White Bird opens
detoxification center
With $175 in the kitty White Bird Sociomedical Aid Station is
opening a center for detoxification and rehabilitation. Providing
service for heroin, barbiturate and amphetamine abusers, the center
will be the only agency in Eugene offering a detoxification program,
according to Roberta Housen center coordinator.
The center will officially open on Thursday at 837 Lincoln St., the
site of the original White Bird Clinic. Housen says services available
will be “intake screening for prospective clients, medical evaluation,
detoxification, on-going and group counseling, family counseling,
vocational guidance, occupational therapy, and referrals to other
agencies (that) could be of assistance.”
Initially the center will handle up to 6 addicts a month on a live-in
basis and perhaps 60 others on an outpatient basis.
A staff consisting of a medical doctor, two paramedics, a
psychologist and ten counselors, many ex-addicts themselves, will all
work without pay.
While discussing her plans and hopes for the center, Housen ad
mitted, “addicts were really getting turned off to White Bird.” Addicts
in the past had discovered that White Bird could not provide the at
tention and services they needed, so they simply stopped coming.
The coordinator went on to explain some of her goals. She wants
the center to be a place where the addict can feel comfortable — “we
don’t want a heavy police surveillance trip.” But at the same time she
says it must be a place that commands the respect of both the addict
and the community.
“I want it clean,” with beds as opposed to mattresses on the floor,
halfway-decent furniture and perhaps a stereo or television, Housen
stated.
White Bird is applying to several government agencies for grants.
If enough money is allocated to the detoxification and rehabilitation
center, Housen hopes to expand services by moving into a larger and
less dilapidated house. Someday she hopes to be able to pay her staff
at least “a token salary.”
In its treatment of addicts the detox center will focus not only cm
getting the addict off drugs but, more importantly, uncovering the
sources of the patient’s problem and providing him with alternatives
to drug abuse. To cure a drug addict involves far more than getting
him off the drug, says Housen. That’s the easy part, Housen says. The
difficulty lies in keeping him off, and many of those detoxified return
to drugs.
Housen echoed White Bird’s now familiar plea fen* public support.
In addition to money the center will need “arts and crafts materials,
records, books . . . and furniture of all kinds; single beds and mat
tresses, couches, chairs, rugs, curtains, stereo, tv, etc.”
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L-COG committees will meet
to report year’s progress
The Combined Citizen’s Advisory
Committee of L-COG will hold its annual
meeting at 7:30 tonight in the King Cole room
of the Eugene Hotel.
Neat. What’s an L-COG?
L-COG is an abbreviation for Lane
Council of Governments.
Alright, what’s a Lane Council of
Governments?
The Lane Council of Governments is a
regional council that was organized to
provide continuity in area-wide long range
planning. It is run by a governing board made
up of elected officials from the cities, special
districts, and Lane County.
The idea is that local governments, like
the Eugene City Council, elect a represen
tative to sit on the L-COG board and then
when a planning problem that requires the
cooperation of a number of communities
within Lane County cranes up, L-COG does
the planning.
Okay, exactly who is a member of the L
COG board?
Well, all the cities in Lane County.
Eugene, Springfield, Coburg, Cottage Grove,
Creswell, Dunes City, Florence, Junction
City, Lowell, Oakridge and Veneta.
Other members include Lane County and
the local school districts. The Lane In
termediate Education District, School
District 52 (Bethel), 4J (Eugene), 32
(Mapleton), 19 (Springfield) . . . and the
Eugene Water and Electric Board,
Springfield Utility Board, the North Lane Soil
and Water Conservation District, River Road
Park and Recreation District, Upper
Willamette Soil and Water Conservation
District and the Willamalane Park and
Recreation District and the Port of Siuslaw.
Lane Community College rounds out the list.
Alright, what do they plan?
All kinds of things. The Comprehensive
Health Planning Committee plans for area
health needs, goals and priorities. The
Transportation Planning Committee plans
highways and alternative means of trans
portation such as rapid transit. The
Technical Advisory Committee on Law
Enforcement helps coordinate regional police
efforts. The Housing Advisory Committee
helps in the planning of housing needs and
requirements for the area.
Also there is the Manpower Planning
Advisory Committee, the Arts Advisory
Committee, the Committee for Economic
Development, the Social Services Advisory
Committee, and the Metropolitan Study
Commission.
All of the committees have a citizen’s
advisory committee attached to them. The
citizen’s advisory committee is made up of
local people interested in participating in the
planning for Lane County’s future.
Once a year the citizen’s advisory
committees to the various L-COG committees
get together and issue reports of what they
have accomplished in the past year and what
they hope to do during the next year.
LANE COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS
GOVERNING BOARD
OF
ELECTED OFFICIALS
GENERAL
PURPOSE
SPECIAL
PURPOSE
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_ James Sexton, Councilman
Cottage Grove
_Jotian Mehlum, Mayor _
Dunes
— Les Anderson, Mayor ,_
Eugene
—Paul Geay, Mayor
Florence
_Sheldon Kaiser, Councllman
Junction City
« Ken Omlid, Commissioner
Lane County —
_ James Kelley, Mayor
Lowell
Ron Paddock, Mayor
" Oakridge
— Roscoe Cole, Councilman
Springfield
— Richard Gutman, Mayor
Veneta
Charles Horrell, Councilman
J Coburg
_ Clyde Hollemon, Mayor
Creswell
__1
_Gail Nicholson. Board Member
School District 4J (Eugene)
Ruth Swinehart. Board member
School District 19 (Springfield)
Clyde Hammans, Board member
School District 52 (Bethel)
___ Joyce Beniamin, Board member
Lane IED
River Road
Park & Rec. Dist. "1
Dennis Sol in, Board member
Willamalane
Park & Rec. Dist.
North Lane Soil &
Water Cons. Dist.
Upper Willamette Soil & ___
Water Cons. Dist.
Catherine Lauris, Board member
Lane Community College
Wilbur Ternylk, Board member .
Port of SiuslawH
Richard Freeman, Board member
Eugene Water & Electric Board
-Springfield Utility Board
1_ Rainbow Water District
School District 32
(Maple ton)
Siuslaw Soil &
Water Cons. 0181."“
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Professor of biology dies
Nationally prominent
neurophysiologist Donald
Maynard, Jr., professor of
biology at the University, died
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Sunday evening in a Denver
hospital.
Maynard, who had been on the
Oregon faculty since 1970, was in
Colorado to attend the sixth
Winter Conference on Brain
Research.
He collapsed while skiing on
Jan. 18, and was flown by
helicopter to a hospital in Den
ver, where he underwent blood
vessel surgery last Saturday.
Maynard is survived by his
widow, Edith, who is an adjunct
professor of biology at the
University, and three children,
Kathleen, 16, a student at South
Eugene High School; Elizabeth,
14, who attends Roosevelt Junior
High School; and Donald Jr., 9, a
student at Condon Elementary
School.
“This is a great loss to science
and to the University,” said
Sanford Tepfer, chairman of the
University biology department.