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EROSION Extra-heavy flow of Willamette River,
caused by release of stored water from Lookout Point
Dam, is gulping up to 5 feet of bank each day from land
owned by Kenneth Sparks, near Jasper. Water takes the
top soil, leaves rock and gravel.
Power System Listed
As Class A Utility
Financial reports on 1954 oper- With total receipts of $27,405,
ations and adoption of a budget: the city-owned power system
for 1955 occupied the Springfield: noted a 2 "per cent gain in the
Utility Board Wednesday night. total number of customers serv-
Board members learned that! ed, a 20 per cent rise in the num-
the Springfield municipal power,
system passed the quarter-mil
lion-dollar mark in gross receipts
last year and sn became a Class
A electric utility according to
ratings of the power industry.
VITAL
STATISTICS
MARRIAGE LICENSES
George E1sl Norton, 26, Lowell, and
Joann Monks, 16, Star Route, Fall
Creek.
Thomas Gustave Mention, 23, TU. 4,
r.ugene, ana neuy KOiu.se ftieunesney
TU. 2S0 47th St.. SDrlnfifleld.
John Harrison Conley, 56, Rt. 1, and
Kdiin Louise waider, 53, 2163 Wash
In g ton St., both of Eugene.
Owen Paul Goodrich, 47, Westlake,
and Hazel Minnie A. Kind, 47, Flor
ence.
William God f red Vogele. 25, Rt. 1
Fall City, Nebr., and Georgia Irene
ftUckty, 20, Box 129. Veneta.
Ranald George Martin, 18, and Inez
Abbott, IS, hoth of Rt. 1, Springfield.
Keith Merle Campbell, 20, BB Rt.,
and Patricia Viola Picknell, 17, Rt. 1,
both of Cottage Grove.
BIRTHS
AT SACRED HEART HOSPITAL
(Jan. 10, 1955)
ALLDRIDGE Mr. and Mr. Donald
L. Alldridge, 320 Crocker Lane, Eu
gene, a son.
ALLEN Mr. and Mrs. John W. Al
len. 3250 JameK Lane, Eugene, a ton.
BEDORTHA Mr. and Mrs. Wallace
K. Redorlha, Rt. 2, Box 324, Crcswell,1
rianphf r
BRADLEY Mr. and Mr. Chester ;
A. Bradley
Rt. 1, Junction City
inn.
CARPENTER Mr. and Mrs.
S. Carpenter, 1521 Highway 99 N
gene, a daughter.
Eu-
EDMUNSON Mr. and Mrs. Mnlcom
D. Edmunson, Rt. 1, Box 279, Eugene, j?0!010
GILMOREMr. and Mrs. Donald E. ANOTHER TERM
Gil more, Rt. 3, Junction Citv. a son. In other actions, the board
-G?A. d Julius C' unanimously reelected John W.
Graf. 30-J3 Ohio Ave., Eugene, a son. , :
hedges Mr. and Mrs. Charles wJBoesnans for another term as
Hedges. ii82 w. 13th Ave., Eugene,
nect-mV. and Mrs. Clifford L. I JSain serve as vice chairman, and
Ncet. Fail Creek, a daughter. l fr rank Brown, to continue as scc-
WEBER Mr. and Mrs. John-' F.frctary.
daughter. '
Williams Mr. and Mrs. Roy n.
Williams, 1020 S St., Springfield,
aaugnter.
ferrebee David Lee Ferrebce of
Prtneville and formerly a resident nf
veneta, died Jan. 10 at the age of 19.
Private services were held Thursday,
Jan. 13. at Lane Memorial Gardens.
ifist oiive'st., Eugene, died Thursday!
services win be announced later by
uannommew-Dueii inapei.
bun. 85. 1492 Oak St . Eugene. died'ra,SS of f;om tvv" ? ur Cents
Thursday. Services will be Saturday,13" hour, pklS paid birthday holl-
2 p.m., at Rarthoiomew-Bueii Chapel.! days as is now usual in the
REp-Guy Reid 72 3311 Oregon powor industry. The linemen are
St., Springfield, died Thursday. Jserv-,L . , - , . . .
ices will be Friday, 2 p.m.. at Veatch members of the International
Hollingsworth England Funeral Fome.'Brothorhood of Electric Workers.
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ber of kilowatt-hours of electric-
ity sold, and a 14 per cent in
crease in the sum total of bill
ings sent but to customers.
RESERVE FUND
The Utility Board also re
ceived a report indicating that
$419,722 has been spent to date
in building Springfield's sewer
age disposal plant, and that $27,
298 will be paid to contractors
and equipment suppliers before
the plant goes into operation. Af
ter these payments, the Utility
Board will have a sewerage plant
reserve fund of $198,029, remain
jog from the sale of bonds ap
proved by the people for the
plant and from collection of sew
er service charges.
Because of a delay in the ship
ment of equipment for the D St.
pumping station, the new dis
posal plant's initial operation
may not come this month as or
iginally planned, Supt. Frank R.
Brown told the board. This
equipment is all that remains to
be installed, however, and Brown
said that as soon as it arrives
and is assembled the disposal
plant can be put to work.
For 1955 operation of the elec
tric system and for retirement of
obligations incurred in its fi
nancing, board members adopted
new budget of $250,000 up
.,lKKi
from the 1954 budget
total. And to pay for completion
ASMS
I
James'01 u lt,,1 uperaiiim in me sew-
age disposal plant tne board ap
' ,
proved a separate oungei oi
board chairman; Don Peglow tn
The purchase of several office
equipment items was aDDroved as
the board heard reports that
Dlans are nroceedinc according
to schedule for moving the Util-
ity Board offices to larger quar
ters at 346 Main St. by Feb. 1.
Also approved, on recommen
dation of the board's labor com-
jmittce, was a new contract giving
, electric linemen employed by the
CHy electric System 1955 pay
By Chic Young
I KJN ti riy, UAdWOD J. YDU CAM i
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JJOAc (agai'n
Park Operator .
Hit by Lookout
Point 'Floods'
Release of stored water from
Lookout Point Dam in bank-level
volume Is causing worse erosion
than does a flood, a landowner
along the Willamette River as
serted Wednesday.
Kenneth Sparks, operator of
the Ken-Lin recreation park
near Jasper, said the high water
has been washing away up to 5
feet of his land each day since
last Sunday when the Army En
gineers started releasing extra
quantities of water from the big
dam.
"A flood comes up and then
the water goes down again,"
said Sparks. "This way, the river
just keeps eating away and I'm
going to have nothing but rock
left."
At Lowell, Ray Overholscr,
resign t engineer for the dam,
said it will require a couple
more days of heavy release of
water to get the .reservoir back
down to its regular level, barring
further heavy rains.
The water was stored up dur
ing heavy rainfall around Jan.
1, he explained, to keep the river
from reaching flood stage. The
water is being released now to
get the reservoir down so it can
take the edge off the next heavy
rainfall.
Overholscr said it is true in
"some specific cases" that
high water level over a longer)
period may create worse bank
eiuMuu widii Lite AHiue amuuiii ui
water would during a shorter
flood.
But, he said, "overall good"
calls for the control of floods.
Overholser indicated the Army
Engineers would confer with
Sparks on his problem of bank
erosion.
Award Due Eugene
Man's Reserve Unit
Commander Arthur Bergstrom.
commanding officer of a Portland
Naval Reserve unit, will be in
Portland Wednesday evening to
witness presentation of a high
award to one of the units under
his corci: .and. Mrs. Bergstrom
will accompany him.
The Bergstroms recently
moved from Portland to the
River Road area here.
The unit is being cited as the
top unit in the nation, based on
points earned in its training pro
gram,
Israel Condemned
JERUSALEM Wl The Syria
Israel Mixed Armistice Commis
sion condemned Israel Wednes
day night for sending a five-man
patrol into Syrian territory Dec.
8 to monitor a Syrian telephone
line.
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Conclave Set
By Boy Scout
Honor Group
Members of the Order o the
Arrow, Boy Scouts camping hon
orary, will gather Saturday at
Camp Tsiltcoos near Florence
for their annual lodge meeting
and election of officers.
Special sessions will be held
for the general lodge member
ship, for adult lodge members,
chapter and lodge officers, and
for dads of Order of Arrow mem
bers, who are also invited.
Nominations for lodge offices
include: Lodge Chief Lynn
Rietman, Dave Powell; Lodge
Treasurer John Weigant, Den
nis McClure: Lodge Secretary
Ricky McDuffie, Dick Goad; Cos
tume Chairman Bill Henderson,
Leonard Kearny; Vice Lodge
Chief Keith Ncwsom, Larry
Scnn.
Each chapter will also elect its
officers and select an Indian
name for its chapter book.
Entertainment scheduled for
the program includes dances by
the dance team, a tour of the
camp, dinner, singing and fellow
ship, a report and colored slides
of the Laramie, Wyo., Order of
the Arrow conference, and ex
hibits and costume demonstra
tions. Members and dads intending
to take part in the meeting
should make their reservations
with the Oregon Trail Council by
Friday.
UO President
Busy Speaker
"What a University President
does, in his spare time" could
well be the topic for Dr. O.
Meredith Wilson, University of
Oregon administrator, in address
es during the coming week.
On Monday Dr. Wilson will
speak at Sweet Home, at the an
nual Chamber of Commerce ban
quet. His topic will be "Who Will
Cast the Shadow?" "The Length
ened Shadow" will be his topic
on Tuesday night when he
speaks at the Medford Chamber
of Commerce banquet. On Wed
nesday night in "Grants Pass at
Ihe Chamber of Commerce ban
quet he will talk on "The Ameri-
can Dream.
Whe he addresses the Ameri
can Assn. of University Women
on Thursday night in Eugene, his
speech will be, "The Educator's
Dream."
No topic has been announced
for his address at the First Citi
'zens
banquet of the Eugene
Chamber of Commerce on Satur-
day night, Jan. 22, but he will
be the speaker.
BURCH'S COLLECTION of FLATS
SECTION B
'
THE LIGHT Or DAY Motorists and city officials will
have a chance to compare four new fluorescent street
lights with four mercury vapor lamps if they drive along
13th Ave. between Oak and Olive St. this week. The
fluorescenls were installed Wednesday and will be in use
for several days. They contain four fluorescent tubes,
and extend outward from poles as shown above. The
mercury vapor lights (at the top) will be on later, for a
comparison.
Fluorescent, Mercury Vapor
Street Lights Being Tested
Four new fluorescent street
lights and a similar number of
the latest in mercury vapor
lamps went on trial along 13th
Ave. in downtown Eugene Wed
nesday night.
The new lights, to be used to
show the latest in downtown
street lighting equipment,- were
placed on poles between Olive
and Oak St. along 13th Ave. by
the Eugene Water & Electric
Board.
! The ' experiment was under-
taken when an Alabama equip-
ment firm sent the four fluores
ccnt units to the EWEB on ap
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LANK COUNTY'S
EUGENE, OREGON THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1955
(ncEhter-Cuard photo, Wiltshire fnir.)
jproval
The firm asked that the
utility install the lights in the
downtown area on a test basis.
Officials of the EWEB said
Thursday that the fluorescent
lights will remain in use for sev
eral days. Then the mercury va
por lights, installed on the same
poles, will be turned on for a
similar time.
Chamber of Commerce officials
and members of a special down
town street lighting committee
of the city planning commission
will look over the two types of
lights during the test period.
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NEWS
JOSEPH K. CARSON, stale sen
ator and former Democratic can
didate for governor, will speak at
a potluck supper at 6:30 p.m. Jan.
20 at the Washington St. Recrea
tion Center.
EUGENE ELKS will have a
hardtimes dance Saturday night
in their temple at 7th Ave. and
Olive St. The time will be 9:30 to
12:30 and costumes are in order.
There will be prizes. Admission
will be by Elks card only.
FLEET Naval Reserve Branch
151 will meet at 7 p.m. Friday in
the Willamalane Bldg. in Glen
wood. There will be a potluck
lunch. All Fleet Reserve and
retired Navy men are invited.
A TRYOUT rehearsal for brass,
woodwind and percussion ele
ments of the all-city elementary
school orchestra will be held at
10 a.m. Saturday in the band
room of Eugene High School for
those students who have been in
vited to participate by their music
directors.
FRANCIS E. DART, of the
University of Oregon physics de
partment, will lead the conversa
tion hour at 8 p.m. Friday in
Friendly House, 2445 Kincaid St,
on the topic: "Can Science End
War?"
TI1EIMA MAE CHAPMAN, 527
Filmore St., a Eugene attorney,
was elected recently to member
ship in the American Bar Assn,
The Bar Assn. is the leading na
tional organization for the legal
profession.
Oregon Trail Diary
Given UO Library
A diary kept by Evans S. Mc-
Comas on his 1862 journey west
over the Oregon Trail has been
presented to the University of
Oregon library by Mrs. Elma T.
Havcmann of Eugene, niece of
the author.
Mrs. Havcmann provided much
material from family scrapbooks
and from her reminiscences for
an introduction to the diary.
Martin Schmitt of the special
collections department in the
university library edited the
diary and put it in the form of a
, Journal of Travel." The new
; book was published by the Cham
Ipoeg Press in Portland.
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BRIEFS
NATIONAL Assn. of Retired
and Veteran Railway Employes
will meet at the Knights of Py
thias Hall Friday following a pot
luck lunch at 12:30 p.m. Members
and prospective members are
urged to attend, bring a friend
and a covered dish.
WILLAKENZIE Grange will
hold a potluck supper at 6:30
p.m. Saturday in the grange hall.
A WILLAMALANE class in
tap-dancing, at 3:30 p.m., on Tues
days, can accommodate a few
more students, according to Mrs.
Bea Perm, instructor: The class
is for girls from 9 to 12 years in
age. The fee is 50c per class.
Registration may be made by
phoning the Willamalane offices,
7-3604.
WEATHER
U.S. WEATHER FORECAST
Eugene and vicinity Partly
cloudy through Friday. Colder
Friday night. Low tempera
ture, 32; high Friday after
noon, 45. Western Oregon:
same.
Local Statistics: Highest
temperature Wednesday, 50; '
low Thursday morning, 38;
rain in 24 hours ending 10:30
a.m. Thursday, .15 inches; to
tal for month, 1.39 inches; nor
mal for month, 5.41 inches;
stage of river at 7:30 a.m.
Thursday, plus 0.9 feet. Read
ing at 10:30 a.m. Thursday:
barometer, 30.24 ins., steady;
humidity, 89 per cent; wind,
W-18. .
Sunrise and Sunset (PST):
Friday, 7:44 a.m. and 4:58 p.
m.; Saturday, 7:44 a.m. and
5:00 p.m.
nr ASSOCIATED PRESS
24 houri to 4:10 a.m. Thursday
Altx. Mln. Prep.
Bakor 2 1.1 T
Bend 40 28 T
Eugene 50 3B .12
Klamath Fall! 32
Lakevlew 20 II
Medford 40 81 .0.1
Newport 49 41 .40
North Bend 1 .14
Pendleton . 4 91 T
Fdrtland Airport 41 .01
Roseburg S2 .17 .12 ,
Salem 47 3 .18
BoI 21 18
Chicago 31 10 .0
Denver 38 11
Eureka 49 44 .nt
Lnj Angelea 4 4 .47
New York 3 19 .01
Bed Bluff 54 24
tthn rrancisco a "
Seattle 4 41 .02
Spokane 35 31 .11
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