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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1960)
Young Dancers Keep Ancestral Traditions Alive th;j s AW A FEATHERED TRIBUTE TO THE PAST The 80th birthday of the Chemawa Indian School, just north of Salem, will be celebrated with a colorful pageant of Indian dances Thursday and Friday afternoons and evening. Above, this closeup of John Tony Lee as he performs the Jicarilla Apache war dance shows the intricate bead and feather work which goes into the authentic outfits made by each boy. Top left, Tsasie B. Yazzie does the Eagle Dance, a tribute to the sacred bird of good omen, in which he swoops low across the floor. Second from top, two Navaho girls rest after dancing. Mabel Thompson, left, and Ruth Bill wear the traditional homemade bright velvet clothes and silver and turquoise jewelry of their tribe. Third from top are three Navaho boys dressed in their multi-colored outfits. At bottom, a Monument Valley H k-Aiv lite wi - A II J 1 '"W! -i ' K1J w-'i, U,- i i 'ii ii riirTnrTii-nrmM--- ii ' i:: ir-Tir -iii ri.ii lintlff- r'' rmi w mm i . A. - A vw NEWS BRIEFS SPRINGFIELD MONDAY BOOK Club will meet Monday at 8 p.m., at the home o Mrs. J. C. Keever, 2137 University St., Eugene. Mrs. Glenn Martin will review "The Harmless People," by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. EUGENE CAMERA CLUB will meet Monday at 8 p.m. in the Eugene Water and Electric Board building. A lecture on ex hibition photographs will be giv en. Each person attending is asked to bring color slidcs of the McKenzie River. Public invited. EUGENE SCOTTISH Rite Ma sons will confer the sixth degree Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Ma sonic Temple, 992 Olive St. Visit ing members invited. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Architects' Wives will hold a semi-formal club dance, "Cheric Soiree Friday from 9 to 12 at the Elks Country Club. Tickets, $1.50, available at the door. TOWNSEND CLUB will have a polluck dinner and a white ele phant sale Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the Woman's City Club, 450 E. 14lh Ave., Eugene. .Visitors wel come. JUNIOR SYMPHONY Orches tra will hold a rehearsal Sunday at 2 p.m., instead ot Monday, at the South Eugene High School bandroom. FRANCES NEWSOM will show slides o the Netherlands Sunday at 8 p.m. at Friendly House, 2445 Kincaid St., Eugene. Vital Statistics BIRTHS AT SACRED HEART HOSPITAL (Ffh. 18, 1960) EDWARDS Mr. utid Mrs. WllforH Edwards, lll'i Hannen Ln., Eugene, a son. COOK Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Cook, 1801 Vlllard St., Eugene, ft ion. l.YFORD Mr. snd Mrs. Robert C. I.yford, 765 W. 18th Ave., Eugene, a son. WHISLER Mr. and Mrs. David E. Whlfiler, D50 Louis Ln., Eugene, a son. AT McKEN.IE Wll.LAMETTE HOSPITAL fpeb. 19. 19S0) ALDRICH Mr. and Mrs. Oren Al- drlch, 1383 K St., Springfield, a daugh ter. AT WESTKRN LANE HOSPITAL (th. 18, 190) HALL Mr. and Mn. Heedle 0. Hall, Mapleton, a son. DEATHS RICHARDS Sarah Ellen Richards, 84, or 1442 Harton St., Eugene, died Feb. 19. Recitation of the rosary will be at 8 p.m. Sunday In the Junction ctty unapel or Murpry Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Monday ln Our Lady or Victory Calh. ollc Church, Harrlsburg. Interment will be ln Red Cloud, Neb. STANTON John William Stanton 83, of Lorane Rt. Box 878, Cottage tjrove, died Feb. 19. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday In Mills Mortuary. Interment will be In the IOOF Cemetery. TAYLOR Delia Pearl Taylor, 89. o( nza n. itisi i.t itpringnelfl, riled Feb. 19. Funeral services will be at II a.m. Monday ln Slmon-Lotmahurv Funeral Chapel. Interment will be ln Sunset HUH Memorial Gardena. PAST PRESIDENTS' Club of the American Legion Auxiliary unit 3, will meet at the home of Mrs. Ethel Kast, 442 E. 18th Ave., Eugene, Monday at 6:30 p.m., for a potluck supper and business meeting. EUGENE CHAPTER, Izaak Walton League, will meet Tues day at the Eugene Water and Electric Board cafeteria. A pro posal to legalize the use of pistols for hunting deer and small game will be discussed. OBSIDIAN PICTURE night will be Monday at 8 p.m. at Friendly House, 2445 Kincaid St., Eugene. Glenn Sims will show lilms of trips between 1938 and 1948. EUGENE GARDEN CLUB will sponsor flower arrangements classes at the Club House, 1645 High St., beginning March 9 at 1 p.m. A small fee will be charged. Classes open to anyone interested. A nursery for small children will be provided. For more information, call Mrs. Glen Casady, DI 5-3717. EUGENE SHRINE CLUB will meet at the Eugene Hotel Mon day. Social hour, 6:15,. dinner, 7 p.m. Pictures of the Shrine East-West football game will be shown. Pohll Rites On Tuesday Funeral services will bo held Tuesday in Klamath Falls for a former resident of Eugene, Mrs. William (Joyce Davis) Pohll, who died last week in Salem after a long illness. Mrs. Pohll, 26, attended Eugene schools. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amcl C. Davis of Eugene, who survive her. Mrs. Pohll's home was In Bly, near Klamath Falls, where her husband is a school principal. Survivors include one son, Stacy, at home; one sister, Deanne Poole of Creswell; one brother, Curt Davis, of Eugone, in addition to her husband and parents. The service will be at 2 p.m. at O'Hara's Funeral Home, Klamath Falls, with interment following in Klamath Falls. Ex-Eugenean Dies In California Hospital Services for Mrs. Ailenc C. Houghton, 44, formerly of Eu gene, who died rriday, will be held in Los Altos, Calif., Tuesday, Mrs. Houghton died in a Los Altos hospital. She is survived by her husband La Grande Houghton; two sons, Thomas and Terrcnce. Her husband's parents are Mr, and Mrs. Gorge F. Houghton, of Eugene. monolith, familiar scene to the southwest Indians, forms the backdrop for the war dance. This dance, like the rest, is done at Chemawa by the Indian Club, an extracurricular activity at the school. The school was first started as an educational institution for local tribes, but re quests for admittance among the Northwest Indians has almost ceased as they have slowly merged with local culture. For three years the school, one of nine in the West, has had only Navahos brought here from New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. They return home each summer after a year of basic academic and vocational education at Chemawa. Usually, after about five years at Chemawa the young men and women are placed in jobs in the Northwest. The performances are open to the public, with a reserved seat policy in effect for evening shows. LANK COUNTY'S HOME HEWS PAPER. SECTION C . EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1960 For Summer Paving, Improvements April 15 Petition Deadline Set By DAN WYANT of the Rcglstcr.Guard An April 15 deadline has been set by the city of Eugene this year for receiving petitions for paving projects and other public improvements this summer. This means it's time for home owners to get started if they plan to pass petitions to get their streets paved this year. Petition forms are available at the city manager's office at the city hall. Don Allen, director of public works, said the April 15 deadline has been restored to enable his department to do a better job of planning the summer construc tion season and to get plans and specifications for the projects prepared for early bid calls. It was a former policy of the city to accept petitions for the current year only up to April 15 but in the last season or so they have been coming in as late as July or August. WHO PAYS? Ordinarily, the city orders a street paved when peitions repre senting at least 50 per cent of the adjacent property owners are submitted to the council. On some occasions, however, the council exercises the author ity given it by the city charter and orders streets paved without petitions. This usually occurs when all but a few property owners in a section of the city have paid for paving in front of their homes. The city then is likely to order the rest of the area paved under the theory that the property own ers who will be assessed for it enjoy the benefits of paving paid for by their neighbors. Arterial streets are usually con structed without petitions, too, on the basis of public necessity. Who pays for street paving? The adjacent property owners in most cases. Residential streets are assessed to the property own ers except for intersections or for the portion of a street beyond 34 ft. width. Costs of business streets arc assessed to the adjacent prop crties to a width of 42 ft. or to 48th ft. if that width is re quested by petition. HEAVIER THAN NORMAL The' council has been consider ing a possible change in assess ment policies under which all costs of limited access arterials would be paid from general tax funds. Allen said he expects to see fewer streets paved this sum mcr than last year, when some 8 miles of paving was carried out. Last year's program was heavier than normal because sev eral major projects were carried over from the year before that because of a lengthy shutdown due to labor-management dis putes. Rising costs for labor and ma terials will probably result in an increase of about 10 per cent in street paving costs this year, Al len added. The city puts its street projects out to bid to private contractors. Bids are called after the council holds public hearings on proposed projects and passes initiating or dinances. NOT REQUIRED The April 15 deadline will also apply for sidewalk improvement petitions. Costs of sidewalks ara also assessed to the benefitting properties. In recent years, the city council has been ordering more and more sidewalks In stalled without the consent of tha property owners who will be as sessed. This Is being done, Allen ex plained, to provide safe walkways for children in school areas. Petitions are not required for sanitary sewer Installations. "The council operates on tha theory that eventually the city will be sewered 100 per cent," Al len said. "Usually, if need is shown for a sewer line, It will be approved." BIGGEST PROJECT Incidentally, the city's biggest construction program this sum mer will be the new west-sida trunk sewer which is Intended tn relieve presently over-crowded lines and open up new residential sites in southwest Eugene. The council has had a ban on new construction in portions of south west Eugene until the new line is completed. Trunk sewer lines are financed from general funds while lateral lines are assessed to the benefit ting properties. , , Storm sewers for drainage are financed from a portion of a $175,000-a-year serial tax levy for sewers and drainage, and none of the cost is assessed to tha benefitting property. Storm sewers are installed on the basis of priority recommenda tions from the city engineering department, rather than by petition. . At Ripon, Wis., in 1854, a move ment was organized that later be came the modern day Republican Party,
