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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1973)
faaplete lcf frfia Part} Iteis for 411 Occasiois BASKIN ROBBINS ICE CREAM Hud Packed ICE CREAM 31 Flavors 1825 River Rl Pboie 888-8818 1363 Villari Street Pboie 343-8614 feeling, dumpy ^ pull yuui bell I^ycrii'cri ut search class this fall, proposal forms are now av CONTACT: ALTERNATIVE E '334 EMU 686-4 EWEB’s head says future board may be appointed, not elected EWEB Chairer John Tiffany raised the possibility that EWEB members may be appointed by the Eugene City Council instead of elected in the future during the board’s regular meeting Monday night. The suggestion came at a public hearing of the board’s proposed city charter amendment to ex pand the board’s powers. The amendment met with heavy criticism from Charles O. Porter and Joseph Holadav of the Eugene Future Power Association. Tiffanv said the city charter does not explicitly state that EWEB members shall be elected, and that council members had shown some interest in getting council-appointed members on the board in 1971. •‘The citizens of Eugene have elected their EWEB Boards for the last 65 years, and if there is a possibility that this procedure can be changed by By JEANIE WAKELAND Of the Emerald :*sSBSaSSSSfiS!^^ the City Council in an ordinance, as indicated by one legal opinion. I think a matter of this importance should be decided by a vote from the citizens of Eugene.” he said. Tiffany hinted that the proposed charter amend ment should be expanded to restructure EWEB into a unit completely separate from the city council, under present law, EWEB is owned by the city, but under council control only in corporate matters. ‘The interests of the public are not best served by two masters.” Tiffany said. Members of the audience were generally critical of the amendment Charles Porter, whose lawsuit last fall forced EWEB members to repay costs of a pro-nuclear power plant advertising campaign, called the amendment ‘‘superfluous, vague and devious.” He told the board that the amendment violated Oregon statutes, and promised to fight it at the polls or in the courts if passed. Equally critical was Joseph Holaday of the Eugene Future Power Association. ‘"Hiis proposed charter amendment would weaken influence of the public,” he said ‘‘It strikes at the basic right of the Oregon electorate to approve or reject major plans of public bodies.” Holaday noted that the board had complained that the court decision last fall restricted them from advocating energy conservation. He pointed out (hat EWEB had financed several projects such as geothermal research, support of a fast-breeder nuclear reactor experiment, and research into a solid waste as an energy source, none of which seem restricted by the courrt decision Another member of the audience, Fred Keppel, described the amendment as “inappropriate,” and added. “I think I can summarize this line of though with the saying. What’s good for General Motors is good for the country.’ EWT5B member John Reynolds also expressed doubts about the amendment, and suggested a closer working relationship with the city council to revamp the EWEB structure. He also questioned whether the amendment would clear up the doubts on the boards’ authority created by last fall's court decision. “If this board is really so worried that the court decision is going to hamstring us, let’s go ask the Circuit Court for a declaratory judgment,” Reynolds said A declaratory judgement is a court’s in terpretation of a court decision EWEB members will meet July 23 in a work session to rewrite the amendment. The session will not be open to the public, but will be open to the press. Treasure hunters discover wreck KEY WEST Fla (UPI) — With part of its treasure already safely banked, the wreckage of a 17th century Spanish galleon was probed Tuesday by divers seeking the remainder of its cargo, believed to be worth $400 million. The shifting sands of the NATIONAL CYCLE SERVICE “Tons of 10-speods” Exclusive full one year Service Warranty! tf we offer it . . . it's oood! 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Deep pockets of water on either side of the shallows constantly shift the sands with the movement of the tides. Monday the search vessel Southwind docked at Key West with the three silver bars, 711 silver pieces of eight, numerous guns and cannon balls, religious jewelry and pottery. The key item was a silver bar that weighs 63 pounds and bears the registration number 4584, and an indication of fineness purity of 2.380 parts of silver out of a possible 2,400. The weight and other figures exactly fit the description in the cargo manifest of the Atocha dug out of Spanish archives by a Treasure Salvors researcher. “The Atocha is probably the biggest find in Florida history. It’s everybody’s rainbow wreck,” said Preston Shoup of Treasure Salvors. The Florida Division of History and Archives is monitoring the search to be sure the state gets 25 percent of any treasure. The Spanish archives record that the Atocha left Havana Sept. 5, 1622, as part of a fleet of 27 ships bound for Spain with treasure from the New World. Less than 24 hours out of port, the fleet was struck by a hurricane in the Florida straits that sank the Atocha, its sister ship La Margarita and six other vessels.
