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Multicultural Students Get to Know Us — yo<<r Before you Need Us. Student Health Center X4441 Huy ration/ c: jf AMERICAN 0*?' MATTRESS MANUFACTURING RE-BUILT MATTRESS SETS Price includes mattress and box springs: Full & Twin Size Sets.$69 Queen Size Sets.$109 King Size Sets.$179 New Inner Spring Sets Price includes mattress and box springs • TWIN Size, Reg $259 SALE price $139 • FULL Size, Reg S319 SALE price $159 • QUEEN Size, Reg $419 SALE pnc«$ 189 • KING Size, Reg $1,100 SALE price $389 FREE DELIVERY Mon - Fri 9-6 Saturday 9-5 Sunday 12-5 4075 W 11th 343-2690 RIGHT ON TARGET r Emerald CALI OUR ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT: S46-3712 Shop helps clocks keep time MOUNT VERNON. Wash (AP) — Time assumes new moaning in Raymond Slater's tiny clock repair studio. "If you're in a hurry, you're in the wrong shop. " he said. His small work bench is covered with a terry cloth towel and surrounded by even smaller tools and nearly microscopic replacement parts, lbs latest project sits on another bench to the side. "1 taught that dor k some new words when I w-as working on it.” he said The clock ticks minus its faceplate and casing it looks more like a moving |umble of brass gears mounted on a wooden frame. Slater explained tins American-made timepiece from the turn of the century requires more adjust ment It w ill sit on Ins trench among others ticking away until he is satisfied with its performance. The discipline is so intricate he uses head mount ed magnifiers, tiny metal implements and a jew eler's lathe to carve metal pivots down to .008 inch. Slater has some 60 dusty clocks stacked in the forefront of his showroom that he has yet to start on. Many are invaluable, family heirlooms passed down generations. Each has a story. A majority appear to originate in the 19th Century. "I've been found." he said "People know I'm here." Slater retired after 26 years in the Navy There, he worked on jet engines and honed his talent for perfection and intolerance for substandard effort. "When von work on jet engines you can't make a mistake," he said "You literally had a man's life in your hands." A skilled clock repair and restoration person can always find work, said Brian Varner, a master clock maker at the Broadway Clock Shop in .Seattle. He said there are a smattering of good people in the business He also said one of reputation will be sought out by discriminating antioue clock owners Dave Chapman, owner of the Olde Time Shop in Sedro-VVoolley. echoed the sentiment "A good shop is hard to find and a lot of people are pretty particular about their clocks." he said. Unlike Slater. Chapman said he prefers cuckoo clocks. Slater said he likes the precision of a grand father. muntle or ship clock to the cuckoo. Demand forelock makers, whatever their pref erence. is likely to continue. Clock collecting is an international passion, said Roseann Robinson, spokeswoman for the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors Inc. Her group has 37,000 members and is growing steadily, she said. Varner said demand has made antique clocks rar er and increasingly valuable. Slater said he prefers older clocks. He pointed out an eight-day mantle clock, circa 1870-1880, and said he looks forward to returning it to health. "It's super rewarding to me when one responds," he said. "This is high excitement for me. You watch the first movements of restored life." Bald eagle nursed to health, released ALOHA (AI’J — A bald eagle nursed bock to health after it was found near death in a Washing ton canyon has been returned to the wild. The four-year-old raptor was found about three wrsuks ago near a deer r.an.ass in the Kock Creek Canyon nearGoldendaht, Wash., by a Washington Fish & Wildlife biologist The bird was turned over to the Portland Aubudon Society which, in turn, gave it to the Rock Creek Veterinary Hospital in Aloha, Katherine Weil, director of the Audubon's Wildlife Care (’enter. SAVE $$$ ON TEXTBOOKS! • one block from campus * same low prices •expanded floor space your Texibook Informa,,on author, title, edition e II help you save $$$ Sell some of last year's Textbooks ^ hdP Pay for this term's t-t Smith Family Bookstore "■£2*035®® said the eagle was believed to hove eaten poison, but tests con ducted by the hospital were inconclusive. The eagle, dubbed Roosevelt, weighed only five pounds when found and nearly 11 pounds when released Saturday after being fed a steady diet of smelt and mice. Volunteers wanted to name him Clinton after the president, but he was too feisty. Weil said, so he was named after President Teddy Roosevelt, a noted con servationist. Audubon volunteers spent a week exercising the bird on a 150-fool long line, getting a good workout themselves by running along beneath it for hundreds of yards. Weil said the Audubon Soci ety handled seven bald eagles this year, far more than usual. Three were nursed back to health and released. Oregon had 221 nesting bald oagle pairs this year, the highest number since an annual census began in 1979. The bird is list ed as a threatened species in Ore gon, Washington and Idaho, and is endangered in most other states. Ji* FAST FI F 1 H AVENUE EUGENE, OREGON OOF' UlJUAA