Commisioners to decide
Sales tax plan referred to county
By Michele Matassa
Of the Emerald
The proposed Oregon state
sales tax rounded one more curve
on the road to public vote Tues
day, as the Lane County
Legislative Committee decided
unanimously to refer the plan to
the Board of County Commis
sioners for consideration.
The commissioners now must
decide whether to request an
election next spring for the pro
posed 4 percent tax.
The state Legislature passed a
bill during its recent special ses
sion requiring that a majority of
each of the state's local govern
ments — county and city govern
ments and school boards — ask
Secretary of State Norma Paulus
to hold an election for the tax pro
posal before voters have the op
portunity to decide the issue.
The tax plan, designed to pro
vide state property tax relief, con
tains a government expenditure
limitation that would restrict spen
ding to the highest amount of
covered appropriations in the last
six fiscal years prior to fiscal year
1985-86, said Bud Rainey, senior
management analyst for the
county.
Rainey said that request for an
election is not "ratification or sup
port one way or another (for the
tax plan)."
Commissioner Bill Rogers, who
chairs the legislative committee,
expects the Board to recommend
an election.
"Many people who are
philosophically opposed to sales
tax see nothing wrong with sen
ding it out and letting people vote
on it," Rogers said after the
meeting.
Rogers said he supports not on
ly the election, but the tax itself.'
The plan's spending limitation
shouldn't affect the county
government severely because "we
have such a low tax-base expen
diture," he said.
Pending approval by local
governments, voters will have a
chance to judge the proposal on
March or May, 1984.
So far, three counties, five cities
and one school district have re
quested an election, says Donna
Morgan, administrative assistant
to the state's director of elections.
Before an election is approved,
122 cities, 163 schools and 19
counties must request one,
Morgan says.
The Legislature determined this
ratification process when it pass
ed the property tax relief plan,
which contains four bills.
In the main bill, the ratification
process accompanies the con
stitutional features of the sales tax
and government expenditure
limitation.
A separate bill would implement
the sales tax and expenditure
limits if approved by voters.
Special election provisions for
the referral to the voters make up
the third bill. The last, which
already is law regardless of public
vote on the sales tax, freezes pro
perty tax rates, with some excep
tions, until 1987.
'Myths' lead to nuclear conflict, author says
By Melissa Martin
Of the Emerald
Soviets wear black hats and are
the root of all evil while Americans
wear white hats and are sinless in
the eyes of the Reagan administra
tion, Los Angeles Times writer
Robert Scheer told a University
crowd Tuesday.
And if Reagan continues to
believe a build-up in nuclear
weapons will lead to prestige,
power and influence, the world
will face a future nuclear war,
Scheer said.
"If we keep on with simplistic
thinking that we can do anything
and they can do nothing then we
are headed for war," said the
author of a recent book, "With
Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush
and Nuclear War."
Scheer called for more com
munication between the Soviet
Union and the United States
because "there has never been
such tension between the two
super powers as we have now."
The "Star Wars system" has
nuclear arms devices circling
above our heads as a way of pro
tecting ourselves."
American people and the
Reagan administration share
several myths about nuclear war,
'If we keep on with simplistic thinking that we
can do anything and they can do nothing then
we are headed for war'
— Robert Scheer
brought the world to the most
dangerous stage of the nuclear
arms race, Scheer said.
"We've taken civil defense into
the heavens and we see it as a
nuclear umbrella," Scheer said.
"Like Star Wars, we have
Scheer told the packed PLC lec
ture hall.
The nation thinks the Soviets
are responsible for the world's
problems, and don't believe
Sov; .’f concern for national
defense can be justified. These
simplistic ideas are at the heart of
the nuclear arms race, he said.
And the idea that the United
States disarmed during Carter's
arms control period while Soviets
took advantage of the situation to
build up their weaponry is also
false, he said.
“The U.S. built every nuclear
system it wanted to build," Scheer
said.
But the American people aren't
the only ones with misconception
of Soviet society, Scheer said. In a
recent interview with Scheer,
Reagan called the Russians
“godless monsters "
Scheer called this a simplistic
categorization of a complex
society.
“If we don't challenge percep
tions we can't deal with the arms
race,” Scheer said.
State senators fly to Nicaragua Saturday
A group of 11 women, including
Oregon state Senators Margie
Hendriksen, D-Eugene, and
Jeanette Hamby, R-Hillsboro, will
leave Saturday, Nov.5 for a 10-day
tour of Nicaragua.
It is the second in a series of
tours organized by the
Nicaraguan Women's Association
and the Eugene Council for
Human Rights in Latin America.
The diverse group consists of
women from Oregon's business
and professional fields, as well as
state and local government. The
only non-Oregonian to participate
in the tour will be Washington
Senator Nita Rinehart, D-N.E.
Seattle.
While in Nicaragua, the group
will meet with several high level
Residents dismiss hazards cited by BPA
By Paul Ertelt
Of the Emerald
Several area residents say the
Bonneville Power Administration
has exaggerated the possible
health hazards of weatherization
and should expand its energy con
servation program.
Residents responded Tuesday
to a recent Draft Environmental
Impact Statement issued by the
BPA at a public hearing in the
Eugene Conference Center. The
statement says sealing air leaks in
homes can increase the concen
tration of various air pollutants.
Started by the BPA in 1981, the
weatherization program sub
sidizes installation of insulation in
electrically heated homes. It also
subsidizes house sealing
weatherization, such as caulking,
weather stripping, and installing
storm windows, but 70 percent of
area homes are not eligible for
this program because their levels
of air pollutants are considered
too high.
Currently, the BPA is consider
ing whether to expand the pro
gram, maintain it at its present
level or delay action for three to
five years to conduct further
research.
Norman Clark of the BPA said
expansion of the program could
conserve enough energy to pro
vide power for 26,000 homes and
save the BPA $26 million per year,
but these savings must be weigh
ed against the possiblity of pro
ducing from 2 to 65 lung cancers
per year because of the pollutant
problem.
But Fred Walter of Cottage
Grove said the effects of the
pollutants can be mitigated by us
ing heat exchangers and
dehumidifiers.
Chris Attneave of Eugene called
the BPA's report on the hazards of
weatherization "overkill." "It
looks like the Bonneville doesn't
want to do the conservation," he
said.
Representatives of the Eugene
Water and Electric Board, Lane
Electric Cooperative and OSPRIG
also spoke in favor of
weatherization.
One resident, however, came
out against expanding the pro
Continued on Page 5A
government officials, including
the Minister of Health, Tea Guido,
and the Vice Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Nora Astorga.
The group will also visit an open
prison farm project and talk with
members of the Nicaraguan
Human Rights Commitee.
The women emphasize that the
trip has a strictly educational
rather than political, purpose and
that group members will pay their
own expenses.
"I want to learn what is going on
in Nicaragua," says Hendriksen,
"I feel that Oregonians are con
cerned about Central America and
I want to be able to speak about
the situation drawing on my own
personal experiences."
Hamby said that in addition to
gaining "a first-hand look at the
situation" she hopes to establish a
hospital contact through which
medical supplies can be
channeled.
"As soon as I can find an in
dividual and an address at the
hospital, there will be a continual
shipment of medical supplies
from St. Vincent's Hospital in
Portland to Managua,” says
Hamby.
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