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almanac2 .0) Statesman-Journal, Wednesday, September 10, 1980 1 valley coast Depoe Bay Salmon Bake planned for Saturday n. i I 7 A' .5 1 Campaign group is formed LEBANON Three Linn County residents filed yesterday with the state Department of Commerce, Corporation Division, to form a non-profit corporation called Cascade Electors, Inc. Headed by Royal Abeene, 830 15th Lebanon, the group was formed to "handle campaigns and campaign finances, at our choosing," Abeene said. The group also will act as an elections watchdog, he said. Other corporation members are Abeene's wife, Kay, and Berdell Bates of Brownsville.

Abeene said the group plans to handle Bernard D. "Bud" Byers' write-in campaign this fall. Byers, seeking a sixth term in the state Legislature representing House District 37, lost in the May 20 primary to Doyle Johnson, former mayor of Sweet Home. The corporation also has endorsed Pat Tollisen of Albany, candidate for Linn County commissioner. park.

Dinner, including salmon, cole slaw, garlic bread, ice cream and a beverage, will cost $5 for adults and $2.50 for children under 12. Larrett said local volunteers will be at the site at 4: 30 a.m. Saturday preparing the 115-foot-long fire that will cook nearly 2,000 pounds of salmon. He said the fish will be strung up between alder and cedar stakes by 9 a.m., with the first servings ready by 11 a.m. The bake, always scheduled the second weekend after Labor Day, was devised to boost business during the traditional post-Labor Day slump, Larrett said.

Today, however, most Depoe Bay buinessmen spend the day working on the bake and are joined by volunteers from Lincoln City and even Waldport, he said. DEPOE BAY The 25th annual Depoe Bay Indian-style Salmon Bake will be Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Fogarty Creek State Park. The event, which last year attracted more than 3,000 people from all over Western Oregon, is a city-wide effort to raise in one day the money needed by Depoe Bay Chamber of Commerce for the year's projects, according to chamber President Richard Larrett.

Larrett said he is expecting busloads of people from Portland, Bend and Medford for the event. He said shuttle buses will, run between Depoe Bay and the park, located about three miles north of town, to alleviate parking problems. Tickets will be on sale Saturday at the Union reps, fishermen meet i 3 Police ask mediation in cost-of-living matter NEWPORT Seven representatives from Oregon Teamsters Union locals met with commercial fishermen yesterday to dicuss representation of skippers and deck hands on commercial fishing boats. The meeting, requested by commercial fishermen from the Garibaldi area of southern Tillamook County, drew fishermen from a number of Washington and Oregon counties. A participant said fishermen are considering Teamsters affiliation in hopes it would give them more leverage with price negotiations, season extension petitions and legislative lobbying.

Sodaville notes centennial 4 Slatesman-Journal photo by Gerry Lew in capped person. About 250 people at the Chumaree Rodeway Inn heard officials note that the $1,003,250 campaign has $118,459 in advance gifts. Evelyne Villines, polio victim and keynote speaker for yesterday's Marion-Polk United Way kickoff breakfast, describes "what it's like to be different" as a handi- the city budget. "They told us if we took the full 16 percent, they'd be 2 percent short for six months." The 16.6 percent the union asks for actually would amount to a 10.6 percent increase in pay, with the rest being put in the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS). The 11.1 percent increase already in effect amounts to a 5.2 percent inrease in pay, plus PERS, Henne said.

MEMBERS OF THE fire department and public works department unions, as well, as Lebanon's members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union received 14 percent increases (8 percent going to PERS) July 1, and will get a 2 percent adjustment in January. Henne says his union intends to seek binding arbitration if mediation doesn't bring about the result the union seeks. "We'll come out ahead," he said. "For the last five years we haven't stayed up with the cost of living. We stayed within the presidential guidelines last year and got 7 percent." Ivey said the disagreement hinges on a subtle but significant difference in the police association's contract language.

ALL OTHER CITY union contracts say salaries are to be negotiated from July to July, Ivey said. The police union contract, as well as the police sergeants' document, says July 1 to July 1. The police sergeants have settled for the 11.1 percent adjustment, Ivey said, and he hopes the association will agree to that amount. But negotiations will move into mediation as soon as all the preliminary steps for that are completed. Although the CPI for May was 16.6 percent, Ivey said, it dropped dramatically to the 11.1 percent figure in July.

"I see how they (the police association) would be concerned about that, and I don't blame them," he said. "But I don't see how they can go back to 16 percent. That was for May, not July." By MARILYN MONTGOMERY Statesman-Journal Reporter LEBANON The Lebanon Police Association has asked for mediation in a contract dispute over cost-of-living pay increases. The labor union claims city management has violated terms of its two-year contract by giving its members a cost-of-living increase below the agreed-upon figure in the Portland Consumer Pride Index. Union vice president Lew Schatz, who has been the organization's negotiator, said the contract held by 18 police officers, dispatchers, clerks and the department's parking attendant, says those employees shall receive the full CPI amount from July 1, 1979, to July 1980.

THE CONTRACT RAN into a snag, however, when the city and the police realized the Portland CPI does not publish figures monthly as each had thought when the contract was drawn up last year, Schatz said. Schatz said the city and the police looked over CPI figures for May 1980, and for late July. The police suggested the increase be in line with the figure for May, when consumer prices rose 16.6 percent, or a combination of both the May and July figures. City Manager Ed Ivey and Police Chief Jerrel Yakel, who negotiate on the management side of the table, said no. Ivey suggested police accept an increase of II.

1 percent the July CPI figure. That increase was worked into the police department paychecks July 1, according to union president Tom Henne. THE CITY'S OTHER offer was to give the police a 14 percent increase, which would keep the payroll in line with this year's city budget. That offer would also mean police would not receive the salary adjustment their contract calls for in January. "We feel we bargained in good faith," Henne said yesterday.

He said the city's offer ignores the contract in order to comply with 'Message of love1 kicks off campaign for United Way SODAVILLE Sodaville will celebrate its centennial Sept. 27 with activities slated throughout the day. The celebration is being held in conjunction with the completion of a long-awaited city water system. Marlene Atphely is serving as coordinator and former Linn County Commissioner Floyd Mullen will be guest speaker. Plans for the day include a beer garden, concession stands, a barbecue dinner, adult and children's races and a night street dance.

A dunk tank also will be featured, with several city council-men and Mayor Rolfe Stearns serving as dunkees. An arts and crafts center will be set up in the school gym. Items will be offered for sale. The water system will be dedicated at 4:30 p.m. at the water hydrant behind the gym.

Reservations for the barbecue, to be held at the school, may be obtained by writing Sodaville City Hall. Square OK'd for powwow SILETZ The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians may use City Square here for their Sept. 19-21 powwow, Siletz City Council decided this week. The event will celebrate the signing of Public Law 96-340, the Siletz Reservation Act. About 800 people are expected to attend, tribal representatives said.

Security personnel will be hired and the city property will be posted with notices banning alcoholic beverages, according to tribal chairman Art Bensell. The council requested a $100 cleaning deposit. Films back in Albany library ALBANY Saturday Cinema is back at the Albany Public Library, beginning Saturday. The film program, held on the second Saturday of each month, was canceled last year when the library closed on Saturdays because of city budget problems, according to program coordinator Maggie Wetmore. "We are pleased once again to show family films, comedy shorts, documentaries and cartoons," she said.

The programs are planned for ages 6 and older, she said. This week's film showing will be between 2 and 3 p.m. at the main library, 1390 Waverly Drive SE, Wetmore said. Showings are in the young readers' room. Public story time will continue during the fall and winter at the same hours as the summer program, Wetmore said.

Story times are Tuesdays p.m. and Thursdays a.m. Siletz council accepts library SILETZ A resolution accepting the Siletz Library was approved Monday by the Siletz City Council. The library, established and operated by the Siletz Civic Club, is housed in a city-owned building. The club offered to donate all the books, furnishings and equipment to the city to make the facility eligible for federal and state grants available only to public institutions.

Under the agreement, the club will continue to operate the library on a volunteer basis. Organ concert scheduled MOUNT ANGEL John Forgard of Salem will present an organ concert at 5 p.m. Sunday in St. Mary's Catholic Church. The concert is part of this year's Oktoberfest celebration.

Forgard, a junior, is majoring in music at Western Baptist College. He is a student of William Fawk, Salem. The program, which is free to the public, will include the works of Bach, Bohm, Janacek and Reger. Siletz school panel to discuss student eligibility requirements director for the Easter Seal Society for Crippled Children and Adults of Iowa and frequently speaks around the nation on the needs of the handicapped. ABOUT 250 PEOPLE attended the United Way breakfast at the Chumaree Rodeway Inn.

They saw 38-year United Way volunteer Joe Dodd receive the organization's first distinguished service award and rewarded him with a standing ovation. United Way officials said $118,459 already has been pledged by 23 corporations. That represents 11.8 percent of the $1,003,250 campaign goal and compares to $101,000 pledged at this time last year. Drive Chairman John Eskildsen said he has heard many comments on the difficulty of reaching this year's goal because of economic conditions. "There are always things that make it hard and this year is no different," he said.

He praised campaign volunteers and noted that number of loaned executives for the area campaign 45 is about double the average for a campaign this size. He said the work force in Marion and Polk counties target of the campaign effort has climbed from 106,000 last year to 112,000. SALEM MAYOR Kent Aldrich said, "I think you are the core of people who really provide the opportunity for those less fortunate, especially for the youth of our community. When the economy is down, those who have a little more ought to make sure the needs are met." The drive, with nearly 1,000 volunteers in the two counties, will end Nov. 21.

Funds will go to 46 social service and youth agencies. Twenty-six of the agencies contributed blocks to a quilt which was put together by Green-baum's Fine Fabrics and displayed at the breakfast. Last year's United Way drive collected $916,000. By LEWIS H. ARENDS JR.

Statesman-Journal Reporter A woman on crutches brought a message of love at the United Way kickoff breakfast yesterday morning. Mixing humor with the pathos of her handicap, Evelyne Villines, Des Moines, Iowa, said she was raised "surrounded by love and understanding and never allowed to learn what it meant to be crippled." An early bout with polio forced her to use leg braces or crutches. "I didn't know anything was wrong with me until the first day of school." SHE WAS SENT home with the teacher's comment, "I don't have time to teach a handicapped child. "I went back to school the next day with the mayor my father and the president of the school board my uncle. That's where I learned about using clout." The lesson stuck; Villines said she often rallies the handicapped for support when presenting a particular need to Congress.

She serves on the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. She praised the help given by the handicapped and reminded the audience to "take the time for the loving, the working and the caring. The most important thing in each of our lives is love. "EVERY ONE OF us in our own way needs to be needed." Villines said she was institutionalized between the ages of 9 and 16 for "rehabilitation. The pain and loneliness was my real disability.

I wanted someone to put their arms around me and tell me they loved me. "It's okay to be disabled, to be in need. Organizations like this are committed to making our life easier so we can take our role in society." She works as client assistance program Originally, according to 'Williams, he "had established a rule which required students to maintain a 1.5 (C-) grade average on a quarterly basis. When that ruling was disputed during a recent meeting of the local school committee, Williams took that group's recommendation to establish an eligibility requirement that students must be passing all their classes. Hueth, the only committee member to vote against the recommendation, says the requirement will "kill the sports program" at the school.

He told the committee he is against establishing a requirement for Siletz students that exceeds those at other Lincoln County schools. Williams, in his second year as principal, says he and his staff view the ruling as an opportunity to encourage the students to do their best in classes as well as in extra-curricular activities. SILETZ Eligibility requirements for students participating in Siletz High School activities will be discussed at a special meeting of the Siletz local school committee tonight. The meeting will be in the school library at 7:30 p.m. At issue is a new eligibility requirement instituted this year by principal Ron Williams, which requires any student participating in rally, speech, music, drama and sports to be passing all classes with at least a grade.

The grades are computed on a quarterly basis, with probation notices issued at mid-quarter. The special meeting has been called at the request of local school committee member Earl Hueth, who says the community supports returning to Oregon Schools Activity Association (OSAA) minimum eligiblity rules, which require students to be passing only four classes. Timber industry searches for a new legislative champion capital Analysis and opinion the board to advisory status. Hanlon's proposed bill appears to have a good chance of passing in the Senate. If the timber industry is going to stop it, it will have to be in the House.

AS SADLER POINTS out, with Byers gone, the timber lobby is going to have to find someone else to bottle up the bill. Whether Byers did the timber industry's bidding or just happened to always agree with its positions is a chicken or egg kind of question that I can't answer. Nevertheless, Byers was a legislator that industry could count on, not only to introduce its bills, but also to push them through committee and onto the House floor. With Byers out of the way, there is considerable speculation about a successor on the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. The timber interests, according to Sadler, are looking to either Rep.

Caroline Magruder, D-Clats- kanie, or Rep. Jeff Gilmour, D-Jef ferson, to take on the job. IDENTIFYING MAGRUDER and Gilmour as likely prospects to assume Byers' old "carry the mail" duties on the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee is speculation. But according to my sources, it is well informed speculation. Both Magruder and Gilmour are philosophically in the same box with Byers.

All three were members of a small clutch of conservative Democrats, labeled the Hornets, who held the majority Democratic Caucus at bay long enough in the 1979 Legislature to assure themselves choice committee assignements. Choicest of the committee assignments going to the Hornet in 1979 was co-chairmanship of the Ways Means Committee, landed by Gilmour. SADLER SAYS IF timber lobbyists can't persuade Magruder to go for the Agriculture and Natural Resources chair, they'll look to Gilmour to do the job. Sadler reasons that Gilmour might be interested in giving up his budget control spot on Ways Means because the state general fund is going to be so tight in the 1981 session that chairing this most powerful of legislative committees may be "a no-win political task that will make few friends and lots of enemeies." It seems to me Gilmour may be interested in stepping down from Ways Means for an entirely different reason, more believable to me simply because I'm convinced that as a legislator, Gilmour never has been too concerned about making enemies through budget cutting. What is more likely to my mind 'is that Gilmour may look to the Agriculture and Natui at Resources post because he won't be offered the Ways Means co-chairmanship in 1981.

GILMOUR WASNT offered Ways Means in 1979. He took it on the threat that he and his conservative Democratic friends might run to the House Republicans to form a coalition to decide the 1979 House leadership. In 1981, there is a strong possibility the Democratic majority arithmetic that worked on Gilmour's behalf in 1979 will no longer exist. In 1979, there were 34 Democrats and 26 Republicans in the House, which made, it possible for Gilmour, with five votes in his pocket, to act like he would join with Republicans to decide the leadership. IT APPEARS that in 1981 there will be' more Democrats in the House, possibly enough more so that someone with five votes could threaten coalition all he wants and it wouldn't make any difference.

Ron Blankenbaker'i column appears In this pact Tuesday through Sunday. By RON BLANKENBAKER Statesman-Journal Columnist Broadcaster-columnist Russell Sadler has put his finger on a situation that bears close watching when the Oregon Legislature convenes in January. Sadler, In a column in the Portland Oregonian, said the May Primary defeat of stat Rep. Bud Byers, D-Lebanon, is a severe blow to the timber industry. He said the industry's lobbyists are now desperate to find another friend to replace Byers as chairman of the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee.

Sadler is a commentator with whom I've had disagreements in the past. 1 assume we'll disagree In the future. The disagreements are usually a matter of perspective THIS TIME AROUND, however, 1 think Sadler is right on and deserves to be complimented, not only for Identifying the ties between Byers and the timber in- terests, but also for his overall understanding of the timber industry and its politics. The state Board of Forestry, as has been pointed out editorially in this newspaper, is dominated by the timber industry. To break that domination, state Sen.

Charles Hanlon, D-Cornelius, is expected to introduce legislation in 1981 reduce.