Eugene voters face
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Eugene voters will have one more decision to face on the Nov. 5
ballot. They will have to decide if they want to recall five of the seven
members of the Eugene School Board (District 4-J).
Actually it will be five separate decisions on Larry Hughes, Gail
Nichoison, Barb West, Johnathan West and chairman Sam Frear. The
Citizens Action and Advisory Committee (CAAC), founded this summer
after the board decided to include kindergartens in their third budget
try, collected enough signatures to get the recalls on the ballot.
By MIKE DOLAN
Of the Emerald
The group objects to the board's insistence on establishing kin
dergartens in the public schools. Kindergartens, in Eugene, have been
voted down in the past. The two budgets submitted to voters in May
and July of this year were also voted down.
Kindergarten was the main controversy surrounding those elections.
The second budget was identical to the first, but the third budget was
about one million dollars less than the first two.
The CAAC takes no position on the kindergarten issue, it only objects
to the board's repeated attempts to put them in the schools.
Board members point out they were elected on promises to fund
kindergartens. And they say the financial situation has changed since
voters last rejected kindergartens specifically. The total annual cost of
the pre-school program will be about $500,000 of which the state will
pay a little more than $200,000.
Board members will not be able to advertise in their defense, but each
member will have a 200 word statement on the ballot.
The two other board members, Ruth Shepherd and Chuck Burrows,
were elected in May of this year. They have not served long enough to
be eligible for a recall attempt.
The Eugene School District budget was recently passed by voters
with a narrow and contested 13 vote margin.
Porter wants major oil companies out
By MIKE DOLAN
Of the Emerald
Charlie Porter has asked all of
Lane County's Democratic
candidates for the state legislature
to support a law which would
forbid major oil companies from
owning retail gas stations in
Oregon.
Porter is a former U.S.
Congressman from Oregon's
fourth district which includes
Lane County. He is also chairer of
International
students
plan lounge
renovation
International students will begin
a $20,OCX) fund raising campaign
in November to renovate the
currently threadbare international
student lounge, according to Dick
Reynolds, EMU director.
The international student
lounge, which is open to all
University students, occupies the
space once taken by the EMU
browsing room. The browsing
room was discontinued in the
spring of 1974 when the library
could no longer afford to staff the
area, according to Assistant
University Librarian Don Smith.
The books that were kept in that
area are now available in the main
library.
the National Committee for Public
Ownership of Energy Resources.
The main goal of the committee is
to get the federal government to
take complete economic control
of the oil industry.
He also sent the legislators a
copy of a law enacted in Maryland
which he said prohibited
producers or refiners of petroleum
from operating service stations.
“Of course the main battle
against 'big oil's' greed,
corruption and poor service must
be fought at the national and
international levels," Porter
wrote. "But here is an opportunity
at the state level to diminish the
power of the 'big oil' companies
and to strengthen locally owned
small businesses."
Both the state senate and house
of representatives are expected to
be in the control of the Democrats
at the next session.
Porter plans to attend an in
ternational conference on
petroleum in the Middle East in
the near future.
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