Young Dancers Keep Ancestral Traditions Alive
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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
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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,