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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1983)
EUGENE SCHOOL OF BALLET Eugene School of Ballet offers pre-school ballet (ages 4 6) Beginning, intermediate and advanced ballet New classes starting this winter include adult bask: classes mornings and evenings. To register phone 686-9342, or at the studio 352 West 12th (behind Berg s Ski Shop on 13th) Handyman taken into police custody over mercury poisoned mayonnaise SAN BRUNO, Calif. (AP) - A 29-year-old man who turned in a jar of mayonnaise contaminated with mercury probably put the substance in it himself and also injected it into oranges in an other community, police said Tuesday Kenneth Oliver Mason, a part-time handyman from Red wood City, was taken into cus tody Monday night and commit ted to Peninsula Hospital for a psychiatric examination, Lt James Rego said "Based on circumstantial evidence, statements by Mason and certain physical evidence, police believe that the man who turned in the mayonnaise was the person who contaminated it in the first place," Rego said Mason also is believed to have injected the type of mer cury found in thermometers into oranges at a Millbrae grocery store, according to Rego. Police declined to speculate on a motive No charges have been filed in the case, and evidence was be ing turned over to the San Ma teo County district attorney's office, Rego said Mason was questioned for several hours Monday after bringing the jar of Best Foods mayonnaise to police in this San Francisco Peninsula communi ty He told police he bought the jar Jan 6 in a Lucky's market and then noticed silvery swirls and nodules Tests revealed the jar con tained 23.23 grams of mercury, Rego said On Sunday, police in neigh boring Millbrae began inves tigating mercury contamination when a man turned in a peeled orange containing a silvery substance. Tests confirmed the presence of .62 grams of mercury in the orange, which had been pur chased at a Millbrae Safeway market Jan. 12 Police declined to release the purchaser's name NOW leader is indicted for 1965 tire iron murder GRETNA, La. (AP) - Ginny Foat, president of the National Organization for Women's California chapter, was indicted here Tuesday on a charge of murdering an Argentine busin STUDENT SAVERS Nalley Golden Light Potato Chips 8 oz bag $1 09 Nucoa ■ Margarine 1R1 1 lb package, quarters ® Pepsi, Cola, Mountain Dew 8 pack 16 oz Reg Diet $1 98 + Dep Jiff Peanut Butter Reg or Crunchy, 18 oz jar $1 38 Brawny Towels Jumbo Rolls 58* M D Bath Tissue 4 roll package 88* Taylor California Wine Chablis, Rose, Dry Red & White, Rhine, Burgundy 1.5 liter $4is Rainier Beer 12 pack 16 oz Bottles $411 -i- Dep Turkey Breast QOf High Protein Budget Saver ib Sliced Beef Liver 78? Beef Short Ribs Qfl^ USDA Choice |b Oranges 19c Large California Navel Seedless Boi of 72 Grapefruit 6/ Fancy, Texas Ruby Red 97* Bananas Number 1 Golden Ripe 33! •EUGENE OPEN « A.M. 'TIL 9 P.M. MONDAY-FRIOAY 2 CONVENIENT LOCATIONS- OPEN 9 'TIL 9 SUNDAYS •2370 W. 11TH •3061 HILYARD frltw •fltcNm «M Jaunty It Mrnfl Taaa Jaaaary ?s essman 17 years ago. The indictment said Virginia Galluzzo, the maiden name Foat then used, clubbed M'ttyo to death with a tire iron after luring him from the French Quarter bar to a robbery in 1965. The indictment came after the Jefferson Parish grand jury heard testimony by detectives handling the case and by an ex-husband to Foat, Nevada state prisoner John Sidote. The district attorney had rejected a defense request Tuesday that a preliminary hearing be held for Foat before the grand jury considered the case Foat, 41, is being held on a fugitive warrant in California. Meanwhile, a colleague of Foat's in Los Angeles said the NOW leader's arrest may have been triggered by a checking of her Louisiana background in anticipation of a City Hall ap pointment. Foat was arrested last Tues day at suburban Burbank air port on the fugitive warrant She is being held without bail at Sybil Brand Institute Those hot rocks falling to earth ain’t cute E.T. WASHINGTON (AP) - The nuclear reactor from a Soviet spy satellite is plummeting toward Earth at an increasing rate, the Defense Department reported Tuesday Pentagon officials said the 1,000-pound reactor portion of the satellite was in an orbit that dipped to within 122 miles of Earth's surface at 8:17 a m PST Tuesday That was about four miles lower than the low point recorded at 11 p m PST Mon day, after the reactor section had dropped nearly two miles in the previous 24 -hour period The Pentagon estimates that the remains of Soviet Cosmos 1402 will hit Earth late this month Cash For Textbooks Mon.- Frl. Smith Family Bookstore 768 E. 13th 1 Bl. From Campus 345-1651
