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A2 SPOKANE CHRONICLE, FEB. 16, 1 989 REGIONAL MP-- FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS Senator: Let's tax sex magazines LEGISLATIVE ACTION Associated Press Oil State lottery jackpot rises to $1.5 million There was no big winner in Wednesday night's $1 million Washington state Lotto jackpot drawing, so Saturday night's jackpot will be worth $1.5 million, a lottery spokesman said. Fifty-six tickets bearing five of the six numbers drawn Wednesday were sold and they are worth $744 each. Another 2,572 tickets with four of the correct numbers are worth $31 each. Sales for Wednesday's game were $968,463.

"Motor voter" registration. Sponsored by Rep. Cal Anderson, D-Seattle, and Secretary of State Ralph Munro, a Republican, HB1666 would make voter registra, tion almost automatic when an unregistered person applies for a driver's license or makes a renewal. An additional signature is all that would be required, since the license form would have all of the information needed to register the person to vote, Anderson said. The program would begin in 1991, and would cost $165,000.

HOUSE BRANCH CAMPUSES The Higher Education Committee approved and sent to the Rules Committee for scheduling for floor action HB1822 providing for branch campuses of the University of Washington and Washington State University at Bothell, Tacoma, Vancouver, Spokane and the Tri-Cities. LEGISLATURE The State Government Committee approved and sent to the Rules Committee for scheduling for floor action HB1319, providing for later meeting dates for the Legislature. Bills introduced: 1032031 Restricting counties and cities from zoning moral nuisances in neighborhoods. OLYMPIA Here is the major action Wednesday at the Washington Legislature: GOVERNOR No major action. SENATE No major action.

Bills introduced: S115906 Providing for a 9-cent-agallon increase in the gasoline tax to finance a long-term transportation plan. SB5911 Providing for Increased harvest of old growth timber. SB5913 Creating a commercial chum and sockeye salmon fishery off the mouths of the Quinault, faueets and Raft rivers. OLYMPIA State wants no hike in federal gas tax Gov. Booth Gardner sat down Wednesday with members of Washington's congressional delegation, who pledged to grab every federal dollar available to help finance expansion of the state's overburdened highways, the state transportation chief said.

Transportation Secretary Duane Berentson said the delegation was urged to resist a mounting congressional move to boost the federal gasoline tax to help reduce the federal deficit. Berentson, noting that Gardner is seeking a 3 cent gas tax increase to help meet transportation needs, said a federal tax "would be devastating to us" because it would make imposition of a state tax much harder for people to swallow. Berentson said the delegation indicated that it would resist a federal gas-tax increase. Delegation members at the meeting in Gardner's office included Reps. Jim McDermott and Jolene Unsoeld, both Democrats, John Miller, a Republican; and Democratic Sen.

Brock Adams. Authorization of voter tration by mail. Currently, only in-person registration is allowed. Permitting voters who register between 15 and 30 days before an election to vote by absentee ballot. Currently, people who register less than 30 days before a primary or general election cannot vote in that election.

From wire reports OLYMPIA A Senate budget leader has proposed a 25 percent tax on sexually explicit magazines, books, movies video tapes and 'diala-porn' fees as a way of funding LEGISLATURE the state's war on drugs. Sen. Dan plo McDonald, R- Bellevue, chair of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, said the 25 percent surcharge would raise between $50 million and $70 million over the next two years more than enough to fund a sweeping crackdown on drugs that backers expect to cost $50 million every two years. McDonald's proposal could replace a proposal by House Democrats to fund the sweeping bill through new taxes on alcohol and cigarettes so-called "sin taxes." A tax on adult entertainment "fits in the same category" and would have the added benefit of making life harder on businesses specializing in adult entertainment, he said. "I don't think there's any reason that these activities shouldn't be taxed at a very high rate," McDonald said.

"While they are not illegal, I think the world would probably be a better place without them. If taxing them at a terribly high rate would reduce the amount of activity with them, then I'm in favor of that." Representatives of affected industries have not expressed opinions because the proposal has been secret until now, McDonald said. If they tell him it might hurt their businesses, he said that's too bad. "It doesn't hurt me at all," he said. der way until after the March 20 revenue forecast update.

Under 11B1319, lawmakers would gather on the traditional convening date only long enough to swear in new members and elected officials, and to elect officers. The session then would recess for a month, although committee work could continue. Republican Reps. Shirley Hankins of Richland and Jean Silver of Spokane said the state should stick with the January date chosen by forefathers in consideration of farmers who needed to be home by spring planting time. The two, along with Alex McLean, R-Mansfield, opposed the bill.

The measure now goes to the House Rules Committee for scheduling of a vote by the full House. VOTER REGISTRATION: The House State Government Committee panel also approved bills dealing with voter registration. They The adult-entertainment tax might be offered as an alternative to the tobacco and alcohol tax package, or it might be used to supplement those taxes, McDonald said. The fact that no connection exists between explicit sexual material and drug sales doesn't mean anything, he said, because there is no direct connection between drugs and wine drinking either. SESSION START: A House panel on Wednesday approved legislation that would delay the startup date for future sessions of the Washington Legislature.

The House State Government Committee voted 7 to 3 in favor of a measure sponsored by House Majority Leader Brian Ebersole, DTacoma, the House Appropriations and Revenue committee chairmen and others to authorize a later start for legislative sessions. Currently, sessions begin on the second Monday in January. But sponsors noted Wednesday that the process realistically doesn't get un GASOLINE TAX: A sweeping plan for a 50 percent increase in Washington's gasoline tax has been introduced in the state Senate by Rep. Gary Nelson, R-Edmonds. The measure puts into bill form a multibillion-dollar funding package created by a coalition called Washington Citizens for Improved Transportation.

The plan, which features a 9-, cent-per-gallon increase in the gas-, oline tax, as well as other state and local tax increases, has emerged as the main alternative to a less ambitious plan offered by Gov. Booth Gardner. The governor seeks a 3-cent-per-, gallon tax boost, plus assorted state. and local taxes. MAIM Nursing home's permit suspended State officials have suspended the license of a 35-bed nursing home in Olympia and said the residents have to be moved out.

Frank Mendizabal, a spokesman for the state Department of Social and Health Services, said Wednesday the state took the action because of concerns for the welfare of the residents at the Rest Haven nursing home. He said a recent investigation turned up evidence that untrained staff were dispensing medications at the home and showed other problems. The state said that six patients have died in the facility since November, two of them at night when no licensed staff members were present. He also said there were errors in administering medication and that medication schedules were not met. Valeda-Jeanne Vandermaas, owner of Rest Haven, was stunned by the allegations.

"I am totally devastated, as every one of my residents are," she said. "I think it's totally unfair to come in and not see if I can't make the corrections that they say that need to be made." She has 30 days to request a hearing on the license, but officials say the residents of the home will have to start now to find another place to stay. TACOMA Actress angered by sewage plans Actress Linda Evans is so upset about proposals to spray sewage sludge near the Nisqually River she plans to join a protest march on the Washington state Capitol. For Evans, who moved to a mansion in the suburbs south of Tacoma two years ago, the march Friday in Olympia will be her debut as a community activist. "All I want to do is make people aware," she said Wednesday in a telephone interview.

"I moved to Washington because I wanted a simple way of life. I wanted to live in the country. I wanted clean water. I wanted clean air." Stratton frustrated by delay in financial analysis of bills ftY 0" PI (Th 0 dik cri, TAKE A CLASS AND LEARN TO PLAY ORGAN, PIANO OR ELECTRONIC KEYBOARD Stratton proposed a bill for a separate department of children and family services in January 1988, but it failed because DSHS never provided a fiscal note. Stratton revised the measure, and this year DSHS took a month to provide a fiscal note.

Rob Hall, a DSHS budget analyst, said fiscal notes can be delayed by the complexity or length of a bill. He said DSHS in no way tried to change or delay legislation by holding up the fiscal notes for Stratton's bills. WEATHER 89 99 BEEFSTICK SALE Oerb IJi 4616' INLAND NORTHWEST If Prc WM By Pat Abdo Staff writer OLYMPIA Sen. Lois Stratton said Wednesday she is frustrated that the Department of Social and Health Services took more than a month to provide an analysis important to passage of her bill to create a separate department of children of family services. Last year, DSHS effectively killed a similar bill by delaying the analysis for the entire legislative session, said Stratton, a Spokane Democrat.

"I'm upset with DSHS for the delay and I'm upset with their priorities for children. I don't think they put a high enough priority on children," said Stratton, who received the analysis, called a fiscal note, last Friday. Fiscal notes are prepared by state agencies to assess the impact bills would have on agencies. SEATTLE 3629 SPOKANE 2212 MISSOLJLA 111100 FOR THE RECORD BEGINNERS ONLY, PLEASE Classes now forming for all ages Call for info. 838-8312 Spokane Airport 36 26 in Downtown 34 26 in Coeur d'Alene 33 25 in Colville 29 20 .05 in Ephrata 30 30 in Orangeville 33 20 in Hanford 46 31 in Kalispell 25 9 .31 in Lewiston 40 33 in Missoula 23 17 in Mullen 33 25 in Omak 30 .12 in Pendleton 43 33 in Pullman 30 SS in Sandpoint NR NR in Walla Walla 42 31 in Wenatchee 36 27 in PACIFIC NORTHWEST I.

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Northeast winds 15 25 mph causing blowing and drifting snow with wind CANADA chill near minus 30. Cold and cloudy Friday; 50 percent Calgary chance of snow showers. High, near 22; low, near 12. Edmonton EASTERN WASHINGTON: Snow tonight with accumula- tral otnrteo tion near 3 inches In the northeast and less than 2 Inches Vancouver elsewhere. Partly cloudy with scattered snow showers In the north and snow likely south Friday.

Highs, 20-25; lows, teens to near 20. NORTH IDAHO: Snow and gusty northeast winds to- NATIONA night. Partly cloudy wih scattered snow showers in the north and snow likely In the south Friday. Highs, 205 north, 30s south; lows, single dlgets north, mid teens-30s AAirnbuaor south. Anchorage WESTERN WASHINGTON: Turning colder tonight; Asheville snow likely with accumulations near 1 Inch.

Snow Atlanta showers and cold Friday. Highs, 30s; lows, 20s. AtlanticCity Austin WESTERN MONTANA: Winter storm warning tonight. Baltimore Areas of strong gusty north winds 25 to 40 mph causing Billings local blizzard conditions especially In the mountain Birmingham sortoenrch passes. Snow of 4 to 8 inches by tonight.

Winds causing estensive blowing and drifting and dangerous wind Brownsville chill. Snow decreasing some in the north but continuing Buffalo in the south Friday. Areas of strong northeast winds. Caspar Highs, zero to 15; lows, minus 10 to 5. Spokane's temperatures: High Wednesday, 33 at 1:45 p.m.

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