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(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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
Looking at tho hole, Jacobs
said that last January he
would never have predicted
when he was to witness com
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pletion of the excavation.
During December and Janu
ary, work was periodically
shut down because of tremen
dous underground water
flows that swamped out the
tunnel with up to 25,000 gal
lons a minute. But the water
has been pumped out through
big pipes.
"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."
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