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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1978)
Candidate favors gambling, death penalty By ANN TRENEMAN Of the Emerald Marv Hollingsworth, democratic candidate for governor, told a lun cheon meeting of the Demo Forum Monday that property tax is his number one campaign issue and he is running with a slogan of “less government.” Hollingsworth, a former state representative, favors using re venues from state-controlled gambling casinos and horse and dog race betting to pay for school financing in Oregon. “Eighty per cent of property tax goes for schools,” he said. He Vets must apply to get benefits after discharge status change Veterans who have recently had their discharges upgraded will have to re-apply to the Special Discharge Review Board to re ceive their Veterans Administra tion (VA) benefits halted by a Sen ate bill last October. According to Ron Daley of the Military and Veterans Counseling Center in Portland, the Senate bill signed by Pres. Carter discon tinued all automatic VA beneifts given to vets who had their dis charges upgraded from undesira ble to general or honorable dis charges by the earlier Discharge Review Board. In order to receive the benefits, veterans must file applications for a second review with the Depart ment of Defense (DOD) and ap pear personally before a review board of DOD, according to Daley. In response to this, the Portland counseling center has set up a special discharge review project to help vets file their applications and to provide them with a coun selor when they appear before the review board. Vets have until October 8 to file their applications for review. Daley says there are some 490,000 eligible vets who could get their discharges reviewed, in cluding vets who didn't apply the first time. Of those vets who ap plied for discharge review, about 16,000, or four per cent of those eligible received upgrades. Daley notes that only about 62,000 of those eligible applied for review. “Many didn’t apply be cause of confusion and lack of ad vertising, because of Pentagon cutbacks.” Even though, four per cent of the vets received upgraded dis charges, Daley says the majority of these applicants would pass the second review board. Cash owed to unlocated people Nearly a hundred persons whose last known addresses were in the Eugene-Springfield area have some money coming to them from the federal gov ernment, but the government hasn’t been able to locate them. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage-Hour Di vision is holding $27,680 for 530 “unlocated indi viduals” whose last known addresses were in the state of Oregon. Ralph Knite of the Portland division office, exp lains the money represents back wages owed to individuals in minimum wage and overtime cases relating to the federal Fair Labor Standard Act. Knite says the department regularly investigates wage complaints and routinely checks businesses and employers to see if they are complying with federal wage standards “Sometimes we find that back wages are owed employees and there are always a few individuals who have since quit the company and we are unable to locate,” Knite says. He says the department compiles a list of the unlocated persons and publishes the list about every six months. Loren Gilbert, the department’s Northwest as sistant regional administrator for wage-hour, notes that the money can only be held by the department for three years from the date of recovery. If un claimed, the money isforwarded to the U.S. Treasury or returned to the affected employer, depending on the circumstances of the recovery. Individuals who want to check to see if their names are on the list may call the Eugene Office of the federal Wage-Hour Division at 687-6447. New option for support-payers Under the provisions of a new state law, persons who make support payments to ex-spouses and children may now make the payments directly to a bank or other financial institution, instead of to the court. Mike Terry, Lane County court administrator, warns, how ever, that persons paying support must make arrangements with the court if they want to use the direct payment method. The new law, which became ef fective Jan. 1, allows a person re quired to make support payments to pay directly into a checking ac count in the name of the person receiving the support. Terry says those eligible to use the direct payment method can comply with the new law by filing a signed agreement with the Clerk of the Court and furnishing the clerk with a receipt of deposit 10 days after payment is due. The agreement must be signed by both parties, must state the name of the financial institution where the direct payment account is established and must list the account number. If the receipt is not on an ap proved form the clerk will not ac cept it as proof of deposit. Terry says persons paying sup port may continue to make the payments directly to the court if they do not wish to use the new method. According to Terry, persons who are currently receiving public assistance or have received pub lic assistance in the past are not eligible to use the direct payment method to receive support. Information packets, receipts and agreement forms are availa ble, free of charge, at the clerk’s office, second floor, Lane County Courthouse. PSYCHIC Advises on business. love & personal direction. Jamil P.O. Box 10154 Eugene, Oregon 97401 Phone anytime: 342 2210 484 2441 J C^jJ r*—1 I r-—' I r-—1 fr CHINA BLUE RESTAURANT (next to U.O. Bookstore, upstairs) Come up for lunch We offer three special dishes daily from $1.95 to $2.50 Hours Mon Thurs.. 10 to 10 Fn. 10 to 11 Sat, 5 to 11 Sun . 5 to 10 China Blue 879 E. 13th Ave. 343-2832 I 1 claimed that using gambling to fi nance education would “almost eliminate residential property tax." Hollingsworth and his wife have been conducting what he calls an “old fashioned grass roots cam paign.’’ He said he has been traveling throughout the state since April just “listening to peo ple.” “What I’ve found is that people have come to hate — now that’s a strong word but I’ll use it — politi cians. They are desperately look ing for some new leadership.” He said Oregonians are unhappy with Gov. Bob Straub’s performance and “if there isn’t a change, there’s going to be a revolution.” Hollingsworth favors the return of the death penalty in cases of aggravated, pre-meditated mur ders. The native Portlander and criminal defense lawyer said he is tired of a known felon “getting his hands slapped in court and being put on probation.” According to a campaign poll 90 per cent of Oregonians agree with him on this issue, he said. Hollingsworth is against nuclear power, not because it might be hazardous, but because he doesn’t like the rate-payers pay ing for it. "I'd fire Charles Davis (Oregon’s public utilities commis sioner) the first day in office,” he said. “They (public utilities) are milking the community of millions of dollars to pay for nuclear power.” Instead, he favors increasing hydro-electric resources in the state, using more dams for pro ducing power. Asked about his stand on legalizing marijuana, he said he is against legalizing marijuana, be cause in his work with drug-users he has found all of them started out with marijuana. Hollingsworth spoke out against gun control, for abolishing the Oregon Liquor Control Com mission and for local decisions on land-use planning issues. UM u/o MEETS TUESDAYS & WEDNESDAYS @ 4 p.m. ROOM POSTED IN EMU w c rn HEAR YE ! HEAR YE ! Read all about the 1939 Wandering Wcbfoots becoming National Basketball Champs ! With basketball mania at a fevered pitch, does it seem so strange that we are now peddling these posters? Just think, for every Classified ad you place at 300 EMU, you get one of these full-sized posters FREE. Send one to a friend, wallpaper your commode. They’re suitable for wrapping fish and housebreaking puppies, and they’ll also go well under that old chair you’ve decided to paint.
