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Revisions Outlined for EWEB Board Cost Estimates Rise $150,000 For Carmen-Smith Project Directors of the Eugene Water, ana tiectnc Board learned Mon day that the estimated cost of the Carmen-Smith hydroelectric project haa gone up. On July 8, I960, the total cost was estimated to be $25,192,520. On Dec. 31, 1980, that figure was revised to $25,344,154, an increase of $151,634. This change was formally ap proved by the board Monday after it was explained by members of the utility staff. Byron Price, su perintendent of the utility, said the cost estimate alteration meant no changes in basic design of the project. Price said it is a "very natural thing" to see estimates for indi vidual items increase or decrease as work gets underway on a proj ect. He also said the specific con struction items yet-to be con tracted amount to only about Revenue Up Report Shows Increase In I960 Utility Sales Eugene Water and Electric to $4,838,426 in 1960 compared Doara sales ot electricity in creased 13.2 per cent during 1960. Sales of water increased 4.2 per cent in the same year. These facts are revealed in a 12-month report submitted to di rectors of. the board Monday aft ernoon. In dollars, total revenue from the sale of electricity amounted Dave Beck , Indictment Reinstated WASHINGTON W) The Su preme Court Monday reinstated an indictment charging Dave Beck, former Teamsters Union president, violated the Taft-Hart ley Act by accepting a $200,000 loan from trucking interests U. S. District Judge Sidney Sugarman in New York ordered dismissal of the indictment Feb. 18, 1960. He also dismissed accusations against two trucking company of ficials and three companies named in the indictment. Justice Frank further delivered the 8-1 decision. Justice Stewart dissented on the ground the high court should decide whether the loan came within proscriptions of the law. ' Sugarman ruled that a Taft- Hartley law amendment in 1959, to prohibit passage of loans or other things of value between an employer and a union officials, did not apply to the Beck loan which was made in 1954. The Justice Department ap pealing directly to the Supreme Court, argued that the 1947 Taft Hartley law covered the transac tion by making it unlawful for an employer to pay or deliver to union official "any money other thing of value." - Collective Farms VIENNA. Austria on Budapest Radio says 90 per cent of the farm land in Communist Hungary has been collectivized. with $4,275,320 in 1959. Revenue from the sale of water amounted to $735,021 in 1960 compared with $715,220 in 1959. During the year EWEB served an average of 25,449 residential customers, a 5 per cent increase over 1959, and 3,630 commercial and power customers, an increase of 10.4 per cent. The average use of electricity by residential customers reached new record 13,089 kilowatt hours, an increase of 12 per cent over the 12,142 kwh average in 1959. The peak load carried by the electrical system during 1960 reached 132,000 kilowatts. This peak was 20.1 per cent higher than the 109,900-kilowatt peak of the year before The report makes note of prog ress on the Carmen-Smith Hydro electric Projecvt. Some $1,287,000 had been spent on the project by Dec. 31. Feter Kiewit Sons Co., prime contractor, moved onto the job during September. At the end of December the total construction force was 180 men. It was esti mated that engineering was 71 per cent complete and construc tion 6 per cent complete by the end of the year, $495,000 out of a total of nearly $21 million. The chance in cost estimates included the following shifts: An increase of $372,639 in total specific construction costs." Items in this category ac count for approximately four- fifths of the total cost of the proj ect. A decrease of $321,500 in the "contingencies" fund. A decrease of $50,505 in EWEB engineering, administra tion, and overhead. A decrease of $1,000 in es calation. And an increase of $152,000 in interest to be paid during con struction. In a second action, the board approved a revised cash flow schedule as submitted by Bechtol Corporation, San Francisco, de sign engineers. The schedule is an attempt to forecast what amounts of money will need to be paid out monthly during the construction of the Carmen-Smith project through December, 1962. Superintendent Price explained that this schedule has been re vised to meet the needs of Peter Kiewit Sons Co., Omaha, Neb., prime contractor for the project. The original schedule was es tablished in anticipation of the order in which the contractor would proceed. The new sched ule fits the order of procedure established by Kiewit, now that the firm has begun work on Car men-Smith. In approving the schedule the board instructed the construction fund trustees First National and U.S. National banks to use the new schedule as a guide in in vesting available funds. . . - -... e t 1 V . ' i ' . ' ' - v 1 1, : ' y'. ? . f JS'l ' "'K : 1 v A Kiwanis Learns Barber Can Lead Eventful Life The life of a barber, far from chair. There was no trouble after Nationalist Arrested TOKYO Iff) Police Tuesday ar rested Bin Akao, Japan's best- known extreme nationalist leader, on suspicion of inciting to mur der. His party has been linked to the slaying of Socialist Party Chairman Inejiro Asanuma last October. State Pen Inmate Returned To City for Motion Hearing Feature Times TUESDAY (Subject to Change) FOX The Hunters, 1M, 8:15, 10:10. In Love ana war, 12:30, 4:20, 8:15. HEILIG Mississippi Gambler, 6:30, 10; Up Front, 8:25. MCDONALD The Misfits, 1. 4:45, 8:35. Operation Bottleneck, 3:10, 7, 10:40,. McKENZIE (Springfield) Because - They're Young, 7:30. G.I. Blues, 8:10. WEDNESDAY (Subject to Change) FOX Elephant Walk. 3:25, 8:10, 10. The Naked Jungle, 12:35, 4:20, 8:05. HEILIG VUlaga of the Damned, 8:30, 9:45. Tom Thumb, 8:10. MCDONALD Fever In the Blood, 1, 4:45, 8:30. Gold of the Seven Saints, 1. 8:45. 10:30. McKENZIE (Springfield) Because They're Young, 7:30. G.I. Blues, 9:10. Wesley K. Gates, former Eu gene man serving a five-year pen itentiary sentence on a bad check charge, is back in the Eugene jail. The prison inmate was returned to Eugene Monday on an order by Lane County Circuit Court Judge Edward Leavy. He will appear at a hearing on a motion he has filed to correct a trans script of legal proceedings that took place before he was sentenced. In' July, 1959, Gates was placed on probation for five years after pleading guilty to a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. The probation was revoked a year later and Gates was meted penitentiary sentence by then Lane County Judge Frank B Reid. Subsequently Gates filed notice of appeal of the probation re vocation. And he filed a motion fHELD OVER FOR (Register-Guard ntioto) HARMONY TIME This trio, one of the Very Little Theatre's olio acts, will sing be tween scenes of "Ten Nights in a Barroom" this week. From left to right are Laurie Fischer, Mike Krenk and Penny Fischer, Laurie's sister, all of Eugene. The VLT's melodrama, held over due to popular demand, will play Wednesday through Saturday nights. Tickets are available by calling DI 4-7751. Car Plunges Into Umpqua REEDSPORT A Eugene man William J. Randall, 28, of 316S Harris St.-escaped injury early I today when his car plunged into the cold waters of the Umpqua' River five miles east of here. Randall, who calls himself a non-swimmer," swam for his life after his car went into the water 20 feet from shore aficr crashing through a metal barricade and down a 15-foot embankment off Highway 38. Randall said he apparently dozed at the wheel, and then suddenly found himself in the river. He got out from the driver's side of the car and swam to shore. Once there, he turned to watch the car sink below the surface in water 20 feet deep. Randall, employed by the Southern Pacific Railroad in Co quille, was on his way to Eugene at about 2:10 a.m. when the acci dent occurred. Afterwards, he climbed to the highway and hail ed a passing motorist, who took him to the Rccdsport Police station. Skindivers Tuesday were at tempting tq retrieve the sub merged vehicle. Register-Guard, Eugene, OregetJ Tuesday, February 21, 1961 7B to correct the transcript of the proceedings involved. Judge Leavy has set Feb. 28 as the date when he will conduct a hearing on Gates' motion to cor rect the transcript. Gates is the man who has filed a half million dollar damage suit in U.S. District Court in Port land. He asks $10,000 damages each from the states of Oregon and Illinois, and $50,000 each from six individuals, including a Lane County deputy sheriff, the deputy's wife and brother, and three officials in Fayette County, 111. Gates was in an Illinois jail when the Lane County official came to return him to face pro bation violation charges here. He alleges in the civil suit that he was "forcibly and with vio lence removed from his cell" in Illinois, without proper legal action. being dull, is interesting, varied and sometimes dangerous, mem bers of the Emerald Empire Ki wanis Club were told Monday. George Cochran, who owns the Big Y Barber Shop, Eugene, de scribed his experiences as a barber when he spoke at a regu lar Kiwanis Club meeting. Coch ran, who is also an artist and au thor, illustrated the talk with his own sketches. Cochran said he had first learned his occupation as a boy when he attended an Indian school in Oklahoma. He early found out how sensitive customers can be. He was cutting the hair of one of his fellow students, when the student suddenly struck Cochran. Since the two belonged to differ ent tribes (Cochran is a full- blooded Indian), they did not speak the same language, so Cochran called for an interpre ter. The interpreter explained that it was necessary to ask per mission before cutting hair even though the customer had voluntarily climbed into the FOUR MORE NIGHTS! Feb. 22, 23, 24, 25 "TEN NIGHTS IN A BARROOM" Melodrama with Olio Acts Bo Offlre open osilj I til I p.m Except Sunday. CALL DI 4-7751 for reserraUons 8:15 P.M. at the VERY. LITTLE THEATRE Ends Today! 'The Misfits" & "Operation Bottleneck" WEDNESDAY I 1(1. I'M WE "Mjl EFREM ZIMBAirST, JR. ANGIE DICKINSON JACK KELLY DON AMECHE RAY DANTON ACTION FILLED COMPANION FEATURE that. Customers have confided In him, given him presents, and lit erally fallen on him, Cochran told the Kiwamans. Once an over weight customer fell asleep in the chair. While trying to move him, Cochran lost control, and fell on the floor, with the over weight customer on top. Once, Cochran said, during the 1930s, he shaved gangster Pretty Boy Floyd. The charge was 15 cents, but Floyd gave Cochran $1. It wasn't until the police burst into the shop a short while later, however, that Cochran real ized the identity of his notorious customer. Cochran is author of a histor ical study, "Indians of the Pa cific Northwest.", Another book on his life as a barber, and illus trated with his cartoons, will be published soon. Production Rises MEXICO CITY W The volume of industrial production rose 94 per cent in Mexico during the past decade, the government says. Polls to Be Open Until 8 Tonight For School Vote Polls will be open until 8 p.m. today in the Pleasant Hill School District unification elec tion. . Voters will be asked to de cide if all students now living in the Dexter-Zion area should attend Pleasant Hill schools. They are now divided between Pleasant Hill and Lowell. If the proposal is approved, it will clarify the boundary lines of the two districts, and eliminate the union high schools. Dexter-Zion residents will vote in the Dexter Baptist Church annex. Pleasant Hill residents will vote in the Pleas ant Hill Elementary School fac ulty room. Hurry Ends Thurs. tftuarxr Plus J' HtiWuus TtCHMICOtOt 'ti.ElI Because They're Young" ) "MIS DAV Unit to Meet VENETA - ELM1RA DAV Chapter 24 and Auxiliary will meet at 8 p.m. Friday at Veterans Haven Hall; there will be no pot luck this month. ENDS TONIGHT! MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER" and "UP FRONT" HOOKS OPEN 6 I'M! 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The Dodge Dart is a full- STANDARD OR COMPACT YOU GETA GREAT DEAL WITH BODGE size Dodge priced model for model with Ford and Chevrolet, and It currently bringing in more trade-in dollars than either. It is available in 23 models. The compact Dodge Lancer Is priced right down the line with Comet, Corvair and Falcon. It comes in six models. Go set the cars that have everything. Compact Dodge Lancer. Full-size Dodge Dart The place to do that is at your nearest Dodge Dealer. Because, standard or compact you get i great deal with Dodge. SEE YOUR DEPENDABLE DODGE DEALER FRIENDLY DODGE, INC. GROVE MOTORS, INC. 77 W. 11th DI 5 3311 Eugene, Oregon 711 So. Pacific Hwy. Cottage Grove, Oregon at 24th It Htlyard
