Goldschmidt speaks against higher speed limit
By B.J. Thomsen
Of thr Kmi>rild
SALEM — () o v . N e i I
Ooldschmidt said Tuesday that
lie would prefer the current
maximum speed limit on
Oregon roads and highways not
he raised.
“I am not in favor of raising
the speed limit, but I think the
legislature is going to raise it.”
he said.
As written now, IIH .1147 also
would make illegal radar detec
tors used to foil attempts by
police to catch speeders.
The bill, if passed, would
eliminate the current 55 mph
speed limit without the loss of
federal highway funds.
Legislative
issues
Karlier this month Congress
overrode a presidential veto of a
highway funds bill, part of
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which stipulated that states that
raise speed limits no longer will
forfeit federal highway funds.
The hill repealed a 1973 law
passed by Congress that said
states would enforce a 35 rnph
speed limit or lose all federal
highway funds.
Oregon was the first state to
enact the 55 rnph speed limit
The Oregon hill to repeal the
current speed limit is now
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Committee, and public hearings
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Peace Corps \olunteer Margaret
Pettihnne of Seattle, a health and
nutrition specialist serving in the
M est African nation of The (uirnhia,
recently wrote this account of her
work in that developing country.
“Hakcndik is a Gambian farm
ing village located on the North bank
ol the Gambia Kiser, not tar from
the Senegalese border. I here are
1 .(HK) people living here speaking
diverse languages of Mandinka,
Wollof. hula, Jola and Scrrehule.
Two chiefs preside over the village,
one a Mandinka, one a Wollof.
Both served in the British Army
during WW II. 1 he main activity is
farming rice and vegetables by the
women and couscous by the men.
One villager, Mustapha Jam
men. has been propagating Mango
trees in his back yard in tin cans for
5 years or more. He was encouraged
to do this when he heard radio
reports out of Senegal talking of the
advance of the desert. (There is, of
course, no electricity here, so he
listens when he has batteries.) When
the trees are about IS inches high he
transplants them to a field and car
ries water to them from a well which
is about one quarter mile distant.
He protects his trees with bamboo
fences and bits of corrugated tin.
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There is no herd law here so goals,
sheep, and the big horned African
cattle wander at will. Anything
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rate lot Mustapha’s trees is very low.
After five years he has 7 trees.
As a Peace Corps Volunteer I
was posted to this village to investi
gate the causes ol malnutrition. At
the same time, I became aware every
day that the land was blowing
here they call it the Harmattan
winds. Sand is everywhere.
In the hopes of increasing food
production, changing land use and
perhaps altering the work load of
women, the villagers and 1 began
talking of tree planting. Together
with Mustapha, the Primary School
Headmaster, and a prominent
woman we obtained U.S. A I D
funds to provide adequate fencing
and an accessible water supply for a
fruit farm. School children are each
assigned a tree to care for and can be
seen watering their trees morning
and night. Villagers who were skep
tical of Mustapha’s vision are now
asking how to start their own. It is
a beginning.”
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(Joldschmidt also expressed
disappointment at the failure of
the House last Thursday to pass
by a vote of 25 to 35 a bill (SB
87) that would require Orego
nians to wear saftey Ixdts. On
Friday a motion to reconsider
the vote was carried 53 to 6, and
the bill was rereferred to the
House Human Resources
(Committee.
“I would have rather they
passed it in the House, but I
think now it will go to the
voters.” Coldschmidt said “If
it is not possible to pass a
measure mandating seat belts. 1
would support a referral to the
voters.”
Goldschmidt said the main
reason he would like to see the
seat l>elt bill passed is because
he is confident that the speed
limit will be increased. And the
Oregon Traffic Safety Commis
sion has said, according to
Goldschmidt, that the man
datory seat belt law coupled
with the increase in speed limit
would actually save lives.
This is compared to the pre
sent situation where average
speeds are in excess of (it) mph
and there is no seat belt
requirement.
The Traffic Safety Commis
sion. despite this statement, has
com*! out strongly against HB
:t 147 and strongly in favor of SB
H7.
Proposal endorsed to help
community college transfer
By (diris Norred
<)1 Ihr Kmorald
S AI .KM — A proposal to help
students transfer from two-year
community colleges to public
four-year colleges and univer
sities was endorsed Tuesday by
the House F d u c a t i o n
(lommittee.
But the proposal could lead to
conflict in the State System of
Iligher Education.
The proposal. House Bill
requires a committee to
develop a uniform system of
( ourse numbers that will be us
ed lor lower-division classes in
community colleges and four
year ( olleges across the state.
r
Legislative
issues
“There is a real need for this
bill." said Kducation (Commit
tee (Chairman Bruce Hugo, I)
Scappoose. “It for no other pur
pose, to at least guarantee
cooperation between the State
System and Oregon’s communi
ty colleges.’’
Transfer students often claim
they “lose" credits or have to
repeat classes because four-year
colleges and universities will
not credit them for classes from
community colleges that have
the same suhjei t matter hut dif
ferent numbers.
The transfer-credit issue
sparked a handful of bills in the
Legislature this session, most of
which were boiled into the hill
passed on Tuesday.
The measure requires a
course-numbering committee to
be appointed by State System
Chancellor William Davis and
tin; executive director of com
munity college services, Mike
Holland The State System and
community colleges are to be
equally represented on the com
mittee, which will develop the
uniform numbering system by
July 1. 1990,
In the fall of 1990. the state's
four-year colleges and univer
sities are planning to convert to
the semester calendar.
The State System already is
doing what the bill, if passed,
will require it to do, said harry
Pierce, vice chancellor for
academic affairs. The State
System already has set up a
working committee to re
evaluate courses as part of the
semester system conversion
process, Ik? said.
Some ot the four-year colleges
and universities already have
developed specific transfer
agreements with selected com
munity colleges. Such
agreements usually say that an
associate's degree from a com
munity college will transfer ful
ly to the four-year school.
Administrators at tin? Univer
sity have said the specific
transfer agreements are much
more desirable than the
Turn to Transfer, Page 10
Correction
11*'* Oregon Daily Rmerald incorrectly identified Keith
Halderston in Monday s Streetwise. The photograph next to
which Ihraheem Wallah’s name appeared was actually of
Halderston. I he hmerald regrets any contusion this may have
caused.
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