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Deaver loses appeal
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Michael K. Deaver. the former
presidential aide who is to
stand trial later this month on
perjury charges, today lost a
Supreme Court appeal aimed at
scuttling his prosecution.
The court, without comment,
let stand a decision that Deaver
prematurely pursued his
challenge of a federal law that
provides special independent
counsels to investigate top
government officials.
Deaver. a high-ranking
member of President Reagan's
staff from 1980 through 1985.
was indicted earlier this year.
His trial, after a false start in Ju
ly, is rescheduled to begin Oct.
19.
Deaver became the first per
son ever indicted under a law
authorizing court appointment
of independent counsels,
sometimes called special pro
secutors. to investigate top of
ficials in the federal govern
ment’s executive branch.
Bailout considered
WASHINGTON (AP! - The
House decides this week
whether to offer a $2.5 hillion
bailout to the Farm Credit
System.
The Farm Credit System, a
nationwide borrower-owned
network of agricultural lenders,
has lost $4 8 billion over the
past two years because of hard
times in rural America.
Congress is working on a
legislative package of remedies
for the ailing 57-bank system
The streamlining proposal
would call for more restructur
ing of problem loans and allow
the system to pool its loans for
resale to investors in a secon
dary market similar to those that
already exist for mortgage
loans.
When the bill comes before
the House for action on Tues
day. House Agriculture Com
mittee Chairman Kika de la Gar
za. D-Texas. plans to ask that it
also include a direct $2.5 billion
federal infusion to aid the most
troubled regional banks.
Regional
Paper criticized
CORVALLIS (AP) — An in
dependent student newspaper
has caused a stir among parents
and advertisers who object to its
content, especially its use of ob
jectionable language
Not long after the first edition
of the Oregon Student Voice
was distributed at two Corvallis
high schools, the complaints
started coming in.
Advertisers said last week
that they were misled into
believing they were supporting
a school-sponsored newspaper.
Some said they felt his shop's
reputation had been damaged
because of the newspaper's
content.
Editor Jason Moore, a junior
at Corvallis High School, wrote
in the newspaper that the
publication was independent
and supported solely by its
advertisers
"This means the school
district can’t control us by
threatening to cut us out of the
budget," he wrote. "We exist to
serve the students and no one
else."
City fights bad PR
PORTLAND (AP) Charging
that inaccurate and unfair news
coverage has hurt the proposed
Salt Caves Dam, Klamath Palis
officials are taking the offensive
with a series of advertisements.
The ads are aimed at influenc
ing public opinion in Portland
and the Willamette Valley,
where there has been little
editorial support for the con
troversial hydroelectric project
on the last free-flowing stretch
of the Klamath River in Oregon
"The city feels the news
coverage has been fairly inac
curate and one-sided." said
David Hooper of Pihas. Schmidt
and Westerdahl. the Portland
advertising firm handling the
10-week campaign.
All the ads proclaim the vir
tues of the dam and how it will
benefit the sagging economy of
Klamath County. The also say
the dam will improve the upper
Klamath River for rainbow
trout
Court may unionize
SALEM. (AP) — Court
employees will decide this fall
whether they want to join a
union after labor organizers
made their third attempt more
than three years to unite
workers in the state's legal
system.
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The American Federation of
State, County and Municipal
Employees on Friday filed with
the state Employment Relations
Board to represent about 940
court employer's statewide The
union, known as AFCSME.
already represents more than
10,000 workers in Oregon.
Cecil Tibbetts, executive
director for the Oregon
AFSCME, said the union had
gathered signatures from more
than 30 percent of the proposed
bargaining unit, as required by
law The court employees will
decide whether they want
union representation in a vote
by mid-November. Tibbets said
The chief union concerns are
overtime with no pay or com
pensatory time off. arbitrary
management decisions, one
year probation periods, broadly
written job specifications and
frozen salaries.
OPEU OKs contract
PORTLAND (AP) The
members of the Oregon Public
Employees Union have voted
overwhelmingly to approve a
contract that will increase
wages ft percent by 1989.
More than half the 13.000
ballots issued were returned,
with H7 percent voting to ap
prove the two-year contract, ac
cording to Bentley Gilbert, an
OPEU spokesman.
"The size of the vote shows
how much the bargaining team
was supported,” Gilbert said
after the results were announc
ed Saturday night at the union's
annual meeting in Portland
The union, which represents
1ft.500 workers, ordered its first
strike in an effort to settle bitter
ly contested contract issues
The nine-day walkout ended
Sept 24 after state negotiators
and union officials agreed on
terms.
Drug crop burns
GRANTS PASS (AP) Forest
fires that swept through
southern Oregon during the
past month burned millions of
dollars worth of marijuana
grown in the region's remote
hills, an observer of the illegal
industry estimates.
Tom Alexander of Corvallis,
publisher of Sinsemilla Tips, a
quarterly magazine aimed at
marijuana smokers and
growers, said the fire has
devastated the crop
The conditions that created
extreme fire* danger last summer
also produced an ideal growing
season, Alexander said,
“This was going to be one of
the best years ever." he said
"The sunny conditions made a
bumper crop for the whole West
Coast Hut the fires were also in
the main growing areas."
The fires also have increased
the cost of the potent southern
Oregon marijuana, he said,
noting that the average price a
pound of dried marijuana is as
much as $3,200.
L.A. still shaking
LOS ANGKI.ES (AIM
Quake-jittered residents got
another aftershock on Monday,
after the most powerful one
following Iasi week's severe
earthquake killed al least one
person, injured 2(H). and shat
tered buildings and nerves.
Hundreds of frightened
residents fled their damaged
homes and staved outdoors,
refusing to enter structures, as
panic spread after Sunday's
predawn aftershock, the 22nd
measuring above 3 on the
Richter scale since Thursday's
magnitude ti l temblor.
Within three and a half hours
of Sunday's big aftershock,
three more above magnitude 3
on the Richter scale shook the
area
An aftershock measuring 3.4
was recorded at 12:05 a m to
day. said Robert Finn,
s|N>kesman for the California In
stitute of Technology in
Pasadena There were no im
mediate reports of damage, and
a police dispatcher said it trig
gered few calls
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