Oregon Daily
THURSDAY, JULY 21.1994
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 96. ISSUE 10
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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