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V -. -a i 3b. ia m fcfc-jit- -WW--- it-' 4 FOURTEEN The Gazette-Times. Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, July 26. 1979 Easier for Oregon businesses to recover shoplifting damages llllllllllimillHHIHIIIIIII IIMI1IHIIIIIIIIIII Illllllll IIIIIIIMMII IlllllllllUlllllltlliilllltllllf 11111(1111111 IIMIIIIIHIHIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIimillllHMIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHHIIIII Summer By Sean Griffin Eagle Newspapers SALEM With few except ions, Oregon Businesses fared well before the 60th Legis lative Assembly. Merchants won approval of a bill making it easier to recover damages and penal ties from shoplifters. In addi tion to the cost of the merchandise, shoplifters will be liable for penalties ranging from $100 to $250. Under terms of the law, parents will be liable for both the cost of the merchandise and the penalties incurred because of the pilfering of merchandise by their minor children. Bankers won legislation al lowing the establishment of branch banks in cities with iess than 50,000 population. A proposal for a state-owned bank failed to make it out of committee. Self-service gas stations will continue to be illegal, due to the death of a bill authorizing them in the House Transpor tation Committee. The Legislature increased the state minimum wage to $2.65 an hour effective im mediately, with increases to $2.90 an hour scheduled for next January and to $3.10 an hour in January of 1981. Legislators also removed the authority of the state wage and Hour Commission to set sub-minimum wage ' for minors employed by small businesses under the commis sion's jurisdiction. Despite several proposals to revise Oregon's Workers Compensation system (the nation's costliest), the Legis lature failed to initiate com prehensive changes. Joint study aimed at nitrogen More efficient use of nitro gen fertilizer with minimum chance to harm the environ ment is the aim of a three-year study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Univer sity of Nebraska. University scientists Robert A. Olson, Lincoln, and Charles R. Fenster, Scottsbluff, will help investigate how tillage practices and crop residue management affect changes in the chemical form of nitrogen that occur in the soil. Their research will be supported with $129,000 from the department's Science and Education Administration :CSEA), under a cooperative agreement. Olson's part otthe study will be with irrigated arid nonirri gated corn in eastern Neb raska, while Fenster's will be with wheat in the western part of the state. No more than 25 to 50 percent of applied nitrogen is recovered in harvested grair now, said James F. Power SEA soil scientist at Lincoln who will represent the depart ment in the study. Some of the applied nitrogei also is tied up in the cro residues, Power said, and after being returned to the soil it is converted through chemi cal reactions to uses by following crops. But, some is lost to the air as gas, or is carried below the reach of roots with infiltering water and potentially may pollute groundwater. The scientists will be seek ing ways to control the cycle of nitrogen transformation in the soil, recover more of the applied nitrogen for crop, and use conservation tillage to minimize the potential for environmental degradation. The issue will be the subject of interim study and is expected to be a primary issue of the 1981 session. The liability of ski lift operators was limited, as was the liability of maufacturers of defective or dangerous products. Punitive damages may no longer be awarded in civil actions unless the plain tiff can prove "wanton disre gard for the health, safety and welfare of others." Landlords may continue to discriminate against families with children because of the failure of a measure urged by Rep. Vera Katz, D-Portland. And theater owners no longer have to "blind bid" on movies they haven't seen. A bill requiring local gov ernments to reimburse bill board owners for dismantling their signs when required to do so by law was vetoed last week by Governor Victor Atiyeh. The governor said the issue was not a matter for the legislature to decide, suggest ing that it was properly the jurisdiction of the courts. Ill space In celebration of tlie Kith anniversary this July of man's first footprints on the moon, OMSI is celebrating a "Sum mer in Space." Several new space related exhil.ils and presentations in OMSI's Kendall Planetarium are all aimed at visitors with stars in their eyes. And, in these time's of curtailed usage of the family car, OMSI is a short and enjoyable trip. One of the most interesting new exhibits is a continuously running videotape program filmed at NASA's Jet Propul sion Laboratory at Cal-Tech during Voyager H's ctose fly-by of Jupiter in the early p.u" of July. The program I .. ires interviews with lead ing space scientists, and some close-up photographs showing details of Jupiter's rings and the most definitive pictures ever taken of the huge planet's Galilean moons." Also related to a very recent space mission is the new "Sky Lab Pictorial." In this exhibit viewers see many color slides taken by crew of Skylab photographs of the sun, the earth, and many pictures ' showing every-day life in the space station itself before it was abandoned to end its life splashing down in the Indian Ocean. 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