Oregon Daily
FRIDAY, APRIL 3.1992
EUGENE. OREGON
VOLUME 93. ISSUE 126
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trees by the Harr-non complex to rerax in the shade and read Voltaire's 'Cana da
County may cut
HIV test funding
j White Bird employees dismayed' as
county proposes handing voters deci
sion in form of a serial levy
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i Unit iiiunvmiMis IIIV 11• inj4 lia*. hern t<ik.t*i> mil <>1
llwilr hands Ic.mng them fiM'ling pom rless
I .1 managi'iimnl Iimiii Irum tin- countv s depart
inrlil I In •.« 11 i i ,ti i. i hum.in servn • proposed rlimm.il
irij! • iiuiiiv funding :• >r ihi’ < linn ■ (i -.ting vs ilhmil
minii!!iiljj i him employees Nm.% !hr . uiiiili m.iV
ft.Hill .i'!.till- .if! ISi.Hl '! VV (ll'tlll I I . hill.I lllf testing
in liif form ol i serial few
[ ,i in- l minty m II '•! .11' i-I i >1 I i: 11 mil huflgi r 'hull
hill, t .tiiM’d in par! tiv lugging tunher suit s, either In
eliminating i mints p:• a;r,nir. ■>; hit.ling new revenue
Tim I .iiir (mu lit v Budget t oinmiUre 1 imsthn night
rt'j,< lutl most til ttif ret entlv prop. is1, i million in
ri'i. hi cuih.it ks whit h mi luth il 'he ti mitti.it it" "I
.. tun.ling tu! thf i Iinii s .intinviii us HIV t. sling
! urn tu HIV (’.itp• h
Russian scientists
to track health risks
j Team's computer
models show nuclear
contamination
By Carrie Dennett
t met d'<1 As v T i t ; :'
1'our Russian scientists are
wrapping up a visit to the t'm
versitv as progress continues on
a computer projet l aimed at
trai king health and ■ nviron
menial risks posed bv tilt lUHti
('hernobv! Nuclear I’hint at t i
dent
The si lentisLs are part of a
team that also Hit hides several
University researchers The
Russian and American re
searchers met at the f'niversitv
to begin tin- nine month task of
building a digital data ixise us
mg gathered information
Researchers w ill use personal
computers and a geographic in
formation svstem a tool well
known to landscaper architects,
to produce computer models
th.it show the nature, locution
and extent of radiation iron turn
Illation as it continues to move
through the landscape anti bio
logical systems
The project is designed to al
low quick and effective re
spouses to people exposed to
radiation hazards and to nil
prove decisions made m the at
termalh oi sur ii ai t idenls
Kussi.in learn member Dimi
1 ri Kavlarad/e said the i ornpu
ter system used for tin1 ( her
rrohyl project is important !«■
i an e it w ill make it easier for
the Russian people to under
stand why i ertum de< isions are
made
Slat tt'.tosh ('olllje.teis ale ic
ing used because they are rela
lively inexpensive portable
and user-friendly
'Macintosh is information
tii.it could ho studied by one
person in a n ev e ning,
hav tarad/e said
Ibis is precisely what re
searchers wanted, because the
goal of the projet t is to get ai
curate information to Russians
111 tile i ontaminated areas
In the summer ol fell. Uni
versity Associate i’rofessors
John Baldwin and Day id Mulse
w ill join Kav tarad/e m (Iher
nobyi to contincl a series of
workshops for area residents
and local government
I'he workshops will tie fat lit
tateti fiv the establishment of a
Demonstration Center for Sus
tamable Development in the
(diernohyi study area
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Residents enjoy ‘Big Country’
j Southeastern Ore
gon's inhabitants
like the weather and
slower pace of life
Ry Jayson Jacoby
t fTva'. l ' 1 R f® pot ?
Editor's luilr lln^ is thv
I,lit in .i ihri'i' /mrl series
about tfw /utipjr .uni jiliii rr,
uf Eaalurn ()rvfitin
The firs! question most
people ask m reference to
people living m Southeastern
Oregon is why Or more spe
< ifu.ills Why do tins i house
to live in suih isolation, so
far away from the comforts ol
the ( ity , and where it gets so
hot m the summer and so
cold in the winter'
Not surprisingly, most resi
dents of Oregon's Big Coun
try" gise different reasons for
coming to the state's most
sparsely populated corner,
fiat they have quite similar
reasons for wanting to slav
In tnunv wavs the modern
residents ol Southeastern ()r
egoii are a lot like those who
came before them Those ear
liest ranchers and home
steaders came mostlv from
llie Midwest, where many
had been exposed to pam
phlets advertising the won
The Wagontire store — end every other building — is owned by
the! town s only two residents, William end Olgie Warner
derful i lim.ilr and agrti ultur
al potential ol this region
Unfortunately. most ol
those claims bore little re
semblance to reality, and
when the settlers did arrive,
having risked everything on
the move, most were gone m
just a lew years. victims ol
tin' harsh climate What they
left behind a lew wind
blown and rolling buildings
scattered throughout the re
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On the road
to
Eastern Oregon
LIVE A LITTLE
The Portland-based
band Little Women will
record an album live at
WOW Hall Saturday
See ENTERTAINMENT. Page 8
PRO-CHOICE EFFORT
Congressmen Peter DeFazio and Les
AuCoin are among those who will be in
Eugene Sunday to take part in a pro
choice march and rally
See MARCH. Page 10
MAKE TRACK
The Oregon track
teams start their dual
meet seasons Satur
day at Washington
Sec SPORTS, Page* 114 12 I