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Number 4 6
Wednesday • November 20, 2002
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Police Consider Selling Ad
Space on Patrol Cars
Cash-strapped police depart­
ments around the country are
considering selling advertising
space on their patrol cars — an
idea that has some officers in
North Brunswick, N.J. worried
they will get stuck driving around
with a really em barrassing ad.
Father Sues Amateur
Hockey League
A Canadian father is suing the
N ew B ru n sw ic k A m a te u r
Hockey Association after his 16-
year-old son failed to win the
league’s most valuable player
award. Michael Croteau is seek­
ing about $200,000 in psycho­
logical and punitive damages
from the association. He also
dem ands that the MVP trophy
be taken from the w inner and
given to his son, Steven.
Rock-Paper-Scissors
Champ Crowned
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G ive Pete Lovering a hand - for
being the worlds best Rock, Pa­
per, Scissors player. The job-
hunting W eb site operator has
won the World Rock Paper Scis­
sors Society’s first open inter­
national championship. He was
among more than 250 grownups
who took part in the competition
over the weekend in Toronto.
High Court Refuses
Inmate Sperm Case
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The Supreme Court showed no
sympathy M onday for a Califor­
nia inmate who wants to become
a long-distance father. Justices
rejected William Reno G erber’s
claim that he should be. allowed
to ship his sperm to his wife. The
Supreme Court ruled 60 years
ago that inmates cannot be ster­
ilized, but it’s never said they
have a constitutional right to
procreate from behind bars.
Now on Sale: Official
School Coffins
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O bserver
Ross Russell receives emergency food assistance for his family from Salvation Army employee John Schauer. "I didn 't know o f any other place
could g o ," said the local resident who recently was laid o ff from a job at the Rose Garden.
Salvation Army finds more and more people trying to make ends meet
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Economic woes are pushing more fami­
lies into desperation when it com es to put­
ting food on the table.
O regonians are finding it harder and
harder to make ends meet, according to
Howard Erlich, directoroffamily services for
the Salvation Army.
The relief agency is expecting to serve
nearly 4,500 low-income households this
holiday season with food boxes and a vari­
ety o f services.
“The need for food assistance continues
to grow, which means more and more fami­
lies will be going withoui lood,” Erlich said.
“O ur state is ranked the hungriest in the
country right now.”
A survey by the Oregon Food Bank shows
that 60,000 children in Oregon need emer­
gency food in an average month.
“It’s difficult to see families with hungry
children at any time o f the year, but it’s
especially hard on everyone during the holi­
days,” Erlich said.
The Salvation Army tries to help people
coming through their doors with two weeks
worth o f food, energy assistance, counsel­
ing services, welfare applications, food
stamps and instructions on applying for the
National animal rights activists
are “udderly” unim pressed— in
fa c t, u n -m o o -v e d — by
O regon’s state drink. People for
the Ethical Treatment o f Ani­
m als have asked Gov. John
Kitzhaber to pull the plug on
m ilk,Oregon’sofficial state bev­
erage for five years, because o f
objections to animal c*
the dairy industry.
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Former heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali visits a
girl's school in Kabul as part o f his U.N. goodwill trip
to Afghanistan.
Muhammad Ali
Visits Afghanistan
(A P ) -S c h o o lg irls in K abul, A fghanistan show ered
M uham m ad Ali w ith flow er petals M onday during the
form er heavyw eight ch a m p ’s visit to a U .N .-sponsored
school in A fg h an istan ’s capital. A li, w ho m ade the trip to
K abul as a “ U.N. M essenger o f Peace,” signed auto­
graphs and handed out volleyballs and ju m ping ropes.
Ronald A. D inicola, w ho served as the boxing leg en d ’s
lal attorney for 15 years, said Ali cam e because he
d to help focus w orld attention on A fghanistan’s
ve hum anitarian needs — w hich m ight be o ver­
w ed if the U nited States goes to w ar w ith Iraq,
nts to keep the spotlight o f international attention on
s going on here,” D iN icola told T he A ssociated
“E specially in light o f oth er w orld events.”
: 60-year-old form er heavyw eight cham pion, w ho
s from P arkinson’s disease, w alked slow ly and
t spoke as he toured a g irls’ school in w estern
“Violence breeds violence.”
“N o war.” “Pray and Act for
Peace.” “Free Palestine.”
Those were some o f the cries
from demonstrators on Sunday
as they marched through dow n­
town Portland streets.
Some o f the protestors called
for an end to government poli­
cies that put corporate interests
above basic human rights.
L au rie K n ig h tly o f A m eri­
can s U n ited for P a le stin ia n ’s
H um an R ights th in k s th e U .N .
S ecu rity C o u n c il, w hich re ­
ce n tly issu ed Iraq an u ltim a ­
tum to h and o v er an y w e a p ­
o n s o f m ass d estru c tio n , has
b e e n s tro n g a rm e d by th e
A m erican g o v ern m en t.
“ W e ’re n ot w ithin o u r rights
to b o m b Iraq ,” she said.
P olice estim a ted th e cro w d
at m o re than 2,0 0 0 , w h ile p ro ­
te sters put the fig u re clo se r to
10,000.
‘S a ffire ,’ a local m u sician
an d perfo rm er, said the p ea ce
rally w as the first he had ev er
atten d e d .
T he peaceful d em o n stratio n
d r e w p e o p le o f a ll a g e s .
C o u p les w alked h and in hand.
F am ilies stro lle d w ith do g s
trailin g behind.
t his sense o f hum or w as intact. A s he positioned
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possible war with iraq
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Eminem’s S IM Home
PETA activists ask state to
change from milk
“A lot o f people are on the edge o f hun­
ger,” he said.
Jesse Dunn was recently laid o ff from a
job as a remodeler and maintenance man. He
is a single parent with a two-year old son. He
picked up a food box Friday and a gas
voucher to help look for work.
“It’s just us two,” he said, holding his
son, Jesse Jr. “This is really important to us
right now.”
Erlich says the need for services is run­
ning about 15 percent higher than last year.
He said service agencies are calling other
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No Moro war!
For fans whose enthusiasm for
the home team refuses to die,
even after they do, the Univer­
sity o f M issouri-Columbia has
the solution. Those looking to
extend school spirit beyond the
grave can now purchase an offi­
cially licensed Missouri coffin.
Bidding for one o f Em inem ’s
boyhood homes has surpassed
$ 1 million on an Internet auction
site. The modest W arren, MI.
home with three bedrooms and
two bathroom s, was sold by
Eminem’s uncle for $45,000ear­
lier in the month and has been
listed on eBay since Thursday.
Bidding opened at $ 120,000, and
by Tuesday afternoon, the high
bid was just over $1 million.
Oregon Health Plan.
Erlich says the typical person in need
works at or near the minimum wage. Some­
times that person is a single parent with one
or two children. Some are on welfare or
disabled.
Erlich says upwards o f 75 percent ofthose
that seek out assistance from the Salvation
Army are paying over half their income to
rent.
“That leaves very little left over in the way
o f disposable income,” Erlich said.
He also says that dow nturns in the
economy have pushed recently laid o ff folks
into the Salvation Army.
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"Saffire" ponders the prospect o f another war aunng a oowntown peace
rally Sunday. He was among thousands of demonstrators who took to
the streets to call for an end to violence in the Middle East.
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D avid P lechi TT he P ortland O bserver