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.
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mokes future plans
after retirement
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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
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Zehrung has installed a print
ing press in his home and his job
has become his hobby. He does
voluntary printing for the speech
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Another hobby led to his in
volvement with OMSI. Zehrung is
a model railroad builder and has
been working on the railroad ex
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He is currently vice-president
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In addition to all these activi
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He was on the job when the
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He reminisced, “In the old days
the Emerald was really a news
paper. Now it’s a news magazine.”
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