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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1973)
Mahlon Sweet Airport may be operated by county The Eugene City Council authorized preparation of a resolution which would officially endorse the concept of Lane County ownership and operation of Mahlon Sweet Airport at Wednesday’s committee-of-the whole meeting. The council made the authorization on the recom mendation of the Airport Task Force. The Task Force has determined that the City and the County should work out means to broaden the financial base of the airport’s existing debt service on bonds still outstanding. Ac cording to the Task Force, their ultimate objective should be the establishment of a multi-regional authority which would cover the major portion of the area served by the airport. They see county ownership as a logical first step in that direction. The Task Force advocated closing the gap between the cost of services provided by the airport and payments received for those services as one method of obtaining voter approval of the transfer. At the present time there are no specific proposals as how the county would support the airport. The council authorized an economic feasibility study which would determine the airport’s ability to eventually become self supporting in every respect including debt service. In taking over ownership of the airport, Lane County would assume an outstanding debt service of over one million dollars. “The Airport may be a profit making venture in five to ten years,” said airport commission member Norm Richy. He added that further studies must be made at the staff level before the issue is brought to the city-county level. The council appointed a committee to enter into negotiations with the county for the airport transfer. Public hearings will be held on the proposal. Council member Beth Camp bell brought up the issue of voter approval of the proposal, as a similar proposal was rejected previously in county-wide elections. Campbell questioned the Task Force on how they could now justify their proposal with the voters. Turfman, free-lance writer to address high school journalists at OSP conclave By JAMES RUSSELL Of the Emerald Approximately 500 high school journalists and their advisors will be meeting on campus today and Saturday for the annual Oregon High School Press Conference (OSP). Lucille Vaughan Payne, former journalist and free-lance writer, and Gordon Jones, turf editor and racing handicapper for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner are scheduled to highlight the conference as guest speakers. Payne, speaking at 11 a.m. today in the EMU Ballroom, will focus on the topic “Techniques of the New Journalism” while Jones, formerly of Eugene, will address the group following tonight’s 6:30 banquet. Both sessions are open to the public. About 50 workshop sessions in the EMU have taught English composition and creative writing at the University and South Eugene high school. Payne is currently a visiting lecturer for the School of Journalism who is sponsoring the 47th annual conference. Jones has had experience on the Denver Post, the Beverley Hills Times, the San Francisco News and has been affiliated with several TV stations. He also taught at the University of Southern California and Arizona State. Jones graduated from Whittier College and earned his M.A. in journalism at Oregon. He is scheduled to address an all-comers coffee hour at 3:30 in the Journalism School reading room, located on the second floor of Allen Hall. High School newspapers and yearbooks will be displayed on the second flow of the EMU and an Gordon Jones Lucille Vaugh Payne been planned for the gathering and subjects will range from “How to Produce the All-American Paper” to “Putting Print Into Motion” to “How to Bomb Out of the Journalism School.” Various teachers, advisors and professional journalists will manage the sessions which will cover all aspects of producing high school year books and newspapers. Staff from the Eugene Register Guard, several University journalism professors and representatives of the Daily Emerald will be participating. Payne, author of the “Lively Art of Writing,” has had numerous articles published in Ladies Home Journal, Seventeen and Red book. She graduated from Indiana State University and has exhibit of the 1973 Kodak Scholastic Photo Awards is also in the Journalism School reading room. Alyce Sheetz, executive secretary of the OSP, is chairman for the meeting, assisted by the officers of the Oregon Journalism Educators. They include: Eleanore Hermanson, from Sandy High, president; Willard Mohn, Grant High, Portland, president elect; Joyce Kirk, Willamette High, Eugene, secretary; and James MacPherson, Corvallis High, treasurer. The conference opened with registration today from 7:15 to 9 a.m. in the EMU Ballroom and will continue till around noon on Saturday. Requests for information should be directed to Chairman Sheetz. I Photo by Steve Twedt The bike committee met Thursday afternoon at City Hall to discuss proposed bike routes and the addition of more bike racks. The safety, expected usage, and public interest were considerations in choosing routes. A route is planned for 11th Ave. or the Amazon channel, which will be decided on at the next meeting. New bikeways through Hawkins Heights and Garfield Ave. will be added soon. It was decided to install 50 new bike racks by the City Hall, the Downtown library, and the mall. The next bike committee meeting will be held on Oct. 25. Animals banned from Saturday Market ramps By TRISH WEISMAN Of the Emerald Animals are not welcome on the entrance ramps to the Saturday Market, the Market’s Board of Directors decided Tuesday night. The decision breaks a long silence on the sub ject. “Animals are prohibited from the ramps because of our agreement with the county, which prohibits animals and because of our restaurant 'regulations,” said a motion which the Directors present passed unanimously. The entrance ramps to the county parking lot at Eighth and Oak Streets, where the Market is held, are the weekly gathering places for people who have puppies and kittens to give away. The policy of the Market managers until now has been to try to prohibit animals within the Market proper, but to ignore the people giving them away on the ramps. Other business at the meeting involved two of the Market’s new services this year: the produce booth and the new restaurant license for the whole Market. Julie Elliott, manager of the produce booth, which sells small amounts of food on commission, reported on the success of the booth. It has been doing business for five weeks, and has sold for an average of 12 growers per week. The Board decided to reserve a permanent space for the booth, in the corner of the parking lot on the west side, just north of the center aisle. They also decided to hire an assistant for Elliott. Market Manager Lou Elliott reported that the first week of the new restaurant regulations went “very well.” He said there “was better than 50 per cent im provement in compliance” to the rules last week. Previously, each food vendor had to be licensed separately as a restaurant. Under the new arrangement, the Market itself is licensed as a restaurant, and the fees are paid out of Market coffers. Food vendors now have to register with Elliott a week in advance, and conform to a list of regulations, which are available from him or the Market booth on Saturdays. Elliott’s number is 1 895-4479.
