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Statesman-Journal, Salem, Friday, August 1, 1983, 17A opinion mem a i t. I Not enough supported boycott of Olympics To the Statesman-Journal: "Between the idea and the reality, the shadow falls." In Moscow, beneath the long shadow of the Gulag Archipelago, the Olympic boycott spoke out for freedom. The boy-, cott spoke out not only for the freedom now being crushed in Afghanistan, but also for the freedom that is forever being dragged to the gallows in the Soviet Union itself. The boycott spoke out for freedom everywhere. And yet, of those countries having a free choice, a shocking number failed to support the boycott.

One sympathizes with those athletes who underwent an agonizing period of indecision before they went to Moscow. Most of them have Escape Continued from Page 1A. began a search of a thickly wooded two-square-mile area north of Highway 99W. About 50 officers from the state police, Newberg Police Department, and Yamhill and Washington county sheriff's departments combed the area. Two police dogs and three airplanes were used in the search.

JOHN O'HARE and Dave Boyd, both 24, were working at the housing development when Doyle arrived. O'Hare said Doyle was looking for his brother, Leroy Doyle, McMinnville, who was also working at the development. "He came up to me and asked where Leroy was," O'Hare said. "I said I didn't know." O'Hare said Boyd and other workers called police from a completed house nearby. Boyd said he sneaked toward a truck, intending to look for the police, who had not yet appeared.

"I stepped out of the thickets and so did he," Boyd said. At the same time, he said, police officers arrived and Doyle ran into the woods. O'HARE AND BOYD said Doyle had been staying with his brother Leroy for about five days. They said another brother, Robert, had also been staying with them. Rural residents need people's utilify districts To the Statesman-Journal: No doubt many well-meaning employees and customers of Portland General Electric Co.

will oppose the creation of people's utility districts. But I think they would not oppose them if the people had been rural residents in the Midwest during the years when private' power transmission lines ran from town to town, and rural homes were denied service. The power line might run right past your house, but if you wanted electricity, you had to install your own light plant, consisting of an engine and storage batteries. Not until the Rural Electrification Administration came in did the people in the country get electrical service, and who needed it more than those farmers in the drought days of the 1930s to pump water, light their homes and furnish power for many farm jobs? The private power companies "skimmed off the cream" and left the farmer to turn his milk separator by hand. PAUL YOUNGMAN McMinnville, Ore.

Why dig up past of the deceased? To the Statesman-Journal: Why is it necessary to dig up the past of the deceased when reporting a story? I refer to the July 10 article concerning the former Salem man killed in New Mexico. I suggest your reporters do a little more research before a story is printed. Some of the statements made concerning Dennis Klutke were true some were not. What difference does it make if he were Indian, Chinese or Negro; or if a policeman would recognize him on sight? He was a father, husband, son and a friend to many. These lies and half-truths are an indication of the type of news you are becoming known for.

We would like to see more truthful news with less ethnic slander. D.L.HILL Salem, Ore. Fine would control noise level of concerts To the Statesman-Journal: Not being a fan of the type of music presented at the recent rock concert, and living within earshot (approximately 20 blocks), the afternoon and evening were less than tolerable. Had it been country-western, it would have been ejoyable. But then that would offend those who like symphony music.

The answer does not lie in banning all future rock concerts, nor in allowing them to go on as this one did. After all, why should we fans of other music deny the 20,000 fans their rock music? Controls on sound levels need to be placed on all entertainment rock, symphony or country-western. One control that entertainers and promoters best understand comes in the guise of dollars. Stiff fines could be imposed on both the band and the promoter if the volume is beyond livable neighborhood standards. Then this fine could be used for improvement of the specific neighborhood that has been wronged by the overwhelming "noise." JOCILLE M.

DANIEL Salem, Ore. Mount Angel woman says concert a waste To the Statesman-Journal: When I read the July 21 Statesman-Journal, I could not help but write as I know I'm expressing the opinion of many others who agree with me. I also realize these things have been around for some time but why in Salem or anywhere else in this beautiful area? Yes, I'm referring to the rock concert held at the fairgrounds Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Riot and Molly Hatchett. What a terrible waste -of time, money and lives! Our beautiful country, which was founded on God's principles several hundred years ago, now has happennings such as this what a switch! Our policemen refused, for the most part, to make arrests of any kind, preferring simply to eject troublemakers from the premises. "If I make an arrest," explained one deputy, "I'd be gone an hour." What a truly sad state of Time was when a national saying was "God Bless America." Now it had better be "God Help America" before it is too late! God cannot be expected to bless America much longer at this rate! Face up, everyone.

America truly has been blessed. Look at all the other nations around the world and to whom do we show our gratitude? Come on, people, let's have "Jesus Northwest" (an annual three-day gathering of Northwestern Christians of all denominations to give honor and praise to the Lord) the biggest ever, back here in our own local area (not in some other state) and give honor to whom all honor is due, our Lord and Creator! MRS. ANN MEISSNER Mounl Angel, Ore. Some points clarified on managing cutbacks To the Statesman-Journal: I appreciated the opportunity of meeting with the editorial board of the Statesman-Journal earlier this week to discuss managerial and administrative theory as it is now being applied to "cutback management" of government programs across the country. But in the reporting of this event, several distortions of the points that I sought to make need clarification.

First, I made the point that management of state government, particularly in non-crisis times, could and probably should be strengthened by giving the office of the governor increased authority. One way of doing that is to reduce the number of semi-autonomous commissions that are involved in management rather than regulation. One footnote example that I gave was the Land Conservation and Development Commission, whose departmental functions should continue as a key part of Oregoh state government, but perhaps as a line agency under the governor once the initial goal setting and plan review functions of the independent commission had been concluded, as they soon will be. Those who know me best are aware that I have a strong personal and professional commitment to land-use planning and the integration of comprehensive policies affecting growth inherent in the LCDC responsibilities. I never suggested that the functions of the agency were obsolete and that it should be eliminated as a budget reduction candidate as implied in the article.

Rather, I suggested that a direct reporting responsibility for it and other departments to' the gov- ernor, as in many other states with cabinet forms of government, would strengthen the role and hence the accountability of the governor for management responsibility of all state programs. Second, the point concerning state support of tourism advertising with general fund money was that such an area is a perfect candidate for private rather than public programs if people are seeking ways to make government smaller. While the function is an extremely valuable one to perform in a state so dependent on tourism as an industry, it benefits a specific industry and could either be supported by the industry itself, or by industry working through government with special taxes raised from tourism-related activities (as is the case with many of the agricultural commodity activities in the Department of Agriculture). Some, if not many, functions of state government now supported by general fund dollars based on interest group pleading could just as well be placed back in the private sector in these times of public sector economic scarcity, leaving the general fund to support those social and other programs with a demonstrated broad public need. In all of these comments, the general points of why the examples were given were eliminated or severely edited, leaving the impression that the editorial board session dealt with the specifics of the current management crisis in Oregon, state government, and not with the general problems associated with the humane and constructive management of organizations in decline, for which a management literature is now developing after decades of managing for growth in the public sector.

Having had first-hand experience with managing program cutbacks, I am aware how difficult the process is and how stressful to the individuals, agencies and client groups involved. Better reporting of the complexity of management under these circumstances would help us all in understanding the implications of reduced government revenues and programs, a complexity which unfortunately was edited out of the reporting of my own remarks earlier this week. ROBERT A. BURCO Salem, Ore. Why publish names of Gortmaker jurors! To the Statesman-Journal: As a citizen, I am asking this question of the newspaper? What is the motive or purpose of publishing the list of jurors that will be serving on the Gortmaker trial? 1 realize this information is available to the public, but why publish a list and give ages, addresses and occupation? Just what does this have to do with the trial? It is something how the news media scrape the bottom of the barrel to publish some of the things that they do.

RUTH RAWLINGS Salem, Ore. Speed listening helps to preserve sanity To the Statesman-Journal: I nominate Managing EditorFeatures John Ericksen for a Nobel Prize for his identification of a major sanity syndrome. As a member of the Oregon State Bar, "speed listening" has been the only thing that has allowed me to retain the shreds of my dubious sanity. ALJ.LAUE Salem, Ore. -ft (7.1 i Statesman-Journal photo by Mike Williams land police officer.

Police unsuccess- fully searched a thickly-wooded area on the north edge of Newberg for more than five hours after the man was seen there about 3 p.m. Doyle was described as 6-foot and 150 pounds with long, light brown hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing cutoff jeans, a white T-shirt and a baseball cap. "very serious" problems with those studies. At least one of the scientists conducting the studies has been ruled ineligible to conduct more clinical trials or to receive drugs for testing, he said.

"WE RAN INTO virtually every possible deficiency," said FDA scientific investigator Dr. Michael Hensley, Among other thingsJie said, there were no coiv sent forms. More important, he said, was the lack of proof that necessary safety tests were conducted. Moreover, much of the data showed "excellent" results, but when reviewed by the FDA they didn't look so good, he said. "Many patients whose records We inspected may have had good primary-1 results, but they quickly said Hensley said.

FDA investigators now are examining "at least three other studies also subject to question," he said. "The general pat-'. tern (among them all) seems to be an'in--clination on the part of the physician hot to do safety work: the eye exams and the lab work. There also is a tendency, to overlook possible adverse effects." REGARDING THE possible investigators said they discovered just this year a letter written in-1977 warning of possible eye damage from the The letter, written to the sponsor of the studies, Research Industries Inc. of Salt' Lake City, said that some of patients in'a study of DMSO had developed eye prob-' lems.

FDA regulations state that the sponsor nlust report -all adverse tions to the agency, yet the letter could not be found in FDA files. Research In-, dustries manufactures most of the, DMSO In the country. Company president Henry Moyle said his company made the findings known in 1977 to FDA scientist K.C. Pani, who' served as the FDA liaison in DMSO stu-' dies. Pani, who showed up at the hearing with his attorney yesterday, denied it FDA's Goyan said Pani has been taken off the trials because FDA investigations showed "improprieties in his interactions with industry." FDA OFFICIALS also testified that they found that two new DMSO-related-drugs were being dispensed to patients, without FDA approval or knowledge, a violation of the Food and Drug Act.

FDA investigator Hensley told the' Senate panel that he was ordered by' "someone within the agency" not to take' his findings to the inspector general or other legal counsel. Because of the ongoing investigation, he would not reveal who gave him the order. Goyan said the agency voted this week to investigate the studies of Oregon, researcher Jacob, who Goyan says has fused to cooperate. "We'll probably have', to get warrants to get into Jacob's work," he said. Jacob, meanwhile, claimed that DMSO is "the most thoroughly investigated drug in the his-' tory of medicine" and that there is "no evidence of ocular (eye) toxicity" from its use.

"A psuedo-scientific game- is being played with the American public," he said. UNDER QUESTIONING, Research Industries' Moyle revealed that Jacob" had served as director of the company at one time and in the past had been a medical consultant for it. He owns 50,000 shares of stock in the company, valued at $12 a share, and holds options to buy another 100,000, said Moyle. Jacob testified that he could have bought the stock earlier, if profit was his motive, and that when he did buy it he did so to further DMSO research. He has turned overall royalties from the invest ment to the medical school at the University of Oregon where he is an professor of surgery, he said, and "I plan to continuing doing so." Sen.

Kennedy said at the hearing that he plans to call a conference with FDA, the National Institutes of Health, "the manufacturer of DMSO, and Jacob. Kennedy said he wants to settle "once and for all" whether DMSO should be approved by the FDA. Committee posts filled in Linn County LEBANON City Council Mardee Carter and former council mem-" ber John Richard have been named to Linn County's Solid Waste Committee. iTtW in I til 5 NEWBERG Oregon State and Newberg police check maps and pre- pare to search yesterday for an armed man who escaped about 1:40 p.m. from Yamhill County Court- house and wounded an off-duty Port- the highway, about a mile south of the housing development, following a report that Doyle had been seen there.

Police continued searching the area until nightfall. DMSO Continued from Page 1A. in 1965, after scientists found that it damaged the eyes of animals it was used on, the agency banned its use. Since then, FDA officials have revised their ruling to allow use of DMSO in certain situations, most notably granting permission to veterinarians to use it to treat swelling. State laws in Oregon and Florida permit doctors to prescribe DMSO for specific ailments.

Former Oakland Raiders quarterback Daryle Lamonica testifed that he as well as other football stars took DMSO to ease the pain of injuries and get back on the field quicker. "I call it a miracle drug," Lamonica said. He that he first used it 13 years ago for a swollen thumb. "WHEN I APPLIED my skin burned. It almost looked like the skin was starting to smoke.

But the swelling went down before my eyes, and was gone in five minutes. I was able to throw a football the next day." Normally with ice pack and other conventional treatments, Lamonica said the swelling would take several days to reduce. Also praising the drug was Sam Bell, Indiana University track coach, who said it works on young athletes to kill pain and heal leg injuries. NEITHER LAMONICA nor Bell mentioned any eye problems suffered by the users. But Lamonica said he did notice one unappealing thing: "DMSO doesn't do anything for your social life.

It makes your breath smell. And when anybody got into the huddle you knew they used DMSO." Earlier this year the House Select Committee on Aging attacked the FDA for blocking the drug's approval in light of studies that show it both safe and effective. Yesterday, however, Goyan revealed that the agency's Bioresearch Monitoring Program had turned up several preside over the case after Marion County's circuit judges disqualified them-sevles. Asked by Williams about former deputy James Spall, a personal friend, Gortmaker choked up and paused, then related how Spall had suffered a crippling injury in a Montana auto accident. GORTMAKER WAS preceded to the stand by a judge and former judge called by defense attorney Bruce Williams to state their opinion of Gortmaker's reputation for "truth and veracity." Retired Marion County Circuit Judge Joseph Felton said Gortmaker's reputation was good.

Marion County Circuit Judge Clarke C. Brown, holding a slip of paper in his hand, gave the dictionary definition of both terms. Brown then said, "He has an excellent reputation." Brown said he has known Gortmaker for 20 years. He said, "Mr. Gortmaker has done an excellent job" as county prosecutor.

BROWN FAULTED former deputy district attorneys Brad Scheminske and Dale Penn. Penn's reputation for truth and veracity is "bad" and Scheminske's "questionable," Brown said. Scheminske and Penn have testified that Gortmaker claimed expenses on investigations he was not involved in. On cross-examination, Schrunk asked Brown if he had heard Gortmaker was reimbursed by the county for driving 61,982 miles in a year when he put no more than 35,000 miles on his two cars. The judge said he had not.

Gortmaker was asked by Williams to begin his testimony by telling the jury about his background. THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY said he was born in Salem in 1934 and has lived here all his life. He said he is married and has two sons and a daughter. His father, now 80, and mother, now 74, are retired and live in Lincoln City, he said. He said he became a deputy district attorney in 1960 and was elected district attorney in 1964.

Gortmaker's testimony is scheduled to continue this morning. The case is expected to go to the jury early next week. lived their young lives absorbed in some form of sports. They know the tyranny of practice, but understand little of the practice of tyranny. For the sophisticated, older mentors of these athletes, however; for those who gave self-serving counsel to these young athletes; for those who led them into a shameful exploitation and betrayal, the quality (and the quantity) of sympathy is indeed strained.

Clearly, no amount of rationalizing could disguise the malignant end being served by the spectacle in Moscow. No degree of moral myopia could prevent one from discerning behind Mishka, the sportive cub the reality of the towering Russian bear that has torn Europe asunder, leaving bloodied islands, of despair scattered like corpses across the Continent. No, as a symbol of the Games, the smiling Mishka merely exemplifies the clumsiness of Soviet duplicity. On opening day, in the place of honor beside Brezhnev, we ought to have seen a more proper symbol of the Games. In the place of honor, where the shadow falls, we ought to have seen some smiling sort of Judas goat.

HANK O'HARA Salem, Ore. Those poor prisoners find some comforters To the Statesman-Journal: I grabbed for my crying towel after reading (columnist Bill) Bebout's recent article lamenting the plight of Oregon's criminals locked away in prison, with Judge Burns as their only comforter. As the tears poured forth from my eyes, I felt the shame that Mr. Bebout said I should feel for allowing so many criminals to be incarcerated away from their livelihood, the public, upon whom they prey. But all was not lost for these poor felons.

the omnipotent Judge Burns was seemingly mesmerized by the courtroom gandy dancing of Roy Haber, the prisoners' legal services publicity hound and the darling of Oregon's incarcerated felons. Judge Burns, in true Ted Kennedy style, ostensibly turned a deaf ear toward Oregon's corrections authorities as if declaring "my mind's made up, don't confuse me with the facts turn the criminals loose." Shame, shame on Gov. Atiyeh for calling the decision of the judge's omnipotence "preposterous." Shame again on the governor for supporting the will of the people and Oregon's corrections ex-, perts in daring to appeal the order to unleash the felons. How fortunate the law-abiding citizens of Oregon are in having a federal judge who is dedicated to showing them the evil of their ways and is willing to lead 1 them down the path toward Eastern do-gooderism. And let us not forget prisoners' legal services chieftain, Haber, who in his infinite wisdom, declared the recent handling of the prison disturbance to have been mishandled.

Never mind the lives, both staff and inmates, that were invariably saved by Commander Whitley's gallant charge across a barricade manned by murderers, rapists and other social predators. Never mind the fact that injuries to inmates were held to a minimum. Instead attack the establishment, and all that stands for order in society, for all is subjugate to publicity and self-aggrandizement. NANCY HAMILTON Salem, Ore. aba it letters The Statesman-Journal welcomes letters from readers.

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Letters should be sent to Editor, Statesman-Journal, P.O. Box .13009, Salem, Ore. 97309. Police surrounded an area bounded by the highway and the construction site. They made several passes through the thick brush and an open field north of it.

Police also searched an area south of Train Continued from Page 1A. Included are $628,000 in operating costs, $100,000 in capital costs and $54,000 for advertising, Graham said. Tomorrow's inaugural train will arrive in Woodburn at 10:45 and leave at 11 a.m. It is scheduled to arrive in Salem at 11:20 and leave at 11:50. The train will arrive in Albany at 12:40 p.m.

and leave at 1:10. THE STOPS AND schedule for the new service are: SOUTHBOUND Portland: Leave: and 6 p.m. Milwaukie: and 6:32 p.m. Woodburn: 8:32 a.m. and 7:11 p.m.

Salem: 8:55 a.m, and 7:34 p.m. Albany: 9:28 a.m. and 8: 07 p.m. Eugene: Arrive: 10:25 a.m. and 9 p.m.

NORTHBOUND Eugene: Leave: 6:25 a.m. and 2:05 p.m. Albany: and 2:49 p.m. Salem: 7:44 a.m. and 3:24 p.m.

Woodburn: 8:07 a.m. and 3:47 p.m. Milwaukie: and 4:28 p.m. Portland: Arrive: 9:20 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Tickets from Salem to Portland are $6.55 one-way; from Woodburn to Portland, cost is $8.50 round trip and $5.60 one-way. From Albany to Portland, cost is $10 one-way and $15 round trip. A one-way ticket from Salem to the new station in Woodburn will cost $3.40 and a round trip ticket $5.10. Gortmaker Continued from Page 1A. proper file would have required him to hire a staff of 20, Gortmaker said, be-' cause about 2,000 vouchers a year were submitted.

Under his accounting system, three employees drew funds on about 20 cent of the 300 investigation files created each year, he said. All funds he received from the county by voucher were detailed in county notices regularly published in the Statesman-Journal, he said. Gortmaker said he is a colonel in the Oregon Army National Guard. He said he is on duty 16 weekend hours a month, plus two weeks each summer. GORTMAKER SAID he continued to draw his pay as district attorney while drawing $50-a-day on two-week Guard duty.

He said that was allowed under law. He said he was never reimbursed by the National Guard for lodging or mileage. Gortmaker was reimbursed by the federal government for some expenses while in Washington, D.C., on National Guard duty, according to evidence in the trial. He also billed the county for $223 for work on a Marion County case while on that trip, the evidence, shows. Gortmaker said the reimbursements were for different expenses.

IN OTHER testimony: Schrunk asked Gortmaker how he acquired a .38 caliber revolver he gave a deputy district attorney as a going away present. Gortmaker said that after a court order was issued for its destruction, the gun became his personal property because he was the district attorney. That gun is the subject of a theft charge against him. Gortmaker said he asked two former employees to get some periodicals for a paper he prepared for the National War College on China. He said he expected the work to take only four hours, but they testified they spent iy2 weeks each on county time.

The personal work on county time was the subject of a theft of services charge, but it was dismissed by Lane County Circuit Judge Roland Rodman, named to.