Oregon daily emerald., March 31, 1978, Page 9, Image 9

Atiyeh’s primary issues
taxes, environment, energy
By JANIE NAFSINGER
Of the Emerald
Oregon needs a governor who ‘“really un
derstands” the issues and people, State Sen. Vic
Atiyeh told Rubicon Society members Thursday
and he said he’s the man for the job.
Atiyeh, speaking at the society’s weekly lun
cheon meeting, has joined Tom McCall and
Roger Martin in the Republican race for governor,
following his unsuccessful bid for that post in
1974.
“Oregon is in trouble and will continue to remain
in trouble until someone who does (understand)
takes the reins,” the Portland senator said. “I
know what to do and how to do it.”
Oregon's problems are not being solved be
cause the government has erected bureaucratic
“barriers" that block solutions, Atiyeh said. “Gov
ernment is part of the problem rather than part of
the solution,” he said.
Atiyeh said he hopes to get through these bar
riers to the problems.
This year's campaign issues are the same as
those in 1974, Atiyeh said, "and that's too bad,
because now they’re worse.” He maintained the
number one issue is still property taxes, but other
big issues are environmental protection and
energy.
“My feet are firmly planted in both the environ
ment and the economy,” Atiyeh said. "I believe
we can have both.”
“Added energy” — conservation and alterna
tives — should also receive top priority, Atiyeh
said. He said Oregon's colleges and universities
must expand their research efforts to help in the
search for answers to energy problems.
Atiyeh also mentioned a problem in higher edu
cation — many people are getting “squeezed out
of it,” and it’s not the poor, either, he said.
People with “an awkward amount of money,” or
those who are "too rich” to qualify for benefits
available to the poor, cannot afford to pay for a
college education themselves, he said.
Sen. Victor Atiyeh
Survivors of jetliner collision
try to cope with emotional scars
LONGVIEW, Wash., (AP) —
For Cleo Brusco, each moment of
life is more precious today since
she survived the worst disaster in
air history.
“Now that I have seen how
quickly life can be snuffed out, I
don’t want to lose a single day of
loving and living,’’ she says.
A total of 581 persons died one
year ago this week in the collision
of two 747 jetliners at Santa Cruz
de Tenerife.
But survivors, too, were victims
— most will carry physical scars
for the rest of their lives as remin
ders of their brush with death.
Others, like Terri Brusco, suf
fered psychic scars. She still is
under a doctor’s care, working her
way through the trauma of the
crash and the guilt feelings that
come when “you escape and
everyone around you is dying or
injured.”
She and her husband walked
away from the crash without in
jury. Four other local residents
have spent much of the last 12
months undergoing treatment for
bums and fractures.
Today they thank God as wel
as doctors and nurses whc
worked around the clock to save
their lives.
“I’m sure faith was the answei
to our being spared,” says Erma
Schlect, a Longview realtor. “The
fact that I felt no fear and that ev
erything seemed automatic, as
though someone was helping me
along, makes me sure of it.”
Schlect, Dick and Kay Sinriett
Cleo Brusco and her son anc
daughter-in-law, Rosland anc
Terri Brusco, survived the fiery
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collision. Two longtime Longview
residents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver
Craig, died in the crash.
Sinnett, a grocery store owner,
says he remembers dropping to
his knees as the impact shud
dered the Pan Am 747.
“I felt in that instant that we were
going to die,” he remembers. “So
in the act of contrition you pray
your thanks for all the good things
in your life and ask forgiveness for
the things you’re not too proud of.”
He said that only his wife’s insis
tent voice saying, ' Come on, Dick,
we’ve got to get out of here,”
brought him to his feet.
They climbed over the seats to
the edge of a gaping hole.
Sinnett’s hands were burned as
he cleared a path through the
flames.
“Then I don’t remember any
thing until I picked myself off the
ground,” he said. “I began to
search for Kay and, looking back,
saw her crawling away from the
wreckage.”
She had broken her left foot and
fractured her other leg when she
jumped off the wing, the equival
ent of jumping off a three-story
building.
Mrs. Kay Sinnett sums up the
reaction of the six survivors: “We
will never forget the out-pouring of
love that has come from people
everywhere. People really do care
about each other.”
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