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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1978)
From Cascade... ... to Women’s Press all know about the biggies — the Guard. Eugene Magazine, the Willamette Valley Observer. But they’re certainly not the only periodicals coming out of Eugene, and for some people not the most important. For example, how many people are aware that there are some 15 neighborhood news papers in Eugene? How about a journal for worker-controlled businesses? Or a publication for radical sociologists? The following is a list of Eugene periodi cals. It tries, on the one hand, to avoid being random, but on the other hand makes no claim to being comprehensive. If we miss anyone, let us know, and we ll try to correct the oversight. This list does not include the literary publi cations, which will be covered next week. Neither does it include Edcentric, which will also be featured in the next issue. CASCA^ lowrnai ot the Norftw»rsl FORESTRY MANAGEMENT A Growing Probtero Cascade 454 Willamette St., Box 1492, 485-0366. Over the Grower’s Market. P M. ublished ten times a year by Casca dian Regional Library (CAREL), “a non-profit information clearinghouse for networking ac tivities." This is one of the more interesting new publications around. Started last fall, it circu lates to ‘‘groups in the Pacific Northwest which are involved in publishing and other activities which inform and change their communities. ”• The most recent issue, 28 8V2XIOV4 news print pages with a heavier cover, includes articles on a northwest computer fair, nuclear coalitions, Sun Day, managing co-op growth, bulk food inspections, and community gar dens. One particularly unique feature of Cascade is a Reader Service system. Items in the magazine are numbered, and readers can receive more information on the subject by circling a corresponding number on a ser vice card on the back page. For anyone interested in so-called new age or alternative activities going on in the Northwest — co-ops, holistic health, appro priate technology, and the like — this magazine is a must. It's free to public lib raries, bookstores, and private non-profit community action organizations; $10 for a general membership. Community newspapers T^he city helps fund some 15 (there might be more or less; it’s hard to tell from the library’s collection) neighborhood newspap ers, usually affiliated with the officially recog nized community groups. Among them are the ABC (Active Bethel Citizens) News, The Amazon Messenger, the Crest Drive Citizen's Association Ridges and Vales, the Fairmount Echo, the Far West Neighborhood Association Window, the Hawkins Highland Newsletter, the Jefferson Area Neighbors News, the South University Neighbors SUN Times, the Southeast Firs Neighborhood As sociation Newsletter, the Whiteaker Neigh borhood News, the West University Neigh bors, and the Willakenzie Watch. Most of them are pretty ragged, publishing sporadically, announcing neighborhood events and association meetings. The exception is the Westside News, which proudly announces on its front page that it is “Eugene's only independent neigh borhood newspaper.’’ The half-tabloid is pub lished monthly, and disributed free to everyone bounded by Seventh and 13th av enues and Charnelton and Chambers streets. According to an editorial in the April, 1977, issue, the paper “Decided to stop accepting City funding because editorial pressure was attached to the money and because copy had to be submitted long before publication date, making information obsolete.’’ The paper includes information about the Westside Neighborhood Quality Project, classified ads, a calendar with an astrological guide, and traffic planning articles (a big issue over there). One recent issue even in cluded a review of The Place, an establish ment in which the writer claimed “Nazism is still rampant." Blunt. Cooperative Times No address for this one, but their last meeting was upstairs in the Grower’s Market. T M his is billed as the Journal of the Lane County Federation of Worker Controlled Businesses, and is designed to facilitate "greater communication among local worker controlled groups.” The first and only issue, dated "Spring,” was put together by mem bers of Board Foot, Cascade Shelter, Hoedads, Starflower, and ZooZoos. This is a very tidy job, 16 pages, 8V2X11. It includes an introduction to the FWCB — "Who we are and what we have done so far” _ and hard information on such subjects as democratic organization and chairing meet ings. Price on this one is 25 cents. Freedom’s Cry Published by Freedom’s Organization, 1127V2 Ferry St., Apt. 3, 484-1734. T A. he latest issue of this mimeographed Eugene paper caters to 55 and over PHOENIX (fe/niks) 1. a mythical bird of great beauty, the only one of its kind, fabled to live 500 or 600 years in the Arabian wilderness, to bum itself on a funeral pile, and to rise from its ashes in the freshness of youth and live through another cycle of years: often an emblem of immortality - The Random House Dictionary of the English Language first glance, it doesn’t look like a newspaper office at all. On Friday afternoons there aren’t any clacking typewriters, or ringing telephones or chattering teletypes; only four small rooms with cluttered desks and tables, calenders and animal posters hanging from the walls — and two elderly women quietly working. It isn’t until you walk into the composing room, a rectangular shaped affair wih slop ing work tables lining the walls, and see the piles of newspapers stacked on one another, the battered cardboard filing cabinet containing copies of past editions, and the current work in progress — layout sheets for the next week’s issue — that you are fully convinced that this is the office of The Phoenix, a Eugene-based publica tion that prints “Features for Lively People 55 and over.” Jackie Akin, 65, is the paper’s ad man ager. Although she is at the age that used to call for mandatory retirement (before Con gress recently raised it to 70), she could easily pass as 10 years younger. With her carefully combed, dark-rust-colored hair, and stylish pant suit, whe exudes the pro fessionalism acquired through years of owning her own ad agency. Ruby Lund, 71, is general manager. In contrast to Akin, she appears the ar chetypal grandmother figure. A chain smoker who customarily lights a cigarette and then leaves it unattended in one of three butt-filled ashtrays that litter her desk, she answers questions unhesitatingly, oc casionally tugging at the shock of white hair that shoots straight back from her forehead while searching for the right words. She, too, is a professional, having worked as a reporter, feature writer and ad salesperson on three different Oregon newspapers—all after spending years traveling around the world with her late husband, a foreign con struction worker for Morrison-Knutsen. Tfhese women are the guiding force behind The Phoenix, the popularity of which has grown so much within the past few years that, what was started as just a local publication for senior citizens, now has subscribers as far away as Massachusetts and Florida. And Lund estimates that over 5,000 persons read the paper monthly, al though not nearly that many copies are printed. The reason for the paper s popularity is simple: it has a well-defined audience that is all too used to being ignored. It’s no revelation to say that senior citizens in the United States are perhaps the most forgot ten minority. Until Congress recently raised the mandatory retirement age, the only overtures perpetually made to the elderly came in the form of campaign promises to increase social security, health care and provide low-cost housing. And after the elections, these have usually been the first promises to be tabled. Lund and Akin want to change all that. “We’re trying to win respect for the el ders,” Lund says. "We feel they're being put out to pasture. When they’re on a limited income, especially when they’re living alone, they want to be independent. And we want to help them be that way. “We’re offering them a voice. They’re being ripped off in a lot of ways, so we're asking them to come forward and tell us the circumstances. Then we investigate and go to bat for them” One way The Phoenix tries to help is by good old muckraking. In a three-part series, co-authored by Lund and reporter Paul Fat tig, that ran last February thru April, the paper exposed the plight of Eugene and Springfield seniors living in mobile home parks. Lund and Fattig interviewed dozens of seniors and discovered that they were being subjected to rate increases that, in some cases, doubled their rent payments And this, combined with loan (for the mobile homes) and utility payments, made their monthly expenditures, ironically, more than if they had been living in apartments. Which is exactly what they were trying to get away from. “They’re gouging the old people,' Lund says, “and we re fighting that, and we re going to fight some more in the future. Unlike more traditional news publicatons, The Phoenix doesn’t hesitate to become in volved in legal battles for what it feels is a just cause. In April, 1977, for example, rep resentatives for the paper presented tes timony before the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources on be half of a Eugene senior resident whose health prevented him from personally tes tifying. But Lund and Akin feel the major role for the paper is in presenting an alternative view that helps publicize the problems faced by seniors that the general public may not be aware of. “We try to stress legislation,” Akin says, “that deals with the senior citizen that the daily papers don't cover.” And to do this in a way that speaks best to the elderly, both Lund and Akin feel that the paper should always remain in the hands of seniors. Not long ago the paper’s board of di rectors (a nine-person group, including three seniors, that decides the non-profit publication’s guidelines) hired an editor who was in his mid-twenties. And it caused problems. “He kept wanting to write stories about death,” Lund says, “and our readers cer tainly didn’t want to read about that. “It’s a paper run by senior citizens,” she says, “and the readers complained when it was run by young people. We understand their problems.” He was soon let go, and since then Lund has been deciding what stories should be covered. And with Lund providing the direc tion, and Akin selling the advertising, the paper has been more successful than ever. Which is the way it should be. After all, the Phoenix rises again and again and ... By Dan Webster periodical is labeled "No. 3.,” which, come think of it, could refer to the apartment number. But an article on the Gay Rights ordinance indicates that it is a recent issue. According to the editorial page, "Things printed here in Freedom’s Cry will be about the issue of freedom, either directly or indi rectly.” Number Three’s eight pages include a couple of poems, a piece on humanism vs. naturalism, something on the Trojan De commissioning Alliance, and an article called "The Future and Marxism.” An issue of Freedom's Cry is yours for 20 cents. Healing Arts: Journal for Holis tic Health Put out by Steve Hitchcock and the Center for Holistic Health Education, 1680 Pearl St. N X ^ow in its second year, the Journal publishes articles on holistic health and in cludes the class schedule for the Great Oaks School of Health in Creswell. It’s a little half tab, small type and not very easy to read, but covers such topics as acupressure, homeopathy, reflexology, polarity, and iridol ogy. The periodical, which comes out every two months, also includes ads for many of the holistic health practicioners in the Eugene area. Insurgent Sociologist Department of Sociology, University of Oregon. T JL his is a dense one, unless you’re really into the subject. Typical topics are “Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism” and “Left-Wing Communism: an Infantile Disorder in Theory and Method.” Insurgent is “committed to the liberation of social science from bourgeois hegemony, and to advancing the contribution of social scientists to the transformation of capitalist society and the building of socialism.” Most of its readership, says one staff member, is in Boston, New York, and San Francisco, and consists of young radical sociology instruc tors and academics. You get your money’s worth — the last =THh riVSU^pENT issue was 88 pages of solid copy for $2.50. Subscriptions are $10 sustaining, and $6 low income. \OiriHW*s» ARTISANS ftjj^NtrrWCWIC1 JVSN '•»WS Aar.t ma 'woRlMAMil SPECIAL SATURDAY MARKET ISSUE Quilt Law -Mining Tips ' Man >M f -alt Northwest Artisans Network News 15531/2 Charnelton, 343-2403. P published by the Northwest Artisans Network, this is yet another neat little cooperative venture. It’s a monthly magazine, “Two bits a hit,” and the last issue of the 7x10 publication contained 16 pages. The April issue has a special piece on Saturday markets, giving the histories, fees, dates, entry requirements, and sundry infor mation about the markets in Bend, Eugene, Kent, Wash., and Portland. It also has an interesting piece on a new law that threatened to put quitters out of business, and an article on mining. Subscriptions are $3 a year, “$5 if you’re feeling flush and want to help the network grow.” Northwest Bulletin P.O. Box 3708, 686-5125. A J, According to the blurb, the Northwest Bulletin “is intended to fill the gap in informa tion about the strategies and activities of the corporations and governmental organiza tions operating in the Northwest.” It’s another half-tab, about 16 pages, and is a project of the Northwest Research Center, which investigates power structures in the Northwest and the nation. Recent arti cles have included “Carter’s new defense budget: Boeing’s Buck Bonanza,” “Corpo rate profiles: N.W. Food Processors,” and a list of U.S. agribusiness corporations in the Northwest. The articles are concise, well researched, and well-written, and give sig nificant statistics about the role of big busi ness in shaping this part of the country. Subscriptions are $5 for one year, $10 for institutions, and 60 cents per issue. Old Oregon Room 211, Susan Campbell Hall, University of Oregon. W hat would a university be without an alumni magazine? This one, published quar terly and in its 57th year, contains the usual alumni news and university-related briefs. But it also includes general feature articles of interest. The current issue includes an article on author Barry Lopez, author of Desert Notes; a piece on a dying glacier and a story on Mitch Hider, champion whistler. Old Oregon is, of course, free to alumni, so most readers of this article will probably be getting it sometime soon. Oregon Week Also in Susan Campbell Hall. A weekly four-page tabloid designed for the faculty and staff. It consists largely of re-written news bureau releases, plus info on who’s publishing what, speaking where, and getting their name in print enough to make it look like they’re doing something. Women’s Press P.O. Box 562. A collectively operated newspaper, published six times a year. “We use news, reviews of books, movies, plays, records, and cultural events. Not to mention poetry, letters and opinions, or just about anything. We always need graphics and photos.” This non-profit publication has a decided militant lesbian edge to it, but puts forth its ideas without a whole lot of offensive rhetoric. There are articles in here that anyone can read and learn from. The February/March issue included stories on FBI surveillance in Eugene, infant malnutrition, J.P. Stevens boycott, queer politics, storyteller Cynthia Orr, and an interview with Chicana lesbian Naomi Littlebear. It’s a non-profit journal, and costs $5 per year, $15 for institutions, or 35 cents a copy. By Eric Maloney La Crepe French crepes and omelettes 770 E. 11th Ave. Next to the Mayflower Theatre 342-8340 Free coffee with any crepe or omelette order with this ad. BETA SUMMER JOB WITH A FITHK CALL: 686-3102 ARMY RBTC. IK TWO-YEAR PROGRAM /ltyKi/1 For Service and Repairs with your University of Oregon I.D. 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