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.
Diamond Shamrock Corp.,
which is drilling in Clatsop
County south of Knappa, has
permits for two more wells.
Buzz Ehrens of Ehrens Pe
troleum Co. of Salem says he
will apply for a permit to drill
near Garibaldi in Tillamook
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Spiro Agnew on trial
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Trial
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Maryland $200,000 he allegedly
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motion by the state seeking an
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for testimony in the case."
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L.A. busing sidelined
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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.