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■ Several faculty members have spent the last two years producing the story of Woody Guthrie’s time in Oregon By Adam Jude Oregon Daily Emerald One month of work by Woody Guthrie in May 1941 has turned out to be a two-year project for several faculty members at the University who are documenting the legendary folk musician’s ex periences. “Roll On Columbia: Woody Guthrie and the Bonneville Pow er Administration” made its pub lic debut Sunday at the Bijou Art Cinemas in front of “a nearly full house,” said Lynette Boone, who helped produce the film. 008244 BETHANIE HARTMAN, RECRUITER 1221 SW Yamhill, Suite 400 Portland, OR 97205 503/223-7335 (fax 503/223-9061) bethanie.hartman@nml.com Once you’ve read the book... Northwestern Mutual Life’ The Quiet Company® www.norlhwesternmulual.com/saleS Northwestern Mutual Life’s College Internship Program joined the distinguished list of the ten best internships in the nation. 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Matthews said it is likely that the documentary will be shown on at least one of those stations this summer. The relationship between Guthrie and the Bonneville Dam is the focus of the film, with an emphasis on the month that News briefs 35 Cuban migrants reach Florida Keys PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. — A group of 35 Cubans were taken into custody after making it to shore near a state park in the Florida Keys on Sunday. Nearly all the migrants were detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents early Sunday, according to the U.S. Immigration and Natu ralization Service. The group told agents they left Villa Clara, Cuba, in a 30-foot wooden boat Thursday after each paid a smuggler 2,000 pesos, equivalent to about $215. All were in good health, ac cording to Assistant Chief Patrol Agent Joseph Mellia. The 14 men, 10 women and 11 children were taken to an INS detention center west of Miami. Under current U.S. immigra tion policy, Cuban refugees who reach land usually are allowed to remain in the country. Those in tercepted before setting foot on U.S. soil usually are returned to Cuba. According to Border Patrol sta tistics, 722 Cubans have come ashore since Oct. 1. Investigator: detectives tried to get graveyard confession DENVER — One of the former lead investigators in the JonBenet Ramsey case claims Boulder de tectives staked out the child’s Guthrie was hired by the Bon neville Power Administration to create a song each day. By the end of the 1941 project, Guthrie had assembled 26 songs in 30 days. “There are a lot of lessons we can learn from this,” Majdic said. Folk musician Arlo Guthrie, the son of Woody, and Pete { { There have been ex tremely positive respons es. It's a thrill to see when they laugh at moments you thought were funny. Denise Matthews co-creator Seeger, also a folk artist, are two of the 14 people interviewed for the documentary. “It was amazing for all of those people to be in such solid condi tion,” Matthews said of the inter view subjects, most of whom are in their 80s. “The timeliness was superb.” gravesite seven months after her murder and planted a micro phone and hidden camera, hop ing to hear a confession. Steve Thomas, who resigned from the case in 1998 after accus ing District Attorney Alex Hunter of not being aggressive enough, revealed the move in a Time magazine story to be published Monday. Thomas said John and Patsy Ramsey, who did not visit the grave during the stakeout, were the primary targets. They have denied any involvement in their daughter’s death. Thomas said Boulder detec tives flew to Atlanta, where the Ramseys moved after JonBenet’s slaying, in August 1997 on the eve of what would have been her seventh birthday. Investigators broke into St. James Episcopal Cemetery with the help of a Georgia state troop er who picked the lock, Thomas told the magazine. The detectives planted a mi crophone and hidden camera a few feet from JonBenet’s grave and listened in vain for three days from a nearby high school. The only things they observed were curiosity seekers and a salesman selling a burial plot to an elderly couple. Thomas recounts the grave yard stakeout in his new book “JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation,” due out Tuesday. The Associated Press
