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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1978)
Court to study Greyhound appeal WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it will take a look at part of a $14.4 million antitrust award against Greyhound bus company in 1973 in favor of an Oregon bus line. The justices said they will study one of three arguments presented in an appeal by Greyhound contending its alleged antitrust activities had been approved by the Inter state Commerce Commission and therefore were immune from legal attack. Attorneys for Greyhound and Mount Hood Stages, the Bend, Ore., company that won the award, said it appeared the court's consideration would focus on $5.2 million of the $14.4 million award. “I don’t know whether to laugh or cry,” said Mount Hood Pres. William Niskanen in Bend. The trial jury voted to award Mount Hood Stages $13.1 million in triple damages and $1.2 million in attorneys fees after finding that over a 20-year period Greyhound had acquired bus companies whose routes cir cled those run by Mount Hood. The jury agreed that the encirclement deprived Mount Hood of the profits of providing connecting service. The Supreme Court said today it will con sider Greyhound’s contention that Mount Hood Stages is precluded from collecting any damages allegedly suffered before 1964 because of a statute of limitations in the dispute. “It may be a bit premature to predict ex actly what effect the court’s limiting its con sideration will have, however,” warned Greyhound attorney John Reese in San Francisco. Since 1943, Mount Hood has done busi ness as Pacific Trailways and has been a member of the National Trailways Bus Sys tem, an association of some 50 bus com panies competing against Greyhound. Mount Hood’s principal routes run bet ween Portland, Eugene and Albany in the west; Salt Lake City in the east; Klamath Falte in the south; and Biggs and The Dalles in the north. It features through service to other parts of the country through Trailways connec tions. Mount Hood sued Greyhound for its ac quisition tactics, even though each of the acquisitions had been approved by the ICC. Mount Hood won in federal trial court in Oregon, and its victory was upheld by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco last June. World at a glance From rrm rvpofti Brennan treated for cancer WASHINGTON — Justice William Brennan Jr., senior member of the Supreme Court in terms of age and service, is being treated for a cancerous tumor in his throat and will miss the next 10 days of work, a court spokesman said Monday. Brennan, 71, has been under-going cobalt radiation treat ment since three days before Christmas and will continue receiv ing the five-day-a-week medication for the next seven weeks, said Barrett McGum, the court’s press spokesman. Hamilton Jordan, wife split up WASHINGTON — Hamilton Jordan, Pres. Carter’s top aide, and his wife, Nancy, announced Monday they are separating. In a three-ltne statement distributed by Carter’s spokesman, Jody Powell, the Jordans gave no specific reason for the separa tion and mentioned nothing about their future plans. “We have decided to separate,” the statement said. “We know that our families and our friends will understand and respect our mutual decision.”” Shah gives Sadat support ASWAN, Egypt — The Shah of Iran plunged into a more active role in Middle East diplomacy Monday, giving his unqual ified support to Egyptian Pres. Anwar Sadat’s peace offensive. “I have come to express my feelings of admiration and friendship to Pres. Sadat... We hope what your president is doing will bring peace,” Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi said on his arrival in this palm-lined Nile resort city for talks with Sadat J Portland site of mini-stamp test PORTLAND,(AP) — Portland is one of five American cities where the U.S. Postal Service plans this Wednesday to begin test-marketing a miniature postage stamp. Kenneth Johnson, the Postal Service’s acting customer relations director for Portland, said Mon day the experimental stamp wiii be sold at all Port land, Milwaukie and Tigard post offices for a five month test period. The experimental first-class postage stamp, which bears a picture of an 1877 Indian-head penny, is two-thirds the size of a standard stamp, he said. It is being introduced as an economy move designed to save on printing and other expenses. It will cost just as much —13 cents — and “we will be using it for our regular postage stamp,” John son said. “If someone comes in and just asks for some 13-cent stamps, that’s what we ll give them — unless they object.’’ He said customers will be asked to fill out survey forms and the Postal Service plans random tele phone calls to determine the public's reaction. Simi lar tests will be run through May in Kansas City, Mo.; Richmond, Va.; Memphis Tenn.; and Hartford, Conn. “If the cost factors prove favorable and if the public accepts it, the smaller stamp size would prob ably be applicable to most common denominations’’ of stamps, Johnson said. “We hope it is going to help keep us from raising and raising and raising our rates.” A sheet of regular first-class stamps now con tains 100 stamps. Johnson said the smaller size will permit 150 stamps per sheet, with a corresponding reduction in printing and paper costs. * ip? NEW HUMBLE BAGELS M.'4' DELI & 11-7:00 M-F 9-3:00 M-F library turnout Pro-Nazi shoemaker hides in farmhouse for 38 years BELGRADE. Yugoslavia (AP) — A man who hid for half his life fearing punishment for pro-Nazi wartime activity says he used to cry when he heard happy voices DEQ fines Wah Chang PORTLAND (AP) — The Oregon Department of Environ mental Quality (DEQ) assessed $5,500 in civil penalties Monday against Teledyne Wah Chang of Albany for alleged violations of water quality standards. The DEQ said unauthorized discharges into Truax Creek were detected by the agency’s staff on Nov. 30 and Dec. 7. The company was assessed $2,500 for each in cident. "The notice of civil penalty states that these discharges could have been prevented or minimized through good surveil lance and immediate corrective action,” the DEQ said in a news release. outside, and dared not show him self even at his mother’s funeral. Janez Rus was a 32-year-old shoemaker when he went into hid ing at his sister’s farmhouse in June 1945, he told the Belgrade newspaper Politika in an interview published Sunday. Now 64, Rus was discovered last week after his sister bought a large supply of bread in the nearby village of Zalna, in the northwest ern Slovenia region, and a sus picious resident alerted police. Rus learned then that no charges ever had been filed against him and that he was free to resume normal ife, PoStika said. “If I had not been discovered, I would have remained in hiding. So I am happy that this happened,” Politika quoted him as saying. “Throughout these years l did nothing, and I never left the house. Through the windows I looked down to the village in the valley. People seldom passed by our house, which is isolated in the hills. When I heard happy people singing in the village I cried,’’ Rus said. He added, “There was no way out and I reconciled myself to the fate of a vanished man.” Politika said Rus had served for three months in 1943 with the Communist partisans of Josip Broz, now Yugoslav President Tito. Then Rus was captured by occupying German forces and joined the White Guard, a pro German group that fought the Communists. But Tito’s partisans won. When his mother died in 1966, Rus said, friends filled the house after the funeral but he remained hidden. “When the Germans withdrew,” Rus recalled “I was afraid of what would happen to me. My brother, Joze Rus, was a well-known parti san and I decided to hide until he returned home. I believed it would be easier for me, with my brother present, to surrender. But, my brother did not come and the years passed.’’ After Rus was found last week, he learned that his brother had been killed in action in the partisan ranks in March 1944. Politika commented that Janez Rus had “sentenced himself to a punishment which no court could pass on him,” hiding in his work shop and the attics of the house and bam. See BERG’S FOR COMPLETE SKI RENTAL SERVICE TWO LOCATIONS —* -GmSS COUNTRY SMS Rent Cross-Country Skis at our 11th & Mill Store. 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