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How Home Rule Would Help County Discussed at Session
How can home rule help could be Improved under
the operation of Jackson
county government?
This was the question Coun
ty Judge Earl Miller and
County Commissioner Ralph
James attempted to answer
when they spoke before the
Jackson county home rule
committee this week In the
meeting room of the Public
Library of Mcdford and Jack
son county.
Both Miller and James
thought county government
home rule. Miller said some
officers should be appointed
and James did not.
"Political parties will not
turn loose of their hold on
government at the grass
roots," James said. "If coun
ty officials are appointed you
will never get them out of
office."
Handle Own Problem!
Judge Miller defined home
rule as the transfer of control
from the state to the county
so the county can tigndle its
own problems.
James agreed wholeheart
edly with Miller's recommen
dation for central county pur
chasing and personnel depart
ments. Miller would not say
whether creation of such an
office or offices would place
hiring and firing of all coun
ty personnel directly in the
hands of the county court or
the county administrative office.
Medford
.Tribune
SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1980 PAGES 1 to 8
Upper Columbia Development
Negotiators Said Agreed on
Report; Formal Treaty Seen
The county judge pointed provide county government
Ottawa - HIPD American and
Canadian negotiators agreed
Wednesday on a "progress
report" to their respective
governments ' embodying de
tailed recommendations on
the development of the Up
per Columbia River Basin.
Spokesmen said they were
"very optimistic" the report
would result in a formal
treaty between the two na
tions and a start on con
struction by 1961. -
Announcement of agree
ment on the report came aft
er a 5lA hour session Wed
nesday, winding up the sev
enth negotiating session in
nine months.
Points Covered
Among the points covered
Quotes From the News
BY UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
New York A British spokesman, declining to say how
tonight's meeting between British Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan and Soviet Preimcr Khrushchev was arranged:
"Like Topiy, it )ust grew."
New York Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, asked
what he thought would be the result of the General Assembly
meetings:
"You know how it is with peasants. In the spring they
plant seeds. In the fall they gather the harvest. It would be
very primitive of you to expect results immediately,"
Havana Fidel Castro, denouncing New York City police
for their handling of the crowds of demonstrators who gath
ered to protest or acclaim him in New York:
"The real heroes of the revolution this minute are the
Cubans who live up there in the brutal and violent north,"
China Lake, Calif.-Amateur missllemen Marshall Kriesel,
20, reacting just like a pro to the failure of his 11-foot home
made rocket because of a faulty fuel tank:
"The bird's still all light. I can fix it for another try."
Rebuttal Witnesses
In Dr. Finch Trial
Los Angeles (UPD Final re
buttal witnesses were called
today in the second Finch
Tregoff murder trial which is
drawing to a close.
Testimony in the retrial of
Dr. R. Bernard Finch, 43, and
Carole Trcgoff, 23, was ex
pected to be concluded today
with final arguments to fol
low. Chances were the jury of 11
women and one man would be
able to begin deliberations on
the first degree murder
charges by the end of next
week or the week after.
The prosecution has stated
that as in the first trial it
would demand the death sen
tence for Finch and his mis
tress, Carole, on charges they
plotted the gunshot slaying of
the surgeon's wife, Barbara.
The first trial ended March
12 in a hung jury.
SPORTSMAN DIES
. Philadelphia -WPD- Walter
J. Jeffords, 77, millionaire
sportsman and turfman, died
Wednesday.
Many Children Found
Needing Ear Attention
Portland -fUPD The State
Board of Health said today
that one out of every 25 Ore
gon school children tested
during the past year required
medical attention for loss of
hearing.
' Dr. Richard Wilcox, state
health officer, said that hear
ing loss in children often is
easily overlooked by parents
and teachers with a danger of
the loss becoming permanent.
999 Gaming Stamps
Issued in Portland
Portland-fflPD - Federal tax
stamps covering 999 gaming
devices were issued by the In
ternal Revenue Bureau here
for the year ending June 30, a
spokesman said today.
The stamps, wtiich cost $250
each, are required for any ma
chine which will reward the
player by token, cash or
merchandise. Some devices,
particularly slot machines, are
illegal in Oregon but not
under federal law.
by It, the spokesmen said,
were projects to be construct
ed, construction priorities,
distribution of downstream
benefits and operational ad
ministration. "
Agreement on the report
brought a new climax to dis
cussions that started almost
a decade ago on development
of the vast Columbia system
which originates in British
Columbia and winds it way
across the international bor
der and through the Pacific
Northwest states. It has long
been agreed that such devel'
opment offered tremendous
power and flood control bene
fits to both sides. .
Canadian Justice Minister
E. Davie Fulton and United
States Under-Secretary of In
terior Elmer Bennett, who
headed the two delegations,
set forth the following time
table for the future:
Submitted Soon
- The report will be sub
mitted to the two govern
ments "as soon as possible"
and will be made public by
them once they have reached
a decision on its contents.
- Should the governments
decide the- report should
form the basis of a treaty -and
both Fulton and Bennett
said they anticipated no ma
jor changes - the negotiators
would proceed to draft a trea
ty, a job they said could be
done "within a matter of
weeks."
- The treaty would then be
submitted to the two legisla
tures for agreement. The U.S.
Congress reassembles Jan. 3
and the Canadian Parliament
is expected to meet before
then.
-Start on construction next
year.
Details Not Discussed
Both spokesmen declined to
discuss details of the report
other than to say that it took
account "in the large part"
of International Joint Com
mission recommendations on
the principles of development.
These included a 50-50 split
of downstream benefits.
It is believed, however,
that the report calls for con
struction of the Mica Creek
and "High Arrow" dams
without diversion of the
Kootenay River and the pay
ment of downstream benefits
by the U.S. on the basis of
power and flood control bene
fits and not on construction
costs.
Non-diversion of the Koote
ney would leave the way open
for construction of Montana's
prize proposal, the Libby
Dam.
out that county government
now is big business. The coun
ty roads department alone
purchases equipment and ma
terial every year costing thou
sands of dollars.
Outlines Needs
Outlining needs of a coun
ty government which could
be provided under home rule,
the county judge set forth
these points:
Establishment of a board
of supervisors, commission or
continuance of the present
county court form of admin
istration for coordination and
focus of responsibility in
county government, coordina
tion or possible combination
of some offices to save mon
ey, general purchasing and
personnel departments or a
combination of the two, fur-
tner state legislation to assist
county home rule, power of
Bancrofting or levying bonds
for local improvements, con
tract with municipalities for
such services as water and
sewers to outlying areas, need
for a county legal counsel.
A home rule charter would
on a non-partisan basis," the
county judge said. "I fail to
see any use for politics in
county government functions.
I do believe in the two party
system, however."
Permissive Legislation
Miller noted that the pros
e n t permissive legislation
which allows for county home
rule does not permit too much
change in existing legislation
affecting counties.
Pointing up the need for
county control over its own
problems and their solutions,
Miller noted that over half
of the county population lives
outside city boundaries.
County government origi
nally was set up to admin
ister to agricultural residents.
Now it administers to large
suburban areas which require
services similar to those of
the cities to which they are
more closely tied.
Legal Counsel
"Full time legal counsel Is
needed to be responsible to
the county's people for coun
ty business," miller urged.
"This would be in addition
to the present district attor
ney's office which has a full
time job handling criminal
and civil cases. Such a coun
sel should be an appointive
job."
Miller noted that the coun
ty administers to 2,817 square
miles of area outside the cities
and 32,772 suburban or rural
residents.
James reported that the As
sociation of Oregon Counties
will release a model charter
in October. James said during
the recent AOC home rule
committee meeting, which he
attended, he learned that a
few counties studying home
rule favored the county man
ager system. Most counties
making the study favored a I
board of supervisors.
Answering questions, Judge '
Miller said a home rule form !
of government would probab-!
ly be more expensive, but I
that the people would receive j
more value per dollar spent.
The county might even find ,
itself in the streets and scw-j
ers business to help outlying (
areas and unincorporated cit- i
ies, he said. I
Long Range Planning
James said long range plan
ning could be set up in the
charter and county officials
would have to follow charter
stipulations regardless of dif
ferent people with different
ideas being elected to office.
Members of the county home
rule committee asked if other
than appointed career officers
could insure long range plan
ning. More counties have not
adopted home rule because
of legal technicalities, it was
explained.
The Jackson county legis
lative delegation will ask
ed to make another appoint
ment to the committor to re
place Medford druggist Gor
don Hudson, who has resign
ed due to pressure of business,
Committee Chairman Mrs.
Thomas Rutter said.
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