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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1983)
Two free public lectures by British author and scholar Harvey Pitcher: “How not to Interpret Chekhov’s Plays” Wednesday, April 13, 11:30 a.m., 101 EMU “Chekhov’s Sense off Humor: The Man and His Writings” Wednesday, April 13, 4:00 p.m., 101 EMU Sponsored by the (JO Russian & East European Studies Center \ You Should be Dancin’ j 1 □ Choose your favorite style i ^ □ Ballroom 8 classes once a week for IVz hours. Beginning % Wed., April 13 or Thurs., April 14. Held at 8:30 pm at Roosevelt Jr. High 24th & Hilyard. $36/person . □ Country Swing 8 classes once a week for 1V4 hours. Beginning Wed. April 13 or Thurs., April 14. Held 7:00 pm at Roosevelt Jr. High. 24th & | Hilyard. $36/person. S □ Rock-n-Roll 4 classes once a week for 1 hour. Beginning Wed., April 13 or Thurs., April 14 or Fri., April 15. Wed. & Thurs. classes at 6:00 pm. Roosevelt Jr. High. 24th & Hilyard. All Rock-n-Roll classes $20/person. Fri. class only at 8:00 pm. Knights of Pythias Hall. 12th & Lawrence. For Registration Phone: 343-8708 or mail class fee, date, time & style. Register early — Space is limited Private Sessions also available Phone 689-2698 27171-51 Clear Lake Rd. - Eugene, Oregon 97405 J Willamette Pass's SPRING FUNG ALL TICKETS REDUCED TO $6 For snow conditions call: 345 SNOW Downhill & nordic ski rentals: San Marco, Elan $ Solomon. Ski School for ail ages. Guest Passes available at the mountain & Eugene Office: 1872 Willamette, 484 5030 TAKE HWY. 58 TO MILEPOST 62. Holocaust survivors searching WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of sur vivors of Nazi death camps lined up Monday before computer terminals to register their names for history and to continue to search for kinfolk and friends who vanished in the Holocaust. Others, at a gathering of Americans and Canadians who were liberated 38 years ago us ed more direct means. Martin Statfield, 62, a retired grocer from Brooklyn, N. Y., held a hand lettered sign aloft in the Washington Conven tion Center that said: "Looking for Janek from Krakow presently living in Canada. We were in 1945 in Wells-Austria. We had a common friend Ender. We both escaped from the police station in Wells.” Statfield explained to questioners that he met Janek after the liberation and while both were waiting to be returned to their native Poland. "I told him I’ll never go back to Poland because of the bitter memories. All my family was destroyed. We jumped from the police sta tion window. Later, Janek decided to go back and I made my way to Italy. I was going to im migrate to Palestine. I got a letter from my relatives in Newark, N.J., and they arranged for me to come to this country.” The meeting, the first of its kind in America among the estimated 100,000 sur vivors in this country, formally opened Monday night with an address from Pres. Ronald Reagan to the estimated 10,000 survivors and their children attending the session, known as the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. In a written message to all who attended, Reagan underscored one of the purposes of the event: a reminder to the world of Hitler’s at tempt to exterminate all the Jews of Europe. “There is a need for the personal witness which only survivors can provide as testimony to the tragic events of the past and their relevance to ail humanity for the present and future,” the president wrote. “This gathering will heighten our awareness of the events that led to the Holocaust and serve to renew our commitment to a moral vision that will never permit such atrocities again.” An organizer said the meeting should serve as a reminder to the world that what hap pened during World War II can happen again. “We have a tremendous story to tell the world — not for our sake but for the sake of the world — that it should never be repeated," said Benjamin Meed, president of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, sponsor of the events. The most important aspect of the gather ing will be "a lesson to the world that it can happen again if we will not be watchful," said Meed, a Polish-born Jew who fought in the War saw ghetto uprising in 1943. In addition to reunions, seminars and cultural events, the program will include an ad dress by Reagan and a ceremony to present the keys of two government buildings on the Mall that will house a permanent Holocaust memorial and museum. Senate defeats gay rights bill SALEM (AP) — A so-called “gay rights" bill that would have outlawed discrimination against homosexuals went down to defeat Monday in the Oregon Senate. The vote was another set back for gay rights activists, who for 10 years have been pushing for such a law in Oregon. After the vote, a member of a gay rights group said his organization would work to defeat the senators who voted against the bill. The bill would have forbid den discrimination based on sexual orientation in housing, employment and public accomodations. Democratic Sen. Jim Gard ner of Portland termed the measure, which was rejected 17-13, “another battlefield in the lengthy campaign for equal justice. “These people are an un popular minority," he said. “That’s why they need the pro tection of the law. The louder the clamoring against the bill, the stronger the case for its passage.” But Senate Republican Leader Tony Meeker of Amity said SB319 would set up a "special minority for special protection” and called the pro posal a step toward "driving Thursday Nights 25c Hot Dogs 8 pm til? 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