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Last gameasanofficial will be first forstatetitle By Bill Bigelow The Bulletin
He'll be retiring after a 40year career, butDave White is expecting no particular fanfareor recognition.Truth is, he would far prefer that the crowd at Hillsboro Stadium this Saturday night barely even knows he's there. After all, for a high school football official, anonymity is the highest form of praise. Forty years. That's a lot of long, tedious drives to distant outposts. A lot of muddy fields, frozen toes, penalty flags and irate coaches. And for most of
Dave White, 71, of Alfalfa, will work the last game of his 40-year career as a high school football official Saturday in the 5A state championship game at Hillsboro.
those years, it's been a battle to overcome cancer. Saturday in Hillsboro, White will make a fitting farewell. At age 71 he will, for the first time, be officiating in a state football title game.
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semifinals," White says. "But this will be the first final." White will head a crew of five Central Oregon officials working the Oregon School Activities Association's Class 5A state championship game between Marist and Sherwood. SeeWhite/A5
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• Bend Rep. JasonConger praisesthe plan to cut $865milion fromthe pensionsystem By Lauren Dake The Bulletin
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SALEM — Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber's proposed 2013-15 budget includes more than $800 million in assumed savings by making cuts to the state pension system. Today, the governor will unveil more details of his $16.2 billion proposed budget for the upcoming biennium. But a preview of the budget released Thursday shows a push for curtailing pension
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costs by capping cost-of-living increases and curbing an outof-statecredit some retirees receive. Rep. Jason Conger, R-Bend, who pushed for pension reforms in the 2011 and 2012 legislative sessions, called the move by the Democratic
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governor "a major step in the right direction." The $865 million in proposed cuts to the Public Employees Retirement System would affect not only state government, but local governments and schools. About $253 million of the
biennium spending plan is tied to K-12 education. The governor's budget is considered a road map; lawmakers use it as a starting point for negotiations. PERS faces a $16 billion unfunded liability. School districts in general are expected to see a higher increase than other public employers in contributions imposed by the PERS Board of Directors. See Budget/A5
The cost ofPERS Much of PERSrevenue comesfrom its investment fund. When the fund doesn't do well, earnings fall and employers must make up the difference to keep the fund stable. Rates vary depending on the
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WASHINGTON — CIA employees murdered military scientist Frank Olson in 1953 after he raised concerns about testing chemical and biological weapons on human subjects without their consent, according to a lawsuit brought by his two sons. Eric and Nils Olson, in a complaint filed Wednesday against the United States in Washington, said the agency has covered up the cause of their father's death for 59 years. Frank Olson, who the CIA admitted was given LSD a few days before his death, didn't jump from a 13th-floor
window of the Statler Hotel in New York City, but rather was pushed, they claim. "The circumstances surrounding the death mirrored those detailed in an assassination manual that, upon information and belief, the CIA had drafted that same year," Scott Gilbert, a lawyer for the Olsons, wrote in the complaint. Olson's family has tried to piece together how Frank Olson died and the circumstances surrounding his death ever since a 1975 government report on CIA activities in the U.S. said that he committed suicide after being given LSD without his knowledge. See Suit/A4
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"Something is causing the entire reef system here in Kauai to lose its immune system." Terry Lilley, marine biologist
Coral reefinfection hasbiologists alarmed By Kim Murphy Los Angeles Times
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Marine biologist Terry Lilley has been documentingthe disease afflicting coral along Kauai's north shore in Hanalei, Hawaii.
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HANALEI, Hawaii — When compiling a list of places that may be described as paradise, Hanalei Bay on the rugged north shore of the island of Kauai surely qualifies. The perfect crescent bay, rimmed by palm trees, emerald cliffs and stretches of white sand, has always had a
dreamy kind of appeal. The problem is what lies below thesurface ofthe area's shimmering blue waters. Since June, a mysterious milky growth has been
spreadingrapidly acrossthe coral reefs in Hanalei and
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the surrounding bays of the north shore — so rapidly that biologist Terry Lilley, who has been documentingthe phenomenon, says it now affects 5 percent of all the coral in Hanalei Bay and up to 40 percent of the coral in nearby Anini Bay. O ther areas are "justas bad, if not worse," he said. The growth, identified by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey as both a cyanobacterial pathogen — a bacteria that grows through photosynthesis — and a fungus, is killing all the coral it strikes. SeeCoral/A4
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