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Federal Aid Effect Here Not Certain School Official Sees Possible Tax Offset Superintendent! of the three major public school districts in ' the Eugene area are not certain how President Kennedy's pro- posea educational program would affect local school finances. The President sent his proposal to Congress Monday. It would provide federal grants of $2.3 billion for public school construc tion and teachers' salaries for the next three years. Wire service reports indicated that Oregon could expect $7,- 094,843 during the 1862 fiscal year an amount equal to $20.10 per pupil in average daily attend ance m Oregon schools. NO INFORMATION Supt. Millard Z. Pond of Eu- gene School Dist. 4 said he had no information about what effect the program would have here. He declined to speculate on possible effects, in the form df either an expanded school program or a relief for local property taxes. He took no stand favoring or opposing the program, adding,; "I don't think we need it in order to get a good job done here." In Springfield, School Dist. 19 Supt. Harold Beau said he be lieved the money would be dis tributed to school districts in the form of a direct grant so much per pupil. TAX OFFSET He said he envisions the pro gram as an offset against local property taxes, although the ac tual use of the money would be ud to school boards. Asst. Supt. William Jones of Bethel Dist. 52 said he too ex pected that any federal money re ceived would serve as a relief for local property taxes. He said his district would be most anxious to use the funds for teachers' sal aries. ' . Jones said both ht and Supt. Tom Powers who was not avail able for comment, felt the pro posed program was a "step in the right direction." ' The administration proposal provides that federal funds be allocated to states. States would then distribute the money to local schools. What basis states would use in apportioning their funds among local districts is not known. ' FEDERAL FUNDS The Kennedy program also provides federal funds for state administered scholarships to col lege students. . Wire service re ports ' estimated that Oregon might receive $189,000 for 1962 if the program were approved. Kenneth Ghent, chairman of the scholarships and financial aid committee of the University of Oregon, said university students might receive from 25 to 30 per eent of this amount. He based his estimate on the fact that university 'students make up 25 to 30 per cent of the state's total college popula tion. Car Loses Drive Shaft Some people will steal anything including butane tanks, tape measures, auto drive shafts, and keys to city maintenance vehicles reports to Eugene and state po lice indicated Monday. State police said the butane tank silver in color was taken from the rear of a trailer parked at the Riverview Trailer Court at 5120 Franklin Blvd. The tape measure and a $40 portable radio were reported taken from the Twin City Employment Service at 4120 Franklin Blvd., sometime over the weekend. Cecelia Thomas, who works at the Broadway Nursing Home, told Eugene police Monday that the drive shaft was taken off her car while it was parked in the drive way of the home at 709 W. Broad way. Eugene police also received1 a report Monday that the city maintenance shops at 255 Lincoln St. were burglarized sometime Sunday, and 20 keys to city trucks and street sweepers were taken from a board hanging in the shops. Farmers Want Uniform Laws HARRISBURG The Oregon Farm Bureau Federation has asked the state Senate to seek an improvement in better agricul tural trade relationships between Oregon and Washington, accord ing to Gerald Detering, president of OFBF. ' A memorial the Farm Bureau is backing states that there is a great need for permits and licens ing laws of the two states to be uniform. Farmers In both states sell produce and transport pro duce across the respective borders and present laws make it both expensive and difficult for farm ers to operate under the two states barriers, Detering said. The memorial expressly calls for both) itatcs to ct through their highway committees, or an interim committee to work out a mutually satisfactory agreement on retirements for farm vehicles transporting the products of Urmeri between the two states. Beetle l?mlift-iatit SECTION B EUGENE, Springfield Officials Say Annex Needs Cost to Be Heavy The City of Springfield will have to make heavy capital ex penditures in the next few years to provide needed municipal serv ices in the area annexed last year, members of the city council and budget committee agreed Monday evening during an informal work session at the city library. Councilmen and four members of the budget committee, Russ Stewart, Dale Osten, Otis Cling- man Jr., and Walter Combier, met with Mayor B. J. Rogers and other city officials to discuss these topics: street department work load, street lighting pro gram, fire hydrant installations improvement of the McKenzie Ditch, and possible extension of the Q Street floodway program. During the discussion, these points were made: Because of the present lack of water mains in much of the annexation area, it would be ex ceedingly costly to install fire hydrants in most of the region. Councilmen agreed, . however, that four hydrants can probably be installed m the eastern portion of the annexation area because a water main is available there. Annexation of the area be tween 30th and 71st streets has increased the "potential work load" of the street department about four-fold. A four to six-year master street lighting program will be developed shortly for the newly- annexed area. A contract will probably be let in April to improve the Mc Kenzie Ditch. The city will attempt to ex tend the Q Street floodway pro gram into the annexation area. During the meeting, council- men indicated the city govern ment should cooperate with the Springfield Utility Board to de velop a plan whereby all city and utility board vehicles would be repaired at the city new mainte nance building. FULL USE INTENDED Councilman Leonard Wojcik first brought up the subject. "There is no reason, Tie said, "why the city shops should lie idle at times while the city spends money to have its ve hicles maintained at various ga rages." City Mgr. Frank Smiley said it is the city's intent "to use the shops fully," and that money will be provided in the 1961-62 budget to hire another mechanic, if necessary. At present, city and utility board vehicles are serviced at va rious Springfield garages on a rotation basis, councilmen were told. WATER MAINS FIRST Turning to a discussion of fire hydrants for the annexation area, the council heard a report from Jack Criswcll, utility board su perintendent. " Criswell estimated that it would cost $42,620 to install three hydrants along High Banks Road between 48th and 52nd, be cause a water main would have to be provided first. He also estimated it would cost $43,000 to provide five hydrants along High Banks Road between 58th and 69th, also because a Rebel Envoys Arrive for Talks PHNOM PENH, Cambodia m Two emissaries from the Commu nist-led Pathet Lao have arrived in Cambodia, sparking specula tion that former Laotian Premier Souvanna Phouma may return with them to the strife-torn In dochinesc kingdom. A Soviet-built Ilyushin 14 ar rived Monday bringing the two rebel envoys for talks with the self-exiled neutralist leader. Phouma fled before anti-Com munist forces seized the Laotian administrative capital, Vientiane, but still is recognized by the Communist bloc as premier. PEANUTS 1 1 HAVE A TricOW...! think I ttXI DON'T LIKE M BECAUSE WRE VJtAlOW OF ME I j IT i HAHAHAHA!!! LAN I COUNTY HOMl NIWAI OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1961 I water main would be needed in tnis area. Criswell explained that a com prehensive survey of th nitv's water needs will be started short ly. Once survey results are ob tained, he said, the council will be in a bfltter nncitinn tn rintAr. mine fire hydrant needs for the annexation area. EASY MAINTENANCE Counr-ilmen also snpnt nnnciHei. able time discussing drainage problems. Smiley said City Engi neer Lem Eison is working on a plan that may "vastly improve" the flow through the McKenzie Ditch. Eison's plan is to install a 36 inch tile beneath the present ditch bottom and then slope the ditch sides. In the summer the ditch would be dry because any surface water would run through the covered tile. This would per mit easy maintenance during the summer months, Smiley ex plained. Eison estimated that it would cost about $80,000 to install the tile and slope the ditch between 5th and 28th Streets. Some of this cost might be paid by Springfield School District 19 because the ditch runs through two school properties, the city manager said. Final Approval For Unified Lane Operation Final approval has been given to a unification plan for the Cen tral Lane YWCA and YMCA or ganizations. The YWCA approved Monday by a necessary two-thirds major ity, 102 to 29, an amendment cre ating a unified operating organi zation. The YMCA previously had approved such a move. Under the unification plan, Japan Offers Rice to China TOKYO W Japan Tuesday offered hungry Communist China rice and other food as a humani tarian gesture. Foreign Minister Zentaro Ko- saka told a news conference the offer, made through the Interna tional Red Cross, had no political motive although the government of Premier Hayato Ikeda is try ing to expand relations with Pel- ping short of diplomatic recog nition. Japan has diplomatic ties with Chiang Kai-shek's National ist government. Red China has admitted that 150 million acres were seriously affected in 1960 by the worst na tural disasters in a century. Pei- ping has bought a million tons of wheat and barley from Canada and 300,000 tons of wheat and 40,000 tons of flour from Au stralia. Kosaka said it would be up to the Red Cross and Peiping to decide when and how much Japa nese food would be sent if the offer is accepted. Unofficial sources said around 100,000 tons of rice might be made available Vital Statistics MARRIAGE LICENSES Larrv Burton Dullev. IS. Fill Creek, and Sandra Sue Chase 18, of 1242 W. 5th Ave., Eugene. Robin Taylor Powell, leeal age. Olympla, Wash., and Mabel Grace Baker, legal age, Cottage Grove. Dnna d Dean Davenport. 20. of 7 N. 26th St., Springfield, and Sandra Jean Freiberg, 20, of 3065 Alder St., Eugene. BIRTHS Mckenzie-Willamette hospital (Feb. 19, 1961) O'BRYANT Mr. and Mrs. T.arry O'Bryant, 744 N. 18th St., Springfield, a son. CALINISS Mr. and Mri. Jarry Call- nlss, 1064 Kelly St., Springfield, a daughter. setter Mr. and Mrs. Herbert set ter, Creswell, a daughter. garrelts Mr. and Mrs. Henry Garrelts, 4S87 E St., Springfield, a daughter. MORRIS Mr. and Mrs. Thomas By Charles M. Schulz JEAL0U5 OFVou?.'!.' HA HA HA MA HA HA I CAN'T REMEMBER Ev'EX RAVIN6 A THEORY EXPLODED QUITE SO FAST! Hearing Set On 2 Zone Ordinances Members of the Eugene City Council and Eugene Planning Commission met in joint session Monday noon to discuss two pro posed zoning ordinances. One would require the fencing of junk yards or outdoor storage sites and the other would amend the zoning code to restrict the heights of buildings in certain residential areas on the basis of a 'sun exposure plane." A public hearing before the planning commission has been scheduled for March 7 on the two proposals. Howard Buford, planning consultant, was present at Monday's meeting to explain the proposed ordinances in de tail. Buford told the gathering that the city's present R-3 multiple family housing zone permits lot coverage of up to 50 per cent of the land area while the R-4 mul tiple family housing zone allows up to 60 per cent coverage. The proposed ordinance would limit land coverage to a maximum of 30 per cent in the R-3 and R-4 zones. Under terms of the ordinance, building heights would be deter mined by a "sun exposure plane" formula. The major purpose of this formula is to guarantee that adjacent or nearby properties would have some sunlight nine months out of the year. Given Plans programming, administration and financing of the two organiza tions will be coordinated. The new organization will be created by merging the Y Build ing Assn. into the Central Lane YMCA under the new name of Central Lane YM-YWCA. It will be governed by a con stitution which has been pre pared by a joint committee of the two groups and managed by a board of directors made upf an equal number of men and women. However, the YWCA will re main a separate association. Failure to obtain a quorum at a Jan. 30 meeting delayed a vote on the proposed merger by the YWCA. Gresham Store Loses $37.50 in Holdup GRESHAM Wl Four young men, one armed with a shotgun, held up the rural Hillsview Gro cery shortly before noon Tues day. All they got was $37.50. State police said two of the men, apparently 19 to 20 years old, entered first and started to make a purchase. The other two, one carrying a shotgun, then fol lowed and held up the cashier. There was no shooting and no one was injured. X15 Flight Halted EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. UV-A flight in which the rocket ship X15 was expected to set a world speed mark of about 2,650 miles an hour was cancelled Tuesday three minutes before it was to begin. . Morris, 731 Kelly St., Springfield, a daughter. (Feb. 20. IS6I) BATV Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Baity, Rl. 1 Box 9. creswell, daughter. WARD Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Ward, Blue River, a aaugnier. SACRED HEART HOSPITAL (Feb. 20, 1961) RITCHEY Mr. and Mrs. Norval Rltchey, .2963 Wayside Loop, Spring field, a son. JENKINS Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Jenkins, 638 Water St., Springfield, a son. CRAWFORD Mr. and Mrs. Chester Crawford, 1961 N St., Springfield, a son. CAUTHORN Mr. and Mrs. Malcoln Cauthorn, 3421 Elmlra Rd., Eugene, a son. BABCOCK Mr. and Mrs. Lfoyd Kirk Babcock, Star Rt. Box 50A, Oakrldge, twins, son and daugh ter. KENT Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Kent, 1127 w. 11th Ave., Eugene, a ton. JOHNSON Mr. and Mrs. Perry Johnson. Box 043, vida, a son. (Feb. 21. 1961) I.F.BLANC Mr. and Mrs. Leonard LeBlanc, 709 W. 23rd Ave., Eugene, a daughter. MASSINfiHAM Mr. and Mrs. Ern est Masslngham, Fall Creek, a daugh- ter. PET7.0I.D Mr. and Mrs. Lea Pet told, 2360 Emerald St., Eugene, a son DEATHS BALES Roger C. Bales, S5, of 204S Riverview St., Eugene, died Feb. 20 at San Francisco, Calif. Funeral arrange ments wlU- be announced. CARPENTER Funeral servlres for Carl Sanford Carpenter, SO, of 352'4 E. Eighth Ave., Eugene, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday In Slmon.Louns- burv Funeral Chanel. Interment will i be In Pioneer Memorial Park, JOHNSON Htttle N. Johnson, 67, 'Route 1. Monroe, died Feb. 20. ru 'neral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday In Mayflower Chapel, Cor vallls. WALES Bertha Wales, Rice Valley Road, Yonrails, died Feb. IB. Funeral arrangements will be announced. rtl.vNIM.HAM - Gnldle Ellianeth Wlnnlnffham, 40. of 1275 Ivy hi., Junc tion City, died Feb. 20. Funeral serv Ires will be at 2 30 p.m. Friday In the Junction city Chanel of Murphy Fu neral Home. Interment will be In Sun ir' Hills Memorial Gardens. Panel Discusses Racial Tension -. h . anj.-rii,,-- BRIAN du TOIT Union of South Africa CITY NEWS BRIEFS LANE COUNTY Chamber of Commerce will meet at the Eu gene Hotel tonight, with an 8 p.m. no-host dinner session and installation of officers to follow 7 p.m. committee meetings. VENETAELMIRA Veterans Haven Sewing Club will meet all day Thursday with a potluck lunch at noon, at Veterans Haven Hall. EMERALD EMPIRE Growers Assn. will meet at 8 p.m. Wed nesday in the Springfield Munici pal rower building to hear John Stoner, Lane County sanitation engineer, explain requirements for crop harvesters. BETHEL 26, Job's Daughters, will meet tonight at 7:30 at Mc Kenzie River Masonic Temple, Eugene. Inspection by grand guardian. Dress is formal. AL-ANON FAMILY Group will hold an open meeting for the public, especially husbands, wives or families who have an alcoholic problem in the family, Wednes day, 8:30 p.m at 332 W. 5th Ave., Eugene. SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER will be open to all elder citizens Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Eugene Memorial Annex, 400 E. 13th Ave., Eugene. Cards in the morning, short musical pro gram after lunch followed by craft instruction in copper, mo saic, weaving and painting. Quilt ing and sewing is being done. EUGENE TOWNSEND CLUB will meet for a potluck dinner and business meeting Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., at Woman's City Club, 450 E. 14th Ave., Eugene. That ferocious banging you hear as you drive by our Portland plant is not a coffee grinder gone out of hand at all. It is not even the boss pounding his' desk. No, this is a device of our own design and desire. It is a Boyd's-Used-Lid-Counter for-Churches-Clubs-Charities-and-Other-Non-Profit-Groups. We redeem Boyd's lids for cash, you sec, to help these groups raise funds. Five cents for lids from one -lb. tins or twooz. jars, ten cents for lids from two -lb. tins or six-oz. jars. Nearly 3,000 Northwest groups sent us boxes, bags and batches of lids last year. We drop them in slots, like giant coins, and the machine carries on. It's reason ably rapid and accurate to a fault. Just the same, we wish it wouldn't count out loud. n O Do yon bavt any r.o. Lid Comttir-for-tlcf IF YOU'RE A NON-JOINER. Solutions, Say Two Students, Will Require 'Understanding9 By RALPH OLIVE Of the Register-Guard Racial tension in Africa can be relieved through efforts of the people involved to understand each other, according to two University of Oregon graduate students, both from the African continent. A third African graduate student, studying at Oregon State College, is less optimistic about a solution to the racial problem. The three spoke Sunday at a panel discussion on the topic "Racial Problems in Africa," sponsored by the Eugene Baha'is, a group devoted to independent investigation and religious unity. The meeting was held at Friendly House. Brian duToit, of the Union of South Africa, an anthropology student at Oregon, who is of European descent, said, "I think the problem can be solved, and I do not think the problem is as bad as it is made out to be from the outside." Felix Osuji, of Nigeria, a university biology student, who is of African descent, said, "Good race relations can bo achieved through complete understanding of human suffering and human dignity." Peter Viuyih, of Kenya, who tion at OSC, also of African descent, said, "The heart of the matter is people failing to realize that whether you are covered with a whito skin, or a red skin, or a yellow skin, you are a human entity with the hopes, desires and aspirations of a human being." And such understanding in Africa will probably come slowly, Viuyih said. In Kenya, he noted, the whito residents generally have a higher standard of living. They stay together, because of this, and away from the native African who is usually poor. "You people here," he said, "who have very liberal views, if you settled in South Africa, you would begin to have the ideas that exist there.' While DuToit and Osuji agreed that understanding would help relieve Africa's racial tension, they differed on one of the ways of achieving such understanding. "There should be some sort of international moral pressure placed on the government of South Africa to rework their noxious laws," Osuji said. International pressure on one country, such as South Africa, would not help, DuToit said. The solution, he suggested, lies in cooperation among the residents of the country. DuToit criticized newspaper reporters, authors, news com mentators and others who suggested corrections for South Africa's problems without even visiting the country, or after making only a hurried tour. But the blame is not entirely on the reporters, he noted, saying that apparently much of society expects this kind of writing. UO Graduate Students From Africa To Describe Problems of Continent A panel of four University of Oregon graduate students from Africa will discuss the current po litical and economic problems of Uganda, Ghana, South Africa and Nigeria at a public luncheon in Eugene Saturday. The meeting, co-sponsored by the American Assn. of University Women and the League of Women Voters, will begin at noon in the Agreement Protested Seoul,, south Korea wi Fifty South Korean youths protesting a new U.S.-Korean economic aid agreement clashed with police in front of the American Embassy Tuesday. No one was reported hurt in the scuffling and the youths dispersed after reading a statement. thought! tn quitting down tb'u Boyd't-Vud- Alio, ubl dt ui dt with all thou FEEL FREE TO THROW THE 110 AWAY is studying agricultural educa Colonial Inn in the Veterans Me morial Building. Each panelist will give the background of problems in his country while describing the pres ent situation, and will answer questions from the audience. Spe cial guests will be all of tho Afri can students on the University of Oregon campus. Mrs. Theodore Stern, chairman of the International Study Group of the AAUW, will preside at the meeting. Cooperating with her on plans for the session Is Mr.s T. F. Nugent, chairman of the LWV resource committee on U.S. for eign policy. Reservations may be made un til noon Friday, by calling Mrs. John Ward (DI 3-3193), social chairman of the AAUW. Cost of the meal is expected to be $1.50. lidif JUST IE SURE in Africa flaieajf,,llt:i FELIX OSUJI Slmictit From Nigeria PUC Orders Highway Use Tax Payment A Springfield road contractor has been ordered to pay $5,272 in weight-mile highway use taxes by the Public Utility Commission in Salem in what is regarded as a test case of this issue. The issue is whether road con tractors who are required to maintain a road at their own ex pense should be subject to the lax, according to Lyle J. Jacob son, partner and manager of the firm ordered Monday to pay the tax. The firm is McNutt & Sons, of 291, S. 18th St. Public Utility Commissioner Jonel C. Hill said Monday he be lieves that highway contractors aren't exempt from the tax, the Associated Press reported from Salem. Jacobson said to his knowledge his company is the first in the state to be taxed. The decision has been appealed to the PUC and a hearing has been held, he added. An appeal through the courts is possible but Jacobson said no decision has been made on fur ther steps his firm may take. However, he said legislation has been proposed to exempt from road-use taxes equipment used in building roads. Remains Gathered N AH A, Okinawa uD The Japa nese and Ryukyuan government began a three-week campaign Tuesday to gather the remains of 20,000 Japanese military and ci vilian war dead scattered in mountains and caves of southern Okinawa's most rugged areas. TO ENIOY THE BOYD'S FIRST m " m TVg' ; ' 4 . y" i
