dail$r emerald
\J An Independent Newspaper
Vo. 77. No. 32
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Tuesday. October 21. 1975
Consul
applauds
emperor
By BEN SILVERMAN
Of the Emerald
The Japanese Council General in Por
tland said at the University Monday that the
Japanese Emperor's recent visit to the
United States was a “great success." He
said that the emperor showed by his visit
that he wasn't a "belligerent leader."
The consul, Motomura Zenji, came to the
University to acknowledge a recent grant
by the Japan Foundation to the University
Library's Orientalia Collection.
The Japan Foundation, an organization
of the Japanese government founded in
1972 to promote international un
derstanding and exchange of cultures
between Japan and other countries, gave
the library about $4,(XX).
Motomura met briefly with represen
tatives of the local press Monday afternoon
in Gerlinger Alumni Lounge. One journalist
asked Motomura whether he thought
Japan would seek to establish closer tie?,,
with Asian countries because of recent
American foreign policy developments.
Motomura said that "promoting more and
more good relations and understanding
with the United States" remained Japan's
highest foreign policy priority.
"It's true that two independent countries
like the United States and Japan may have
some foreign policy hitches, like what
Japanese journalists call the 'Nixon
shock'," said Motomura.
That, he explained, was a reference to
Nixon's sudden trip to Peking in 1971,
which he took without notifying the
Japanese. The cabinet of the late Sato
Eisaku, then prime minister, was committed
to containing Communist China at the time,
according to MotomJra.
Motomura also said that Nixon's
"tough" policy on Japanese textile exports
to the United States, and his restrictions on
American soybean exports to Japan were
unpopular in Japan. But there have been
no hitches since Nixon's presidency, he
said.
Motomura has spent about four months
in Portland. He previously served in Ireland
and Saudi Arabia.
Photo by Perry Goskill
The mood was mellow
Stanley Turrentine, master of the tenor sax, combined jazz, soul and rock for an en
thusiastic crowd Monday night in the EMU Bedroom.
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Emerald extends deadline
The application deadline for Emerald editorial page edrtor has been extended to
5 p.m. Friday. The deadline has been extended to gK» appficants more time to
prepare an assigned editorial yvhich must accompany each application.
The editorial page editor must have a working knowledge erf university, com
munity, state and national issues, and must be able to conduct extensive
research.
V
OSP/RG
positions
pay off
By JACKMAN WILSON
Of the Emerald
A college degree and 15 cents will get
you a cup of coffee. Ten cents and some
experience in your field might get you a job.
That is one of the reasons Oregon
Student Public Interest Research Group
(OSPIRG) intern Eric Shields is glad he
applied for an OSPIRG internship after he
graduated from the University last spring.
OSPIRG is offering student internships
again for winter term. These internships
represent a chance to gain some practical
experience, receive college credit and get
paid for it.
Research positions are open in the areas
of forestry practices, energy issues, water
quality, land use and utility practices.
According to Shields, "the basic purpose of
being an intern is to do research on a
specific issue defined by the staff."
Applicants must be a student at an
Oregon college, community college or
universty either this fall or next spring.
Experience in environmental or public
interest research, law or journalism is
helpful, but not required. Persons who
want to do environmental research in areas
not designated for internships are welcome
to submit project proposals and outlines
with thir applications. A writing sample is
required from all applicants.
Although the 12-week internships pay
$1,000, most interns aren't in it for the
money. Shields gave his reasons for joining
the program as "a combination of wanting
to work for OSPIRG and wanting ex
perience in this field." Shields is working on
coastal land use issues.
According to Shields, competition for
the internships is stiff but not prohibitive.
"Someone who is a junior or senior would
have more experience in research and
writing, but a sophomore who is on top of
things has a good chance."
Shields considers his experience as an
intern to be valuable to his education and to
his career. "I've gotten exposed to a lot of
things I didn't get exposed to in the
classroom. I've gotten exposed to the real
world."
Applications are available from the
OSPIRG campus offices, the campus
placement office or the OSPIRG state
office. Room 400, 115 SW Fourth St.
Portland, Ore., 97204. The deadline is Nov.
10. Announcement of internships will be
made by Dec. 5.
Ford plan disqualifies 17% from food stamps
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres.
Gerald Ford asked Congress on
Monday to approve a new food
stamp program that would deny
food stamps to families whose
income exceeds the government's
poverty level.
Administration officials said it
could save the government $1.2
billion a year and disqualify about
17 per cent of those now receiving
stamps, an estimated 3.4 million
persons.
The President, in a statement,
said his recommendations "follow
a fundamental principle on which
I stand: The federal government
should help, within the limits of
national resources, those who are
in need, but we should not give
one dollar of federal assistance to
those not in need."
Ford said the keys to the new
structure for the program are a
ceiling on eligibility for stamps, a
requirement that all recipients pay
30 per cent of net income for the
stamps allotted by family size and
calculating an applicant's income
on past earnings rather than
future estimates.
Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz
told a Senate subcommittee that
in addition to the 17 per cent now
on the rolls who would be cut off,
26 per cent would have their
benefits reduced.
Fifty-seven per cent of those on
the rolls now would have benefits
at least equal to those they now
receive under a much more
complicated structure, he said.
For a four-person family, the
poverty line now is $5,060 a year.
With the Ford bill's standard
deduction of $100 a month the
before-taxes gross-income ceiling
would be $6,250 or, if there's
someone in the family 60 years old
or over, $6,560.
The secretary said that although
some persons would be
disqualified, the improved
benefits at the low end of the
income group could attract
another 775,200 into the program.
In August, the last month for
which figures are available, about
18.8 million persons participated,
at an annual cost to the federal
government of $5.2 billion in
benefits alone.
There is no gross-income ceiling
now.