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i (GENEROUS SORT OF PERSON a I Cl I yy " J ErW-N. II :wSf' '.w I i W ' A h -ft Mysterious Object STOCKHOLM, Sweden OB A Swedish pUot told Friday of see ing a mysterious object nasn ny at tremendous speed and &tocK holm newspapers immediately labeled it a "Russian robot." "Russian robot from base at Libau" said a six-column head line in Aftonbladet, the city's largest newspaper. Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. Sim., Dec. 20, 1953 78 PANTOMIME STORY SPENCER CREEK At 8 p.m. Monday, the adult choir of the Spencer Creek Lutheran Church will present a Christmas story In pantomime at the grange hall. A free offering will be taken to purchase choir gowns. EUGENE VOCATIONAL SCHOOL instructor Art Clougb has recommended the sculpture work of a former student be placed in Salem to honor the Pioneer mother. In the center photo Clough is shown inspecting the model, created by Mrs. Clarence Comfort Jr. of Eugene, about eight years ago. At the right is a closeup of the (Register-Guard photos, Wiltshire engraving) same model. Clough believes the state's Committee on Statuary should select the pioneer under a $30,000 grant by Carroll Moore, who was custodian in the state Supreme Court Bldg. before his death. Clough recom mends that another work of a student, Mrs. Blanch Van Kirk, be placed in a city park. It is at left. brtists Depict Pioneer Mother State Challenged At Dam Hearing Hit SHOULD a statue hon- U the Pioneer Mother look lift To date, vocal uregoniaos bit keen certain of one thing: in don't particularly want a Uiy nude to fill the role. The question arises because lite Carroll Moore, tor many kin custodian in the state su ns! court building, left j.COO to finance the purchase luitable artwork to grace the p:es capital city. First choice for Moore s mem- ul was Renoir's Venus Vic-i-;-j;e, but this was withdrawn ad the committee which pick ! it-alter a heated public con-tosj It! second proposed sculpture lu! realistic than the first :i it may prove too impression- :: to be acceptable. Spanish a Manuel Izquierdo visualized mother as "the earth, or as sitting very large. The child iskey Taxes Rapped MSHINGTON OB Liquor ad-1 snort from 45 states said crdiy that high beverage us can send whisky consumers i Meggers and "turn all the ri identified with the prohl ton period." iK administrators presented stiws in a 50-page report by H joint committee of the i'a to study alcoholic beverage then is something small that will develop and grow. The protec tive shawl is to demonstrate the protective feeling o the mother for her child the courage of the mother toward saving her child from harm." PLASTER MODEL Izquierdo's 614-foot plaster model, with a grapefruit-sized head, is on display at Portland's! Kharouba galleries at S W. 11th Ave. and Alder St. There are those who think the pioneer mother was as realistic as a barn raising .and ought to be remembered in that more realtistic vein. That's where Art Clough, cre ative design instructor, comes to the fore. "Izquierdo's work is a remark able interpretation of a certain type of woman. A very narrow,! single-purposed woman. Old maidish and stiff-necked. Full of vision. Faith in the future and faith in God. 'GENEROUS SORT' V "She's like the women who came out on ships to marry Jason Lee at Salem and the other mission aries. Elderly schoolteachers. They came around the horn, not overland. Is that the true, average pioneer mother?" This is the pioneer mother as Clough visualizes her: "A generous sort of person Hardships gave her a mellow view of life. She went to quilting parties, barn raisings, square dances. She raised a large family. She was that kind of a person. In terested in her children. Look at the schools and colleges those women set up." Then a gleam comes Into tils blue eyes as though he's just seen such a figure move into view. As if he hasn't had a cast of his ideal pioneer mother in his workshop at the Eugene Vocational School these past eight years. STUDENT'S STATUE - Clough recalls that a student of his, Alice Smiley, created sucti a version of the pioneer mother. Student Smiley is Mrs. Clarence Comfort Jr. now. From EVS she went on to Boeing Aircraft Corp., Seattle, and became a senior in spector of welders during war time. Mrs. Comfort dimples at the mention of her work and says, 'I like being just a housewife but I'd go to work on the statue if my model were accepted." Living now in a modern log cabin at 211 Bogart St. Eugene, the sculptress onines. too. that "the pioneer wo men were a hard-working lot and just as human as we are. They i4tlji'iiyiiyyEigiiiMl .T...T.;i'.:V.'t,r;.,.:r.f.r...-r.,f..-.i A REAL GIFT for a MAN -fffiiicl Tools . 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The budget group is hold ing preliminary meetings to for mulate the 1954-55 fiscal budget which will go into effect July of 1954. At Springfield, the school board will open bids at 8 p.m. Monday for the sale of $400,000 in bonds. The bond money will go toward paying costs of the new Thurs ton Junior High which is now under construction. The $400,000 is the last part of an original $BBO,ooo Dona is sue authorized by voters of School District 19. The first por tion was sold earlier, to pay fori other school construction costs, ought to be portrayed In realistic style. Art Instructor Clough recalls wood carvings by his, students appear in the postoffice at Yaki ma, Wash., in the reading room of the University of Oregon, in the Forestry Building at Salem, and the chapel at the state capi tol. Bas reliefs by his students mark the Lost Wagontrain Route on the Old Immigrant Road and honor a skier named Gillis at Santiam Bowl. HOPES FOR PARK The successes of his students during bis past 30 years 15 with the Vocational School speaks well of Art Clough s instruction. That the Eugene Vocational School has an opportunity to bring out the creative genius in students means much to Clough. "Genius is too often killed by our schools today," he said., Clough is thinking beyond the state Capitol's quest for a suit able statue of the pioneer mother. He dreams, too, of the day Eu gene will have a park with a suit able pool with the bronze statue of the pionee mother and the pioneer father seated at opposite ends. That's where a second work of one of his students comes to at tention. Mrs. Blanch Van Kirk, Eugene, executed the pioneer standing by his grain cradle, the always present water jug, and a sheaf of wheat. Clough would like the Salem Committee on Statuary to con sider the more realistic approach of his students. He'd welcome the day when the pioneer mother, as depicted by Alice Smiley Com fort, stands in goodly size, and bronze, on the state capitol grounds. ill new low prices on frigidaire rangesi HEADQUARTERS FOR FRIGIDAIRE SPRINGFIELD Move to Save Lighthouse PORTLAND (IPI The Oregon Motor Court Assn. has adopted a resolution asking the State High way Commission to grant the Lin coin County Historical Society ad ditional time to try to save the old Yaquina Bay Lighthouse at Newport. The lighthouse, built In 1871 and abandoned after two years of use. needs repairs costing $15,000. Tho Commission decided last June to tear the structure down unless the Historical Society could raise the funds needed to repair and maintain the lighthouse. The Com mission set a Jan. 1 deadline for the Society to take over. The lighthouse is located In Ya quina Bay State Park and is un der Commission jurisdiction. George J. Gutflesch, executive secretary of the Oregon Motor Court' Assn., said the group felt the lighthouse should be preserved "as an historical site" of impor bnce to the citizens and visitors of Oregon. WASHINGTON W) Whether Washington State's testimony will be thrown out of the Hells Canyon case will be decided when the Power Commission hearing re sumes Jan. 5. A public power attorney asked Examiner William J. Costello to strike the state's testimony and exhibits shortly before the hearing was recessed Thursday for the holidays. The motion was made by Mrs. Evelyn Cooper, attorney for groups favoring construction ofl the proposed federal Hells Can yon Dam near one of the sites sought by Idaho Power Co. for three power projects in the Snake River between Idaho and Oregon. The hearing is on those applications. Washington State's, case, in op position to the federal project, was presented by Holland Houston, power adviser to Gov. Arthur B, Langlie. DID NOT QUALIFY Mrs. Cooper asserted Houston did not qualify as an expert wit ness and said his testimony was incompetent and failed to support Washington s petition to intervene in uie case. She declared Houston "has had little or no working experience with comprehensive river develop ment" and claimed he did not make studies necessary for auth oritative evaluation of multi-purpose project benefits. She told Costello that Houston s 'opinions and views are limited almost exclusively to power de velopment" and that hir, "experi ence and views rest on his discus sions with innumerable persons at innumerable conferences. Houston';, testimony, she said. was a "conglomeration largely supported only by opinion and hearsay evidence" which would for EVERYONE Chriitmas I WhaT would be mare "appropriate thanrft'Jies'af only "burden and emcumber the record. Mrs. Cooper said Houston failed to support the intervention peti tion's statements relating to grow ing power requirements and the need for flood control in the Co lumbia River Basin. Costello said other lawyers In the case could reply tovthe mo tion by mail before Jan. 5 when he said he would rule on it. Two attorneys indicated they would oppose the motion. They were Bernard Lonctot, Washing ton's chief deputy attorney gen eral who is handling the state s case, and R. P. Parry of Idaho Power Co. WOULD BE CALLED Costello told the attorneys to be prepared to proceed whether he grants or denies the motion. If the motion were granted, Interior De partment witnesses would be call ed. If the motion were denied, Houston would return for cross- examination on testimony he gave this week. Houston testified the federal Hells Canyon Dam is not needed for flood control and said its pow er would be too expensive. 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