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QUOTABLE“The market keeps on thinking that it’s put Europe’s problems to bed, but it’s like putting a 3-year-old to bed: You might put it there, but it won’t stay there.” — David Kelly, chief market strategist at J.P. Morgan Funds, on reaction to Europe’s debt deal/B4

Oregon’s congressional del-egation is working on a two-pronged approach to funding Lane County and other parts of Oregon with vast areas of federal forest land that the counties can’t tax: Renew a long-standing but chronically threatened payments pro-gram, and increase logging.

But insiders are concerned that the odds are against pushing controversial spend-ing and logging proposals through a divided Congress struggling with budget prob-lems of its own.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is trying to build support for the renewal of funding legislation he co-authored in 2000: the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self Determination Act, which es-tablished payments to coun-ties with U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Bureau of Land Management lands.

But counties in Oregon

By Matt CooperThe Register-Guard

Push is on to save county

paymentsOregon’s congressional

delegation faces a difficult task in keeping federal money flowing

Turn to COUNTIES, Page A8

WASHINGTON — The threat of a double-dip re-cession eased Thursday with new government data that showed the U.S. economy grew at a 2.5 percent annual rate from June through Sep-tember. While that’s welcome news, the growth was still too weak to knock down the 9.1 percent unemployment rate.

While 2.5 percent growth is well short of a boom, com-ing after the dismal rates in the year’s first two quarters — 0.3 percent and 1.3 percent — Thursday’s numbers eased anxiety over the near-term eco-nomic future. From September 2010 through September 2011, the U.S. gross domestic prod-uct, the broadest measure of the economy, grew at a rate of only 1.6 percent overall, so the third-quarter numbers show the pace quickening.

By Kevin HallMcClatchy Newspapers

Economic growth gains some traction

Turn to ECONOMY, Page A8

INSIDE u U.S. stock markets rally

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ASHLAND — While thou-sands join the Occupy Wall Street movement in big cit-ies by camping out in parks and marching on the homes of rich CEOs, Robbie Lindauer has been spending afternoons in his hometown handing out leaflets to people walking into the lo-cal branch of Chase bank and asking them to take out their money as a protest against big banks.

Lindauer and the few friends who join him have been having

a small, but noticeable impact. It can be seen in the growing number of videos he collects on his smartphone — “I’m coming in to close my account,” says one man — as well as the numbers of people opening new accounts at a local credit union.

Rogue Federal Credit Union reports double the typical num-ber of new accounts so far for October at its Ashland branch.

“Small towns are good for everybody because you have an opportunity for direct action,” said Lindauer, 42, a father of

By Jeff BarnardThe Associated Press

Crusade spreads from Wall Street to Main Street, OregonThe Occupy movement finds support in small towns,

from liberal Ashland to Roseburg and Astoria

Turn to TOWNS, Page A9Jeff Barnard/The Associated Press

School-teacher Rebecca Holt holds up an Occupy Wall Street banner in Ashland. In small towns around Oregon, people are holding meetings, carrying signs, leafleting bank customers, and spending cold nights in public spaces to support the movement.

Paul Carter/The Register-Guard

Attorney Lauren Regan advises Occupy Eugene protesters of what to expect if they are arrested for attempting to camp overnight on the University of Oregon campus. The protesters were raising their hands in a show of agreement with what she was saying.

What began earlier in the day as a move by Occupy Eugene pro-testers from Alton Baker Park to the University of Oregon’s Memo-rial Quad ended late Thursday night with the 100 or so protest-ers split between two campus lo-cations after UO administrators spent hours negotiating with them to leave the quadrangle.

Although most of the protest-ers willingly moved north across Franklin Boulevard to a spot be-tween the Millrace and Franklin Boulevard west of Onyx Street, about 30 protesters defiantly re-

mained on the quad as of 11 p.m. Thursday. They said they were not going to camp but would practice civil disobedience and remain awake all night, chal-lenging police to arrest them.

When asked if he was wait-ing to be arrested, a man with the group still on the quad, who said his name is Utah Freeman, said: “Who cares? I don’t care.”

Freeman, 34, an unemployed motorcycle mechanic, said he joined the movement because he opposed the “for-profit prison system” in the United States.

“How can we live in the

By Mat WolfThe Register-Guard

Protest moves to UO

30 protesters reject an agreement to camp on UO land near the Millrace and vow to stay at the Memorial Quad

Turn to OCCUPY, Page A9Occupy Eugene protesters on the University of Oregon campus react as speakers exhort them to be prepared for possible arrest.

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Towns: Ashland seems ripe for movement

three who pays a mortgage and owns his own online marketing business. He was taking a break on a bench in The Plaza, the downtown hub where Occupy Ashland holds General Assembly meet-ings that draw about 40 people to dis-cuss issues and plan the future of their micro-movement.

“I don’t like the way that large in-dustry, banks and finance companies are controlling our democracy and as a result causing it to fail,” said Lindauer, who describes himself as a libertarian. “By fail, I mean our vote has become effectively worthless. We need a way to make it so people are the primary focus of our government.”

Rogue Federal Credit Union President and CEO Gene Pelham said the thrift’s branches were seeing a spike in new mem-bers, which he attributed to the Occupy campaign. The Ashland branch alone has seen more than 170 new members since Oct. 1, a period they normally expect 82.

Chase headquarters did not immedi-ately return calls for comment.

Ashland is a liberal outpost in conser-vative rural Oregon. The town of 20,000 just a few miles north of the California border is home to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Southern Oregon University. Many of the tourists drawn to the festi-val end up moving here to retire, account-ing for census data showing Ashland with higher percentages than the state average of people over 65, as well as those who are white and college educated. But Ash-land also has a lower median household income than the state average and more people living below the poverty line.

All that makes Ashland ripe for Oc-cupy Wall Street, said schoolteacher Re-becca Holt, as she held one end of an “Occupy Wall Street” banner.

“We’re preaching to the choir,” she said as she waved at passing cars on a corner of The Plaza, drawing honks of approval.

Occupy movements are putting up

Facebook pages, and organizing marches and meetings in small towns across Ore-gon. Strict no-camping laws make it tough to follow the lead of big city move-ments establishing encampments.

“Small movements are extremely vital because it’s the whole country that’s feel-ing this,” said Oscar Nelson, 30, owner of an indoor gardening supply and a spokes-man for Occupy Astoria, which plans a march today.

Astoria, a town of 9,500, is struggling to overcome downturns in timber and commercial fishing.

In Roseburg, a timber town of 21,000 where the county unemployment rate is 13.6 percent, more than 100 people have turned out for a march, and a half dozen showed up for an overnight occupation.

The challenge for Occupy Wall Street protests in small towns is to keep up the initial fever that brought out hundreds of early supporters, said Emery Way, 24, of Ashland, a recent Southern Oregon Uni-versity graduate in history scraping by on the custodian job he had while a student.

“You end up with a core group of peo-ple who are willing to spend the time to fight these battles, which might take a year to see ground made on them,” he said.

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Jeff Barnard/The Associated Press

Robbie Lindauer of Ashland has been asking people to take their money out of a local Chase bank branch to show their dissatisfaction with big banks.

Occupy: Talks end with agreement on Millrace camp siteland of the free when we have a for-profit prison system?” he said. “Every-thing our forefathers en-visioned has been taken over and co-opted by com-panies and people looking to make money.”

The protesters quit their Alton Baker Park site earlier in the day and shifted to the UO despite repeated warnings from the university that the movement was not wel-come on campus.

UO officials and Oc-cupy Eugene representa-tives began negotiating at 2:30 p.m. to discuss al-ternative locations for the protesters to camp. About 7:30 p.m. they reached an agreement to allow the protesters to camp on the property north of Franklin.

Campers will be per-mitted to remain on the property along the Mill-race until 8 a.m. Monday, according to a statement

by UO spokesman Phil Weiler on Thursday night.

The UO has agreed to provide lighting and toi-lets and to fence off an area to accommodate dog owners in the group, Wei-ler said.

Occupy Eugene repre-sentatives had expressed their need to move from the Alton Baker site be-cause of security con-cerns, Weiler said, but at Wednesday night’s Occupy Eugene general assembly meeting, the prospects of being in a more visible venue and recruiting stu-dent support were also cited as reasons for mov-ing to the quad.

By about 3 p.m. Thurs-day a drum circle had started, and tents were being placed on the quad area, though not raised. A series of signs with slo-gans supporting the 99 percent and other phrases associated with the world-wide Occupy Wall Street movement were set up to

face the UO’s Lillis Busi-ness Complex. The quad is a high traffic area, and some students came to check out the activity, but few seemed to join in the protest.

During a break in the negotiations about 5:30 p.m., some protesters ban-died about the desire to be arrested for trespassing. Camping on the quad is not conducive to the UO’s mission, thus the UO of-fered alternatives, Wei-ler said.

Sam Chapman, an Oc-cupy Eugene protester and a UO senior who was at the meetings between UO officials and protesters, said the UO hadn’t made a good case for why Oc-cupy Eugene shouldn’t re-main on the quad.

“(The UO’s) No. 1 con-cern is camping,” Chap-man said, “They can’t and haven’t been able to ar-ticulate why camping is against the university’s mission.”

Chapman also said this was the first time since the worldwide protests be-gan that one had occupied an American campus and that arrests were a last resort, but might be good for promoting the move-ment’s message.

Other students involved with Occupy Eugene took a different stance.

UO Junior Thomas Walker said he thought the protesters should be allowed to camp on the quad but that arrests might be going too far.

“People have to pick their own battles,” Walker said. “Maybe this isn’t one.”

Weiler said the univer-sity didn’t want to cause arrests and that based on negotiations with protest leaders, he didn’t think that was their intention either.

Also included in the ne-gotiations were members of the Associated Students of the University of Ore-

gon, who supported “the rights of students to par-ticipate safely in the pro-tests,” ASUO Chief of Staff Kerry Snodgrass said.

Many students, how-ever, remained indifferent about the protest’s pres-ence on their campus.

“I think most people don’t care,” senior Aime Fitzpatrick said.

Others sympathized with the message but not the method.

“They’re overdoing it, I support the whole mes-sage about the Occupy movement, but there’s no reason for them to be do-ing it here,” UO senior Jon Maxwell said. “Find a bank, that would be a bet-ter place to do it.”

Freshman Connor Hen-zel said he thought the drum circle was distract-ing, rude and an incon-siderate move during midterms.

“They’re not very re-spectful ... I’m all about change, it’s just I don’t

Continued from Page A1 want to do it in an ex-tremist way,” Henzel said.

But Henzel did admit that this may be par for the course in a univer-sity town.

“I expected this,” he said. “College is a politi-cally charged place.”

Register-Guard team editor Mark Baker contrib-uted to this report.

PORTLAND — Occupy Port-land protests have cost the city’s police department $186,000 in overtime costs so far, Police Chief Mike Reese said Thursday.

The figure covers the pe-

riod through last Sunday and includes Occupy Portland’s first demonstration and march on Oct. 6, Reese said.

The costs include every-thing from traffic coverage for marches to the 24-hour, seven-day-per-week security provided

for protesters camping in two downtown park squares.

Without a large police pres-ence, the camp wouldn’t be safe, the chief said.

Reese said the dynamic at the camp has been changing, with more of what he termed

the “homeless and road warrior-type street youth.”

About 300 people have been camping in the two parks as part of the anti-Wall Street pro-test against what demonstrators see as corporate greed.

Camping in city parks is il-

legal, but Portland’s government has permitted Occupy Portland to stay put.

On Thursday, Mayor Sam Adams said he won’t allow the protesters to set up an alterna-tive encampment at any other city park.

The Associated Press

Occupy Portland police costs top $186,000

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