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A Cut Above Portland, Roseburg i feu gjggjr' j rS.W k A .JT IIi1Jwo JESE PICTURES were made at Eugene grocery stores, believe it or LMerry-go-roiuius, tom, BauH"'8 iirw, are a icw oi the gimmicks this modern age to "ease" the shopping chore for parents. Dick Rath, w. 12th St., found the PT boat much to his liking. Wayne West, f ' ft IKcgtslcMiuard pholu, tvilt.sluru eng.) six, arrived from Coburg in cowboy outfit to make the most of his ride on a supermarket steed. A merry-go-round, complete with music and attendant, caught the fancy of Glen Fast, five, of 2635 Hilyard St. He and his brother, Greg, used up a handful of tickets while Mom shopped. In One Ear... By BOB FRAZIER JtHIS IS WRITTEN, the high tool basketball lournamem Lit over, and that is prob- snod thing, wow people time to get ready lor the Circus. Den mothers and selfless people can get from their radios and back Irir circus props. i a fine tournament, gb. with just enough teen age j keep people talking about rthing. Such a bunch of kids, jtime you turned over a or opened a closet door, you i high school student catcn few winks between games. Lrlie Porter, the Democrat lawyer, harbored four Mil lie rooters, all girls, in his k whore they established selves with sleeping bags. isthe daughter of Democra- litional Committeeman Mon- tratland. kid arrived in Eugene with toner. Bob Hamilton at the M Shop gave 'him a job If sptidnuts at the games it list report the kid was line. Eating well, too. ither kid climbed up on the h of McArthur Court and Iff. He landed in a crowd of spectators, though, so he It hurt much. II through it all, this year as year, University of Oregon all were taking exams. 15 A tournament sidelight: liknow Dorothy Delzer, that mm little blonde who works f.tdBrenne at the Chamber tanerce? Well, Dorothy has w& eyesight, better than ma she also drinks coffee ft mornings. One morning, licorice m the coffee shoo. piced across the room to 1 high school boy reading a neaoed, "My darling:" f youth read the letter care-! almost reverently. Ihen flit to his two friends who H carefully. fWEEK will be busy, too.! Ft u me scout Circus, which fy and SatllrHav Worlnn. Ike VLT begins "Dream of Monday through Thurs wwill be, or ought to be, "circus rehearsals by dens, troops, patrols and units. wy esthete knows, there 'M concert Tuesdav niirht "Court 8 p.m. Roy Acuff, : Pearl, T. Texas Tyler, 'Wilson and the jug band, bunch will be on hand, -"lithe reputation of be- music town, a reputa- "It is Ktrnnolhansrf r.1 ty having the state un'iver-tire. rJ'BRY, Republican for 7. speaks in Oakridge !; Joe Kennedy, senator f April 2. Wayne Morse f "Pm i in Medford. nd April 3 in !!... tu. f M senior Chambers of r!rc ire mulling th. l'!!'!inZ Morse a platform I 'twoay noon forum. :?0UTlrAT. .... "V to the U of 0 student mesday, March 30, UN, the Portland law- Democratic ticket, has 1 letter Ia hi. t.i.-j. how he almost ran, :J "wught better of it. hhil? hutyougoout hdri. ,. J.08 wson and I'll JU!t much as if Suggestion Similar To Cougar Project ' Another "partnership" power generation proposal, similar to an agreement sought by the Eugene Water & Electric board with the Federal government, appear ed probable Saturday in a letter from the Pacific Power & Light Co. to the South Santiam Development Com mittee at Lebanon. The proposal may come in con nection with the construction and authorization of power facilities at the Green Peter Dam, sched uled for the Middle Fork of the Santiam River. Most of the plans for PPJtL participation in construction of the dam have been making the rounds among power company officials in the Eugene area for the past month. But the proposi tion became known publicly only when two men representing the development committee testified at a meeting of the Federal Long List of Issues Awaits Eugene School Officials N h )psT tolt' 1,141 well, it may or i ?mficant that that Heft 'omit LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. SECTION B EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY,, MARCH 21, 1954 'Partnership' Power Plan On the Santiam Proposed House public works subcommit tee Friday. READ INTO MINUTES One of the men, Max Landnn, of Sweet Home, read the letter into the minutes of the subcom mittee. This letter was sent to the Santiam committee and was signed by Paul B. McKee, presi dent of the PP&L, and A. W. Trimble, president of the Moun tain States Power Co., of Albany. Mountain States enters the pic ture through the pending merger of the two privately-owned utili ties. PP&L will be the surviving firm. Landon appeared before the subcommittee to support a bill by Rep. Haris Ellsworth of Oregon which would give power features to the proposed Green Peter, While Bridge, and Cougar Dams. Cougar is the dam on the South Fork of the McKenzie River which has drawn Eugene Water & Electric Board interest NO 'CONFLICT' SEEN The Green Peter and Cougar projects are at present authorized as flood control dams only. White Eugene school officials will face a long list of financial and other issues Monday in the ad ministration building when the School Board holds a regular ses sion, to be followed by a Budget Committee session. Board members form one-hall the budget committee, the other five members representing "free holders." or property taxpayers. The board meeting will start at 7:30 p.m.; and the committee win meet at the conclusion of board business. OPEN TO rUBLIC Both sessions are open to the public. Board memoers win receivo Education Association Names Coburg Man .Tne Stewart. Coburg, has been installed as a trustee of the Ore gon Education Assn., the Associ ated Press reported Saturday. Thn nrcanization met in Port land Friday and Saturday for a series of discussions ana worn shnn meetines. Sneakers includ ed William G. Carr, executive secretary of the National Educa tion An.. and J. W. iawaros, Portland superintendent of schools. , , Wirnn w. Tinker, roniann was inalaliea rrinay as nraC;nt Mrs. Antnnla Crator, Newberg, was elected vice presi dent. report from insurance appraisers on estimated damage at the Fran ces E. Willard School which burned in February. Members will discuss costs and other fac tors of rebuilding the Willard School at the present site and at other places. Consideration will also be giv-l en to recent bids for the construc tion of the proposed new Laurel Hill School. A low bid of $128, 740 was submitted by Albert Vik and Son of Eugene, last Thurs day. The initial school unit will consist of four classrooms and re lated facilities. TO STUDY BUDGET At the budget committee ses sion, officials will consider tenta tive budget items totaling over three and three-quarters million dollars. It is expected that final approv al will be given to the budget at this session, and that members will call for a district-wide elec tion at which they will ask vot ers to approve an amount over the six per cent limitation. BURGLARS GET JEWELRY WEST I.OS ANGELES W Po lice reported that burglars enter ed the home of actress Jane Wy- man and her husband, treocncK Kargcr, Friday and took $19,000 worth of jewelry ana $ Vital Statistics DEATHS BRAY AH'n 0. Brif, S, ji.j u-.lnnuUv. Funeral Krvlcei will h'ld t i; j """J diy in Vntch HoUlnfJWortn England Funeral Homt. .... j e AA ThurwlaT. nvrr- Icei will new r" in Lyons, Or. LANB-M.ml. . Innt. It. ot Chamelton ,SI., died Thurvlay. Sew i... -m h held at 2 p.m. Mnndiy in pniA.T.iirin Chanel. MAAS GliJlavo Arnold Ml, M. "J Ft. 1 Monro, died Friday. Service, .ill ha held at J p.m. Tnejday In lh Miller Sherman Murpnr Homt. Junction City. Funeral School Play Cited in Issue Of Magazine Bridge is the re-regulating dam for Green Peter. Ellsworth said that the bill studied by the subcommittee Friday "has absolutely no con flict with the EWEB bill to par ticipate in the construction of Cougar dam." The congressman was referring to the bill he in troduced on Feb. 9. It calls for a "partnership agreement with the federal government to share costs of construction of Cougar. From all indications, the pro posals made by PP&L and Moun tain States might lead to the same type of bill for the Green Peter project One spokesman for PP&L said recently that he thought the EWEB plan a good one and that his firm would prob ably seek the same thing but! would wait until final action has been taken on the Eugene pro posal before applying. URGENTLY NEEDED' The bill before the House sub committee is one introduced by Ellsworth last year, prior to the EWEB legislation. Presumably, then, if power features are auth orized for the dams, there would be a good chance that the part nership bills would be approved by Congress. During the hearing Friday, Douglas Bradley, a farmer from Jefferson, Ore., told the subcom mittee that the dams are "urgent ly needed for flood control." He added that the lack of dams on the Santiam has resulted in much cross-erosion along the stream. Army Engineers have esti mated the cost of the Green Pe ter project at about $47,000,000, with a possible !)6,000-kilowatt power generation installation, The letter from PP&L indicates that such generation capacity! "may be a marginal project from the standpoint of electric energy production costs. But, said of ficials, "the output of the project would help meet power needs in the Pacific Northwest, and view of the representations made hy you as to the importance this proposed project in controll ing destructive floods in the San tiam Basin, we believe we should join with you in making every effort to support the project ' NOW IN CONGRESS The EWEB bill, which would give the local city-owned utility the right to construct power fa cilities at Cougar Dam, is now before the public works commit tees of the House and Senate The proposal specifics that the Water Board pay $10,500,000 as part of the $35,500,000 cost of the dam. With a re-regulating dam downstream, the output of the installation would be about 35,000 kilowatts. Hearing on the "partnership" bill will probably come during the next few weeks. The dramatic work of former University High School's Scarlet Masque Club in preparing and producing its own play last year is publicized in the March Issue of Parents' Magazine. The magazine, with over one and one-half million circulation, carries two pictures to Illustrate some of the planning and other work which went into producing the play before UHS was com bined with Eugene High last fall, Thn artic e is written trom in formation supplied to Parents by Montana Rickards, speech and drama Instructor and the adviser to Scarlet Masque at UHS. The club members wrote their own play, "Gates of the Toll Road," and then presented It to aeveral ei-hnnl audiences in the Eugene district A number ot teacners and parents also saw the play. Its production was designed for showing to elementary and junior hioh audiences as an educational. .,rirn for all the students. The play concerned Oregon pio-. neers and eariy uregon uii. $5,500 Bail Set by Judge Arthur Henry Sept, 33, of 484' Madison St., waived preliminary hearing in District Court Saturday on charges of embezzlement and cashing checks without sufficient funds. Judge Chester Anderson con tinued Sept's bail at $5,500. Sept is accused of embezzle- lng from a grocery firm more than $9,000 and of cashing several checks without sufficient funds. Also in district court, Dudley James Carlson, 23, University of Oregon student from Portland, pleaded guilty of driving while un der the influence of Intoxicating liquor, He was fined $150 and his license was suspended for 90 days. - Carlson was arrested by stale police about 2:45 a.m. Saturday on Franklin Blvd., near Walnut Street River Shore and Owners Plan Meeting Land owners between Beacon Drive and Junction City along the Willamette River have been urged to attend a meeting on river bank protection set for 8 p.m. March 30, J, C. Jeager, president of the Lane County River Improvement District No. 1, said the meeting will be at the River View school, on River Road. He said the meeting is prompt ed by the need lo extend the pres ent river protection ( district lo include a new area where the river is threatening lo leave its present bed. "Due to the unbalanced condi tion at high water stage," Jaeger! said, "the full force of the Mc Kenzie River now enters the Wil lamette River directly east of, Beacon Drive. This great volume of high-vel ocity water is cutting down the land all along the west bank of the Willamette River," he said, and the whole river is threaten ing to leave its present bed and enter into an old river channel to the west". Jeager said that if this is al lowed to happen, "much farm land and many homes will be seriously affected for 4 or 5" miles north." He said residents in this area must form a river protection dis trict before they can hope to get bank control assistance from the U. S. Army Engineers. Army Engineer representatives are expected at the March 30 meeting, he said, so residents can discuss the feasibility of immedi ate action on the river banks, la-, belcd Project No. 7 by the Army Engineers. Mr., Mrs. Eugene 'Class Readers' By PETER TUGMAN Of The Register-Guard You're a "class" reader, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene when it comes to magazines your taste and discrimination place you in a select category among towns the nation over better than Portland, that's too metropolitan, higher class than Roseburg (that's a bit too, shall we say, earthy?). Springfield, Cottage Grove and Junction City, you're about aver age with the rest of the country, but a cut above the South. Oak ridge, you're about the same as Springfield except that your tastes are a bit more masculine. Eugene is willing to lay more cash on the line to support dis criminating tastes, too. And so are the people who stand behind the generalities made above. They're the people who distribute the magazines you buy on the newstands. They ought to know. Of course, they don't think of towns as "high-brow, middle brow and low-brow" but they have an accurate count on which magazines sell where and that's a good indication. BREAD, BUTTER Local tastes and trends In mag azines are bread and butter to Duane Himbcr, head of H. C. Himber and Sons magazine dis tributing company, Eugene. He's been in the business 25 years this month and supplies the Eugene Cottage Grove-Junction City area with about 125,000 to 150,000 magazines a month. He's a keen student of reading tastes, too, be sides being a careful businessman. Himber said last week that Eu gene is rated a "class reading town" by national publishers and distributers. It is one of about 130 such towns in the country. These are towns which lean heavily to magazines such as Sat urday Evening Post, Life, Wom an's Home Companion and Time. Higher priced mags such as McCalls, Better Homes and Gar dens, Redbook, Mademoiselle, House and Garden, and Harper's Bazaar are almost as popular pro portionately in a "class" town. PRICE EXPERIMENT When publishing houses want to try out a price raise for "slick" mag they do it first in a t"class town." They're doing . it now. True Story costs 25 cents in Eugene, 20 cents in Portland and the rest of the state. Himber said that many of the recent price hikes were tried first in Eugene along with other pilot towns. If you thought the magazines just listed were best sellers everywhere you were wrong. They are not, in newsstand sales. According lo figures compiled by the Audit Bureau of Circula tion, the leading magazine in street sales is Ladies' Home Jour nal. Saturday Evening Post is next among those which place advertising but Readers Digest sells more by its own count NOT STARTLING This is not startling, but other figures on the list are a revela tion. True Confessions and True Story are six and seven on the list, leading over Life, which is in eighth place. Modern Ro mances is fifteenth, Redbook six teenth and American twenty fourth. "See" is nineteenth and "Secrets" in twenty-second place outsells Cosmopolitan in thirty-third. Cottage Grove, Springfield, Junction City and the surround ing area buy in this general pref erence pattern. That's .what makes them average with the rest of the country. Oakridge leans more heavily to the men's magazines. The information on tastes in Roseburg, down in rugged Doug las County, comes from Bill An- tonacci, district sales manager for Fawcett Publications for Ore gon and southern Idaho. Bill says that Roseburg leans heavily to the men's magazines such as True, Argosy, Stag and so forth with the confessions getting a big play just as they do in the South, NEWS BRIEFS Chamber to Discuss 'Power Partnership' What Is This Partnership Bus iness?" a discussion of the nego tiations between the Eugene Wa ter and Electric Board and the federal government, will be the program Friday for the Chamber of Commerce Forum Luncheon at the Eugene Hotel. The public has been invited. Hale Thompson, chairman of the Chamber s forum committee. said the discussion would in clude information about Cougar Dam and the proposed Beaver Marsh dam, both on the Upper McKenzie system, and a discus sion of the board's search for power sites and of the need for more power in the area. Black d white slides will supplement the talks. WEATHER GENERALLY FAIR Eugene and vicinity: Partly cloudy Sunday, clearing Sunday night. Expected high Sunday, 57; low Sunday night, 30. Local Statistics: Highest tem perature Saturday, 58: low Satur day morning, 28; rain in 24 hours ending 4:30 p.m., trace; total for month, 2.17 lncnes; normal lor month, 3.86 Inches; stage of river at 7:30 a.m., Saturday, -l.z feet; wind at 4:30 p.m., Saturday, N10, Sunrise and Sunset (PST): Sunday, 6:14 a.m. and 6:25 p.m Monday, 6:12 a.m. and 6:27 p.m CAMP and Auxiliary of United Spanish War Veterans will have potluck dinner Monday, l p.m at the Veterans Memorial Bldg. EUGENE CAMERA CLUB will meet at 8 p.m. Monday in the Eugene Water Board office build ing. Two models will be present. EUGENE BARRACKS of Vete rans of Warld War I will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday at 25 W. 7th Avt. for a potlucx dinner witn the auxiliary. RIVER ROAD Ramblers square dance group will meet at 8 p.m. Monday in the new River Road School. ED ELDER, Lsno County Sher iff, will be guest speaker at a meeting of Creswell Lodge, A.F. and A.M., at 8 p m. Monday. where True Confessions outsells the Post. Coos Bay has similar tastes, says Bill, as do most of what he calls "lumbering towns." TASTE A MYSTEItY Anlonaccl and Himber do not know exactly what determines reading tastes in a particular lo cale although they like to guess. Both think that Eugene's tastes are influenced to some extent by the fact that there is a large uni versity here. Portland, according to Antonacci, might have the same tastes as Eugene in some sections but this is outweighed by the large metropolian population. He points out the fallacy of try ing to bracket the taste and dis crimination of any area by eco nomics or the condition of the neighborhood. Witness Portland's Burnside St. and the classics. One of the over 15 different kinds of pocket-size books is the Mentor line which Antonacci dis tributes. This line carries such titles as Homer's Odyssey and Iliad, Confessions of St Augus tine, Life of Beethoven and so forth. These books are used ex tensively by the colleges as inex pension editions of texts and have a large, if forced, consumption around book stores patronized by students. But one of the best spots for the Mentor line on Antonacci's routes is the Baker Drug Store on 3rd and Burnside in the heart of Portland's skid road. "I often wonder why this is," Antonacci said. H. A. Cool Jr. Named Postmaster at Drain The Senate has approved the nomination of Harry A. Cool Jr. as postmaster at Drain. Four other Oregon postmaster1 nominations have been approved, the Associated Press reported The nominees were William G. Thompson, Brookings; Floyd F. Volkel, Gates; Anita B. Banister, Paisley, and George D. Wilcox, Prineville. Rep. Walter Nnrblad has rec ommended that Lester R. Rivers, acting postmaster at Eagle Creek, dc given a regular appointment (Register-Guard photo, Wiltshire eng.) MAGAZINES FOR THE DUMP leave via the backdoor of 117 C. Himber and Sons Magazine Distributing Co., which fronts Willamette St. in the 700 block. Once a week two nne-tnn panel trucks cart away unsold coptc from which covers have been removed. I WA Local to Cast Ballots On Whether to Okay Strike Members of Local 5246, Inter national Woodworkers of America (CIO) will hold a special ballot ing session Thursday, March 25, at the VFW Hall, in Springfield to determine membership senti ment on whether to authorize a strike against a number of lum ber operators. The vole has been called by the Northwest Regional Negotiating Committee, which is negotiating annual contract rc-openings in Portland with a number of em ployer associations, including the1 Willamette Valley Lumber Oper- Eu- ators with headquarters in gene, and which represents nu merous Lane County operators. Frank Worley, business agent for the Springfield local, said Fri day that balloting will be at 12 noon for union members who work night shifts and at 7:30 p.m., March 25, for day shift men. Negotiations between the union and employers began recently and were stalemated when most of the operators refused to grant a 12V4 cents per hour pay raise and other union requests. WILDLIFE WEEK SALEM WT Gov. Pallerson has urged that the .week of March 21-28 be observed as National Wildlife Week. A-l SANDBLASTING and STEAM CLEANING CO. SHOP and PORTABLE Trucks Tcmlci Building House Bridges Restaurant Vent Can Any Kind ol Machinery and Equipment Contact Us for Any Cleaning Problem H. CORNETT 3180 West 1 1th Phone 3-242.1 '''- Choose from 1S,", flecoratoMolori-. besutihi ruft..-''' 'Draperies, auto Interiors, tOo, AsMorfn color1 tyWs. NEW COLOR FOR FABRICS at a touch of your finger I Spray new elor back Into drab chairs, sofas, outdoor furniturt. 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