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LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPEQ.
94th Year, No. 210
SIX SECTIONS 80 PAGES
Eugene, Oregon, May 21, 1961
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CHANCELLOR JOHN R. RICHARDS
Fears Legislative Administration in Education
Trends in Control
Of Higher Education
Concern Richards
. By DON BISHOFF
.' ' Of the Register-Guard
When JohnR. Richards, state chancellor of higher education,
announced his resignation last week he voiced some serious con
cern about the future control of. higher education in Oregon, and
in other states.
- Richards expanded on those views in an interview last week
and offered some sharp words of criticism for the Oregon Leg
islature in general, and the Joint Ways and Means Committee in
particular. Comparing the situation in Oregon with that in Cali- (
fornia, where he's going, Richards' put' it this way:-. -. fp , f ;
" "The California trend is to place more, and more authority
and leadership in the educational leaders. The' trend in Oregon
is to place more and more authority with ' the Department of
Finance and with the legislature by the use of line item budgets." ;
A line item budget is one which specifically spells but what
amount of money is to be spent for each item in an agency's
budget. The opposite of this would be a lump sum budget, in-,
which the legislature grants a given amount of money to an.'
agency for'use as .that agency sees fit. v. .:
DEPLORES MORE LEGISLATURE CONTROL !
At present in Oregon, the budget of the state Board df Higher
Education is a combination of these two. Richards sees a trend"
toward more use of the line item budget, and hence more legisla- .
tive control, a trend he deplores. . '
"They-(the legislators) have said that they want detailed
control over campus expansion . . '. they want to advise us on :
details of building plans.. Some legislators have gone so far as
to say that our funds should be frozen by category. ....
"We were told verbally many times during the past session
that we should do this and that. They'd say, ,'Well, we have to
(See Story,
get you people under better control you're doing things that we
ought to pass on.'
"In my opinion, it's just one step beyond that to suggest whom
we should start appointing to our teaching staffs."
Richards said the thinking' towards more legislative control
"pervades the Joint Ways and Means Committee." He character
ized the committee as "14 members who get the idea that all
power resides in them."
Basically, Richards said he thought that the state board and
the chancellor, who deals with the problems of higher education ;
the year around, are better fitted to decide how educational
monies will be spent in the state than is the legislature, which
considers the problem only once every two years.
As might be expected, vigorous disagreement with Richards'
thesis came from Rep. Clarence Barton, D-Coquille, co-chairman
of the Joint Ways and Means Committee in the just-ended legis
lative session. Asked to comment on Richards' views, Barton said:
"The position- of the legislature isn't at all to interfere with
academic freedom. But when we're talking about dollars and
cents, I think the- legislature should be permitted to make the
decision on how much money is going to be spent."
. BARTON VIEWS ON BUDGETING
"They get the money under certain representations to the
legislature. If they don't use it for the purpose that they request
it for, then I think the legislature should be able to take another ;
look at it There are other agencies in the state to be considered."
As an example of his point, Barton cited an incident that arose
two years ago when, he said, the state board asked for, and re
ceived, some $980,000 for faculty salaries, the purchase of sup
plies, and other uses.
"Through some economies or financial hocus pocus, they
didn't have to spend the money so they turned around and bought
propertyfor future expansion with it," Barton said.
"All we want to know is what they're going to do with the
money we give them. We don't want them to ask for it for one
thing, and use it for another."
Barton said he felt such controls as the legislature have been
exercising should be continued "as long as they have that kind
of monkeyshines going on in the field of education."
With Richards' views on the subject of lump sum vs line item
budgets, it. might seem strange that he has chosen to go to Cali
fornia where, he said, the legislature has line item control over
the state colleges. But again, said Richards, it's all a matter of
trends. ' f '
The University of California is on a lump sum budget, he
said, and the state's master plan for education calls for a gradual
move towards lump sum budgets for slate colleges as well. The
state legislature has already given its approval to the master
plan, which runs through 1975.
It was this plan which set up the Coordinating Council for
Higher Education, of which Richards will be the first director.
In Oregon, Richards dealt with one board of higher education,
made up of nine members charged with formulating and super
vising the state's higher education program. .
In California he will: deal with four boards the Board of
Regents of the University of California; a newly created board
governing the state's public colleges; the state board of education,
which governs to a certain extent the junior colleges, and the
coordinating council itself, which is made up of 15 representatives
of the other three boards, private colleges in the state, and the
general public. . '"''' ' .
Richards said his duties and the duties of his yet-lo-bepicked
staff in the new job will be four: . . ,
Reviewing the budgets of each of the boards under the
council, and making recommendations on these budgets to the
governor and to the legislature.- Final authority on the actual
grants will still lie with the legislature, but Richards believes the
RICHARDS
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CONCERNED
on Page SA)
French
Hold Fire
In Algeria
Rebel Spokesman
Terms Cease-Fire
'Unilateral Decision'
EVIAN ". LES - BAINS,
France UP) France ordered
cessation of all offensive ac
tion in Algeria Saturday but
the Algerian rebel leader
ship rejected the decision,
declaring '.'our fight contin
ues. ...
A spokesmen for the rebel dele
gation at French-Algerian peace
talks, which -opened here Satur
day, termed .the French decision
blackmail, propaganda and
"diversionary maneuver." . .
"The decision was unilateral,"
spokesman Abdelmajid Rhida
Malek told a news conference in
Geneva after the first session of
peace talks at Evian. "We reject
all unilateral decisions. We are
here to negotiate bilateral ac
cords." This statement echoed one by
the rebel government in Tunis,
which said any cease-fire should
be negotiated by both parties.
The French order, which leaves
the French free to shoot if shot
at, was made effective for a
month. At the end of that time,
the French said, they would re
consider the situation in the light
of the peace talks here.
But Malek's statement that the
6'4-year rebel fight goes on cast
pall over the infant negotia
tions. French officials have said
serious talks cannot long continue
without a cease-fire on both sides.
The order for the half-million
man French army to halt offen
sive operations in Algeria . was
made effective at 6 p.m. ;
French Delegate General Jean
Morin said in Algiers he hoped
the rebels would follow the
French lead. But Malek said a
proviso in the French order leav
ing French troops the right to I
take defensive action could be
used as a pretext by the French
to continue offensive operations.
, As the peace talks got under
way in this Lake Geneva, resort
city, France also announced that
rebel Deputy Premier Ahmed Ben
Bella was being transferred from
his fortress prison in the Isle
Aix to a luxurious chateau in
the Loire River Valley. Other
rebel officials had their detention
eased.
The rebel spokesman "look
note" of the decision, but said
Ben Bella should he "associated
with the peace talks" and that
much difficulty had , arisen on
this point. He did not elaborate.
Auto Victims
Listed 'Good'
Four nersons iniured in an
auto crash that took one life Fri
day were listed Saturday evening
in either J'good or satisfactory
condition at Sacred Heart hos
pital.
Robert
John Booth, 19, ' and
Raymond
Portland,
E. Hintz, 20. both of
were in "satisfactory"
condition
according to hospital
authorities. Diane Elaine Billings,
of 1461 'Alder St., Eugene, and
Thomas Rhode, 20, of Newberg,
were m "good condition. .
The four were injured when a
car driven by Hintz collided with
a car driven by Alan Roy Crock
ett, 20, of 2887 Alder St., Eugene.
nn Highway 99 near' Bloomberg
Road.
Susan Lee Byard, 19, or 470
E. 17th Ave., Eugene, was killed
in the collision.
Crockett was treated at Sacred
Heart and released Saturday. Miss
Byard, Miss Billings, and Booth
were passengers in the Crockett
car; all are enrolled at the Uni
versity of Oregon.- , '
Hintz, and Rhode, a passenger
m the Hintz car, are both sta
tioned at a U.S. Navy base in
San Francisco.
INSIDE TODAY
Proposed Boundaries of
Coast Dunes Park. 8A
Coney Island's. Master
Showman. 10A
Jerome Ties World Rec
ord in Oregon Track
Victory. IB
Carry Back Wins
Preakness. IB
Florence Pays Homage to
the Rhododendron. 1C
Photo Essay: 4-H
Rockhounds. ID
Women's News Section D
Editorials 10A
Births 8B
Sports 1-3B
Homes and Gardens ....4-5R
Theaters .... i...BB
Radio, TV 7B
Classified 2-11G
Task
Ordered to
JFK Appeals for Exercise of
WASHINGTON W While the
federal government Saturday was
ordering hundreds of armed mar
shals and deputized officers into
Alabama in an effort to stem
mounting racial violence, Presi
dent Kennedy called up Alabama
officials and the mayors of Birm
ingham and Montgomery to exer
cise their authority to prevent
further bloodletting.
Acting on a third front, the gov
ernment asked the U.S. Court in
Montgomery to issue injunctions
against the Ku Klux Klan, the
National States Rights Party and
other individuals to stop inter-
Ten Cuban Rebels Reach U.S.
For Prisoner-Bulldozer Deal
By THEODORE A. F.LIGER
OI the Associated Press
MIAMI, Fla. On A 10-man
committee of rebels captured in
the ill-fated invasion of Cuba ar
rived Saturday to begin negotiat-
(Sec Picture, Page 2A)
ing Fidel Castro's proposed trade
of 1,200 prisoners for 500 bulldoz
ers. A broadcast of Havana radio.
heard in Key West, said the 10
were selected by other prisoners
held by Castro since their capture
during the April 17 invasion.
The broadcast said the prison
ers had seven days in .which to
complete the arrangements. Then
if, unsuccessful, they, must re
turn to Cuba, the radio said.
Kids, Dogs,
Pet Parade
It not only takes a lot of kids
and animals to put on the an
nual Emerald Empire pet parade,
but many civic organizations
spend time to make it a success.
Helping to judge the dogs and
cats, horses and birds, and all the
other entries next Saturday will
he- .
The Jaycee-etles, the Re-Active
Club, the Eugene Kennel Club,
the Eugene Aquarium Society,
(veD. fish are welcome in the
parade), the Eugene Kiwanis
Club, the Emerald Empire Ki
wanis Club, the Junior Service
League, the Eugene Ad Club, the
Accused Women
Leave for Oregon
OAKLAND, Calif. tfl Two
women accused of the brutal slay
ing of two children in Oregon
left Saturday to face murder
charges at Madras, Ore.
They are Mrs. Gertrude Jack
son, 25, formerly of Eugene, the
mother of the children, and her
friend, Jeannace Freeman, 19, of
Culver, Ore.
They are accused, of throwing
the two small children into 350-
foot deep. Crooked River Gorge.
Police said Mrs. Jackson told of
deciding, to kill the children be
cause she could not support them.
The women waived extradition
Oregon officials took them in cus
tody. They are traveling to Ore
gon by automobile.
IV: r
V. - H y
INJURED IN MONTGOMERY RIOT John Seigen
thaler, 32, left, an administrative assistant to Atty. Gen."
Robert Kennedy, was injured in the Montgomery, Ala.,
rioting Saturday while trying to protect a girl who was
being chased. Seigenthaler was hit on the head and taken
Force
ference with "peaceful interstate
travel by bus.",
The Justice Department said it
had information that Klansmen
and other hard core segregation
ists were moving in force into
the Montgomery area, the scene
Saturday of a bloody race riot in
which 20 persons were beaten
with clubs and fists after a white
mob greeted a busload of "free
dom riders."
In a rapid-fire series of actions,
Kennedy said in a statement is
sued by the White House that he
had instructed the Justice Depart
ment "to take all necessary steps
The committee was made up of
nine military men and a newspa
perman, Ulises Carbo, son of
Sergio Carbo, editor of Presna
Libre, a Havana paper now pub
lished in exile in Miami.
Others in the committee were
listed as Capt. Luis More Del
gado, Jose Ferullo, Mirto Collazo
Valdes, Waldo Castroverde, Hugo
Lueiros, Cefenno Alvarez Castal-
lon, Gustavo Garcia Monies, Fel
ix Eloy Perez and Reinaldo Pico
Ramon.
The rebels declined to speak to
newsmen who met them at Inter
national Airport until after con
ferring with leaders of the Cuban
Democratic Revolutionary Front,
the organization which sponsored
the abortive invasion.
.. While the committee was in the
Cats, Etc.
Almost Here
Eugene Hunt Club, and the Eu
gene Welfare League.
The Lane County Sheriff Posse
will not only provide the oolor
guard, but many members will
help with judging and will help
any youngster who is having dif
ficulty with his horse.
The Active Club will again
provide marshals to help judge,
help line up the march, and give
aid in case of troubles of any
kind.
But the most important part of
the parade, as the presence of
all these people testifies, is the
kids and their pets.
The Register-Guard is receiving
applications every day and if en
couraging more kids to hurry and
send theirs in. The parade is just
six days away! Applications are
printed in today s paper.
The newspaper is trying to get
at least as many entries as there
are prizes. And that may be dif
ficult. Hundreds of prizes are be
ing donated by Eugene mer
chants, including two bicycles.
$50 cash award and airplane rides
for the winners in each division
In addition, every entrant will
receive some ice cream and
ticket to a home game of the
Eugene Emeralds.
There will be at least five bands
entered to keep the musical
cadence.
The parade will start from
Eighth Avenue, proceeding up
Willamette Street to 15th Avenue
turning on Olive and back to
14th Avenue and Charnelton for
dispersal.
1 ' ' C " 1
Mm
li-- r".
' LI umltzt.
of U.S. Marshals
Riot
Authority
based on their Information
investigation."
and
A half-hour later, Atty. Gen.
Robert F. Kennedy said he ex
pected more than 400 men, des
cribed as "nonmilitary officers,"
would be in Alabama by noon
Sunday. They are being sent by
chartered flights from other
Southern states and the District
of Columbia, i ; ;
The attorney general also said
additional FBI agents were being
sent to the race-riot torn state to
assist in investigations of the
bloody fighting between Negroes
and whites in Montgomery and
Birmingham.
air, en route to Miami, Havana
radio said Castro was sending the
prisoners to "deal not with a neu
tral country but with the United
States."
In Washington, the government
indicated it would go along with
move by private citizens to
swap bulldozers for the im
prisoned invaders. The State De
partment said "purely humani
tarian considerations would
guide the government.
One citizens drive would be
headed by Eleanor , Roosevelt,
Milton S. Eisenhower and Waller
P. Reuther.
The Miami -News offered' to ac
cept funds from throughout the
Americas to pay for the farm
machinery. l .
Castro told a .television audi
ence in Havana Saturday, "We
don't need intermediaries."
The most Important of the pris
oners would be relinquished "only
after the arrival of the last lots
of bulldozers," Castro stipulated.
However, the prime minister
said he would exchange the most
important one, Manuel Artime,
invasion leader, for "El Gancho"
Molina, pro-Castro Cuban convict
ed in New York in the slaying of
a 8-year-old Venezuelan girl.
Arms Depot
To Be Closed
WASHINGTON tfl The De
fense Department disclosed Sat
urday it plans to close four ord
nance depots In the Far West,
including the Umatilla, Ore., de
pot.
The department said it will
consolidate the present six depots
in the Far West into two depots
fn 1 r- 1 a . - - t-t;t ,
luueie near ami ijhkb lliy, ana
sierra at Herlong, Calif.
Those to he closed are at Uma
tilla; Benecia,' Calif.; Mt. Rainier,
Wash.; and Navajo, Ariz. The
closures of Mt. Rainier and, Ben
ecia were announced earlier.
Thomas D. Morris, assistant
Secretary of Defense, said the
Army needs only about half of
the capacity at the six depots.
The two to be retained are the
only ones large enough to handle
both general supplies and ammu
nition storage, Morris said.
A report by Morris said sup
plies left in the depots from
World War II and the Korean
War have been dwindling, and at
the same time ways have been
developed to operate with small
inventories.
to the hospital with a cut behind the car. In other photo,
Jim Swerg, right, removes teeth which were knocked
out by a mob that set upon him and others of the "free
dom riders" after they arrived in Montgomery, Ala.,
Saturday. Facing him is Paul Brooks, .another rider.
- Torn
MONTGOMERY, Ala. UP)
marshals was ordered to riot-torn Montgomery Saturday
after a racially mixed "freedom ride" touched off a bloody
mob uprising.
moting continued arouna
nearly two hours before the savage white mob numbering
close to 1,000 at times was broken up with tear gas by
state and city police. . -.
The racial violence, wnicn
times, left at least 20 persons
ing an official of the Justice Department m Washington.
John Seigenthaler, 32, a representative of the attorney '
general, was slugged from behind as he struggled to help
a .besieged white girl one of the "freedom riders" be
ing chased by angry. white men. Seigenthaler was taken to
a hospital with a cut Benina.
nis ear. fie was reported in
good condition.
A few hours after the angry
while mob attacked the bus rid
ers the federal government an
nounced it was sending more
than 400 officers to Alabama to
prevent further violence.
Alabama's Gov. John M. Pat
terson, responding angrily to the
federal intervention, declared
We need no help from the fed
eral government and have not
requested their help. The federal
government has no constitutional
right to intervene unless we ask
their assistance.
RESTORED ORDER QUICKLY
"No one regrets more than
what happened today 'i the city
of Montgomery. But the fact re
mains that state highway patrol
men responded in force seconds
after they were called. Within
five minutes, we had 65 state pa
trolmen on the scene. Officers re
stored order quickly, and ,.e have
the situation under firm control.
Within an instant after the
Grevhound bus load of white and
Neero vouths testing bus station1
color barriers arrived at me
downtown terminal from Birm
ingham, the mob surged forward
and pounced ton the group.
Seigenthaler and . other by
standers also were pummeled to
the ground, Among them were at
least four out-of-town reporters
and photographers attempting to
film the rioting. Some pnotogra
phers lost their cameras, some of
them smashed.
Before the violence subsided, a
Negro and eight white persons,
including a woman, were taken
to jail. '
LEFT SEMI CONSCIOUS
One of the- injured "freedom
riders" was Jim Zwerg, 21, a
white theology student from Ap-
pleton, Wis. He was beaten,
stomped and left semi-conscious
for at least 30 minutes before po
lice took him to a hospital. His
condition was described as satis
factory. '''.',
Meanwhile, the "freedom rid
ers" who managed to escape in
jury, were taken to Negro homes
to rest while they planned their
next move.
Even after police arrived, about
10 minutes after the fighting
broke out, the battle raged on
mobs of white people chasing,
catching, clubbing and stomping
any targets of their anger.
The bloodstreaked and uncon
scious forms of people both Ne
groes and white persons were
on the ground.
Women shrieked their encour
agement "Get those niggers."
And the white men, swinging
metal pipes, sticks and fists,
clubbed and pummeled in all di
rections. -
A gang of women attacked two
young white women who came in
on the integrated Greyhound bus
from Birmingham.
Men behind them shouted
TASK FORCE
(Continued on Page 5 A)
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City
A large task force of U.S.
tne iireynouna dus station lor
erupted and suosided tnree
battered and bloody, includ-'
CARLA JEAN GARRISON
Miss Eugene of 1961
Slim Blonde
urownea iNew
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missEMgene
.By DON BISHOFF
Of the Refister-Guard
Carla Jean Garrison, a slim
blonde with an admitted tenden
cy to talk -too much, is the 1961
Miss Eugene.. . ,.
The 19-year-old , University of
Oregon freshman from Lebanon
was crowned Saturday night fol
lowing, her selection- over eight
other contestants in the beauty
talent contest in the Erb Memori
al Union. . '. -
It was almost University of Ore
gon freshman night Second plac
winner was Paula McCorkle, 19,
a freshman from Hillsboro., And
in third place was. still another
U of O' first-year student, Mart
lee Ann Garren, 18, of Burbahk,
rnllf. A tinmetnwn fflrl ffnfaTinri
fourth ' Carolyn Warren,-' 19,
daughter of ,Mr. and Mrs. Erwin
Warren of 1556, Brentwood
Ave,, Eugene. '
Carta, who's. 5-foot-6,. 115
pounds, and 34-23-35, performed
a piano solo Debussy's "Gar
dens in tho Ram" for the talent
portion of the contest, .' .... ,
Like the other three finalists,
she was called upon to answer
two questions for the judges.
"What qualities are most import
ant in choosing a husband? and
Could we have spent more wisely
the money used for the space
race?" 1 ' ,
In answering the questions.
Carla recalled the rambling an
swers she had given to questions
put to her in the contest, pre
liminaries ten days earlier. "'1
talked a little too much in the
preliminaries, and the first thing
people told me was to be brief."
In fairly brief fashion she said
she thought "the most important
quality in a husband is' that he
have an active mind. She added
frankly that she thought money
was also a factor "It's just as
easy to marry a man with money
as it is to marry one without it."
Carla will compete for the Miss
Oregon title at Seaside on July'
14, and if she should win there,
will go on to Atlantic City and
the Miss America contest in Sep
tember. She received a $100 schol
arship and a number of merchan
dise prizes in winning the local
contest.
Ohio State Official
Confers With Board
PORTLAND Ml Gordon R.
Carson, vice president of Ohio
State University, Saturday con
ferred with the state Board of
Higher Education about the soon-to-be-vacant
job of president of
Oregon State College.
Carson is believed to be one of
two men the board favors after
checking the qualifications of
more than 100 applicants.
Newsmen were barred from the
meeting and neither the board
nor Carson would comment.
The new president will replane
A. L. Strand, who is retiring.
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