(RegisterUuard photoi
CATS' DON'T LIKE WATER The "cat" shown above, sticking partially out of the
Willamette River, really got wet last weekend as torrential rains sent rivers over their
banks. This bulldozer was being used at the construction site of the new Willamette
River Bridge near Santa Clara. The 'dozer and a power shovel were completely sub
merged as the river level surged upward, but were becoming visible again Monday as
the waters dropped.
Neither Snow,
Nor Rain, Nor
Abe's Birthday . . .
Add ' Abraham L i n c o 1 n 's
birthday to the list of elements
snow, rain, heat, and gloom
of night that canno'. slay
postal couriers from the "swift
completion of their appointed
rounds."
Add Lincoln's birthday, In
spite of announcements to the
contrary.
Sunday's Register-Guard car
ried a story including the post
office in the list of agencies
that would be closed Monday
for the Lincoln's birthday holi
day. That information was
transmitted earlier by someone,
perhaps a too hopeful employe,
who had answered the post
' office telephone.
The post office was open
Monday, and local residents did
receive their mail. As a result
of the ' faulty announcement,
, the Eugene postmaster receiv
ed 15 inquiring telephone calls
Sunday, and the post office had
received, 58 of the same type
calls by 10 a.m. Monday.
Members of the Springfield
City Council Tuesday evening
will consider a proposed agree
ment for preparation of final
plans and specifications for ex
tending and improving the muni
cipal sewer system.
The agreement, if approved,
will authorize the Corvallis firm
of Cornell, Howland, Hayes &
Merryfield to ' complete final
work for installation of an inter
ceptor line to provide sewer serv-
Ex-Eugenean,65,
Dies in California
A former Eugene resideit,
Lowell J. Withrow, 65, died Feb
4 in Salinas, Calif.
Mr.' Withrow, of King City,
'Calif., was born in Eugene in
1895. He lived here uniil 1918.
Survivors include three sisters,
Mrs. Annette Bailor of Eugene,
Mrs. Mabel Cook, Watsonville,
Calif., and Helen Stewart, Long
Beach, Calif.; and two brothers,
Vern Withrow of Junction City
and Marlin Withrow of Eugene.
Funeral services were held in
King City,.with interment in the
King City Cemetery.
Councilmen to Consider
Sewer Extension Plans
Student Oath
Issue Raised
SALEM (Special) Rep. Ed
ward N. Fadeley, D-Eugenc, Mon
day introduced a House Joint Me
morial asking Congress to repeal
the disclaimer affidavit required
of college students who accept
loans under provisions of the Na
tional Defense Education Act.
The Memorial will be voted on
in the House, then forwarded to
the Senate for consideration.
Fadeley said the Memorial
made no objection to the loyalty
oath provision of the NDEA,
which requires only that a stu
dent pledge allegiance to the
United States. It does oppose the
affidavit, which requires the stu
dent to disclaim affiliation with
any subversive organization. .
Many college and university
faculties, including the faculty of
the University of Oregon, have
opposed the affidavit.
ice in the annexation area and
expansion of the city's sewage
treatment plant.
The firm did the preliminary
study for the city s recent $1,
960,000 sewer bond election.
In other actions; the council
will:
, Give the second reading to an
an ordinance to regulate house
trailers and trailer courts in
Springfield.
Consider the feasibility of
raising present $1 a month seweri
user charges to $2 a month, ef
fective April 1.
Consider the granting of
new garbage franchise, effective
March 1.
Discuss several miscellane-
ous zoning matters.
Deadline March 1
The deadline for applications
to attend the institute in the nat
ural sciences scheduled at the
University of Oregon next sum
mer will be March 1, not Feb. 15,
as previously announced.
Vital Statistics
BIRTHS
McKENZIE'WH.LAMETTE HOSPITAL
(Feb. 10. 1961)
STRAWN Mr. ind Mr. Ernest
Strawn. 1415 Mississippi St., Eugene,
a daughter.
SACRED HEART HOSPITAL
(Feb. II, 1961)
ARNOLD Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Ar
nold. 1330 Wallace St., Eugene, (on.
DITLEFSEN Mr. and Mrs. James
Dltlcfsen. 275 Crocker Lane, Eugene
daughter.
HF.GSTROM Mr. and Mrs. Eric
Hfgstrom. 217 High St., Eugene, a
daughter.
BOOTH Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Rnnth,
1730 W. Jnd Ave., Eugene, a daughter.
(Feb. 12. 19l)
PROPER Mr. and Mrs. Peter Prop
er Jr.. I06i Bauer Lane, Eugene, a
daughter.
WARTEV Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Warton. Rt. 3 Box 40, Harrlsburg,
daughter.
PICKETT Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Pickett, 305 Bailey Lane, Eugene
daughter.
ADKINS Mr. land Mrs. Robert Ad
kins, 39 Federal Place, Eugene, twins,
a son and a daughter.
WYC.I.E Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Wy.
gle, 2588 Friendly St., Eugene, a aon.
DEATHS
BATEE Melvln K. Batee, 58. nf IIS54
Falrmount Blvd., Eugene, died Feb. 12.
Recitation o( the roarv will he at
7:30 tonight In St. Mary's Catholic
Church. Funeral services will be at
10 a.m. Tuesday In the church. Inter
ment will be In Ml. Calvary Cemetery.
with Poole-Larsen Funeral Home tn
charge of arrangements.
DONOVAN EHworth E- Donovan
70. of 22)0 Minnesota St., Eugene, died
Feb. 11. Funeral arrangements will be
DRISCOLL Thomas Eugene Drls-
roll, or 8149 Thurston Rd., Springfield
died Feb. 13. Funeral arrangements
will be announced.
LEWIS Audra Lee Lewis. 51, of 2280
Roosevelt Blvd., Eugene, died Feb. 12.
Funeral arrangements win be an.
noil need.
BOWN Thomas K. Bnwn. 74, of
Rt. 2 Box 516. Elmlra. died Feb. 12.
Funeral arrangements will be an
nounced.
QUANSTROM David Quanstrnm, of
1970 Hayes M., eugene, aiea reD. ix.
Funeral arrangements will be an
nounced.
Driver Arrested
On Liquor Count
Clavie Stanley Bright, 59, of
Chehalis, Wash., was arrested
Sunday and charged with driving
while under the influence of in
toxicating liquor.
Eugene Police said Bright s car
struck and knocked down a light
pole at the intersection of Alder
Street and Broadway, shortly be-
fore 7 p.m. The pole fell on a car
being driven by Robert A. Ren-
ken, 21, of 901 Norkenzie Rd.
Eugene.
Renkcn told police Bright
drove to a service station at
Franklin Boulevard and Villard
Street after striking the pole, and
it was there that police arrested
Bright. He is scheduled to appear
in Eugene Municipal Court Tuesday.
Shopping Mall
Bill Presented
To Legislature
Authority Requested
By Planning Group
A bill requested by the Eucene
Planning 'Commission that would
enable cities to' establish pedes
trian shopping malls has been in
troduced in the Oregon House of
Representatives by Rep. Edward
Fadeley D-Eugene.
Fadeley said the bill is pattern
ed after California legislation. It
would allow retail shopping areas
to be created with existing build
ings but with several of the ad
vantages such as exist at the
Lloyd Center in Portland.
Under the bill, city councils
could ise bonds or general funds
to provide landscaping, public as
sembly and child care facilities.
The bill establishes procedures
for a declaration of intent to es
tablish a pedestrian mall, and for
a public hearing before the pro
posal is adopted.
The bill also makes provisions
for the city to compensate any
one damaged by the pedestrian
mall.
In Eugene, City Ally. Herman
Hendcrshott said he asked Fade
ley to introduce the bill on in
structions from the city Planning
Commission. Hcndershott said
such a law would be needed be
fore Eugene could proceed with
an often-discussed downtown per
manent shopping mall.
He said the city needs author
ity to close a street to traffic and
turn it into a shopping mall.
Merely vacating a street wouldn't
work, he said, because the land
would then go back to the adjac
ent property owners.
The proposed bill would cm-
power the city to purchase or ac
quire by eminent domain the ad
jacent property owners' rights to
the street.
ft ft Eugene News Briefs ft ft
CHRISTIAN WOMEN'S Fellowship of Eu
gene First Christian Church will hold a lunch
eon meeting Tuesday, 11:30 a.m., in the church.
Previously, the luncheon was scheduled (or
noon.
YOUTH TEMPERANCE Council, a branch of
the W.C.T.U., will have a speaker and film pro
gram Tuesday, 7 p.m., for teen-aged youth and
young adults. Meeting will be in the basement
of First Evangelical United Brethren Church,
834 Monroe St., Eugene.
INSURANCE WOMEN of Eugene-Lane Coun
ty will have a dinner meeting Thursday, 6:30
p.m., at Ford's Dinner House. Speaker will be
Hank Cline, Vho will discuss Education Month,
observed nationally by the organization.
SANTA CLARA Thimble Club will not meet
Wednesday as scheduled. Next meeting will be
in March.
LEADERS of 4-H foods clubs will meet Tues
day, 9:30 a.m. until noon with June Pehrson, ex
tension agent in 4-H club work, in Room lb'0,
Lane County Courthouse. Leaders of already
established clubs as well as persons interested in
organizing clubs are invited.
EUGENE DUPLICATE Bridge Club meets at
7:45 p.m. tonight, 1144 Charnclton St. Visitors
are welcome.
EUGENE GARDEN Club will not meet Tues
day as previously scheduled. The meeting will
be. Feb. 21.
SECTION B EUGENE, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1961
District 19 School Committee
College Teaching
Conference Due
Robert D. Clark and Hugh B.
Wood of the University of Ore
gon will speak at Oregon's third
statewide conference on improve
ment of college teaching.
The conference will be held
at Oregon State College Feb. 17-
18. The theme is "Experiment
in College Teaching."
Clark is dean of the College of
Liberal Arts at Oregon and Wood
is professor of education.
OSC organized the first college
tcacntng conterence in 1959 as
special Centennial 'Year pro
gram. Wilbert J. McKeachie. Uni
versity of Michigan professor of
psyenology, will lead the con
terence this year.
LANK COUNTY HOME NEWSPAPER.
Report Contains No Surprises
By DON ROBINSON
Of the Register-Guard
The report of the Springfield
School District citizens commit
tee on the 1961-62 budget has
turned out to be no jack-in-the-
box.
There are no surprises or revo
lutionary recommendations in the
document.
The report is being considered
by the regular school district
budget committee as it prepares
a proposed budget for the next
school year. The 50-member lay
group submitted its report eight
weeks after it was appointed. The
group met four times in those
eight weeks.
SIX SUGGESTIONS
Contained in the report arc
about six suggestions for specific
and direct action. Most of these
were on the list of plans previ
ously drawn by school district
administrators.
Actually, the report itself was
not one but five individual re
ports submitted by the five sub
committees of the larger group.
The subcommittees made their
own recommendations separately,
and none of these were voted
upon by the whole citizens com
mittee.
FORM OF ANSWERS
The subcommittee reports were
in the form of answers to writ
ten questions distributed by the
school district administration.
Citizens committee recommen
dations include:
1. Acquire a single, fire-proof
building as a central warehouse
for all supplies and equipment of
the school district.
2. Give consideration to even
tual creation of a supervisory po
sition to administer transporta
tion and maintenance. This would
relieve assistant superintendents
who now administer these func
tions as part of their overall jobs.
3. Raise the pay of custodians,
maintenance men, and bus driv-
Increase the minimum hour
ly rale to $1.80 and the maximum
ate to $2.40.
TWO NEW BUSES
4. Add two new school buses,
and replace a third. The two ad
ditional buses would relieve the
necessity for some junior and sen
ior high school students to leave
home so early and return home
so late.
5. Give teachers a raise in pay
by providing across-the-board $400
increase in 1961-62. The increase
would apply to all steps on the
salary schedule.
6. Participate, as a school dis
trict, in construction of the Mc-
Kenzie Ditch.
FUTURE NEEDS
Of these recommendations, the
first two are intended more for
future consideration than for im
mediate action or inclusion in the
1961-62 budget.
The third was adopted by the
district budget committee last
Monday.
And the last three are con
tained in the tentative budget pre
pared by the district administra
tion and given to the budget com
mittee last Monday as a base from
which to proceed in forming the
actual 1961-62 budget.
School to Be Dedicated
Eugene's Meadow Lark Elementary School, named for the
state bird of' Oregon, will be dedicated Tuesday afternoon the
state's 102nd anniversary.
Principal Loren Downey said the dedication ceremony had
been set to coincide with the state's anniversary. The public
is invited to the ceremony, which will begin at Meadow Lark
School, 100 Queens Way, at 1 p.m..
Lee P. Bishop, chairman of the Eugene School Board, will
make the presentation and dedication of the building. Michael
Rhodes, student body president, will give the response. Other
students will participate in the program. Dr. Glen Purdy, PTA
president, will also speak.
Among the guests will be Mrs. Dorothy deVcau, of Eugene,
who designed a copper plaque that will be presented to the
school by the PTA, and L. F. (Pop) Bonson, copper artist, who
made the plaque.
Millard Z. Pond, superintendent of schools, members of the
Eugene School Board, and school district officials will attend.
The Eugene architectural firm of Hamlin and Martin de
signed the school, and Eldon Shields, of Eugene, was building
contractor. Cost was $287,925. ; : i .
County Parks
Report Shows
f T
bain in use
1,266,500 Visits
Recorded in 1960
An estimated 1,266.500 visits
ere made during 1960 to 27
Lane County parks and recrea
tion areas, according to, the an
nual report of the Lane County
Parks and Recreation Dept.
The figure is a better than 100
per cent increase over 1959, when
total attendance was estimated at
not quite half a million.
The biggest favorite again was
Harbor Vista Park near Florence,
Inch overlooks the outlet of the
Siuslaw River into the Pacific and
the entry point for vehicle
traffic to the north jetty. The
estimate for 1960 737,000 visitors, .
as based upon traffic counts and
comparison with Honcyman State
Park figures.
A total of 200,000 visits were
estimated for the two county-
operated recreation areas on Dex
ter Reservoir. Estimates were
135,000 for the north shore area
near the town of Lowell and
65,000 at the area on the south
shore next to Highway 58.
Third most popular spot, based
on estimated visitors, was Heccta
Beach Recreation Area with 120,-
000. In fourth place was Baker
Bay County Park on Dorcna
Reservoir with an estimated 95,-
000 visits.
Estimated visitors at other
county areas included: Mercer
Lake landing, 1,500; Baker Beach
Recreation Area, 1,500; Clear
Lake Dunes Park, 1,000; Triangle
Lake Landing, 500; Tide County
Wayside, 32,000; Camp Lane, 9,
500; Linslaw County Park, 1,000;
Brown's Landing, 3,000; Ferry
Street Bridge Recreation Area,
500; Awbrcy Recreation Area,
,500; Sandy's Community Recre
ation Area, 2,000; Harms Recre
ation Area, 5,000; Bake Stewart
Recreation Area, 2,500; Vaughn
Recreation Area, 4,000; Blue
Mountain Park, 6,500; Landax
Landing, 11,500; Ivan Oakes
County Park, 12,000; Bellinger
Landing, 500; Whitewater County
Park, 2,500; Clover Point way-.
side, 3,000; Blue River Commu
nity Recreation Area, 6,500; For
est Glen landing, 1,000.
Y Member Drive
To Open Tuesday
The YMCA annual memDcrsnip
drive will officially begin Tues
day with a dinner at 6:30 p.m. in
the Central Lane Y Building.
J. Roger Dcas, representative
of the corporate offices, of the
American Can Co., New York,
will speak on the topic "The
Spectacular Sixties."
Gene Pitchford is chairman of
the 1961 drive.
9 Motel Units
Being Rebuilt
Nine units of a north Eugene
motel which were extensively
damaged by a Feb. 4 fire are be
ing reconstructed.
Work on the units at the Blue
Moon Motel, 595 Hwy. 99N., was
started Monday and is expected
to be completed in less than two
months, according to the owners
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Lovewell.
Five of the units are being re
built and four remodeled. Esti
mated cost of the improvement is
S20.000 according to the owners.
Six of the motel's units located
at the front of the business site
were undamaged by the fire.
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