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Eugene media (Continued from Page 1) Jim Magnuson, the station manager of KEZI, says he doesn’t like to run political advertising be cause it sometimes pre-empts al ready scheduled commercials. An FCC rule requires stations to give "equal opportunity” to all candi dates for an office if time is given to one candidate. Sometimes this means bumping off the regularly scheduled commercials to make room for the political ads. "Politi cal advertising disrupts our regu lar commercial buyers,” says Magnuson. Some broadcast stations in the United States have responded to the lowest unit charge rule by banning political advertising and instead offer free public service time to candidates, thus still com plying with FCC regulations. KVAL offers each candidate five minutes of free time packaged in 30-minute programs and aired during prime time KEZI offers state and local candidates free time on its Sunday interview show, "Off the Record," and its morning talk show, “Coffee Time.' Television stations are not the only FCC licensees to bar political advertising from their airwaves. Parr charged with violations By LOIS LINDSAY Of the Emerald Two campaign violation charges have been filed against David Parr, candidate for the Inci dental Fee Committee (IFC). The charges, one accusing Parr of slander and unethical conduct and the other questioning his campaigning methods, will be ruled on by the Elections Court at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. The slander charge, filed Friday by Parr's opponent David Tyler, alleges the incumbent IFC member violated elections rule 5.13 which prevents slander, mis representation or unethical con duct by candidates for ASUO posi tions. According to Tyler's grie vance petition, Parr violated the rule several times in a letter to the Emerald published Friday. In the letter, Parr accused Tyler of using "false and misleading statements ' to achieve voter con fidence. Parr called Tyler a “viable Watergate candidate for a posi Church tops state poll PORTLAND (AP)—Respondents to a poll taken during the weekend favored Frank Church first, Jerry Brown second and Jimmy Carter third in the Oregon presidential primary, a reversal for Carter Bardsley and Haslacher, the market research firm that took the poll for the Oregonian newspaper, said the poll is directional rather than precise because of the sampling and method used Telephone inter views were conducted with 187 voters. Carter, former governor of Georgia, was preferred by 33 per cent in a complete poll by the firm two weeks ago, against seven per cent for Church, a senator from Idaho, and none for Brown, who had not entered the race. Church was preferred by 28 per cent in the latest poll, against 22 per cent for Brown, the governor of California, and 17 per cent for Carter, Brown swept the Maryland primary and Church won the Nebraska primary since then, and both have campaigned heavily in Oregon. Church and Carter are among 10 Democrats listed on the ballot. Brown is a write-in candidate. tion on the IFC’ and sad his op ponent had falsely stated that he (Parr) was incompetent. Parr further stated that Tyler's cam paign expenditures “probably have exceeded $200." In his grievance petition, Tyler also chaged Parr with unethical conduct for writing the accusatory letter "over the weekend before ballots were due” — an action which Tyler called Par's "only vis ible activity of the run-off election." The second campaign violation charge, filed Monday by Gregory Lee Minckley, a senior in political science, accuses Par of a viola tion of ethics and standards during campaigning activities Friday. Ac cording to Minckley s petition, he saw Parr "and a cohort writing on what appeared to be election bal lots” after the candidate and his companion had left a sorority house with three or four sealed ballots. "Since the only thing which val idates these ballots is the number two stub of one's fee validation card, it is far too easy for someone to remove these stubs from an en velope and ‘revote’ as it were," Minckiey's petition maintains. Location of Wednesday's hear ing will be posted in the EMU. ' Tonight Dine Italian and listen to the UofO String Quartet To odd to ypur enjoyment to night LaCucino presents the University of Oregon string quartet to provide beautiful background music. Select your favorite posto LoCucino s Steok Florentine p< perhaps Scollopini old Morsplo odd o gpod wine and ypu’ll hove o dinner tp remember 726 1644 31 1 1 Gotewoy St Oft I 5 at Deltline Exit THE I».A. quiz 1 ’ jlS£ \TTSMe for the ref»™ »f Oregon-8 mar, 2> Who* respond for the reform of0regon.s rape try to claim credit Political Caucus,‘,3^ttyBrown°reg0n Women's BETTY BROWNE for D.A. Treasurer *3450 Att0r"ey Comm • Jim Tattersall, Two years ago Eugene’s KUGN stopped selling ads to local candi dates. KUGN’s advertisinq manager, Greg Johnson, says his station doesn’t want to lose its listeners by running too many commercials. “It probably would be more be neficial for the community if we just ran the locals," says Johnson, “but we re running our legal limit of commercials. We’ve got to run the feds, so we’ve just cut from the bottom." But most Eugene radio stations can’t afford to be so picky. All the others (except for KPNW which has never run locals because of its regional orientation) offer adver tising to all candidates. “We take what we can get,” says KBDF advertising manager Eric Toll. “The political advertising has helped us sell out.” But Toll predicts that during the November election season, the political advenising will hurt the station’s revenue, because he’ll have to turn down commercial buyers in order to put the candi dates on. “It’s bad timing," says Toll. “November is the busiest time of the year for retail busi ness." Since local candidates usually spend the least amount of money on advertising, Toll says they’re the first to be cut. “Local candi dates have thin budgets,” he ob serves, “and by the time you wade through all the paperwork, you’ve lost any profit you would have made.” KZEL co-owner Barb West ag rees. “The paperwork for a $50 account is the same as for a $300 account, which is why many sta tions would rather not accept loc als.” One station manager who pre ferred to remain anonymous seemed to sum up the prevailing attitude at many of Eugene’s radio stations ‘‘We usually pound the sidewalks for advertising,” he says, “But we don’t even solicit political candidates. 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