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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1949)
Pago 6A Register-Guard", Eugene, Ore,, Sun,, Aug. 21, 1949Qfgf- (JfTlltS ipnngtieid s Mreei projea oing Baiy Depends on Its Properly Holders SPRINGFIELD Fat of this i into live North-South zones with city'f loth St. paving program lay in the hands of some 140 prop erty owners Saturday. Remonstrance petitions against the paving prcgram were in cm eulation Saturday, but it is too early to know whether enough property owners who are to be assessed for paving will sign pe titions to halt the project. Last week assessed property owners kept city officials busy answering paving questions. Many appeared confused on assessment costs. City officials said several owners thought their individual assessment would be twice the fig ure set by the city. Cheatham explained "zoned area assessment for the pav Inr of 10th St. from Main to K like this: The property located east and west of 10th was divided into adjacent zones five to the west and five to the east. Total depth of zones on either side of 10th was set at exactly half the dis tance to the next parallel street. Thus, distance of the zoned area east of 10th Is 4S0 feet. It is only 190 feet west of 10th. The city the first four zones 30 feet wide and the fifth zone 330 feet wide. The western section was also divided into five zones all five being 30 feet wide. (Width of zone five is determined by sub tracting total width of the first four zones from one nan me distance from 10th to the next parallel street 450 east of 10th and 150 feet west). This explains whv zone five east of 10th much wider than zone five west of 10th. Each of the five zones on both sides of 10th were then given a weighted value. Values for zones one to five were set at 45, 25, 20, 10, and 5 respec tively. This means property located in zone 1 (closest to 10th St.) will be assessed more than property in zone 2; zone 2 property will be assessed more than zone 3, and so forth, provided, of course, the properties are -equal In size. A large lot in zone 2 could be assessed more than a small lot in zone 1. In short, "zoned area" assess ment is based on the Idea that then divided the eastern section property located close to 10th St. Ill DR. F. A. ELLIOTT I II Optometrist and Chiropractor Announces the Moving HI ' Of His Office from 37 1. 10th II To 62 W. 10th St. (On the Street To Sears) II COMPLETE OPTICAL SERVICE I X-RAY LABORATORY II Phon 4-4021 Res. Phone 4-7449 CHICAGO (U.R) A pretty 22-year-old mother confessed Fri day that she strangled her six day-old baby girl with a diaper 'because my husband was out of work and we were too poor to give her the best things life can offer. Mrs. Dorothy Skeoch broke down and confessed five hours after she aroused neighbors and told them a "negro robber" had held her up in her home and strangled the baby. Police were suspicious of her original story immediately because many persons sitting near the entranceways to the tenement where she lived had hot seen a negro enter the building. Mrs. Skeoch just two hours be fore had brought the baby home from St. Bernard's Hospital, where it was born last Friday. She said she looped its only diaper around the infant's neck and yanked it tight in a double knot. I just couldnt stand the thought of it growing up without the best things m life, Mrs. Skeoch said. Where I was raised in Astoria, Ore., my parents gave me every thing I wanted and needed wanted my baby to have the same. I didn t want her to grow up the way we were forced to live." Firemen worker over the baby, Susan Elizabeth, for 30 minutes in an attempt to revive her. I . Ill t E II , . 1 U FA'II Pupils of Hospital School End HaDDV Plavaround Term - m - - . -urct itk: Initiated with reservations ol by proceeds of a jamboree soft- m the same Fein tain Pea repair , . All niftket and model , . . Lara wayi (am lib jam ft new pen while roun li balnr repaired. . . Lirawar'i Jawelcri . , , 1fl WllUmett . . . Next tha McDonald ThtaUr . , Ted Jorgensen Electric ELECTRIC COMFORTERS WIRING. Ph. 7-S570 receives more special benefits than property, say, In zone five. However, the system also ac knowledges the fact that proper ty in zone live does receive a little benefit. Cheatham said many residents with property adjacent to 10th St. felt their assessment charges would be less under a "front footage" plan. The manager said the opposite was true. Property 120 feet wide on 10th St. and 60 feet deep would .be assessed approximately $1200 on the front foot basis, Cheatham said. This same property would be assessed approximately $650 on the "zoned area" plan. . Public hearing and receipt of bids for the city's first paving program since 1913 will be held Aug. 29. SUITS- For Young Men ... At School ...Or Anywhere Th Little Things Mean A of Good Taste! Cappi Clothes, for young men, ire tailored FULLMEASURE. Thirit no skimping at ihoit hid dtn skimp points. In other words they're FULL-eut, FULL-iryled from FULL quality fabric and have a FULL share of hand sewing. Those are the little entri things that spell Good .Taste In men's clothes. PES FRIDAYS tii, p. M. HOLDING THE LITTLE PITCHER that started her collection 10 years ago, Mrs. M. L. Handshuh, Eugene, plans the arrange ment of more than 500 pitchers which will be shown publicly next Sunday at a Children's Hospital School benefit. Members of the Welcome Wagon Fhetteplace Memorial Guild will assist with ar rangements and manage the tea, (Staff photo Wiltshire engraving.) Pitcher Display To Help School A woman who lives near the Children's Hospital School, and decided she wanted to do some thing to help, will open her ten- year-old hobby to the public on Sunday, Aug. 28. Mrs. M. L. Handshuh, 827 Htn Ave. E., has been watching stu dents at the hospital school for years as they played about on the school's Alder St. lawn. This summer it occurred to her that her collection of unusual pitchers, which now number more than 5100, might be of interest to the public, and might also provide a means of .raising more money for the hospital school building fund. With the help of hospital school personnel and members of the Welcome Wagon Fhetteplace Memorial Guild, plans for the showing are now nearing completion. Benefit Tea The showing will be in the form of a benefit tea, with hours from 8 to 5 p. m. Sunday. Men as well as women, and all persons inter ested in antiques, collections or hobbles will be welcome to attend. The memorial guild, the first hospital school guild, will handle arrangements. The Welcome Wagon group is a newcomer's club, and has taken the hospital school as Its community project. Temporary officers are Mrs. John D. Bonzer, president: Mrs. Harry A. Green, vice-president; Mrs. Alfred Jackson, secretary, Mrs. G. G. Starwich, treasurer; and Mrs. John Kirk, publicity, ' On the display committee for tne benefit are Mrs. L. J. Smith, Mrs. V. A. Finley, Mrs. Green, Mrs. Glenn Peterson. Handling refresh ments will be Mrs. Kirk, Mrs. William Wolters, Mrs. C. R. Clarke, Mrs. Claude McMichaels, Mrs. Violet Stevens, Mrs. John E. Anderson Jr., Mrs. A. R. Spencer, Mrs. Gertrude' Maxen, and Mrs. Jackson. Tenth Anniversary The showing will be In nature of a tenth anniversary lor Mrs. Handshuh, who started her col lection ten years ago this month with a single inexpensive pitcher, and picked up 300 more the first year. From that time on, the large, old-fashioned Handshuh home on the millrace has seen pitchers come through its doors from every corner of the world, and in every size and shape imaginable. The collector estimates that about two-thirds of her collection has come from members of her family, from her countless friends, and from persons who have simply heard of the collection and sent a pitcher. The other third she has bought The pitchers are made of dozens of unusual materials, including wax, soap, ivory, shells, clay and metal, as well as from china, glass and clay. Many are priceless an tiques, some are inexpensive but valuable because they are unusual. They range in size from tiny ones that ' can-scarcely-be seen up to the largest size's.-c Mrs. Handshuh has the pitchers arranged on shelves in the living room and dining room, and in one bedroom. Glass shelves in the win dows help show off the choicest glass pitchers. Visitors at the showing will be routed through the house so they can see all of the collection, and some of the choicer specimens will be placed in special display cases and secluded backyard where tea will be served. Mrs. Handshuh, who is justly proud of her collection, believes if is one of tha largest and most complete in the country. She has no duplicates. She has arrived at a point in her collecting now where she no longer buys cheap pitcners, out only those that ap peal to her. However, not a week goes by without a pitcher arriv ing in the mail (or brought in per son) from friends who have been travelling. Mrs. Handshuh will be on hand during the tea to answer questions about tne collection. doubt by many of those concern-, ba)1 night held at , Mrs. Sloan div ';. ed. one special feature of Eu- playground season, m.l? 'he ?as ixtnr. .,tci Ec gene's municipal summer play. ground program closed last week leaving no one dubious as to its success. A gala party was held Thurs day at the recreation center 20th and Washington Sts., as a finale and recalling the opening days of the program, Bennidine Backlund of the Bureau of Parks and Rec reation staff, could not help but note the contract. Through the summer this -spe cial program has provided five hours of recreation each Tuesday and Thursday for 14 pupils of the Eugene Children's Hospital School. Despite the physical han dicaps imposed on them by cere bral palsy and other diseases, these youngsters "took" to the plan immediately. And they had a grand time all summer. Far Reaching Effects That was the aim of the pro gram, Mrs. Blanche Huffaker, di rector of the hospital school, re ported. But the total effects were much more far reaching, Miss Backlund added. She told how other children coming to the 20th and Washing ton playground first stood off in awe as they watched the crippled youngsters at play. Then how they solicitously began to move into the special circle superintended by Mrs. Huffaker. And, finally, how with the enthusiasm of young new friends both sets of children spent their Tuesdays and Thursdays to gether, oblivious of their differ ences, intent entirely upon the fun they were having.. The mother of one little girl, whom she described as having been self-centered and selfish to an extreme, stated that the child has been a new personality since she entered into the spirit of in domitable cheer brought to the Iplayground by" the youngsters from the hospital school. Mothers of the physically "han dicapped children were guests at the party last Thursday, and together with Mrs.. Huffaker they were equally enthused about the benefits of the program for their children. "An important "part of the training we give handicapped youngsters," Mrs. Huffaker said, "is an increased ability to ad just themselves to living with not just among normal per sons. "These summer playground trips have been a marvelous aid in that respect," she said, i ' Station Wagon Used To transport, the 14 hospital school patients to the play area twice each week, the school's sta tion wagon was used. Each child was called for at his home, and returned after a day of games, movies, arts and crafts instruc tion, story hours and play on swings, slides and other equip ment, even in the wading pool. Funds for this special trans portation were supplied in part playground seasons. Plans are to ,: .. ,ot Uie,' repeat the program and its finan w I""1 e to?? ing in similar manner next sum- DRAPES cleaned in sanitone. Electric Cleaners 1210 Willamette St Dial 5.1547 div orce Is in Un Count, D,,!"7 NOW v lla fif NO DOW Wk PAYMEN Easy operation Hght-rnnnlnr , . Ift improved new Home KHior -,J ...... iiitu uvsncea natures u "yj lock - stitching action that will hi . . . backward aid forward senium nip or a switch . . . dirnim vltad . . . 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