Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, April 25, 1986, Page 5A, Image 5

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    Supremacist show
opposed by students
FULLERTON. Calif. (AP) — About 400 California Stats
University students urged official# to bait production of a
white supremacist TV shoo on campus, but the former hu
khix Kian loader who produces the show swirl that will not
stop him from spreading his message nations life
Tm glad to star that upper middle-class kids are not
dead and aiill have hloort in their vein*.” said Torn Metzger,
former head of the I aliforma klan. "Thmrtt not Zombies But
I m surprised they‘re protesting First Amendment rights and
Sow speech,"
I singCmup W Coble equipment housed in the tiascment
ol the university library. Metzger has taxm producing his
Kace and Henson shows the past two veers and Itroad
casting them twice a month on public in.conk television
throughout Southern California
Hie shows have also bam seen in parts ot Oregon.
Washington. Texas and l*emtsyfvania and wherever member#
of his White American Political Association can get lti« pm
grams aired be said
Thi# show is going to keep going on.*' Metzger said.
Show# have focused oil the supremacy of the white rar e
Coining segments that will be filmed on locution will view
rm ml integration in Hollywood amt the illegal alien problem
at the San Diego isirder Metzger said
The t hauling students protested In the college square at
noon Wednesday then marched past the school library
Although no segments of "Race and Reason" liave been
taped on campus since February lacanse Croup W's equip
"amt is in disrepair, students said they wan! to stop Metzger
from resuming production. said (Jerry Keating. « university
spokesman
"They urgerl administrators to keep Tom Metzger off
campus tss ause he stand# for hatred and bigotry." Keating
said
"This campus should nut be a propaganda of hatred.”,
said | at kie Carrie, president of the (ad State Fullerton Voung
IhnuRnti.
University President lewell Plummer Cobb was away
from campus this week and unavailable for comment, said a
sis fvlarv Cobh has said that no matter how she feel# about
the program the strength of America is the First
Amendment
Keating suid the university's contract with Croup W is
up for renegotiation and the obligation to produce programs
such a# Metzger # is on* of the bargaining points
Croup W has plac ed $200,1)00 worth of video and TV
equipment in the school, which has contrac tual obligations
to assist taping public access shows. The school's ability to
produce shows and the use of equipment would be threaten
«d if it refused to tape the public access shows Keating said.
We support the public access principle, but having to
tape programs for people espousing racist views is very dif
ficult tor a campus that has higher standards of thinking."
Keating said.
Nancy .Shane. Group W spokesman, was not in her office
Wednesday and unavailable for comment, a secretary said.
Metzger s show prompted another campus protest earlier
this month On Tuesday, officials for Cos Cable in Spokane.
Wash.. said, after consulting with attorneys, that they would
run a "Race and Reason" show that espouses the survival,
promotion and expansion of the white race
Federal Communications Commission spokesman
Ronald Parver said federal law guarantees public access to
cable TV channels.
In 1980, Metzger refined to Jews as parasite people"
while running as a Democrat for the 43rd Congressional
District. He won three percent of the vote
Battle over waste disposal
may go to Supreme Court
SAI.KM (AP) — The battle
over how to dispose of low-level
radioactive waste at an Albany*
area metals plant has entered a
new public, stage1, hut par
ticipants agree that a final deci
sion could still he years in the
future
"It's going to the (Oregon)
Supreme Court, no matter what
happens." said Allen Nistad,
hearings officer for proceedings
to determine the future; of the
Teledyne VVah Chang Albany
sludge.
Nistad. a member of the
Oregon Energy f acility Siting
Council, presided Wednesday
over the first day of cross
examination hearings on the
issue.
Wah Chang's statements that
its waste does not pose a public
radiation ha/,ml wore challeng
ed by environmental activists
|ohn Arum and Lloyd Marbet,
(d directors of Furelaws on
ll< till'd.
Arum challenged as "biased"
and "mistaken" the conclusion
of environmental studies per
formed by Mattelle Pacific Nor
thwest laboratories under con
tract to Wall Chang.
"This waste will contain
radium for tons of thousands of
years." he said. "Tremendous
uncertainties exist in this
analysis."
At issue is whether 85.000
cubic yards of sludge at Wah
Chang's plant site at
Millershurg contains sufficient
radioactive materials to require
disposal under jurisdiction of
the siting council.
Youth toting water weapon
almost taken for ‘assassin’
BEAVERTON (AP) — A teen
ager who used a motor-driven
squirt Run to play the game
"Assassin” was cited for
disorderly conduct after a
sheriff's deputy mistook the toy
for an automatic weapon.
Deputies responding to a
report of a man with a gun
Wednesday spotted Mathew
kelly. IH. and another youth in
a car at a Beaverton apartment
complex.
When one of the youths got
out of the vehicle, deputy Den
nis kisor took cover behind a
car. . -
"I saw he had the weapon. I
sen him insert a clip and con
ceal tlm weapon inside his
jacket." kisor said
kisor drew .his service
:revblve.r. ."He: started walking
toward me At this point. I veil i
wl.:'Poli(;p (ijTiotr. breeze.-'
kisor said the. Vnuth instead
reached inside, h is jacket mid
pulled out the gup.' saving it
r
was only a squirt qun. which he
then dropped at kisor's order.
"If I had followed my train
inn. I would have killed him.”
kisor said. He said he would
have been justified in shooting
the yoidh lx-cause he reached
for the gun after being told to
freeze.
kisor said "experience and
an excellent position of conceal
ment" prevented him from
firing.
The weapon turned out to be
a black plastic, motor-driven
squirt gun. a replica of a sub
machine gun. Th« .’clip" was
the water reservoir.
Sheriff's department
spokeswoman Sherru Colouri
said deputies learned the-young
men were involved in a game
known as "Assassin.", in which
players attempt to "kill” others
; with squirt guns. » •:
k.elly is scheduled-to appear
April .10 in Washington (anility
District Court.
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