Summer rock concerts
set for Arena Theatre
Ten rock concerts are being presented as a series in connection with
Carnival Theatre this summer. As a result of the drawing power of
rock and roll, exhibited by the rock opera “Tommy” last summer,
about ten days will be made available for rock concerts this summer
in the Arena theatre.
The McKenzie River Boys and Patterson Alley will comprise the
first concert on Monday, June 26. Patterson Alley play good-time
music, mixing in a comedy act and a variety of instruments from
guitars to trombones. The McKenzie River Boys are a bluegrass band
who combine guitar, mandolin, banjo and violin in their music.
Tentatively, Amazing Grace and Wheatfield have been scheduled
for concert on July 11. This concert will be back-to-back with another
concert, yet to be filled, on July 12.
The ten days made available for rock concerts will be used as a
format for local artists, according to Mike Lion, coordinator of the
concerts, because there is normally no place in Eugene for these local
artists to perform for the public. Lion says the concerts will run from
jazz to folk music and hopefully include colages, jam nights and poetry
readings. Concerts will be drawn from local groups such as Anappy
Service no. Ill, Oroborous, Hotz, and Coal. In addition, Lion said, they
hope to get the Gary Beck Trio, Wayne Drury and Don Russel.
Along with the rock concerts, Phantasmagoria Lights will present a
light show with each concert. Headed by Jim Leason, Phantasmagoria
Lights has provided lighting and special effects for groups like Big
Brother and Jimmy Hendricks. They will combine color with black
and white in lighting effects specifically to harmonize with the music.
Scheduled concerts for July are the 11th and 12th and also July 25
and 26. During the first half of August, the series will take a break for
Carnival Theatre’s rock concert, “St. Joan.” Concerts will resume
the second half of August and possibly run into September.
All shows are $1.50 and run from 8 to 11 p.m.
July records hearing scheduled
A public hearing on the proposed Student Record Policy of the
University will be held from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 13, in
the Johnson Hall Conference Room.
The proposed rules define “personal” records, describe procedures
under which records are established and retained, designate certain
records as confidential, and describe the conditions under which
access to records will be restricted.
Copies of the proposed Student Record Policy are on file and open to
public inspection at the following locations: Office of Gerald Bogen,
vice president for student services (110 Johnson); Office of Robert
Bowlin, dean of student personnel services (258 Emerald); Office of
David Krohnmayer, assistant to the President (319 Law School
Building); Bill Wyatt, ASUO President (308 EMU); and Cliff Zukin,
ASUO Senate President (311 EMU).
Members of the public have been invited to submit written
suggestions, comments or proposed alterations, to Bogen’s office by 5
p m Wednesday, July 12.
75 ‘mourn9 for old house
By RICK WORTHINGTON
Of the Emerald
Symbolic funeral services were
held Tuesday afternoon for the
old Dutch-motif house located at
the corner of 15th and Alder—
known as the Howe House.
Originally built in 1903 by
University English professor
Herbert Howe and something of a
local landmark because of its
unique architectural charac
teristics, the house is due to be
levelled in the near future and
replaced by a 27-unit apartment
building.
A group of nearly 75 persons
participated in the Tuesday
“services,” which were planned
by a group of Eugene women who
are concerned about the
destruction of old homes in this
Brief service
The ceremony consisted of a
brief service, followed by joyous
dancing to the rhythm of conga
drums and guitars. The two
major portions of the service
were conducted by Gretchen
Schutz and Pat Blok.
Shutz presented a brief history
of Howe House, which connected
the spirit in which it was
originally built with the dilemma
represented by its current plight.
She said Howe was a follower of
William Morris, leader of a group
of pre-Raphaelite intellectuals
who protested England’s tum-of
the-century trends toward
commercialism and in
dustrialism. Throughout his
career at Oregon, Howe was
recognized as a “free thinker”
who perpetually questioned and
condemned increasing
dehumanization in industrial
society, she said.
Shutz recounted that, in
keeping with this spirit, Howe
had willed the house to a local
Senate passes $3 billion bill
to fund child day-care centers
By JOE HALL
of Associated Press
Washington (AP)~ The Senate
passed 73 12 Tuesday a $2 95
billion child development bill
designed to fund the biggest
program of federally backed day
care centers in history
The measure was substantially
modified from a 1971 version in
an effort to meet objections of
President Nixon who killed last
year's measure with a veto
But, in its closing votes, the
Senate beat back several
Hepublican amendments to carry
out the administration views
Some GOP senators said they
believe another veto is likely if
the bill is sent again to the White
House in its present form
Hill forwarded
The Senate vote forwarded the
legislation into the House So far
the Education and latbor Com
mittee in that branch has given
no indication of when it plans to
act on it
Sponsors said the bill should
fund 700.000 new day care spaces
in its first year ol full operation
which would double the number
now available
lteduction attempt slumped
The Senate rejected, 60 to 25. an
attempt by Son Peter Dominick.
R-Colo., to reduce the tidal
author i tat ions by $000 million He
said Nixon objected strenuously
to the cost
Defeated by -19 to 36 was an
amendment of Sen Hobert Taft
Jr , K Ohio to cut back on the
number of potential local
sponsors of child development
programs from 2.000 to 1,200
Ho sought to do this by making
only groups in cities of 50,000 or
more population eligible, instead
of towns of 25,000 as the bill
provided.
The bill’s proponents were
overridden with 45-38 adoption of
an amendment to permit the
government to turn control of the
new day-care projects over to the
states
Controversy over sponsors
As the bill was originally
written it gave local sponsors
such as school systems and
churches the primary right to set
up and run the day-care centers
Nixon, in vetoing a similar
measure last year, had com
plained that the plan for
thousands of local sponsors was
unworkable
Senator Dominick offered the
amendment which was carried
with votes of Republican and
Southern Democratic senators
Dominick said that, in most
cast's, states can handle the
program better In any case, he
said, his proposal simply leaves it
up to the secretary of health,
education and welfare to choose
between the states and local
sponsors
States fawired
Rut Sen Walter Mondale, D
Minn . chief sponsor of the bill,
said that HEW Secretary Elliot
Richardson already had made it
clear he favors the states
Mondale declared the amend
ment would have a disastrous
effect on a major principle of his
measure that child care
programs should be controlled
locally and with a large measure
of parental participation. The bill
would finance the biggest federal
day-care program in history.
The care would be free for
children of poverty-level
families; low-and middle-income
families would pay part of the
cost, and well-off families could
use the day-care centers by
paying the full cost.
Changes undertaken
Before the legislation came to
floor for debate, the Labor and
Public Welfare Committee made
several changes in trying to meet
objections Nixon voiced in killing
the 1971 Bill.
The 1971 measure would have
authorized about 7,000 local
sponsors of the day care centers,
specifying that a local group in
any town 5,000 or over could
qualify.
The new bill allows only groups
in cities of 25,000 or more,
totaling 2.000. to act as sponsors
Mondale said the program
would not only offer day care to
the children and their parents
There also would be part-day
services like Head Start, pre
natal service, in-the-home
tutoring, and child development
classes for parents and
prospective parents
The new program would take
over the present Head Start
services developed as a part of
the antipoverty effort
church group with the stipulation
that it be used as a center for
University students. According to
Schutz, the stipulation was
verbal. The church group sub
sequently sold the house to a
doctor in Seattle, she said. Schutz
declined to identify either the
church group or the current
owner.
Five-petal ceremony
Pat Blok then led a five-petal
flower ceremony. As the
assembled mourners tossed the
petals one by one into the air,
Blok explained the symbolic
meaning of each. The first three
petals symbolized tears: one for
the death of Howe House, another
for all similar houses in the area
which will be destroyed because
“they didn’t make enough money
for their owners,” and the third
“for all the living shrubs and
plants that were in the way of the
bulldozers and cranes that have
tom down beautiful houses in the
past.”
The final two petals symbolized
smiles, Blok said. The first was a
smile for hope that future Howe
Houses will not be torn down. The
final petal was a “heavy duty
smile” to ensure early com
munity action in the future to
prevent the tearing down of old
homes before it is too late.
In an interview with the
Emerald, Schutz outlined some of
the activities which her (as yet
unnamed) group has planned.
Schutz said the most important
task faced by concerned citizens
is bringing the issue to the at
tention of the public. She pointed
out that it is often easy to get a
fairly encouraging turnout at
demonstrations such as
Tuesday’s, but that it is difficult
to maintain interest and form the
sort of organization necessary to
take effective public action.
While Schutz occasionally
praised local officials for their
concern and their good in
tentions, she said there exists a
cultural gap between them and
students which 'an only be filled
by active and sustained student
interest in these problems.
Dems appeal ruling
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic National Committee asked
a U S. Court of Appeals Tuesday to avert what it termed a major
tragedy by upholding reforms aimed at sending more youths, blacks
and women to the party’s convention next month.
District Judge George Hart jolted Democratic reformers just a day
earlier by declaring unconstitutional two key delegate-selection rules
under which hundreds of delegates were under challenge.
Hart, a former Republican chairman in the District of Columbia,
said the Democrats had no right to require any state to balance its
delegation with minority-group members. Those who sponsor a
delegate slate can “put anybody on it they want,” he said.
Second provision overturned
He also struck down a reform provision under which delegates could
be barred from the convention if they were part of a slate endorsed by
local officials who were in office prior to Jan. 1. That rule was aimed at
diminishing the delegate control of old-time party bosses, but Hart
said it infringed on their right of free speech and association.
Attorney Joseph Califano Jr., who presented the national com
mittee’s appeal, said the district court decision could prove a major
tragedy if allowed to stand. He urged the appeals court to expedite the
case, noting that the Supreme Court is nearing a summer recess.
The party itself, he said, would have little time before the convention
to unravel the confusion if Hart’s order were not overturned.
Hart’s ruling had come in a suit brought by delegates allied with
mayor Richard Daley of Chicago. The 59 Daley delegates are under
challenge before the Democratic Credentials Committee, a case in
volving both reforms which Hart ruled out.
Appeal today
Both sides were to file written briefs to a three-judge appeals panel
today, with a decision coming perhaps later in the day.
Altogether, more than 50 separate challenges to convention
delegates are underway, involving slates from 25 states. About 80 per
cent of the challenges are over the issue of balance by age, race or sex.
The Credentials Committee is scheduled to begin pre-convention
hearings in Washington on the challenges this Sunday. Of the 2,512
convention delegates already selected, some 1,082, or about 43 per
cent, are under challenge.
Field hearings so far in Alabama, South Carolina, Arizona and
downstate Illinois have produced reports by committee staff officers
favorable to challengers, although the full committee can reverse the
findings.
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