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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1982)
reporter's notebook The lull before the storm By Ron Hunt OtmaCrnanm Tuesday afternoon, on the freeway near Salem. a television cameraman was photographing a state worker tending to a freeway divider Why wasn't the cameraman at the Capitol? The special session of the Legislature, less than a week away, has great im plications for the future of the state — and he’s filming a highway worker The atmosphere at the Capitol — sur rounded by a maze of one-way streets (political town, you Know) — is calm Denny Miles, the one who controls the flow of information from the governor's office, welcomes distractions He spends 40 minutes with two reporters — something he won’t have time to do after Monday — with the press clamoring for his attention He answers questions matter-of-factly and in time with drumming fingers Miles' speech is peppered with homey phrases The impact on small businesses of the governor s proposal to speed up collection of employee withholding taxes is "a small hiccup" compared to the damage of a corporate excise tax Two floors up in the Senate wing, the Legislative Research office awaits the activity of next week Catalogs, with reports on "Pet Food Tax,” "Solid Waste Fuels for Automobiles” and "Fires Caused By Collisions With High Rear End (High-jacker) Vehicles,' wait for the curious The rest of the town is just as slow Chez Robert, a showy French restaurant frequented by legislators, has maybe eight customers Monday morning, the freeway near Salem will be clogged with cars driven by journalists and legislators going to the special session Will the cameraman be on the freeway or in the capitol? 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Both calculators have LCD displays, long battery life and fit right in your pocket. TI-40 and T1-55-11 calcu lators. Two new slants on math from Texas Instruments. f~ Look for them wherever \Jl~ calculators are sold. Texas Instruments INCORPOR AT E D TI-55-II tr 19*1 Texas Instruments Incorporated Crash Continued from Page 2 and escape across the ice coating the river Coast Guard and Park Police helicopters were sent to the scene to drop lines with lifesav ing rings to survivors in the river One survivor grasped a rescue ring, but then fell back into the freezing water, and was pulled to shore by divers Rescue boats were at the scene, too. but the ice impeded their work The airport was closed, with incoming flights diverted to Dulles International Airport in Virginia The crash occurred little more than a mile from the White House The government had shut down its offices in midafternoon because of the snow that blan keted the city "One of our people who saw the accident said he saw the plane nick the south side of the bridge, skip over it and go into the Potomac River on the north side of the bridge, said uavia Hess of the FAA The Boeing 737 is a short range twin-engine jet On New Year's Day, the FAA said that the nation s major air lines had logged 26 consecutive months without a fatal accident The last fatal crash involving a major carrier occured on Oct 31, 1979 when a Western Airline DC 10 crashed in Mexico City There had not been a fatal airliner crash at National Airport since 1949, when an Eastern Air Lines DC4 collided with a mili tary plane Fifty-one people were killed The crash also was the first fatal accident involving a com mercial airliner since President Reagan fired 11,500 air traffic controllers for an illegal strike last August Clarification II Due to a typesetting error, a clarification in Wednesday’s Emerald was inaccurate The clarification reported that Lane County Commissioner Scott Lieualien agrees with commissioner Jerry Rust that businessess and the Eugene Chamber of Commerce are to blame for the county’s econ omic ills Lieualien does not agree with Rust's conclusion. staff EdMor Sally Hodgkmaon Managing EdMor G afine/ Boahmar Naan Editor Harry Estere John Haaly Photo Editor Bob Baker Graphics Editor Mai DePungs Editorial Pape Editor Cort fornakj Sports Edhor Stere Spat? 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