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4B, Statesman-Journal, Salem, Tuesday, September 30, 1980 Oregon National Guard to activate new battalion today 4 Ml i A '-v (A federal funds to Oregon, Atiyeh said. The TOW system tube-launched, optically-sighted and wire-guided missile is a rugged, lightweight weapon designed for daytime use in the field. Using infrared sensors, the missile can follow its target if the gunner keeps the target in his sights. Thread-like wires running clude 514 guardsmen trained in use of the newly-developed TOW missile system. Waite said.

Formation of the light anti-tank battalion was announced yesterday morning at the Salem Armory by Gov. Vic Atiyeh. The battalion will bring $3.8 million in A new Oregon National Guard battalion of anti-tank gunners trained for front-line defense will be activated today, said Gordon Waite, public affairs officer for the Oregon Military Department. Called the 1st Battalion of the 249th Infantry, the new combat unit will in Court rules student can be questioned from the gun to the missile provide guidance in flight. A COMPANY of 91 men at full strength will be stationed in Salem, with other companies at Corvallis, Newport, St.

Helens and Hood River, Waite said. About 56 people will be stationed at TOW headquarters in Newberg, he said. The new battalion is part of a program the National Guard," Waite said. "In the past three or four years there has been a swing to the total Army concept in national defense." That means using a limited active force but maintaining a "sizable" reserve force, he said. One-third of the Army's combat strength is in the National Guard, Waite said.

The Oregon Army National Guard currently has 6,500 men. WAITE SAID the federal National Guard Bureau wants to have the new battalion at full strength within a year. The battalion, Waite said, could be used "anywhere a full scale mobilization would occur." In that event the unit would be assigned as "general support" to an Army corps in "front line anti-tank defense," he said. Expense to the state for the new battalion will be about $240,000 a year, mostly for maintenance of facilities, overhead costs and transportation, Waite said. Howard Blanding and Patrick Gilroy.

In another ruling, the Court ot Appeals a disorderly conduct conviction requires offensive behavior against more than two people. The court didn't say how many people must be involved for the crime to be committed, but it said two isn't enough. The decision overturned the conviction Russell Gilbert, who was found guilty Bush, Mondale By The Associated Press Vice President Walter Mondale and his Republican counterpart, George Bush, have planned quick Oregon campaign visits for later this week. Both men return to the state the week after President Carter and Republican Ronald Reagan stumped in Portland. Mondale arrives in Portland Friday night and is scheduled for Saturday visits Salem and Vancouver, campaign aides said.

Further details of the trip were not available. St Gov. Vic Atiyeh, left, peers down muzzle of newly-developed TOW missile launcher at Salem Armory yesterday as TOW section leader SSgt. Leslie Adamson, rear, and Maj. Gen.

Richard A. Miller, Oregon National because of his actions against two employees of a Coos Bay disco club. "A defendant's act, now matter how reprehensible to any particular person, must disrupt a group of persons or a portion of the community at large," the appeals court said in a unanimous opinion by Judge John Butt ler. The decision reversed Coos County District Judge C.H. Reeves.

(AP) to stump state Bush has scheduled Wednesday and Thursday campaign appearances in Eugene, campaign aides said yesterday. Bush is scheduled to arrive at Mahlon-Sweet Airport at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow and spend the night at a Eugene motel. Thursday, Bush will jog on the Pre-fontaine Trail, named after the late Uni-" versity of Oregon runner, and conduct a press conference at 9 a.m. at a location to be announced, aides said.

He departs Eugene at about 10:30 a.m. for Spokane, Wash. eek. Mail fraud trial opens for labor leader Shapiro Everything Anniversary in the store is discounted B3M SSk 1 1 si 1 4-' i Statesman-Journal photo by Jill Cannefax Guard adjutant general, look on. Atiyeh announced yesterday the formation of a new Oregon Army National Guard battalion trained in using the weapon for front-line antitank defense.

Salem office and asked for Stephenson's car keys. When Stephenson got home that night he found three boxes of ballots, envelopes and stamps in his car trunk, he said. Barton said in opening remarks that Stephenson had lied and later changed his story. Reading from previous sworn statements by Stephenson, Barton questioned him about inconsistencies. Stephenson had previously said he was in a meeting when Shapiro walked up to him and asked for Stephenson's car keys and that the keys were not returned until after the meeting.

"I placed him there at different times, yes," Stephenson said, referring to when Shapiro was at the headquarters. "Is your memory better now or then (when Stephenson made a prior state ment about the date)," Barton asked. "It's better now," Stephenson answered. Stephenson also said Shapiro never told him he mailed ballots in the election. SHAPIRO IN A PREVIOUS civil trial stemming from the fair share election in which he was cleared said that h- and his wife left for Seattle after break fast about 8:30 or 9 a.m that Satur day to visit their daughter and arrivei there at the lunch hour.

A telephone company official testifiei yesterday that a phone call was mad from Shapiro's Wilsonville home to hi daughter at 10:34 a.m. Barton, in rapid questions, asked Ste phenson if he ever said he wanted Shaf piro's job, could run OSEA better thaii Shapiro, had a faction behind him, mad? ethnic slurs about Shapiro, threatened to "get" Shapiro, and planted false chargej of financial improprieties against president of another union Stephensorj once was affiliated with. In each instance, Stephenson ans wered no. 1 Stephenson said Shapiro ordered thaj 6,000 extra ballots be printed, outside OSEA, for the election. POSTAL INSPECTOR James Bor; denet has scoured the Northwest, corf-(acting printing shops, but has been urj able to find a printer who did the job Barton said.

5 Postal inspector Victor DiLoreto tei tified that OSEA cooperated in turning over ballots and envelopes when he wert1 to Salem to get them in September Robert Muelburger, document analy with the Postal Service, testified that couldn't positively state any ballots weW marked by the same person. About 90 ballots had impressions of a check 6: cross mark from an overlaying balld being marked, he said. Another postal investigator said in spection revealed stamps on some of thi envelopes were adjacent to one anothe on the same roll of stamps. I politbs 80 1 Willamette University College of La' will sponsor talks on consecutiv Wednesdays by the candidates for Or gon attorney general. Dave Frohnmaye a Republican, will speak tomorrow, an Democrat Harl Haas will appear Oct.

Both sessions, open to the public, will at 11 a.m. in Room of the law school, I 1 Sv feaasBmaBigBaBtaaii! The Oregon Court of Appeals yesterday let stand lower court orders against a student who was questioned by school officials about a theft without being advised of his rights. The appeals court refused to apply so-called "Miranda" rights in the Clackamas County case in which James Gage was made a ward of the court for stealing $700 worth of school lunch tickets. Lawyers for Gage argued that his admission of the theft should not have been used as evidence because it resulted from improper questioning. Under the Miranda rules, adopted by the VS.

Supreme Court in a landmark 1966 ruling, police must advise criminal suspects of their rights to remain silent and to consult with lawyers. In a unanimous opinion by Judge Robert Thornton, the Court of Appeals said it could not find any evidence that courts ever have held that the rules apply to interrogation of students by school officials. The decision upheld Circuit Judges -4 smmmmmssmmwmzssmRtii niy rr preer or Aiatts re I tie anoy 2 i YAMAHA CR 240 Receiver YAMAHA 350 Turntable YAMAHA NS4 Speakers I said of to Anniversary prices on two of the in stereo. Your choice $499 on complete system. YDl SONY i-f Cii I Photo on Page 1A.

By MARTIN ROSENBERG Statesman-Journal Reporter PORTLAND Labor leader Morton Shapiro had both the motive and the means to engineer a fraud in a 1977 union election, the prosecution said yesterday as Shapiro went on trial on 20 counts of mail fraud. The trial of Shapiro, executive director of Oregon State Employes Association, in U.S. District Court here culminates two years of investigation by the U.S. Postal Service. The trial is expected to continue until Friday, according to U.S.

District Judge James Burns, who is presiding. DEFENSE ATTORNEY Richard Barton said his witnesses would include prominent state officials, among them possibly Sens. L.B. Day, R-Salem, and Jason Boe, D-Reedsport. In opening remarks, Barton said the government's case against Shapiro hinges on the testimony of two unreliable people.

Angelo Stephenson, former OSEA employee fired by Shapiro in March 1978, "lusted" for power and schemed to wrest control of the union from Shapiro, Barton said. Kay Martens, former OSEA business manager, is a "fussbudget" known to embroider the truth, he said. Barton dismissed the prosecution's contention that Shapiro needed the "coup" of winning the fair share election, saying OSEA's budget for the year was drawn up prior to the election and did not include a nickel of fair share revenue. SHAPIRO IS CHARGED with rigging the outcome of a 1977 election that brought "fair share" to 19 of 43 state agencies involved. OSEA at the time had about 14,000 dues-paying members and represented about 24,000 state employes.

As a result of that election, about 4,500 state workers not belonging to OSEA but represented by OSEA in collective bargaining had to start paying the union a sum equal to membership dues then $5 a month. Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Robinson outlined the government's case, based on analysis of 14,000 ballots and 1,300 envelopes used to return the ballots to OSEA. THAT ANALYSIS REVEALED that Stephenson's fingerprinls appeared on 27 ballots and 58 envelopes and Shapiro's on two ballots, Robinson said. Analysis by Postal Service criminal science experts also revealed that several hundred ballots bear the impression of check or cross marks made by marking ballots atop them, he said.

Stephenson, 43, the first witness called by the prosecution, outlined his odyssey around the state the coast, southern and central Oregon mailing false ballots marked in favor of fair share, according to Shapiro's direction. Stephenson, appearing morose and talking softly, testified that Shapito told him to place commemorative stamps on the false ballots so they could be identified prior to counting. If an excessive number of ballots were returned from one state agency, Shapiro could then destroy other ballots not bearing the special stamps, Stephenson said. Stephenson said Shapiro first mentioned the scheme late on July 18, 1977, and said Stephenson would lose his job if he did not carry out the fraud. STEPHENSON SAID ABOUT 10 a.m.

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