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i i i 1 i 1 ft s. I rt 4 ra w( i f3j wb Lie, yyiiLCjuLocJ Li i He said the fundamental reason for going to war was the United States' dependence on oil and Its commitments to other nations that depend on oil. "That is the only thing we had in common with the other allies our common dependence on oil." be sail "Unless we get off the dependency, we will not be able to stabdue the Middle East or assist in Its stability." Hatfield said the United States should take the lead in stopping weapons sales and encourage its allies to do the same. "Why can't we take the same risk for peace we were willing to risk for war?" he asked. PORTLAND (AP) Sea Mark Hatfield says he's puzzled by the persistent questions concerning his financial ethics.

"These matters ire all a matter of public record," Hatfield said iahrf a pause in a series of public appearances Mooda v. "It's very unpleasant and perplexing" that details about real-estate transactions and personal loans, some of them 10 years old, are suddenly dram-in? such scrutiny from the media, the Oregon Republican said. Records show a long history of friends providing financial help to the Hatfields, including gifts, loans at low interest rates and loans that later were forgiven. In a 1961 transaction, Paul Temple bought a home and wooded acreage in Maryland from Antoinette K. Hatfield for 50,000, a price well above the property's market value.

Antoinette Hatfield, the senator's wife, had purchased the property 16 months earlier for "I am blessed with good friends," said Hatfield when asked to explain the size of the profit and the favorable loan treatment Hatfield said he would provide no further details on the matters until he and his attorney had completed a review of the records. "We're putting together all the facts," he said. "Then we ll have more to say." Temple, who made a fortune in oil and gas ex ploration, has known Hatfield since the 1903s. Hatfield became chairman in 13D0 of the Senate Appropriations Committee and is a senior member of the Energy Committee, which helps write S. energy poky.

Hatfield said there is no linkage between the personal financial help he received from his friends and his congressional decisions. "I have a totally independent voting be said. "No one has ever influenced my vote." Hatfield currently is under no official review for the dealings. The Senate Ethics Committee and the FBI are, however, reviewing another matter, which involves Hatfield's fcilure to disclose gifts from the president of the University of South Carolina. The gifts, worth more than came at a time hen the university was lobbying Congress for a tlS.3 million grant Hatfield was chairman of the Appropriations Committee.

Hatfield's' appearances began with a Memorial Day observance at the cemetery in his hometown of Dallas and ended with a speech at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Portland. During his speech, be defended his vote against the use of military force in the Persian Gulf and argued for an end to the arms race in the Middle East 8 ALBANY (OR.) DCMOCRAT-HERAID. TUESDAY, MAY 23. 1331 1 I Eugene men investigated Eii-timbsr sssEts planner ban Vv 1 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) A federal ban on the export of raw lop would reduce job loss in the wood products industry and save the nation's old growth forests from overcutting, a former U.S.

Forest Service employee says. Jeff DeBonis, a former timber sale planner, is the organizer of a group formed in 1969 for Forest Service employees who support timber-cutting reform. DeBonis was in Albuquerque to talk with local agency workers about the organization, the Association of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics, based in Eugene, Ore. DeBonis began his career with the agency in 1978 working on the Santa Fe National Forest When be transferred to Oregon to work on the Willamette National Forest, DeBonis said he was "hit by wesUideluture shock." referring to extensive timber cutting in western Oregon and Washington where timber values are high. "I became so discouraged at the amount of damage, the resource degradation, the cavalier attitude," he Al Chesterman raises the Highway 101 Chehalis River Bridge in Washington state.

Honk if you love bridgetenders Canby Herald publisher dies of heart attack at 54 CANBY (AP) Thomas "Tom" Russ Dillon, publisher of the Canby Herald and the Wilsonville Spokesman, has died of a heart attack. He was 54. Dillon died Friday while vacationing with his family in California. A funeral is scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday at St.

Patrick's Catholic Church in Canby. Burial will follow at Zion Memorial Cemetery near Canby. Dillon joined the Canby Herald advertising staff in 19S8. He was named in 1973 and publisher in 1974. recent two-week period, the Chehalis River bridge opened only 16 times.

There are five drawbridges in the area, all of which used to have tenders, but those were in the Harbor's boom days. Now, there are tenders only on the Chehalis River Bridge, and some of the tenders work on -call for the other bridge. Actually, there aren't many tenders left either, just three full time and two part timers, Smith says. But the other bridges open rarely. Tenders like Smith are on call for the other bridges.

She always carries a pager, and when it goes off, she knows she needs to hurry to a bridge to get it open. "It can happen in the grocery store or anywliere," she uys. To driven, it may seem that tenders like Smith and Chesterman keep the bridges open for hours at a time. In fact, the Chehalis River Bridge opens and closes in 15 minutes for ships, and in I to 10 minutes for barges. For a fishing boat the tender may only haw to open the bridge slightly (or as few as three minutes, lo Id the mast pass through the opening in the bridge.

Rent a car Cyclist finds eyeball in film caso said. DeBonis said the nation has exported 4 billion board feet of raw logs annually for the last three or four years an amount equal to what has been cut on federal lands in Washington and Oregon. DeBonis said banning the exports could create 17.000 jobs in domestic lumber mills and preserve federal forests. The Forest Service is generally driven by commodity interests with timber, mining and grazing concerns taking precedence, he said. And Forest Service employees should change that he added.

"The solution would be managing certain public lands in what we call a much more ecologically sensitive manner," DeBonis said. While in New Mexico. DeBonis also spoke at the 5th Annual National Forest Reform Powwow and conservation rally in Angel Fire. More than 200 leaders of U.S. environmental groups gathered at the threeKlay meeting sponsored by the Santa Fe-based group Lighthawk.

He founded the Wilsonville Spokesman in 1983. Dillon had served as president and captain of the Canby Volunteer Fire Department, and was certified as an emergency medical technician. Survivors include his wife, Nancy Jo; daughters Jenni Marie and Mcghann Margaret, all of Canby; daughters Ter-s he Jones of Boise, Idaho, and Linda Moles of Mulino; mother, Mabel, of Canby; and three grandchildren. The 22 year-old student who found the small black canister on a street near the University of Washington on Satins day, set the container down after discovering its grisly contents, police uid. But he returned several hours later, found the case again and turned it over to police.

MMtodayl range to to support By VANCE HORNE For The Associated Press ABERDEEN, Wash. The next time you cross a drawbridge, make a joyful noise. It cheers up the bridgetenders. "If someone honks, it makes you feel good, because you know someone is thinking of you," says Rosetta Smith, one of the tenders on the Chehalis River Bridge at Aberdeen. It's the kind of job where people don't think of you often, except maybe to mumble and grumble when you open a bridge and bold up traffic.

A maintenance man comes around now and then, but otherwise it's possibly the loneliest job in the county. "It's not boring up here, but it is lonely," Smith says. "I always have something to do. I have my typewriter. I crochet and knit; I've had my sewing machine us here to ew Christmas presents.

I have 14 grandkids. "If you don't have anything else to do, you can watch the pedestrians or the traffic; you can even watch the seagulls There are occasional lively and sometimes tragic moments. Smith once watched an elderly man jump to his death from the bridge. Another time, a pickup speedrd up in the wrong lane just as Smith as lowering the bndge The pickup went up the incline created by the bridge and.ju&tm time, the truck rolW backwards to safety While there are a few minutes a day of excitement and great responsibility when the tenders open and close the bodge, there are many town of being alone, and there are several minutes of knowing how mad the drivers are at them for holding up traffic. "I've anted someone to do a story on us for the longest time." Smith ys "1 wanted it so, if nothing else, they could put this in the paper We do not open the bridge on a whim." "We open the bridge when the ships blow the whistle," says bridgetender Albert Chesterman, who has been a tender for 24 years.

"We're required to raise the bridge when they blow." "People ask me if it gives me a sense of power to open the bridge," Smith says. It doesn't she adds. It just makes her uncomfortably conscious of holding up traffic. Spending eight hours day In a small bridgehouse has its benefits, of course. There's the view, which includes Mt Rainier and the Olympics.

There's plenty of time to study if you have something to study. Chesterman spent two yean studying accounting hile he was in the bndgiouse. When we read, we look up periodically to see how the traffic is moving, and we watch what's coming on the water," Chesterman uys. Sometimes, the tenders have to make a judgment call fishing boats, for instance Will their masts clear the bridge or not Sometimes the bridge tender thinks the mast ill clear, and the boat captain doesn't In that case the captain stops the boat and the tender raises the bridge. The actual fact that the bridge goes up and down still excites Smith, even after years of watching it Esrept (or her dislike of holding up traffic, she probably would l.ke the raise the bridge more often.

"I'm always in awe of this bridge, to rt all that concrete and steel come up It's just enormous I can reach out and touch the side rail of the too. "And when the ships come through, you're sometimes on eye level ith the pilot's house." These moments of excitement are frw. and they are getting fewer. In one LANDSCAPE DESIGN CONSTRUCTION LAWNS, SHRUBS, TREES IRRIGATION SYSTEMS DECKS-TENCES LIGHTING RETAINING WALLS RENOVATIONS rROrtiSIONAL, AFFORDABLE FREE ESTIMATES 928-0942 753-6232 License M34 bhlrtg in SEATTLE (AP) A woman was found dead in the trunk of her car parked near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, shortly after an Oregon parolee arrested in California told police where to look for the body. The slain 22-year-old south King County woman, whose name was not Immediately released, had been reported missing Sunday, police said.

Cal C. Brown. 33, of Eugene, was arrested Monday in Palm Springs, after a 33-year-old Arcadia, Calif, woman staying at a Palm Springs hotel called the hoteloperator to say she had been stabbed. Police and hotel security arrived to find the woman's throat had been cut Information from that woman led police to arrest Brown. She told police she had met her attacker only hours earlier on a plane flight from Seattle to California, said King County Police Capt.

Michael Nault. The California woman, who was not Immediately identified, was reported in critical but stable condition at a Palm Springs hospital after undergoing surgery to repair cuts to her throat. Brown was jailed for investigation of rape and attempted murder in the Palm Springs case, Palm Springs police said in a statement. Bail was set at $250,000. Once in custody, investigators said Brown told them about the slashing death of a south King County woman.

Palm Springs police contacted King County police, who found the woman's body Monday in the trunk of her car parked at a Budget Rent ACar lot across from Sea-Tac airport. "We went out there and found a car matching the description," Nault said. "When we opened the trunk, we found the body." The woman had been stabbed multiple times. The wounds on the body were consistent with those on the Palm Springs victim, Nault said. Nault uid police would continue to question Brown, but he uid there are no unsolved cases in the area in which the victims were killed in the same way.

King County police spokesman Tony Burtt said Monday night that investigators have also ruled out any connection between Monday's discovery and the case of a 21 year -old Bremerton woman whoe body wis found May 11 in the trunk of her car. The death of that woman. Tammy Sue Wtce, 21. has been ruled a homicide although Bremerton police have not released the cause of death. Brown, ho lived recently in Eugene, was paroled in March from the Oregon Slate Penitentiary after serving torn years for assaulting a Corvallis woman, a spokesman with the penitentiary communications office uid Brown also was convicted of theft in Benton County, Ore in 19Q News rrports of the Corvallis assault trial drscnbrd Brown as a former Oregon Slate University student ho had previous convictions in California for assault, theft and writing bad checks Dr.

Wesley Weusert, a psychiatrist from Oregon Slate Hospital, testified that Brown suffered from a personality disorder. The judge ruled him to be a dangerous offender and sentenced him to IS years in prison with the recommendation that he serve at least seven years for the assault Chickens die in fire MOLALLA (AP) About chickens died Monday in a fire at Satrum Farms near Molaiia The fire drttroywi about one third of a building that hoiad the farms' white laying chickens Satrum Farms had about IjOOoo chickens at the ranch. The farm affiliated with Willamette Frg Farms of Canhy Satrum and uumrtte farms Ingfthrr art brltfved to be the Urgit ti pro dijrfT In Ort MoUIla Fire Chief Daniel Srnrad uid the fire started wtwn ash from a burning ie of aVhns were camH by the wind into the building's vrntilatwu lytiem VINYL SIDING Homi Energy Products 9674246 259-1 CCO SEATTLE AP) A cyclist who picked up a plastic film canister on a city street assumed the object rattling inside was a roll of film. But when he opened the container later, he found it contained an eyeball. The King County medical examiner's office was to determine today whether the eyeball came from a human.

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