Word: timber
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BORN: Sept. 8, 1941, Cape Girardeau EDUCATION: Southeast Missouri State U, B.S., 1963 FAMILY: Husband, Robert; one child, one stepchild RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Timber-company owner; newspaper publisher; teacher POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: P.O. Box 676, Farmington...
Oregon's larger towns--including Eugene, Corvallis and Portland--are enclaves of high-tech industry, university students and environmentalists. Loggers in the Cascade Mountains, millworkers in towns like Roseburg ("Timber Capital of the Nation") and eastern Oregon farmers and ranchers, however, are more conservative, fueling the ongoing "lumber wars" and keeping the state's delegation to the House divided. In the Senate, two Republicans have held sway for nearly 30 years, but the party's dominance may be coming to an abrupt end: earlier this year, the disgraced Bob Packwood was replaced by a Democrat, and now Mark Hatfield...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "We should have the right to harvest the timber. We should have never been stopped by environmental issues ... Our mills should not have been shut down and our economic position sent to utter chaos...
...Metcalf was the oldest member of the 1994 G.O.P. freshman class. He has campaigned on his support for term limits and timber interests, emphasizing that his work for Medicare reform is only to save it from bankruptcy. Recent campaign visits from House majority leader Dick Armey and California Congressman Sonny Bono reflect how serious the G.O.P. is about this historically Democratic district...
...them at all," he warns. King counters that the total ban would cost the state 15,000 jobs and over $1 billion. "Jonathan [Carter] asked the right question, but he gave the wrong answer," says King. "His program would be a disaster for Maine." Perhaps. But without Carter, the timber industry never would have negotiated in the first place. A clear majority of Maine voters now opposes the status quo. The days of the paper plantation may be waning...