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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1972)
1 1— Hie MEI City Enterprise, TTuiTNday, July 6, 1972 (D) owns a 73 percent voting j Senator Hatfield's grade of 33 record while serving her ninth last year by COPE, for in-1 term. Conservative ACA gave stance, might hurt him in the was held at their home in WAS1HÄT , her a score of 48 in 1971 and a eyes of some labor rank-and them They left Monday for 1 cumulative rating of 18 Liber- filers if they weren’t aware, Healy, Alaska where they will By Fva Rr»w«l..r i al ADA gave her a 38 during , of his cumulative grade of 70 both be employed. Other labor-oriented consti Mr. and Mrs. Donald Gasper I by Jack Zimmerman I 1971. Labor’s COPE gave Mrs Mrs. Leia Caldwell from ] Green a 55 last year — against tuents, on the other hand, and family from Lake Andes, 1 Coulton, Calif., is spending ■Grading' Lawmakers Difficult might tend to suspect the Sen-I South Dakota, are visiting at some time at the home of her In Both legislature Congress cord while serving his fourth a cumulative 81. ior Senator of back-sliding in the home of Mr. and Mrs I Fourth Dist. Rep John Del- One sure way of starting an term. Conservative ACA gave j lenback (R) owns a 59 per their behalf by comparing the Lawrence Chytka. Mrs. Gasper I son. James Caldwell and fam ily. argument is to ask someone him a score of 75 in 1971 and cent voting record while serv. two and wonder if he is chang is a neice of Mr. Chytka. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Mitchell how best to measure the effec a cumulative rating of 69. Li ing his third term Conserva ing his philosophy. Some of Recent house guests at the; of Mehama are moving In the tiveness of a legislator. Mrs Green’s constituents might home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard beral ADA gave him a 16 dur There are easily as many ing 1971. Labor’s COPE gave five ACA gave him a score of wonder the same type of thing Whaley were Dr. and Mrs. former Elsie Voss house 57 in 1971 and a cumulative Visiting at the home of Mr ideas as there are segments of Wyatt a 36 last year — against rating of 56. LiHeral ADA regarding her voting record David Probert, from Sacra I and Mrs. W. W. Carter are his society. And the lawmaker be a cumulative 31. gave him a 43 in 1971. Labor’s in 1971, compared with the mento, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mets- sister and husband. Mr and ing measured can fall from Second Dist. Rep. Al Ullman I COPE gave Dellenback a 25 cumulative total during her 18 ker, Mrs. Thomas Howe and Mrs. Ray Kildow. also his favor with one segment and (D) has a 71 percent voting years in the House of Repre children and Mrs. Howe’s bro neice and husband, Mr. and rise in the estimation of an- I record while serving his eighth in 1971 — against a cumulative sentatives. ther, David Gentry all of Con Mrs. Oscar Parks, from Rock 35. other as simply as voting yea term. Conservative ACA gave Clearly the best method an cord. Calif. The latter are ford, Illinois. They will also Although the ratings make ◄ or nay. him a score of 28 last year interesting reading, the com Oregon voter has of grading children and grandchildren of visit relatives in Calif., before Some constituents take the and a cumulative total of 14. parisons his Legislators and Congress the Whaleys. returning home between "perform trouble to constantly study the Liberal ADA gave him a 49 in men is to first understand the Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Garrison performance of the Congress 1971. And labor’s COPE gave ance” in a given year and the system and then get to know ! and son Rodney were over man, for instance, noting the Ullman a 75 last year — again ! cumulative ratings tend to the people well enough to trust' night guests at the home of number of votes he casts, st a cumulative grade of 86. ' point up further the difficulty them to vote their consciences her mother, Mrs. Melvina Phone 769-531 I of casting lawmakers accord- whether he votes for or against Third Dist. Rep. Edith Green j ing to their voting records. in the best interests of a basic [ Franklin. A no host dinnei appropriations, social measures Stayton philosophy — most of the time Mill City as a farewell for and so on. Others go so far as to monitor committee hear ings and the proceedings of various subcommittees. But these people represent an extremely small minority To most constituents the delib erations of Congress and the Oregon Legislature are a mys tery and they’re likely to form their opinion of a lawmaker on the basis of a single perform ance—especially if it involve' a pet interest of theirs. Other people rely on organ i izations to rate the lawmaker' for them. Nationally there arc several such organizations and in Oregon during the 1971 leg islative session consumer pro tection advocates and some environmentalists kept records of voting on issues they favor, ed or opposed. Oregon lavor— through its COPE (Committee on Political Education) organ ization—at one time rated State Legislators on a regular basis. The AFL-CIO in this state now offers its members a more sophisticated analysis of lawmaker activity. Associated Oregon Indus tries, a statewide employer organization, urges its mem bers to maintain persona) knowledge of all activities by members of the Legislature and Congress and assists them in the task. Many such associations, in fact, believe there has yet to be devised an adequate sys tem of rating a lawmaker’s ef fectiveness. And those who work closest with the men and women who enact legislation put little faith in any system that would type-cast a law maker. The issues, according to Sal. em-watchers, are just too com plex and vary too much from one session to the next to ex pect most lawmakers to per tion with hydroelectric development. lot of work—especially when you do it with For all of us, 1971 was a busy year. For form consistently—even when We re proud of that. real concern for the livability of the region. it comes to adhering to the you, as an individual and for us, as a company. We continued our fisheries work on other And it takes a lot of money—more than party line. We all became more aware of our environ There’s politics. And there’s hydro streams in Oregon, Washington and $50,000,000 just for anti-pollution equipment ment and the problems of controlling pollution horse trading. And many times Montana On one stream we shut down two at these new plants. any given lawmaker may find Many people like you and companies like us small generators part of the year to protect There were other environmental steps, too, himself voting on the floor for a measure he moved heaven migrating fish. At Hellgate Canyon on the such as cooling towers to recycle the large and earth to defeat in com quantities of water these plants use. These mittee. avoid doing harm to our streams Nonetheless, the national Chamber of Commerce reg \Ne continued working with University of ularly publishes the results of Wyoming and Washington State University three organizations which at experts, with the soil conservation service, tempt to measure the effective ness of members of Congress. county extension agents and others on They are the ACA (Amer methods for restoration of coal field areas once icans for Constitutional Action the fuel has been removed Contouring and — conservative), the ADA (Americans for Democratic seeding are being done at the Dave Johnston spent more time, more effort and more money Action — liberal) and labor’s and Centralia sites to make sure they will trying to solve some of these problems. national COPE organization. again harmonize with their surroundings. Each “grades" Congressmen We sought ways to on the basis of the manner in famous Rogue river we presented 159 acres which they vote on selected fight pollution. to the United States to become pert of the measures. A rating of 100 You see, fuel-burning power plants give oft would mean voting 100% ‘right’ Wild and Scenic Rivers system. We dedicated tiny fly ash particles which, if uncontrolled on the selected issues. Lesser the pioneer Winchester Dam on the Umpqua ratings mean varying degrees would pollute the air around our plant sites river to public recreation of “wrong” votes. To preserve air quality, we are equipping Current ratings, or grades, We carried along studies devoted to farm our new generating plants with the most reflect data collected during irrigation, drainage and soil heating, as well as the 1971 session of the 92nd modern control equipment available At the research into marine aquaculture with Congress and, in the Oregon 1.400.000-kilowatt plant near Centralia. delegation’s case, each mem warmfid water Washington, we re using huge electrostatic ber’s cummulative standing. A very busy year, 1971. Here, according to ACA, precipitators The new 330.000-kilowatt We found ways to be Which brings us up to the present ADA and COPE, is a “report addition at our Dave Johnston plant in a good citizen. card” on Oregon’s six mem Today, were still busy, perfecting the Wyoming has a wet scrubber, which literally bers of Congress: As a citizen of the area it serves, the pollution controls we’ve installed, expanding washes dirt out of the furnace exhaust And Sen. Mark Hatfield (R), who electric company is continually involved in a went to Congress in 1966, our clean-up programs we ve ordered other large precipitators for the wide variety of environmental activities, often owns a 51.8 per cent voting 1,500.000-kilowatt Jim Bridger plant we re And we II stay busy, right along with you record on the selected mea before they become matters of public concern. building in Wyoming with the Idaho Power sures of the three organiza Appreciating our environment. And helping And 1971 was no different tions. The conservative ACA Company. to keep it clean. gave him a score of 20 for The Chamber of Commerce for Klamath 1971 and a cumulative rating We worked to keep County, Oregon, presented us with its first This is our third and final report on PacMtc Power of 32. Liberal ADA gave him Environmental Improvement Award for wildlife our area livable. in 1971 a score of 74 during 1971 (it Questions? Stop by your Pacific Ro*«r office and and fisheries, channel improvement and park does not maintain a cumula- Providing adequate supplies of electricity talk them over *4th us five ratiag). Labor’s COPE work we did on the Klamath River in connec for the requirements of today's world takes a gave the Oregon Senior Sen- ator a score of only 33 last year — against a cumulative total of 70 Bob — Packwood (R), Sen ---- who went to Washington in 1968 owns a 50.2 percent vot ing record Conservative ACA gave him a score of 60 m 19?1. against a cumulative 4« Lib eral ADA ranked him with a 30 in 1971 Labor’s COPE gave Packwood a 20 last year- against a cumulative total of 48. On the House side. First Dis trict Rep Wendell Wyatt (R) owns a 72 per cent voting re- A Salem Scene LYONS F Daîrq> ¿Queen a Subscribe to The Mill City Enterprise I We both kept busy in 1971. Mrs. Jones Pacific Power I
