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It's Present Peeking Time
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Wanna Help?
There's something about
gayly wrapped Christmas
presents under a tree that
attracts little girls (and
others, too) about this
time of year. The ap
proach to the problem is
usually the same. First
they stare at the gifts.
Next they edge closer and
finger the wrapping, hop
ing for a tiny clue. This,
of course, doesn't help, so
then comes the shaking
and weighing of the par
cel. And if that doesn't
work, attempts are made
to peek through the cor
ners of the wrapping.
(For other desperate gift
shakers there are still
such measures as trying
to steam open the pack
age or buying similar .
wrapping paper to re
wrap the package once it
has been opened.) Eight-year-old
Re Ann Young,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Leo F. Y o u n g, 2265
Bailey Hill Rd Eugene,
enlisted the aid of her
small kitten to figure out
what's in the little package.
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SANTA'S HEIFER SAYS
SHOPPING DAYS
TO CHRISTMAS
MOST STORES OPEN
TONIGHT UNTIL 9 P.M.
Junior High
" Carolers
To Join Tour
Usually, caroling groups
have more enthusiasm than
harmony.
But one group of 18 youths
from Boosevelt and Wilson
Junior High Schools in Eu
gene should overcome the
harmony problem they've
been practicing since October.
The majority of the group
belong to the Roosevelt Jun
ior High choir.
This weekend, they'll join
numerous groups from
churches, fraternal and social
organizations and informal
neighborhood choirs in tour
ing the Emerald Empire to
sing traditional songs of the
Christmas season.
Leader of the junior high
group is John Knudsen of
Roosevelt. The first official
appearance will be Saturday
morning at a pancake break
fast at Central Lane YM
YWCA in Eugene,
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Vital
Statistics
BIRTHS
VALLEY LANE HOSPITAL
(Eugene!
(Dec. 20. 19631
FOSTER Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Foster, 11S Hanson Lane, Eugene, a
daughter.
SACRED 1IKART HOSPITAL
(Eugene)
(Dec. id. 1962)
LEWIS Mr. and Mrs. Elvln Lewis.
1727 Lawrence St., Eugene, a daugh
ter.
MAY Mr. and Mrs. Norman Mav.
Horton, a son.
MONROE Mr. and Mrs. Michael
Monroe, 115 firlckley Rd., Eugene,
a son.
(Dec. 21, 1962)
MUELLER Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Mueller, 4S31 Franklin Blvd.. Eu
gene, a son. .
BINES Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Rines, Blue Rtvcr, a daughter. .
Mckenzie-Willamette -u
HOSPITAL
(Springfield)
(Ufc. 20. 1962)
NIELSEN Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Nielsen. 1101 B St.. Sorlnsfleld. a
daughter. ,
urc.c.r Mr. and Mrs. Fred Greer,
Blue River, a son.
FANDRF.V Mr. and Mrs. Ronald
Fandrey, Rt. 2 Box 856, Creswell, a
son.
DEATHS
CASON Karl Cason. HI. of Bt
1, Eugene, died Dec. 19. Services
will be In Frederick. Okla. England
Funeral Home In charge of local
arrangements.
COOK Ralph (Jlml Jamea Cook.
29, of 111 Green vale Dr., Springfield,
aica ucc, zu. services win do Satur
day at 10:30 a.m. In Stmon-Louns-
bury Funeral Chapel with Interment
in nest-Haven memorial Park,
PERSON Jcnneth B. Person of
662 E. 14th Ave., Eugene, died
Dec. 20. Arrangements are ponding
ai roo.e-LJ.rsen i-uncrai i-iome.
MILLARD Linda Marie Millard,
zi, or jorrence, calif., aiea Dec.
20. Services will be Monday at 10
a.m. in Buell Chapel with inter
ment in l.ane Memorial Gardens.
REED William Louts Reed. 78,
of 748 Mill St., Springfield, died
Dec. 21. Services will be Monday at
l p.m. in Buell Chapel with inter
ment In West Lawn Memorial Park.
PATTON Frank Patton Sr.. of
Rt. 4, Eugene, died Dec. 21. Ar
rangements are pending at Simon
Lounsbury Mortuary.
Matching Funds
U.S. Ag
In Arsenic
The United States Geodetic Survey Will
join Lane County in its program of tracking
down the sources of arsenic found in wells
in an area extending from Eugene to Cottage,
Grove. .
To take advantage of the Geodetic Sur
vey's offer of helping the county's investiga
tion, county commissioners Thursday said . '
they will approve a $1,000 grant to the health
department from emergency funds. f
This will be used to match funds the
Geodetic Survey will spend. In addition, the
federal agency indicated it also will match
the $2,000 already spent by Lane County in -its
survey work.
Most of this money spent by the county
was secured in October through a $1,500
emergency fund payment approved by the
commissioners. ..,
The expanded study by the Geodetic Sur- .
vcy and the county will take the county's
investigation several steps further. Chief
Sanitarian John Stoner said that so far the
county has been chiefly concerned with lo
cating areas where high amounts of arsenio
are found. -.
Pledged
ehcy tq Join
Search
So far, Stoner- said.-his. department hat
discovered about :20 contaminated wells, pri
marily in an area" extending on both sides of
Highway 99 from" Bailey HiUJsouthwcst of
Eugene to Creswell. . j . -
Two of these wells, Stoner said, are very
contaminated. One has ten times the allow
able maximum of arsenic content, and the
other has 20 times the allowable maximum.
These wells are not now used.
With the Geodetic Survey's help, Stoner
said the studies of arsenic will investigate '
what form the arsenio is in how it is com- :
bined with other minerals.
.He hopes to find clues to how readily
this arsenic .bearing material dissolves in
water, and how poisonous it is. Further, the
study should show what level of subsurface
water the arsenic occurs and this could indi
cate. hw dceP wells should be, or how far
they should be lined, , 1 ,
. As previously- expected, Stoner said the
studies so far have shown that the arsenic
bearing wells are, in a geologic formation '
called the Fisher? Formation, , This extends,
from the Eugene area south' into. Douglas"
County. , V.
Eugene
LANE COUNTVC HOME StWSPAPEA
SECTION B EUGENE, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1962
Case Load Too High
Chdd Welfare Service Cut
The Lane County Public Wel
fare Commission lias - been
forced to close its door to new
child welfare cases until Jan.
20 because the caseload exceeds
mandatory 1 limits : set by the
state. .
This is the first time that
Lane County has boon re
quired to curtail its sor vices
under the policy adopted, Jan.
1962, by the State Public
Welfare Commission.
Because of financial prob
lems plaguing the commission
at that time, it was decided that
child welfare services would be
curtailed in any office where
there .were more than 76 cases
for each worker to handle.
Lane County exceeded this
maximum in November, when
there were 28 more .cases than
tho total of 646 that can be
handled in the office according
to the state formula.
I ij Ma'l !l HZ' u KUK tfoll I f
( CAN HELP ME, )
70 THE NORTH POLE, ) ' i'
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WHEN WD WRITE A 'LETTER
TO 6ANTA CLA.9S, UWEftE
DO VOU SEND IT?
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WELL1. 1 SORT Of TH0USHT
THAT By" THIS TiiHE HE MKT
'HAvE WED 70 A WARMER CUMATE
"We' now have the largest '
number of children receiving
foster care In our history," Pa-"-tricia
Ernstrom, . child welfare
superintendent said: ;-.
- (This heavy load in the child .:
welfare section of the Lane
County .Welfare, .office is in ,
sharp contrast to the reduced
load belng; experienced by he",
commission's general assistance
section which Thursday re
ported It is handling about 30
per cent fewer cases than last
year)
Max Dudley, welfare admlnis- ;
trator, said the only child wel
fare facility that will still take:
cases up to Jan. 20 is the
shelter providing temporary
lodging (or destitute children.
uinerwisc, ovcryimng win oe
shut down to new admissions.
The major services offered by
the child welfare section are :
adoption,- foster- care, super-'
vision 6i children outside their
normal home, and investigation
of complaints about neglected
children.
Meetings
Saturday
INDEPENDENT - Order of
Foresters adult Christmas party
at 8 p.m. at Knights of Pythias
Hall, 1230 Lawrence St., Eugene.
"GIVE THE GIFT THAT COMES IN PAIRS"
NO GUESSWORK
AT BURCH'S!
FLORSHEIM for his Christmas
' 'it
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FALCON TIE
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by hand 173 stitches to the pair. Just another
touch of FLORSHEIM shoes ' for seventy years!
Give him the quality gift . . , from Burch's of course!
OPEN TONIGHT 'TIL V P.M.
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