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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1980)
Valentine cards, flowers fill store shelves by MUJribLc UriALL Of the Emerald Displays of heart-shaped cakes, candy boxes and boxer shorts sprinkled with red hearts remind the shopper that love's holiday is again at hand. Giving gifts and exchanging cards are among the more common ways of expressing af fection on Valentine’s Day, and this year is no exception. Valentine's Day cards were plentiful in shops around town nearly three weeks ago, but stocks have diminished rapidly during the past week. Last-min ute card buyers have swamped the University Bookstore, and persons hoping to find just the right card for that certain someone risk being trampled near the card racks. Gift suggestions include the traditional heart-shaped box of chocolates, ranging in price from about $2 to more than $10 at the Bookstore. Bookstores in Eugene offer books for the oc casion, with titles such as “Making Love A Way Of Life” and “When Lovers Are Friends.” According to Steve Mitchell of the Rainy Day Cactus flower jmu Cultural Forum proudly presents JAMES ROBERTSON Former British Cabinet Staff member, ‘Futures' theorist and author of “Profitor People”, “Power, Money and Sex", and “The Sane Alternative: a Choice of Futures” MANKIND AT THE TURNING POINT Room 167 EMU 11:30 a.m. TODAY Wednesday, February 13 / shop, 1375 Pearl St., Valentine’s Day is "the biggest fiower holiday of the year.’’ He sug gests that people give tulips, daffodils or irises since these flowers are more available than the more popular roses and carnations. A bouquet of a dozen roses costs anywhere between $15 and $40. Carnations start at 75 cents for one, and $7.50 will buy a dozen at the Fifth Street Greenery in the Fifth Street Public Market. The ceiling price for a dozen is about $24 at more expensive Eugene florists. Most flower shops offer roses in a variety of arrangements: long-stemmed (most expen sive), short-stemmed, baby and sweetheart buds, wrapped or arranged in a vase, and with or without babies’ breath or ferns. If absence makes the heart grow fonder, then a long-dis tance phone call to an absent loved one should ease those pangs of love. Rates to San Francisco on Valentine’s Day Give our best to your love. This Va'ent Day give the unexpected an ice crea cake Vaientme We deco'ate ■! win re buds and you' persona* message y>i;- iove deserve :he be t BASKIN-ROBBINS ICE CREAM STORE 1365 Viliard 484-1031 Could you use an extra $100.00 a month this term? There are lots of ways for a student to earn extra money. But most employers require regular hours. And even if your class schedule happens to fit your employer's need, midterms and finals often don t If you're healthy and reliable, in two to four hours a week, being paid on the spot, you can earn up to $100.00 cash a month! 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LTD lays groundwork for booklet, bike racks A “park-n-ride” system, bike racks on buses and a new booklet describing the Lane Transit District bus system are in the planning stages. Decisions on where available money will be spent should be made at the end of this month, LTD marketing administrator Ed Bergeron says. A major priority is the possible establishment of a park-n-ride system, Bergeron says. “Since our buses don’t go everywhere, this type of program would enable more people to use the (bus) system. If the plan is adopted, parking lot owners will be asked to donate spaces near bus stops so people can leave their cars in a convenient location and take the bus. Eugene and Springfield have been contacted about “embark ing on a joint effort to start such a program,” Bergeron says. If they agree to the places, the system’s cost would be greatly reduced. Installation of bike racks on buses is also being considered by LTD. “We re looking at other systems that have tried bike racks in order to learn from their mistakes and to see what has worked. “We’ve had a lot of requests (for the racks),” he says. It’s just a matter of “weighing the costs versus the benefits.” But liability and insurance costs have to be checked out first. Also under LTD scrutiny are plans for a booklet describing the bus system and its routes. LTD is currently conducting a bus ridership survey to generate some statistics to assist in basing their decisions on which programs to fund, he says. TO 6 he really wants— A Good Book! See our wide selection of gift books upstairs in Tradebooks. 13th & Kincaid 686-4331 l BOOKSTORE °Pen; Mon-Fri 8:15-5:30 Sat 10:00-2:00 i 5
