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Clinton hears concerns
during backyard visit
□ Candidate listens
as timber workers talk
about losing jobs
By Rene DeCa:r
Emeraic! Associate Editor
With about 100 members of
the press looking on, Democrat
ic presidential candidate Bill
Clinton made good on a prom
ise he made earlier in the cam
paign to talk to timber workers
about the difficulties they face.
In a meeting last week in the
backyard of a retired Eugene
limber worker, Clinton listened
patiently to the grievances of
timber families.
The same day. President
Bush was in Medford also
painting himself us a candidate
who understands the workers'
troubles. Bush said he wouldn't
renew the Endangered Species
Art unless it was rewritten to
include the "human factor.”
Meanwhile, at the homo of
Max and Leona Groesbeck. who
live at 315 Vernal St.. Clinton
said in order to sustain the for
ests long-term, some jobs will
tx> eliminated. Before his retire
ment, Max Groesbeck had
worked for 40 years as a sawyer
for the Koslxrro mill in Spring
Bold.
I n«! iSRUu is noi so muui
will jobs bo lost," Clinton said
"Yes, they will."
He said the issut; shouldn’t
Ixi looked at in terms of jobs vs.
owls, but in terms of what is
best for everyone.
"My view is if wo put the
problem in terms of people or
forests, we've lost before we
start." he said
Clinton said if elected he
would hold a "summit" to deal
with the problem and would
try to gel the timber debate out
of the courts, when; it hurts ev
eryone by lying up timber
sales
"If I win this race,” he said.
"I'm determined to break this
log jam."
But at the backyard brouha
ha, the nine timber workers
and their wives did most of the
talking while Clinton listened
and look notes.
r
Teresa Taylor, a saw operator
from Georgia-Pacific Lcbanite
who said she's been laid off
several times in the 16 years
she's worked in Iho industry,
told Clinton layoffs hurt every
one.
"We've had eight permanent
mill closures," she said. "It’s
devastating our communities"
and cheating the schools.
Not being able to cut the for
ests that are now tied up in
lawsuits, she said, affects not
only Oregon, but everyone.
"It's raising the. prices on ev
erybody's houses from coust to
coast,” Taylor said,
Darryl Middleton, head saw
yer from Rosoburg Forest Prod
ucts in Dillard, emphasized the
need for “multiple use" of the
forests.
"I can relate to tho people in
Florida," ho said. "Our people
are losing their homes.”
Middleton said he supports a
bill introduced in the U S.
House of Representatives by
Rep. Peter DeFa/.io, D-Oro., that
would sot aside old-growth
trees, change management prac
tices in tho industry and help
train dislocated workers for
now jobs.
VIIUIUIO UIIU 1 luim 1 ..—
from Eugene were among the
few with a success story to toll.
Clonna Henderson said her
husband was able to turn dev
astating job losses into a new,
successful business with the
help of a dislocated workors
program.
"I think we're ono of the
lucky onos," she said. "I’m
thrilled he's out of tho mills.”
There wasn’t much dialogue
in the 45-minute meeting, but
Clinton did say he believes the
answer to timber workers'
problems is not to limit private
companies' log exports over
seas.
Tho issue, he said, is how to
manage the forests long-term
Ho didn't give specific answers
on how to do that, but did say
that if people are put out of
work, (hoy'll be compensated.
"If national policy puts you
out of a job," he said, "national
policy should put you back in
one."
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