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Jackson slates
Nicaragua trip
DALLAS (AP) — The Rev.
Jesse Jackson says he will con
duct a fact-finding mission to
Nicaragua next month and urge
that nation’s leftist Sandinista
government to refrain from
warlike actions that might pro
voke the United States.
Jackson said he was invited to
organize the mission by
Nicaraguan President-elect
Daniel Ortega. Jackson, who has
said he believes a U.S. attack on
Nicaragua is “imminent,” said
Sunday he hoped his trip would
convince the Reagan ad
ministration “to turn its atten
tion to peace rather than to
war.”
Jackson was here to raise
money to pay off more than $1
million in debts remaining from
his unsuccessful bid for the
Democratic presidential
nomination.
Jackson told a news con
ference that he would urge
leaders of the Sandinista
government to avoid bringing
more sophisticated weapons in
to their country and to “assume
a strong posture for peace.”
“Although we have been in
vited by Nicaragua, ours will be
a critical look at its actions and
motivations." he said. “We will
serve as a rubber stamp for no
one.”
Jackson said he would travel
to Nicaragua Dec. 2-7 with a
delegation that includes Atlanta
Mayor Andrew Young and civil
rights leader Ralph Abernathy,
lie said he would announce the
rest of the delegation this week.
Jackson visited Nicaragua in
late June during his five-day sw
ing through Latin America.
Dealers want
odometer law
SALEM (AP) — Used car
dealers plan to ask the Oregon
Legislature to require that auto
odometer readings be recorded
on vehicle titles, a dealer
spokesperson says.
Wanda Merrill-Wahus, ex
ecutive director of the Oregon
Independent Auto Dealers
Association, says sales of cars
with rolled back odometers is a
growing problem.
Jan Margosian of the state
Justice Department’s Consumer
Fraud Divsion said some
estimates are that odometers
have been turned back on one in
every five used cars sold in
Oregon.
Listing mileage readings on
titles issued by the state Motor
Vehicles Division when cars are
sold would make tampering
easier to trace, Merrill-Wahus
said.
Dave Moomaw, division ad
ministrator, said the agency
supports the proposed
legislation.
Merrill-Wahus said odometer
fraud dropped sharply after
Congress made it illegal under
federal law in 1972. But the
practice since has increased in
states that don’t record mileages
as part of title transactions, she
said.
BPA reduces
rate increase
PORTLAND (AP) — The Bon
neville Power Administration
drew qualified praise from
utilities Monday after announc
ing that it would sharply reduce
a rate increase for wholesale
power announced just two mon
ths ago.
Instead of a 10 percent in
crease over the 27 months
beginning July 1, 1985, the in
crease will be 3.2 percent, the
federal power-marketing agen
cy said.
The BPA said the reduction,
which affects utilities that buy
the power for their residential
and farm customers, is possible
because of its decision earlier
this month to extend the
mothballing of two Washington
nuclear plants.
The reduced increase will
mean smaller increases than
previously feared in customers’
monthly utility bills, said Glenn
Gillespie, a spokesman for
Pacific Power & Light Co. in
Portland.
The Public Power Council of
Vancouver, Wash., which
represents 118 public utility
districts, repeated its previous
criticism of BPA for granting
rate breaks to aluminum plants
that buy directly from the agen
cy while increasing rates for
other customers.
“Our newest increase is
discouraging to our several
million Northwest customers,”
said Dan Ogden, council
manager. “It’s even more
distressing that a handful of
large industries served by BPA
will see their rates go down 8
percent next year.”
Couple finds
Feher weapon
From Emerald and wire service reports
A rifle belonging to Autzen
Stadium sniper Michael Feher
was discovered behind a
Eugene duplex Monday,
Eugene police detectives said.
According to Detective J.T.
Parr, the AR-15 rifle was found
in the bushes by a couple mov
ing their furniture out of the
duplex, located in the 200 block
of West 7th Avenue.
The owner of Anderson’s
Sporting Goods, 199 W. 8th
Ave., told police Feher recently
had purchased a similar rifle.
Detective Lloyd Davis said
police identified the rifle found
Monday as Feher’s by matching
the weapon’s serial number
with sales records from a local
sporting goods store.
Feher shot himself to death
Nov. 12 at the stadium after kill
ing a former Olympic sprinter
and wounding a student
wrestler.
Parr theorized Feher placed
the rifle behind the duplex in
the pre-dawn hours prior to the
shootings, before breaking into
the sporting goods store less
than two blocks away. Police
were alerted to the break-in by a
burglar alarm just after 4 a.m.
Parr said he believed Feher
decided to steal two rifles from
Anderson’s because his AR-15
had no sling and was not as easy
to carry.
The rifle contained a round of
ammunition but was on safety,
Parr said.
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He said a family lived in the
duplex the day of the sniping,
but moved out later in the week.
The rifle was found about 11:45
a.m. Monday.
Workers’ Comp
premiums drop
SALEM (AP) — Oregon,
which had some of the highest
workers’ compensation rates in
the nation, has dropped back in
to the pack, state officials say.
Oregon’s rates peaked in
1980, when premiums totaled
$550 million, according to Jerry
Brown, head of the state
Workers’ Compensation
Department.
That figure dropped to $325
million in 1983, Brown said
Workers’ compensation in
surance for injured workers is a
major cost of doing business for
many companies in Oregon.
Oregon currently ranks bet
ween 13th and 17th in terms of
premium costs, Brown said. It
used to be in the top handful of
states, he said.
Rates vary across the country
according to the generosity of
the benefit schedule, number of
qualifying conditions, number
of covered workers and the fre
quency of disabling accidents.
Companies generally look at
high rates as a negative factor in
deciding whether to locate new
plants in a state.
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