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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
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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
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shallow ocean bottom 40 miles
southwest of Key West yielded
three sizable silver bars and a
load of coins Monday, convincing
the hunters they had found their
quarry
One blackened silver bar two
feet long still bore markings
indicating it perfectly matched
one listed in the cargo manifest of
Nuestra Senora De Atocha. a ship
lost in a hurricane in 1622 with
more than 47 tons of silver and 27
tons of gold aboard
Bleth McHalley, public
relations director for Treasure
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and silver bullion, plus the value
of rare coins, made the ship’s
cargo worth $400 million on
today’s market.
She said most of the treasure
recovered so far is stored in
vaults of the Florida First
National Bank in Key West.
The company’s divers still
must find the cargo buried in 6 to
20 feet of sand in an area of the
Marquesas Islands known as the
Quicksands. 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.