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141st Year, No. 114
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Senate
passes bill
to raise
smoking
age to 21
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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.
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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
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“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
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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-
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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.