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Oregon
merald
An Independent Newspaper
Vol. 79, No.
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Eugene, Oregon 97403
Tuesday, September, 27, 1977
Photo by Adnenne Salinger
Bookbuyers brave overflow crowds
The long wait in line for hundreds of peak-time bookbuyers was rewarded only by the added weight of
textbooks when the University bookstore opened Monday for the first day of fall classes. Several added
checkers and a team controlling the crowd were unable to assure quick passage to those patient enough to
wait.
Sen. Hatfield
switches on
French Pete
By KATHLEEN MONJE
Of the Emerald
Reversing a long-held position, Sen. Mark Hatfield,
R-Ore., announced Monday that he will support a
House-passed bill designating the French Pete area as
part of the national wilderness preservation system.
Steve Hickok, Hatfield’s Portland office aide, said
Monday that Hatfield’s change of position was brought
about by the Carter administration’s new directives on
wilderness management, which allow for protective
Forest Service management of wilderness status lands.
Such management includes minimal sanitation
facilities and the use of mechanized equipment in forest
fire fighting.
Hatfield opposed wilderness status, but also op
posed any logging of French Pete, Hickok said, because
the senator felt that public use of the area needed direc
tion. “He felt that the lower areas, which have more traffic,
ought to be managed somehow," Hickok explained.
Holway Jones, chairman of the Sierra National Wil
derness Committee and University social science lib
rarian, is pleased with Hatfield’s decision. “We had pretty
good support from the political community, and he’s
probably received a lot of calls and letters in the past ten
days,” Jones said Monday. Jones testified before the
House in Washington last week in Sierra Club efforts to
pass the bill.
The House and the Senate will still come to confer
ence in order to resolve other differences in their wilder
ness bills, Hickok predicted, but ‘‘French Pete will not be a
subject of conference — it’s in," Hickok said, adding that
‘‘the Senator’s recommendations will undoubtedly pre
vail” in the Senate.
Hatfield also announced that he will drop his advo
cacy for immediate wilderness status for the Boulder
Creek area near Roseburg and the Hidden tract near
Salem. Aides in Washington said the U.S. Forest Service
assured that the 19,200-acre Boulder Creek and the
49,000-acre Hidden tract will be studied for potential wil
derness status.
Other differences between the House and the Se
nate bills to be resolved in conference, Hickok said, in
clude the Kalmiopis area in southern Oregon, the Winaha
area near the Washington border and the Wild Rogue
area about 30 miles inland from the southern Oregon
coast.
Students face tuition
deadline Wednesday
University students whose budgets are already tight
will find those budgets even tighter Wednesday, when the
deadline passes to pay tuition without penalty. In addition,
drop-adds will cost an additional $1 for each change in
registration after Wednesday.
Oregon Hall will be open until 4:30 p.m. Wednesday
to help accomodate changes on the final day to pay
without penalty.
Congress might provide tuition tax breaks
By JANE LEHMAN
Of the Emerald
College students may finally get a break
on the cost of tuition thanks to legislation
pending in both the U.S. Senate and
House.
Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., Monday in
troduced legislation to provide tax credits
for half of the cost of tuition, up to a max
imum of $500.
The measure, which would not go into
effect until 1980, covers cost for students
on a full or part time basis in public or private
colleges. It also extends to two-year train
ing and vocational schools, as well as
elementary and secondary private schools.
The proposal, known as the
Packwood-Moynihan Tuition Tax Credit Act
of 1977, boasts 41 co-sponsors, almost half
of the senate.
Lane Johnston, press secretary for
Packwood, is optimistic over the bill’s
chances. Johnston says Sen. Russell
Long, D-La., chairman of the Senate Fi
nance Committee, has already promised
public hearings on the bill for January. She
also points out that 12 of the 18 finance
committee members co-sponsored the bill.
That gives it a great deal of weight,"
Johnston says.
“Studies show tuition is a major factor in
enrollment decisions, Packwood said in a
prepared statement. There has been a 20%
drop in lower and middle income students in
enrollment.
“Students have been priced out of
range,” Johnston adds.
Johnston says the plan will not add to
federal bureaucracy, because it will be ad
ministered through the existing Internal Re
venue Service (IRS) structure.
The amount will either be deducted from
the tax bill owed by the student or parent, or
else a refund will be given where the tax
bracket is low enough.
The bill will cost $4.7 billion to implement
and maintain, but Johnston hastens to point
out that the figure represents less than one
per cent of the projected 1980 budget or
four per cent of what taxpayers are cur
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