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0 7egtm, SU A 1 If I '-i 1 i I a vj i i si State board may bolster budgets Experts advise adults to take it easy after a hard day's work rw ii A A ratasniain Wednesday, October 16, 1991 Salem, Oregon 35 cents to nat II vV 1 II 1 III I Oregon votes: Hatfield yes, Packwood no The Associated Press WASHINGTON Oregon's senators split Tuesday on the confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. Sen. Mark Hatfield joined the majority in voting for Thomas, while Sen. Bob Packwood was one of only two Senate Republicans opposing him. Hatfield, also a Republican, defended Thomas' character, saying he should not be sacrificed because of concerns about sexual harassment.

The Senate had delayed the vote a week to examine allegations against the nominee by a former assistant, Anita Hill. "The bottom line here is that Judge Thomas is qualified. Noth- brought against Thomas by Anita Hill, a former assistant at the Education Department and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, were true. But they decided to give him the benefit of the doubt In speeches before the vote, senator after senator lamented how both Thomas and Hill had been damaged in the process. "No human being should ever have to go through what Clarence Thomas has gone through for the last 100-plus days," his chief supporter, Missouri Republican John Dan-forth, said.

Immediately after the vote, President Bush called Thomas with congratulations. "You're a wonderful inspiration, and you had the overwhelming support of the American people," Bush said. "You have a lifetime of service to your country ahead." In Oklahoma, Hill said she was satisfied she had been "able to go out and tell what I knew true" and that national awareness of sexual harassment had been raised. More Inside Senate roll call for confirmation Local professors' predictions Busy schedule for new Justice Page2A After 3V2 months of arduous hearings, Thomas will be seated Monday as the 106th justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

From wire reports WASHINGTON Clarence Thomas overcame accusations of sexual harassment and won Senate confirmation td the Supreme Court on a 52-48 vote Tuesday. Thomas, 43, a federal appeals judge, likely will be sworn in Monday as the 106th justice and second black on the court. He is expected to be a staunchly conservative successor to Thurgood Marshall, one of the court's last liberals and its first black. The Senate vote climaxed 3Vi months of heated deliberations, extended a week for hearings on the harassment issue. Thomas gained crucial help from Southerners as 11 Democrats joined all but two minority Republicans in his support.

With the outcome in doubt until the final hours, Vice President Dan Quayle rushed back from a trip to Ohio to cast a tie-breaking vote if necessary. It wasn't needed. Many senators said they didn't know if the accusations of sexual harassment xf Bob Packwood Mark Hatfield ing which took place at the hearings has convinced me otherwise," Hatfield said. The hearings did give him a greater appreciation of the problem of sexual harassment But Hatfield said that many senators were making the confirmation vote a referendum on the subject. Packwood made no public statement on Tuesday.

He had said earlier that his opposition was based on Thomas' refusal to disclose his views on several topics, including abortion. The Associated Press Clarence Thomas, with his wife, Virginia, tells reporters that his Supreme Court confirmation ordeal should be put in the past so healing can begin. 'Unsolved Mysteries' filming in Salem Gable trial still haunts defender By Steven P. Jackson The Statesman Journal After all that work, all those hopes, and all those battles then there was nothing. Defense lawyer Bob Abel still is haunted by the guilty verdict against his 4fi irn Lw Tin Jhi last client, Frank E.

Gable. r) Bob Abel Parents of 6th-grade kids worry By Jillyn McCullough Trie Statesman Journal The Salem-Keizer School District's vision for middle schools talks a lot about how to better meet students' social and academic needs. But what parents really want to talk about is sex and drugs. The few parents who attended a hearing on proposed changes to middle schools Tuesday said the district will have to convince them that sixth-graders' childhoods won't end abruptly if they are sent to school with seventh-and eighth-graders. That's one of the proposals in the district's plan.

"I'm hearing people respond on an emotional level with well-founded concerns about the nurturing of their children and the safety of their children," Carolyn Guthrie, a parent, said after the hearing Tuesday. She said parents are worried that their sixth-graders will be exposed to drugs and sex in middle schools. But Neville Cordell, a Salem psychologist who helped develop the district's plan, said visiting middle schools that included sixth-graders convinced him that sending sixth-graders to middle school would not be sending them to the lion's den. The two people who testified at the hearing said they generally supported the proposed changes, although they had some concerns about how they would be implemented. About a dozen people attended the hearing.

Another hearing will be at 7 tonight at Leslie Middle School The school board will vote on the proposals in December. And he still is trying to come to terms with Gable labeling him in-competent and alcoholic charges he denies. On June 27, Gable was convicted of the January 1989 murder of Corrections Director Michael Francke and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Gerry LewlnStatesman Journal Portland actor Nurmi Husa recreates the role of psychic John Catchings in investigating the disappearance of Sherry Eyerly of Salem. TV film renews focus on missing Salem woman Frank E.

Gable I Family seeks answers Page2C Abel believes that he did everything possible to win the case. He says that in his heart he knows that Gable did not kill Francke. But instead of the glories of winning one of the most publicized murder cases in the history of Oregon, Abel, 52, says: "The whole world seemed to come crashing down on me." with Wilson at his home. Several hours later, Wilson was found dead. He apparently hanged himself.

Catchings and Hingston think Wilson was responsible for Eyerly's death. Hingston doesn't think that Wilson acted alone. The Unsolved Mysteries segment, tentatively scheduled for broadcast Nov. 13, will air their theories. The film crew, in Salem until Friday, also will use Wallace Marine Park to recreate a party that Wilson attended.

The crew will shoot night scenes near Riverhaven Drive S. By Janet Davies The Statesman Journal A small, white house on Fourth Avenue NE that has attracted little notice for nine years was back in the limelight Tuesday. A crew from Unsolved Mysteries, an NBC television program, spent the day there, recreating several scenes involving a former tenant of an apartment behind the house. The tenant was Darrell Jay Wilson, 30, who was a suspect in the 1982 disappearance of Sherry Eyerly. Her car was found aban- doned July 4 on a rural South Salem road, where she had gone to deliver a pizza.

After Wilson was identified as a suspect, John Catchings, a Texas psychic, came to Salem in August 1982 at the request of the Eyerly family. Catchings and Capt. Will Hingston, then a detective for Marion County, visited briefly I More recollections Page2A Local World Business Index Sports Inside NewsA MIDEAST TALKS Secretary of State James Baker expects Arabs and Israelis to meet in Switzerland starting Oct 29. 7 AWorld 4 pwir' i 21.92 DOW CLOSE 3041.37 Life For Your Information If you have suggestions or questions or would like to report an error, please call the appropriate department News, 399-6677. Home delivery or subscriptions, 399-6622.

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