Tri-City Herald from Pasco, Washington (2024)

December 31, 1990

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Tri-City Heraldi

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Pasco, Washington

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Monday, December 31, 1990

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5

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MONDAY DECEMBER 31 1990 TRI-CITY HERALD AS Weather etci Forest fight waged with cash NW timber money list Uawa a I(aA jaJ MwwIkuAaakmA mkdiawhWakwm uJ auunMsaem Ama nen is i usx or mo Nonnwosi fnomDors or unjfvss nttninyioni on gon Idaho Montana and Alaska with a comparison of the contributions they hava received from the forest and paper product! industry vs contributions from environmental groups over the past eight years 1983-1990 Tha top individual forest product contributor is In parentheses (Rep total includes contributions for his 1 990 Senate campaign) WASHINGTON $1 034 1 3 (Simpson Timber $1 5B75) vs none $2500 (Weyerhaeuser $1500) vs $2500 Sen Gorton (R) Sen Adame (D) $55661 (Potlatch $9345 vs none $36222 (Weyerhaeuser) vs $16014 $20300 (Georgia Pacific) $1500 $16750 (Weyerhaeuser) va none $14575 (Weyerhaeuser) vs $1000 $12575 (Weyerhaeuser) vs none $350 (NFPA) $17545 none vs $2500 $262346 VS $40659 (Georgia Pacific $13000) vs $6091 Snake River qr800 Day10" 96 Waitsburg 11-8 Walla Walla 9-9 I Walla '-Walla River a high of 37 and a low of 22 The record for this date is a high of 58 and a low of minus 9 Sunrise today will be at 7:42 with sunset at 4:21 Sunrise Tuesday will be Paper Weyerhaeuser $5000) vs none $56925 (Boise Cascade) vs none $42000 (Boise Cascade) vs none $41164 (NFPA) Vi $31596 $26850 (NFPA) vs $5150 $3550 (Sun Studs) vs $6017 $261969 vs $491 54 $50700 (Bohre-Caircade $6800) 1 $4500) $20350 (Potlatch $4500) The high in the Tri-Cities Sunday was 10 degrees at Kennewick which also had low of minus 6 degrees year ago the high 37 and the low 29 Normal for Dec 30 is vs none vs none $69382 (na) vs none $1 2500 (na) vs $19935 $152932 vs $19935 Millions of dollars spent by both sides By The Associated Press WASHINGTON Behind the pleas to save the trees and cries for saving jobs millions of dollars are being wagered on a congressional fight for control of the nation's oldest forests The timber and paper products industry contributed nearly $5 million to presidential and congressional candidates over the last eight years including more than $775000 to current members of the Senate and the House from five Northwest states according to federal records Environmental groups countered with just over $2 million in the same period according to the records politics is part of doing says Ned Massee manager of government relations for Westvaco Corp one of the country's largest producers of paper products The New York-based owner of 11 million acres of US timberlands led the industry with $716700 in political action committee contributions from 1983 through 1990 records at the Federal Election Commission show Ali Webb of the League of Conservation Voters said lost several elections this year because we help challengers with sufficient Both sides seem likely to continue pressing their cause as Congress struggles to decide on the best use fbr the forests The two sides deny partisan preference in their political contributions Yet 73 percent of the timber money went to Republicans and 93 percent of the environmental contributions went to Democrats according to election commission records Envirnomentalists favor cutbacks in logging to protect the northern spotted owl and other threatened creatures to slow degradation of soils and streams and to enhance wilderness recreation Industry says such a break from traditional timber practices would cripple logging communities cost tens of thousands of jobs and sharply raise prices for wood The northern spotted owl has become the most visible symbol of this struggle with the Bush administration working to develop a plan that can save the owl while limiting the loss of jobs in the lumber industry In a federally mandated effort to protect the threatened owl logging is expected to drop in the Pacific Northwest by about 20 percent next year Environmentalists have enlisted dozens of legislators in sup-port of even broader forest-protection proposals which would cut harvests at least in half This year President Bush also signed into law toughened restrictions on exports of unprocessed logs from federal and state lands Several members of Congress want a similar ban on exports of raw logs from private lands as a way of boosting jobs for domestic processors Sen Slade Gorton R-Wash is the favorite recipient of contributions with a total of $103413 Sen Mark Hatfield R-Ore is next with $68980 Neither could be reached for comment press secretary Kraig Naasz said the money has not influenced voting think our level of contributions from the timber industry is more reflective of devotion to timber communities and their livelihood" Naasz said Reps Jim Clarke D-NC Jim Jontz D-Ind and Les AuCoin D-Ore were the financial champions of the environmental lobbyists Clarke had contributions of $44331 Jontz $31992 AuCoin $31896 AuCoin is one of five legislators who received at least $10000 from each side The others are Sens Wyche Fowler D-Ga and John Chafee R-RI and Reps John Miller R-Wash and Richard Stallings D-Idaho Since January 1983 industry donations have gone to four in five of the current members of the Senate and more than two-thirds of the current members of the House election commission documents and Common Cause reports show Aside from Westvaco other heavy hitters include International Paper Co Union Camp Corp Weyerhaeuser Co Georgia-Pacific Corp Boise Cascade Corp and the National Forest Products Association you analyze a company like Boise Cascade and the various businesses we are in the impacts that state and federal government can have on us are said Kirk Sullivan a vice president for Weather: Snow showers mm Tri-Cities i Good morning With one day left in 1990 the weatherman 1 says the old year will go out on a cold note with highs 15 to 20 decrees and snow at times There will be southwesterly winds 5 to 15 mph New Eve will be mostly cloudy with a few snow showers and lows 10-15 New Day will see a slight warming with highs 20-25 and some snow showers The Tri-Cities received 2 inches of fresh snow Sunday Hanford 3 Pendleton 5 and Walla Walla 6 inches the A was (Champion International $7507) vs $2858 00 (International Paper $5500) vs none $1 6500 (na) vs none $1 500 (na) vs $2620 $60557 VS $5478 $11525 vs none $9000 (Georgia-Pacific $3500) vs none $1 8625 (na) vs none $38550 vs none $776554 vs $11 5526 Annatha Jones 9 Pasco mm Pacific Northwest i Rep Foley (D) RepMUer(R) Rep Swift (D) Rep Chandler (R) Rep Dicks (D) Rep Morrison (R) Rep McDermott (D) Washington Total OREGON Sea Hatfieid (R) Sea Psckwood (R) $23000 (Georgia Pacific Ir Rep DSmilh (FQ RepBSmHh(R) Rep AuCoin (D) RepWyden(D) Rep DeFazio (D) Oregon Total IDAHO Sea Symms(R) Sea McClure (R) Rep Craig (R) Rep Shillings (D) Idaho Total MONTANA Sen Baucua (R) Sea Bums (6) Rep Marlenee (R) Rep Williams (D) Montana Total ALASKA Sea Murkowski (R) Sea Stevens (R) Rep Young (R) Alaska Total NorthwestTotal the company in Boise Idaho The company owns or controls 62 million acres of timberlands and manufactures and distributes paper and paper products and building materials The Sierra Club tops the contributor list for environmental groups spending $12 million over the last eight years The League of Conser-vation Voters is next with $701271 Eight other environmental groups registered with the FEC spent a total of less than $300000 since January 1983 More than 40 forest and paper industry PACs are on file Industry contributions have increased steadily in each of the last fbur two-year election cycles from forecasts a net loss of 10000 nonfarm jobs statewide in the first half of 1991 about 5 percent of the 21 million member workforce In Seattle a real estate market that had seen home prices climb 60 percent to 70 percent from 1987 to 1989 returned to normal as too many homes were put up for sale for prices too few buyers could afford Construction also declined with some commercial developers delaying projects and complaining about an overbuilt downtown Weak manufheturing and construction in turn have hurt services the retail- DISEASE TRAUMA of the Foot Ankle Theresa Ledbetter Podiatrist Croat from Our Lady of Lourdea 545-5906 Smart Way to a NewKltctieifi QUALITY KITCHEN CABINET REFACING Rob Steelman QUAL IKC 1 31 RZ 527 Delafield Richland WA 99352 (509) 943-6399 $68980 $32557 $1 01 RyThti Tlii National Wiathir Service uys Wiihington suit will rum in in the pith ol wiik pricipitiUon-biaring wedheriystoms totcugh today Tha systoms wN csntinua to modw-ata Wmptratum fvoughout IM Ob Sono licit Mpicially In Eiitint Wadtogton wi bi Dow to warn and wtoby condWoni wil conbnut tm WESTERN WASHINGTON Occi-ilonal rain today (kenning Tmsday Tampsraturas wanning to thi uppar 30a md lower 40i by dill morning Hfghi today and Tbttdw lowsr 40a Laws tonight upp 30a EASTERN WASHINGTON Morty cloudy tonight ind Tuiiday with a chanci ol mow mainly nil High! today Hi wanning to 25-35 Tlmday LowitonWIHL SEATTLE Today doudy vrito oe-caoionN rain HVw In fw lower 40l Soud wink 15-2S mph Tonight aid Tuesday morty doudy will chanci ol nil HidM mid-40s Lowt uppir 30l Chanci ol prKlpitation go jure ml tod ay 50 parcant tonioht and 40 pv-ant Tmidiy WASHINGTON COAST Today cloudy wbh ottatinial ikL SouOiwmI doudy Highlit ound 40 OREGON CASCADES Today Snow shown tapniig all Alkmoon pan kmpitibini nw 30 Soutiwist wind 15-25 mph Tonght Occasional anow mown Mninum past temperatures near 25 New Ynr'a Day: Chanci ol mow ihowen ARemoon pact twnptr-abinsniir32 WESTERN OREGON Mostly doudy today with mead rain or mow duly rath and posable freezing rail mar On Columbia Gorgi in thi morning UudA wlMaiAj laueLJM uaRI 1 Mony oouoy unigni win i ww mow rathwisL Btcoming patty cloudy Tuesday Lows in On 20s inland lowir 30i coast Kgfrs today in tot town 40t com and mid-30i inland a bit wamwr Tunday EASTERN OREGON Snow advisory rathiM mountain today occaskanl mow rati mosOy cloudy mum Two to (vs iidni mow in Is northtast mountalm by toiky altinioon Gusty Mdh winds to 40 mph Impi canyons northeast witti Wowing and dntt-ing mow Snow tapiring oH tonight arfk lit I aUauL aatijh noraip DNomng puuy uouoy mxjui Partly doudy Tuesday will a kw mow Lows 10 bdowto Hrghs 10-25 abovi Boeing helps state fight recession $1 million in 1983-84 to $14 million in the last cycle the records show Environmentalists spent about $425000 in 1989-90 according to the records Their peak period was $734143 in 1983-84 about one-third of it directed against the re-election of President Reagan More than 50 senators have received at least $10000 from the industry 20 received more than $30000 Of the 435 House members 68 got at least $10000 from the industry and 18 pulled in more than $30000 Forty-one senators and four in 10 House members picked up checks from environmental groups Ten senators and 18 House members received more than $10000 wholesale trade and finance sectors Sohn said What happened? Again Sohn and other economists look to Boeing From 1983 to 1989 employment in this area exploded from 58000 to 106000 37 percent of all jobs created in Washington during that period were with the pianemaker was the main force behind the rapid immigration to the state and the main force behind the housing boom that said Douglas Pedersen vice president and chief economist for Security Pacific Bank of Washington Physician on duty 7 days a week 8 AM 8 PM Immediate Care Center SlOTortoatt 946-7646 Richland By The Associated Press SEATTLE Credit Boeing for the soft landing Recessions usually hit this area harder than elsewhere But this time economists say the good fortune of The Boeing Co should cushion Seattle and much of Washington from the economic downturn of the rest of the country In a state where a superheated economy produced an average annual job growth of 5 percent since 1985 economists are forecasting that things might return to normal Economically the late 1980s were kind to Seattle Real estate values soared in a city considered by many to be among the most livable Jobs were so plentiful that fast-foad joints offered $725 an hour for flipping burgers Much of that prosperity can be attributed to Boeing which has 104700 workers in Washington and accounts for one out of every six jobs directly or indirectly in the state By late December Boeing had received $466 billion in new commer-cial jet business for 1990 approaching a sixth record year of orders Planes ordered three or four years ago are rolling off assembly lines at a rate of better than one a day In November however state officials acknowledged that the recession gripping much of the country had spread mildly to Washington State economist Chang Mook Sohn 36 15 44 22 OS -12 10 -11 North Bend Ontario Pmdkton Passes: Washington mountain pisi condihoni as reported Sunday ivaning by thi dde Department oi Transportation: SNOOUALMIE 3 degees mowing etrong gusty winds wist ol summit I ics Snow ons 15 digram mowing compact mow md ce mow Ores SWAUK-BLEWETT -2 drain light mow compact mow and ict wiow brasadvmd SAIUS 5 draw doudy ban md toy compact mow and ice in ptacai aiow Dm advised WHITE 23 compact mow and advised SHERMAN -12 I compact mow md advised NORTH CASCADES CtOMd lor winter CAYUSE CHINOOK Cloud tor winter CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN CUTOFF 15 degrees Sght snow mow and ici on rood mow Pres advised from 3 miles last ol Enumdaw GOVERNMENT CAMP US 26: OvwcasL packed mow taction deviett required SUNSET SUMMIT US 26: Snow femtos pacM mow taction devicH SISKIYOU SUMMIT 1-5 Spots ol ci MEACHAM kS4: Overcast mow tactoi devices requind to moWe hemes LADO CANYON 1-64: Spoil ici wmd dosed to mobile homes Extended WESTERN WASHINGTON Wednesday direudi Friday Mostly doudy vHh a chanci ol showers at tones Seasonabk temperatuns Lows upper 20s and 30s Highs uppar 30s md 40s EASTERN WASHINGTON Wedmsday through Friday Mostly cloudy mth a chanci ol mow toowati at tbnm SiaeonNk temperatures lows uppir toms and 201 Htfit uppir 20s and 301 WESTERN OREGON Partly cloudy and a fettk wamwr Highi 3545 Wedmsday warning to tw 40s Thursday and Friday Lows 2535 wept near 40 tonne EASTERN OREGON my Slow wanning tend Kghs kins-20s wanning by Friday to upper kens-201 and to mar 30 Columbia Basin Lows 10 below wo to 15 above wanning by Thunday ityt to mar am to 20 about Cl dQ cities i 52 dr National Timptraturi Extrimai lor 03 cdy Sun fry 36 12 cdy High 96 at Fort Myers Fla 35 ct Low -40 at SL Anthony Idaho Side Gary Larson TheAocu Wwmher hrwcwM lor noon todey E3HO-C30E30 'mm Selected US WasMigtonJIC 6) WMiii mtws-Bam 47 WMngtonJkL 56 Another Far 66 46 photograph Irons the Hubble telescope 16 OS tun 1.

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