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Bud for Guv
By SHIRLEY KRAUS
Of The Emerald
If elected governor, Republican Candidate L.E.
“Bud” Kretsinger said he would take on an advis
ory role, working to get the ‘right’ people in gov
ernment.
Kretsinger said he is running for governor be
cause as a homeowner, he would like to “sleep in
peace,” as a taxpayer he would like to have more
control and as a small businessman, he would like
to "show a profit.”
Speaking to a small audience at the University
last Friday, Kretsinger said he has no political
experience, nor does he have all the answers.
“I can just use the knowledge I’ve got in the
years behind me to the best of my ability,” he said.
Generally speaking, Kretsinger said he would
like to get government back to the city and make it
more efficient. He said government is “overwa
tered” and “overfertilized,” resulting in its growth.
Government needs more management, he
added
Kretsinger is in favor of controlled and regu
lated gambling in Oregon. The profit could be
used for education or homeowners, he said.
The state police force should be given “more
teeth,” Kretsinger said. He would like to eliminate
drug traffic across the Oregon borders, but said
the state hasn't given the police weapons or laws
with which to accomplish this.
More trees should be harvested to cut inflation
according to Kretsinger. He said Oregon is one of
the three main timber states, but it’s not “harvest
ing the timber it should.”
Kretsinger is also against welfare funding of
abortions.
“You might need a car a whole lot worse than
someone in that predicament,” he said, and the
government won’t fund a car.
“We gotta have nuclear power,” said Kret
singer, but he added that waste should be elimi
nated. He said he feels gays “need to be policed.”
He also said he doesn’t think the drinking age
should be lowered. “I’ve never really been for it,”
he said, despite the fact that he’s in the liquor
business.
If defeated, Kretsinger said he won’t lose any
sleep over it. He said his campaign is limited due
to lack of money.
“When I see the amount of money some of
these people are getting, I am appalled,” he said.
“We’re just doing the best we can with what we
have.”
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Photo by Sun DeWertf
Bud Kretsinger
Quota controversy continues as whales die
ON THE ARCTIC OCEAN ICE
(AP) — Come home! The crews
huddled on the ice several miles
from the shore heard the plea
throughout the afternoon on the
local public radio station.
The message was sent by the
senior whaling captains of Bar
row, the nation's northernmost vil
lage. Both the Alaskan Eskimo
Whaling Commission and the Bar
row Whalers Association urged
the crews to avoid a confrontation
with federal agents, who had ac
cused Barrow crews of taking too
many bowhead whales.
The issue was the first quota on
the 2,000-year-old subsistence
hunt. The quota was set by the
International Whaling Commis
sion, which feared the bowhead
was nearing extinction. No com
mercial hunting of the bowhead
has been allowed for more than 35
years.
In the broadcast message,
chairman Jacob Adams of the Es
kimo commission told the whalers
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government would support Es
kimo efforts to have the quota
lifted.
Shortly after the broadcast,
several of the more than 20 crews
passed by, towing home their
umiaks, 30-foot long wood frame
ships covered with seal skin. The
boats hold a crew of up to six men.
By the time the sun finally dip
ped into the placid water early
Sunday only one crew remained
on the ice.
Billy Neakok and his crew
vowed to hunt until they got a
whale, despite threats of federal
prosecution and of ostracism by
their own people.
They had moved their camp,
camouflaged with chunks of ice,
to within a few feet of the remains
of the controversial fourth whale
taken by the villagers. Under the
quota, Barrow was entitled to
three whales.
Mil Zahn, chief of enforement
for the National Marine Fisheries
Service, said quota violations
would be prosecuted, but the said
agents weren't likely to go out on
the ice and force a confrontation.
He noted it was the first quota, and
that Barrow has taken more than
20 whales in some years. He said,
"We want to be reasonable.” I was
impressed by Jacob Adams’ mes
sage to stop hunting...they’re set
ting the tone for the future,” Zahn
said.
There were some anxious mo
ments, however, after the senior
captians made their appeal be
cause another Eskimo leader —
not a commission member —
went on the radio to urge the
crews to continue. He contended
only two of the four whales taken
were bowheads, and thus the vil
lage was entitled to one more. But
Adams prevailed.
Some whalers had contended
two of the whales were right
whales, and thus not subject to the
bowhead quota. The issue appar
ently arose partly because the Es
kimo language has two words for
bowheads, depending on their
size and shape. Zahn, however
said bowheads are a type of right
whale.
Federal biologists also said
bowheads were the only type of
right whale in the area, and their
examinations of the four whales
indidcated all were bowheads.
Adams, speaking softly but de
liberately, said there was a
genuine belief among his people
that two of the whales should not
be counted as bowheads.
Adams, wearing a whale button
from the anti-whale hunting
Greenpeace Foundation, added,
“We want to cooperate. We re
hoping that if we do, the federal
government will try to get the IWC
to lift the quota.” Adams and other
Eskimo commission members
had decided to ask the crews to
come back after several meetings
with federal agents.
The fourth whale had been
taken Wednesday evening, and a
few hours later a fifth whale was
struck and lost.
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