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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast THURSDAY TODAY Thundershower Periods of clouds and sunshine 85° 54° 79° 51° FRIDAY SATURDAY A shower or two in the afternoon Periods of sun; breezy, pleasant PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 71° 51° 68° 45° 73° 51° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 87° 55° 83° 53° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 96° 76° 104° (1931) 62° 51° 34° (1919) PRECIPITATION 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 0.00" 0.01" 0.40" 5.60" 4.99" 6.95" through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 98° 77° 101° (1931) 62° 52° 40° (2002) 0.00" 0.02" 0.19" 4.25" 3.14" 5.33" SUN AND MOON 5:06 a.m. 8:43 p.m. 9:07 a.m. 11:42 p.m. Last New June 12 June 20 June 27 July 4 John Day 92/55 Ontario 101/63 Bend 78/44 Burns 88/47 Caldwell 98/63 Astoria Baker City Bend Brookings Burns Enterprise Eugene Heppner Hermiston John Day Klamath Falls La Grande Meacham Medford Newport North Bend Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Redmond Salem Spokane Ukiah Vancouver Walla Walla Yakima Hi 65 89 78 63 88 86 72 82 87 92 78 86 82 82 61 64 101 88 85 72 81 71 84 81 71 86 86 Lo 51 50 44 50 47 51 49 51 55 55 43 51 46 54 51 52 63 56 54 56 44 53 54 46 54 59 51 W c pc t c pc t c t pc t pc t t pc c c pc pc t c t c pc t c t pc NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Thu. Hi 62 78 72 62 80 73 71 76 83 80 74 76 73 81 60 64 90 83 79 70 75 70 75 73 67 80 81 Lo 47 52 44 50 47 48 47 50 53 49 40 49 46 52 45 50 60 53 51 54 45 50 54 42 52 53 53 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W sh pc pc c pc pc c pc pc pc pc pc pc pc c c pc pc pc c pc sh pc pc c pc pc WORLD CITIES Today Hi 91 86 91 75 74 59 72 78 78 69 76 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Lo 66 79 63 55 54 50 54 61 63 56 68 W s c s t t pc t t pc sh pc Thu. Hi 94 87 78 72 75 58 73 76 83 71 76 Lo 69 82 60 56 57 44 55 62 63 55 68 W pc t s pc t sh pc t pc s pc WINDS Medford 82/54 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today First Full Albany 70/51 Eugene 72/49 TEMPERATURE 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 77° 53° Spokane Wenatchee 84/54 85/57 Tacoma Moses 72/51 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 88/55 82/51 63/51 70/50 86/51 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 69/53 86/59 Lewiston 89/57 Astoria 90/60 65/51 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 72/56 Pendleton 86/51 The Dalles 87/55 85/54 79/56 La Grande Salem 86/51 71/53 Corvallis 71/50 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 72° 47° Seattle 72/53 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 78° 55° Today SUNDAY A stray shower in the afternoon Wednesday, June 8, 2016 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 78/43 REGIONAL FORECAST Eastern Washington: Clouds and sun today; a thunderstorm in spots across the south, near the Idaho border and in the mountains. Cascades: Clouds and sun today with a shower; not as warm. Cooler tonight. Northern California: Mostly cloudy today; pleasant in the interior mountains. Thursday WSW 7-14 WNW 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today. A passing shower; only during the morning in the south. Eastern and Central Oregon: Times of clouds and sun today. A shower or thunder- storm around; hot. Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today with a shower in places. Mostly cloudy tonight. Today W 10-20 WNW 8-16 2 4 6 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Ofice hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and Dec. 25, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Periodicals postage paid at Pendleton, OR. Postmaster: send address changes to East Oregonian, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. 4 1 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 Didn’t receive your paper? 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NATIONAL CITIES Today Albuquerque Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Fargo Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Hi 94 85 71 72 94 87 97 72 89 72 73 69 93 84 71 99 63 81 84 89 74 93 85 110 92 79 Lo 66 63 55 52 64 63 63 52 68 50 55 54 70 59 48 76 50 63 73 70 56 70 69 84 66 63 W s s t pc pc s pc t s pc s pc s pc pc pc sh pc pc s s s s pc s pc Thur. 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Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801 or email editor@eastoregonian.com. • To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: 541-966-0838 • sports@eastoregonian.com COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: Mike Jensen 541-215-0824 • mjensen@eastoregonian.com Unity slate divides Oregon Republican Convention By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau SALEM — A slate of candidates seeking positions as Oregon delegates to the Republican National Convention ran on a platform that they would help unify the party. Instead, the slate and a conlict over ballot rules caused division in the party during the statewide conven- tion Saturday in Salem. The slate included 48 candidates — mostly polit- ical insiders — to ill every position in the delegation. Among them were state Reps. Bill Post, R-Keizer, and Greg Barreto, R-Cove, Sen. Kim Thatcher, R-Keizer, and Ourania Yue, the wife of Republican National Committeeman Solomon Yue Jr. The slate came to the convention with campaign materials, set out on attendees’ chairs, and endorsements from 13 organizations, including the Ted Cruz and Donald Trump campaigns, Oregon Right to Life and Oregon Small Business Association. When some party members saw the ballot for at-large delegates, they stopped proceedings and argued that the ballot violated rules the party adopted in October. The rules called for the party to vote for their top 10 choices for at-large delegates. The 10 candidates who received the most votes would win seats on the delegation, while those who ranked 11th to 20th in number of votes would win posts as alternates. Instead, Republican Party Chairman Bill Currier instructed party members to vote for 10 delegates and 10 alternates, and he rejected the challenge of the ballot. A party member then requested a vote on whether to uphold or reject Currier’s decision. Currier held a standing vote in which a majority rejected his decision and clariied that the body would be voting only for their top 10 choices. The top 10 choices would become delegates; the second top 10 vote getters would serve as alternates. Yamhill County Precinct Committeeman Jim Bunn, a former U.S. representative for Oregon, said the ballot failed to follow the rules adopted in October and also gave the grassroots unity slate an advantage. “The rules were very clear, and they didn’t accommodate a slate,” Bunn said. “I am not going to judge people’s motives, but the ballot would have given an advantage to the slate.” “There are people who are not run- ning on slates, and with a slate and that kind of ballot, you can lock down all of the voices on the delegation.” — Jim Bunn, Yamhill County Precinct Committeeman If the slate had just 51 percent of the vote, it could have selected both the 10 delegates and all 10 alter- nates, he said. “There are people who are not running on slates, and with a slate and that kind of ballot, you can lock down all of the voices on the delega- tion,” Bunn said. “I don’t know if the slate has 51 percent of the body, but one group shouldn’t get together and control the whole delegation.” Republican National Committeeman Solomon Yue Jr. said party leaders faced a dilemma when they determined the ballot instructions because some candidates had iled only as alternates. A vote for the top 10 choices for delegate would have effectively forced those candidates out of the running for alternate, because party members would only be casting votes for delegates. “In a democratic society, candidates have a right to stand for election, and voters have the right to vote for the candidates they want,” Yue said. “If you ask the body only to vote for 10 and the other 10 get elected by default, I think that’s a problem, but I have respect for the body’s decision, if that is what they want.” Yue said he disagrees the ballot to vote for 10 delegates and 10 alternates gave the unity slate an advantage. The body may vote for whichever mix of candidates they choose, he said. “The slate is a group of people who decided to get together because we have something in common so let’s run together,” Yue said. The grassroots unity slate was running on the premise that they would unify the party. All of the candidates had to sign a pledge to refrain from changing the “main elements of the Republican Party Platform.” That includes the party’s princi- ples of pro-life, traditional marriage, the right to bear arms, free enterprise, smaller government reforms and lower taxes. Yue said the slate’s dual endorsements by the Cruz and Trump campaigns were unique. “Oregon has the only grassroots slate endorsed by the Trump and Cruz campaign,” Yue said. “In other states, they are still ighting each other. In Oregon, we are already working together.” In the end, nine of the 10 at-large delegates elected were from the unity slate. More than 800 people attended Saturday’s conven- tion. Out of those, 654 were precinct committeepersons who were responsible for voting for the party’s dele- gates and alternates. The party was scheduled to select a total of 28 dele- gates to represent the state at the national convention July 18-21 in Cleveland. Corrections Pendleton police Sunday morning, not Saturday morning, found Lynda Kinney of Pendleton unconscious in the parking lot at Harris Junior Academy, 3121 S.W. Hailey Ave. The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. Eighteen of the delegates are pledged to Trump; ive each are pledged to Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Out of the 28, three are chosen from each of Oregon’s ive congressional districts. Another 10 are elected to ill at-large posi- tions, and three so-called “automatic delegates” serve by virtue of their positions as state chairman, national committeeman and national committeewoman. The event marked the irst time in at least 30 years that the Oregon Republican Party has held a consolidated state- wide convention. During the last presidential election in 2012, the party held ive different conventions, one for each of the state’s congressional districts. Oregon was the only state in the nation that year without a centralized caucus to select delegates to the national convention. Route work pays for my children’s activities. EOU tuition to go up 3.9 percent By CHERISE KAECHELE The La Grande Observer The Eastern Oregon University Board of Trustees approved a 3.9 percent tuition hike Thursday at its quarterly meeting, and will increase room and board by the same amount. Trustee Richard Chaves and Vice President of Finance and Administration Lara Moore presented the increases to the board of trustees, requesting the board pass the request from the university’s inance committee. Chaves said plenty of discussion and thought had been put into this request. “We had a lengthy discus- sion at the inance committee about what the history of tuition increases is at Eastern Oregon University,” Chaves said. “It’s a balancing act — stabilizing and increasing our funding balance.” The balance is the amount of money put away to safe- guard against unforeseen circumstances or shortfalls. For an undergraduate student taking 15 credit hours on campus, a 3.9 percent increase would equate to approximately $82 per term. According to Moore, the university had an 8.2 percent funding balance in February and is ending the school year with a funding balance of 11 percent. Chaves said EOU is projecting a 3 percent decrease in enrollment next year. If those numbers are accurate, the tuition increase will be necessary to maintain the desired funding balance. “Our increase lines up with other universities,” Chaves said. The board adopted a new policy, replacing the previous one that had been tied to the Oregon Univer- sity System — which the universities parted with last year. The new policy allows EOU to come up with their own levels. Oregon State University is facing a 2 percent increase in tuition, University of Oregon is facing a 4.7 percent increase, and Southern Oregon University is looking at a 3 percent increase. Become a East Oregonian Carrier. 211 SE Byers Ave. Pendleton or call: 541-276-2211 1-800-522-0255
