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The Eugene City Council unanimously
adopted the Airport Commission’s Master
Plan and Layout Plan and also approved an
ordinance requiring that a $2 boarding fee be
charged at Mahlon Sweet Airport at its
Monday night meeting.
The Master Plan allows for the expansion of
the existing facilities at the airport and the
acquisition of adjacent properties totalling 62
acres, according to Robert Shelby, Airport
Manager.
Part of the expansion, said Shelby, is the
building of an additional runway.
Along with the Master plan, three amend
ments were approved which the Commission
had previously recommended for adoption.
They are that 80 acres adjacent to the north
east section of the airport be rezoned for
agricultural development, that livestock and
grain stock uses be limited within the high
noise and pollution contours of the airport,
and that the rerouting of Greenhill Road be
accepted.
Citizen opposition to the plan was also
voiced at the meeting. Roy Freeman of
Eugene, said that Eugene will never be
regarded as a center for air traffic and he
questioned the need for an additional runway.
“Why should we take our tax money and
build a runway that we don’t need?”
Councilman Tom Williams said the City
Council should take the steps today to meet
the airport’s needs of the future.
In other council action, an ordinance
requesting that an enplaning fee be charged
at the Mahlan Sweet received unanimous ap
proval. The $2 fee, which would take effect
Feb. 15 will meet the funding needs resulting
from the federally required increased
resisting arrest. All of these ordinances
for other needs at the airport as well, said
Shelby.
The council also unanimously passed three
behavioral conduct ordinances regarding
disorderly conduct, public indecency, and
resisting arrest. All of these ordinances
required amending certain sections of the
City Code.
In further action the council voted to have
two easements vacated and held a similar
third council bill over pending further study.
The next meeting of the City Council is
scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Council
Chambers 777 Pearl.
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local suit challenging doctor’s rights to perform
abortions at Sacred Heart.
“The real question caning out of the case now is
the validity of state statutes to allow hospitals to opt
out of giving abortions,’’ he said.
“Now that they’ve said, in effect, that a woman
and her doctor ought to decide the matter, it might
mean hospitals will have to open their facilities.”
Michael Chula da, executive director fa Planned
Parenthood in Eugene, called the ruling “fan
tastic.” “If there’s anything we stress it’s the
voluntary aspect of abortion. Nobody should be
forced a precluded from having one.”
He noted that recent opinion palls have shown 70
pa cent of the American papulation favor a fully
libaalized abortion law.
“The import of the law is that it doesn’t
discriminate against people by where they live a
how much money they have,” he said.
Chula da said he was surprised that such a liberal
interpretation was made by the Court in which three
Nixon appointees voted in favor of the ruling.
Chris Attneave, chairer of the Eugene papulation
stabilization council, said, “Most of what we’ve
wanted to accomplish has been done by courts.”
’She noted that the removal of stipulations that
only hospitals perform abortions will have a great
financial implications for women desiring them.
“This could bring the cost down to 50-100 dollars for
out-patient service," she said. Curently, abortions
cost around $400 in a hospital.
Reaction on campus were also mixed.
Clay Moreland, of the Christian Liberation House,
thought it was wrong. “I don’t go along with it. I
don’t think its right, and I don’t think God thinks it’s
right. It’s definitely an immoral act.”
Pam Mason, a junior in English, thought the
ruling gave women a greater freedom of choice.
“It’s not as good a solution as contraception, but it’s
better than having to go through a pregnancy you
don’t want.”
Bruce Holway, senior, history, agreed. “In spite
of the Court’s ruling, the question is still a moral one
and ultimately is the decison of the individual,” he
said. Thinking for a moment he added, “At Wutf
now the decision rests with the individual and not
with the state.”
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