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.
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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.
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Plus
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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!
TOMORROW!
iWelio-Goldwyn Mayer km, V
GEORGE SANDERS J
BARBARA SHELLEY (A
ALSO-
RUSS TAMBLYN
as TOM THUMB
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Featured Exclusively
at
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1022 Willamette DI 3-3361
LAST
DAY!!
"THE HUNTERS"
Both In
"IN LOVE & WAR" .L
DOORS OPEN 12:15
STARTS TOMORROW!!!
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
jJOSa.
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WnOB-tiMEWS-miCH I l
Aeadsmi Award winner
I "Bin Hurl
ill
AafiJ
ILEANOR , CHARLTON
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