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Sessions to make communities self-reliant By NANCY MARSHALL Of the Emerald The first of four sessions of a series designed to make commun ity groups and local neighbor hoods self-reliant will be held Thursday in the Francis Willard Community School gymnasium. The session, which starts at 7:30 p.m., will focus on alternative strategies for economic develop ment and consequences for the different communities. The sessions, according o Bob Groth of the Community De velopment Library, the main sponsor of the sessions, are an attempt to reach the citizens of Eugene by opening specific is sues to the community. “The main objective of the ses sion is to create dialogue in the community," Groth explains . “It’s IFC turns down program funds The Incidental Fee Committee (IFC) vetoed re quested funds for two ASUO programs and assigned tag persons to investigate funding for two new pro rams Wednesday night. IFC members voted 4-3, with Scott Bassett, Janet Eggleston, Ted Walker and Mary Gilmore dis senting, not to allocate $30 to the ASUO Course Guide for an advertisement in the faculty publication, Oregon Week. The ad was to thank faculty members for their help with course descriptions, with the intent of spurring those members to participate again. The Committee voted unanimously not to re consider a motion to fund travel expenses to an American Insitutute of Architects (AIS) convention attended by architecture students. Phi Beta Lambda, a business, computer sci ence, economics, advertising and public relations student group asked for funds to cover some basic office expenditures and an informational brochure. Doug Benson was assigned as tag person to study the request and to report to the Committee next Wednesday. Another new group, University Veterans, asked for $174 to send letters to veterans. Ted Walker was assigned tagperson and will report to the Committee next week. In other business, the Committee voted 4-3 to transfer $25.20 from the EMU Board’s wage and salary line item fund to the advertising and publicity fund to pay for an advertisement for a needed new member. Jeff Warren, Eggleston and Bassett voted against the measure. Matchmaker (Continued from Page 1) Henderson tries to clear out the hard-to-sell inventory first. ‘‘See this sourpuss,” she says showing a picture of a pineapple faced old woman. “A man came in here and I slapped this picture down in front of him and said ‘You’re going to marry her'” The man did not buy this at first. But after the first date, things started looking better. “Here they are now,” says Henderson, showing a picture of the couple smiling big gooey grins. “Happily married!" Gin. She recalls the case of the woman who had arthritis up to her neck. “She waddled like this,” says Henderson, holding out her arms and looking a little like Franken stein. “I spent months looking for her match.” Finally she matched her with a man who had been severly burnt in a gas explosion. The two hit it off, and now live in a nice home. Some customers are harder to please than others. Henderson now has a Seventh Day Adventist in stock who refuses to marry a man who smokes or drinks, and would prefer one who regularly at tends church. Henderson is still working on this case. Professional men with high salaries are big sellers, but her in ventory of these is running low. "I believe in God,” says Hen derson, as if naming her favorite brand of detergent. She readily praises the Christian virtues of marriage, and is married to a man of 74. “Everyone should be married,” she says. “People don’t realize how bad it can be when you’re alone.” Her clients agree. “Dear Grace” reads a letter from a prospective customer. “I honestly believe my life will not be complete unless I am fulfilled as a wife and a mother. I can’t think of anything more rewarding than making a man happy... With the grace of God, I hope your service will be the answer to my prayer.” “We wouldn’t have divorces if everyone thought this way,’’ says Henderson, expressing her chick en soup dialectic. Henderson has had other satis fied customers. There was the man whose first wife burst a blood vessel while going out for a head of cabbage. “He came in and cried, I didn’t know what to do with him,” she declares. Eventu ally she sold him a replacement. When the replacement died, he came back again and recently married his third Henderson-wife. A regular customer. One Eugene couple, married for two years, met after months of browsing through Henderson’s stock. “I had no chance to meet anyone through my work,” says the husband who went through eight Henderson-persons before meeting his present wife. “It’s hard to find someone interested in the same things you are, with the same life style and background." His wife window-shopped for six months before making her de cision. "Before the service I had met some people through church, but they didn’t interest me,” she says. Both are interested in good music, restaurants, opera, out doors and dancing. A marriage made in heaven via hobby cards they filled out. “Some people come in here and spill their guts,” says Henderson of the cards. Henderson says some clients have not been happy with their re sults. One woman married a man, divorced him and is now running a business with his money. “I wouldn’t mention that one,” says Henderson. But in the end, she says, most are happy with the ser vice. She once sent a potential wife several thousand miles to meet a man. The man responded with a card reading, “Dear Grace, get her out of here.” Henderson refused to take her back, and the two are now happily married. Henderson refuses to talk about the profit return on her matchmak ing business. “My husband would hit the ceiling if I mentioned it,” she says. Some misunderstand Hen derson’s business. Once she re ceived an order for three women, one night, $300. The Register Guard refuses to let her advertise. Even satisfied customers are reluctant to tell their parents they met through a paid matchmaker. It ruins the romantic elan. Says one couple, “we figure it’s no one's business but our own.” Henderson says her business has suffered as a result. She is always fishing for new clients. “I have so many eligible young men in their twenties,” she says. "I wish some of those young Univer sity girls would join up.” Find me a find. Catch me a catch. YOUR OWN AIRPORT. 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The locally based enterprises may provide more opportunities for employment. “More importantly, the de velopment of these enterprises is a type of growth control,” explains Groth. "They would be utilizing sources already available, which is a more appropriate way, economically, to create jobs. ‘‘Also important, neighbor hoods would be working towards self-reliance, and not as much de pendency on large corporations. It would also improve the quality of life, because certain products could be more accessible to the community it served, he says. One example of this develop ment, Groth says, is the Whiteaker neighborhood that re ceived a Community Block Grant from the federal government. The money went directly into develop ing neighborhood-owned enter prises specifically to build a community greenhouse. Those people would provide much of their own produce and become more self-reliant, he says. Another example of self reli ancy development is Garbagios, a Eugene recycling cooperative de signed to benefit the community by picking up the garbage rather than have a larger corporation do the job. Groth says this is “more environmentally enhancing. It's not as hard to get in touch with a local enterprise, and therefore there is much more accessibility to people they are serving in the community.” A comparative assessment of proposals for a Port District will also be discussed. This calls for an enlargment of the Eugene air port, ultimately making Eugene more easily accessible, because it would be able to land bigger planes and bring in more people. 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