Senate Passes
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OREGON
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Dads' Day
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Vol. I,XVI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1966
No. 62
At Tongue Point
Staffers Wives
Object to Plan
From AH Reports
ASTORIA—A group of women who live in old Navy
housing on Heights above the Tongue Point Job Corps
Center said Friday they didn’t like the idea of the corpsmen
being moved into their residential district.
Most of some 40 who called on Director Douglas V. Olds
to protest the move are wives of men employed at the cen
ter. What do the husbands have to say, Olds was asked
afterward.
“I don’t know,” he said. “None of them protested when
we talked about it at a Thursday staff meeting.”
CENTER TO EXPAND
The center now ha* about 000 enrollees and plans are under way
to build this to 1,250 Olds said it was known when the center was
opened a year ago that it would be necessary to build a dormitory,
move the housing to the base or move the enrollees to the housing.
He said the last was the most economical and the staff talked it
over "I thought I had a positive reaction," he said.
Then Friday the women descended. Olds said a few men were
about, including reporters, and he couldn’t be sure that all of those
protesting were women, but it seemed that all were, except possibly
one or two
(tlds said half a dozen spoke at the Friday meeting and some
said they would take petitions to Arthur Flemming, president of the
University, which is in charge of the training center.
FLEMMING CALLED
One of the wives reportedly called Flemming to protest the slated
action
Me could not be reached for comment Sunday.
L'nlesfc Flemming changes the plan, corpsmen will lie assigned in
groups of 22 to the four plex housing There is enough to accommo
date 385 families Some 218 families live there. About 22 will be
moved from quarters they now occupy to others in other parts of
the housing area in order that the corpsmen may have their own
community.
Olds said about 350 would be the total number of corpsmen housed
there
Me said some of the women appeared to be afraid to live near the
corpsmen Others said they wanted to keep their professional and
family lives separated
Olds said if the families of the teachers are afraid of the young
men, then the families "have no place in the Job Corps program.”
OI,I>8 KKBl'KES PROTESTS
Me said at the Friday meeting that he thought what was going on
was "absolutely absurd," according to a story in the Oregon Journal
"If you're afraid of the corpsmen, you'd better tell your husbands
to start looking for a job somewhere else," Olds was quoted as saying
The Office of Economic Opportunity, in charge of federal poverty
programs, has suggested that the trainees be moved into the Heights
housing to relieve housing shortages on the base.
Olds said that the boys who live in Heights will be supervised, with
adults living with them.
One mother said at the meeting that she would be afraid to let
her daughter play in nearby woods because of "homosexual" corps
men Olds asked, 'What’s to prevent corpsmen from walking into the
woods right now?"
The Journal said that the leader of the opposition was Mrs. James
Blake.
The Heights housing area, consisting of four plexes formerly used
to house Navy personnel when Tongue Point was a Naval Base, is
about two miles south of the center, across U S. Highway 30.
TEAM CAPTAIN JIM BARNETT drives downcourt during Fri
day night’s 82-76 loss to the University of Southern California Tro
jans Barnett picked up 18 points in the game to become the num
ber two career scorer at the University. See story page 4.
Photo by Jim Chaskin
VISTA Week to Include
Symposium, Films
By KATHY MOORE
Staff Writer
“I welcome the representatives
of President Johnson’s staff who
will be recruiting on campus this
week,” said University President
Arthur S. Flemming in opening
VISTA Week.
“VISTA volunteers make the
War on Poverty personal by tak
ing assistance into homes and
neighborhoods. The VISTA pro
gram will have appeal espe
cially to those students wish
ing to gain personal satisfactions
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from working with the poor But
I hope that all of our college com
munity will become better ac
quainted with the War on Pover
ty during VISTA Week,” Flem
ming continued.
From a shack on the Student
Union lawn the student VISTA
committee, aided by a team of na
tional recruiters will coordinate a
five-day series of events. Among
the activities planned are a po
tentially explosive symposium on
Tuesday, and five movie-discus
sions.
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Recruiter Tells
About Program
By UIKISSY D. FLORE A
Staff Writer
The responsibility for correct
ing a problem doesn’t necessarily
lie with the individual. It lies
with the society as well. This was
the view expressed by George
C. Koch, staff assistant to the
director of Volunteers in Serv
ice to America (V'ISTA) recruit
ment in a news interview Thurs
day.
Koch, who will be on campus
during this week for the
VISTA week program, went on to
say if people don't like something
in society, it is their obligation
to do something about it.
“People are becoming awate
of their responsibilities," he said.
They are going out to meet them.
' Twenty-five years ago volunteers
had to be affluent in order to sus
tain themselves.” This meant
that volunteers were of a certain
strata which produced certain
ideas and resulted in certain ap
proaches to problems.
“Today, volunteers are taken
from a cross section of the so
ciety.” He pointed out that be
cause of this cross sectioning,
volunteers can come to VISTA
with a variety of experiences
which enables programs to find a
broader scope of answers to prob
lems.
This is one of the reasons that
VISTA requires no specific edu
cational requirements and no
tests. "We are concerned about
bringing as much depth to the
problems as possible, depth in
the form of people,” he said.
He stressed the point that
VISTA judges each person as
himself and on what he can con
: tribute.
A tall, clean cut young man,
Koch said, "I wouldn’t ask anyone
i to join VISTA. This is something
he must decide for himself. All
I ask is that an individual stop
by, pick up some of our mater
ial, and read it.”
When asked about VISTA’s ex
pected turnout, Koch said he
hasn’t tried to make any predic-1
tions. He noted, however, that:
last year the University was
among the top three schools in re
cruitment.
’’We try to inform as many as
possible.” Koch said. He cited i
information, education, and back
ground on the VISTA work as
the chief aims of VISTA week. I
The symposium will be a discus
sion among Raymond Lowe, dir
ector of the VISTA training pro
gram at the University, Leslie
Fleming, past coordinator of the
John Birch Society for the State
of Oregon, Kenneth Viegas, chief
of the Family Service Program of
the Lane County Youth Study
Project, and Glade Shimanek,
Eugene attorney and member of
the mission movement ".Seventy”
of the Church of Jesus Christ of
the Latter Day Saints, on "The
Role of the U.S. Government and
the Volunteer in the Social Ser
vices.”
The views of Fleming and Lowe
are expected to clash strongly
and a rousing debate is forecast.
The films, "some documentary
classics” according to George
Koch, a national recruiter, in
clude the late Edward R Mur
row’s masterpiece, "A Harvest of
Shame The film, originally pro
duced by CBS for national televi
sion, tells without paternalistic
cliches the plight of America’s
migrant workers. The other mov
ies show different facets of pover
ty in the United States— dealing
with Appalachia and metropolitan
slums.
The national recruiters will be
available in the VISTA shack to
discuss their experiences and ex
plain the aims of VISTA. "I have
no patience with people who arc
frightened by a mammoth prob
lem, said Koch. “We really can’t
be worried about the possible ef
fects of cybernation 10 years
from now. If we worry about
clearing the second hurdle we’ll
never clear the first one.”
"Volunteers,” continued Koch,
"are catalysts, no more, no less.
The measure of a VISTA success
will be how little he is missed
when he leaves. He must try in
stilling spirit in the people with
whom he works.”
At the same time he must be
wary of not pressing his middle
class values on another group of
people. There is no job in the
War on Poverty for a Pepsi-Gen
eration soldier. The poor have a
i Continued on page 7)
Hoyt Discusses Standards
For Newspaper Criticism
By ANNETTE BUCHANAN
Staff Writer
Newspapers should be criticized
on their own merits and not com
pared to the nation's outstanding
papers, according to Palmer Hoyt,
editor and publisher of the Den
ver Post, in the 47th annual Eric
Allen Memorial Lecture at the
Friday luncheon of the Oregon
Press Conference.
Hoyt, a 40-year veteran in the
newspaper field and a 1923 Uni
versity graduate in journalism,
was one of Allen’s students. Allen
was the first dean of the School
of Journalism. About 250 profes
sional newsmen and guests at
tended the conference, sponsored
jointly by the School of Journal
ism and the Oregon Newspaper
Publishers Association.
The speech title “Apples. Or
anges, and Bananas” Hoyt ex
plained, refers to the way critics
compare papers which are not at
all alike, rather than judging
them individually.
Not Newspapers
“The New York Times, Chris
tian Science Monitor, and Wall
Street Journal cannot be called
'newspapers’ and used as a stand
ard for others,” Hoyt said. “The
bulk of papers in the United
States is printed in small cities.
Thus they cannot be compared
with the larger papers.”
Hoyt called the New York
Times an encyclopedia, not a
newspaper. He paraphrased the
motto of the paper, "all the news
that’s fit to print," saying, “all the
news that fits, we print,” and "all
the news one man can carry,” re
ferring to the size of the paper.
"The best unedited publication
anywhere,” said Hoyt about the
paper, rated number one in the
nation by critics.
McCall to Speak
At Coffee Hour
Tom McCall, the only an
nounced Republican candidate for
governor, will speak at 4 p.m.
today in the Student Union Dads’
Room.
McCall is now Secretary of
State and a member of the State
Board of Control. When he was
elected in 1964 he polled 432,000
votes, the largest total ever re
ceived by an Oregon Secretary
of State.
The informal coffee hour and
speech, to be followed by a
question and answer discussion
period, is being presented by the
University Young Republicans.
The speech is open to the pub
lic and all interested persons are
invited to attend. Refreshments
will be served.
A small daily cannot cater to a
select cosmopolitan group as does
the New York Times, Hoyt said.
It the Times did pay more atten
tion to social, political, and cri
minal problems the city of New
\ork might be improved, he said.
Interest Groups
The Christian Science Monitor
and the Wall Street Journal also
cater to specific interest groups
according to Hoyt. They do not
play the same role as do general
daily papers.
“Proper criticism is healthy,”
Hoyt said. "Newspapers of all in
stitutions ought not to be thin
skinned about criticism. We give
enough of it and should be able
to take it.”
“Many papers need it badly,”
he continued. But it must fit the
oftfTender and the offense and
take into account the circum
stances, Hoyt said.
(Continued on page 7)
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I Classified .page 7 §
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