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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1981)
Uonna Sffmf HAIRCUTTING TO SATISFY YOU *8 00 2001 Franklin Blvd. 686-2544 Welcome To Spring Term OLD TAYLORS JjJ, 99c Weekly Special Cheese Omelette, Home Fries & Muffins till 11:30 Weekend Entertainment Friday Sat. Party Kings Gold Rush Serving the U of O since 1930 IVe're Tayloredto serve. At 13th & Kincaid 7 a.m. till close Atiyeh, not voters, will select power board representitives L By GREG WASSON Of the Emerald SALEM — Legislation allow ing the governor to appoint Oregon's two representatives to the Northwest Regional Power Council won approval 54-5 in the House Tuesday. Opponents centered their op position on the claim the bill violates the Oregon Constitu tion. According to the five law makers, including Rep. Margie Hendriksen, D-Eugene, a 1932 amendment, known as Article Xl-D, says any state power authority must be a three member panel elected from the entire state. “I believe,” said Hendriksen during debate, “that this con stitutional provision places a limitation on both the Legisla ture and the governor, that the people of Oregon have already spoken through Xl-D as to how 1 Emerald graphic we are to provide energy development in this state." The argument is that the two council members must be ap pointed by the Xl-D panel, although that provision never has been activated Hendriksen joined five other legislators to ask Attorney Gen eral Dave Frohnmayer if a bill allowing the governor to make such appointments violated the constitution. Frohnmayer said it did not. In an opinion issued March 20, Frohnmayer said Xl-D only applies when the state is en gaged in activities “related to development of electric energy in a proprietary capacity.” This is different than when the state acts in a regulatory sense, he said. One of the representatives who queried Frohnmayer, Rep. Bill Bradbury, D-Coos County, disagreed with Frohnmayer’s PREPARE.YOURSELF for 1c Banana Split Sale Tomorrow at DQ 406 E. 13th Ave. Buy one at the regular price — get the second for a penny. If? opinion. He released a state ment saying Frohnmayer’s opinion assumed the only pur pose of Article Xl-D was to put this state in the development of electric energy in a “proprietory capacity." "This is incorrect. While this was one of the purposes or possible courses of action, this was not the only purpose of the article,” Bradbury said. Bradbury then cites the Oregon State Grange, which proposed the amendment in 1931. Its writings show the grange wanted public control of all electric energy aspects. However, Bradbury didn't convince many of his col leagues on the floor. Another representative who questioned Frohnmayer, Rep. Rick Bauman, D-Portland, said Xl-D was an issue for another day. "We cannot sweep the Oregon Constitution under the rug and pretend it doesn't exist. It is there and it must be faced. "I would hope that in a later vehicle we can address the question of Xl-D and the im plementation of that article. But right now we need to act so we can reap the best possible ben efits from what I believe to be an unfortunate piece of federal legislation.” Rep. Wayne Fawbush, D Hood River, head of the House Energy Committee, said it was a given that Oregon’s participa tion in a regional act will be challenged in court. But he suggested the votes weren’t there to address the issue legis latively. Bradbury used the legisla ture to take another shot at the federal act and what he sees as a raw deal for Oregon. The coastal representative com plained the legislation requires all Northwest rate payers to pay for nuclear plants in Washing ton. “By participating in the power council, we are mortgaging our people for approximately one third of the cost of those plants. And that cost, which started at $4.1 billion a few short years ago, is now in excess of $18 billion." But proponents of the bill said even if Oregon refuses to par ticipate, Oregon rate payers still will have to pay. =- •• • "• . ,il Can the University’s $30 Academic Speed Reading Course be as good as the $500 Commercial Speed Reading Course? Yes...and better! With so much reading required for school, how can you afford not to take a reading improvement course? How can you afford not to take ours? For more information contact The Learning Resources Center 5 Friendly Hall; 686-3226
