TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 7,2011
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Justice Court Report
Morrow County Justice of the Peace Ann Spicer
has released the following Justice Court Report.
-Wilbur Lynn Beard, Jr., 52, of Lexington was
found guilty of DUII-alcohol. He was given a DUII diver
sion with alcohol assessment/treatment to be completed
at Community Counseling Services.
-Nathan Lawrence Slocum, 39, of Corvallis,
pled guilty to Criminal Trespass II. He was sentenced
to one year bench probation to be reduced to a violation
at the end of the year. Total fines, fees and assessments
were $740.
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The state’s district
attorneys are responsible
for ensuring that we are,
in fact, a society that ob
serves the rule of law. For
that reason, many of us
are profoundly disturbed
by Gov. John Kitzhaber’s
abrupt pronouncement that
no jury’s verdict of death
will be carried out during
his term.
K itzhaber’s per
sonal opposition to capital
punishment has never been
a secret, and yet when he
ran for governor, some of
us who are in favor of the
death penalty as the ulti
mate punishment endorsed
him. That was in part be
cause the governor had
respected the rule of law
when it came to the execu
tion of Douglas Franklin
Wright in 1996, saying he
(the governor) was “sworn
to uphold the law and could
not and would not inter
vene.” That was the right
decision legally and mor
ally, and it respected the
will of Oregonians, who
twice in the past 30 years—
in 1978 (by 64 percent of
the vote) and then again in
1984 (by 75 percent of the
vote)—have voted to rein
state capital punishment.
Gary Haugen, who
was hoping for just this
act by the governor, is not
on death row for his first
murder, but for his second
murder, that of an inmate
Haugen killed while doing
a life sentence. Sentencing
someone to prison should
not mean a sentence to
M ORROW C O U N TY
HEALTH DISTRICT
la H u l t k d r *
The following was
submitted by the Morrow
County Health District.
Sleep apnea oc
curs when a person fails to
breathe for periods of 10
seconds or longer during his
sleep. While an occasional
episode of sleep apnea can
happen to anyone, a person
who has spells of apnea ev
ery couple minutes during
the night will not get a good
night’s sleep; it prevents a
person from getting to the
deeper stages of sleep.
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Often, the steps a
person takes to improve
his sleep will only make
it worse. Using sleeping
aids—such as sleeping pills,
tranquilizers and alcohol—
usually makes the problem
worse by relaxing the tone
of the muscles in the throat
region.
This muscle relax
ation allows the airways
to collapse and close off,
making the typical snoring
sound. It becomes diffi
cult to inhale as the tissue
around the airway caves in,
especially in certain posi
tions such as sleeping on
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IMPROVING HLAITH FROM RIVTRS TO ROUINC HI1LS
to end-of-life issues, and
Oregon has a long tradition
of listening to the voters
when they make their will
clear, so long as it does not
violate the state or federal
constitution. Both state and
federal courts have ruled
that Oregon’s capital pun
ishment laws pass consti
tutional muster.
Oregon prosecu
tors rarely ask for the death
penalty, and jurors even
more rarely impose it.
The “conversation” about
the death penalty that the
governor now wants has
been ongoing for years. It
can and should continue
without casting aside the
extraordinarily difficult
decisions made by jurors,
such as those who voted for
death for Joshua and Bruce
Tumidge, who intentionally
exploded a bomb that mur
dered two police officers
and grievously crippled a
third. Or for Angela McAn-
ulty, the first woman sent
to Oregon’s death row in
half a century, for the hor
rific torture murder of her
own daughter. Or, for the
fourth time in 22 years, for
Randy Guzek, for the 1987
execution of Lois and Rod
Houser.
The unique inter
section of democracy and
justice that is the death pen
alty must be respected.
Signed:
Justin Nelson, Morrow
County DA
Oregon District Attorney
Association
pauses in breathing of 10
seconds or more, discuss it
with a doctor and consider
a formal sleep study.
If simple measures,
such as sleeping on the side
and avoiding sedatives, do
not help, there are c-pap
devices to help keep the
airways open during sleep.
If necessary, a surgical re
construction of the soft pal
ate and surrounding tissues
may be helpful. Medical
providers may be able to
recommend an appropri
ate treatment plan to help
decrease problems caused
by sleep apnea.
Knowles competes
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Heppner man Blake first place in steer wres
Community
lunch menu
Knowles threw his steer in
4.3 seconds to place fifth in
the opening round of steer
wrestling last Thursday at
the Wrangler National Fi
nals Rodeo in Las Vegas.
Knowles dropped
back in round two, his time
of 4.9 seconds giving him
a tie for tenth place with
Mickey Gee o f Wichita
Falls, TX.
C o u sin T rev o r
Knowles of Mount Vernon,
OR fared better, tying for
tling against with Jason
Miller from Lance Creek,
WY during round one of
the rodeo. His tying time
of 3.0 earned him $16,010
and a move from seventh
to fifth in the Professional
Rodeo Cowboys Associa
tion world standings.
Trevor went on to
down his steer in 3.3 sec
onds for a round two win
and a move to second place
behind Luke Branquinho.
St. Patrick’s Catho
lic Church members will be
serving lunch on Wednes
day, December 14 at St.
Patrick’s Senior Center.
The meal will in
clude scrambled eggs with
ham, bacon or sausage,
hash browns, tomato juice,
applesauce, gravy and cin
namon rolls. Milk is served
at each meal.
Suggested donation
is $3.50 per meal. Menu is
subject to change.
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the worst kind of murder.
Look at the people
who populate Oregon’s
death row and you’ll un
derstand why the editorial
board of The Oregonian has
distinguished Oregon from
other states. We host Jesse
Caleb Compton, who in
1997 sexually assaulted and
murdered 3-year-old Tess-
lyn O’Cull. Conan Hale tor
tured and killed three young
teenagers. Dayton LeRoy
Rogers is a serial killer of
women. All of those killers,
and everyone else on death
row, received excellent
representation, often two or
even three lawyers as well
as a team of investigators,
mitigation specialists and
psychologists.
E vidence-based
studies referenced by for
mer University of Chicago
law professor Cass Sun-
stein, now in President
Barack Obama’s adminis
tration, show that there is
both a specific deterrent
to capital punishment (Ted
Bundy will never again kill
a young woman) and also a
general deterrent. Statistics
from the federal Bureau
of Justice Statistics show
that while use of the death
penalty increased by 26
percent in the first decade
of the new millennium, the
murder rate went down 22
percent in the same time
period over the previous
decade.
Oregonians are en
trusted to make the most
important decisions about
their laws, from sentencing
your back. The results are
snoring, sleep apnea and
poor sleep.
Sleep apnea can of
ten be improved, although
the right steps to take are
not easy. It is important to
lose weight so there is no
unnecessary compression
of the airways. One should
also avoid alcohol and seda
tives, and stay physically
fit.
Anyone can evalu
ate sleep apnea at home
by using a tape recorder at
night, then listening to the
sleep pattem. If there is ex
cessive snoring or frequent
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“gladiatorial combat,” and,
yet, surely there are other
sociopaths in prison who
now have little to fear from
committing another murder,
of a corrections officer or
inmate.
The governor cited
a “broken system” that he
called a “perversion of jus
tice.” No one on Oregon’s
death row has ever made a
credible claim of actual in
nocence. No one has ever
been removed from death
row for police or prosecuto
rial misconduct. He cited a
U.S. Supreme Court deci
sion a few years ago that
banned the execution of
murderers who committed
their crimes before the age
o f 18. Oregon has never
allowed such executions.
The governor cited prob
lems in other states that
have functionally abolished
capital punishment without
any input from voters. In
2006 voters in Wisconsin
approved an advisory mea
sure to bring back the death
penalty, which had not ex
isted there since before the
Civil War. The legislature
ignored their vote. In fact,
the last time voters abol
ished the death penalty was
in 1964— here in Oregon.
O re g o n v o te rs
made very clear their sup
port of the death penalty
in 1978 and, after the state
Supreme Court overturned
that vote, again in 1984.
Since then, polls have
shown even greater support
for the option of death for
certain killers who commit
Snoring and sleep apnea
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