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Cultural Forum Presents
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APPALACHIAN
SQUARE DANCE
“Without a doubt,
the finest hammer
dulcimer player
in the South...”
—Great American
Dulcimer Convention
“One of the best
square dance callers
in the Southern Mountains.”
—D. Reich
Friday, Feb. 6 Concert at 8:00 p.m.
EMU Ballroom U of O Campus
Dance at 9:00 p.m.
$2.00 admission
Free workshop on traditional dance
Friday, 2:30-4:20 p.m. Gerlinger 220
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Coalition seeks
plant closure bill
By DOUG BUTLER
OfOMEimrald
As the timber market deter
iorates, mill closures and lost
jobs will continue to plague
Oregon towns, but the year-old
Lane Coalition to Save Jobs
believes the impact of closures
can be cushioned.
The coalition, made up of ap
proximately 20 people, includ
ing representatives of the Inter
national Woodworkers of Amer
ica and a machinist's union, is
pushing for legislation to
prevent abrupt mill closures.
Kurt Willcox, a coalition
member and University
graduate student, says the
timber industry is vitally impor
tant to Lane County because 70
percent of the county’s man
ufacturing jobs are timber-relat
ed.
In the last 10 years, Lane
County lost 3,000 timber in
dustry jobs, he says. Currently,
the county’s unemployment rate
stands at about 10 percent —
well above the national average.
One forest service report
predicts by the year 2000,
Oregon’s timber industry em
ployment will be down 45 per
cent.
"That’s a very serious long
term trend,” Willcox says.
The group is now focusing its
efforts on getting Oregon’s Em
ployment Stabilization Act
passed. The bill would require
companies to provide prior
notification, financial informa
tion and compensation if they
decide to close a plant.
In the event of a planned clo
sure (not the result of unfore
seen circumstances such as a
fire), companies would have to
give a year’s notice. Companies
that don’t comply would be
subject to heavy fines.
Willcox says a lot of mill
owners know far in advance
they are closing. Knowing this,
they often over-harvest their
lands and fail to upgrade their
machinery.
The bill also calls for an in
vestigation into the reasons for
closure. Investigators would
seek alternatives to closure
such as creation of a worker’s
cooperative or a local corpora
tion.
He says the Northwest has
several 40-year-old plywood
cooperatives, and that option is
being researched for the town
of Westfir.
If no suitable alternative to
closure could be found, the
company would be required to
pay each employee 85 percent
of their regular wage for up to-a
year.
Other parts of the bill include
provisions to tax the company at
three times its normal rate if the
company is shifting its opera
tions to another county, Willcox
adds.
If a company goes out of bu
siness, he says, the law would
require that some of the com
pany’s assets go toward helping
employees get back on their
feet.
"It’s going to be a very hard
struggle to push this bill
through,” Willcox says. "It will
probably be possible to get
some sort of plant closure bill
passed.”
Maine and Wisconsin have
passed similar laws.
In the last Legislative session
a plant closure bill was in
troduced by state Sen. Ted
Kulongoski, D-Junction City, he
says, but it died in committee
because it lacked grass-roots
support.
The bill, written by the Oregon
AFL-CIO, is supported by the
Oregon Democratic Party,
Oregon Fair Share and other
groups. Willcox says the As
sociated Oregon Industries and
most chambers of commerce
are opposed.
Center offers origami
Origami, the ancient Japan
ese art of folding paper into
designs, is the subject of a new
class taught by Michael Suss
man at the University Craft
Center.
Sussman has practiced
origami for nearly 20 years. With
a single sheet of paper, Suss
man can create toys, masks,
hats and other objects, each
within 15 to 30 minutes.
Sussman has lived in Eugene
for seven years. Here, he has
held origami workshops teach
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He says origami has two
aspects: It can be functional,
and it can be therapeutic.
Origami is functional as it
creates toys, greeting cards,
masks, mobiles, puppets, hats
and architectural models.
For the old, mentally
handicapped, and for those
recovering from illness, origami
lets them use their hands, minds
and eyes for coordination.
Sussman says origami is also
a very economical art since it
takes only paper to create.
Sussman says that he
teaches origami to individuals
and wishes for his students to
express their unique creative
ness in their pieces.
“My objective is to give my
students enough background
so that they can carry on, on
their own.”
Registration is at the Craft
Center in the EMU.
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