Kerans: primaries boring
By GREG WASSON
Of the Emerald
If one can believe Rep. Gratten
Kerans, Democratic incumbent in
District 39, Eugene area residents
are in for boring primary races for
seats in the state House of Rep
resentatives.
“In Lane County districts, I don’t
forsee, right now, any heavily con
tested primaries except for District
44 (currently represented by Re
publican Bill Rogers)."
In that East Lane district, Ke
rans expects a Democratic prim
ary fight between Lenore Yearous
and Ed Beal (husband of Wicks
Beal, a former City Council
member).
Kerans faces, at this time, no
primary competition and he
doesn’t expect a fight in the gen
eral like he had last time.
“They (the state Republican
Party) had me targeted. But I beat
their man almost 2 to 1.”
According to Kerans, he was
outspent in that race 2.3 to 1, and
the money spent in that election
was the fourth highest for any rep
resentative race in the state.
“I hardly expect it to be re
peated,” says Kerans, “since I
beat this fellow (Republican Gary
Wright) by 4,000 votes two years
ago.”
For Wright, Kerans’ feeling that
the race won’t be as tough this
time is good news. Wright prom
ises to run as vigorous a cam
paign but is unsure if the money
will be there.
“Well, that’s always tough to tell
this early, but frankly we haven’t
raised that much money yet. But
I’ve got a funding committee and
we re looking to raise money,”
Wright says.
According to Kerans, District
41, represented by Democrat
Nancie Fadeley, was another
priority for the Republican Party in
1976.
“But they shot their best shot.
They don’t have another candi
date as good as Vance (Freeman,
who came within 500 votes of de
feating Fadeley in Nov. 76),” says
Kerans.
District 40 is another of interest
to the University community. Rep
resented by Republican Dave
Frohnmayer, the district will prob
ably provide little spark during the
primary. No Republican has filed
against Frohnmayer but Democrat
Don Chlamers is scheduled to an
nounce his candidacy today.
While Chalmers hasn’t been a
student since 1975, he has
worked administering student af
fairs for about three years. He
feels this puts him in a good posi
tion.
District 40 encompasses basi
cally those living south of 18th Av
enue. Those north of the dividing
line live in District 42. Republican
Mary Burrows is the incumbent for
that district and will likely face no
primary challenger. The Demo
crats are trying to find a candidate
and may be close, but he or she
hasn’t filed yet.
Polygraphy
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Photo by Dennis Htcfcok
tugene polygrapher H. Paul Dueber eyes his all knowina' means of existence. Dueber sees about 25
people a month, usually for theft investigation or to verify employee applications, while the police depart
ment sees only about four people monthly.
But as fool proof as polygraphy
may appear to be, it has its limits.
‘‘One-hundred percent of the
people who come in here have
screwed up at one time or
another. But you can’t judge future
performance by past mistakes,’’
says Dueber. ‘‘My job is to cut
through the B.S.”
Once that’s done, it’s up to the
employer to make a decision. And
Dueber agrees these decisions
are not always made fairly.
'There’s an underlying current
of racism in Eugene that really
surprises me,” says Dueber.
In addition, the polygrapher
says employers often have un
realistic expectations about their
employees.
“I was testing applicants for a
company based in Texas that
didn’t want to hire anyone who
had smoked marijuana. During
the tests I found 92 percent of the
applicants smoked marijuana at
least occasionally.’'
“They just couldn’t cut out nine
out of ten applicants and find
enouah aood people to fill their
jobs.”
Eventually the company re
vised its requirements.
Dueber takes a harder line with
people who attempt to lie during
testing.
“If a guy lies during the test,
you’ve got to believe he can’t be
trusted. Either that or he has
something to hide that could catch
f
up with him in the future."
His attitude doesn’t extend to
the deception people practice in
their daily lives.
“There are masks each of us
wear to portray a character. To
maintain that character a little bit
of deception is required. If we
were to strip those masks away,
people would be traumatized."
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