emerald
Vol 83, No 54
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Wednesday, November 18, 1981
These tamihar clouds should be clearing from the Eugene area today, according to forecasts issued by the National Weather Service and The Associated Press. Chance of
ram is 20 percent while temperatures should be in the mid-50s today and in the mid-30s tonight
•K WAX airs
Jonestown
documentary
Three years ago today 913 followers of Jim Jones
joined him in a glorious moment of triumph,'' a mass
suicide in the remote Guyana village called Jonestown
KWAX 91 1 FM airs a 90-mmute documentary. Father
Cares The Last of Jonestown," tonight at 7 p m on the
third anniversary of the tragedy
"Father Cares," created and narrated by James
Reston, is a condensed version of tapes recorded by
Jones and his disciples in Guyana
"With this program you can begin to understand how
they made the final decision," says Deborah Amos,
producer of the National Public Radio documentary "You
actually hear how they were able to do it "
It's a tremendous example of radio journalism," adds
Denny Guehler, KWAX promotion director
It's terrifying. Guehler says "Cocksure rhetoric
until the end when he (Jones) was going mad "
In his book on the suicide Our Father Who Art in Hell,
Reston says. "I saw the glimmering of a profound story, not
lust of America in the post-Vietnam period, but of human
nature itself
It was a novel in reality, a story so incredible, so
horrifying, so fascinating that no one would ever believe it,
if it were related in a vacuum And yet, it had happened
That it was authentic heightened the horror and also the
importance "
Former University president
fired from civil rights position
Compiled from Associated Press reports
Arthur Flemming, fired without notice as
chairman of the U.S Commission on Civil Rights,
said he was told in a call from a White House
underling that he was being replaced but given no
reason
Flemming served as University president
from 1961 to 1968
The 76-year-old Flemming got the word of his
firing minutes before he released a commission
report that said the Reagan admimstrastion has
"tended to support" a backlash against methods
being used to achieve desegregation — busing —
with its decision on school cases in Houston.
Seattle and Chicago
"We belive the Reagan Administration ac
lions are in conflict with the Constitution of the
United States," Flemming said
"All of us, including minorities and women,
have something to fear if people succeed in either
eliminating or weakening methods we need to use
in order to take the Constitution of the United
States and make it a living document
A spokesman for the civil rights office,
Charles Rivera, said he doubts there was a con
nection between the release of the report and
Flemming's firing
Flemming, who was Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare in the Eisenhower admin
istration. will be replaced by Clarence Pendleton,
a black Republican The nomination is subject to
Senate Confirmation
Legislators urge
board to reverse
loan decision
A Federal Reserve Board ac
tion that resulted in a freeze on
Guaranteed Student Loan
processing in Oregon has not
gone unnoticed by state repre
sentatives
A letter drafted by Rep Jim
Weaver urges the board s
governors to reverse a decision
contained in an October 1981
Federal Register sent to
national banks
"Jim is really worried He's
initiated this letter and is calling
members of the reserve," says
city councilor Cynthia Wooten,
a member of Weaver's Eugene
staff
Oregon's six congressional
members joined in signing the
letter, which was hand delivered
to the Federal Reserve Board
Monday
The conflicting order, cont
ained in comments made by the
reserve board staff, tells
national banks they must
comply with a Truth-m-Lending
r1'”".
Regulation requiring certain
disclosures before loans with
origination fees can be dis
bursed
But Congress waived the
regulation until August 1, 1982,
to speed up Guaranteed
Student Loan processing,
already weeks behind in many
states because of increased
demand and new regulations
“We respectively urge you to
concur with the intent of the
legislation as passed by
Congress and signed by the
president, and modify the staff
commentary as it pertains to the
Guaranteed Student Loan
programs," Weaver's letter
says
“Students have told me that
they're going to have to drop
out," Wooten says, and that
even action taken Thursday,
when the reserve board meets
to reconsider the decision, may
not be soon enough
Special section inside
In honor of the traditional shoot-out CM War football
game between the Oregon State Beavers and the Oregon
Ducks at Autzen Stadium on Saturday, section B of the
Emerald today features a facsimile edition of the OSU student
daily newspaper, the Daily Barometer.
On a potentially dangerous mission, a team of Emerald
edifors will travel to Corvallis before the break of dawn today
to distribute the four-page Barometer look-alike at strategic
points on the OSU campus