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Oregon Daily THURSDAY, JULY 21.1994 EUGENE, OREGON VOLUME 96. ISSUE 10 HIGH 100° LOW 60° Visit. The first lady will visit the Rose City on Friday 1 Bras. L ia Salcccia makes it Clear that no one has the right to tell her to wear one 2 Arnold. True Lies lops box office in its first week of release 4 Armstrong, comrades, celebrate moon landing Anniversary: Astronauts commemorate the occasion WASHINGTON (AP) — The 2'i years since he put the first human footprint on the moon have not been unkind to Neil Armstrong — grayer, heavier, hut still the poet who gave the world: "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” On Wednesday, the silver anniversary of the first landing on the moon. Armstrong stood with his two Apollo 11 comrades in the White House before 1H other Apollo astronauts and President Clinton. He addressed Ins remarks not to them, hut to a group of grade school scientists "To you we say we have only complet ed a beginning." Armstrong said "We leave you with much that is undone There are great ideas undiscovered, break throughs available. "There are places to go beyond belief Those challenges are yours — In many fields, not the least of which is space, Ix'cause there lies human destiny." Armstrong's fellow moonwalker. Bur./ Aldrin, ana command module pilot Michael Collins, who orbited the moon awaiting their return, did not speak Clinton praised the threesome as "our guide* to the wondrous, the unimaginable at that time, the true handiwork of God "They realized the dreams of a nation, they fulfilled an American destiny." he said. "They taught us that nothing is impossible if we set our sights high enough ” At 4 17 p m Kl)T on Sunday. )uls 20. l!X>9, Armstrong and Aldrin set their lunar lander down on the moon’s Sea of Tran tin11 litv. with only second* of fuel left after dodging boulders "The Kagle has land ed," Armstrong radioed to NASA’s Mis sion Control. It was the first limn human* hmf trav tilt'd to another heavenly body and the world rejoiced at the enormity of the achievement Church (mils rang, people prayed and 500 million or more around the world sat entrain ed in front of their television sets to wall h the ghostly figures. 250,0(10 miles away. descend to the dusty virgin surface. Five other Apollo ship* carried pairs of astronauts to different parts of the moon but interest dropped and a jaded nation stopjied the Apollo adventure. Turn to LANDING. Payje 3 COMMUNITY Eugene tavern owner liable for back wages Jiggles: Dancers awarded back wages By Lla Salciccia Oregon Datly The owner of lilies Tavern and the Croat Alaska Bush Com pany must pay more than $150,000 in back and penalty wages to 25 women who worked as nude dancers in the two establishments. According to the state Bureau of Labor and Industries, 25 women filed wage claims against Eugene businessman James Hansen because be was not paying them wages Hanson claimed the women are inde pendent contrar tors and did not require wages He will contest the bureau's findings in court Labor Commissioner Vtarv Wendy Roberts said at a news conference last week that many employers try to get around pay • ing state and federal taxes and worker's compensation by declaring their employees inde pendont contractors. "Hut it's not as easy as having workers sign a contract saying that they are." she said, "In this case we found that the dancers are employees — a doi ision that has ramifications for the entire nude dancing duh industry in the state." Bureau official Joan Stevens Sc hunger said the only money that the dancers received were the tips that customers gave them. According to a press release from the HI.I, there are as many as 75 nude dam ing establish Turn to TAVERN. Pago 3 Oregonians adjust to record high temperatures Heat: Hot weather and dry conditions worry firefighters, inconveniences residents all over state PORTUAND. Ore (AP) — A sixond day of record heal Wednesday sent Oregonians s< urrying to rivers, beaches and misty fountains The extremely hot weather intensified concerns of firefighters already worried about extremely dry conditions. "The fire weather forecasts are probably the worst I’ve seen since 1088," said Doug Det Per, spokesman for the Oregon Department of Forestry. Portland reported a record high of 103 degrees Wednesday after tying Tuesday's record of 102 The previous record for July 20 was 102, set in lOgfi. Medford was the hottest spot in the state Wednes day w ith a high of 107 The tem(ierature in The Dalles reached 106 Portland General Electric Co reported an all-time summertime peak of electricity use on Tuesday and Wednesday About a tfiird of P(.E s 550.000 residential customers have some sort of air conditioning, spokeswoman Roxanne Bailey said The Red Cross was called out to help cool down thousands of young heavy metal rock music fans who were waiting in the sun on hot asphalt at the Portland Meadows horse rai ing tra< k for an outdoor concert Wednesday night bv the group Motallica Hoses were used to water down the boisterous crowd. The National Weather Service forecasts another hot day for today Extreme heat is expected through the weekend east of the Cascades with slightly cooler weather in Western Oregon. Summertime blues Mil HAt I MIINU I H» ' Warren Brownlee, 7, (right) and his brother Travis, 6, found a good way to cool off In the Willamette River Wednesday Highs are expected to reach 100 degrees Fahrenheit today First lady to speak in Portland on Friday Clinton: Hillary to stress health care on her visit “PORTLANi) Ore' (aPT Hillary Rodham Clinton s jour ney lo Oregon will give her the opportunity to address two of her favorite subjects: support for uni versal health care and opposition to the right wing of the Repub lican party The first lady, a main architect of President Clinton s health t are plan, will speak Friday at a downtown rally liefore four bus es leave on a cross-country trip to drum up support for federal health care legislation covering everyone. "We've been admiring her for this whole time that she's been leading this fight for health reform," said Arnold Bennett, media director for the Health Security Express tour. 'We n* honored to have her." he said. "It's our turn to help the first lady by getting this passed " 1.ater Friday, she’ll appear at three fund-raising events for Democrat John Kitathnber, who is opposing conservative Kupubli can Denny Smith for governor The fund-raisers are the prod uct of a meeting between Kit/haher and the Clintons in Washington earlier this year, said I.auron Moughon. spokeswoman for the kit/.haher campaign 'He and the first lady had a very productive discussion about battling tlie extreme right in this election," she said. "Obviously we are facing an opponent who is from the radical right." The th is? main sponsors of the bus tour are Families USA. a health care advocate organiza tion; HeolthRIGHT. a coalition of home care providers; and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employ ees, About 70 other organiza tions. many of them labor unions, also nn.* sponsors. Retimes, doctors and nurses and members of health care advo cacy groups will be among the 40 people on board each of the bus es Buses will leave at later dates from Dallas. New Orleans. Inde pendence. Mo., and Boston They are expected to arrive in Wash ington. D.G.. Aug 2-4 The caravan is an attempt to offset the tremendous pressure being plac ed on Congress by the insurance industry. Bennett said The fund-raising dinner sold out a week. ago. with 800 people paying $12T> apiece to attend A second reception was added, and the 400 tickets for that event also are expected to sell out. Moughon said
