YMCA receiving funds
for Juvenile Justice Project
By KATHY GLANVILLE
Of the Emerald
“A 17-year-old Arkansas youth died after a day
in the state penitentiary: he was chased by a car,
shot at, forced to do pushups for 31 minutes and
subjected to other abuses which resulted in his
death.” This is a quote from Sen. Birch Bayh in the
Winter 1973 YMCA Newsletter.
Bayh’s example of the flagrant mistreatment of
youthful offenders in the United States illustrates
the need for restructuring the federal approach to
problems of juvenile delinquency.
The campus YMCA along with Central Lane
Family YMCA, is one of the 70 YMCA’s receiving
funds to do a Juvenile Justice Project, under the
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act,
the result of a bill sponsored by Bayh.
“It’s a very exciting thing that we’re just
getting into,” explained YMCA director Kirk
Johnson.
“The Juvenile Justice Project is a national
project of the National Council of YMCA’s,” ex
plained Johnson. “The YMCA is a fairly radical
organization. They have several 5-year goals, one of
them is to alleviate injustices in the juvenile justice
system and to provide alternatives to the justice
program.
“I think that basically Lane County has a very
good juvenile department,” said Johnson. “Skip
worth (the Lane County juvenile detention center)
is very concerned with getting kids out of there and
back into the community. There are some very
concerned and good people here, however there is a
crying need for foster home care.”
The Campus YMCA is presently seeking a
director for its Foster Home Project. Their overall
goal will be to locate 45 short term foster homes for
runaways in the 10-14 year age group by June 1975.
The project will focus on the two schools which have
the highest incidents of runaways in the YMCA
service area: Jefferson and Madison junior high
schools. Each family involved will go through
training sessions run by the YMCA.
“At the present time,” said Johnson, “Foster
homes just aren’t here. County and city agencies
just haven’t been able to make a concentrated effort
in this area.
“Children who run away from home have few
alternatives beyond the Juvenile Detention Center.
These are adolescents who have not committed a
crime and yet have to be institutionalized, which
places a criminal stigma on the adolescent,”
Johnson says.
ACTION, the federal “umbrella” organization,
which encompasses such voluntary agencies as
VISTA, will pay the director’s salary for the first
year. However, Johnson stated that there would be
other expenses to meet, such as transportation and
training for the foster families.
“The Weyerhauser Foundation has expressed
interest in helping to fund the project,” said
Johnson.
“The Juvenile Court, Juvenile Department and
State Children’s Services Division have already
committed themselves to assist with manpower and
data collection,” said Johnson.
The University YMCA, which is not affiliated
with the University, is basically a student service
organization which does a lot of work in the Eugene
community. Six University students have already
indicated an interest in working with the director of
the new project.
Voters reject school tax levies
After an unenthusiastic turnout
at the polls, Eugene voters ap
parently rejected the Eugene
School District’s proposed 1973-74
$26 million budget and a proposal
for publicly supported kin
dergartens.
The Lane County Intermediate
Education District’s proposed
budget of $21.5 million also ap
peared to be going down county
wide.
As of press time with 21 out of
31 precincts reporting for District
4-J and 46 out of 73 reporting for
IED the results were: The 4-J
budget; 4812 yes, 6431 no; the
IED proposal; 2330 yes, 4466 no;
the kindergarten proposal; 2047
yes, 4567 no.
Voting in the annual school
election was light throughout the
day. Only 7 of 821 registered
voters at Willagillespie School
had bothered to cast ballots by 10
a.m. Monday morning.
Edgewood Elementary School
reported 45 ballots cast by 10 a.m.
out of a possible 2,360.
The kindergarten proposal,
which requested $706,700 to
initiate a kindergarten program
for Eugene five-year-olds, was
the latest of a series of such
proposals to be rejected by
Eugene voters over the past few
years.
The $26 million requested by
the new budget was up $2.4
million (10 per cent) over last
year. Of that increase, 1.3 million
was to go for higher teacher
salaries, $700,000 for hgiher
social security taxes and
retirement premiums, and
$150,000 for the hiring of 15 new
teachers.
Sam Frear, Chairman of the
Eugene School Board, was not
Two journalism instructors
put photographs on display
Photographs by George Beltran and Bernard Freemesser, of the
University Journalism School faculty are on display through May 21 in
the Photography at Oregon Gallery of the University Museum of Art.
Beltran is a visiting assistant professor of journalism and
Freemesser is a professor of journalism.
The work reporesents the interests and experiences of the two
photographers during the past year, with Beltran exhibiting solely in
black and white and Freemesser only in color.
Beltran’s photographs are of both people and selected areas of the
landscape. Of particular interest to Oregonians is a rendition of a
distant lumber mill with wigwam burner blanketed in snow. The
subtle tonalities of white with the black accentsof the industrial forms
exemplify Beltran’s effective control of his craft.
Although Freemesser is continuing to work primarily in black and
white, he has chosen this exhibit to reveal a revived interest in the use
of color as form.
Those already familiar with Freemesser’s earlier work in the
landscape will see quite a different approach in the recent
photographs, representing more the econography of the western
states than the landscape itself.
While many of Freemesser’s works show experiences in various
states, several are unmistakable from Oregon, such as the barn with
one side painted in a familiar advertisement and the interpretive
study of the John Day River in Central Oregon. The University
Museum is open from 1 to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. It is closed
Mondays.
surprised by the election results.
“This is not entirely unex
pected,” said Frear, “There is a
general feeling by taxpayers of
unwillingness to pay property
taxes for schools — one reason I
favored the May 1st issue._
“There is a general concern by
the taxpayers over the cost of
schools. However inflation hits
the schools like everyone else,”
he said.
“At the board meeting we
decide if necessary,” explained
Frear, “to hold new elections
July 19.”
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