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Tracksters excel in NJCAA competition Eleuen go; Douglass, Macey place third McCormick nabs third with javelin By Tracy M. Sumner By Rick Obritschkewitsch Of The Print Of The Print The College men’s track and field team took eleventh place at the National Junior College Athletic Association meet last Friday and Saturday in San Angelo, Texas. The finish was the best ever by a Cougar team. Marceli Douglass and Tony Macey each placed third in. their respective events while Steve Gogl and Mike Hortsch added fifth place finishes to place the team. Odessa (Texas) Com munity College narrowly outscored Region 18 champion Ricks Junior College (Idaho) 73V2 to 721/? for the national championship. Warton Junior College, South Plains Junior College, Ranger Junior Col lege, all of Texas, finished 3rd, 5th and 6th in the meet along with Odessa’s first place to give Texas national ¡bragging rights for the 1982 season. Southwestern Michigan placed fourth with 53 points followed by South Plains with 41, Ranger JC with 35, New Mexico JC with 30, Garden Ci ty JC (Kansas) with 28, Glen dale Community College with 24, Black Hawk (Illinois) with 20, and the Cougars with a school record (in national com petition) 16 points. Mount Hood also of thè Oregon Com- munity College Athletic Association, finished 12th with 15 points. “We didn’t do too bad,” assistant coach | Kelly Sullivan said. “We had some good per formances and we had some disappointments. The competi tion was twice as good as last year. I think oUr region was Cyd McCormick and Denise Wheatley returned from the National Junior College Athletic Association women’s track and field competition in San Angelo, Texas with a third farthest jevelin throw in the na tion, and a personal best effort in the 100 meter hurdles semi finals, respectively. The nation place last Thursday through Saturday. Although the exact distance of McCormick’s toss was not available, it exceeded 139’. Wheatley ran the 100 meter hurdles in a time * of 14.15. Winds also caused some problems for the competition. “With the wind factor, we changed the direction of the race, to run with the wind,” Wheatley said. McCormick said one thing that hurt her was that she “wasn’t able to warm up on the side of the field that I was going to throw on,” McCormick said. One other complaint that McCormick had was that there was top much waiting until it was time for her to compete. MARCELL DOUGLASS CYD MCCORMICK Eight colleges get axed; one survives budget levy By J. Dana Haynes Of The Print Voters in Oregon voted nay to financial support for eight out of nine community college districts in last week’s elections, for the worst vote of no-confidence in the history of Oregon’s two-years education system. The statistics for the voting were as follows: Chemeketa; 31,674 for (47 percent) and 34,648 against (52 percent). Linn-Benton; 14,648 for (41 percent), 20,883 against (58 percent). Six tax bases and three “A” ballots were presented to the voters. The tax bases in cluded Chemeketa (Salem), Linn-Benton (Albany), Mt. Hood (Gresham), Treasure Valley (Ontario), Umpqua (Roseburg), and the Treaty Oak Education District (the district is in The Dalles, but has Mt. Hood; 14,402 for (41 percent), 20,200 against (58 percent). Treasure Valley; 1,658 for (32 percent), 3,458 against (67 percent). Umpqua; 8,214 for (44 percent), 10,281 against (55 percent). The three “A” ballots were for Southwestern Oregon Community, in Coos Bay, Central Oregon Community, in Bend, and Clatsop County Community, in Astoria. The voting was: SWOC; 8,206 for (48 per cent), 8,805 against (51 per cent) . COCC; 10,062 for (47 percent), 19,939 against (52 percent). Clatsop; 3,676 for (42 percent), 4,929 against (57 percent). An “A” ballot is a request for money for operating ex penses, as opposed to a “B” ballot; a request for money for building or renovation ex penses. Community takes Timber Fest timeout Page 4 The only community col lege district that was not hand ed a defeat was the Treaty Oak Education District. There, 3,148 voters were for (55 per cent), and 2,557 against (44 percent). “There are probably two explanations for the poor showing,” Bassett said. “First, the general economic condition forced people to vote ‘no,’ to decrease their own taxes. And second, the tax bases are up dates to condition of three or four years ago, and so the numbers being presented to the voters were scary.” The tax bases are requests for money that are only on the ballots every three or four years and which request a percen tage increase on the money allotted during the previous ballot. Thus, Linn-Benton Col lege requested an increase in their budget of 38 percent, when the cost of living has in creased almost 80 percent in the past four years, Bassett ex plained. Wheatley’s previous best in the 100 meter hurdles was, 15.2. She wasn’t able to qualify for the national competition until she was faced with her last opportunity. It was in the Regional 18 competition, just two weeks before the Na tionals, that Wheatley ran the 100 meter hurdles in the quali fying time of 15.2, which allowed her to compete in Texas. McCormick had been qualified for most of the season, and this is the second year she has gone to nationals. Unique auto class offered Page 5