Page tA-k EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Friday, Dec. 21, 1962
Willamalane Official
Urges Repeal of Laws
Statutes which allow a city to
take over services and facilities
of a special district by council
action should be erased by the
next Legislature, Jack Lively,
attorney for the Willamalane
Park and Recreation District in
Springfield, said Thursday eve
ning. Lively and other officials of
the park district met with mem
bers of the Lane County legisla
tive delegation at a dinner meet
ing. Operation of a park district
does not conflict with city func
tions, Lively argued. "There is
no duplication of facilities," he
added, "and it is economical for
a district to operate separately."
Willamalane and six other
park districts are governed by
laws on "special . districts.
These laws give city councils
authority to take over any part
of a district at any time, follow
ing a public hearing, if the area
is within city limits.
Lively said a better procedure
would be to require a public
vote. .
Sen. Donald Husband, R Eu
gene, told Liveley that "your
fears - are more fanciful than
real," but the park district at-
Man Admits Stealing
Items for Evidence
Carl Roland Hagberg, accused
of stealing trial evidence from
a Lane County Circuit Court re
porter s car, pleaded guilty In
circuit court Friday to a charge
Lane Court
Sentences 3
For Felonies
Three persons were sen
fenced on felony charges in
Lane County Circuit Court Fri
day. Joel David Clarke, 19, of 2986
Eldridge St., Eugene, was sen
tenced to two years in the Ore
gon State Correctional Institu
tion for using a vehicle without
authority. He was accused of
taking a care owned by Vernon
Ray Golden on Oct. 10.
Clarke had pleaded guilty to
the charge.
Jerry Dennis Strickland, 23,
of 2110 E. Main St., Cottage
Grove, was placed on probation
for five years. He had pleaded
guilty to burglarizing the Bor
den Chemical Co. building in
Springfield on July 15.
Ellen Marrill, 18, of Granger,
Wash., was placed on probation
for two years on a bad check
charge. She had pleaded guilty
to issuing a forged $42 check
to McGcc's Texaco Service sta
tion in Cheshire on Aug. 17
All three sentences were inv
posed by Judge William Fort.
Supreme Court
Upholds Sentence
The Oregon Supreme Court
this week upheld the sentence
of a Springfield man who was
given a life term in the state
penitentiary for assault with in
tent to rape.
The convicted man, Virgil
Nelson, 34, was sentenced in
Lane County Circuit Court last
January. The sentence was im
posed by Judge Lylc R. Wolff
of Baker who was serving here
temporarily at the time. Nelson
appealed the sentence.
Nelson was found guilty by a
Jury of assault with intent to
rape his 11-ycar-old daughter.
The victim lives in eastern Ore
gon with a name different from
Nelson's.
of entering a motor vehicle with
intent to steal. ,
Hagberg, 33, of 3321 Franklin
Blvd., Eugene, refused the ser
vices of a court-appointed attor
ney before entering his plea,
The case was continued for sen
tencing later.
Arrested Dec. 11
Hagberg was arrested by
state police in Florence on Dec.
11. He is accused of breaking
into a car owned by court re
porter Jeannette Van Horn on
Nov. 30.
Missing from the car in the
theft were four pistols and other
evidence Mrs. Van Horn had
been using in' preparing tran
scripts of a trial appealed to the
State Supreme Court.
Also in circuit court Friday
Loren Eugene Sicks, 22, of 2110
W. 23rd Ave., Eugene, entered
demurrers to two indictments.
One of these contains two
counts charging him with sexual
perversity and with contributing
to the delinquency of a minor,
both involving the alleged com
mission of improper sexual acts
with a 13-year-old boy on Sept.
8, 1961.
Second Indictment
The second indictment charg
es Sicks with contributing to
the delinquency of the same
boy, alleging acts committed on
Sept. 27, 1961.
Richard B. Ausmus, 20, of
1112 E St., Springfield, pleaded
innocent to charges of larceny
in a dwelling and knowingly lit
tcring and publishing a forged
bank check.
He is accused of stealing
checks and a check protector
from Walts Concrete Co. in
Springfield last month and of
issuing a forged $109 check to
McKay's market on Coburg
Road.
torney said that the existence of
the statutes might "make it dif
ficult to sell bonds" for financ-
ine imDrovements.
Another "fear" expressed by
Lively was that the coming Leg
islature might adopt a statute
calling for uniform election
dates of all districts and munici
palities. Such legislation was
introduced in the 1961 session
but was not approved.
"It is physically impossible,"
Lively said, "to hold all elec
tions at the same time when
boundaries are different, when
precinct lines are different .
There might have to be four or
five polling places and then
people could not inform them
selves on all the issues from
the several districts."
Richard Kennedy, state repre
sentative-elect, said that he
dosn't believe such a bill will be
introduced. But he is sure there
will be one which would require
more policing of poll books
and voter eligibility, he said,
Husband said he doubted that
such requirements are necssary,
but Kennedy said "we take
great care in elections for presi
dent and governor but not with
these special district elections
. . . There is a danger of impro
priety in such voting."
Kennedy said that as the ex
ecutive secretary of the Legis
lative Interim Committee on Lo
cal Government he found cases
where a county directory was
used to see if a voter was in the
district. In other cases, he
claimed, a person was allowed
to vote if he just signed his
name.
Husband, who serves as attor
ney for many special districts,
said that there is protection at
present against improper vot
ing. "If the vote is close, we
check, if it isn't close, it doesn't
make any difference."
Mrs. J. A. Person
Dies at Age of 58
Funeral services arc pending
for Mrs. J. Alfred (Jenneth)
Person, 58, of 662 E. 14th Ave.,
Eugene, who died Thursday aft
er a short illness.
Mrs. Person was a third grade
teacher at Clear Lake Elemen
tary School in the Bethel dis
trict. From 1949 to 1960 she had
taught the first, second and
third grades at Alvadorc.
Poole-Larscn Chapel in Eu
gene is handling funeral arrangements.
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Drive Lagging
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Salvation Army Christmas
Cheer officials are optimistic
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noon, even though donations are
lagging behind last year.
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under the goal of $16,000. Last
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Requests for aid, he said,
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