Environmental footnotes
Forest Service seSks campground hosts
CAMPGROUNDS AVAILABLE:
. .■* Instead of spending an unemp
loyed summer in Eugene, why
not host a campground?
Campground hosts are volun
teers who agree to spend part or
all of their summer in a U.S.
Forest Service campground
where they provide information to
campers using the area. As a re
ByE.G. WHITE-SWIFT
Of the Emerald
ward, they receive a designated
campsite for the period of time
they serve, plenty of fresh air and
lots of visitors.
The program, initiated three
years ago to provide better ser
vice to the public in forest
campgrounds, has been widely
acclaimed by Forest Service re
creation personnel, campers and
the campground hosts. Some
hosts stay the entire summer,
while others work only during
weekends or for a few weeks.
The Forest Service would like
to expand the program, but badly
needs one basic ingredient: the
volunteer hosts. All national
forest offices have information on
the program. The Willamette
National Forest office is located in
the Federal Building in downtown
Eugene at Seventh Avenue and
Pearl Street.
PEANUT SHELLS SAVED: A
mixt' 're of peanut shells and rice
hulls has the potential for produc
ing fire doors at about 30 per cent
of the cost of a commercial door.
That is one of the conclusions
reached by a recent Environmen
tal Protection Agency (EPA) re
search project that examined
whether large volumes of waste
materials could be integrated into
standard composite products for
the building industry.
The research results suggest
that superior products using
wastes can be produced econom
ically and provide better comfort
and safety. A full size room was
constructed to demonstrate their
ability.
For a summary report of the re
search, write to Robert Landreth.
Municipal Environmental Re
search Laboratory, EPA, Cincin
nati, Ohio, 45268. Request
“Utilizing Solid Wastes for Build
ing Materials."
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committee is developing plans for
a bicycle festival to be held in the
Eugene area Aug. 20 through 28.
The festival will focus on the
four uses of bicycles: as a viable
mode of transportation, short re
creational rides, short overnight
recreational rides and racing.
Tentative plans include a
series of evening rides sponsored
by the Spoke Folk bicycle dub,
lengthy tours of two days or more
that would begin and end in
Eugene sponsored by the
Eugene Parks and Recreation
Department, weekend and even
ing bicycle races sponsored by
the Eugene Cycling Club and
several other special cycling
events.
Eugene area retailers will be
urged to display bicycles in their
display windows and to support
the festival as a tourist attraction.
Eugene also will be promoted as
the Bicycle Capital of Oregon.
Local bicyclers who would like
to help finalize the festival plans
should contact Ernie Drapela at
the Eugene Parks and Recrea
tion Department (687-5333).
TOLL-FREE RECYCLING: Palo
Alto, Calif., has introduced a new
refuse disposal system designed
to encourage recycling efforts.
The system permits residents
to dump up to one and a half
cubic yards of trash for a flat 50
cent fee. However, for those resi
dents who deposit old news
paper, glass or cans at an adja
cent recycling center, the fee will
be waived and they will receive a
“toll-exempt' pass.
Program officials say traffic
through the recycling center has
increased by nearly 40 per cent
since the program's initiation. The
actual recycling tonnage has in
creased by 25 per cent.
GOAT STUDY: The largest
mountain goat herd on national
resource lands in the lower con
tiguous 48 states has experi
enced an 81 per cent decline in
the past 30 years.
In an attempt to discover a
means of stopping the decline, the
Bureau of Land Management and
Washington State Department of
Game have entered into a
cooperative agreement to study
mountain goat, deer and domes
tic cattle food habits on Chopaka
Mountain in eastern Washington.
The study will consist of the
analysis of fecal samples from
the three species. The Wildlife
Habitat Laboratory at Washington
State University will analyze the
fecal samples for clues on why
goats are decreasing
FOR PLANTS SAKE: Botanists
of the Oregon Rare and En
dangered Plant Species Task
Force (OREPSTAF) will meet in
Portland this weekend to review
progress in identifying rare and
endangered plants.
They will also compile informa
tion on the range and status of
species already listed. Some 143
native species have not been
seen or reported recently by any
one and 370 others are known
from five or less sites.
The conference will be held at
the Bonneville Power Administra
tion Auditorium, 1002 N.E. Holla
day St. in Portland Sunday after
noon, a slide presentation will be
given on the project. The general
public is invited to attend that
session but all other sessions will
be closed as discussion ui ioic
plant sites is carefully guarded.
CARCINOGEN CLEARING
HOUSE: The National Cancer In
stitute has established a nation
wide clearinghouse to identify
and evaluate cancer causing ag
ents (carcinogens) in the envi
ronment.
The clearinghouse is made up
of 30 voting members from
academic, medical and scientific
research institutions as well as
from industry, organized labor
and public interest groups.
For more information, contact
Dr James Sontag. Executive Di
rector, Clearinghouse on En
vironmental Carcinogens, Room
3A 16,. Building 31, National Insti
tutes of Health, Bethesda, Mary
land, 20014.
ENERGY POLICY REVIEW:
Energy curtailment plans and reg
ional utility plans will be the topic
for the Energy Policy Review
Committee meeting in Room 350
of the State Capitol Building in
Salem Thursday beginning at
7:30 p.m.
ENERGY ROULETTE: A new
energy and environment
simulator has been developed by
the Energy Research and De
velopment Administration to help
people better understand the re
lationship between energy, envi
ronment and standard of living
while playing a game
This simulator is an analog
computer that factors in energy
resources and reserves, food
production, population growth,
transportation, industry, residen
tial use and environmental
hazards.
The object is to balance all
these factors and see how many
years everything will last, or to
make everything last longer The
simulators are available for use at
energy-related functions by con
tacting the Bonneville Power Ad
ministration
HEP student’s trial postponed
The trial of 19-year-old
Federico Paz, accused of the
Feb. 12 fatal stabbing of Ricardo
Villalobos, 17, in the basement of
Bean Hall, is postponed indefi
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nitely because a Lane County
Circuit Judge has ruled two con
fessions Paz reportedly gave
police can't be used against him
at his trial.
Judge Douglas Spencer made
the ruling after the question of the
confessions was brought up two
weeks ago during a pre-trial hear
ing.
The trial was scheduled for
Tuesday, but when the prosecu
tion filed a notice of appeal Mon
day, it was postponed indefinitely.
The appeal will be filed with the
Oregon Court of Appeals.
During the pre-trial hearing
there was testimony that Paz was
interrogated by a Eugene police
officer on Feb. 13 at the Eugene
City Hall. After the questioning,
Paz requested an attorney and
said he would say no more.
The defendant then was turned
over to two other police officers,
who were not informed by the first
officer that Paz had asked for an
attorney. The two officers said
they obtained a confession, ac
cording to testimony.
Spencer said in his ruling that
all questioning should have
ceased until an attorney was pre
sent.
Also at the pre-trial hearing, a
prosecution witness said Paz had
made a second confession when
he called his parents in Caldwell,
Idaho, from the police station and
spoke to them in Spanish. An
Oregon state trooper overheard
the conversation
Paz's lawyer said at the pre
tnal hearing that the conversation
wasn't admissible as evidence
because of what he called the
' fruits of the poisonous tree' doc
trine, which says that evidence
that has been ruled inadmissible
can t be used against a defen
dant.
Judge Spencer ruled that the
second confession wasn't admis
sible.
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