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Oil price-fixing suit settled; Oregon gets $8 million LOS ANGELES (AP) - California. Washington. Oregon and Arizona and thoir lawyer* will «hnr« $140 million from oil companies in the settlement of a price-fixing suit approved by a federal judge II S District Judge A. Wallace Tashima granted the states' request Tuesday to approve distribution of the money to pro grams related to transportation and ener gy use The judge had previously n< i;ept ed the stales' argument that offering small refunds to millions of gasoline buyers would be impractical. Tlie suit, filed in 1977. accused major oil companies of conspiring lo fix ihe prices of gasoline and other oil products and of contriving o shortage of gasoline in the early 1970s to justify raising prii.es The settlement accepted by seven com panios contained no finding of wrongdo ing The companies involved are Chevron. Mobil. Shell, AKCO. Unocal. Texaco and Exxon. Hot This Week... r 20% off all ^ back Issues 30% off all Batman. 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Greene said "This seemed to lie a fairly focused and efficient way to do it " Oregon also plans to use most of its $H million share for transportation projects. About S7 million will be allotted in grants for such programs as transporta tion of the elderly and school children, drug and alcohol education, smog reduc tion. road repair and public transit, sold Attorney General Ted Kulongoski. The remainder of the settlement, about $.10 million, is to be divided among pub lic and private lawyers representing the states Packwood claims poll results ignored KOSKBURC SAP) Sen Bob Packwood says ho's paying liltli! attention to » new poll suggesting his standing with Oregon voters has improved. "If you live or die by the polls, you're going to die a thousand deaths before you're out of this business." Packwood said Tuesday during a visit to The News firvie** newspaper As a Senate Ethics Committee investigation of Packwood nears its second year. 47 percent of those polled said the Oregon Republi can should resign and 4H percent said he shouldn't. By compari son. f>2 percent urged him to quit in a poll taken last February. The new poll was conducted by Davis and Hibbitts, Inc. of Port land for The Oregon inn and KATll-TV and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. The Senate Elbit s Committee has been probing allegations Pack wood made improper sexual advances to women and tried to get lob byists to hire his ex-wife so his alimony payments would go down. No date has linen set for a hearing on the allegations. Packwood said poll results showing only 25 percent would prob ably support him if he runs for the Senate again are too early to he significant "I don't run until he said. "Anybody who looks at the polls a year out. let alone four years out. and says, ‘Well, that's it, that’s what the polls say.' is more likely fooling themselves.” Though Packwood's i urrent visit to his home state hasn't attract ed the crowds of reporters and protesters that previous visits have, the senator said he still doesn't have the issue behind him. "It will not lx- over until the ethics committee is done, and I don't know when that will be," he said. Pat kwood also toured the Roseburg Forest Products Co. mill and had a question-and answer session with workers None of the work ers brought up the sexual misconduct investigation Pm kwood did address a wide range of other subjects, including the 1.1.S. military presence in Haiti "I don't understand why we're there,'' he said. "If the standard is anytime you don't like someone's government, you send in troops to change it. there ire a number of countries that come to mind And Cuba would be on top of the list." He also predicted that President Clinton would become so fed up with the threat of lawsuits over his Northwest forest plan that, by next year, he would opt for language that would make the plan immune from future legal challenges. Par kwood said that if the Nov H election were held today. Repub licans would gain control of the Senate. Hut he noted that many rates where polls show Republicans in the lead normally tend to tighten as election day nears Deer overrun Oregon town, create nuisance for residents JACKSONVILLE (AP) — Deer are overrunning this picturesque town in rural southern Oregon. Residents are demanding ac tion, and officials an* scratch ing their heads "All the plants we’ve had, they've ruined," said Corrine HeLau. who saw her tiger lilies, geraniums and begonias disap pear "They'll eat roses to the ground." Her husiiand. Harry BoLau, cir culated a petition last August demanding the city council take ac tion to remove (lie deer The city council assigned the job to Police Chief David To we. Hut he's at a loss It wouldn't he safe to bring hunters into town to sturt shoot ing. and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife isn't w ild about the idea of trying to round them up. "It would Ire a dangerous and time-consuming operation," said Mere Wolfer, an assistant wildlife biologist for the department Since shooting and firearms are banned within city limits, "There's no way to control the deer population," he said. Towe said the deer pose a public: safety problem as well. Several deer have been hit hy cars, and it's just a matter of time Indore a driver is hurt "We now have reported sight ings of cougars in the downtown area," he added. beer have probably come into town looking for food and water because a decade of drought has left little to eat in the forest, Wolfer said Ashland and Shady Cove, also in Jui kson County, have had similar nroblems for several years, he added. Shady Cove passed an ordinance prohibiting residents from feeding deer, which makes the deer hang around. Not everyone wants the deer run out of town. "If I have to choose between the roses and the deer. I'd choose the deer," JoAnnu Elias said. Retired forester Rick Schwab is angry he had to spend two years building a 6-foot-tall fern e to protect his tomatoes, roses and petunias. “Why should I have to protect my property from a wild animal in an incorporated city?" he asked
