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. . . Of environmental concern
By Catherine Siegner
The Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, al
ready in its fourth month of being shut
down, will remain closed a while longer.
The Federal Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) denied a petition
submitted by the plant’s owners —Port
land General Bectric Co., Pacific Power
& Light Co., and the Eugene Water and
Electric Board — asking for continued
operation while proposed hearings are
conducted on planned modifications to
the control building. The petition was
also supported by Gov. Straub and the
Bonneville Power Administration.
The NRC still hasn’t made a decision
on whether it will hold hearings on the
modification. At least eight persons have
requested to intervene if hearings are
held.
The Safety and Full Employment
Committee (S.A.F.E.), which recently
passed a petition asking for a temporary
suspension of aerial herbicide spraying
in Lane County, is meeting tonight, at
7:30 in the Growers’ Market at 454 Wil
lamette St.
Solar ’78 Northwest, a three-day
conference on the development of solar
energy in the Northwest, will begin July
14 in Portland.
Sponsored by the Oregon Depart
ment of Energy, the City of Portland, the
Washington State Energy Office and the
Idaho Energy Office, the conference will
include speeches, seminars, panel dis
cussions, commercial and non
commercial technical displays and a re
view of municipal, state and national
solar energy development programs.
Conference headquarters will be the
Sheraton Hotel across from the Lloyd
Center. Some activities will take place at
the nearby Bonneville Power Adminis
tration building.
There will be a $30 registration fee for
conference participants, which includes
a Friday lunch and a Sunday brunch. To
register contact Solar ’78 Northwest,
620 S.W. Fifth Ave., Room 610, City of
Portland, Portland, Oregon 97204.
The Oregon Fish and Wildlife
Commission adopted several regula
tions recently designed to protect the
endangered Columbian white-tailed
deer and four nongame fish species.
Columbian white-tailed deer once oc
cupied brushy lowlands throughout the
Willamette Valley and along the tower
Columbia River, but now their range is
severely restricted. The Columbian
white-tailed Deer National Wildlife Re
fuge was established in 1972 to provide
a habitat for a large share of remaining
deer. They now roam on about 5,200
acres of moist, brushy bottom land on
Tenasillahe, Hunting and Price Islands
and a part of the Washington mainland
near Cathlamet. Another group of
white-tailed deer ranges along the.
Umpqua River northeast of Roseburg.
The Fish and Wildlife Commission
has closed the Dixon, Indigo and Mel
rose units to the taking of white-tailed
deer. Formerly these deer were consi
dered legal game along with the black
tailed deer during the season. Now they
are strictly protected under the National
Endangered Species Act.
Also added the the state's protected
list were these species of fish: the
Warner sucker, Borax Lake chub, Fos
ket Spring dace and the Oregon tui chub
of Hutton Spring. These are all confined
to limited areas in southeastern Oregon
and numbers are extremely low.
Although none are actively sought by
anglers and all four are found mostly on
private land, Warner suckers are some
times caught by trout anglers fishing
tributaries to Hart Lake.
Written comments on the Draft Activ
ity Plan for the Rogue River Hellgate
Recreation Section will be accepted by
the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
until August 1.
The draft presents proposals for re
creational developments on BLM lands
along a 27-mile stretch of the Rogue
National Wild and Scenic River, and dis
cusses management policies for ac
quired lands and scenic easements
along the Rogue.
New facilities may include two con
crete boat ramps, two small
campgrounds, several fishing access
and picnic sites, and a “interpretive
kiosk” overlooking Hellgate Canyon.
A visitor’s center would be built at
Rand. A parking area, a boat ramp, and
a campground would also be located
there as a staging site for trips into the
Wild section of the Rogue.
Send written comments and requests
for copies of the plan to the Bureau of
Land Management, Medford District Of
fice, 310 West Sixth St., Medford,
Oregon 97501.
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Nearly one year since a similar
move, Eugene police began a
crackdown on customers of down
town prostitutes Thursday night
and ended up issuing more than a
dozen citations for soliciting for
prostitution to several area men.
The crackdown began late
Thursday night when police, using
disguised policewomen as de
coys, began issuing the citations
to men who offered to pay the
policewomen for sexual activity.
The citations, issued to 15
Eugene men, carry a maximum
penalty of a $1,000 fine and one
year in jail.
The crackdown on customers of
prostitutes, or “johns,” began
after the Eugene Police Depart
ment Criminal Intelligence Uhit
learned that prostitution activity on
the downtown mall was on the in
crease. Complaints from several
Eugene women who said they had
been harrassed on the mall by
men looking for prostitutes also
brought the matter to the police’s
attention, said Pierce Brooks,
Eugene Police Chief.
A similar move last summer
temporarily curtailed prostitution
activity on the mall. In that ac
tion, police arrested nine persons
on pimping and prostitution
charges.
The recent police crackdown,
which lasted from Thursday even
ing until Saturday morning, was
designed to keep the streets of
downtown Eugene from becom
ing a "muggers’ alley,” Brooks
said.
The male customer of prosti
tutes has no "special privileges” in
Tino’s Happy Hour
Calzoni $2.50 ala carte
Large Pitchers $1.50
M-Th 9 p.m.-Midnight
Eugene, and will be arrested
every time they appear if neces
sary, Brooks said.
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