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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.
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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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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.
The uplands has one of Oregon’s largest herds of
bighorn sheep, with 600 animals.
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