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" ,ftytff:.":.'tfc4ijf..jfe'j:B They're Through-Finally (Register-Guard photo by Phil Wolcott) Ward "Rusty" Schneider awaits the big blast Dist. 4 Board To Shorten Night Meets Members oC the Eugene School Board, concerned with night meetings that often last well beyond midnight, are look ing for a way out. So, rather than two long night meetings a month, the District 4 board has decided on four shorter sessions. Beginning this week, the board will meet two Fridays a month, preceding the Monday night official board meetings. The Friday meetings, to take place at noon, daylight, will be known as "committee of the whole" sessions. Board members will have lunch at the School Administra tion Bldg., 275 E. Seventh Ave., as they preview Monday night's agenda. No decisions will be made, naid Millard Pond, superintend ent of schools, but the board members will be presented with much o the information they normally receive Monday night. The noon meetings will be open to the public, Pond said. The Eugene City Council has followed the practice of commit-tee-of-the-whole meetings for some time, to clear the way for a faster pace during official night meetings. The council meets as a committee each Thursday at noon. The effort to avoid unduly long night meetings is spread ing. The Bethel School Board, which has met once a month for years, will change to twice- a-month sessions in August. The Bethel meetings often have utarted at 7:30 p.m. and ended at 1 or 1:30 in the morning. Ski Group Holds Meet A committee which has been working with the U.S. Forest Service in an attempt to find wavs of making improvements at Willamette Pass Ski Area, 70 miles southeast of Eugene on Highway 58, is hoping to have an appraisal made of facilities at the area. The committee decided at a meeting Wednesday night in Harris Hall to find three per sons familiar with the ski busi ness who can appraise the im provements of the area. Infor mation gained would be used in possible future negotiations for purchase of the facilities from George Korn, who nas operated the ski area under permit from the Forest Service. Much of the discussion Wed nesday night centered around possible purchase of the area from Korn by a community cor poration, which has yet to be formed. ii.l't'lt-l 1 NEP i! ( "MR HELP, I ' X ' V Meeting Notices Thursday None. Friday WEST CENTRAL District of the Oregon State Confer ence on Social Welfare, regular monthly meeting, noon standard, 1 p.m. daylight, at Osburn Hotel, Eugene. Ray Fisher, speaker, to discuss cultural and social differences of central Minnesota in comparision to those of Oregon in re lationship to type of pathology and treatment. Public invited. EUGENE GOLDEN Age and Pinochle Club, card party 12:30 p.m. standard, 1:30 p.m. daylight, at 1140 Madison St., Eugene. Anyone 50 years or older invited. McKENZIE RIVER Golden Age Club, regular meeting with program and dancing at 7:30 p.m. standard, 8:30 p.m. daylight, at Moffitt School, Fifth Street, Springfield. Bring cookies or cupcakes. Anyone 50 years or older welcome. EUGENE YORK Rite Masons, Hiram Council No. 7, Roy al and Select Masters, stated assembly at 7:30 p.m. standard, 8:30 p.m. daylight, at McKenzie River Temple, 850 E. 14th Ave., Eugene. Royal and Select Master's degrees will be conferred. ROYAL NEIGHBOR Lodge, Gitchcll Camp, meets at 8 o'clock standard, 9 o'clock daylight, at the hall. Memorial service. Pharmacists' Convention In 2nd Day The 73rd annua! convention of the Oregon State Pharma ceutical Assn. entered its sec ond day Thursday in Eugene rwith 150 persons registered. The convention delegates from throughout Oregon are meeting through Saturday at the Eugene Hotel. Registration is expected to reach 200 before the event ends. Delegates Thursday morning elected two members and re elected two others to three-year terms on the board of trustees. Richard Brandis of Bend, who automatically becomes president this year succeeding Wally Wat son of Portland, was re-elected to the board. Also re-elected was Al Witherspoon of Port land. Newly elected board members are Herman Forslund of tor- vallis and Russell Austin of Portland. Lane County's repre sentative of the board is Mel Peterson of Florence. The business sessions will open again Friday at 12:30 p.m standard, 1:30 daylight at the hotel. Various talks during the afternoon will be followed by an Awards Banquet at 6:30 p.m. standard, 7:30 p.m. daylight. The convention will end Sat urday with the annual Presi dents Dinner. Coin Machine Stolen A money changing machine containing approximately $40 was taken from the Holiday Laundromat, 1625 Harlow Rd. late Wednesday evening. According to state police the machine had been bolted to the floor of the laundomat. I UJANT YOJ TO 6TART KEEP LOOfClNS UR..THATS 5CANNINS THE 5KIES...IF Y3U THE U1AV...LET ME KNOU) THE SE: A LISHT eiU KITE, MINUTE YOU 5E ANVTKIN5... THAT'S MY BLANKET- "g J tl Roundup Tickets Ready Monday Emerald Empire Roundup tickets go on sale at the new Roundup h e a d q uarters at 1245 Willamette Street in Eu gene Monday noon. This year's roundup is scheduled for Aug. 3-5 at the Lane County Fairgrounds. Chuck Connors, former major league baseball player who is television's "Rifleman," will be the star attraction. Added to this year's pro gram will be a Saturday morning Roundup parade and a Saturday afternoon rodeo performance. Ticket prices range from $5 for box scats to 75 cents for children 12 and under. Ballad Singer's Recital Friday John Jacob Niles, leading American folk singer, will come to the University of Oregon for a matinee recital Friday. It will be a return engage ment for Niles. who gave a pro gram at the university a num ber of years ago. The singer of ballads is one artist who has done all of his own collecting and has written his own arrangements. Niles was recently awarded an honorary doctor of music de gree by the Cincinnati Conserv atory of Music, where he studied and where he started the organ ization and arrangement of the folk materials he collected. The Friday concert, in the ballroom of the Erb Memorial Union, will be at 3 p.m. stan dard. 4 p.m. daylight. Admission is SI. By SAM FREAR Of the Register-Guard It was almost anticlimactir, hut at 3:04 a.m. daylight Thursday the Carmen-Smith hydroelectric project's diver sion tunnel was one continu ous 11,200-foot-long hole'. Smiling crews met each other at almost the mid-way point far under a ridge sepa rating the McKenzie and Smith Rivers. "Hey' you're supposed to be working in the cast portal," one miner called to another. "This is the east portal." "No it ain't, it's the west," came the joking reply. The swing shift crew of the Emil Anderson Co. left the tunnel at the end of its "day" about 1 a.m. almost broken SECTION B Wife's Joy Over 'Card' a Bit Billboard Stunt 'Nice' Even If oon oi omy James C. Williams got his wife the biggest anniversary card in Eugene but to say she is pleased would be overstating things a bit. The card is a 24-by-12-foot billboard at 27th and Willam ette. Williams paid Obie Out door Advertising $30 for three days. His explanation: "She (wife Phyllis) gave me a Father's Day card four times as large as normal, so I thought I'd go her one belter . . , I wanted to wake her up to the fact that I remembered that it was our 20th anniversary . . . The idea just came to me one 'afternoon when I was riding down the street and watching the billboards." The Williams' who live at 320 Mary Lane, Eugene were married 20 years ago in Port land. They have two children Kathy (the sign painter dropped the "h"), 13, and Steve, 16. "They were in on it, too," Williams said. "They thought this was a fine idea." Mrs. Williams, however, was less enthusiastic. "Who needs advertising?" she said. But she added that she wasn't really mad at her spouse. "How can you get mad when someone says something nice, even when it is sort of silly? It's the sort of thing you learn to expect from some people." Williams confirmed the last statement. Said he, "My family declares I'm the biggest nut in town, so I like to prove it sometimes." Vital Statistics BIRTHS SACRED HEART HOSPITAL (June 20. 1962) KEECE Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Reece, 1605 Pearl St., Eugene, a daughter. STUCKY Mr. and Mn, Bill Stueky, Rt. 2 Box 804, Elmlra, a daughter. MOONEY Mr. and Mra Willie Mooney, 1877 Territorial Rd., Vo neta, a son. EDMONSON Mr. and Mm. Ron ald Edmondson, 144 . Hllliard Lane, Eugene, a son. SEYMOUR Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Seymour, Rt, 3 Box 96. Junction City, a daughter. andekson Mr. ana Mn. Wil liam Anderson. 1136 Qulnalt St., Springfield, a aon. (June zi, lsttZ) LUNDHOLM Mr. and Mra. A. TC. Lundholm Jr. 3170 Bell Ave., Eu gene, a son. PIERSALX Mr. and Mra. Guy Plersail, 1573 Jefferaon St.. Eugene, a daughter. WILLIAMS Mr. and Mra. Flnvd Williams, 11221 W. Seventh Ava., Eugene, a son. OLESON Mr. and Mra. Raymond Oleton. 1163 Malvina Wxy, Eugene, a daughter. DEATHS LEISTER Minta A. Leister, 42. nf 1594 Charnelton St., Eugene, died June 20. Service will be Monday at 9:30 a.m. standard, 10:30 a.m. daylight in Poole-Laraen Chapel with Interment In Rent-Haven Me morial Park. RLETTNKR Service for Theo dore A. Buettner, of Winston, for meriy of West fir, will ba Saturday at 2 p.m. standard, 3 p.m. daylight In Long-Shukel Memorial Chapel, Rosehurg. MOORE Clifford Moore, 54, of Toledo, died June 20. Services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. standard, 3 p.m. daylight In Toledo Funeral Home with Interment in Eureka I Cemetery, Newport. THIS 15 RISKY..S0MEONS IS BOUND TO COME AL0NS AND TiCKLE ME UNDei? THE CHIN ! hearted. In the words of their boss, "they just worked like hell" trying to finish the 58 feet of remaining tunnel in their shift. They missed by only 2 or 3 feet, even though they raced at a furious pace try ing to get in one last dyna mite shot that would end the 14 year underground siege. What were thought to be the final holes were drilled, loaded and synchronized with charges placed by workers on the other side of the remain ing rock plug, only 16 feet away as the swing shift's blast-off time neared. At the same time, the tun nel became jammed with about every supervisor in the field, who came to witness the "holing through," the most IANE COUNTY'S EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1962 r j IA f4 MR. AND The Idea Just FAMILY HOW WOMEN MEN A ; h momentous occasion in a tun nel worker's job. At 12:36 a.m. daylight, By ron Price, superintendent of the Eugene Water & Electric Board, pushed the switch sotting off the dynamite. EW EB is the owner of the $25 million complex project. Everyone rushed 1.000 feet forward to the plug. The smoke cleared and they still looked at a blank round wail of rock. Charges placed by crews in the east portal had proved defective, leaving the final 2 or 3 feet of rock. So, the swing shift left without accomplishing its hard-fought objective. And the graveyard shift came in with mucking machines to HOME NEWSPAPER 1 1 i v M MRS. JAMES C. WILLIAMS Came to Him, , so He Did the PLAJV: TO GET . . . 8.95 . 9.95 Irfft prepare for the final shot. At 3:04 a.m. everything was ready to try again, and with a deafening roar, the final charge exploded. Again every one rushed forward, but most were quickly chased back by lung piercing smoke and fumes. Gradually the scene became clear, and there, standing on top of a rock and dirt pile were members of the east portal crew. Gil Jacobs, superintendent of the Anderson Company's project, quickly took sight on plumb lines and declared that the two tunnels met each other perfectly. 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"Looking at it now people just never would believe how much water we had," Jacobs said. Ho noted that it will take his crews about three weeks to clean up tho two-mile tun nel, and then they will start to line it with concrete. This will take four to five months. Meanwhile, other phases of the big project are in full swing aiming toward a lata fall completion. Eassss Fire Runs (From noon daylight Wednesday to noon day- light Thursday.) Eugene ; 8:58 a.m. Thursday Grass fire behind 240 Riv- k er Rd. No damage. , 10:31 a.m. Fluorescent . light fixture shorted out h at 1375 W. 11th Ave. No ? damage.' ( Springfield 6:34 p. m. daylight ' Wednesday fire in saw dust pile at Springfield Lumber Mills on North 1 31st St., no damage. ; Group to Aid Korean Youth A non-profit charitable cor poration has been formed by sponsors of a program to aid Korean orphans. The articles of incorporation were signed by Mrs. George Surdam, of Pleasant Hill; Molly Holt, of Crcswell, and Mrs. Wil liam I. Recs, of Pleasant Hill. Mrs. Surdam and Miss Holt have organized sponsorship pro grams for orphans in Eugene s sister city of Chinju, Korea, and for orphans at Sungkah Orphan age near Pusan. The new non-profit corpora tion is entitled "Korean Orphan Fund, Inc." Its declared pur pose is to "aid Korean orphans and needy persons and to parti cipate in the propaganda of the gospel of Jesus Christ." XAwetrd fFbmer Brand Name Retailor of The Year AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN TOO! BRAND names tuion V '-.riyOWM SrtA-nuK AD BOYS . . . 7.95
