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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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