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W h y single out just Avon? A ll
cosmetics, skin care and hair care
products have probably been tested
in a similar manner O u r Avon
cosmetics are useful products that
enhance the lives of our customers
O ur customers deserve absolute
assurance that the products they buy
from us are totally safe for their use,
and harmless to children who may
play with them when no one's
looking
Please feel free to contact your
Avon representative if you have any
quest Kins
T w o local representatives
(s) Judy Handbury
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Auxiliary ’ These poppies arc offered
to the public, not at a monetary
price, hut for a contribution, a few
cents or dollars to say " w e care and
we remember” that sacrifices were
made that we might live free
Contributions nude locally arc us
cd by the local unit to aid disabled
and needy veterans and (heir families
in the community and hospitals
throughout the state A ll proceeds
are channeled directly to rehahilita
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aid the veteran.
Auxiliary members all over the
nation will ask the public to pause
for a moment, pin on a (Nippy and
wear il with pride, remembering the
civilians who took an oath to serve
their country and gave their lives
(many have been left with a shattered
existence) because they cared that
America would remain a land of the
free As I mentioned earlier, think
about that and he gcrncous in your
giving Please don't walk on hy
knowing the worthy- work that is
done with the money you give
Thank you for listening, for
remembering the sacrifices made hy
the veteran and for giving with a
smile, it will brighten the day tor the
auxiliary volunteer Thunk you also
to the businesses who allow us to be
outside their stores and to the
newspapers for helping us tell of this
worthy program
(s) Rita H ednun
Hcppncr Unit #K7
T o Th e Fditor:
In response to Ians Winchester’s
letter last week, we wish to clear
some misunderstandings and state
some accurate facts
A von has a long history of w o rk
ing to eliminate animal tests About
‘JA percent of all our new products
arc approved without animal tests.
N o company in the beauty industry
has done more to reduce animal
testing than Avon fhis letter comes
ten months after A von closed their
animal testing laboratory and con
tracted with other labs for the few
tests still required to ensure product
sulety Ilicsc required tests arc done
on rats, mice and rabbits
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O n May 16. the familiar red crepe
paper memorial poppy i ' being of
fered to the public by the local
American le g io n Auxiliary This
reminder of the sacrifice of countless
thousands in four great wars W W I,
W W II. Korea and Vietnam is an an
nual event undertaken hy the
members o f Hcppncr Unit #K7 m
Hcppncr
Volunteers from the unit w ill once
again take pari in this nationwide
program in memory of servicemen
and women who gave their lives in
the cause for freedom Think of this,
as you give, they gave their lives,
what cun you give?
These memorial poppies arc made
completely by hand, by disabled and
hospitalized veterans in ‘ ‘ Poppy
Shops” run by Legion Auxiliary
volunteers. It is pari of a physical
ami psychological therapy program
by veterans for veterans and is pari
o f the rehabilitation program at the
White Cuy Domiciliary in the valley
where over iOO.OOO poppies arc
made A ll materials m the poppies
aic furnished free and llic veterans
receive pay for each poppy made
Do you know that in the spring of
I^ IV . amidst complete devastation,
poppies bloomed in abundance on
the battlefields of France, where so
many o f our men had fallen in bat-
tjy ’ And that j,s why a replica of this
Plunders Field p> >ppy has become the
memorial flower of the American
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The fotltnang article is repnnteil
from "Oregon Edtmuion", the of-
final il cm \fhiper of the Oregon
fulucation AssiH iarion
Oregon's IAth teacher strike end
ed March 14 when M orrow County
Education Association ( M C E A )
members ratified a new three-year
contract The settlement came finally
after IH months of negotiations,
m e d ia tio n , fa c tfin d in g , post
lactfinding mediation, and If) days
on the picket lines The strike was
due. in large part, to a school hoard
thjt hail ihoroughlv entrenched itscll
and refused to budge until the very
end of the strike itself.
Mike Persons. Columbia River
UniScrv consultant, said. "W ith
ballooning cash carry -overs and over
a m illion dollars of new iiNiney this
year alone, in a satety net district,
the board was unw illing to even pay
teachers the money already budgeted
for salaries and benefits
It was not until teachers were on
strike that the hoard came off its in
sistcnce on a salary freeze in the first
year and offered a two percent in
crease retroactive for IMK 8 8 M At
the same time, however, the hoard
insisted on a substantial rollback in
insurance benefits for ihe district’s
14 * teachers In the final settlement,
teachers got salary increases ot two
percent tor each o f the three years
of ihe contract, and ihey won con
trol o f insuransc ca rrie r and
coverages District liability for in
surance premiums was capped at
ARM) pm Month lor 1'ixu iai m l
A ' 6 ' per month tor I'Hai M|
What ended the ten-day strike’
According lo Jan Hamlin. O F.A
communications consultant assigned
to the strike, it was hard organizing
hy the teachers which resulted in
massive community involvement
“ W hile the school hoard refused to
bargain over the IH months, leathers
did not sit still.” said Hamlin She
said leas hers jsk ked hoard UKVtings
participated
in inform ational
piikcting. held more than AO coffees,
spoke al fwo public forums, made
regular media contacts. Icaflcted
more than 10 functions, canvassed
numerous limes and direct mailed to
every M orrow County resident on
four separate occasKins
After eight days of the strike,
Hamlin said about 20 community
members inserted themselves into
ihe bargaining process Fed up with
the hoard's refusal lo bargain anti
aware of Ihe caliber of Ihe "repl.K e
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the Planning CommissHtn of each
county? They have their orders to
report each item or statement in
which the Columbia Gorge Com m is
sion o r Scenic A rea it even
ment Mined
Every bn of this is an overstepp
ing of Congressional authority and
trampling all over a landowners con-
siitutHmal rights Government exists
to protect us from those who would
destroy our freedom, it must not
become the agressor itself or
ultimate destruction of that G overn
ment w ill ensue The word service
in Forest Service means it it a
Government Agency who verves the
people It's u n i had the bureaucracy
doesn't sec it that way
Please believe me when I say all
ihe heavy handness reminds one of
some foreign Colonel with dark
glasses O u r only hope is a small
group of landowners called Colum
hia Gorge United, who hase filed a
lawsuit in Federal Court demanding
12 counts o f violations of the Con-
stitution he answered A ll those in
terested in helping, please contact
Ihe Colum bia Gorge United ai
VW -427-8392 or Box 128. Steven-
s*»n. W A dH648 Everyone will
benefit from winning this case
W ill the last person to leave the
Columbia Gorge, please bring the
Flag.
Fhank sou again,
(s) Fd Woods
20 Hcndervin Rd ,
I vie. W A
le a d e r s
Jerry Peck wailing to lobby me lor
or against bills that affect M orrow
County Probably the only person I
sec as often as Jetry is Boardman C i
ty Manager. I.arry Dalrympfc His
untiring cfTorts to help his com m unr
ty ‘* economy have been nothing
short of incredible
The county is blessed with a host
of other advocates committed to en
couraging gm w ih and prosperity:
Fred Lundin. Don M cElligott. Art
Kcglcr, Cara Costa. Irv Rauch, and
especially Ken Tu rn e r, whose com
mitment to the W illow la k e R V
Park is the driving force behind that
project's potential success
I have named only a few of those
who deserve mcntHin The citizens
of M orrow County s h ^ k ) give their
leaders a pat on the n ^ x for doing
such a fine job
Sincerelv,
(s) Michael R Nelson
State Representative District AM
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T o the Fditor
The people of M orrow County
should know what kind of job their
leaders are doing, and I would like
to share my observations after w ork
ing with M orrow County through
this legislative sessitin.
Though M orrow County is one of
four counties in m y district, it has
only about 17 percent of District AM's
population However, the pev’plc I
see and hear from the most, by a
large margin, arc Morrow County 's
leaders
Judge lanns Carlson is in constant
contact with myself and my staff,
asking for my support of various
projects that will help M orrow
County, including the W illow laikc
R V park, the Patterson Ferry Inter
change. the Blue Mountain Scenic
Byw ay, and a host o f other issues
that affect M orrow County
Ihcrc have been many mornings
when I come into my office to find
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T o the Editor
M r Fd Glenn
Thank you Thank you For your
very perceptive observatKin concer
ning the Colum bia Gorge Com m is-
sK»n Yes sir. I own properly in the
so-called scenic area and have
already received a ration o f crap
from the Forest Service Have any
of you flown over ihe Gifford Pin-
chnt National Forest lately 1 If you
drive through, (he quite ‘ ‘ visual cor
ridors” will fool you Lots of timher
left along sale the only mads that are
open Fly over and sec clear cuts
behind the “ visual corridors” , the
rape o f our National Forests Yet
Senator Pack wood and Senator Hat
field gave the Gorge to the Forest
Serv ice Sad news Such arc political
pawns.
A n y landowner must have 40
acres to build on in the Special
Management Area or sell to "T ru s t
for Public lainds” who then doubles
the price to the Forest Service
IzNikout taxpayer If you are in the
Scenic Area, the color o f your house
or face may he offensive to the
Forest Service Have you ever tried
to get pcrmissMin for anything out of
Washington. D C ? Negative result,
I am sure Even have to get permis
sion from the Indian Natnws Now
I ask you. why?
If a full investigation o f the C o l
umbia Gorge Com m ission's ir
regularities was instituted, it would
outdo Watergate WTiy don't you ask
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ment teachers" hired hy the district,
the community members dratted
their own settlement proposal and
presented il to both sides " T h e
teachers accepted the proposal
within h o u rs ." said Ham lin But.
she noted, it took the community
members 4H hours of "heating up
on” hoard members to get the tour
votes necessary for a tentative
agreement
Persons said the conflict taught
M orrow County residents "the im
portance of getting involved and in
sisting that schiiol hoard members
listen to the people who elect them ”
He also praised N C F .A teachers tor
"hanging in there through a very dif
ficult time and standing up for their
rights and (heir dignity ”
The strike was the first strike in
the Colum bia River UniScrv Area
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Reasonable
W e saw the log trucks on their way
to Montana the other day Someone in
the coffee shop remarked (hat they
were on the way to the First Annual
Spotted O w l Barbecue
That whole fiasco has us a little
worried
Seems as though Mime years hack
some folks who liked nature a whole
lot got Congress to pass the Fn
dangered Species A d Thai law makes
il almost impossible to do anything that
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w ill further endanger any plant or
animal species that may he nearing ex
tinction Maybe man should not go out
| of his way to cause the exlinciKin of some plant or animal species
The Am erican Buffalo, once roaming ihe great plains in vast numbers,
can now only he seen by a few people in a few places The Carrier Pigeon
'is gone.
Bui this spotted owl thing causes me some concern The proponents claim
(hat il lakes some 2.000 acres of old growth fir to provide habitat for just
one pair of spotted owls And to cut that timher to build homes would cn
danger the species
The loggers see their jobs on the line and they arc beginning to wonder
if the preservation of a species is worth the destruction i4 the naist basic in
dustry of the Pacific Northwest Roaming over 2.000 acres of old growth,
it is doubtful whether more that a few hundred people in the entire world
w ill ever even see a spotted owl
Both sides have aolidified their positions to a degree of absoluteness
One sale claims that the prescrvatHin of the spotted owl is absolutely essen
nal to the continued existence of mankind They drive railroad spikes in
the old irees to ftwtrale (and tnavbc kill) Ihe loggers that try to cut them
down
The other side answers that the harvest of old growth fir is absolutely
essential to the economy o f the Pac ific Northwest as we know it And their
motto i» " I f it'* a' híNNin'. I'm a' shoocin’ . ’ ’
W e ll, we know that neither position is entirely correct That's kind of
the way it is with absolutes
We remember a recent statement by a C hief o f Police to the effect that
every business in town that marketed alcoholic beverages should close up
In the same category is the advise we received years ago when fresh out
of law sch*N)| " I f there's ever anyone you can't trust, it's a deacon in
a church.”
Absolutes make our lives easier, that's for sure If this is absolutely right
and that is absolutely w rong, we don't much have to think about il when
it comes up But few. if any. things are that simple W e 've discovered
ihat most things arc relative What's this way today, might be sone other
way tomorrow when circumstances arc different
Take killing another human being, for example T o just walk up and
shoot someone dead is probably murder, against the law. the most heinous
crime known lo man
Bui It ii w-as done to protect yourself from being killed, we might call
il self defense And if it was done not only to protect yourself, but also
to prevent hang robbed of the church collection plate by a wild-eyed dope
addict, not only would it not be a crime, it would be brave, commendable,
| a heroic act
So u n > would he killing the enemy in wartime
Where most of us are not yet sure is killing unborn babies and terminal
ly ill grandparents.
Absolutes would make that issue-easy If saving the spotted ow l is ab
solutely essential, then killing unborn babies and terminally ill grandparents
would he absolutely wrong But maybe it's relative.
That makes it a little harder We have to think about each case, weigh
all the factors, consider all the particular circumstances and come to a con
clusion this time that might he different next time
That is hard And so seldom do we do it H ow often have you heard
a public body w orry that a proposed action will "set a precedent?” For
years H ieard people voice the ultímale solution. “ First, you kill all the
lawyers " And rcccnily we heard that "w e should just fire all the teachers.”
W c think if folks would just think about all the reasons why man ought
id do what he can about preserving the endangered species of this planet,
attendent with the costs to society for the effort, this whole issue could he
resolved on the side of reason
Not a bad practice, no matter what the problem
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