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Thursday, October 28, 1982
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 84, Number 39
Photo by Bob Baker
Not your common panelist
Former presidential candidate Barry Com
moner visited Eugene Wednesday to campaign for
his party and to join a panel discussion on “The
Politics of Economic Renewal. '*
Commoner, who ran for president in 1980 on
the Citizens Party ticket appeared at the Eugene
Public Library with city officials and with Laurel
Paulson, Citizens Party candidate for the District
40 representative race.
Author of the book “The Economics of
Energy," Commoner and his running mate
LaDonna Harris garnered nearly 250,000 votes
However, a 1984 attempt at the White House
isn’t a possiblity. Commoner said.
Kulongoski errs,
but still insists
poll is incorrect
PORTLAND (AP) — Democratic gubernatorial
candidate Ted Kulongoski says because the pollster
has worked tor Gov Vic Atiyeh, he doesn't believe the
results of a poll last week that showed him trailing
Atiyeh
However, J Roy Bardsley, of the Portland-based
market research company Bardsley & Haslacher Inc ,
denied Kulongoski's claim that he is currently working
for Atiyeh
"The charge by Mr Kulongoski that Roy Bardsley is
on the governor s payroll is completely fallacious, and I
could take him to court on that," Bardsley said
Kulongoski press aide Jim Christenson admitted
that his candidate had mistakenly said in an interview
with KXL radio Wednesday that Bardsley is currently
doing polls for Atiyeh
“What he should have said was that Bardsley was
on Atiyeh's payroll (in the past)," Christenson said
Atiyeh campaign manager Denny Miles said
Bardsley & Haslacher did a broad issues poll in June for
Atiyeh, but that the governor used a Santa Ana, Calif,
company for polling in the primary and general
elections
Christenson said Kulongoski still believes the poll is
inaccurate, however The copyrighted poll in
Wednesday editions of The Oregonian newspaper
showed that 56 percent of those surveyed favored or
leaned to Atiyeh compared with 32 percent supporting
or leaning to Kulongoski
Christenson said his campaign found particularly
questionable a figure that 39 percent of the Democrats
polled favored Atiyeh, with only 49 percent for Kulon
goski.
"We don't feel it's really an accurate indication of
what's going on out in the field," Christenson said
Campus area retailers hit by tight budgets
By David Brown
Of tb« Emerald
A 7 5 percent smaller University
student population apparently is shop
ping more frugally to offset the cost of
this year's increased tuitions and cost
of living And University area busi
nesses are noticing it
According to some University area
businesses, students this fall eat out
less, buy clothes more prudently, and
select less expensive groceries — all in
fewer numbers
The Campus Shoe Shop offers an
example of the new student spending
trends Patrons, most of whom are
students, are opting for a new sole in
place of a new style, say owners Vic and
Pearl Bogner Sales are down, repairs
are up, they say.
But the total number of customers is
down slightly in the 35-year-old
business
Anderson's Sporting Goods on
campus has changed it’s merchandise
to suit lower student budgets, says
owner Harvey Fox. The more eco
nomical goods have helped the store to
continue increasing its sales to a better
rate of business "than ever before,'1 he
says
Sugar Pine Ridge also economized
its inventory of sports products, says
co-owner Al Tarpenning. “I think
(students) are doing a little shopping
around a little bit more,” he says.
“I have heard a lot of rumblings”
about a falling of business due to fewer
students shopping in a weak economy
says Jamie Douglas, board member of
the University Small Business Associa
tion But the USBA has not discussed
the matter formally, she says
Douglas, also manager of Kinko's
Copies, says that both the decrease in
student enrollment and an increase in
student thrift may be reflected in the
East 13th Avenue store. Patrons, in
slightly fewer numbers, now make
greater use of cost saving self-service
copiers and place orders requesting
lower quality paper or bindings, she
says.
Douglas adds that Kinko's does not
face a substantial drop in profits.
But less essential’’ goods are losing
popularity among University shoppers.
Rather than buy Michelob, students
now buy Rainier, says Larry Swartz,
owner of Hilyard Street Market. He says
profits are the lowest they have been in
the five years he has operated the store.
Things will get better, Swartz
predicts, calling himself an optimist.
The popularity of cheaper used
books has increased.
Despite a slightly shorter line at the
cash register in his used bookstore,
“we’ve experienced an increase in
business due to the economic hard
times.” says Delbert Smith, owner of
the Smith Family Bookstore.
A 10-percent loss in sales of new
books at The Son of Koobdooga, a 13th
Avenue bookstore for 11 years, means
"we ll be closed (permanently) by the
end of next month,” owner Fred Austin
says. The store saw an even greater
decrease in sales last year, Austin says.
In contrast, Austin's second book
store, at the Fifth Street Public Market,
is doing well. The market's customers
are more diversified, he says.
Neighborhood restaurant business
has also shifted. Burton’s at the
Campus still fills with students for
lunch, but evening business and beer
sales have decreased by 10 percent,
says owner Ross Burton.
Similarly, lunch is still busy at Old
Taylor’s while evening business has
fallen off noticably, says co-owner Kam
Taylor
However, students are still willing to
spend tor something which will last,
says Roger Neustadter, general
manager of Kauffman's clothing store
The store is doing well because it offers
traditional or classic fashions that can
be worn for a number of years without
becoming outdated, Neustadter says.
Students find savings in buying an
expensive, top-of-the-line sweater
which lasts, he says