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STATE TAKES ON TRIBAL MASCOTS INSIDE: BULLDOGS WIN BUCK CLASSIC OREGON/2A ART CENTER SPRING CLASS SCHEDULE TRACK/1B FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2017 141st Year, No. 114 WINNER OF THE 2016 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD Your Weekend Senate passes bill to raise smoking age to 21 Weekend Weather Fri Sat Sun 51/40 53/35 57/42 One dollar Catch a movie By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau Columbia/Sony Pictures via AP Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds star in the sci-fi thriller, “Life.” For showtime, Page 5A For review, Weekend EO Trump demands make- or-break health vote By ERICA WERNER and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON — Abandoning negotiations, President Donald Trump demanded a make-or-break vote on health care legislation in the House, threatening to leave “Obamacare” in place and move on to other issues if Friday’s vote fails. The risky move, part gamble and part threat, was presented to GOP lawmakers behind closed doors Thursday night after a long and intense day that saw a planned vote on the health care bill scrapped as the legislation remained short of votes amid cascading nego- tiations among conservative lawmakers, moderates and others. At the end of it the presi- dent had had enough and was ready to vote and move on, whatever the result, Trump’s budget director Mick Mulvaney told lawmakers. “‘Negotiations are over, we’d like to vote tomorrow and let’s get this done for the American people.’ That was it,” Rep. Duncan Hunter of California said as he left the meeting, summarizing Mulvaney’s message to lawmakers. “Let’s vote,” White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said as he walked out. See HEALTH/12A Staff photo by Kathy Aney James Harri, a certifi ed crop advisor with the MacGregor Company in Adams, examines wheat in fi elds along Duff Road near Pendleton. Farmers anticipating snow mold, stripe rust By GEORGE PLAVEN East Oregonian Staff photo by Kathy Aney James Harri, a certifi ed crop advisor with the MacGregor Company in Adams, talks to wheat farmers Tom and Don Lieuallen Thursday as they stand near 314 acres of wheat along Duff north of Pendleton. Morning dew gleamed in the sun Thursday along Duff Road north of Pendleton, where James Harri prepared to scout one of several large wheat fi elds on his Honda 4-wheeler. The vehicle is essentially his second offi ce, Harri joked, as he scanned for weeds hidden among rows of young green wheat. It will take him roughly an hour to ride all 314 acres, noting potential trouble spots on a map loaded to his computer tablet. Winter wheat is fi nally coming out of dormancy, and the decisions farmers make now will determine the health of the crop leading up to harvest. As a certifi ed crop advisor for the McGregor Company in Adams, it See WHEAT/12A “The healthier we can keep these plants earlier in the season, and the cleaner we can keep the fi eld from invasive weeds ... the better.” — James Harri, certifi ed crop advisor with the MacGregor Company in Adams SALEM — The Oregon Senate Thursday passed a bill to raise the smoking age to 21. If the House concurs, Oregon would become the third state in the nation to prohibit the sale of tobacco to people younger than 21. “The is pure and simple a public health bill,” said the bill’s chief sponsor, Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, D-Beaverton. The bill passed 18-to-9, with all Democrats and two Republicans, Sens. Jackie Winters of Salem, and Sen. Bill Hansell of Athena, voting in favor. Hansell, a cancer survivor, has consistently supported legislation that limits carcin- ogen exposure for young people, including tanning bed restrictions and banning smoking in a vehicles with children in the back seat. Winters and Democrat swing vote Sen. Betsy Johnson of Scappoose changed their votes. A Republican, Rep. Rich Vial of Scholls, co-sponsored with Steiner-Hayward. Both lawmakers have said they lost loved ones to tobacco-re- lated diseases. Sen. Alan Olson, R-Canby, argued the bill looked like the work of a “nanny state.” “I appall smoking,” Olson said. But the senator said he felt people have the right to make that choice for them- selves. Sen. Ted Ferrioli, R-John Day, said people who are old enough to serve in the military ought to be able to decide whether they want to smoke. He said the law change would create a new illicit market for people between the ages of 19 and 21. Steiner Hayward, who is a family physician, retorted that states have prohibited people younger than 21 from drinking alcohol and that See SMOKING/12A PENDLETON Tiny statues an artistic break for students By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian Room 5 at the Pendleton Tech- nology & Trades Center might have the most statues in one place this side of Main Street. Since January, the former West Hills Intermediate School campus has housed the Hawthorne Alter- native High School program, whose students were sculpting faux bronzes in a sparse class- room. The class is part of an artist-in-residency program sponsored by a grant from the Education Foundation of Pend- leton, which provides funding for supplemental activities like music classes and fi eld trips. Hawthorne students were nearing the end of the program by the time Thursday’s class was over, and all fi ve students that attended were working on follow-ups to the statues they had already fi nished. All the fi nished pieces depicted abstract human forms, ranging from freshman Hadley Guzman’s barrel-chested fi gure to the squat body constructed by junior Travis Underwood, which he dubbed “Spaceman,” after MTV’s astro- naut mascot. Two separate pieces depicted a man dabbing, the dance move popularized by NFL quarterback Cam Newton. Perhaps the most complex statue was made by freshman Treyal Groesbeck, who sculpted curved arms into his fi gure so that it could hang from a small tree branch. Groesbeck planned to complete the piece in his 3-D printing class by making a base for the branch. “We’ve affectionately named him ‘Hanging Around,’” he said. Instructor Jan Peter- See STATUES/12A Staff photo by Kathy Aney Freshman Hadley Guzman works to create a faux bronze sculpture Thurs- day at the Hawthorne Alternative High School in Pendleton. The class is part of an artist-in-residency program.
