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Byrd could be third
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
decision of Sen. John C. Stennis
not to seek re-election next year
places the Senate’s majority
leader. Robert C. Byrd, in posi
tion to become the Senate's
president pro tern and third in
line of succession to the
presidency.
This could happen if Byrd.
D-W.Va.. wins re-election to the
Senate and if Democrats retain
their Senate control. Democrats
now hold a 54-46 Senate majori
ty. Two Democrats and two
Republicans have announced
they will not seek re-election
next year. If Republicans cap
ture the Senate in the 19B8 elec
tions. Sen. Strom Thurmond,
R-S.C.. would become the
Senate's most senior member
and resume the post as presi
dent pro tern he lost when
Democrats became the Senate's
majority party in 1986.
Regional
Many acres closed
PORTLAND (AP| — Millions
of acres of tinder-dry forest in
Western Oregon were closed to
the public today because of
wind-whipped fires and the
threat of more blazes, shutting
down logging and halting deer
and elk hunters. "We have
wildfires just waiting to happen
out there." said Doug Decker, a
spokesman for the Oregon
Forestry Department.
In rural Polk County. 60 peo
pie were evacuated from 24
homes Monday as a fast-moving
fire headed toward Black Rock,
a small community southwest
of Dallas. The fire spread to
more than 3.000 acres and re
mained out of control, but was
moving away from the homes
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Board allows benefits
LA GRANDE (AP) - A jailer
who quit his job after being ex
posed to an inmate who tested
positive for AIDS antibodies is
entitled to receive unemployent
benefits, a state panel says. The
tuling by the state Employment
Appeals Hoard marks the first
time an AIDS-related dispute
over jobless benefits has come
before the three-member ap
peals panel.
Gerald Welch was hired as a
Union County corrections of
ficer in April 19B4 but resigned
this past summer after learning
of his exposure. The state
Employment Division in
August denied Welch jobless
benefits, saying he did not have
good cause to leave his job But
the Employment Appeals Hoard
overturned that decision, accor
ding to the Edward Northcutt of
Salem, the panel's executive
secretary.
Court rejects findings
SALEM (AP) The Oregon
Supreme Court said Tuesday
that courts aren't bound by
results of administrative driver
license suspension hearings.
The Supreme Court unanimous
ly rejected the appeal of Donald
M. Ratliff in a case from
Mamath County. In another rul
ing. the Supreme Court rovers
ad a conviction because a man
was questioned without advice
of rights after being told he
couldn't leave a police station
In the hearings case, the state
moved to suspend Ratliff's
driver's license after he was
stopped and arrested by a state
policeman and refused to take a
breath test. Ratliff challenged
the suspension, and a state
Motor Vehicles Division hear
ings officer held that the arrest
was invalid. At Ratliff's
criminal trial on a drunken driv
ing charge, the judge refused to
be bound by the hearings of
ficer's finding and decided
there were adequate grounds to
justify the stop and arrest
Ratliff was convicted of
drunken driving.
Evacuation forced
WOOD VILLAGE (AP) - Two
condominium complexes and a
day cam center were evacuated
Tuesday when a large grass and
brush fire broke out in this
suburlwn area east of Portland
All roads south of Interstate H4
were closed in the area after the
five-alarm fire broke out shortly
after 2 p m., said Multnomah
County sheriff's spokesman fim
Davis.
A fire dispatcher said the fire
was about a mile by a half-mile
in size. The blaze was reported
contained shortly after -1 p m
"It started out as a barn fire and
rapidly spread.” said Patty Kan
nier, a secretary at the fire
bureau She said no injuries
were reported immediately and
apparently no structures burned
except the barn "One home ap
parently started to catch fire but
they extinguished it right
away." she said
Suspect arraigned
COQUILLE(AP) A 27-vear
old Coos Hay man was arraign
ed Tuesday in Coos County
District Court on two separate
counts of aggravated murder in
the death of a 2-year-old girl
leffrey I). Halladay. a student,
was charged with independent
counts alleging maiming and
torture in the Monday death of
Keitta Josephine Bessy, the
daughter of the woman he lived
with
The charges will in; presented
to a grand jury on Thursday,
said District Attorney Paul
Hurgett No plea was entered
and Judge Al Walsh didn't set
bail, Hurgett said. Hurgett said
an autopsy report attributed the
child's death to multiple
traumatic injuries and traumatic
asphyxiation. Hurgett refused to
reveal further details of the
child’s death
Coalition sues BLM
PORTLAND (APJ A coali
turn of environmental groups
has fill'd a lawsuit to stop logg
ing old-growth timber on U S
Bureau of Land Management
lands inhabited by the spotted
owl. The lawsuit filed Monday
in U.S. District Court seeks an
injunction blocking timber sales
on BLM land in western Oregon
where the northern spotted owl
is known to live.
The lawsuit claimed the birds
would be endangered by logg
ing the 200-year-old trees it
prefers for nesting "Such logg
ing is a major cause of the
decline of the northern spotted
owl population and is likely to
lead to the ultimate extinction
of the species," the suit claim
ed. The BLM is scheduled to
start offering timber sales next
week on at least 1,131 acres of
old-growth forests with spotted
owls living in them in the Med
ford. Koseburg. Salem and (amis
Hay districts, the lawsuit said.
Family wins lawsuit
PORTLAND (AP) — The
family of a lake Oswego man
who was killed in an airplane
crash in Eastern Oregon last
y ear h a s b e e n a w a r d e d
$700.(MM) by a federal court jury
The verdict ended the third of
three related trials heard by the
same jury, which awarded morn
than $2 million to families of
three crash victims.
It also brought to a close the
last of five wrongful death
lawsuits filed in O.S. District
Court by survivors of five
federal employees who died in
the August 1086 crash. A pilot
was flying tin- five men on a
survey of U.S. Bureau of Umd
Management land when he
crashed into a canyon wall on
Steens Mountain. Federal in
vestigators determined that
pilot error was the probable
cause of the crash, which occur
red about t>5 miles south of
Burns. The pilot also died in the
wreck
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