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
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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.
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by
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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."
Not Surprised
DETROIT W "I'm not
surprised," said Millard Hurl
burt, 43. "I've given up hope
of having a son."
No wonder.
His wife, Rosalie, 39, gave
birth to their 10th daughter
Thursday.
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