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.
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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.
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