the "increasing absence
in recent years of skilled legally
trained legislative leaders."
He adds, "It is wrong to have the
legislature dominated by lawyers,
but a knowlege of constitutional
practices would help." However,
Frohnmayer says he is speaking
for the constituency, not his
profession.
"My proposals are not empty
political rhetoric or vague
promises from just another
candidate for office," Frohnmayer
contends. "I am tired of
politicians with all the answers. I
want to know what people really
think."
Susan Herrman
Myers. . .
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On various issues the guber
natorial hopeful has taken
"unwavering" positions. On the
"hash question" he favors the
distinction proposed by the
special legislative session. This
would stiffen the penalty for
possession of hash. He will vote
no on Ballot Measure number
one, but yes on two through six.
He supports granting full adult
rights and responsibilities to 18
year-olds.
Included among his chief goals
are safeguarding the en
vironment, increasing job op
portunity, attracting clean in
dustry, and developing a suitable
mass transit system to meet the
needs of Oregon communities.
Dave Braff
vote
Whitehead: a 'liberal conservative'
If you agree with Wayne
Whitehead, incumbent state
representative from the 39th
district, that it is no longer
possible to tell the philosophy of a
candidate by party label, then his
Republican tag is going to tell you
as much about him as his tongue
in-cheek self-description: "a
moderately liberal conservative.”
Undoubtedly the best way to
understand Whitehead's
philosophy is to examine the
issues he feels are important.
The biggest issue facing Oregon
right now, according to
Whitehead, is growth. He says his
district is one of the fastest
growing areas in the state, and
that it concerns him that most of
it is uncontrolled. Barring an
amendment to the U.S. Con
stitution to cut off immigration,
Whitehead sees growth in Oregon
as inevitable, and stresses the
need for planning: "Most im
portantly, we have to plan for
growth because it's coming
despite the best efforts of (Gov.)
McCall to stop it." He supported
SB-100, the state land use bill,
and attributed its defeat to
misunderstanding in local
communities.
Whitehead's most notable
achievement during the last
legislative session was probably
the sponsorship of a bill that
would have prohibited nuclear
power plants on the west side of
the Cascades. Though he is
"convinced that nuclear power is
safe," he would like to keep it
away from the population centers
of the Willamette Valley, and
thinks that plants in Eastern
Oregon, such as the Boardman
proposal, could serve to divert
some of the state's rapidly in
creasing population to more
sparsely settled areas.
Whitehead thus opposes a
moratorium on nuclear plants, but
says he is not in favor of building
plants "willy-nilly" all over the
country. He feels that since
people and industry have given no
indication of being willing to cut
back their energy consumption,
some kind of interim source will
have to be developed until a major
new source, such as solar energy,
is practical.
In the crimes-without-victims
category, Whitehead seems to be
pretty much of a libertarian. He
admits he "knows marijuana is
not as harmful as alcohol," and is
mildly sympathetic to further
decriminalization, though a "vast
majority" of his constituents say
no.
Whitehead voted for lowering
the drinking age to 18 last session,
but thinks that concern for the
safety of 18-20 year-olds will
forestall such legislation for a
while longer.
The representative also thinks
that prostitution should have been
legalized "years ago," and
controlled like liquor. "It could
work," he said. "People have
enough fears that they just are not
ready to go that far yet," said
Whitehead.
Other women-related issues this
year include state supported
abortion clinics and public funds
for child care. Whitehead regards
both as "purely economic
matters." He maintains that there
is only so much money in the
state's general fund, and there are
too many higher priorities that
need money. But he opposes
neither of them on moral or social
grounds.
When asked whether Oregon's
natural environment is adequately
protected at the present time,
Whitehead responded that
perhaps it wasn't. Not because of
a lack of laws on the books, but
rather because he says many of
the current laws are not being
enforced. The Legislature,
Whitehead said, is largely to
blame, for passing "too many
toothless tigers" (bills without
penalty clauses) and for not
seeing that the enforcement
agencies are doing their jobs,
without penalty clauses) and for
not seeing that the enforcement
agencies are doing their jobs.
The 39th district lies right on the
periphery of the grass seed
growing area, according to
Whitehead, and therefore gets hit
with field burning smoke "more
than any other area in Eugene."
He opposes an extension of the
field burning ban past 1975.
The 34-year-old representative
was a news director and
newscaster for KVAL-TV in
Eugene until his election to the
Wayne Whitehead
Legislature in 1972. He is now
editor of The Valley News while
working toward his bachelor's
degree in journalism at the
University.
Scott Peterson
“Let’s face it. We are living in a great
national crisis, caused by the greatest
degree of corruption in our Federal
Government since the Civil War.
Corruption is not limited to the
Executive Branch of our Government,
but it is most rampant there.”
“Tlie men and women elected to the
Congress in November, 1974, if wisely
chosen by the voters, can return to the
American people our historic system of
constitutional self-government.”
Wayne Morse
Morse for Senate Committee
595 Crest Drive
Eugene, Oregon 97405
Phil George, Treasurer
April 1, 1974