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Jivin' John Etheredge loves it \ Saturday Gold made for ‘true believers’ By JOHN WAGNER Of the Emerald The syrupy harmony of Little Caesar an{J the Romans has just faded into: "Hi, Jivin’ John with you 'til midnight with an other edition of the true stuff.” Saturday Gold is on the air. In the middle of KZEL-FM’s control room is John Etheredge, Jivin’ John of the weekend oldies show. After flipping a switch and adjusting a couple of mixer knobs, he cues a record, takes a drag on his cigarette, checks the log, pushes two tape cartridges into a double-decker eight track machine and, finally, leans back to sip some chablis. An ancient Joe Tex record roars from the studio monitor. “This show was started about five years ago at KLCC by Dave Chance, Etheredge explains "It was called Satur day Gold Rock and Roll and V was strictly a request show at the time. We gave out that phone number so many times I’ll never be able to forget it. But a few weeks after I took over I stopped giving it out.” "I got tired of playing Iron Butterfly requests and decided to bring the true believers out of the cracks in the walls," he says. Most of the records I play now were never gold, but I've kept the title for tradition." After a year-and-a-half at LCC, Etheredge took a job as a station manager in Delaware, but it was a country and west ern station and Saturday Gold was out. "I really missed doing the oldies show even though I'm a country fan, too,” he says. "One Saturday night in Dela ware I picked up an oldies show from North Carolina. At midnight he signed off with "Goodnight My Love" by Jesse Belvin, the song I used to close this show. I was homesick as it was, and that really broke me up.” So homesick, in fact, that after about a year he was back in Eugene, looking for a way to get Saturday Gold back on the air. “I applied at every station in town about three times, but no luck," he says. “After six months of playing country music at KORE and KATR, I just about gave up. Then I went back to KZEL for one last try and they asked me what I was doing Saturday night. I’ve been doing the same thing every Saturday night since.” That was in January of 1975, and a good "thing” it is. The show's popularity has been solid and steady ever since. Perhaps the most engaging part of the show, next to selec tions like “Cross My Heart” by Johnny Ace and the Beal Streeters, or “Goodbye Kansas City” by Wilbert Harrison, is Etheredge’s knowledge of old rock, which he regularly injects into his patter. “I get the information from liner notes, books, magazines, other collectors. I buy the rec ords from companies that rent juke boxes, second hand stores, specialty shops, and sometimes I trade. I’ve got around 5,000 forty-fives and maybe 2,000 albums. Besides this show, it’s my hobby. It’s something I’m into every day.” Something else he's into every day is being operations manager of KASH radio. “It’s a nine-to-five job which is quite a switch,” he says, though his smile shows he enjoys it. “Aside from liking oldies, I just like radio.” Listening to his show, it’s apparent radio likes Etheredge. Youth commission needs council okay A commission for the rights of young persons may be added to the Eugene Human Rights Com mission in the near future as a re suft of efforts by an ad hoc commit tee on youth. When the Human Rights Com mission was established, four commissions were created, one each for women, minorities, handicapped persons and aged persons An ad hoc committee was appointed by Mayor Les An derson to study the feasibility of. a similar commission for youth due to strong lobbying efforts by young persons. But the committee did not only investigate the need for a com mission. It also probed the pos sibilities for creating a youth advo cacy group for the purpose of rep resenting young persons in city government According to Jim Forbes, chairer of the committee, the committee has arrived at a deci sion to recommend to the city council that a nine-member com mission for problems of youth be established to operate on "equal status" with the other commis sions. Forbes says the ad hoc commit tee presented its findings to the city council's committee of the whole meeting on Wednesday, but no conclusive decision was made. The proposal is due to come before the council at a regu lar session on June 28 at 7:30 p.m. at the city council chambers. Among the possible problems to be hammered out by the council is the fact that young persons are Outdoor-related classes offered Bend 76, a new summer pro gram in outdoor-related education will be presented June 28 through August 27 by the Oregon State System of Higher Education in cooperation with Central Oregon Community College (COCC). Classes will be held on the COCC campus at Bend. Included are one and two-week credit courses in such projects as vol canology, soccer coaching, natural history, outdoor writing and outdoor photography Kessler Cannon, former direc tor of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, will con duct a two-week seminar on En vironmental Problem focusing on state and federal legislation as it affects the environmental move men. Dee Andros, director of men's athletics at Oregon State University (OSU) and Frances (Sandy) Neeley, director of women’s athletics at OSU, will teach a one-week course on “Making Title IX Work." They will cover a number of questions re lated to that portion of the Educa tion Amendments of 1972 forbid ding discrimination on the basis of sex in educational programs and activities receiving federal funds Another intensive one-week credit course looks at present, past and future national and Pacific Northwest energy re sources Credit for these courses is being offered through OSU, Oregon College of Education, University of Oregon and Portland State University. Canoe floats, field tnps to some of the caves and scenic areas near Bend and courses in soccer playing and soccer coaching, ten nis, painting, picture framing, and rod building and fly fishing are in cluded in the non-credit offenngs of Bend '76. Nellie Wolcott, coordinator of Bend '76, urges early registration to assure opportunity to partici pate in selected programs. She indicates that an informational brochure including course details and fee schedules for both under VOLVO Repairs and Service Also repairs on Most Makes Major and Minor. Quality Workmanship.. Farmers ARCO Service 407 E. 11th _343-4225 Oregon Daily Emerald J graduate and graduate credit as well as costs for non-credit pro grams, dates of the various courses and activities, is available by writing to Bend 76, 695 Sum mer N.E., Salem, Oregon 97310 or by telephoning Salem, 378-4858. read the CLASSIFIEDS now The Oregon Daily Emerald production department has a new telephone number for greater convenience in arranging for your typesetting needs. HEADLINES: 7tf/Unear inch BODY COPY: 15tf/square inch 250/tabuiar, material CAMERA WORK: $3 00/shot RATES You can reach the other Emerald departments at these numbers: x5511 news/editonal x37l2 display advertising/business **343 classifieds Page 9 not protected by the law from dis crimination. Forbes says the commission could include per sons from aae 18 to 25. He adds, however, that the youth commis sion would be “vitally concerned with the under-18 group, even though there “is no legal backing for them.'' Young persons, who “consti tute a large part of society” are “in a state of limbo; they need a voice in government,” according to Forbes. “It is my feeling that it is now time for the rights of young per sons to be established and main tained. Young people need to have input into decisions that af fect their lives. We can’t expect them to act responsibly if they are not given any responsibility,” says Forbes. The U.S. Navy is pleased to announce that all officer programs, except those subject to specific U.S. statutes, are now open to all qualified students and graduates. ONE OF THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURES Words available on tape The spoken word is giving stiff competition to the music of the Douglass Listening Room. Approximately 500 cassettes featuring speeches are available for student and faculty use. with topics ranging from Watergate hearings to Louis Schlan speak ing on exorcism. The library’s collection of cas settes began in 1973, when an audio cassette committee, com posed of five librarians, was estab lished. The committee was de signed to show what could be done with cassettes not only as learning devices, but also as his torical pieces. The vital history cassettes, which the library has purchased at $10 each, are produced by Encyc lopedia Americana and CBS News. They arrive at the library three to four months after the event. According to humanities lib rarian Richard Heinzkill, the cas settes have already enlarged the listening capacity of the Douglass Listening Room. “The Listening Room was de signed to work from turntables and set up for music,” he said. “Now, when those are full, people may turn to cassettes.’ The committee intends to de vote much of its future to publiciz ing the cassettes, as many stu dents still do not seem to have information on them. time is short read the ODE ■JL
