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Economic proposal
tops legislative slate
By Dave Rodewald
Of the Emerald
Work will start today for the
1983 legislature when Gov Vic
Atiyeh presents his budget for
the 1983-85 biennium to the
State Legislature at 10:30 a m.,
according to the new Speaker
of the House
The budget will top the
agenda of the new Legislature,
said Grattan Kerans, the newly
elected Democratic Speaker of
the House, who spoke Tuesday
at the Springfield City Hall on
what the Democrats will hope to
accomplish during the 1983
Legislative session
Kerans said there will be an
estimated $2.8 billion in
revenues for the state, but he
fears Atiyeh will propose an
unbalanced budget calling for
an estimated $3 billion in
expenditures
That will leave the legislature
with the dilemma of how to
make up the difference The two
choices available are cutting
expenditures or raising tax
revenues, Kerans said
The Legislature is looking at
paring down budget expendi
tures to meet revenues, said
Kerans. If there is still not
enough money for some
programs then the Legislature
will consider changing the tax
laws
"1981 showed us that we
have to boil down the budget,"
said Kerans, Even after the
budget is slashed, however, the
Legislature seems to find it
needs more money to
adequately continue programs,
he added
The Legislature will look at a
retail sales tax as one means of
raising the money for the deficit.
That plan would bring in tax
revenues from visiting tourists,
but some people were worried
that it would penalize the poor
Kerans said that the law could
be written to allow rebates to
Oregonians
The Legislature will also
consider what they can buy with
the money left in the budget.
The state funds basically two
things — education and human
services — and that does not
leave much to cut, he said
"It is virtually impossible to
take hundreds of millions of
dollars away from education,"
Kerans said
Economists differ
on degree merits
By Frank Shaw
Of the Emerald
The difference between an undergraduate and a
master's degree in economics is either a higher paying job or
nothing, depending on which speaker a person chose to
believe Tuesday.
Representatives from the private, public and academic
sectors discussed the difference a bachelor s, master's and
Ph D in economics makes in a job search at a seminar
sponsored by the Undergraduate Economics Association.
A person with an undergraduate degree in economics
working for the federal government could expect to start at a
medium-level job collecting and processing data, said Joe
Stone, a University assistant economics professor. A person
with a Ph D would start at a higher level in a more authorita
tive position, he said.
The difference in each paycheck is not that great con
sidering the extra time spent to receive a Ph D., Stone said
Jim Scherzinger, a state economist in Salem, disagreed
“I don't see people with a bachelor's degree in econ
omics moving into any high-level economic jobs," he said.
At the state level, people with a minimum of a master’s
and often a Ph D hold all the professional economic posi
tions, Scherzinger said
The difference between degrees is more important in the
international and academic sectors, Stone said A Ph D is
standard at the universitv level and the international sector.
Judy Olbrich, representing the human resources
department at First Interstate Bank, said a person with a
master s degree and a person with a bachelor's degree are
treated almost the same, with the same options open to them
at the same pay.
Lawyer scores victory in quest for fees
By David Brown
Of the Emerald
Robert Ackerman, the
attorney representing Lane
County Commissioner-elect
Peter Defazio and about 25
Springfield ratepayers in a
successful suit against the
Sringfield Utility Board, began
collecting legal fees from the
utility Tuesday
Circuit Judge George Wood
rich ruled at Tuesday's hearing
that a portion of procedural
costs of the suit be repaid to
Ackerman by SUB
Woodrich is currently
deliberating on Ackerman's
petition to also bill SUB for his
legal service to Springfield
ratepayers in conducting the
suit against SUB Ackerman
took the case on the grounds
that he would seek payment
from the utility and not those he
represented
The suit was filed in
December 1981 and contended
that SUB had no authority to
enter into a contract with the
Washington Public Power Sup
ply System to fund construction
of two nuclear power plants —
now mothballed — regardless of
whether they were completed
In October, Woodrich ruied in
favor of Ackerman by agreeing
that SUB lacked the authority to
enter the contracts
That decision anulled SUB'S
debt to WPPSS Subsequently,
electric rates to SUB's cus
tomers were rolled back to
reflect the public utility's
savings resulting from the deci
sion.
Because the action benefited
Springfield ratepayers as a
whole, Ackerman petitioned
that SUB should pay him one of
a number of proposed service
charges that go as high as
$823,000
Ackerman claimed at
yesterday's hearing that SUB
necessitated his suit on behalf
of the ratepayers by defending
its authority to enter those
contracts
SUB was originally asked to
join with Ackerman on the side
of the ratepayers, but SUB
lawyers instead maintained that
the utility had the questioned
authority In a separate suit,
SUB contended that it did not
owe anything for the power
plants because WPPSS default
ed through mismanagement of
the projects.
At Tuesday's hearing, SUB's
legal representatives argued
that Ackerman could not ask for
reimbursment from SUB
because the utility also
represents the ratepayers' best
interest
SUB lawyers also argued that
the utility should not have to pay
Ackerman because the case
raised no questions of constitu
tional substance
Ackerman responded by say
ing that the question of a utility 's
authority to enter contracts on
behalf of public interest was
very constitutional
If Woodrich rules that a
specific amount be paid to
Ackerman by SUB, he may also
stipulate that WPPSS contribute
to that amount.
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