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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1970)
Anti-war coordinator quits; Moratorium interest declines campus Moratorium coordinator Russell Husted no longer wants to lead the local anti-war organi zation. “I myself don’t want to be the ‘Moratorium leader.’ If someone wants to have a Moratorium in Eugene next month, I’ll be glad to help, but they’ll have to do it.” Husted’s attitude reflects a growing decline in participation and interest in the Moratorium local ly on all levels. In October, nearly 5,000 students and commu nity residents participated in an anti-war march to downtown Eugene, and thousands attended an evening rally to hear former Oregon Sen. Wayne Morse. November saw smaller crowds (2,500 in each of two marches), but a continuing momentum that brought several hundred students and others from Eugene to San Francisco for a mass Mobilization Committee march that drew 250,000 marchers. A December “walk” to downtown Eugene, how ever, attracted only 75 students at its height, and although the choice of timing—immediately before finals—was admitted by Moratorium leaders to have been poor, the general attitude was of a de cline in enthusiasm for a movement that, after three months, had failed to change official Viet nam policy and had failed to bring about signifi cant changes in that conflict. “A great deal of enthusiasm was lost in De cember,” Husted told the Emerald. This loss, Hu sted feels, was felt strongly not only in the ranks of potential marchers, but additionally among those in the past have done the actual labor neces sary to create and coordinate all of the Mora torium’s various activities. Many of these Moratorium workers, Husted said, simply left the Moratorium and occupied them selves with finals and other activities. A “guilty conscience,” he added, prevented many from show ing up again after a month’s absence. This month the campus committee planned few activities, and in the end was able to carry out even fewer. The Moratorium did co-sponsor last week’s “Peo ple’s Trial” of the University and did co-sponsor a talk by Prof. Mordecai Briemberg, former chair man of the political science-sociology-anthropology department at Simon Fraser University in Van couver, B.C. Referring to the large numbers that the Mora torium brought out on the streets in October and November, Husted commented: “The Moratorium was almost too much of a success.” People are able to go along with and some even to support an ineffective movement, Husted said, but the Moratorium’s “success was so overwhelm ing that the veterans had to hold their Veterans’ Day rallies.” Campus “liberals,” who Husted feels would nor mally have supported a group like the Morator ium, “knew that that big a demonstration was do ing more than to just end the war,” and gave it less and less support. According to Husted, these “liberals” feared that the Moratorium might “get out of hand and work at shaking a few more basic foundations of this society,” such as its economic and social structure. Dig Oriental Art, Architecture ? Expo 70? FLY JAPAN $325 roundtrip Spring Break March 20 — April 5 Dept of Architecture -|- Allied Arts Oriented Charter Contact International Education Center 318 EMU Ext. 1834 SKI RENTALS Rental includes: SKIS BOOTS POLES Prices from $3.50 • for U of O ski school students! • for that special weekend outingl DfDP’C nordic ski shop liLllU O On Campus 410 E. 11th IT PAYS TO READ EMERALD CLASSIFIEDS EMERALE CLASSIFIEDS University printer mokes future plans after retirement “This is your FREE ticket. No. 6877. It’s not good for anything— it’s just free,” says an inscription on a card printed by Ted Zeh rung. He has his own ticket and it is worth all the years he’s worked. Zehrung retired last week from the University Press where, since 1924, he has intermittently work ed for a total of 12 years. On Tuesday, friends in the printing plant gave him a “certi ficate of award” for his years and efforts on the job. The 65-year-old man plans an active retirement. He is launching full-time involvement with the Eugene Speech and Hearing Clin | ic, the Oregon Museum of Sci ence and Industry (OMSI), the National Model Railroad Associa tion, and the Celeste Campbell Se nior Center. Zehrung has installed a print ing press in his home and his job has become his hobby. He does voluntary printing for the speech and hearing clinic. Another hobby led to his in volvement with OMSI. Zehrung is a model railroad builder and has been working on the railroad ex hibit at the museum. He is currently vice-president of Division one of the Pacific Northwest Region of the Na tional Model Railroad Association. Division one includes the Eugene, Corvallis, Albany and Lebanon area. In addition to all these activi ties, Zehrung is taking creative writing at the Celeste Campbell Senior Center. The National Mod el Railroad magazine has accept ed one of his short stories and will publish it. He was on the job when the Emerald was first printed. It had a circulation of about 3,500; now its circulation is over 10,000. He reminisced, “In the old days the Emerald was really a news paper. Now it’s a news magazine.” Notice to Federal Government STORE NERVE GAS AT THE GOLDEN CANARY TAVERN We Need It For Self-Defense 2000 W. 11th Open 24 Hours MORENO'S 433 E. Broadway NOW OPEN FOR LUNCH-I1:00a m. to 2:00 p.m. Serving the Only True Mexican Cuisine in the Area, Exquisitely Prepared as for the Finest Families of Mexico. Lunches from $1.50 . . , the usual, as well as savory dishes you have never experienced. 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