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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1966)
OEO Director... (Continued /rum ptu/e 1) minority." I was signing autographs at the end of the meeting,” he added, Ilf said that lie had received apologies from the organization an its director, Richard W. Boone, lie compared the "poor” community in the U.S. to an underdeve oped country "These thirty million Americans are now as cut o liom our culture as if they were living on an island in the Atlanti Ocean," he said. lie said that although education is an important part of the Wa on Poverty, "something more than education is required.” SeVent per cent of all Job Corps trainees have never been to the dentis Although he called the Festival "quite a show,” Shriver's visit to Kugene seemed to lie plagued with all sorts of trouble The Festival’s honored guest arrived in Kugene only minutes before he was scheduled to speak Friday. The plane he took from Washington, I> .<’., developed mechanical troubles and he landed in Seattle instead of Portland lie made it "just in the nick of time” by grabbing another plane to Portland, where a chartered plane took him tin* rest of the way to Kugene Kven University President Arthur S. Flemming's assurances that he was "among friends" didn’t help to stave o(T embarrassing moments The tall silver haired government official had been "booed o(T" the stage at an anti poverty conference in Washington, I* (’, Thursday. Muring his opening remarks, Shriver referred to another of the Festival’s honored guests, Cyprus’ ambassador to the United States and representative to the United Nations, Zennon Hossides, as "the Ambassador from Ceylon,” thirty per cent have never seen a doctor, slept in their own beds, o have used a toothbrush, he added. "That's the great tragedy," he continued, "poverty starts so young People forget that fifty per cent 15 million—of all the poor ari children. "Itow do I define poverty? Well, you’re rich,” he said, "if you spen more than 23 cents on your last meal.” Saturday, Shriver met with Upward Bound faculty and students lie asked the participants how they thought the program could b< improved and they said they felt it could stand a "little more organi zation " Shriver replied a certain amount of disorganization was t< be expected during the program's experimental stages. lie added that future Upward Bound programs will be expanded t( include high school sophomore and juniors during the summei training period. Professors Attend RelationsConclave "Communication Between Car • ills and Older Adolescents" was the topic of a panel in which Lloyd Lovell and Theodore Jo hannis participated at the North west Council on Family delations Conference held April 14-10 at Pacific Lutheran University. Lovell is an associate professor of education and Johannis, an as sociate professor of sociology. Johannis was moderator of the panel, which is part of a session ionising on “Communication and Child-Launching.” Johannis is also participating in the 32nd annual Groves Con ference on Marriage and the Fain ily at the Family Studies Center of the University of Missouri in Kansas City, today through Wed nesday. He will lie one of five members of a panel on "Social Change ii Sex in the United States." Themi of the conference, which is i series of work seminars, is "Sei in Our Society: Symptoms am Prognosis.” Dorm Counselor Applications Due The deadline for applications for the position of dormitory counselor for next year is Tues day. Interested students can pick up their applications in the Housing Office in Carson Hall. PATRONIZE YOUR • ADVERTISERS • The Junior Prom Presents Tickets on sale at S.U. Main Desk and Mattox Pipe Shop - THE FOUR PREPS - SINGLE CONCERT TICKETS AVAILABLE WITH SEMI-FORMAL DANCE BEGINNING AT 10:00 "It Might As Well Be Spring" FRIDAY N'KiHT'S International Festival audience was treated ' formed by a I.atin American combo. to a real old-fashioned conga per Shriver Visits Tongue Point... i (Continued from poqe 1) put it another way," he said, "79 i per rent stay in. That’s an in • credibly good performance, so I'm not worried about it.” One Corpsman asked Shriver how big the Corps would get. “You have more to do with that than I do," he said. “The Job i Corps will grow when the Ameri 1 can people believe it is benefitting i young men. But if you fail, two or three years from now there won't be a Job Corps." His talk done, Shriver hopped in a station wagon driven by a Corpsman and loaded down with about a dozen others and went on a quick tour of the shops where the trainees learn job skills. He stopped, shook hands with Corpsmen, asked what they were doing, almost as if he were a poli tician out to capture their votes in an election. At one point he told a reporter, Were not giving these boys a hand out. We’re giving them a hand up The truth is they're pro ducing.” Petitions for Next Annual Posts Due Petition deadline for Oregana editor and the three Next edi tors is 5 p.ni., Wednesday. Can didates will be interviewed Monday night, April 25 by the Student Publications Board. Since Shriver was late, U S. 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