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Heads down
Boycott the eclipse, now, before its too
late!
Refuse to acknowledge its existence by
sleeping in on Monday morning. If you’re
riot Strong enough to do that, then “eyes to
the ground” for you on that day.
We believe that the coming of the eclipse
represents poor planning on the part of
some unknown political activist against
solar energy.
We can’t afford an eclipse during our
energy crisis. Think of how much money
will be spent during that time of darkness
on unnecessary, costly energy.
Besides, what good is having an eclipse if
you can’t even look at it?
“We’re really sort of unhappy with all
these people trekking over to the Eastern
countries,” an annoriymous environmen
talist said. “It’s another one of those cultist
regimes, dominated by index card carrying
eccentrics.”
We at The Print think “heads to the
ground on Monday” is the slogan.
It’s an informal protest to let people know
that we will not be led astray because of this
extravagant ploy.
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Editor’s
note:
This
editorial was reprinted
from the Torch, Lane
Community College’s
weekly student newspaper,
by Steve Myers
of The Torch
Did you know that one of the
laws protectin‘g| your basic
rights- as a consumer is being
violated by a state agency here
in Oregon?
The law?—The Sherman Anti-
Trust Act.
The agency?—The Oregon
Liquor Control Commission
(OLCC).
Some of you may have had
run-ins with the OLCC but for
those of you who haven’t, let
me refresh your memory about
the commission and the law
being violated.
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
was a constitutional amen
dment established shortly after
the turn of the century. The law
guarantees the consumer—you
and me—that his/her choices
in the market place will not be
limited to a product controlled
by only one firm. It also forbids
the fixing of prices so as to
disrupt competition essential to
the free market theory.
This anti-monopoly law has
been upheld time and time
again by the U.S. Supreme
court, yet monopolies still do
exist—one here in Oregon.
The OLCC is a state-funded
agency established shortly after
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the prohibition act was
repealed in the early 30’s. It
controls the wholesale and
retail liquor sales industry for
the entire state of Oregon. It
establishes uniform prices for
hard liquor throughout the
state. The agency also strictly
supervises the sale of all
alcoholic beverages.
There is a clear conflict bet
ween the agency and the law.
The agency is a monopoly in
the state of Oregon and it does
set prices. Yet, the law forbids
monopolies and price fixing.
Lets take a closer look at the
OLCC violations:
First,the OLCC has a
monopoly on the Oregon
wholesale/retail liquor stores
even though the store can be
privately owned. (Owners are
paid on a percentage of gross
income.)
Because of this price fixing
policy, there can be no com
petition among liquor outlets.
The consumer has to buy hard
alcohol from the OLCC at its
prices.
The agency also doesn’t pass
along discounts it receives for
volume buying to the public. It
limits personal import of hard
liquor from cheaper, out-of-
state stores to one bottle per
person. In fact, Oregon has
higher prices and they operate
under a similar system.
OLCC policies and its'con
trol over the liquor sales in
the Sherman Anti-Trusti
which insures us a hoic]
marketplace.
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I propose that the OLC|
out of the liquor businl
should enforce dnnkiJ
regulate distribution H
liquor, but it doesH
government price fixing«
What can we do aboj
Pressure is already ■
placed on the agency ail
sure to be a topic in III
coming
state iegil
sessions. So make:]
feelings known to you]
representative and don]
an OLCC card—or sen]
back with a nasty note ata
to it.
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feedback
To The Editor:
Sincd Iran has cut off all ex
ports of oil, the OPEC oil sour
ces have had to increase their
output by five million barrels of
oil per day.
The sad thing is that America
has been plagued with oil shor
tages for years, many of which
could have been created to
raise the price of oil in this
country. And now we have a
real shortage on our hands and
with everyone crying wolf for
so long, many people will not
believe it.
'
In a few weeks the energy
department is going to present
to Congress a set of contingen
cy plans that will range from
voluntary conservation to gas
rationing.
If all other measures fail, the
rationing plan will be put into
action and motorists will
be. issued quarterly ration
coupons which will entitle them
to buy gas. What people don’t
know is that millions of the
coupons already exist. They
were printed by the Nixon Ad
ministration .'
There also might be forced
car pooling. If your license
plate number ends in an odd
number you could only drive
every other day.and m
with even numbers woiil
on the days that the odl
not.
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In addition, the' co]
gasoline is going upj
estimated that by mid-suj
gasoline will be almp^B
gallon. The long-reacH
fects of this is that the H]
prices of some goods »!■
because the cost ofltrafl
ting them is going um H
consumer can only sit an®
ch as the Value oflhfl
earned money decreffl®
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