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Page 2A NORTHWEST East Oregonian Wednesday, January 14, 2015 Senators settle wager at Capitol WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. senators from Ohio and Oregon have settled their friendly bet on college foot- ball’s championship with Oregon’s senators showing support for the winning Ohio State Buckeyes on the U.S. Capitol steps. Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley joined Ohio Sens. Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman on Tuesday in Washington to spell out the traditional O-H-I-O to pay off their wager. Ohio State’s Buckeyes defeated the University of Oregon Ducks 42-20 in the national college football championship Monday night. Brown and Portman would have had to learn to “throw the O” alongside the Oregon Duck on the Capitol steps if Oregon had triumphed. Reps. Peter DeFazio of Or- egon and Tim Ryan of Ohio also placed a bet prior to the game. They wagered Oregon wine against Ohio ice cream. Group buys 2nd large ranch on Central Oregon’s John Day River PORTLAND (AP) — A conservation group has bought a second large ranch along the John Day River in Central Oregon that could eventually pro- vide public access to a remote, scenic part of the state. The Western Rivers Conservancy bought the Murtha Ranch at Cottonwood Canyon in 2008, and then sold it to the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department for what’s now the second-largest state park, at 8,000 acres. The organization recently bought a ranch 40 miles upstream, at Thirtymile Creek in Gilliam County, near Condon, The Oregonian reports. The ranch has all-weather private road access to the John Day River at a point where it runs in a 1,000-foot-deep canyon, but access is now available only by paying a fee. It’s on a 70-mile stretch of the river with a federal designation as wild and scenic. The Rattray Ranch had been owned for three generations by the family that homesteaded in the 1880s, passing it down to six sisters who sold it. The purchase price was not disclosed, but an Eastern Oregon real estate company had listed it at $7 million. The property comes with grazing rights to 10,530 acres of adjacent land owned by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Named for a fur trapper, the John Day at 281 miles is the second-longest undammed river in the continental United States. It rises in the southern part of the Blue Moun- tains, runs westward and then turns to the northwest, cutting across the Columbia Plateau to empty into the Columbia River. The two conservancy purchases are on the lower part of the river, popular with rafters and anglers. The organization hopes to sell the land to the Bu- reau of Land Management. President Sue Doroff said that may take three to AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Ohio State Buckeye fans Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, left, and Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, right, have some fun with Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., center, an Oregon Ducks fan, on the steps of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday. BRIEFLY Kitzhaber to have skin cancer removed SALEM — Gov. John Kitzhaber will soon undergo removal of a basal-cell carcinoma from his face. He said he had undergone carcinoma, a form of skin cancer, “and I am looking forward to having it carved out.” Such cancers usually occur after excessive exposure to the outdoors and the sun. Kitzhaber, who turns 68 in March, underwent a similar procedure on the right side of his nose in May 2000. — Capital Bureau Ontario city golf course to close ONTARIO (AP) — After years of subsidizing a golf course and debating what to do about it, the city of Ontario is out of the greens and fairways business. Its 18-hole course dates to 1964 but has lost money for years — in July, the most recent annual cost was put at more than $300,000. At the same time, memberships and clubhouse sales were both reported down by 17 percent. Critics of subsidizing the course said the city of more than 11,000 on Oregon’s eastern border with Idaho has more pressing priorities, such need. Advocates, however, said the course is an amenity that makes the city more attractive for economic development. They note the city has also closed its public pool, a similar blow to the city. In August, the city council made the decision to stop subsidizing the golf course, the Ontario Argus Observer reported. Council members said it would be open to suggestions and they would begin looking for alternate uses. Another wandering wolf arrives in southwest Oregon GRANTS PASS (AP) — Another wandering wolf has found its way to the Cascades of southwestern Oregon, where OR-7 has established his pack after trekking thousands of miles in search of a mate. An automatic trail camera snapped a photo of the new wolf in timberlands west of the Klamath County community of Keno, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist John Stephenson said Tuesday. The arrival of another the animal continues to spread widely across the region after being reintroduced in the Northern Rockies in the 1990s. The area was actually frequented by OR-7 before he settled down farther north, Stephenson said. “I am surprised to see another wolf unrelated to (OR-7’s) Rogue pack down in that area so soon,” Stephenson said. “It does suggest some sort of dispersal corridor (through which) they are making their way over to that part of the state. But we have no way of knowing. We have a number of long-distance dispersers out there that aren’t collared. Even though it appears this one is staying in this area, I don’t think we completely know it will stick in that area or keep moving around.” Woman accused of faking prescriptions HILLSBORO (AP) — Police believe a Sacramento woman used fake prescriptions to pick up at least 20 bottles of narcotic cough syrup from Portland-area pharmacies, intending to sell them in California. KATU-TV reports 20-year- old Sirenna Guice made an initial court appearance Monday in Hillsboro. She is held on charges of identity theft, prescription fraud and possessing a controlled substance. She was arrested Saturday at a drug store in Gresham where employees recognized described a woman dressed in Mickey Mouse cartoon scrubs forging prescriptions. A caller would phone in correct doctor information with fake patient names. Police found more than 20 bottles of cough syrup in the car in which the woman was arrested. 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If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. • Stephanie Burkenbine for same-day redelivery www.eastoregonian.com public access plan. The conservancy plans to sell land used to grow wheat to a private owner. It has no agreement with the federal agency, though, as it did with the state parks department be- fore buying the Cottonwood Canyon property. “Thirtymile Creek is a very important cold water tributary of the lower John Day River for salmon and steelhead,” Doroff said. “We want to protect and restore it in perpetuity.” She said the section the river near the ranch has wilderness qualities, and eventual public access would allow boaters a 40-mile trip downstream to Cottonwood Canyon, avoiding challenging rapids. 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