Area’s air rated ‘generally poor’
Photo by Erich Boeketoekle
Look closely. Obliterating this landscape are thousands of small dirt, smoke and dust particles, Smog.
According to recent tests Eugene-Springfield air has become a carrier and a possible health hazard.
Part-timers organized
Union vote set for students
A union election for University food student
workers will be held in about 25 days over a proposed
extension of the legal definition of employees eligible
for benefits under the current union contract.
The union contract currently does not cover em
ployees taking less than eight credit hours. If the
union’s proposed definition passes, every student
worker will be covered by the contract.
More than 200 student food service em
ployees working in the EMU, the University Inn and
Hamilton and Carson Halls will be eligible to vote.
If the union loses the election it will be dissolved.
“One of the reasons the election will be held at
this time,” says Jack Condliffe spokesman for Union
1893, “is that the union negotiation team felt that the
only way for the union to get the minimum wage
demands is to see a strong indication of support from
employees. Without such a show, there is no sense
in proceeding with negotiations.”
The election plans have resulted from a union
petition submitted to the Oregon Employee Relations
Board (ERB). University officials and employers
have 10 days to file objections to the petition. If they
do not, the election must be held within 15 days aftei
that period.
Student food service employees are encour
aged to attend meetings held this week as listed ir
their Negotiations Newsletter No. 4.
Air quality in the Eugene
Springfield area during 1977 was
called "generally poor” at the
Lane Regional Air Pollution Au
thority (LRAPA) Board of Direc
tors’ February meeting.
The area exceeded federal
clean air standards for three pol
lutants last year, according to
Ralph Johnston, LRAPA Techni
cal Services supervisor.
Photochemical oxidants, car
bon monoxide and suspended
particles were over the federal
limits. “These excesses of course
were not continuous throughout
the year, but varied with season
and daily meteorological condi
tions.” Johnston said.
For three hours last August,
photochemical oxidants ex
ceeded the alert level — they vio
lated the federal standard a total of
ten times. This pollutant is formed
by an atmospheric reaction be
tween sunlight and exhaust from
automobiles, veneer driers and
other combustion processes.
The carbon monoxide standard
was violated seven times last
year; four violations occurred dur
ing January, due to restricted air
flow.
Suspenced particles caused by
field burning, continued in 1977.
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) has designated
Eugene-Springfield as an Air
Quality Maintenance Area for this
pollutant.
The EPA has recently declared
non-attainment for the levels of
photochemical oxidants and car
bon monoxide in the area, with
control strategies required to cor
rect the situation.
Johnston said control strategies
will probably be centered around
mobile sources, such as the au
tomobile.
Details on how the require
ments will be met and how LRAPA
will be involved haven’t been de
cided yet, according to Johnston.
“It was just last week that we
were officially designated as a
non-attainment area for carbon
monoxide and photochemical ox
idants,” he said. The EPA didn’t
issue guidelines to meet the re
quirements until the end of De
cember, he added.
The Student Bar Association Presents:
STEPHEN MILLER
Eugene Attorney
speaking on
"ATTORNEY
ADVERTISING
AND LEGAL ETHICS”
Tuesday - February 21st
12:30 PM
Room 12S - Law School
EVERYONE INVITED!
WE HAVE TWO
SCHOLARSHIPS
AVAILABLE
WE HAVE TWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE for technical
majors (computer science, math, physics, chemistry, and ar
chitecture). Recipients will be selected on a competitive basis by a
board of officers here at the U of 0.
Our deadlines for filling career field quotas and awarding
scholarships is March 31st.
If you have two years of school remaining (graduate or
undergraduate), check us out NOW!
OUR U OF 0 DETACHMENT HAS AVAILABLE QUOTAS in
all career fields that must be filled by March 31st. pilots,
navigators, missile, scientific, and administrative management
officers. Students awarded pilot quotas will go to AF Pilot Training
upon graduation and commissioning.
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