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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1978)
Sun Day University Survival Center volunteers were among 200 marchers who ^'^t^l^r^and^Jk parade. The marohers walked and hiked from South Eugene High Sohor*to the Saturday Market and hack again carrying flags, wearing costumes and handing out pro-solar energy i continue through Wednesday with musicial performances and speakers. a m a Parade initiates local solar festivities By STEVE DODGE Of the Emerald The grade school Kazoo band was there, along with the Univer sity equestrians, a pair of giant lungs from the University health department and about 200 solar energy supporters. Even the ob ject of attention, the sun, made a cameo appearance at the Sun Day parade Saturday. The parade, which started at South Eugene High School and looped across town to the Satur *************** day Market and back, also in cluded decorated bikes, jugglers, homemade "floats" and a balloon crew from Lane Community Col lege. Marchers carrying the ecology flag, a solar energy flag and the American flag led the way, fol lowed by others who carried ban ners reading “Here Comes the Sun" and “Solar Energy.” Members of the Eugene Police Department held up traffic along the parade route for the marchers who stretched three city blocks for e*************** mm ********************* TENNIS TOURNAMENT all campus mixed doubles Sat., May 6 Entries due: May 3, 4 p.m. at Gerlinger Hall. Rm. 8. * * * * # * * * * * * * * I * * •» * * most of the distance. Survival Center volunteers, who distributed pro-polar energy material to onlookers at Saturday marker, were pleased with the turnout. “Of course it was a success,” said Janet Gillespie, Survival Center director. “Did you see all those people? Everybody had a good time.” Sun Day festivities will continue through Wednesday with a series of films, speakers and music hap penings. Today has been dubbed “Park it Day.” The Sun Day Coalition and the Oregon Lung Association are encouraging everyone to walk, ride a bike or take the bus instead of cranking up the auto. "If everybody left their au tomobiles home for just one day,' V.C. Vitums of the Lung Associa tion, said, “more than 200,000 tons of hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides would not be released into the air.” Also on the agenda for today is a 7:30 p.m. lecture in 107 Lawr ence on the dynamics of solar energy and the University solar project by Dan Kaehn, David McDaniels and Frank Vignola of the University physics depart ment. The Stan Fink Quartet will join Mary Farrow and Nancy King and Friends at the Community Center for the Performing Arts (WOW Hall)for a benefit concert at 8 p.m. Proceeds from donations will go to the Sun Day Coalition. Tuesday’s events include a sunrise salutation on Skinner s Butte at 5 a.m., a lecture on pas sive and active solar heating sys tems, a breakfast at the University Faculty Club and tours of local homes that have been fitted with solar equipment. A free outdoor concert Wed nesday featuring Tommy Smith, Northwest Passage and Slow Buck, is slated for noon to 3 p.m. on the lawn behind the EMU. Decompression chamber falters, animal shelter opts for drug Mechanical difficulties may have suceeded while several months of protest and a possible ballot measure were ineffective. The Green Hill Animal Shelter’s . controversial decompression . chamber is dead. . The decompression chamber . became the focus of a city and ■ county-wide controversy last Sep • tember when members of the .Ill «*• Meet Barry Lopez author of Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter and Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven Wednesday May 3 from 11 am to 2 pm _ Upstairs in the TRADEBOOK DEPARTMENT 13th & Kincaid 686-4331 bookstore Open: Mon-Fri 8:15-5:30 Sat 10:00-2:00 Committee to Ban Decompres sion Chambers in Lane County (CBDC) questioned the machine’s humaneness. The decompression chamber, a large cylindrical machine used to kill unwanted animals housed in the Animal Shelter (formerly the Lane County Humane Society) by suffocation, was threatened by protest from the CBDC and by a ballot measure to ban its use on the May 23 primary ballot. Whether that measure would have passed might be irrelevant now; the Euthanair chamber worked its last day Thursday and has been shut down. According to Chuck John, Green Hill Animal Shelter board chairer, the machine "went to hell” Thursday afternoon and won’t be used again. The shelter’s board of directors took a straw poll and decided not to repair the decompression chamber. A formal vote by the board is expected to take place tonight. The shelter will replace the chamber with injections of sodium pentobarbital to be given by licensed experts. Opponents of the chamber made that same proposal nearly eight months ago. The move by the shelter board still leaves the question of whether a ballot measure on the chamber s use is needed. Accord ing to Diane Yeager of the CBDC, the measure is needed to make sure unwanted animals are killed as humanely as possible. Yeager and the CBDC placed the measure on the ballot after a petition drive and have been battl ing criticism of their plan and their measure for nearly four months. 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