Water District Chief
Says Annex People
'Creating Alarm'
The possibility of contaminated water entering mains in the
McKenzie District water system east of Springfield is "no greater
than in any other public water system," Superintendent Jay Hicks
declared Monday.
He said recent statements by proponents of annexation in the
area are creating unfounded alarm in regard to dangers to the
water supply.
Rather, he declared, the fact that people have a pure water
supply and don't have to rely on wells in the polluted area has
Group Hears
Survey Expert
In Springfield
. Ivan Bloch, Portland engineer
and former consultant for the
Bonneville Power Administra
tionwas scheduled to speak at
a noon meeting Monday in
Springfield. Bloch addressed the
7-man committee charged with
the job of finding the best sur
vey organization to make a thor
ough study of the area east of
Springfield.
: To be financed by the indus
trial section of the Springfield
Chamber of Commerce, the study
was proposed by the chamber
and endorsed by the city council
last week. The study is to be com
pleted in 12 weeks and will cov
er drainage, sanitation, bonded
indebtedness, fire insurance
rates, industrial development,
zoning and air pollution.
Committee chairman is Lane
w County Commissioner Bob
Straub. Other committee mem
bers are: Jack Briggs and Paris
Breedlove, representing the
Springfield City Council; Elmer
Maxey and Merv Dahl, represent
ing the chamber; George Weyer
haeuser and Winton Platte, rep
resenting industry.
"Our purpose is to bring re
lief to existing drainage and
sanitation problems in the east
city area," Straub remarked.
"And at the same time we want
Springfield to maintain a healthy
climate for present and future in
dustries," Straub stated.
Other firms being considered
to make the study include Indus
trial Survey Associates of San
Francisco; Stanford Research In
stitute; and Danielson consult
ants of San Francisco.
VITAL
STATISTICS
BIRTHS
probably been a big reason why
health conditions are as good as
they are.
Hicks pointed out that water
in the mains is under SO to 60
lbs. pressure, which means that
when a leak occurs, 'the flow is
all outward from the mains.
Through mtdern techniques,
most repairs are made to lines
while the pressure is still main
tained, he said.
FLOW OUTWARD
In event the pressure is shut
off, the water still flows outward
from a leak for several hours, he
said. Hicks said repairmen fol
low standard precaution which
include isolating the leak from
all contamination before the pres
sure is shut off and thoroughly
flushing the line before service
is restored.
Our system isn't any different
from any other system," he said,
"since any surface water must be
regarded as contaminated. The
danger is no greater than in
Springfield, or Eugene, or any
other community.
Hicks said the McKenzie Dis
trict draws its water supply from
Eugene s system where the water
is tested daily at the filtration
plant. In addition, random tests
are made from taps in the dis
trict's system to ensure the con
tinued purity of the water, he
said.
WELL AWARE
Hicks said he was "well aware"
of open sewage conditions in
some areas east of Springfield
and wasn't trying to minimize
the need for improved sanitation.
However, he said he felt reflec
tions upon the water system
should be answered.
'We've got a good, modern
system. The mains are new ones.
The danger of dirty water getting
into mains is very, very rare es
pecially in a new system like Mc
Kenzie, he said.
AT SACRED HEART HOSPITAL
(March IS, 1955)
BBYSON To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis'
A. Bryson, Rt. 2, Junction City, a
daughter.
BURCH To Mr. and Mti. Roy L.
Burch, Rt. S, Box 318A, Eusene, a
aon.
CADDELL To Mr. and Mrs. James
L. Caddell, 910 K St., Springfield a
son.
CROWSON To Mr. and Mrs. Eu
gene Crowsolt, General Delivery, El-
. mlra, a son.
HARRIS To Mr. and Mrs. Marleau
S. Harris, 771 W. 12th Ave., Junction
City, a son.
HAYES To Mr. and Mrs. Vernon
R. Hayes, 1122 W. 7th Ave., Eugene,
a daughter.
HOLMES To Mr. and Mrs. John L.
Holmes, 2061 Jackson St., Eugene, a
daughter.
JACKSON To Mr. and Mrs. Paul W.
Jackson, Rt. 2, Box 237, Springfield,
a son.
JONES To Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
H. Jones, 602 Kreatx Rd., e.ugene, a
k daughter. i
PRAHAR oT Mr. and Mrs. Louis
n. Prahar. Rt. 1, Box 516. Bandon,
daughter. v
TREMBLEY To Mr. and Mrs. O'.
Neal R. Trembley 50 6th St., Lebanon,
a son.
WANNER To Mr. and Mrs. Frank
N. Wanner, General Delivery, Oak
ridge, a son.
DEATHS
MASEMG IL Rf ley M. Masengll of
Oakridge died In Eugene Saturday.
March 19 at the age of 44. Funeral
itprvlcea are Tuesday. March 22 at 2
p.m. in the Poole-Larsen Chapel,
with concluding services and Inter
ment In Rest Haven Memorial Park.
RUDDER William Dean Rudder, 3-
Hsv old son of Mr. and Mrs. William
M. Rudder of Myrtle Creek, died at
a Eugene hospital" March 19. Grave
side services will be held at West
Lawn Cemetery. Tuesday. March 22
at 1:30 p.m. with Bartholomew-Buell
Chapel in cnarge ot arrangements.
WINFREY Loranzo Sylvester Win-
fry, Dexter, died Saturday at the age
of 82. He had lived at Irving, Lowell
and Dexter for 68 years. Services
Wednesday, 1:30 p.m., at the Veatch
Holllngsworth England Funeral Home.
SARTER Sharon Lee Sarter, 11, of
Shelton, Wash., died at her home
Saturday. She had relatives in Eu
gene and Halsey. Graveside services
will De neia luesaay ai w.sv a.m.
Speaker to Cite
Labor Problems
Norman Nilsen, state labor
commissioner, will be the princi
pal speaker Thursday evening at
the third in a series of forums
begun by Democratic leaders in
Lane County.
The meeting will be at the
Washington Park Recreation Cen-I
ter, 19th Ave. and Washington
St. It will begin with a buttet
dessert at 7 p.m., and talks and
reports will start at 8 p.m. NUsen
will speak at 8:40 p.m. on "Labor
and Its Problems.
Other speakers will be County
Commissioner Robert Straub,
County Assessor Winfred W.
Smith and local Democratic Par
ty committee heads.
Sponsotr of this meeting are
the AFL Central Labor Council
and the IWA-CIO. Omer Vroo
man is in 'charge.
(Register-Guard photo, Wiltshire eng.)
GREAT DECISIONS The neigborhood study experiment on U. S. foreign policy gets
underway this week in Eugene and Springfield. Shown above are some of the persons
who participated Saturday in a discussion leaders' institute for the Great Decisions
program. They are, left to right, William Pierron, Don Derickson, K. E. Montgom
ery, Marty Edberg and Bill Barber. Montgomery, a UO professor of speech, was one
of the institute instructors. Edberg, with Ralph Cobb, arranged the institute. The
others will lead neighborhood groups.
Petitions Out
On River Rd.
Street Lights
Petitions are being circulated
within the River Road Water
District this week calling for in
stallation of street lights at inter
sections in the heavily-populated
residential area.
J. Norman Bennett, chairman
of the River Road Civic Club
street lighting committee, said
the petitions are the result of aJ
request by the water district s
board of directors. He said the
board asked the club to obtain
400 signatures of residents in the
district before action will be tak
en to set up the lighting program.
The request for the petitions
came at a meeting of the commit
tee with the board of directors in
February, Bennett reported. Ben
nett and S. A. Sorcnson, who is
president of the club, met with
Commissioners D. D. Dickinson,
Arthur Bccbe and E. Roy Smith.
Bennett explained that the board
feels the petitions will give them
an indication of what the people
want. An election in the district
will probably be held when the
petition results are known.
If such an election is held, and
the voters approve the , lighting
program, the board of. directors
will work with the Eugene Water
& Electric Board in making the
actual installation.
Bennett said there would be
about 150 lights needed to cover
the district. They would be in
candescent-type lights.
It is estimated that the com
plete program would cost resi
dents an added 1.7 mills in taxes.
WEATHER
U.S. WEATHER FORECAST
Eugene and vicinity: cloudy
with occasional rain Monday
night. Mostly cloudy with scat
tered showers Tuesday, little
change in temperature. High
Monday 47, low Monday night
38; high Tuesday 52.
Local Statistics: Highest
temperature Sunday, 53; low
Sunday night, 36; rain in 24
hours ending 10:30 a.m. Mon
day, trace; total for month,
1.34 inches; normal for month
3.86 inches; stage of river at
7:30 a.m. Monday, -1.8 feet.
'Reading at 10:30 a.m. Mon
day; barometer, 30.33 inches,
steady: humidity, 68 per cent;
wind, S-14.
Sunrise and sunset (PST):
Tuesday, 6:12 a.m. and 6:27;
Wednesday, 6:10 a.m. and
6:28 p.m.
TEMPERATURES
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
24 hours to 4:30 a.m. Monday
Max. Mln. Prep.
Baker 35 19
Bend 42 28
Eugene 53 36
Klamath FaUs .., 43 23
Lakevlew .. "38 17
Medford ; 55 25
Newport . 50 41 .
North Bend 49 39
Pendleton 47 .37
Portland 50 40, T
Roseburg 55 30'
Salem 54 36 T
Boise 38 21
Chicago 47 42 .24
Denver 29 6 .21
Eureka 48 38
Los Angeles 69 4B
New York 48 38 T
Red Blufr 62 36 T
San Francisco 63 39
Seattle -- 46 38 T
Spokane 37 26
Police Arrest
School Boys
Four visiting high school stud
ents went home without seeing
the final game in the state basket
ball tournament Saturday after
they tangled with the law on shop
lifting and liquor charges.
The shoplifting charges were
placed against two 13-year-old
Roseburg boys by employes of
Thompson s Record Store, 96 E.
Broadway, who said the pair had
stolen a phonograph record from
the store. Police said the boys ad
mitted the theft. They were re
leased to their parents' custody.
Arrested on charges of illegal
possession of alcoholic liquor were
Everett W. Millard, 18, and
.lames R. Patterson 19, both of
Salem. They were first stopped
on a routine traffic check by a
city policeman, who took them
into custody after discovering a
case of beer in the back scat of
their car. ,
Police said the youths told liq
uor control commission agents
they had purchased the beer at a
Salem store. They were turned
over to the state liquor officials.
fcANS COUNTV5
HOMK HSWJUAMSl
SECTION B
EUGENE, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1955
Postponement
Of 2nd Bailey
Trial Asked
District Attorney
To Resist Motion
A motion for postponement of
the May 3 trial of Richard G
Bailey, charged with conspiracy,
was on file Monday in circuit
court.
Bailey, who is charged with con
spiring with his brother, Alfred,
to obtain mney by false pre
tenses, was tried last week but
the jury failed to reach a verdict.
A second trial was then scheduled
for May 3.
Defense Attorneys Lamar Tooze
and Roland Rodman, however,
have requested postponement un
til the next term of court.
The motion said the postpone
ment was necessary because the
defendant needs time to raise
funds to bring out-of-state wit
nesses into court.
District Attorney Eugene Venn
indicated in court Monday he will
resist uie motion.
Judge Frank Reid said the
motion will be forwarded to Judge
Dal M. King at Roseburg, who
will decide whether or not to
grant the defendant's request for
postponement. Whether argu
ments on the motion will be held
in Eugene or Roseburg was not
immediately determmed.
BLOND1E
By Chic Youn
Charges Faced
By Motorist, 79
William H. Hunt, 79, of Junc
tion City, was charged with driv
ing with defective brakes and fail
ure to leave name and address at
the scene of an accident in Eu
gene Sunday evening. Eugene
police said Hunt's car hit a
parked car and skidded into a
tree near the intersection of Wil
lamette St. and E. 24th Ave. He
was uninjured.
Complaint Levels
Larceny Charge
A complaint charging larceny
by bailee was signed Monday
against Harry O. Redfield. 37. of
614 Mill St., Springfield, who was
arrested by Eugene police Sunday
morning as he attempted to sell a
television set at a downtown store.
Walter S. fiarrptt ntrtnriolAi
of the Garrett Appliance Co., 136
a. Broadway, Eugene, signed the
complaint against Redfield. He
said the television spf hurl hnnn
purchased from his store and pay
ments were sun due on it.
Redfield was originally arrested
on a vagrancy charge after em
ployes of a clothing store told
police Redfield was trying to sell
them the set. Police said he had
a receipt indicating the set had
been purchased in Portland.
Vaughn Man Fined
On Dnmk Charge
Herman Louis Garbani, 25, of
Vnnnhn nlearlpri ifuiltv Mondav
to a charge of being drunk on a
public highway and was lined. $a
in district court.
Garbani was arrested Saturday
by state police after a disturb
ance was reported in the unity
Market at Lowell. A complaint
was also, rprpivpd from the oper
ator of at nearby service station
who said he had been involved
in an argument with Garbani.
Illegal Entry
An illegal entry at the Kappa
Kappa Gamma sorority houe, 821
E. 15th Ave., was reported to city
police Sunday by Ralph W. Nis
sen, caretaker for the sorority.
Police said they had no way of
determining whether anything
had been taken from the build
ing until members of the group
return from their spring vaca
tions next week. Entry was made
by prying open a rear door to the
house.
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VTONIC I'LL BE BACK IN ) f A LOLLIPOP UNTIL
SP Agents
Set Meeting
Agents of the Southern Pacific
Railroad will gather at the Lyn-
wood Cafe here at 6:30 p.m. Tues
day for a dinner meeting.
L. R. Smith, assistant superin
tendent of the Portland Division,
said he expects about 70 persons
to attend the affair. He said that
agents from points around Eugene
from as far away as Crescent
Lake, Bushman, Monroe, Browns
ville and Cottage Grove will at
tend.
No special business Is to be
taken up, but briefings to the
agents will be made by L. P. Hop
kins, superintendent, and an offi
cial from the San Francisco office.
City Issues Permit
For New Saw Shed
A permit for construction of a
$3,000 saw shed at the Barman
Planing Mill, 2515 W. 6th Ave,
was issued Monday by the Eugene
Building Department.
One other application or a
building permit was also on file,
but no permit had been issued
It is for complete jcconstructlon
of a Texaco service station at the
northeast, corner of 11th and
Hieh St. The work will eost an
estimated $12,000, according to
the application.
NEWS
BRIEFS
REP. HARRIS ELLSWORTH of
Oregon will speak on "Abundant
Power vs. Politics" Tuesday at
'6:45 p.m. on KVAL-TV. There
will be general reference to part
nership power policies, an,d spe
cific discussion of the Cougar
Dam flood control and power
project, sought by the Eugene
Water & Electric Hoard.
MARILYN DICKERSON. daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell E.
Dickcrson of 1160 28th St., Spring
field, has been named to the hon
or roll for the first semester at
l a Vornn College. La Verne.
Calif. She is a senior at the col
lege.
RIVER ROAD CIVIC CLUB
will moot. Mnndav at B P.m. at
River Road Women's Club. A
business meeting will be followed
by barber shop quartet singing
and refreshments.
MT. VERNON ScouC and Ex
plorers' Mothers Club, Troop 37,
will hold a cooked food sale at
the Pay 'n Save market, Spring
field, March 26. '
'FREF.rtOM TO LEARN." a
National Education Assn. film,
will be telecast next Monday at 5
p.m. over KVAL-TV.
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