Oregon Daily
MONDAY, JANUARY 3,1994
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 95. ISSUE 68
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S+nior Nicole Chlcoine, left, a Paycology major, moves furniture from the Delta Gamma House with roomate Christian Lowe, a
senior In Economics, and her dad Glenn Lowe.
UNIVERSITY
Rural town
runs dorm
giving kids
a new life
Education: Students in trouble
find support at boarding school
in secluded Cental Oregon
MITCHELL (AP) — Jaime Mclaiwhorn.
1H, needed a change of scene. Her grades
wore in the gutter and her friends were
drifting toward drugs, alcohol and trou
ble.
When she heard about a public board
ing school in this Central Oregon town,
she thought she might find support here
for starting over, far from the temptations
of her old school in a Portland suburb
First, however, she hud to find Mitchell.
After a 200-mile drive into the lonely
sagebrush hills of Oregon's high desert.
Jaime and her mother went straight
through town without realizing it
"It looked like a tittle ghost town,” Joinie
recalled. "I said, 'Where are the hangouts'
Where’s the pizza parlor' Where’s the 7
Eleven?’ "
Mitchell, population tHf>. has none of
those things. Indeed. Mitchell has not
much of anything — and that’s pro* isely
the point of an unusual experiment in pub
lic education taking place here.
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GOOD MORNING
► SEATTLE (AP) — II would cost S136.700 to truck 33
many as 60 sea lions Irom the Ballard Locks to their
br^feding grounds on the Channel Islands of Southern
California — before this winter's run of steelhead trout
arrives at the locks
The sea lions are lurking at the locks, presumably
waiting for this year’s annual winter run
The proposal has been endorsed by a committee of
biologists Irom the National Marine Fisheries Service,
the state Department of Wildlife and members of Trout
Unlimited, the Muckleshoot Tribe and the Washington
Environmental Council.
At least some of the sea lions would return to Seattle
and have to be hauled home a second time.
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► HELENA, Mont.
(AP) — A frantic
search for a
seven- year-old
Canadian boy
buried in an
avalanche ended sadly Saturday with the discovery 01
his body. The death of Miles Merrill brought the death
toll to five.
The boy's body was found at 1 p.m., about 24 hours
after he and six others were caught by the avalanche
during a snowmobiling outing on Friday.
Miles and three other victims were from Cardston,
Alberta, just north of the border.
►SEATTLE (AP) — The Marlboro Man is riding out of
the Kingdome on New Year's Day. run out of town by
an ordinance that bans tobacco advertising from all
county buildings — including the Seattle Mariners' ball
park.
The 55-foot ad over left field, depicting a cigarette
smoking cowpoke, was being covered with flat black
paint Saturday by the Foley Sign Co.
Knight Library undergoes changes
Renovation: Six CD
players and DAT player
added to new Douglass
Room
By John Fleischli
Fot the Oregon Ddtfy EmeraKS
During the winter break, the knight
Library went through some changes
that patrons returning to the library
may bi> surprised to find
If you hud tried using the library
during the break, you would have
found that it was closed so staff could
move about one million volumes of
books into new parts of the library
and so several offices and depart
ments could lie relocated.
Students, staff and a handful of
movers were busy shelving books,
moving furniture, buffing and wax
ing floors and removing gum from the
undersides of tables.
About 8.200 hours of labor were
involved in the project, which result
ed in the move of the Special Col
lections materials to improved storage
urvas m the new addition l ne Acqui
sition. Catalog, Preservation and
Binding, and Systems departments
also moved from temporary quarters
to the renovated Meyer Technical
Services Center on the main floor.
The Knight Library has gone
through several major changes in its
history. The latest wave of change
is known as the Expansion and Ren
ovation Project and began in Apr.
1992.
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Promoter builds Hawaii-style party site in Monroe
Paradise: Builder plans to rent 21-acre
expanse for weddings and private parties
MONROE. Wish. (AP) — Between the sprawling
gravel pits and the stately penitentiary. Pete Wood is
building himself a pseudo-Disneyland with a tropical
twist.
There’s no Matterhorn, Space Mountain, or any oth
er thrilling rides for that matter. But there are water
falls, fountains and streams, banana trees and black
weeping locusts.
At the canter of this madcap. 21-acre. Hawailan-atyle
marvel is a structure Wood calls the Hums Hums bar,
crafted of woven coconut palms and surrounded by
carvings of aamlnude maidens and Tiki torches.
Close by la a 10-acra artificial lake that Wood Is slow
ly filling with the aid of four larga hoses. Wood esti
mates it will be full In another 125 days.
Wood even Installed a pips along the top of the five
tiered flagstone terrace to shoot out a cooling mist. It's
the kind of contraption you might find in fancy out
door eateries in such desert towns as Palm Springs,
Calif., and Phoenix.
But in Monroe?
“People are going to love it. They're Just going to
love it," a beaming Wood said the other day as he fed
dried hunks of breed to a squealing flock of gulls that
circled low over his lake.
“If it works, it could be a masterpiece." said Dick
Fredlund. Monro a city planner.
“Once people know about it. they'll come from miles
around.” said Kenneth Robinson, publisher of the Mon
roe Monitor, the city’s weekly newspaper.
“Peter is a largely undiscovered legend around there.
People are amazed when they see what be does.”
Wood, the giddy — some say wacky — visionary
some days calls his creation 'Tate’s Party Pit." Other
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