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
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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
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is overlapping agencies that
seem to be doing the same
thing,” he says, mentioning
the various local, regional and
state land use planning
bodies.
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