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Legislature confronts moral issues SALEM (AP) - Should law makers decide whether a per son may have an abortion, smoke marijuana or pray in school? “We are, after all, politicians,” says Rep. Ted Bugas, R-Astoria. “We have to reflect to some degree social attitudes, but there's a limit to this. We can’t in general legislate morality but we can try to give guidelines and signals." The signal the 1981 Legisla ture may send Oregonians is one of inaction on controversial social issues. Lawmakers this session face enough possible debits for making budget cuts without seeking more heat by voting on abortion and gay rights. House Minority Leader Paul Hanneman says even moves toward more conservative stances may be hard to sell. “It's better for the state to stay out of such issues entirely," says Hanneman, R-Cloverdale. “We tend to create more prob lems than we solve People believe that government has bungled it to a good extent al ready.” Some of the moral issues gathering dust in the 1981 Legislature include: —Abortion. There are several bills introduced at the request of Oregon Right to Life. The most controversial (SB364) would ban state funding for abortion except to save the life of the mother. The measure has been assigned to the budget-writing Joint Ways and Means Commit tee, but no hearing has been scheduled. —Gay Rights. Rep. Gretchen Kafoury, D-Portland, has spon sored bills to ban discrimination against homosexuals in hous ing and employment (HB2702, HB2703, HB2704). Hearings have not been held on any of the proposals and similar bills in past sessions failed. —Marijuana. The House Judiciary Committee has been working on bills that would allow Oregonians to grow three plants of marijuana at home and would ban the sale of drug parapher nalia (HB2422). The panel has killed the legalization proposal and has greatly modified the proposed paraphernalia ban. —Prayer. A House resolution (HJR14) would ask voters to amend the constitution to allow Christmas nativity scenes in public schools and permit voluntary prayers in schools. The House Education Commit tee has not held a hearing. The Legislature also faces decisions on gambling, alcohol, cigarettes, seat belts, sexual education and the teaching of the creation theory of life. "It is government's role when appropriate to set policy, but there are many areas of privacy Natural gas search in Oregon continues SALEM (AP) — Applications to drill seven more wells in Western Oregon in search of natural gas are on file with the state Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. More applications for drilling are expected now that warmer and drier weather has arrived, says Dennis Olmstead, the department’s petroleum geologist. The Oregon Journal news paper in Portland said industry sources have claimed a short age of drilling rigs caused by heavy demand in California and the Rocky Mountain area has held up drilling in Oregon. Oregon’s second gas field was discovered earlier this year near Lebanon in Linn County by American Quasar Petroleum. The largest gas field, dis coverd two years ago, is at Mist in Columbia County. American Quasar plans to drill a 5,000-foot well near Jef ferson in Marion County and another 5,000-foot well near Fayetteville in Linn County. Reichhold Energy Corp, operator of the Mist field, plans to drill an 8,000-foot well to ex plore for gas under the Mist field, which is 3,000 feet below the surface. Reichhold also plans to drill exploration wells near Salem and Woodburn. 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Federal prosecutors charged L.A. busing sidelined LOS ANGELES (AP) - Su preme Court Justice William Rehnquist on Sunday refused to order mandatory busing for integration in Los Angeles pub lic schools The action means mandatory busing will end Monday in the nation’s second largest school district. However, Rehnquist said he will wait until he hears from the city’s school board before mak ing a final decision on an NAACP emergency request to keep busing alive by setting aside a lower court ruling The justice asked the Los Angeles school board to file a response to the emergency request by the close of business Wednesday. A federal appeals panel cleared the way Saturday for previously bused students to return to neighborhood schools by overturning a federal judge’s ruling that would have required officials to keep the busing plan operating. The 17-page petition filed by the NAACP with Rehnquist in Washington, D C., asked him to discard the 9th U S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling and to reinstate the district court order Joseph Duff, attorney for the National Assocation for the Ad vancement of Colored People in Los Angeles, had said he was not overly optimistic that Rehn quist would decide in the NAACP’s favor. that government should keep out of,” says Ms. Kafoury. “Abortion is a private medical decision the state has no busi ness being involved in at all. I don’t support bills that in any way restrict access to a medical procedure.” However, she thinks the state should adopt a policy opposing discrimination against homo sexuals. “Unfortunately, people with certain beliefs have attempted to force that belief on everyone and it’s become necessary for the Legislature to deal with it,” says Sen. Tony Meeker, R-Ami ty. "The abortion issue is one in which people wish to defend their right not to pay taxes for abortions.” Meeker, a member of the Ways and Means Committee, said he would try his best to get the panel to hear the abortion funding ban, although he thinks its chances of getting out of committee are 50-50 at best. "The flip liberal answer is that the Legislature should not be involved in morality and lifestyle,” says Rep. Tom Ma son, D-Portland. “No one is more guilty of involving them selves in people’s lifestyles than liberals, but we call it helping the oppressed.” at that time that Agnew received the money through an alleged kickback scheme. When he resigned as vice president on Oct. 10, 1973, Ag new pleaded no contest to federal income tax evasion charges. But he has denied ac cepting any bribes. Four men told prosecutors in 1973 that they received funds from engineers and contractors and tunneled the money to Ag new, who then was governor of Maryland. The admissions were made in sworn statements during the investigation which led to Ag new’s resignation. One of the men, I.H. "Bud” Hammerman, was a close as sociate of Agnew at the time. Hammerman has agreed to pay to the state treasury $30,000 which he said he received from the alleged scheme. The state is trying to collect $120,000 from Jerome Wolff, who was chairman of the State Roads Commission under Ag new, for his involvement in the alleged kickback scheme.
