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Page 10A NORTHWEST East Oregonian GMO mediation bill ¿QGVRSSRVLWLRQ during a work session last month. Now that HB 2509 is SALEM — After an before the Senate, however, uncontroversial start, legis- WKH QRQSUR¿W JURXS DQG lation that would require other GMO critics are asking mediation for disputes over lawmakers to reject the biotech crops in Oregon is proposal because they say now facing opposition from farmers who are harmed by cross-pollination critics of genetic engineering. biotech House Bill 2509, which should not be forced into would direct the Oregon mediation. “It strikes us that medi- Department of Agriculture to PHGLDWHFRQÀLFWVRYHUJHQHW- ation should be a choice LFDOO\ PRGL¿HG RUJDQLVPV farmers make, not a mandated didn’t initially meet with situation,” said Ivan Maluski, objections and passed the policy director of Friends House by an overwhelming of Family Farmers, during the recent hearing before margin. The bill arose from a work the Senate Committee on group convened by Rep. Environment and Natural Brian Clem, D-Salem, that Resources. If a dispute over genet- evaluated a range of GMO ically engineered crops proposals. During a May 20 legisla- occurs between farmers, the tive hearing, Clem said he’s bill calls for ODA to provide surprised by the recent surge mediation to seek a coexis- of antagonism toward HB tence solution. If a grower 2509, which emerged from refuses mediation and later the concerns of GMO critics loses a lawsuit in the dispute, who worried that biotech they’d be required to pay the farmers wouldn’t agree to opposing party’s legal costs. While Friends of Family mediation. “This came from the Farmers believes mediation anti-GMO community,” he may be useful in some said. “This was designed to circumstances, the group has be helpful for people worried decided to oppose the bill about being interfered with because mandatory media- WLRQFRXOGLPSRVHD¿QDQFLDO by GMOs.” Friends of Family burden on small growers. The mediation require- Farmers, a group that favors stronger GMO regulation, ment may delay a timely participated in the work court decision when a farmer group negotiations and cred- faces market rejection of his ited the bill with providing crop due to cross-pollination, an incentive for mediation the group claims. By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Bureau Controversial ODFW appointees approved the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. 7KHVHYHQ¿VKDQGZLOGOLIH SALEM — The Oregon commissioners serve four- Senate voted Thursday to year terms and are appointed to FRQ¿UP WZR FRQWURYHUVLDO represent the state’s Congres- sional districts. appointees to the Brown appointed Oregon Fish and %XFNPDVWHU WR ¿OO Wildlife Commis- the position repre- sion. senting Oregon’s The sport 1st Congressional ¿VKLQJ LQGXVWU\ District, after former and some recre- *RY-RKQ.LW]KDEHU ational anglers left that position lobbied hard to stop vacant for more than Gov. Kate Brown’s two years. appointment of Buckmaster Astoria resident Buckmaster previously owned Bruce Buckmaster to the commission because a salmon feed company of his work on behalf of the and served on the board of FRPPHUFLDO ¿VKLQJ LQGXVWU\ Salmon for All, a group that but the Senate voted 18-12 UHSUHVHQWV FRPPHUFLDO ¿VK- WR FRQ¿UP %XFNPDVWHU ermen, processors and other The Senate also voted 27-3 businesses on the Lower WR FRQ¿UP -DVRQ $WNLQVRQ Columbia River. Buck- RI -DFNVRQYLOOH WR WKH master also registered as a commission. Senators voted lobbyist while serving on XQDQLPRXVO\ WR FRQ¿UP the board of Salmon for All other appointments by the and although Buckmaster governor to various boards said he was never paid for WKH ZRUN VSRUW ¿VKHUV VDLG and commissions. During a committee this should preclude him hearing earlier this week, from serving as a commis- VSRUW ¿VKHUV VDLG WKH\ ZDQW sioner. the governor to appoint a commissioner who works in their industry. It is unclear how Brown might respond to that request, but the Senate Committee on Rules held back the governor’s two reappointments to the commission — Holly Akenson of Enterprise, and Michael Finley of Medford — because senators said they were concerned commis- sioners did not do enough to prevent budget problems at By HILLARY BORRUD Capital Bureau Saturday, May 23, 2015 19 long-dead Oregon hospital patients get military honors By GOSIA WOZNIACKA Associated Press PORTLAND — They served in the Civil War, the Indian Wars, the Span- ish-American War and World War I — but for decades, their ashes and those of thousands of others lay aban- doned in corroded urns in an outbuilding at Oregon’s state psychiatric hospital. The Oregon National Guard on Friday offered a ULÀHVDOXWHDQGSOD\HG³7DSV´ at Willamette National Ceme- tery to honor 19 veterans and the spouses of two others who were patients at the now 132-year-old hospital and died there. Their cremated remains were discovered a decade ago, along with those of about 3,500 other people. Dubbed the “forgotten souls,” they became a symbol of the state’s dark history of treating the mentally ill at Oregon State Hospital, where “One Flew Over the Cuck- RR¶V1HVW´ZDV¿OPHG ³:H DUH ¿QDOO\ OD\LQJ WR rest the veterans and spouses whom time and society had forgotten,” hospital superin- tendent Greg Roberts said at the ceremony. The military honors are part of an effort to pay respect to those who died, to reunite their remains with surviving relatives and to honor those eligible with a veteran burial. Lawmakers discovered the urns by chance while on a tour of the dilapidated hospital in 2004. Senate State President Peter Courtney, who found the canisters, said he did not want these people to be forgotten. Thus far, the hospital has LGHQWL¿HG DERXW HOLJLEOH veterans among the remains. It handed four of the urns to the Oregon Department of Veteran Affairs three years ago, and they were interred. 6LQFHWKHQWKHVWDWHLGHQWL¿HG an additional 88 remains eligible for a burial with military honors. Between 1914 and 1971, more than 5,000 people were cremated at the hospital. They were born in different states and coun- tries. Most were patients at the state psychiatric hospital, while others died at other institutions. Courtney and other lawmakers pushed to fund a respectful way to honor the remains and to replace the existing psychiatric hospital. Using records and genealogy research, the KRVSLWDOLGHQWL¿HGPRVWRI the dead and four years ago published their names in an online database. Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP The Oregon National Guard on Friday offered a rifle salute and played “Taps” at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland to honor 19 veterans and the spouses of two others whose cremated remains were discovered at the Oregon State Hospital a decade ago. 1931 at age 54. -RKQ 4 +RZDUG VHUYHG in the Spanish American War and is listed as a cook in Company C in the 2nd Regiment Muster in Eugene in 1898. He was born in Iowa in 1859, and died in Oregon in 1926 at 67. -RKQ :LOVRQ 6HYHGJH was a farmer and a private in Company A, 1st Brigade of the Oregon Militia. Records indicate he fought in the Modoc Indian War in the Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP early 1870s. Sevedge was The urns that contain the cremated remains of 19 veterans at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland. born in Illinois 1858, and died in 1935. The hospital has matched A bagpiper played Curtis Lufate Oaks is 302 urns with families. A ³$PD]LQJ *UDFH´ 7KH a veteran of World War I. total of 3,348 still have not 1DWLRQDO *XDUG WZLFH ¿UHG Documents note he served in been claimed. WKHLU ULÀHV LQ WKH VWLOO JUD\ the U.S. Army in 1917 and Last summer, the hospital morning. was honorably discharged unveiled a memorial on No eulogies were given; in May 1919. According to its grounds to honor the the men’s records are sparse. KLV ¿OH KH KDG D VFDU IURP unclaimed remains. Some had a mental illness or a gunshot wound received Those who served the were dealing with post-war during the war. Oaks, who country would be honored traumas, while others were was born in Tennessee in and buried like other veterans. admitted to receive better 1895, never married and died At the cemetery, Mike medical care. in Oregon in 1955 at age 60. Allegre of the state’s Depart- Arthur B. Hunter was a The urns with the remains ment of Veterans’ Affairs read private in an Indiana infantry of those four men, along with the roll call of names. Four regiment that served in the 17 others, will be interred in had served in the Civil War, Union Army during the a memorial wall at the ceme- six in the Spanish American American Civil War. Hunter tery. The remains of 70 other War, six in the Indian Wars was born in Kansas in 1877. veterans will be interred at a and two in World War I. He never married, and died in future date. would like to thank the citizens of Umatilla and Morrow counties for their support of the successful BMCC bond! Your support will enable BMCC to provide an affordable education that leads to family-wage jobs! www.bluecc.edu Got an hour? He lives alone and can no longer prepare his meals. He could use someone to deliver a warm meal. You could be that someone. It only takes an hour to give back to seniors. 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