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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1973)
WTLC faces funding crisis in ‘74 By MARSHA EMERMAN Of the Emerald The Women’s Transitional Living Center (WTLC) is facing a funding crisis for the coming year. WTLC began operation in September of 1972 on an original, one-time-only, grant of $12,000 federal funds through the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, administered by Oregon State Corrections. The grant was issued with the un derstanding that WTLC was to be a community-based program and should be supported by the community. Since the original grant has run out, WTLC has approached many sources for funds. They applied to the City of Eugene and Lane County for revenue sharing funds and, according to Robin McMillin, WTLC program director, were turned down because the County felt it was the State’s responsibility. The United Appeal turned them down for the same reason. They then applied to the State Ways and Means Committee and funds were refused. The State felt it was the comminity’s responsiblity, McMillin said. WTLC is looking to the community for support. They have received a $1,250 grant from the Women’s Resource Center in Portland and some private contributions. The Jackson Foundation has offered a conditional grant of $5,000. The condition is that WTLC must raise the other $8,000 needed to meet the coming year’s budget. This Sunday, Oct. 21, from 2-5 p.m. they are holding a silver tea at the center where donations will be accepted. All con tributions are welcome and can be sent to the center, made payable to Women’s Transitional Living Center. Anyone wanting to help with fund raising can get in touch with Robin McMillin, at 342-2548. Power cutoff priorities set ‘Tis the season for candles, loneiohns By JOHANNA DICK Of the Emerald Portland General Electric and Pacific Power and Light Company have proposed plans for curtailment of power and are making a list of priorities by which users will be cut off as the energy crisis in Oregon reaches critical proportions. William Rankin, a member of the Citizens Advisory Committee for Economic Development, said that the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) projects a 20 per cent probability of*mandatory curtailment of power, probably by Nov. 1. Normally there is a total power availability of 46 billion kilowatts, but the present level is approximately 31 billion kilowatts. Low water, the lowest in 94 years, is a major facto- in the shortage of power. However, Federal budget cuts to utility com panys in conjunction with increasing demand for electrical energy by customers throughout Oregon has brought the shortage to a crisis situation. Rankin felt the 20 per cent probability was op timistic. He told the Economic Development Committee that authorities close to the issue state flatly that unless fall and winter bring abnormally heavy rains especially in the headwaters of the Columbia in Montana and British Columbia, power curtailments will be inescapable, and in time will result in major job layoffs. Should mandatary curtailment of power become necessary, Rankin said that utility companies will first cut off “major users” rather than have an across-the board reduction erf power to all users. This will be necessary, he said, because major users are easy to identify and could cost less administratively to curtail. There are 800 “major users” of power in the Eugene area. Rankin said he was wearied that the strong possibility of an already existing relatively high rate of unemployment in Lane County (6.7 per cent) would be increased to even more unacceptable levels by plant shutdowns. The committee plans to study possible solutions for Lane County. Capsule to be buried in EMU By JAMIE BATES Of the Emerald Picture yourself in 2000 A.D. You’re a middle-aged construction worker and you’re building an annex to the annex of the EMU. Today you are digging up the old University seal, which will be relocated in the new annex. Suddenly you eye a small metal box inconspicuously buried beneath the seal. Excitedly you open the box, hoping to find lost treasures. Instead you find—what else? It’s an essay titled “Hie Life and Times of Students in 1973.” When the old University seal is placed into the ground again next April, a time capsule will be buried beneath it, and it really will c mi tain an essay on this student generation. The ASUO will be sponsoring an essay contest for this very purpose, and any student interested in recording history will be eligible to enter. More details on the essay c mi test will be published later. Sound corny? Actually it’s not a totally novel idea; the University class of 1912 put its eye on posterity when it purchased the seal more than 50 years ago. At that time the seal was placed between VillMd<«nd Deady Halls (obviously the hot spot on campuS?^ When the EMU was built in 1950, University leaders thought the seal should be relocated to the new centerof campus. 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