Oregon Daily TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 9. 1993 EUGENE, OREGON VOLUME 95, ISSUE 50 Gas leak! NOflMAN MtSMAfilnr !h« f '"..WO 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 Turn to VOTE, Page 8 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. Turn to NAFTA, Page 6 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 Turn to AMAZON, Page 5 AIDS workshop mixes facts with implications □ Health seminar will go past science to deal with attitudes By Frey a Horn fot!'» Oregon Oa