Oregon daily emerald., June 22, 1972, Page 3, Image 3

City Council discusses
historical building, bikes
The Eugene City Council heard a report on
preservation of historic buildings in the city at its
Committee-of-the-Whole meeting Wednesday noon.
The council also discussed a proposed city bicycle
ordinance.
The meetings are weekly, informal study sessions
for the council where committee reports are given
and items which will appear at the regular city
council meeting are discussed. “As is customary,
any action taken by the committee is advisory,”
said Mayor Les Anderson about the meetings. All
motions or ordinances passed by the committee are
again taken up at the regu .ar city council meetings.
The major called for discussion on Tuesday’s
defeated budget. Councilwoman Wickes Beal said
she “thought the budget was a good one and what
people were objecting to when they failed to pass it
wasn’t programs in the budget, but cost of running
government in general.”
Beal then asked the city council to support the
objectives of Governor Tom McCall's program to
take the cost of running schools away from property
taxes. The city council unanimously passed Beal’s
motion.
The bulk of the committee’s meeting centered
around a report from the American Institute of
Architect’s subcommittee of Preservation of
Historic Buildings.
H.H. Waechter, chairman of the subcommittee
spoke of “the importance of considering buildings
for what they are,” and emphasized “the blending
of the old and the new.”
Old buildings are “part of the characterization of
the city, they are good examples of their periods,”
Waechter said. “Existing buildings should be
considered part of the total environmental scene.”
Councilwoman Beth Campbell attributed the lack
of anything being done about saving old buildings to
not enough interest among the community.
The Committee-of the Whole put action on
building preservation off until noon next Wed
nesday, when they hope to see a slide show put
together by Philip Dole of the University ar
chitecture department on old buildings in Eugene.
There is an ordinance which came before the
Committee-of-the-Whole concerning licensing of
bicycles. The ordinance was originated by a mayor
appointed advisory committee. All revenue from
bicycle license fees would be deposited in the city’s
general fund and used to defray the cost of the city’s
bike licensing and recovery program.
The ordinance reads:
“(1) Requirement for operation. No person may
operate a bicycle on a public thoroughfare in the
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city unless the bicycle bears a city or county
license plate or tag that is valid or has not been
invalid more than 30 days.
(2) Fee. The license fee shall be $2.
(3) Term. The term for a bicycle license shall be
14 to 26 months , a license obtained between July 1
and December 31 shall be valid until September 1 of
the second year after the license is issued, and a
license obtained between January 1 and June 30
shall be valid until September 1 of the first year
after the license is issued.
(4) Tag, certificate. The city shall provide the
licensee a license tag and certificate in forms
prescribed by the Department of Finance. Both the
tag and certificate shall be issued by the depart
ment or its designated agent at the time of the
licensing. The tag shall be attached to the frame of
the bicycle at a place prescribed by the department.
(5) Dealers. All persons who carry on the business
of buying and selling bicycles are hereby
designated agents of the city. Such an agent shall
issue a license in accordance with subsection (4) of
this section. The $2 that he collects for the license he
shall remit to the Department of Finance by the
first of the immediately ensuing month, along with
a copy of the certificate of registration of the
bicycle.
(6) Falsehood. In procuring a bicycle license no
person may knowingly make a false statement
about it or himself. Any such statement shall in
validate the license.
(7) Change of Ownership. A license issued for one
owner of a bicycle shall not be valid for its suc
ceeding owner. Within ten days after the ownership
of a bicycle changes the succeeding owner shall
procure a new license for it, and the previous owner
shall report the change to the Department of
Finance.
(8) Advertisements. Whoever advertises in the
city a used bicycle that is for sale shall state in the
advertisement the current license number for the
bicycle and the name of the unit of government that
has issued the license.
(9) Prior License. A bicycle license issued by the
city prior to the effective date of this ordinance shall
remain valid for the term for which it has been
issued, but only for the bicycle and owner for which
issued.”
Councilman Fred Mohr moved that the ordinance
go before a public hearing and this motion passed
unanimously. The ordinance will now go to the
regular city council meeting which will be held at
7:30 p.m. Monday, June 26, at the City Council
chambers of the City Hall.
MELO to canvass Portland
MELO (Marijuana Education
for Legalization in Oregon)
supporters from throughout the
state will join in a caravan from
Eugene to Portland this weekend.
In Portland, MELO will can
vass the city for signatures for
their initiative petition to
Student named
to RC council
Greg Leo, University junior,
has been appointed to the
American National Red Cross
National Student Advisory
Council by national Red Cross
chairman Roland Harriman.
Leo and seven other members
of the council have met with Red
Cross officials to discuss the
participation of college students
in Red Cross services to
Americans. The council serves to
represent the views, opinions and
ideas of young persons to Red
Cross officials, according to the
Red Cross Office of Public
Relations
The council also seeks to in
volve college students in needed
action programs through their
local Red Cross chapters, the
public relations office said.
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petitioners need 40,000 valid
signatures from Oregon voters
for the initiative to appear on the
November ballot.
The caravan, which will in
clude cars, busses and flatbed
trucks, will start from Skinner’s
Butte Park in Eugene at 9 a m.
Saturday. It will stop in Corvallis
at Gill Coliseum at 10:30 a m ,
and at the Capitol Building in
Salem at 11:30. Dave Otos, from
MELO. said about 200 persons
from Eugene are expected to
participate, with more joining in
along the route.
Canvassers will work in Por
tland neighborhoods Saturday
afternoon and Sunday morning,
camping out Saturday night
Sunday afternoon they will hold a
musical celebration and state
authorities on marijuana reform
will speak
MELO has already collected
about 15,000 signatures on its
petition, but some of them have
proved to be invalid, Otos said
The Portland area, however, has
not been canvassed yet, and
MELO hopes to collect the rest of
the requirt'd signatures there this
weekend.
All the signatures have to be
verified by the county clerk by
July 7.
Although legalization of
marijuana is the eventual goal of
MELO, it is concentrating on
decriminalization first.
Decriminalization has been
recommended by a number of
organizations and studies, in
cluding the President’s National
Commission on Marijuana
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