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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JULY 14, 2017
Eel no! Eels from
overturned truck slime
cars on Highway 101
Provider tax referral
puts $333 million in play
By CLAIRE
WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
Gooey hazard
for drivers near
Depoe Bay
Associated Press
DEPOE BAY — A truck
hauling eels overturned on
U.S. Highway 101 near
Depoe Bay, turning the
coastal road into a slimy
mess.
Oregon State Police on
Thursday posted a photo on
Twitter that showed damaged
cars covered by the gooey
eels. The agency also posed
the question: “What to tell the
#drycleaner?”
Meanwhile, the Depoe
Bay Fire Department posted a
video of workers using a bull-
dozer to clear the eels from
Highway 101.
Police said Salvatore Tra-
gale was driving north with
13 containers holding 7,500
pounds of hagfi sh, which are
Oregon State Police
Eels slime a car on Highway 101 near Depoe Bay.
commonly known as slime
eels.
As Tragale approached
road construction and tried
to stop, one container fl ew
off the truck bed and into the
southbound lane, while the
other containers spilled onto
the highway, police said.
The fl ying container
hit one vehicle which then
caused it and four other vehi-
cles to be pushed into each
other. Police said the people
in the vehicle hit by the con-
tainer suffered minor injuries.
No one else was injured.
When hagfi sh become
stressed, they secrete a slime,
which can be seen in the pho-
tos on the vehicles and on the
highway, police said.
The road reopened after
the bulldozing and hosing it
off was completed Thursday
afternoon.
SALEM — If a trio of
Republican lawmakers is suc-
cessful in referring a major
state health care fi nancing
law to the ballot, at least $333
million in state revenue could
be at stake.
House Bill 2391 specifi es
how the state collects money
to pay for the Oregon Health
Plan, the state’s version of
Medicaid, through assess-
ments and taxes on health
care providers.
It’s expected to raise $605
million in revenue in the next
two years, according to rev-
enue impact estimates com-
piled in mid-June by the non-
partisan Legislative Revenue
Offi ce.
But a referral, which
would freeze certain parts
of the legislation from going
into effect, could mean the
state would not collect $333
million of expected revenues
in the next two years, accord-
ing to s tate Rep. Dan Ray-
fi eld, D-Corvallis, who cited
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Ontario
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Burns
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Klamath Falls
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Lakeview
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Sunrise Saturday ........................ 5:39 a.m.
Moonrise today .................................. none
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upheld by voters in a special
election on Jan. 23 .
If voters approve the
assessments and taxes in
question, though, the money
could be collected retroac-
tively, Rayfi eld said.
The parts of the legislation
the group wants to refer are:
• A 1.5 percent tax on pre-
mium equivalents paid for
public employee health plans
to the Public Employees
Benefi t Board, which over-
sees health benefi t plans for
some of the state’s public
employees.
• A tax on insurers — cal-
culated as 1.5 percent of gross
premiums earned.
• A section of the law that
says that insurers can increase
premiums on policies by 1.5
percent.
• A 1.5 percent tax on man-
aged care organizations —
also called c oordinated c are
o rganizations, or CCOs — the
networks of health care pro-
viders who serve patients on
the Oregon Health Plan.
• A 0.7 percent “true tax”
on net revenues of certain
hospitals.
OBITUARIES
TUESDAY
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Thursday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 67°/52°
Normal high/low ........................... 67°/53°
Record high ............................ 88° in 1935
Record low ............................. 44° in 1954
July 16
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MONDAY
fi gures he said he received
from the Legislative Fiscal
Offi ce.
That amount of money
couldn’t be leveraged to get
a federal match, causing the
state to forgo more money
built into its upcoming bud-
get, Rayfi eld said.
Federal funds pay for most
of the Medicaid program for
traditional populations as
well as people newly quali-
fi ed for Medicaid under the
recent Affordable Care Act
expansion.
Three Republican state
lawmakers — Rep. Julie Par-
rish, R-Tualatin/West Linn;
Rep. Cedric Hayden, R-Rose-
burg; and Rep. Sal Esquivel,
R-Medford — seek to refer
certain parts of the measure to
voters. They contest the legis-
lation’s funding mechanism,
saying that taxes on insurance
premiums and a “true tax” on
certain hospital net revenues
will be passed to consumers.
If the petitioners gather
58,789 signatures by Oct. 5,
those parts of the legislation
go to the ballot. They would
not go into effect unless
Warrenton
March 24, 1928 — July 9, 2017
On July 9, 2017, at dawn, Ethel June Well the 1950s, Tongue Point in the 1960s and early
Lane slipped the bonds of fl esh and entered into 1970s, then at Warrenton City Hall for several
years. In the 1990s she was church secretary at
eternity with the saints. She was 89 years old.
She was born in La Grande, Oregon, on the Philadelphia Church in Hammond.
She was an avid reader, and made
March 24, 1928, to Fred James Wells
legendary cinnamon rolls, painted
and Ina Sigrid Forsell Wells. The
in oils, made lovely quilts, sewed
family soon moved to Ardenwald,
clothes for herself and her children,
Oregon, where, with her adored older
and passed the love of sewing on to
brother, Vernon James Wells, she
her daughters. She had a cherry tree,
enjoyed an idyllic early childhood in
blueberry bushes and raspberry canes
a home surrounded by hazelnut, wal-
so that her grandchildren could expe-
nut, peach, apple, cherry and pecan
rience the miracle of picking and eat-
trees, blueberry and raspberry bushes
ing something delicious that grew
and large vegetable gardens. The yard
from the earth, and so she could make
was her favorite childhood memory,
and she said that when she imagined Ethel June Well homemade cherry pies for her hus-
Lane
band. She loved the Lord, her family
heaven, it looked like their yard in
and a good joke.
Ardenwald.
She is survived by her six children, Peggy
Her scariest childhood memory was not
tightening the tether, and seeing the horse Lane Oakes (Jim) of Fairfax, Virginia, Rob-
she rode to school turn around and head for ert Lane Jr. of Warrenton, Mary Lane of Long
home. She was about 7 years old, and all she Beach, Washington, Janice Lane Vrooman
could think to do was stand with tiny arms out- (Dean) of Tualatin, Russell Lane (Valerie) of
stretched in front of the massive beast and cry. Warrenton and James Lane of Tualatin; 13
The horse incident, and the memorably soggy grandchildren, Liisa Oakes Caliendo (Paolino)
tomato and bread sandwiches her mother put in of Abilene, Texas, Lauren Oakes of Weed, Cali-
her school lunches, were the only negative epi- fornia, Robert Oakes of Woodway, Texas, Katie
Lane of Warrenton, Eric Lane of Warrenton,
sodes in her childhood, to hear her tell it.
The family later moved to Portland and Kimberly Vrooman of Portland, Todd Vrooman
Ethel graduated from Commerce High School of Portland, David Thorne (Stephanie) of Port-
in 1946. By the end of 1947, the entire family land, Christiaan Thorne of Long Beach, Wash-
ington, Emily Thorne of Tacoma, Washington,
had settled in Warrenton.
On March 17, 1950, she wed Robert Warren Curtis Lane (Jae) of Pocatello, Idaho, Stephanie
Lane, son of Clyde and Fern Lane of Warren- Lane of Tualatin and Adam Lane of Warrenton;
ton, at Warrenton Methodist Church. They had and nine great-grandchildren, ages 2 months to
57 years and 7 days together, until his death in 8 years.
Services are being held at 11 a.m. on Sat-
2007.
Over the years she worked at various offi ces urday, July 15, 2017, at Warrenton Methodist
as secretary/stenographer; at Bioproducts in Church, with Pastor Jane Hill presiding.
LOTTERIES
DEATHS
July 12, 2017
HOUCK, Kathleen, 61, of Seaside, died in Hillsboro.
Hughes-Ransom Mortuary & Crematory of Astoria/Seaside is in
charge of the arrangements.
July 10, 2017
WILLIAMS, Joseph E. “Joey,” 59, of Sweet Home, formerly
of Astoria, died in Lebanon. Huston-Jost Funeral Home in Leb-
anon is in charge of the arrangements. A local celebration of life
will be held at a later date.
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sn-snow, i-ice.
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