Oregon Daily
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 9. 1993
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 95, ISSUE 50
Gas leak!
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Stores in a one-block radius on Franklin Boulevard were evacuated and traffic came to a stand
still Monday after a truck smashed into an auto craft store and ruptured a gas line Traffic was
blocked to prevent car emissions from igniting the gas EWEB arrived to shut off the mam lines
Sales tax fate
will be decided
by vote today
j County elections board suggests
casting votes early at polls
By Meg Dedolph
Otiyryi CXi-ry ! .i <1
Foremost among the issues to be voted upon today
is Ballot Measure 1 whether the state should adopt
a 5 percent sales tax
To vote in Kugeno, registered voters need to go to
mi! |HMilll^ | nut I' I I Mt 11 Ull lilt'll
product memorandum cards
(retween 7 a in and H p in. The
county election hoard is
encouraging people to vote
early.
An issue for Kngeno voters
will be whothur to adopt the
proposed sides tax measure that
would raise money for si (tools
The money front the 5 per
i cm lax would go entirety 10
puhiii m hools, including kindergartens mul commu
nity colleges The tux is intended to apply only to
goods, not services Some goods would be exempt
from the tax us well.
The tux rate, the exempted goods and the tax's
rei ipients could not be i banged by the Legislature,
but would require another vote of the people
Should the measure pass, the Legislature's spend
ing authority would also i>e limited, half of the money
raised through the lottery would he earmarked for
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House divided on NAFTA vote
□ Oregon Delegates
split three-to-two with
vote in one week
By David Brotherton
For trie Oregon Deity F met aid
Oregon’s congressional dele
gation remains divided over
whether to remove trade barriers
between the United States, Cana
da and Mexico. The rift indicates
an uphill battle for those in Con
gress supporting passage of the
trade pact's vote.
President Clinton and con
gressional leaders have promised
to resolve the fate of the North
American Free Trade Agreement
before the lawmakers twgin their
winter recess Nov. II. The House
of Representatives is scheduled
to vote Nov. 17, though neither
side has yet claimed to have
enough votes to win.
According to congressional
sources. Oregon’s five-member
House delegation is split three to
two over the contentious trade
pact. NAFTA is designed to cre
ate a more competitive Western
trading blot: by stripping away
import and export duties lietween
the three North American
nations.
Supporting Clinton's effort to
pass NAFTA are Reps. Mike
Kopetski (D). Hob Smith (K) and
Ron Wyden ([)). Representatives
Peter DeFazio (D) and Elizabeth
Furse (D) both oppose the deal
and have called for its renegoti
ation.
Congressman Kopetski, who
represents Oregon's 5th District,
believes strongly in NAFTA and
President Clinton
sees ils potential to greatly
strengthen his state's economy.
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Past and present tenants clean up Amazon
□ Community still hopeful that
board will declare site historical
By Heatherte Himes
For tne Oregon Daily Emerald
Past and present tenants of Amazon family hous
ing gathered Saturday morning to dean a commu
nity that faces impending demolition
About 40 adults and children spent an hour and
a half in the sunshine raking leaves, painting fences
and cleaning drainage grates.
"There’s no other place like Amazon." said Kileen
Traylor, an organizer of the cleanup. "The Uni
versity should be proud of it end what they have
done for low-income students to allow us to go Ikh k
to school."
Like many others, Traylor believes the Universi
ty should consider restoration instead of demoli
tion.
“We feel that there are solutions besides tear
ing the whole place down and starting over." said
Suzanne O'Shea, also a cleanup Organizer "It would
take some investment, but the investment would
be minor compared to the cost of rebuilding."
O'Shea worked six years as an engineering tech
nician for the city of Eugene and said the drainage
problems the University cites as a reason for detno
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AIDS workshop mixes
facts with implications
□ Health seminar
will go past
science to deal
with attitudes
By Frey a Horn
fot!'» Oregon Oa<V £ merakt
Unlike many other health
seminars, "Not Just Another
AIDS Workshop" merges the
cut-and-dry fails with the
psycho-social implications of
the disease.
"We wont to get heyond
the science and get to the
heart," said Cheryl Long, one
of the three workshop coordi
nators and the community
health educator of Eugene's
Planned Parenthood
The workshop is offered as
a one-credit EDPM 407
course Nov. 19 anil 20 in the
Gerlingor Lounge. About a
dozen of the 100 openings
remain.
Students will have their
medical questions answered
when Dr. Robert M< A Ulster,
who works with the HIV' Pro
gram of the Oregon Health
Division, comes to the work
shop armed with all of the
latest clinical and statistical
[ information.
But AIDS education needs
_
If) include more than thu hard
facts, the workshop coordina
tors saiii. Recaiist) society
doesn’t have a coping mecha
nism for dealing with the
grief and fear associated with
HIV and AIDS, the workshop
does not ignore the emotion
al aspects of the disease.
Long said.
Joanne Frank, education
director for the University’s
Student Health ('.enter and a
workshop coordinator,
explained the approach.
“It's not just 'This is what
the virus is, this is what it
does and this is what you're
supposed to do,’ " she said.
“The workshop deals with
the psycho-social issues
because the disease is affect
ing us all right now."
"It affects us politically,
personally, socially, as a
community and us individu
als. It has weaved itself into
all areas of our lives." she
said.
Psycho-social issues include
attitudes, values and behav
iors that can determine one's
risk of contracting the virus.
Students will assess these risk
factors, learn ways of effec
tively communicating with
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