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Page 6A EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Sunday, Jan. 41. 1962 Food Program for Rated Successful : Lame County Distributing Surplus Goods . By DON ROBINSON Of the Reftbtcriuard Pea beans from Michigan, eornmeal from Nebraska, flour from Utah . , . and seven more farm products from everywhere arrive each month, appropri ately, at the Cow Palace of the Lane County Fairgrounds. The plainly packaged food went free to approximately 9,000 men, women, and children in December. About half the adults who come for the food are on wel fare. The other half can show a sufficiently low income to qualify. 14 Distribution Days They qualify for Lane Coun ty'! surplus food program, a ven ture into the grocery business started here four months ago. Similar programs have been go ing in some other Oregon coun ties a few more months and in other states for several years. : There are 14 distribution days at the fairgrounds. Then food, record books, portable tables and all the packed into a commercial van for one-day stands in Cottage Grove and Florence. During the first three months of operation in Lane County 301,510 pounds of food worth $69,100 wholesale were dis tributed. It went to 6,300 fam ilies, or 20.904 individuals. People come for food on des ignated days, hours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Some come on foot, some come in beat-up cars, some come in nice cars. Who are they? These arc examples: Elderly people living social security benefits. Heads of families whose seasonal work is out of season, People who qualify for public welfare but who need food during the several weeks it may take for their welfare ap plication to be processed. College students with fam ilies and little money. And, in general, people in all the variety of circumstances of those who are served by pub lic welfare. Surplus food reaches Lane County through an adminis trative process beginning at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The department acquires the looa through its farm price upport and surplus removal programs. The program affords the gov ernment a means of disposing of agricultural surpluses and helping needy people at the tame time. Food is offered to the states and the states offer it to local government units. Lane County places its order with the state each month, hauling the food from Salem warehouses to Eu gene. Income Limits Vary In Lane County, anyone re ceiving public welfare qualifies for food. In addition, anyone with a sufficiently low income during the preceding 30 days JBS r ft Jr4 .M Surplus Food Appliants at Cow Palace can qualify. Limits on income vary with family size. For a family of four, for ex ample, the previous month's in come must be no greater than $223. Beyond this, no family may have cash reserves or liquid assets greater than $500. At the fairgrounds applicants go first to a Lane County Public Welfare -Commission -employe who certifies those that qualify. They move on to an adjacent window where a county em ploye makes out an order form. Each applicant is asked which of the available items he can use. If he doesn't want one, he doesn't receive it. Men who themselves are on welfare and who are working out their welfare benefits under the "work relief" program fill each order, placing the checked commodities in grocery cars. How much food can a family get? This month, 10 products are available. A family of four can receive the following: Four pounds of pea beans, 4 pounds of butter, 10 pounds of eornmeal, 10 pounds of flour, 4 pounds of lard, 4'4 pounds of powdered milk, 2 pounds of pea Seminar Set On Insurance About 100 members of the Oregon Assn. of Independent Insurance Agents are expected to attend an educational semi nar at the University of Oregon Jan. 24-26. The seminar is conducted by the Instiutc of Oregon Under writers and Jointly sponsored by the University of Oregon's School of Business Administra tion and the OA11A. Speakers for the three-day event include specialists Jack T. Cooper of Kansas City, Kan.; W. E. Evans, Tacoma, Wash.; Frederick A. Greer, Portland: Eugene Marsh, McMinnville. and Albert C. Wrenn, Son Fran cisco. Lectures will he hold in Commonwealth Hall and in the Erh Memorial Union. Qualified participants (limited to 100 OA1IA member agents and com pany field personnel) may ob tain registration materials from the OAIIA office In Portland's Board of Trade Building. James W. Ncilson of Neilson Insurance Agency, Florence, is i member of the planning committee. Riots Flare in Venezuela SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (UPD Armed troops maintained order Saturday in this eastern provincial capital, where a "state of siege" was proclaimed after at least 50 persons had been injured in strike riots. At least 200 persons were un der arrest. Soldiers with fixed bayonets charged one stone-throwing left- Jury Indicts Ex-Official PORTLAND cm Leonard W. Raynor has been indicted by the Multnomah County Grand Jury on a charge of larceny by embezzlement. Raynor, suspended in Decem ber from his job as city pur chasing agent, is charged with mis-appropriating $11,356 of the fund from sales of abandoned bicycles and automobiles. He was in charge of selling the vehicles. 'This indictment came kind of sudden," Raynor said. "I have nothing prepared." He was released after posting $500 bond. Raynor's attorney, A. G. Clos- tcrman, said his client was in nocent of the charge. He said his books had been audited by elected officials and were in lop order. The 62-ycarold Raynor has worked for the city government since lii.il. Six Classes Offered BROWNSVILLE Six adult classes are being offered at Con tral Linn High School. They in clude physical education for women, rural insurance prob lems, vcternarian medicine, tail oring, typing, and welding. Adult Education supervisor Dick Schmidt reports that some of the classes still need members. ist mob Friday. In another in stance, rioters armed with tom my guns fired on troops, touch ing off a brief but bitter battle. Elsewhere in the city, rioters attacked the Torbes radio sta tion. Its main studio was dam aged. San Cristobal, scene of an abortive one-day revolt in 1960, is currently crippled by a strike of bus drivers who provide its principal means of public transportation. The drivers are protesting a national law requiring that all automobiles must carry liability insurance. Italy Reports Border Toll BOLZANO, Italy W Italian military authorities said Satur day that eight Italian soldiers and police were killed and 24 injured while safeguarding in stallations against sabotage in tho troubled Tyrol in the last half of 1961. Another seven were killed on duty in the province along the Austrian border, where German-speaking extremists have been agitating for more self- rule. Tho South Tyrol was taken from Austria after World War I and given to Italy. The German-language clement of the population clnims its ethnic rights suffer because there is too little home rule. Austria, which is sympathetic to their cause, has met three times with Italy hut the talks have produced no agreement. Articles Filed SALEM (UPI) Articles of incorporation are on file for Southwestern Oregon College Foundation, North Bend. They were signed by Henry Hansen, J. W. Slover, Frances Ellen Mc Kcnzic and others. OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY - JAN. 21 by M. L. POWELL FEATURING O.K. APPLIANCES BY THE EUGENE PLANING MILL 2080 CITY VIEW ST. THREE LARGE BEDROOMS DEN FAMILY ROOM CARPET AND HARDWOOD THROUGHOUT SPLIT LEVEL DESIGN EXCELLENT NEIGHBORHOOD FIREPLACE & PANELING nut butter, 4 pounds of rice, 3 pounds of rolled oats, and a No. 2Vi can of chopped meat. 'Excellent Program' The wholesale value of this much food is $12.01. From the standpoint of opera tional efficiency, the program in Lane County looks good. "We think they (Lane Coun ty) really have an excellent pro gram ... it is roally efficienctly operated," says Ken Dory, as sistant chief of the state's sur plus property section who works on the program from the state end. All three Lane County Com missioners and the man they as signed to get the program going, Administrative Assistant Keith Parks, express satisfaction. The costs have not been high. During the first three months the total cost was $10,260. All but about $3,000 of that will be paid back to the county since the state and the county share costs on a 70-30 basis. Buy Other Items Although it might appear that the county is competing with private grocery stores, Fred Brchne, manager of the Eugene Chamber of Commerce, says he has heard no local grocers com plain. County Board of Commission ers Chairman Jess Hill and oth ers note that this is probably due to the fact that people who receive free staple items will have money left to buy other, finer types of food, so grocers probably aren't losing any busi ness. County Commissioner Ken neth Nielsen says he would pre fer a "food stamp" plan as is being tried on a pilot basis in eight points around the country suffering from high unemploy ment. Under such a plan individu als buy stamps, then use the stamps to buy food at regular grocery stores. On the average. $3 buys $5 wort of stamps. It is possible that the federal gov ernment will expand this pro gram, although it docs not in corporate the disposal of sur plus food that is a feature of the plan in use in most of the nation. Even so, Commissioner Niel sen notes that the local surplus food program "has worked out better than I ever thought it would." Five Drivers Fined $200; One Cleared One man was acquitted, two pleaded guilty, two more for feited bail and a sixth pleaded guilty to a lesser charge on re cent cases in Eugene Municipal Court of driving under the in fluence of intoxicating liquor. Found innocent in a jury trial was Ashley Lavern Sandahl, 39, of 1441 Willamette St., who had been arrested on a DUIIL charge Dec. 22 at Seventh Ave nue and Jefferson Street. Guilty pleas were entered by Edwin Daintith Rathbone, 50, of 988 W. 11th Ave., arrested last week at 18th Avenue and Garfield Street; and James Wil liam Dick, 37, of 1533 Hilyard St., arrested Jan. 7 at 15th Ave nue and Orchard Street. Rath- bone was fined $200, while Dick was fined $200 and sentenced to five days in jail. Forfeiting $200 bail each were Charles D. Scofield; 40, of Port land, arrested Dec. 3, and Larry Allen Berg, 18, of 2532 Sorrel Way, who was arrested Dec. 9 at 20th Avenue and Patterson Street. George Dewitt Albright, 45, of Portland, was fined $200 af ter pleading guilty to a charge of reckless driving. The charge was reduced from driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor on the motion of the city attorney. Albright was first ar rested on the charge Oct. 7, 1961. Accident Reveals Berlin Minefield BERLIN Wl An East German border guard accidentally deto nated a land mine in the Com munist "death strip" outside the border of northwest Berlin Sat-' urday, Western police reported. The guard apparently was killed by the explosion. Communist police were seen carrying his body away. West Berlin police said the victim's blunder was the first evidence that the East Germans have mined their border with West Berlin as well as with West Germany. The explosion oc curred just outside Frohnau, a suburban district in the French sector of West Berlin which borders East Germany. New Look Planned' At Convict Appeals SALEM The 1963 legis lature will take a new look at the 1959 law which guarantees state prison inmates another day in court, Harold W. Adams, as sistant attorney general, reports. Adams said some counties are complaining that the law, called the post-conviction relief law, imposes heavy financial burdens on them. $100,000 a Year He estimated that the law costs $100,000 a year. The coun ties outside of Marion pay $60, 000 for this, while Marion Coun ty and the state each pay $20,-000. The law gives every convicted person the right to go back in court and claim that he was un lawfully convicted or received an excessive sentence. The warden of the prison is always the defendant, and Adams acts as his attorney. The county in which the con vict was sentenced pays his at torney fees, which average $300 per case. But they range from $150 to $1,500. The counties also have to pro vide transcripts of the trial pro ceedings where they are needed. Almost all of the post-convic tion relief cases are tried in Marion County Circuit Court. But the convict rarely wins one. Until November, 1961, there were 204 of these cases filed, and 123 of these had been com pleted. Only five per cent of them are appealed to the State Supreme Court. Survey Under Way In order for a convict to have his conviction overturned, his lawyer must prove he was de nied his constitutional rights Adams now is trying to find ss7 oak out how much each county is having to pay under the law. "We'll give this information to the next legislature," he said, "so that it can take a second look. "The advantages of this law are that it guarantees prisoners their constitutional rights, and provides reasonable attorney fees. Another good result is that it reduces the number of habeas corpus proceedings which Ore gon prisoners file in federal court. "The only disadvantage is that some counties feel it costs them too much." 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