By LESUE ZAITZ
Of the Emerald
They expected to lead the
pack. Instead, they ended up
eating dust.
They were pulled from the
piracies of political power with
half the effort it took them to get
there.
Yet, they are not venemous
or vengeful. They aren't whin
ing. Four incumbents tost an
election three months ago.
Three were swept out by a
Democratic tide. A third fell vic
tim to his own political mis
steps.
John Dellenbactt, former
Congressman. Kenneth Om
lid, former Lane County
Commissioner. Richard Ey
mann, former state rep
resentative. John Parkhurst,
former county assessor.
They are the forgotten peo
ple, it seems, amid the bal
lyhoo of the new officials with
their new ideas. Where are
they now? What are they
doing? Does the pain of defeat
inflicted three months ago still
hurt?
John Dedenback, defeated
by Democrat James Weaver,
is still living in Washington,
D.C. He just completed his
chairmanship of the National
Prayer Breakfast, a major an
nual event attended by promi
nent intellectuals from around
the United States and the
world
He says he doesn't dwell on
his defeat “I ready don’t think I
should do a psychoanalysis of
the issues. It's all speculation
aid that's not ready the critical
thing,” he says.
He says qmetty, “I’d rather
look back at the eight years I
served the people of the fourth
district.”
Dedenback, a former Med
ford lawyer, says he and wife
Mary Jane are in the process of
choosing one of four futures.
“We are not looking for a way
"Say, whatever happened
to ol’ what’s - his - face?
Richard Eymann
to make a million dollars,” sad
Deiienback in a telephone in
terview.
“In a time when there are
real crises around the world,
where is it that Mary Jane and I
can serve, can help with the
major problems of the world?”
asks DeNenback.
He continued, “If everyone
lives in a box and we don't
reach out from box to box,
we’re doomed to have some
terrible troubles down the
pike.”
Deiienback said he is look
ing at four different jobs. One
would involve moving back to
Oregon. “The job would be a
blend of teaching, practice of
law and acting as a political
commentator for television and
radio stations.” He said the job
was appealing because it
meant “once gain living in
Oregon and physically being
here.”
He has also been offered an
ambassadorship but wouldn't
say to which country He said
that offer was appealing for ob
vious reasons. He said he
wouldn't want to serve in a de
veloped country simply to act
as a diplomat.
Deiienback said he would
like to go to an African country.
"That is where some of the cnt
John DeHenback
teal decisions affecting the en
tire worid will be-made,” he
said. He said an African nation
would involve work with critical
problems that are facing other
areas of the world.
The former Congressman
said he also was considering
two jobs in the Washington,
D.C. area but declined to
specify what they are. He sad
he expected to make a deci
sion in two weeks. “But we re in
no great rush at all,” he said.
Dellenback said that if he
takes the Oregon job, he would
consider “as a possibility" chal
lenging Weaver in 1976. But
that is two years away. “The
question is how can we support
that man in office now so he
can do the best job for the peo
ple of Oregon?”
Like DeHenback, Ken OmlkJ
fell victim to the Democratic
tide. Bob Wood outpolled
Omted for the county commis
sioner post.
Omlid, however, has no polit
ical hang-over from his defeat.
“I really don't think about it,”
said Omlid.
He and two brothers own the
McKenzie Golf Course near
Watterville and the former
county commissioner said he
intends to spend tone in run
ning !he course.
The Vienna Boys Choir: for an
encore they do ‘Swanee River’
By BEN SILVERMAN
Of the Emerald
The Vienna Boys Choir in McAr
thur Court. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,
Luis Bunuei, or Salvador Dali
might have appreciated the irony
of the scene. But it was too much
for me.
Thursday night the Vienna
Choir Boys, or Wiener Sanger
knaben, sang a concert of light
classical and folk music before
some 7,000 persons in the home
of Duck basketball. Few, if any, of
those 7,000 persons could mean
ingfully evaluate the performance
Not many could see the choir or
their director, Anton Neyder, and
most of them sat on uncomforta
ble bleachers and saw what they
did at stadium, not concert-hall,
distances. Worse yet, fewer still
heard more than bland, watery
and faint sounds coming from the
stage. Was it the fault of the boys
or their director? I don’t know, but
I’d prefer to blame it on the bam
like acoustics in the Pit.
The Sangerknaben opened the
program with two Weelkes mad
rigals. Considering that it was Mac
Court and that these were 24
10-year-old Austrian boys, their
diction in these English language
works was surprisingly under
standable.
Roussel's “Madrigal aux
Muses" and No beautiful num
bers by Michael Haydn, an obs
cure younger brother of the fam
ous “Papa" Josef, completed the
first segment of the program By
this tone, concentration was get
ting harder and harder. I presume
the Roussel was sung in French,
because of the name of the piece
and the nationality of the com
poser, but I couldn’t understand
any of it. German-speaking sin
gers' French diction is notorious
no matter how old the singers are.
but McArthur Court didn't help
much. For all I knew, they were
singing Two for Stu, two for Stu!”
The Haydn, was the most en
joyable pari of the program, in the
first number, a Latin “Anima
Nostra," two boys did gorgeous
review
solo singing. Then, one of them
sang a solo “Glueckselig, Du Hir
tenschar,” again with beautiful
vocal control and quality.
After the first intermission, the
group donned elaborate cos
tumes and performed Carl Maria
von Weber’s one-act comic opera
“Abu Hassan I suspect this work
would have little appeal if adults
performed it, but these virginal lit
tle boys, accompanied by their di
rector at the piano, charmed and
delighted those among the audi
ence who could hear and see it.
One little boy sang a woman s
part—that is not so unusual, but
his performance, was
outstanding—and another put on
a moustache and played a re
markably believable villain, al
though he certainly wasn't a
basso. Unfortunately, most of
those who could see the stage
had to twist themselves into un
bearable positions to do so, and of
course no one could hear too well
An administrative problem with
the program is that it contained too
many musical potboilers and not
enough serious fare. Roussel,
Johann Strauss and folk songs
are fine as far as they go, but di
rector Neyder should balance
them with some Bach or Mon
teverdi. This might require bring
ing along instrumental accom
panists, but if they can afford the
costume budget for "Abu Has
san,” they can afford instrumen
talists, too.
Responding to generous ap
plause, Neyder brought the boys
back to the risers after the last
scheduled number for an encore. I
still can’t quite believe it myself but
the encore was "Way Down Upon
the Swaoee River.”
Afl in all, the performance was
enjoyable, but all 7,000 could
have enjoyed it more if they could
have heard it better. Can't Eugene
or the University build a facility so
that we don't have to endure the
world's most famous boys' choir in
an acoustical nightmare? If 7,000
turn out for an event like this, sup
port for an auditorium must be out
there somewhere.
Ken Omiid
Since leaving office Jan. 5,
he has been fixing up his
house, catching up on letters
and "just relaxing."
Prodded into evaluating his
defeat, Omlid said, “I was
doing the job I was supposed to
do, instead of politicking. I was
making decisions for the public
rather than for my own political
gain.”
He said he doesn’t have any
plans “at present" to get back
into the political arena “It feels
so good to get out from all that
pressure. I doubt that I'd get
back into that arena even in an
appointed position. After 15
years of that type of pressure,
of no vacations, well, it looks a
lot better from this side."
John Park hurst, defeated by
Democrat Ken Bytund, is al
ready busy in another job a
world away. He has taken a job
an assessor with the military in
the Philippine Islands.
Of the defeated incumbents,
Richard Eymann is the only
one still grumbling. Eymann
lost in a bitter raoe to Vida in
suranceman Bill Rogers. Ro
gers now sits in the state legis
lature as a representative from
Dist. 44.
Eymann contended two
days after the election that Ro
gers violated campaign laws
with an advertisement which
suggested that Eymann was
opposed to gun control.
Eymann filed three different
law suits in relation to the al
leged advertisement. Two
have been thrown out of court.
Eymann’s attorney recently
filed an amended charge with
Lane County Circuit Court
Judge Helen Frye.
Eymann said he didn't think
it was appropriate to comment
on his defeat because of the
litigation. “I’d be getting into the
evidence we ll be introducing,”
he said.
Currently, he is working
part-time for Lane Community
College as a fiscal advisor and
is doing free-lance work for
businesses concerning fiscal
and tax matters.
He says he is looking at sev
eral prospects for full-time em
ployment “but I’m not free to
say what they are at this time. I
would probably be in the state
of Oregon. ”
Will he seek office again?
“ft’s a little premature to think
along those lines. I might try for
a higher office but, again, that's
premature.’’
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