Oregon daily emerald., May 16, 1978, Page 8, Image 8

PAWS wins air time for primary fight
By KEVIN HARDEN
Of the Emerald
No equal access complaint will
be filed with Federal Communica
tions Commission (FCC) against
Eugene radio station KUGN after
all, Diane Yeager of the Progres
sive Animal Welfare Society
(PAWS), said Monday.
According to Yeager, the group
was looking into registering a
complaint with FCC because op
ponents of Ballot Measure Six,
which would eliminate the use of
the controversial decompression
chamber as a method of killing
unwanted animals in the county,
have been sold more air time for
their political messages on
KUGN.
Yeager, who spoke to the Lane
County Demo Forum about the
measure Friday, said afterward
that opponents of Ballot Measure
Six were allowed to broadcast
several radio messages against
the measure and participate in the
station's Talkradio show, while
supporters of the measure weren’t
offered comparable radio time to
respond.
After meeting with KUGN offi
cials Friday, Yeager and suppor
ters of the measure arranged to
appear on the Talkradio program
tonight from 9 to 11.
Although no action was taken
by PAWS on the matter, the
group’s lawyers were looking into
an FCC equal access complaint,
Yeager said. By allowing the
group to participate in the Talk
radio show and respond to anti
Ballot Measure Six remarks, the
matter has been dropped, she
said.
The decompression chamber
touched off a controversy last
September when members of
PAWS and the Committee to
Ban Decompression Chambers in
Lane County (CBDC), including
the machine s operator, ques
tioned the chamber’s humane
ness. The chamber, a large cylin
drical machine that kills unwanted
animals by suffocation, has since
failed mechanically and won’t be
repaired for use by the Green Hill
Animal Shelter (formerly the Lane
County Humane Society).
The ballot measure, which
would eliminate the chamber and
replace it with injections of
Sodium Pentobarbital as the
method to kill unwanted animals,
has come under increasing attack
from area veterinarians. During
the past week, Eugene’s
Chamber of Commerce de
nounced the measure as a “bad
piece of legislation" that is “too
restrictive in the methods of
euthanasia.”
The measure, however, is badly
needed to insure that unwanted
animals are killed as humanely as
possible, Yeager said.
Summer jobs are no sweat at Manpower
By KAREN KANGAS
Of the Emerald
Summer is almost here, and for
many students, so is the problem
of finding a summer job.
Manpower Inc., the world’s
largest temporary help firm, might
have a solution for students who
are having trouble finding summer
work.
Temporary office and industrial
work is available through the
Eugene branch of Manpower, lo
cated at 1680 Pearl St.
Suzen Blair, Manpower's local
customer service representative,
says office jobs include all kinds of
clerical work, and industrial jobs
may range from pouring cement to
driving someone’s Rolls-Royce.
Blair says applicants interested
in office work are tested to deter
mine the extent of their general
and special clerical skills.
She says there is no such thing
as a pass/fail in the clerical tests.
The tests are used only to deter
mine skills, and Blair says Man
power is able to “utilize all skills.”
She explains that Manpower
keeps a file of each employee’s
qualifications. When an employer
calls for temporary help, the files
are checked to see who is best
suited for the job.
Employees keep time cards to
record the number of hours they
work for each employer. They are
paid by the employer, and the em
ployer is charged for the services
provided by Manpower.
Before being hired, Blair says
applicants are given a “Predicta
Test,” “ the only test which can ac
tually determine the success of an
employee before he or she is sent
out,’’ Blair says.
She explains that because
Manpower employees fill only
temporary positions, they must be
able to adapt to new work situa
tions and new people.
Meeting new people may be
considered one of the advantages
of working for Manpower.
Other advantages include work
ing full time at “above minimum
wages” and gaining experience
and references for future em
ployment.
“We make concerted efforts to
find students jobs which will relate
to their studies and from which
they can gain a beneficial career
experience,” Mitchell Fromstein,
president of Manpower, says.
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HELP FOR HOMOSEXUALS
FORMER HOMOSEXUALS TALK ABOUT THEIR NOT SO
“GAY LIFE" ON A SPECIAL TELEVISION PROGRAM
TUESDAY, MAY 16.
• What is the real COST of homosexuality?
• Can homosexuals change their orientation?
• Are “gay rights” ordinances the answer to a homosexual’s problems?
WATCH TUES. AT 9:30 a.m. on channel 9-rebroadcast
at 8:00 p.m. on channel 11.
Presented by the 700 Club
VOICE of the people 1075 Highway 99N Larry Dean, director
Games
“Take it home,
play with it, ”
before you buy
By MARY MASSIE
Of the Emerald
Have you ever wanted to try
out an interesting, new game
but you weren’t sure of the con
tents or the price drove you
away? The Toy Shoppe, 844
Olive St., may have just the
answer to that problem with its
Library of Games.
The library idea was created
by Frank Briese, Toy Shoppe
employee, “I think the Library
of Games will benefit the cus
tomers because it gives them
an opportunity to try a game
before they buy it,” Briese
says.
The library offers a variety of
teenage and adult games,
which can be checked out by
putting down a refundable de
posit for the amount of the
game’s selling price. Custom
ers may borrow one game per
person for a period of four
days. After that, a late fee of
fifty cents per day is charged.
Briese says the library will
help people to find the types of
games they like because the
games are not sealed up and
are open for inspection of parts
and rules.
“Customers can take a
game home and play with It be
fore they decide whether they
want to purchase it,” Briese
says.
“And because games are
expensive, it gives people
something to do if they don’t
have the money to spend on a
game,” he added.
According to Briese, stu
dents especially seem to like
games of strategy and tactics;
those involvinq no luck, just
skill.
Customers can also request
that a certain game be put into
the library, Briese says.
“We want people to use the
library service to its fullest,” he
says. “If they let us know about
it, we II put as many games in
the library a* we can.”
Some popular student
games available through the lib
rary are: Twixt; Facts in Five, a
game of knowledge; Feudal, a
three dimensional game of
siege and conquest, and Mas
ter Mind.
TODAY/
Panel Discussion
‘Gay Rights and
Measure 51”
presented by Eugene
Citizens For Human
Rights
Tues., May 16 NOON
EMU (room posted)
SPONSORED BY ASUO
and UO YWCA