Photo by John Rimel
Friends of the Earth Pres. David Brower
Environment workshop
attracts western students
Last weekend’s Northwest Environmental Task
force Conference (N-WEST) attracted students from
Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Columbia to
the University of Washington campus to coordinate
and share information on environmental action.
A keynote address by David Brower, former ex
ecutive director of the Sierra Club, and founder and
current president of the Friends of the Earth, called
for a 50-year goal of working toward a sustainable
economy and working for a concerned society in
stead of an economic society.
Brower said it was up to the students to help the
transition take place.
He predicted that the current nuclear issue is only
the tip of the iceberg and that it would become as
large of an issue as the Vietnam War during the late
1960’s.
An advocate of nuclear power from 1945-69,
Brower but now considers himself a “born-again
anti-nuke.”
Following Brower’s address the students broke up
into groups to attend the first workshop sessions. On
Saturday there were more workshops, followed in the
afternoon by a panel discussion that focused on “Co
alition Building; Jobs and the Environment.” The
panelists were David Brower, Friends of the Earth;
Jim Bauermeister, Washington State Grange; Nate
Ford Jr., Boilermakers Union and Jim Sawyer, pro
fessor , Seattle University Institute for Policy Studies.
The conference ended Saturday night with a slide
show and a vegetarian banquet.
N-WEST was organized last year as a coalition of
student environmental groups in the Northwest.
N-WEST has applied for a $55,000 grant from HEW
and a $10,000 grant from Puget Power. The 1978
conference was sponsored by the ASUW Environ
mental Affairs Commission.
Twenty-five students from the University of
Oregon attended the conference. About one
hundred students from throughout the Northwest
were at the conference.The University students
traveled in a carpool organized by the Survival
Center.
Wood officially enters gubernatorial race
By ANN TRENEMAN
Of the Emerald
Lane County Commissioner
Bob Wood is officially in the race
for governor. Wood, who an
nounced his intention to campaign
for the democratic gubernatorial
nomination over a year ago, offi
cially filed as a candidate yester
day in Salem.
Wood, 40, criticized Oregon
Gov. Bob Straub for his “eye
dropper understanding” and his
“weak responses to issues and
problems” facing Oregon. Wood’s
comments were made at a press
conference yesterday morning,
called to announce his official en
trance into the race for governor.
Wood said he is not a “front
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simplified answers” and added he
had recently returned from a
16-city tour in Oregon which
backed up his assumption that
Oregonians are dissatisfied with
Gov. Bob Straub’s leadership.
Wood stated he would as gov
ernor introduce legislation for in
centive programs for the de
velopment of wind and solar
energy, geothermal power, use of
forest slash for home and indus
trial fuel, recycling of solid waste
for products, reuse and fuel.
‘ Study after study has shown a
well-managed, aggressive energy
conservation program could save
Oregon utility ratepayers millions
of dollars as well as saving the
states cheap hydro-electric
power for Oregonians’ use,’’ he
said.
Wood commented that Straub’s
attempt to battle high unemploy
ment figures in Oregon “with tradi
tional job programs in the state are
temporary band-aid measures at
best.” He favored tax incentives
for the building of low-income
housing, reforestation and man
ufacturing use of raw forest pro
ducts to help cut the jobless rate.
He added he is strongly in favor
of increasing incentives for private
businesses to hire unskilled labor
and is in favor of skilled-training
programs at the high school and
community college level designed
for local job opportunities.
Straub said he thinks 30-40
percent of the state budget is
spent on inter-agency hassles. He
advocated for increasing the
government’s service to Oregon
ians and minimizing of bureaucra
tic spending and delay.
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Wood favors improving nursing
home services and higher nursing
home employee wages. He favors
prevention in the health field, stat
ing he thinks health care providers
have little interest in supplying
preventive health.
Wood agreed property tax is a
big issue. He said he has “no
specific proposal” at this time, but
spoke about a sales tax to relieve
the burden of financing education
from the middle-income bracket.
He also supported the two cent
gas tax increase, space-age
transportation systems and op
posed legalized casino gambling.
Marvin Hollingsworth, a democra
tic gubernatorial candidate, advo
cates legalized gambling to pay
for state education costs in
Oregon.
Masked bandit flies coup
with the Cuckoo nest’s loot
As Randall McMurphy was rais
ing havoc in the second showing
of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s
Nest,” another man wearing a
stocking cap grabbed $80 worth of
ticket receipts Sunday night.
Judy Maljai, who was taking tic
kets for the EMU-sponsored
movie, in PLC, told police that at
about 9:30 a man carrying a flash
light ran up to her and yelled,“Hold
it right there."
The man was last seen disap
pearing into a nearby apartment
complex, police said.
The man was wearing a light
blue ski jacket, blue jeans, white
tennis shoes and black leather
gloves. Maljai described the man
as being about 5 feet 9 and weigh
ing about 170 pounds.
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