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Dist. 42 Representative Fadeley: Hopes to expand bottle bill favors field burning control and energy conservation By JACKMAN WILSON Of the Emerald Nande Fadeley expects to work hardest on energy is sues, mass transit and field burning if elected to a fourth term in the Oregon House of Representatives, Dist. 42. Fadeley thinks the Legisla ture can take the lead in pro moting mass transit and energy conservation, which she sees as interrelated issues. “We’ve got to look at the implications of the conservation ethic," she says, "and we’ve got to look at the real cost of our throwaway society.” Fadeley counters objections to the cost of mass transit sys tems by pointing to the cost of the private automobile. "I wouldn’t expect mass transit to pay for itself at first,’’ she says. But automobiles, she adds, "are subsidized in many ways." As chairer of the House En vironment and Energy Com mittee, Fadeley opposes further development of nudear power in Oregon. "There’s not much future in it,” she says. “Nudear power is too expen sive." Rather than building more dams to meet Oregon’s energy needs, Fadeley would like to see more powerhouses on existing dams. She is also "very excited" about Oregon’s geothermal energy potential and favors the development of solar energy and trash and straw burning energy systems. Fieldburning is likely to Nancie Fadeley emerge once again as an issue with the Oregon Legisla ture. Fadeley thinks fieldbum ing creates "too great a health problem to continue. No other industry has been allowed to pollute at such a level.” Fadeley is skeptical of the proposed ban on corporate farming, even though she says the proposal is as well drafted as it could be. "I’d love to pre serve the family farm,” she says, but thinks the proposal "could ban some operations we need for efficiency." Expanding the bottle bill to include wine and liquor con tainers would be one of Fadeley’s pet projects in the 1977 Legislature. She says the time is right for such a move because the wine indus try is expected to standardize its containers soon. Fadeley offers the current phenomenon of Democratic voters crossing party lines to vote for Ronald Reagan as an explanation of why she thinks an open primary would be bad for Oregon. With an open primary, she says, party mem bers could end up with a nominee elected by members of the opposing party. The death penalty draws a flat statement of opposition from Fadeley: “We don't pro tect ourselves by putting peo ple to death.” Fadeley says she will do her best to fund higher education at a level that would make cut backs unnecessary, but says she can't make any promises. Freeman ! wants representation and local control By JACKMAN WILSON Of the Emerald “We’ve come to the conclu sion that Mrs. Fadeley repre sents Eugene,” says Spring field Mayor Vance Freeman, Republican candidate for the Dist. 42 seat in the Oregon House of Representatives. Freeman’s chief concerns are representation and local control. On the fieldburning issue, for instance, Freeman would like to see local or re gional arrangements made to alleviate the problem. “Every body had better get together and come up with a program that will make everybody industry," he says. State mass transit propos als also draw Freeman’s fire. Local mass transit systems are inefficient enough without involving the state, he says. Why run a bus line to Blue River, he asks, “when you can subsidize a taxicab and get a better job done?” Freeman favors energy conservation initiated by indi viduals rather than the state. “I think people will conserve as much as they can just to save money,” he says. Oregon should investigate all its energy alternatives, Freeman thinks, including nuclear power. “I think that nuclear power has a future all over the world,” Freeman says. “I don’t think we can turn down any alternative. I don’t think we can throw nuclear power away after all this money has been invested.” Freeman believes nuclear power is safe and that oppo nents have employed scare tactics in some of their argu ments. However, many other energy sources — including solar, wind, geothermal, trash and straw — have possibilities in Oregon, Freeman says. Though Freeman admits he doesn’t know every side of the Elect Democrat JACK CRAIG Position 3, Lane County Commissioner Look at his record: * Community Leader, Legislator, County Administrator * As member of Lane Transit Board, Jack Craig supports and works for improved bus service for Eugene, Springfield, and parts of rural Lane County. * Endorsed by Women’s Political Caucus * As State Legislator (1971-73), rated a top state representative by Oregon Times, Oregon Environmental Council and Lane County Democratic Party. For more see p. 102, Oregon Voters Pam phlet Faid-Craig for Commissioner Committee, Jack Craig, Treasurer, 2159 Emerald St, Eugene. Oregon Jack’s incumbent op ponent, Frank Elliott, has voted against transit service for Lane County and says he’s against it! (Speech, Lane County Farm Bureau, April 1976) corporate farming issue, he says he would probably favor the proposed ban on corporate farming. Corporations farm to gain tax write-offs, he says, and “anything where there is a tax write-off and the people have to pay for it, I don't buy." The death penalty, Freeman believes, is a real deterrent to crime and should be restored in Oregon. “I'm scared for our police," he says. "Society hasn’t got the time or the money to rehabilitate some of these people.” The Legislature’s biggest issues next year will be land use planning and big spending by government. “My pet peeve wuH S?Tif v far COUNTY COMMISSIONER J Paid-Mefevin for Commissioner. Jeff Lake. Treas , 777 High, Eugene. OR 97401 is overlapping agencies that seem to be doing the same thing,” he says, mentioning the various local, regional and state land use planning bodies. Vance Freeman lausmann Say Laws-man PAID FOR BY Lausmann for Congrats Committee Lloyd H. Griggs. Chm., Oanny W Hollingshead.Trees 2350 Oakmont Way, Rm 205 Eugene. Oregon 97401
