WEATHER
East Oregonian
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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
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50
44
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47
51
49
51
55
55
43
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51
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63
56
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51
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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
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52
44
50
47
48
47
50
53
49
40
49
46
52
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50
60
53
51
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52
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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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
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Thu.
Hi
94
87
78
72
75
58
73
76
83
71
76
Lo
69
82
60
56
57
44
55
62
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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
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WNW 8-16
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National Summary: Showers and thunderstorms will develop in the Northeast, Florida and
the Rockies today. Much of the West will stay hot, while cooler air expands in the East and
warmth builds in the middle.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 108° in Needles, Calif.
Low 32° in Togo, Minn.
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
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93
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101
70
90
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Today
Hi
Louisville
78
Memphis
87
Miami
90
Milwaukee
68
Minneapolis
78
Nashville
84
New Orleans
93
New York City
70
Oklahoma City
91
Omaha
87
Philadelphia
71
Phoenix
108
Portland, ME
69
Providence
70
Raleigh
81
Rapid City
90
Reno
92
Sacramento
86
St. Louis
81
Salt Lake City
95
San Diego
72
San Francisco
69
Seattle
72
Tucson
104
Washington, DC 74
Wichita
91
Lo
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Thur.
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75
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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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
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morning, found Lynda Kinney of Pendleton unconscious in
the parking lot at Harris Junior Academy, 3121 S.W. Hailey
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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.
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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.
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