ERA okays retail expansion plan
a retail expansion plan was given the go
ahead by the Eugene Renewal Agency
(ERA) during their regular meeting Mon
day.
The plan was approved after a California
development firm was authorized by the
agency to act as the sole negotiating agent
for the city to secure tenant commitments
from major retailers.
Although a contract between the Agency
and the John S. Griffith Co., of Irvine, Cal.,
has yet to be signed, the agency hopes to
attract at least three major retail firms to the
downtown area.
‘During the next three or four months, the
Griffith company will be talking to retailers
about the development plans,” Charles
Kupper, executive director of the ERA
said.
If each of the sequence steps toward the
development goes well, ground breaking
could take place within two years.”
The expansion plans include a new
shopping center with at least two new de
partment stores, restaurants and smaller
shops. The plan also will include two five
level parking lots to accommodate nearly
2,000 cars.
The project will mean the expansion of
the existing mali by nearly 400,000 square
feet, double the size of the present retail
space.
The Griffith company may build and fi
nance its own enclosed mall within the
downtown area if it can get commitments
from major retail firms, the company presi
dent told ERA members.
The company may also sponsor cultural
events and entertainment in the mall area to
attract shoppers during the evening hours.
An enclosed mall with several shops
would be necessary to attract major retail
ers, company representatives said last
week. The center, if completed according to
plan, would extend from the western edge
of the Bon Marche store to the comer of
11th Avenue and Willamette Street
Coast Guard
cleans up,
investigates spill
ASTORIA (AP) — The U S.
Coast Guard started cleanup op
erations Tuesday on an oil spill on
the Lower Columbia River, and an
official said five ships were being
investigated for having caused it.
The spill was reported shortly
before 7 a.m. yesterday by a ship
moving upriver. It was described
at that time as one-half mile wide
and three miles long, about 25
miles upstream from Astoria, near
the Washington shore.
Cmdr. Stanley Burgess, Coast
Guard environmental protection
officer in Portland, said an inves
tigating helicopter estimated the
spill at no more than 300 gallons.
Since the source of the pollution
was not known, the Coast Guard
hired a cleanup contractor and
sent Coast Guard boats and a
containment boom to the scene.
Burgess said the oil was de
scribed as black, weathered and
non-sticky, which probably came
from a vessel moving up or down
the river. He said five suspect
vessels were under investigation.
Burgess said it was expected
the oil not cleaned up would dis
perse and be washed to sea on an
outgoing tide.
The spill was first observed in
the vicinity of Skamokawa, Wash.
Burgess said the Washington De
partment of Ecology was con
cerned about waterfowl, as the oil
seemed to be heading around
Harrington Point toward some
mudflats and grasslands.
Co-directors selected
Nancy Lange and Dan Van Camp have been selected as co
directors of the children’s program for the second annual Family Vaca
tion College at the University. They will be in charge of developing the
children’s activities taking place during the Family Vacation College of
campus on July 16 to 21.
Activities will range from arts and crafts to aquatics and from
backpacking to baseball. Morning, afternoon and evening activities,
offered in a ‘‘camp-like’’ atmosphere, will be available to pre-schoolers,
pre-teens and teens.
Last year, 15 children participated in the program. Both new co
directors will receive their BS degree in recreation and park manage
ment from the University this year. They will earn college credit for
directing the children’s program.
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Eve I Knievel toys no lonqer ideal
NEW YORK (AP) — The Ideal
Toy Corp. is removing stunt
motorcycles and other toys that
bear Evel Knievel’s name from the
U.S. market because of his con
viction last year for beating his
publicist.
'Based on what happened last
fall, there’s no reason to continue
production,' Zeke Rose, a com
pany spokesman, said Tuesday.
Knievel, 38, is serving a six
TDA balloons
get response
EUGENE, (AP) — The Trojan
Decomissioning Alliance has re
ceived 12 cards mailed back since
it released 1,000 balloons from
near the Trojan nuclear plant at
Rainier, Ore., March 17.
So far, the distance record is
from Protivin, Iowa. A balloon was
seen landing in a field near Proti
vin about 4 o’clock the afternoon
of March 18th. It had traveled
more than 2,000 miles in slightly
more than 24 hours.
The balloons were released as
part of a state-wide protest
against refueling of the Trojan
plant. Each balloon carried a card
reading:
“This card was released from
the site of the Trojan nuclear
power plant at Rainier, Oregon. If
it reached you, so can airborne
radiation.”
month sentence in Santa Monica,
Calif., for beating his former press
agent, Sheldon Saltman, with a
baseball bat. He is to be released
on probation in about one month.
When Ideal first considered the
question of discontinuing the mar
keting of Knievel toys Rose said,
The company recognizes that it
sells its products to children and
that is has a responsibility to the
children and their parents.”
Rose said Tuesday the firm
plans to continue to sell the toys,
which include a stunt motorcycle
that does flips and a canyon sky
cycle, in Germany and the United
Kingdom. He said European sales
represent “a very small propor
tion" of total sales.
He could not say whether Ideal
will market the Knievel toys in this
country in the future. He said late
last year, however, that sales in
1977 were not as good as they
had been.
A licensing contract that permits
Ideal to use Knievel’s name in ex
change for a royalty fee “remains
unchanged,’’ Rose said.
The Knievel toys netted the
company $100 million in the last
five years and were “terrific sel
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lers” in the past, Rose said. He
said Knievel received between 2.5
percent and 10 percent of sales on
the toys.
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