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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1977)
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Sat 10-6; Sun \-y HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL Candlelight services tonight at 8 p.m. on Faculty Club lawn followed by a film: "Act of Faith” Studio "C” of the library Friday-12:30 guest lecturer Rabbi Zalman Schachter, Professor of Religion, Temple University, Philadelphia speaking on "Reflections on the Holocaust” EMU, room to be posted Committee supports field burning bill, 4-3 By MARY BETH BOWEN Of the Emerald SALEM — The members of the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee took a stand on the field burning issue Wednes day. Judging from the 4-3 split that surfaced, the bill they produced will reflect the interest of grass seed growers. The split came after Chairer Sen John Powell. D-Halsey. recom mended that growers be allowed to burn 235,000 acres this summer The current phase-down law allows 95,000 acres. Powell also prop osed amendments to Senate Bill 535, sponsored by the Oregon Seed Council, and asked if the other committee members agreed with the "policy direction" of his recommendations "Fire away,” responded Sen. Mike Thome. D-Pendleton, "Let s pass it now ." Joining Thorne were Sens Bob Smith, R-Burns and Chuck Hanlon, D-Mountaindale But Sen Jan Wyers, D-Portland. commented that Powell s ques tion was a moot point. "Haven't you had four votes throughout? asked Wyers "It's been my impression all along that this was going to be pro seed council kind of legislation." The committee s 4-3 pro-grower slant has been apparent dunng the past two months of public hearings. One of the key questions the committee now faces is what size of acreage increase will pass the House, the Senate and the governor s office. Powell’s recommendation is larger than what Gov. Straub supports — 165,000 this summer and 135,000 next summer — but smaller than the unlimited acreage requested by the Oregon Seed Council The City of Eugene on the other hand is asking that the current phase-down be maintained at 95,000 acres this summer and 50,000 next summer and thereafter Straub said Wednesday that he couldn't "swallow Powell s ac reage recommendation, but declined to say whether he would veto it At Wednesday's work session Powell said the primary policy ques tion is whether the health and environmental problems caused by field burning are serious enough to justify putting some grass seed growers out of business. “If the facts show there is an overwhelming problem attributed to field burning, then we should tell people in that business to get out, he said. Powell also cited a 1976 Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) report on air quality in the Eugene-Springfield area, which said slash burning appears to have a more significant impact than field burning. Powell s recommendations to the committee included regulating slash burning on private and state-owned land; placing the field burning research committee under the jurisdiction of the DEQ, and restricting open field burning to a 12-day period in the southern Willamette Valley and a 20-day period in the northern valley Wyers asked Powell to comment on the argument made by Eugene representatives that putting 5,000 tons of fine particulate from field burning smoke will prevent the Eugene-Springfield area from generating new industry, since further pollutants would violate federal air quality standards. Powell replied that, in his opinion, the smoke management prog ram operates in such a way that the smoke "doesn't stay in the air shed for a long time.” Also testifying was Scott Freebum, DEQ field burning coordinator, who listed his agency's objections to the grass seed growers bill Freeburn said he particularly objected to a provision of SB-535 that repeals the DEQ's power to enforce field burning regulations. "The smoke management program would be meaningless if we didn't have the power to enforce any of the rules established, he said Freeburn added that the DEQ supports the Environmental Quality Commission's acreage recommendation, which the governor also sup ports. —World at a glance From Afttocletod Pro«« report* Carter to initiate energy t^xes WASHINGTON Pres Carter will propose use ot the federal tax system as an instrument of austerity forcing Ameri cans to conserve energy, including standby taxes on gasoline at the pump, congressional and administration sources said Wed nesday Some specifics of the President s April 20 energy message are still under review, bul White House Press Secretary Jody Powell indicated most of the work is complete Union leaders meet with Carter WASHINGTON — Clothing union leaders and AFL-CIO Pres George Meany went to the White House on Wednesday to give Pres Carter the same message union members were push ing in demonstrations across the nation clothing imports are threatening American |obs Carte' and Robed Strauss, the U S trade ambassador, met with the labor leaders for 35 minutes Afterward, Meany told repoders he hoped to get a favorable response from Cader ERDA proposes waste sites PORTLAND — A federal agency proposed nuclear wastes be stored temporarily at four regional sites until a solution is found for final storage of radioactive material Bill Luch, a member of Oregon s Energy Facility Citing Council, said Tuesday the U S Energy Research and Develop ment Administration (ERDA) has proposed four temporary sites Hanford, Wash , granite deposits in upstate Now York, salt domes in Mississippi or Louisiana and deep salt beds in New Mexico No use cryin’ over spilled coffee MEMPHIS, Tenn — Police were called out to guard the cargo when a tractor-trailer ng ovedurned here Wednesday, dumping 38.000 pounds of coffee with a retail value of $175.000 Police said they beliove mechanical failure caused the truck to ovedurn on a highway clovorleaf The driver, Tony T McCabe of Fordyco. Ark was hos pitalized in satisfactory condition Bill proposes psych board SALEM — A bill which would create a new state board to evaluate the status of persons found to have been suffering from psychological problems while committing a crime received testimony Wednesday in a House Judiciary Committee hearing The bill would create a Psychiatnc Secunty Roview Board, to which persons found to be not responsible for a cnme due to mental illness would be referred The board would act almost as a parole board, with the authority to discharge, conditionally release or commit to a state institution a person who has pleaded not guilty due to insanity The bill, House Bill 2382, further stipulates a person committed to an institution would have the nght to apply for a discharge every six months, and the board would have to re-evaluate the case at least eve " five years The bill was suggested at the request of the governor s task force on corrections Supporters of the bill said it is more responsible than the present system, and builds in due process requirements Opposition to the bill came in part Irom the Lane County Adult Mental Health Program Les Gagnon, the manager of the program, said the $1 5 million appropriation for the program is inadequate He added, if the bill were to pass. Lane County would be fortu nate" to meet evaluation requests We would be able to provide very little in the way of long-term treatment, he said Only philatelists may get food stamps soon In two years, reform of all fed eral welfare programs should mean "the end of the food stamp program as we now know it," saic Agriculture Secretary Bob Berg land to the House Agricultura Committee in Washington on April 5 Bergland was testifying to Con gress specifically about Pres. Jimmy Carter's proposals to change the food stamp program, which expires Sept. 30. The most controversial part of Carters proposal involves abolishing the purchase of food stamps. Instead of buying' food stamps, a household, which would pay $57 in cash for $130 worth of stamps, the household would simply get the difference outright, in this case $73 in food stamps. "This should help the elderly on fixed incomes the most," says Bob Hill, a Eugene food stamp supervisor. "They often have fewer deductions and have to pay high costs, for instance, $38 for $50 worth of food stamps. Now they'll get the difference free." Carter's proposal aims to bring about 880,000 households, which now do not have the cash to buy coupons, into the program. In addition, it would cut about $450 million in aid to families with incomes above the poverty line, leaving an estimated 5 per cent of food stamp recipients in those upper ranges of eligibility Hill also remarked he thinks one reason this reform has not occur red earlier is it goes against the philosophy underlying the food stamp program "The program was designed in the beginning to help raise the nui ritional level of America's poor, he says "But I think they've found out that if a person's diet consists of Pepsi and pretzels he won t change it when he gets food stamps '' Hill explained the present sys tem recipients are forced to spend their food stamp allotment on food But if Carter's proposals go through Congress, recipients' money once reserved for food stamp purchase now might not even go toward food Thus, the consequences of the proposed reform will be mixed, says Hill Another notion in reforming the food stamp program which could have affected students further, but was not part of Carter s proposal, was establishing a flat, standard deduction rate in determining eligibility, rather than the present system of income deductions Right now students are al lowed deductions on tuition and mandatory fees, said Hill But if there were a flat deduction for tui tion across the country, maybe students at this university would be paying higher tuition than would be allowed in figuring de ductions, That, of course, would have an adverse effect on them All of Carter's proposals are not new But Bergland's remarks be fore the House Agriculture Com mittee indicate Carter is indeed reviewing the entire welfare prog ram. Consolidation of existing programs as well as the estab lishment of a guaranteed minimum income have been men tioned as possibilities.
