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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1995)
sPWNcmiafi sctomnc summ to* I :i rnn /f503) 726-9176’ / J-8C&-344-2047 m* nt “31 years of Quality Service” Mercedes • BMW • Volkswagen Audi • Datsun • Toyota *■.« fc.j* V .77^ GERMAN AUTO SERVICE, INC. I 342-2912_2025 Franklin Blvd Eugene, Oregon, 97402 LAZAR S BAZAR 810 mm OFF !AL1j s: 'ilHti csupos * MfHB ?/3i/?S 57 \\ Rroiuhvay* ‘>57 W illamette 687-0 LW • $ti» • lint evertory Theatre The Chest of Dreams A CJuW#'t*u’j Play July 7, 8, 14. 15, 21. 22. 28. 29. Auguit 4. 5 KiUlo«r» .it the Robinson Theatre- 2 PM 4 15,22. 27, 2> August 5 8 PM 3* August 6- 2 PM Arena Theatre July 30, August 13 2 PM Arena Theatre Mad Duck Box Office- 346-4192 Box Office 1 tours Mon - Fri 11 30- 2:30 & 3 30- 6iX> _ 1st Floor. VtlUrd Hill* Rin>m 116 Laundry lady sets up $150,000 grant fund HATTII SBURC. Miss (AIM During much of her ft? years. Oseola Mi < arts w.u treated ns a ms ond-class t itizen in racially divider! Mississippi, making her living washing and ironing oth er people s doth*** Hut along the way she scrimped and saved, and now she has S1 Ml,000 to leave to the University of Southern Missis sippi to set up scholarships for other needy I>Im ks. " I want to help somebody's child go to college.’' she said 1 just want it to go to someone who will npprt*< cite it and loam I'm old and I'm not going to live always " Although the university won't n«< wive her money until after she dies it is making the first Si .000 < Keola McC arty Scholarship available on its own this fall as a way of thanking her. the si hool said last week For more than 75 years, cus tomers have filed into M<< arty's modest frame Hattiesburg home with loads of laundry Lh IL"’ 11 i I! '4 L ^v_L_L than fiction Al first. she said. she charged $1 SO to a bundle — that's a yveeks worth of laundry for a family of three to four peopto — hut with inflation. the pm e row "When I started making Jit) n bundle — I don't remember when sometime after the war !World War If) I commimipd to save money ." she recalled. "I put it in savings I never would take any of it out I fust put it m. It just at cumulated Birdnapping attempt foiled in Eugene; suspect arrested (AP) Pumpkin the macaw knows how to talk She ll say "hello" and "goodbye" and even speaks m full sentemes After last weekend, she might want to add "Help!" to her \’Oi ab ulary The large him* and-gold bird was perched On the shoulder of her owner Orole Uruhl. as (he Eugene woman and some fnemis walked home from a park Satur day afternoon. A man approached them and asked for the time Before Bruhl knew wliat was happening, he slugged her in the shoulder and snatched her 10-year old pet The man ran down the street, r urn mg the frightened bird In a wing. About to people, mostly young men from the neighborhood, took off after the man. Pumpkin flapping its wing wildly, won the struggle, and fell to the ground, leaving her nbdiH tor with a handful of feath ers "The guy kind of stalled for a second," Bruhl said "But when he saw this pm k ol people after him. he kept running 1 was near ly hysterical." Meanwhile, the people chased the bird snatcher to a house and pointed it out to Eugene police They arrested Mario Martinez Chavez, ,i4. on a c harge of third degree robbery. University: Rent goes up $15-$35 ■ Continued (rom Page 1 room unit* and $ to per month for four-bedroom units West moreland ha* an iiu run sc of S20 per month lor one-bedroom unit* and %2’> for two-bedroom units, and the f ast (dntpus unit* munity ranges from no increase in ri'iit to a maximum of $.t5 (w-r month for the apartments and housing l he rents are directly related to our operating costs, said Mile Kv sUtr. dirw tor of t huver sify Housing "We don't receive subsidies from tuition or the stale Whatever il costs us to maintain the buildings and hire staff, we have to build that into the rent increases Maintaining the building* includes everything from gener al upkeep to hiring outside con tractor* for rnator r»*pairs I'o qualify for family housing, applicants must meet a series of smelts Eyster said Hie first s< reen is determining whether applicants are in finan cial need Then, a system of pri orities is used to further establish the applicants' need (or housing — a family svith > hildren being the hr*! priority, for instant e. then graduate stu dents and undergraduates RAISING THE RENT Monthly rate increases tor Amazon and Westmoreland housing $OU»Ct Uhivm**/! H&uteng ■Family housing has the i npat ttv to house morn than BOO poo 1*1" In other housing news, tin* Fugene Historic Review Board, by a vote of 4-0 last Thursday, agreed to Imgin the process of de-listing the Phase i area of the Amazon Family Housing com pies from historic designation I'he Phase 1 area was denial *>!( VI N ASBURV'Cmw*) ished in Juno to construct now family housing buildings. "This dtM isinn shows the importance of moving post the controversy,“ Kvster said "This step will help everyone put the past behind us and work towards the future.” Construction of the new Ama zon complexes is scheduled to begin in early October FUTON SALE Full-sizMrajiie'anittutivn ROOK SOFT FUTON 1231 ALDER ST. lUBINi, OREGON cod coeo * i • 1 * ROCK SOFT FUTON