Portland/Observer Thur,day , October 12,1972 Page 3
Haas claims Portland
crime increasing
Senators recommend Morse
D ie of tie test kinds of
recommendations any nun can
get for a job are those from
tie people le used to work
wltb.
Wayne M orse, applying to
t ie < iregun ¡eople for his old
job as United States Senator,
has lean getting those re
commendations. Last week,
two of M orse’ s Democratic
colleagues Ui tie Senate cane
to Oregon to campaign for
him.
cenator Fred H arris
of Oklahoma o|«ned M oise's
Albina headquarters Sunday,
and then traveled south to
stump for tie form er Senator
In Eugene and Corvallis.
E a rlie r In tie week, form er
Senator
Eugene McCarthy
spent a day campaignUig with
M orse Ui Portland, speaking
at Portland State University
and two tun J - raising recep
tions.
This
Friday, Wisconsin
senator Gaylord Nelson will
campaign In Portland and
Eugene for Morse and later
In the month Senators Hubert
Humphrey and le d Kennedy
w ill come Into Oregon.
Why
do tliese political
leaders and others Ui the
Senate
want Morse back?
"Since lie loft tlie senate,"
said M cCarthy In Portland,
"w e haven't had anyone who
can go tie distance In lighting
fur tie
people's Interests.
Senator Morse has tie vitali
ty, courage and subbomese to
stick with something until It’ s
resolved. ’’
McCarthy
added
that
M orse’ s concern with atxjse
of preshlenttal powers w ill
te ip Congress resume "its
long-abdicated role of re-
State Senator I lari Hass,
office t o recommend tough
candidate (or D istrict Attor
sentences for drug jiuslieis,
ney
of Multnoinan County, felons,
and other criminal
speaking laslore
tlie Oregon cases, has tesulted In a break
Building
Congress,
Wed down in moral ol lawenlorce-
nesday
noon at the I'o rt- tnent officials," Haas said,
I a n d
Motor Hotel stated: "many police officers have
"T h e re has been a complete staled tom e, ’what's tie use
breakdown of the vital law ol arresting a crim inal, if tie
enforcement progiams In U ms D is tric t Attorney doesn’tcsre
if l e ’ s sentenced or not.'
D is tric t Attorney's o ffic e ."
My firs t onlei of lu s u e s s if
Haas pointed out that the
I ’ m elec taxi District A ttoney,
statistics from tlie F .H .I,
would le to see that recom
place Portland aa one of tin
mendations le made In these
top ten cities In America with
crim inal cases, and tocooper-
a rising crim e. Haas said,
ate with tie arresting officers
" ' I lie recently released sta
and to let tie crime element In
tistics covering tlie firs t 6
(Air community know that law
months of it,is year once a-
enforcement is going to work
galn demonstrate tie crime
togetler as a team ", Haas
wave we are experiencing Is
said.
still Increasing."
I le breakdown of moral and
Haas s a i d , "Northwest
lack of direction in th ellls-
Portland has tie highest con
trlc t Mlorney’ s office at tills
centration of Senior C ltl/ens
time has contrllaited to tie
of any area like It In size on
rising c r u ie rate.
only
the West Coast. These mug-
last week In tie D istrict
g lugs purse snatchlngs, assau
Court of Multnomah County
lts and robtei lea in Northwest
scores of esses had to le dis
Portland - actually are (earful
missed by the judges because
of leavuig tlielr homes - not
no one from tie D istric t At
only in tlie evenings hut day
torney’ s office showed up to
time as w ell. This fear is not
represent tie State of Diegon
without justification," Haas
and try tie cases.
said.
" l i e w m esses, tie police
officers and tledelendants in
A breakdown ol adequate law
those scores ol cases that
enforcement a n d crim e p re
were
dismissed „lust have
vention programs hasoccured
tie s a m e serious concerns
In tlie D istrict Attorney’ s o ff
that I have, regarding tie total
ice. As anexample Haas said,
like of direction arid prior lie s
"tlie D istrict Attorney’ s (Id
of tie office at this tim e. Any
le« still teluses to represent
law office, including the Dis
the people and recommend to
tric t Attorney’ s office who
the judge what sentences tlie
falls to show in court for tie
convicted crim inal should re
tria l of his cases, has dure a
ceive.
• e i i o u - . disseivi e to tie tax
"M y opponent Desmond Con-
payers and citizens of out
nail's failure to allow mem
community."
bers of tie District Attorney’ s
With Ron Hendron
sponsibllity .w d e c k presi
dents."
Senator
H a rris , visiting
Diegon
wltb
his
wife,
EaDonna, said Sunday night,
" I only wish I and some more
of my Senate colleagues had
learned e a rlie r than we dtd
about the Vietnam w ar. We
should have l i s t e n e d
to
M o rse.”
H a rris continued, "T h e re
ate several Senators with
liberal unages, but If you
look at tlielr votes, you w ill
find they are always voting
for tlie corporations and tlie
rich people. We need Wayne
M orse back tlie re so we will
have at least one person who
w ill stand up for tlie people
when the administration or
some group of lobbyists try
to ram a bill through Con
gress
that’ s
not In tie
public's interest."
" I was there wltb Wayne
Morse, and I saw him stop
some extremely poor bills
by hUnself,’’ H a rris said.
Wien not hosting visiting
Democratic Senators. Morse
has been hitting the campaign
tra il hard by himself. When
he learned that his staff tiad
scheduled a day of rest last
week, le Insisted on slating
a heavy day In Haker and
Ontario
instead. He also
made stops In Pendleton, La
Grande,
Monmouth.
Inde
pendence,
Salem,
Albany,
Eugene and C orvallis.
As the campaign heats up,
Morse continues to explain
In detail the differences be
tween himself and his Re
publican opponent. In Salem,
speaking before a group of
senior citizens, Morse out
lined another difference le -
tween Senator M ark Hatfield
and himself.
"Despite his liberal Image,
my opponent is an economic
conservative," Morse said.
M orse
reported Hatfield’ s
charge that Social Security
is a "fraud ,” and the Repub
lican Senator’ s proposal for
turning Social Security over
to private Insurance com
panies.
"Changes must lie made
In tlie Social Security system,
fait I can’t think of a greater
fraud than allowing private
companies to make a profit
from the poverty of the e l
d e rly ," Morse said. He added
that discriminations in Social
Security must he eliminated.
" F o r exam ple," M orse ex
plained, "widows who worked
along with tlielr husbands
should receive a fa ir portion
of their husband's benefits,
just as widows who never
worked do.”
M orse cautioned, " I f you
think getting these changes
passed by Congress w ill be
difficult, just consider how
hard It will be to change the
system once it is under p ri
vate insurance.”
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