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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1974)
HEW grants University $500,000 Six federal grants totaling more than a half-million dollars have been awarded to the University from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). The funds are being used to sponsor work at the Center on Human Development in the Research and Training Center in Mental Retardation. The research and training center, which is in its ninth year of operation, is under the direction of Andrew Halpern. Two of the HEW grants are for the basic support of the mental retardation center which receives very little state funds for its operation. A $250,000 core support grant was issued to the center in March and supplemental support grant of $180,000 was awarded in July of this year. Two other grants of $70,000 and $55,000 were also awarded in July to conduct cost analysis studies of community residential .. facilities and rehabilitation programs for the mentally retarded. The concept of in stitutionalizing retarded persons is shifting to a policy of local communities assuming 5 responsibility for the well being, education \ and rehabilitation of retarded individuals. ij "What we are basically trying to do is get j: people who don't need to be in hospitals j: out, keep them out and offer them the •: services they need in the local com- j: munities," Halpern said. The final two grants awarded to the \ research and training center will be used for j: workshops on specific topics. A $5,360 l mental retardation training grant was t awarded to the center for a workshop i, entitled, "The Retarded Offenders: A jj Workshop for Professions." The workshop, i directed by Esther Brummer, will provide ? police, lawyers and similar professions with \ in-service training related to the ;i rehabilitation of metally retarded persons. •: The sixth grant for $10,000 will be used for \ a series of workshops to be held in Oregon, i Washington, Idaho and Alaska for :j vocational rehabilitation counselors. During : this series of workshops, the role of the • vocational rehabilitation counselor will be | explored as it relates to the mentally • retarded person facing a return to his or her • local community. • Photo by Erich Boekelheide Students square up Triangle Lake area Twenty people armed with trash bags and brooms, mostly members of a CSPA class. Solving Environmental Problems, spent last Thursday cleaning up the trash in the rock slide area, near Triangle Lake 36 miles northwest of Eugene. The dean-up project was part of the workshop taught by Peter Thurston. The group also researched the area to determine which government agency has jurisdiction over it. Gretchen Goodrich spokeswoman for the group said the group hopes that the Bureau of Land Management will protect the area by making it a park. Becuase of the high liability problems involved with the area, Goodrich feels there is only a slim possibility that the rock slide would evet become a park. She added that the group is * now working to have either the state or the £ county organize an anti-litter campaign for the area by putting more trash cans in and ;i; placing signs that would encourage people •: to keep the area dean. •: "The area was pretty trashed out when we •: got there, and we're all hoping for some •: political action so that the area will be •: protected from over use and abuse by people,” she added. ■: All of the members of the group have been writing letters to congressional representatives urging them to initiate some legislation that would made the rock slide environmentally protected area. v.v.v. ...and the end came The bitter end came Tuesday. 5,000 of them. Ken Babbs unloaded 5,000 booklets about the Bend in the River (BITR) conference yesterday afternoon at the BITR ;• headquarters on Day Island Road. Babbs, and the five-person "news staff," had just finished printing and binding the fourth and final issue of the BITR (Pronounced "bitter") Reality. It is subtitled'The BITR End." The first three issues dealt with the preparation for the four-day con :j ference. The booklet costs one dollar. Along with an analysis of the conference, it has the \ results of the 'media referendum.” The BITR conference held July 4-7 was ^ broadcast on radio and television all over the state. Delegates discussed ten areas of concern to Oregon. On the final night they presented 10 questions to the TV : cameras. The questions, and multiple choice answers, were printed in newspapers i all over the state. In Eugene, the BITR ballot was printed in the Oregon Daily j: Emerald. \ Four-thousand, eight-hundred-seventy-seven people responded. The questions \ most frequently responded to indicated Oregonians thought farm land should be J preserved, the state should establish an Energy Commission to regulate energy i consuption and Viet Nam war resisters should have unconditional amnesty. Ken Babbs says the BITR organizers do not plan any more activities themselves. ■: However, he hopes that people will qather together to implement some of the ideas •: raised by the conference. The BITR Reality lists names and addresses of persons •: interested in the 10 issue areas •: Already people in Salem, Ashland and Eugene have met to discuss the implications \ of the conference. Soon, in Eugene, according to Babbs, there will be a meeting on health with Dr. Andrew Weil who spoke in Bend, i- Here are the complete media referendum results: ‘ ••• '*Y i I i i :S 3 I % I i 1 1 V. £ $ A I Bend In The River responses RESULTS OF THE 1974 OREGON MEDIA REFERENDUM — SPONSORED BY THE BEND IN THE RIVER COUNCIL W Each o* the figures given represent the percentage of total respondents who marked a particular choice People who indicated no choice on a question were also counted, but that category does not appear in these tables The Unskewed Adult Vote is a projection of the results of an off icial election, if only those over 18 had been vot.ng, and each age group were represented equally in proportion to the population The Delegates Vote is the result of the balloting at the Bend in the River Council, July 4 7, 1974 See map for the exact boundaries of the regions mentioned Breakdowns by smaller areas are available af BlTR Headquarters O > M o * -j o -J Ui < * ® Qj Ot X H vi - Z Ui H o > Ui H < o Ui Ui Q 1 I I ,v I I I TOTAL RESPONDENTS 1. LAND USE Which of these issues do you feel are most important? (Choose no more than three ) C Preservation of all agricultural land and encouragement of energy-efficient family farming D Protection and development of offshore and inland fisheries Including establishment of a 200 m.le limit A Feoerai land management in Oregon be subject to state review and control B Research to determine how many people Oregon's land and resources can support E Ban log exports F None of the above 4«2 155 $ | 1 70 67 72 (t; ¥ 52 57 56 50 46 50 jjj 45 39 67 35 36 37 ¥ 2 3 0 ¥ 2. HEALTH: Do you favor extending health care to guarantee Oregonians preventive programs and alternative and or conventional treatment, based on ability to pay? (Choose up to three.) E Yes, by para professionals C Yes, by mobile clinics D Yes, by local control of health care B Yes, by statewide consumer council A No 3 EDUCATION: I would support (Choose up to three) C Enacting a law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of educational background where equal competency can be demonstrated B Establishing alternative learning centers where parents and children determine learning priorities within each school district A A voucher program where each person is credited a certain amount of money to be given to the school—public, private, or alternative—of the family's choice D None of the above 4 ENERGY: Oregon should establish an elected Energy Commission empowered to regulate the rates and kinds of energy growth, implement energy conservation and develop inexhaustable energy resources • A Yes B NO C No opinion 5. NUCLEAR POWER Oregon should hold an immediate, public forum on nuclear energy B Yes, with a moratorium in effect until such forum A Yes C No 51 47 72 47 42 61 36 66 34 47 45 M 10 15 63 57 87 9 60 48 89 47 39 74 11 18 1 86 82 97 7 11 1 4 5 1 69 59 78 20 21 20 8 15 2 * LAW & COMMUNITY-AMNESTY: I support universal and unconditional amnesty for all persons who have resisted the Vietnam War A Yes B No C No Opinion 7. LAW & COMMUNITY—COMPUTERS: Legislation should be enacted to prevent personal information from being stored in an/ computer without specific permission from the individual unless .t pertains to convicted felons, and that all information stored be provided to the individual and challengeable A Yes B No C. No opinion 8. ECONOMY: Which concepts (choose up to three) should Oregon adopt to direct future economic planning? C. Progressive tax on energy consumption A Steady state instead of growth economy H Adoption of statewide pension pool so people who change jobs keep their pensions B Encouragement of labor oriented industry instead of machine-intensive industry E State encouragement of worker owned co operatives D Optional job sharing so that several people can divide the hours of a job F State, local and regional self sufficiency in food production and food storage G Guarantee each family arable land for food production I None of the above 9. COMMUNICATIONS—ACCESS: How should we use TV, radio and newspapers in the public interest? (Choose up to three ) A One hour prime time to public access per week C. Widen citizen participation in community decision making and information access with a two way cable TV project B Ban advertising of non recyclable products D Decreasing advertising in direct proportion to economic inflation E None of the above 10. COMMUNICATIONS—MEDIA REFERENDUM: How shall the Media Referendum be continued? (Choose up to three ) D By using a signed Media Referendum ballot as a valid initiative petition signature B Paid by a tax on every newspaper, radio and TV advertiser dollar spent A By constitutional amendment C Administered by the State Election Board E. Shall not be continued 78 64 17 30 4 4 96 2 0 41 42 42 29 26 24 20 7 6 97 1 1 52 66 23 36 25 34 29 14 0 52 47 69 83 64 65 16 2 ■.•YSAWSSA-VA-VjVSAVjV.V.
