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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1966)
Quack Cracks All Is 'Go ForStadium By DAVE BARONTI Emerald Sports Editor THERE SEEMS TO BE GENERAL public confusion about the status of the University’s proposed new stadium. Two big questions have a lot to do with this confusion—both of them entirely answerable. • One: Is it definite that the stadium will be built on the North Bank of the Willamette River? • And two: W'ill its being situated there hamper future park development for that area? The answer to the first question, according to University President Arthur S. Flemming, is a definite, positive and unequivocated “yes." “We are going ahead with the plans." Flemming said in an inter view Monday. "Work will start in July.” As for the second question, the answer is a just-as-definite, just as positive, and just as unequivocated "no." IF ANYTHING, SAID FLEMMING, the stadium will stimu late the development of a park. Explained Flemming: “There was talk of a North Bank Park years ago. but nothing was ever done about it. Now that the stadium s being built, there’s a sudden burst of activity." Flemming indicated that both the park and stadium users could benefit through mutual cooperation. Stadium parking facilities, for example, could be used by the park during all but five days of the year And on those days, the park's facilities would be of tremendous use to the stadium In addition, the stadium will in no way crowd the North Bank Park. Nor is any expansion planned that will. Its capacity is set for 40,000. And because the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings. and Merrill is not going out of its way to make the structure expandable, that, he says, will probably be the sta dium's capacity ten years from now-. FLEMMING ANSWERS FURTHER stadium questions in a 12-page “fact sheet" which traces the development of the idea from when the University purchased the North Bank site in April. 1959 to the present. A FEW NOTES FROM THAT SHEET: • April 1959—Eugene Register-Guard editorial urges that the North Bank land vacated by the Highway Commission not be zoned far residential and business purposes, but be given to the public for a “stadium, auditorium and zoo.” • Same month—then UO president O. Meredith Wilson expresses interest in buying area, but insists that the land is “too valuable for stadium usage. • May 29. 1959—State highway commission agrees to sell the University the land. • February 5. 1961—alumni association athletic advisory com mittee announces tentative plans for new stadium; shows model prepared by Marshall Bessonette of Medford. ! • April 25, 1962—State Board of Education purchases North Bank land “for use as a site for a football stadium.” • Sept. 11. 1962—State Board approved appointment of archi tectural firm of Skidmore. Owings & Merrill of Portland to under take a preliminary investigation relative to the possible location and development of a stadium including consideration for a multi-purpose : structure. • January 25, 1963—President Flemming informs County Com missioner Kenneth Nielson the University will do nothing with its land that will be incompatible with the rest of the park. • Summer, 1963—President Flemming asks Skidmore, Owings and Merrill to make a report on feasibility of building a new stadium at the Hayward Field site. Report comes back negative. • September 9, 1964—Mayor Edwin Cone of Eugene quoted in Register-Guard as hailing the plan as the first step in the develop ment of the 500-acre metropolitan North Bank Park. • August 12, 1965—Lane County Parks and Recreation Advisory committee opposses placing stadium adjacent to North Bank park. • August 30, 1965—President Flemming meets with county com missioners to discuss alternate sites for the stadium, but commis sioners agree that the North Bank would be best. • November 3, 1965—Million-dollar fund raising goal begins. • March 10, 1966—Million-dollar goal achieved. That’s the scoop on the stadium issue. And if that still isn’t enough information, you can get a “fact sheet” (from the President’s office) yourself and study the developments in more detail. Diamondmen Topple OCE By GORI>ON ROSENBERG Sports Writer Oregon's baseball team used the majority of its roster to dump Oregon College of Education, 9 1, Tuesday afternoon on Howe Field Coach Don Kirsch substituted freely, as 22 Ducks played, in eluding eight pitchers. Kirsch’s counterpart, Joe Liv ingston of OCE, used 18 mem bers of his 23-man squad, raising the game total to 40. Dale Ehler, playing right field, and Dennis Baldridge, converted to shortstop for the game, led Oregon's 13-hit attack, as the Ducks tallied once in the first, three times in the fourth, and five times in the seventh. Ehler collected 3-for-5 and drove in four runs to raise his team-leading RBI total to 32. Baldridge singled in the fourth inning and rapped a grand slam home run to left field with two out in the seventh. He scored twice and drove in the four runs on the homer. Incidentally, Dennis was hit by a pitched ball earlier in the same time at bat, but was not awarded first base because the Co-ed Softballers Notch Easy Win The Oregon women’s softball team combined 11 hits, five walks, and eight errors to forge a 19-7 victory over Oregon College of Education Monday. Cindy Franck led the coeds at the plate with two singles and a triple. The female Ducks scored nine runs in the sixth inning to nul lify a late OCE rally. IM Schedule Golf Sigma Alpha Epsilon vs. Beta ’ Theta Pi. Tennis 4:00—Sigma Alpha Epsilon vs. Clark Mixed Doubles Tournament Set The annual Mixed Doubles Ten nis Tournament will be held this Saturday, May 14. The tourna ment is open to all University students and will be held on the dorm courts. Trophies will be awarded to first and second-place winners by the sponsoring recreation council. Registration is in room 301 of the Student Union, and will close Thursday, May 12. There will be a registration fee of 50 cents per person. Balls will be provided for the matches. SPORT HAUS For Mountain Climbing Equipment 724 Willamette Double Discount Days On All Paperbacks Wednesday through Saturday May 11,12, 13, 14 CAMPUS BOOKSTORE THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY’S FINEST SELECTION 877 E. 13th Above Bill Baker’s 3434082 umpire suit! that he had not made a sufficient effort to avoid being hit. A moment later, 250 parti san Oregon fans were glud that he had stayed ut the plate. Other hitting stars for the Ducks were sophomore outfielder Phil Olrich <2-for-3). and sopho more Ted Novack, who collected his first hits as a Duck with two singles in three trips. John Conrad started on the mound for Oregon and wus fol lowed, in succession, by Charles Hopkins, Mike Nicksic, Mike Snow, Joe Kniser. Larry Hills, Ken Hadden, and Jerry Gjesvold. Hadden was the only one to toil for more than one inning, hurling the seventh and eighth. Gjesvold pitched 12 2 3 innings in relief last Saturday as Oregon split with Washington Kniser, a sophomore left hander, was credited with the T.V. RENTALS NEW SETS Donovan's TV Center 225 W. 7th Avenue Call 343-1821 for rates victory, since ho was the pitcher of record in the fourth inning when the Ducks took the lead for good. The combined Duck staff struck out eleven (H’F batters and walked only three They allowed the Wolves only one unearned run. Oregon's next action comes in a conference series with league leading and nationally ranked Washington State University. The teams will play a single game at 3 p in. Friday and a doubleheader at 1 pin. Saturday on Howe Field. WHY PAY MORE? Haircuts to your ordor Just $1.75 2 blocks from campus Fairmont Barber Shop Comer 19th & Agate Next to Del Hoff's Peace Corps Volunteers IN PARADISE? Would you believe Yap? Saipan? Truk? Palau? Would you believe two years in the South Seas V/orking in education, health or public works? There are problems in paradise, and the Peace Corps has been asked to help solve them. This is a brand new program. On May 1,1966, the Peace Corps was invited into the Pacific Trust Territory which the U.S. manages for the United Nations. Needed immediately are liberal arts and science students who aren’t afraid to work — hard. It's one enchanted opportunity; The Peace Corps/Trust Territory Washington, D. C. 20525 I am interested in going to Micronesia (Pacific Trust Territory) for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer. I am available to start training this Summer. Please rush me more information and the special application by air mail. Mint (Please print) Address Citjr Stats Zip Cots (AC )(AC ) Campus phone Home phone alter: •Within 15 days of receipt of your special application (no placement test is required of candidates lor Trust Territory tours) the Peace Corps will tell you, by phone, if you ara accepted for training. You are not obligated by submitting an application.
