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Oregon Daily
MONDAY. OCTOBER 25, 1993
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 95. ISSUE 39
Amazon tenants want one-year demolition delay
j Concerns about
Amazon future plans
may cause delays
By Arik Hesseldahl
State legislators joined with
family housing tenants in calling
for a one-year moratorium on
plans to evacuate and tear down
several units of the Amazon font
il\ housing facility at a meeting
with University administration
officials last Tuesday.
Vice President for Adminis
tration Dan Williams said that
such a moratorium is "a pretty
serious decision to make." and
that the option is under consid
eration, but no decisions have
been made.
"We're still reviewing our rela
tionship with the architect, so I
think the decision for a morato
rium is premature. I'd hate to
delay the project and learn .1 year
later that we didn't have to delay
it at all," he said.
The meeting was called by
Rep. ( vnthia Wooten. D-Kugene.
and Sen. Peter Sorenson, D
Eugene. after Amazon tenants
expressed a contain that the cur
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Chairman ot Amazon Family Housing, Dana Gotman (right) and Amazon resident, Barry Sheet, a senior in
political science, with son Gabe, explain the future ot Amazon to KVAL reporter, MarA Miller (left)
Residents
desire say
in housing
By Healherle Himes
At an open house Saturday.
Amazon residents spoke ahout
the development’s value ns a
community lor low income stir
dents, and spoke of their desire
to communit ate with the Uni
versity administrators in t barge
of Amazon's future
While leading a media tour of
units in the nearly fifty year old
low rent development Amazon
Community Tenants Council
officer Dana Dorman said that
Amazon's i Insure may make a
university education too expen
sive for low income families
One example is resident Harry
Sheets, a to year-old displaced
timber industries worker lie
said that without Amazon's low
rent rates, he would he unable to
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Jammin’ at “The Screw”
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Oswald-Five-o’s guitarist performs at "The Screw", the KWVA sponsored concert last
Friday.
Police arrest suspects
on burglary charges
j Men suspected of
breaking in home
Kugents police have arrested
two men snspet ted of tying up .1
retired University professor and
burglarizing his home (k t 20.
Two men took, stereo equip
ment. a portable television and a
wallet after gaining entry to the
house by asking to use the tele
phone.
James Chowning Davies. 75,
a retired University professor of
political sciem e. was not injured
in the incident.
Tim fiirr of the Huge lie Depart
ment of Public Safety said the
break in iht' investigation ( nine
Inti* Thursday when a property
crimes detective, reviewing pawn
slips, round that items taken in
the robbery had been sold to a
sni ond-hnnd store I cm nlod near
(.impus
A follow-up investigation led
to the arrest of the susjM'i Is, who
are charged with seconddegree
robbery, second-degree kidnap
ping. first-degree burglary and
first-degree theft.
In addition to the charges cur
rently pending against the two
men. police antir ipnte addition
al forgery charges as they inves
tigate the use of i redit amis taken
from Davies' wallet.
Eugene not negligent,
says 12-member jury
□ Woman’s suit against the city ends
in favor of the city after a 11-day trial
The city of Eugene was not guilty of negligence in its inspection
and maintenance of traffic sign visibility at die intersection where
a woman was injured in a 1988 vehicle collision, a Lane County
Circuit Court jury said Friday.
Tiana Tozer. a 1990 University graduate, said she decided to
sue the city hecauso of )uan Mejia’s claim that tree foliage
obscured his view of a stop sign at the intersection of Harris Street
and East 23rd Avenue, causing his vehicle to run into the car in
which Tozer was a passenger.
Tozer initially sued only Mejia, who was then convicted of
third-degree assault and drunken driving, according to court
records. Tozer filed suit against the city in the spring of 1990.
The 12-member jury’s verdict was 11-1 In favor of the city, end
ing the 11-day trial, which extended over a three-week period.