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MANIC Monday 1V I topping pizza and 2 24 oz. drinks 824 Charnelton 686-5808 Sun-Wed Ham - lam Eugene, OR • 97401 Exp. 1/3/05 Thurs-Sat llam-Jam gga IN BRIEF Oregon to go after untaxed cigarette sales PORTLAND — Oregon is chasing buyers and sellers of untaxed ciga rettes traded on the Internet, hoping to plug a hole that is costing the state up to $20 million a year. Last summer state prosecutors closed a Web site run by an Aloha man and has filed racketeering charges against him. And they are beginning to send bills to buyers for cigarette taxes never paid. Randy Evers, administrator for the Oregon Department of Revenue’s Business Tax Division, says the state is just getting started. Most Web sites that sell tax-free cigarettes fill orders from outside the United States, often from Europe, and customers pay about half of what they would in Oregon. Inexpensivesmokes.com operated from Aloha until the Oregon Tobac co Compliance Task Force raided it in July. Eric Gutherie, 35, was in dicted Dec. 15 on racketeering charges and crimes relating to the il legal sale of cigarettes. He is held on $161,300 bail and could face 21 months in prison. Oregon collects $1.18 per pack in taxes, the tenth-highest such tax in the nation. The federal General Accounting Office in 2002 reported finding 147 U.S. Web sites that weren’t passing bills for state taxes to their cus tomers. This past fall, an Internet search produced 935 such sites with names such as cheapsmokesby mail.com, cigs4free.com and no taxsmokes.com. — The Associated Press Bakery: Acquisition would pose long relocation process Continued from page 6 about anything. Frohnmayer told the board that the bakery building itself could host at least 20 offices that are currently located in rented buildings. “We are, as the board knows, a landlocked University,” Frohn mayer said. The bakery itself faces a long and complicated relocation process, as suming the sale does happen, and needs to start making plans as soon as possible, Boness said. Frohnmayer told the board that because of this, the University is not expected to occupy the land until spring 2006. Boness said the company is sell ing the land mostly because the University wants it so badly and be cause what could be built there would benefit the community in many ways. “We’d be very happy to stay at that site, but we’re trying to balance what would be good for the city, the Uni versity, the community and our selves,” Boness said. The $24.7 million price tag on the bakery site covers the cost of pur chasing a new site and relocating the bakery. Frohnmayer told the board the site “constitutes a desirable buffer zone” between the University and the neighborhood and that all as pects of the purchase have been ex amined and deemed “ultimately fair to the parties.” Fairmount Neighbors Association Co-Chairman Jeff Nelson wrote an e mail to the board prior to the Dec. 10 meeting to express the association’s concern with the use of public bonds to pay for what it sees as an over priced piece of property. Nelson wrote that “the use of public funds in this case does not adequately strike the balance be tween public and private good,” citing the more than $17 million that will be used to cover the com pany’s relocation costs rather than the value of the site itself, which to tals $7 million. Nelson asked on behalf of the as sociation that “a minimum of 10 percent of the portion of the pur chase, which is in excess value of the land itself,” be used to help mit igate development impacts that may arise should anything be construct ed on the site. Meaning, an addi tional $1.77 million would go to ward mitigating development impacts because $17.7 million goes toward additional costs. Though no mention was made of the association’s request during the meeting, board members credited the $24.7 million price tag as a result of the immeasurable value the coveted property has as a long-term invest ment to the University. Williams said there is no reason to discuss the possible development im pacts of a basketball arena or any other projects because a decision has not been made as to what the site will be used for. “Until there’s more certainty, there’s no point in creating anxiety,” Williams said. meghan ncu.niff@ dailyemerald.com $49 two-day lift ticket $69 rooms THJ INN O* THJ SEVENTH MOUNTAIN mtbachelor.com/college 800-829-2442 W, J3-3}, tofcflAMMlIlk'
