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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1975)
NIMH to fund mental health careers program By JACKMAN WILSON Of the Emerald The National Institute of Mental Health has funded the New Careers in Mental Health Program for another three years. For the 1975-76 year the program will recieve $90,000 and $75,000 and $50,000 for the two succeeding years. New Careers trains para-professionals working in social service agencies to be of more service to their clients. The focus of the program is on improving community services through education and increasing inter-agency cooperation. James Kelley, dean of the School of Community Service and Public Affairs, (CSPA), said the New Careers Program represents “an oppor tunity for the University to collaborate with Lane Community College and key human service programs in Lane County to develop education that is useful for human service workers in their professional roles and provide an opportunity for these same people to train in new careers." Mary Harvey, director of the program, added that New Careers is for "people who have no education to speak of but are good at what they do.” Harvey hopes the New Careers Program will have enough momen tum to continue on its own after their funding runs out. By that time the educational and training reforms introduced by the New Careers Prog ram will be institutionalized. “But, if it can’t be done in five years, it can’t be done at all,” Harvey said. Nuclear safety initiative started | By MIKE DOLAN Of the Emerald SALEM—If a group of Oregonians have their way, this state will be voting "yes” or “no” on a new set of stringent nuclear safety rules next year. The newty formed Oregonians for Nuclear Safeguards announced Monday an initiative petition drive to put a measure on the November 1976 ballot requiring utility com panies to prove the safety and reliability of their nuclear powered plants. The announcement was made here by Robert Gerding, chief of chemistry at Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland. Gerding re ceived a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Uni versity of Oregon in 1967. The organization will have to collect a little more than 46,000 signatures to place the measure on the ballot. The proposed ballot measure is nearly iden tical to HB-2279 now in the hands of the House Trade and Economic Development Commit tee. The committee probably will not approve the bill. HB-2279 and the proposed ballot measure are modeled after an initiative successfully placed on the California ballot for next year. The initiatives in both states have the support of Ralph Nader and are part of a West Coast drive to bring the issue of nuclear safety to a vote in six states. Basically the measure requires utilities to buy full insurance, to test their nuclear safety system and to show they can adequately dis pose of all nuclear wastes. VIP’s canoe on new waterway Seven gleaming metal canoes, carrying city and county employes and VIP’s, moved slowly down the new Alton Baker Park Waterway, marking its formal opening Mon day afternoon. The event signalled the end of Missourian nets city manager job By PETER MEAD Of the Emerald Eugene's new city manager is Charles Henry who for the past 16 years has been the city manager of University City, Mo., it was an nounced Saturday. Henry,55, replaces Hugh McK inley, who left Eugene March 21 for his new post as San Diego's city manager. Eugene’s protem city manager, Gary Long, turns the rerns over to Henry on July 14. "This is a distinct promotion in terms of size of city and respon sibilities,” Henry said Saturday night in a press conference at the Valley River Inn. His yearly pay will be $36,000. Henry was one of more than 100 applicants for the job. The city contracted Callaghan & Co. to screen applicants down to 16. The City Council then screened those down to five, and interviewed them Saturday. "I'm coming here because it of fers a new set of challenges," Henry said, explaining his reasons for applying. "Eugene is a bustling city, grow ing still very rapidly .though show ing its age in other ways,” he said. “Some older neighborhoods are in need of conservation and pre servation.” This is a strong contrast with University City, which Henry said was larger than Eugene in 1960, but is now about half the size of Eugene. It is a suburb of St. Louis, with limited space to expand. Like Eugene, however, Univer sity City has a large student popu lation, with five colleges or com mercial schools within three miles of the city. It also has large black and Oriental communities, Henry said. While Henry was there, the city's open-air market was founded and flourished, he said. It operates on the same system of booths that Eugene's Saturday Market does. It sells mostly food, however, and is open on Wed nesdays, Thursdays and Satur days. “It’s economically a very sound thing. It's a family affair...and they undersell the supermarkets. It's become a kind of social thing,” Henry said, mentioning the city council has a coffee and orange juice booth on Saturdays. University City’s complex zon ing system, developed while Henry was there, "requires build ing inspections prior to every change in occupancy,” he said. “Any unliveable conditions must be corrected before anyone can move in.” That includes apart ments. Henry said he wasn’t sure if a program like this was applica ble to Eugene, however. Like Eugene, University City’s citizen participation program in cludes neighborhood groups. The groups “come and go," Henry said, “depending on the severity of their problems." Eugene neighborhood groups may have more power over local decisions, however, since their neighborhood plans become a part of Eugene’s 1990 Plan, the city’s comprehensive planning document. Henry has two degrees from Princeton, a B.S. in electrical en gineering, and an M.A. in political science. He and his wife Helen have six children, ranging in age from eight to 24. | Every Tuesday Night ; is “Duck’s Night” at La Posada! Mention this ad tonight and get: •2.75 Mazatlan Dinner for only *2.25 enchilada, taco, refried beans, Mexican rice, tortilla and choice of soup or salad. 75* pitchers La Posada Broadway and Hllyard 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. 344-1091 nearly two years of work on the facility, which began with a suc cessful application for a HUD open space grant in March 1973, actual construction beginning that summer, and the filling of the canal last Friday. Among the visitors were two of the three county commissioners, Bob Wood and Nancy Hayward, Eugene Mayor Les Anderson and University Pres. Robert Clark. Wood, Anderson and Clark all paddled the canoes, along with Mel Jackson and other employes from the Eugene Parks and Re creation Department. The waterway itself cost $742,509, with road relocation and vehicle bridges costing $253,449. The HUD grant contri buted $198,738 to the total cost. Before the canoes pushed off, Paul Beistel of the county’s parks and open space department gave a brief explanation of how the waterway works. Water is diverted from the Willamette River through a five-foot culvert to the waterway, which begins approximately one mile southeast of Autzen Stadium and ends in the Nielsen Gardens at Alton Baker Park. The flow of water is regulated at 80 cubic feet per second, no matter what the level of the Willamette River is. Beistel said the waterway can be used for canoeing, swimming and fishing. The canal will be stocked this summer and next summer for fishing on an experi mental basis. Good humor prevailed throughout the canoe ride, and the high point was Jackson and Wood _“shooting the rapids,” actually a chute located near Autzen Stadium. Jackson had advised the others to carry their canoes — around the point. Local news media gathered around expectantly with their cameras, and were not disap pointed when the canoe made it, taking in some water in the pro cess. « IlOV 2rs“>? ‘“"uiier t£?/o* aca«temi‘ POs|Mon«; Applications and Job descriptions may be obtained in the Emerald office, located In the third floor of the EMU. Applications are due Monday, May 19* Tha tiwall to — Sf 1 Oppai liallj T—plijaa Wmmma mad ■haaritlaa mrm wwaaragal tm apply. cross-country skiing equipment Monday, Tuesday, & Wednesday — Outdoor Resource Center Downstairs in the EMU
