An Independent Student Newspaper
Vol.73, No. 177 University of Oregon, Eugene Wednesday, June 21,1972
A funeral was held Tuesday for a “dying” house at 15th Avenue and
Alder Street. See story, page 4. photo by James Link
In N. Y. primary
McGovern scores big win
By WALTER R. WEARS
AP Political Writer
NEW YORK — Sen. George McGovern claimed
victory “beyond our wildest expectations” in New
York’s Democratic presidential primary Tuesday
night and said it put him on the threshhold of first
ballot nomination for the White House.
A complex system and a confusing ballot
slowed the count of votes in a primary that chose 248
members of the 278-vote New York delegation.
Late count
The laggard tally showed McGovern had won 95
delegates, including 41 uncontested. But he was
leading for scores more. In New York City, for
example, McGovern had captured 16 delegates, and
his supporters held the lead for 89 more.
McGovern’s organization projected that his
overall count of elected delegates would swell past
the 205 mark Pat Caddell, McGovern’s pollster,
said the South Dakota senator would gain 205 or 206
of the elected delegates. The 30 others are to be
awarded in proportion to the primary outcome, and
if the Caddell projection proved accurate, that
would give McGovern at least 230.
That would put McGovern within 200 votes of
the 1,509 it will take to choose the Democratic
nresidential nominee.
“It’s probably not necessary for me to tell you
that this brings us one giant step closer to the
threshhold of a first ballot nomination in Miami,”
McGovern said.
“I'm convinced now that we will win the
nomination in Miami Beach,” he added.
McGovern's campaign in New York was built
around an effort to identify his delegate supporters.
A campaign official estimated the total cost at
about $500,000, half of it for printed ads listing the
McGovern delegates. McGovern volunteers un
dertook what has now become their standard voter
canvassing operation—a system his organization
already is planning to mobilize in an effort to
register new voters and turn out their supporters in
what they expect will be a fall campaign against
President Nixon.
McGovern’s personal campaign spanned a
week Muskie made one appearance in Buffalo
Sunday night, to remind Democrats he still is
running. Humphrey appeared at a fund-raising
affair in New York, but did no campaigning.
McGovern forces attended to detail. They
printed palm-sized cards identifying their delegate
supporters in each district. For the campaign
subway ride Tuesday, they went in advance to buy
78 tokens and passed them out to McGovern's
traveling party on the way to the station.
McGovern conferred in New Orleans with
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley about Illinois’ 92
uncommitted delegates to the convention, but said
he didn’t get the votes. McGovern said Daley
disavowed any part of a movement to stop his
nomination, but that the mayor told him he intends
to go to the convention with the delegates he leads
still uncommitted.
Muskie, Humphrey
While the votes were still being cast,
McGovern’s campaign rivals asserted from a
distance that misgivings about his programs could
jeopardize a ticket headed by the South Dakota
senator.
At his Manhattan victory rally, McGovern said,
“because we do represent a new coalition of
political forces in this country there are some who
have expressed fears about us.
“They have nothing to be alarmed about,” he
said “We want harmony and justice, not bitterness
and special privilege . .
In New Orleans, Sen. Hubert Humphrey
described McGovern as the candidate of the
establishment, and asserted anew that his positions
on taxes, welfare and defense spending cuts are so
unpopular that they would lead to Democratic
defeat in the November election.
200 minimum
Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine said that on the
tour with which he sought to revive his own can
didacy, he found party leaders “deeply concerned”
about McGovern proposals on those items.
McGovern had set as his target a minimum of
200 of the New York delegates. He captured 41 of
them unopposed.
300 students left without tickets
as airline goes into receivership
By JOHN PIPER
Of the Emerald
“Lloyd Boeing 707 Polar Flights to London and the continent assure
you an enjoyable fast flight to your destination,” the travel brochure
proclaims—but 300 University students won’t get a chance to enjoy the
charter flight company’s promise this summer.
The airline—which until last week was booked through International
Travel, Inc. of Oregon and Washington—has gone into receivership,
leaving an estimated 15,000 persons in the Northwest on the ground
with worthless tickets.
Bill Fidler, director of the ASUO International Education Center
(IEC), told the Emerald Tuesday his office has been bombarded with
phone calls from persons who wanted to know how to get their money
back for the cancelled flights.
Law suits possible
The IEC didn’t book anyone on any of the cancelled charter flights,
Fidler said, but merely provides information and applications for
flights as part of the Oregon Universities 1972 Annual Charter Flight
Program
Fidler said, however, that he is trying to find alternative flights to
Europe for students on other airlines. ASUO Legal Services and Legal
Aid are checking to see who is responsible for the cancellations and if
law suits are in order
“At this point, there aren’t a hell of a lot” of flights available, he
said, adding that he has been advising persons to wait until further
details on the cancellations are available before taking legal action.
University not responsible
The IEC is responsible for helping students find other flights. Fidler
said, but because no contract exists between International Travel and
the IEC the University is not legally responsible for the cancellations.
International Travel has filed suits in London against Lloyds, which
went into receivership last Friday, but Fidler said he is not certain if
both the travel agency and the airline are responsible for returning
money from cancelled flights.
International Travel President June Eisenberg told the Associated
Press that Lloyds had issued about $700,000 worth of tickets, pur
chased through her agency, and that money for flights in June and
July has already been forwarded to Lloyd’s.
Fidler said there is still a chance persons can get their money back,
but he is uncertain at this time about which procedures should be
employed.
Lloyd's had been reliable
He said the IEC has worked with International Travel for about four
years without any major problems, and described Lloyd’s as a reliable
airline which scheduled more flights, held to its schedule and charged
lower fares than other airlines. International Travel changed to
Lloyds from another airline last fall, he said, but the IEC felt the
change would prove to be acceptable.
In addition to the lower fares and other advantages, Lloyd’s also
offered free charter bus service from Portland to Seattle, where the
flights departed, Fidler stated.
As for legal action, a spokesman for the Consumer Protection
Division of the Oregon Attorney General’s office said his office
probably won’t take action against the airline, because the company
has gone into what amounts to bankruptcy.
Fidler said he is hoping to enlist the assistance of the Oregon Student
Public Interest Research Group to do a study of why the cancellation
occurred, what can be done now and how similar problems can be
prevented.
It is difficult to wait for information for someone who may have lost
money he saved for a European trip, he acknowledged, but said that's
about the only feasible course of action at this time.
Budget fails;
16% turn out
Eugene voters defeated
the proposed $22.1 million
1972-73 city budget
Tuesday.
After all votes had been
tabulated, the results stood
at 3,007 yes, 5,083 no.
The 8,090 voter turnout is
about 16 per cent of the
total registered city voters,
according to Barbara
Shellenbarger, Eugene
community relations of
ficer
“University precincts
did not show a very large
voter turnout,” Shellen
barger stated. ‘‘These
precincts did, however,
show a small passing
percentage,” she said
The budget will now go
back to the city’s budget
committee where cuts will
be made, according to
Shellenbarger.
The western precincts of
the city, which generally
vote city budgets down did
this time also, Shellen
barger said ‘‘There just
wasn't a large enough
passing majority from the
University precincts.”