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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1995)
Duck spirit OMt • :*tt»VV1 - Eugene Mayor Ruth Bascom dresses poster ot Penn State coach Joe Patemo In Duck gear at a City Council meeting Wednesday. California cleans; more rain coming SACRAMENTO (AP) — The sun shorn? Wednesday on flood ravaged Northern California ns edgy victims of a string of pow erful Pacific storms mopped up and awaited new rains from the West. "Now all our stuff is in other people's yards," Roseville resi dent Gabe Preusnk, 12, said ns he helped his parents clean up dam age after six consecutive days of high winds and rain. North, west and south of Sacra mento, people sorted through sodden rubble, piled sand bags and fearfully watched a new storm approaching from the Pacific. Some reached their homes in boats. Others waded through waist-deep water to swamped living rooms. Sacramento received 8.35 inch es of rain since Friday In Febru ary 1986, an inch a dnv fell for nine days, causing similar wide spread flooding Northeast of the city near the foothills, the rainfall has been far higher. Placer County received five m< lies of rain in 24 hours, the National Weather Service said, causing fierce floods. "We lost everything we had All our good furniture When we bought this home two years ago, they told us we didn't have to worry about floods because the creeks were cleared Now we're starting all over again. It's hard.'' said a weeping Rose Draudo of Roseville. On nearby streets, rowboats sat neatly parked where the falling water left them. People dug through debris, burled garbage into metal trash bins and dragged sodden carpet Into their yards In Kio Linda, where _’()0 peo pit were I’Viii uated. about tout feet of water covered a square mile of the rural ranching town Electrical power remained out in some areas but was expected to be restored by evening, accord ing to the Sacramento Municipal Utility District ' We'll just sti* k it out until the water goes down, or the next storm comes,” said Ryan Smith, an 1H-year-old warehouse work er Closer to the coast, the Russ ian and Napa rivers slowly rvs ed ed as North Const residents stmg gled to recoup A storm expect ed to hit Wednesday evening was expected to dump as much as three inches in the area r More Power To You! All the gear you need to tackle nearly any project. a Microsoft* Office gives you all the tools you need so you won't end up fishing for anything next time a deadline comes round the bend Office includes Microsoft Word, Excel. PowerPoint, and Mail to help you tie everything together on your Mac or PC Trek on over the Microcomputer Support Center today and check out our academic pricing on Microsoft Office and be prepared for the next big one Microcomputer Support Center 202 Computing Center • 346-4402 Monday - Friday 9*m-5hi e-mail mpp®oregon :.SP«NGf€Lc|| SCIENTIFIC SUPPLIES **r? lit 9 I ♦ A >1 W» \ ( Make Big Plans Oversized Copies available up to 3 feet x 14 feet 1965 344-3555 t ru 344 0870 kinko's your branch office ♦ EUGENE CITY BREWERY ♦ Handcrafted Ales Manufactured & Served At Regional American food*. Family Oriented Dining Homemade Desserts Classic Italian Cuisine Upstate Billiards Late Nite Dminq (Ij'ffi t J 00 p m No M m 844 Olive St. 345-8489 Snxjkr free 830 Olive St. 345-1072 HOW TO FIND OUT ABOUT “ONE OF THE 20 BEST CORPORATE JOBS IN THE US.” I Kit s what (. an-er Vision magazine had to s.iv about the lixmitivf Training Program at Meier & Frank, a division of The May Department Stores Company. I he May IXpartment Stores i ompany is the largest department store company in North America, with annual sales of SI 1 billion Inch year we recruit over 150 seniors from over -k) schools for our executive merc handising team Our nationally recognized training program will give you a balance of classroom and hands-on experience before you begin your first assignment as Assistant Buyer Subsequent positions include Area Sales Manager, Buyer and beyond t onsider a career with May and Meier At f rank if you enjoy identifying opportunities and solving problems, want to work in a dynamic, changing environment, fxrssess solid analytical capabilities and have developed strong interpersonal skills PLEASE VISIT OUR OPEN MOUSE, EMU CEDAR A & B, JANUARY 12, 10AM-4PM MEIER & FRANK A DIVISION OF THE MAY DEPARTMENT STORES COMPANY MAY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER AND SUPPORTS WORK FORCE DIVERSITY
