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Showers Friday Weather Report, Page 13A City Edition LAN E COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. 96th Year, No. 149 FOUR SECTIONS 52 PAGES Eugene, Oregon, Thursday, March 21, 1963 Second Claw Poataco raid at Eugene. Oregon Price, 5 Cents Higher Education Groups House Studies Merger of 2 State Boards By DAN SELLARD . Of the RefUterGumrd ' . . SALEM (Special) The touchy questions of moving the office ef the chancellor of the state system of higher education from Eugene to Salem and consolidating the boards of education and higher education were probed Wednesday by a House committee. '. ;, Both subjects are encompassed in legislative bills and both, have the blessing of Gov. Mark Hatfield. Both are 'opposed by the State Board of Higher Education. Conducting the hearing was the House Education Committee. Rep. Phil Lang, D-Portland, is sponsor of the bill to move the chancellor's headquarters to Salem; Rep. Stafford Hansell, R Hermiston, is a sponsor of the bill to combine the two educa tional boards. " Lang told the committee that "it's prettyobvious that higher education's headquarters being on one of the campuses means they have received favorable treatment at the expense of other 'institutions." (Lang never mentioned the University of Oregon by name.) utner reasons ne cuea in xavor 01 vne muve wcie mai mauj ef the people they (higher education) work with are in Salem and this will be more true when we have annual legislative sessions; Salem is more centrally located than Eugene; and it's better to have them work hand in glove with other agencies." NO DOCUMENTATION OFFERED It makes as much sense, he continued, to have the chancellor move to Salem as it did for the governor to force welfare head quarters to move to Salem from Portland. ' observation that there has been favoritism toward the University of Oregon because of the location of tho higher education neaa quarters, Lang could offer no documentation. But he said, "I think Portland State College hasn't received the consideration it was entitled to in the past." . , . Opposing the move was Charles R. Holloway, vice chairman of the State Board of Higher Education, who also opposed the consolidation of the two boards. Holloway pointed out that offices of the system are now located on two different campusesi-University of Oregon and Oregon State "University and that another section is in Portland. The more momentous question faced by the committee Wednesday was the proposal to consolidate the boards of edu cation and higher education. . t , Hansell said that "while my voting record shows I am not a strong .supporter of reorganization, on this question and Others my position is changing. I am switching to a .position of giving the executive more powers." 'AN ENTIRELY NEW CONCEPT Hansell said that a unified board of education would not eliminate either board "but would be an entirely new concept." He said the consolidation would mean some savings of money and would help to eliminate present duplication and conflict ..... . . 1 !: . .....1 ..notif inal inn Arltmatinnnl in sucn ueius us icatuci uis v.......-..., television, community college, and research. . i "We should start all over anew in the field of education, j Hansell continued. "Neither department is now strong enough 5 to do some cleaning out that is necessary." 1 Travis Cross, assistant to the governor, also defended the i ,i nnintoH nut that its recommendation was in Hatfield's inaugural address in January. "A single board ot education, enlarged to perhaps 15 mem bers with a single executive, would give more integrated cdu ' cational leadership and provide the governor and the Legisla ; tur with a better basis for budgetary decision, and with solutions to the education dilemma which confronts us." The "prestige" of being a member of the Board of Educa tion is "not that which the Board of higher Education enjoys . . . and this is unfortunate for education in general," he said. . Holloway said the Board of Higher Education has never taken action on the proposal but that his informal talks with members convinced him that the board is against any such consolidation move. The responsibilities of the two boards are very different, ne told the committee, ana mere is nui mum uvcuapimiK of interest." The Board of Education, in its role, is "essentially a policy making body without direct responsibility for administration of institutions," he said. "But the State Board of Higher Education is essentially a governing board responsible not only for policy making but for the direct administration of the institutions unaer us con trol." Holloway cited a study by the United States Office of Edu cation to show that "experience of other states seems to indicate that where there has been coordination ... it has not worked out very well. This suggests there may be sound educational reasons against such coordination. , . "Anv neh rfrnstin renrounization of the state's educational facilities should come only as the result of an impartial' state- u -r -it u;nk .nknnl AiinoHnnal nnnnrtlinitif. . . A decision as far-reaching as this should not be made hastily or without a full examination of all pertinent material," he concluded. Sen. Ed Fadcley, D-Eugcne, also spoke against the consolida tion measure, saying "it would save money but would result in deterioration of education." Appearance of Witness Recalls Controversy of '34 SALEM (Special) A gray, bent man took his place at the witness table of the House Education Committee Wednesday and brought back memories of a battle which rocked the state. Hector McPherson is now 88 years old and has been retired An form fnr monv Vlars. tie is me aicrnerson wno, aa a emie itKicouiwH-v, w.i- rated with Henry Zorn, president of the Marion county ia - navpr.' An in create the famed Zorn-McPherson bill in 1934. The bill, had it been enacted, would have emasculated the University of Oregon, transferring nearly all its academic func tions to Oregon State College and leaving only a teacher's college at Eugene. This legislation created a headline war that lasted many .months and is credited by many as having inspired the present Ktitn Kvtm nf Hicher Education. The system, with its chancel lor's office and board, replaced the many boards of regents at the several state colleges. Wednesday.' McPherson. who was an OSC faculty member nniil I mian-A because of differences between the schools hen thev all had separate boards," talked about the 1963 bill n rnmniiriMr i ln boards of education and higher education. in iirm voire, he said he liked the concept of "this consoli elation" but dian t like the idea of a governor having so much power over education, "This bill will not solve many problems. . . . You ought to take a survey and come back with a bill worthy of your con State Tourneys 10-Minute Committee Session Sunday Closing Bill Dead A'l Tournament WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS Championship First Round Pendleton 61, Molalla 46 Astoria 38, Tillamook 53 Grants Pass 76, South Salem 47 Sandy 72, Hermlston 56 MUwaukie 47, South Eugene 41 Tlgard 61, Franklin 51 THURSDAY'S RESULTS Consolation Quarterfinals Marshall 69, Lebanon 55 Molalla 39. Tillamook 31 South Salem 83 Hermlston 61 THURSDAY'S SCHEDULE Consolation Quarterfinals South Eugene-Franklin, 1:45 p.m. Championship Quarterfinals Medford-North Eugene, 3 p.m. Pendleton-Astorla, 4:15 p.m. Grants Pass-Sandy, 7:30 p.m. Milwaukie-Tlgard, 8:45 p.m. FRIDAY'S SCHEDULE Consolation Semifinals Marshall vs. Molalla, 8:30 a.m. South Salem vs. South Eugene Franklin winner. 11:45 a.m. Fourth Place Semifinals Medford-North Eugene loser vs. Pendleton-Astorla loser, 2 p.m. Grants Pass-Sandy loser vs. Mil waukle-Tlgard loser 3:15 p.m. A-2 Tournament WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS Championship Finals Central 64. Coquille 62 (ot) Third Place Finals Vale 68. Heneley 59 Consolation Finals North Catholic 69, Elmlra 53 Tournament Attendance Rides High There was good news in the attendance, but bad news in the score if you came from Eu-eene. The State A-l High scnooi Basketball Tournament seemed headed toward a record attend ance as it moved into the third day Thursday. But the news probably fell on unhearing ears in the southern part of the host city. Eugene. South Eugene High bchool was knocked out ot tne tour ney's championship bracket Wednesday night by MUwaukie, 47-41. That left North Eugene the lone local entry still vying for the championship. Whether North would contin ue In that bracket was to ne decided in a Thursday afternoon game against Medford. South, meanwhile, was playing f ranis lin earlier Thursday afternoon in a consolation round game. Having the two Eugene teams in back-to-back afternoon games could help along the soaring at tendance. The figure for this year's tournament stood at 36, 670 through Thursday morning. The comparable figure for last year the tournament record year is 31,068. Both Tuesday and Wednesday night sessions this year set rec ords. Wednesday night's crowd of 9,618 beat the old record for that night by more than 400. Eugene police, meanwhile, re ported some minor problems such as a student from South Eugene and one from Milwaukie squaring off in the McArthur Court hallway after their teams met, but police stopped the bout before the end of Round 1. SALEM Ofl The Sunday clos ing bill, one of the most con troversial pieces of legislation of this session, will die in the House Planning and Develop ment Committee. The committee decided this Wednesday when it voted 5-1 to postpone consideration of the bill indefinitely. Rep. Kenneth Maher, R-Port-land, voted against the post ponement. In contrast to the two over flow hearings on the bill, the hearing room was sparsely popu lated Wednesday and the com mittee took less than 10 minutes to kill the bill. It turned down 3-1 a motion by Rep. Bob Chappel, R-Port-land, to refer the bill to a vote of the people. Witnesses earlier either praised it as necessary to preserve fam ily life and maintain at least one day of rest in the week; or attacked it as a violation of the separation of church and state and an economic blow to resort areas of the state. It was backed by a commit tee called the "Save a Day for the Family Committee," headed by Herbert Smith, president of Willamette University. Many larg- retail merchants also were behind the bill. It drew opposition from Seventh-day Adventists, who wor ship on Saturday, from coastal area businessmen, and from civ il rights advocates. Smith testified that Sunday was chosen not because it is a Sabbath for Christians, but be cause it is the generally accept ed day of rest. Seventh-day Adventists testi fied, however, that it would penalize them because many close their business on Satur day and open them on Sunday. In Thursday action, the Senate voted 24-5 to create a 13 mem ber interim committee to make a two-year study of the effects of automation in causing un employment. The measure, which goes to thi House, also would study possibilities of retaining per sons who lose their jobs to machines. The measure's sponsor. Sen. Ted Hallock, D-Portland,- told tho Senate that "in 20 years, the only employes in factories will be supervisory and mainte nance employes. This is the strongest and most positive thing that this body might do this session." But Sen. Walter Lcth, R Salem, condemned all interim committees as a waste of time, and said the automatic problem is a national one. He said he doubted that a legislative com mittee is qualified to deal with the problem. Members of the committee would be three public members named by tho governor, four senators and three representa tives. "If we pass this," Hallock said, "Oregon will be leading tho nation in research as to why people are losing their jobs to machines." Ho said that in Oregon's lum ber industry, employment has dropped 25 per cent in 12 years, while production has increased. - M , . 'A On Island of Bali Volcano Soars to Toll 400 jr Tiny Cheers : ' (Roglater-Guard photo by Phil Wolcott) Debbie Eklund's cheers went in vain. South Eugene lost out to Mil waukie, 47-41, in its opening round ganle of the State High School Basketball Tournament Wednesday night. Debbie, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Eklund, 275 E. 39th Ave., is South's youngest rally girl. She's 3 years old. For more about Debbie, see Page ID. Boxcar Shortage Pinches Producers By BOB NEWCOMB of the ReisterGuartf Titan Soars 6,700 Miles CAPE CANAVERAL (UPD A mighty Titan-2 rocket carrying the largest nose cone ever built for a . U.S. military missile Thursday soared more than 6,700 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. The 103-foot Titan-2, Amer icas most powerful interconti nental ballistic missile, blasted from its launching pad at 10:23 a.m. Within about 30 minutes, the giant nose cone twice as heavy as any other in the country'! growing arsenal of ballistic weapons dived back through Earth s atmosphere into a target area off the west coast of South Africa. The success was the eighth in 12 firings for the Titan-2, slated to become the workhorse of America's future manned flights into space around Earth. The two-stage rocket will loft two-man teams of Gemini astro nauts into Earth orbits starting next year. Bolstering Barriers BERLIN W East German border guards are addins con crete ili-ii to the steel barriers and barbed wire fences along 1.5 miles between the Western and Communist checkpoints at the West Berlin end of the auto bahn from West Germany. r 1 Lane County plywood produc ers Thursday still were feeling the pinch caused by a shortage of wide-door and double-door boxcars, but the problem ap parently has not become serious enough to curtail plywood production. Several major plywood pro ducers in the Eugene-Springfield area Thursday reported the problem to be continuing, but none indicated any plans to cut back on output. At Albany, a plywood mill of the Coquille Valley Lumber Co. is scheduled to be shut down Friday because of the freight car shortage, owners say. Moble Chowning. president and general manager, said the Albany plant has enough lunv ber oiled ud to fill 100 box cars, and that the mill will not re-open until cars become avail able. The mill employs 100 persons. Chowning said the firm's plants at Waldport and Five Rivers also are feeling the pinch. He said he has protested to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Oregon's senators and Gov. Mark Hatfield. The Douglas Fir Plywood Assn. (DFPA) meanwhile has sent a telegram to congressmen from all five DFPA states Oregon, Washington, California, Montana and Idaho urging that action be taken to hasten the return of boxcars to the West Coast. The telegram, signed by James R. Turnbull, DFPA ex ecutive vice president, asks for stricter enforcement of an ex isting ICC order requiring re turn of western-owned boxcars by other rairoads. Some Lane County firms re ported that orders are stack ing up waiting for "appropri ate" boxcars, but none reported any plans to curtail production as a result of the shortage. NSIDE TODAY Women's News, Foods Sec. C Editorials 12A Highclimber 2D Births IB Theaters 8B Comics 4B TV Previews 5B Stock Market 11D Classified 5-11D JFK Considering West Berlin Visit WASHINGTON OP President Kennedy was reported Thursday to be considering a visit to West Berlin on his trip to Europe next summer. Authoritative sources said the State Department has advised the White House that the Presi dent should go to the Com munist-encircled city after he visits Bonn, but no decision has been made. According to tentative plant, Kennedy will go to Europe June 1327. Last Convicts Leave 'Rock' ALCATRAZ ISLAND, Calif. on Alcatraz Federal Prison shipped out its last 27 convicts Thursday. Their 10:50 a.m. boat depar ture in handcuffs and leg-irons closed 29 years for "The Rock' as a federal prison for the na tions toughest criminals. The tide-washed island near San Francisco's famed Golden Gate is soon In be declared sur plus by the U.S. government The island has been used as fort and prison for 113 years; age and weather doomed it as too costly. Among the 1,576 prisoners it had housed were names which make up the nation's top rogue's gallery men such as Al "Scarface" Capone and George "Machine Gun" Kelly. I The last man in was the las man out. He was frank Weatherman, 29. who was com milled Dec. 14, 1962 from Anchorage, Alaska, for armed robbery, escape and attempt to smuggle guns Into a jail. Quake Jars Tokyo TOKYO OH A mild earth ouake shook Tokyo and part of norhern Japan Thursday. There was do report of damage, Soviets Assail Latin Confab MOSCOW OR Izvestia Thurs day called the declaration of American presidents in Costa Rica 1 "a ' malicious conspiracy" against Cuba. The government newspaper, in a front-page edi torial, ; cited Soviet warnings against an attack on Cuba. 'They remain in force," it added. The editorial, entitled "Con spiracy in San Jose," denounced President Kennedy's meeting with six Central American presidents. 'The declaration approved in San Jose directed its edge at the island of freedom," the newspaper said. "This is a ma licious conspiracy, devoted to tho aim of transforming Cen tral America into a spring board against the Cuban republic." Spring Sign JAKARTA, Indonesia W Bali island's rampaging Agung volcano killed at least 400 persons, a spokesman for the Indonesian civil defense organization said Thurs day' . .... . ... . The spokesman sam tnere was an increasing inreai o more violent eruptions from the 10,308-foot volcano in northeast Bali. President Sukarno had declared the tourlst-mecca island a disaster zone. -. it was not clear immediately wnetner UiB increasett death toll was due to new eruptions. Previously, officials had uut the death toll at 150 or more.- - 'TVia vnlrann eriintftd hrinflv Feb. 19. killinS 17 Tjer- sons, tnen lapsea into a iuh. Last Sunday it began spew ing out rock and lava. The civil , defense spokesman said some 250,000 persons are being evaculated from an area 20 miles around the volcano, which the Balinese consider the center of the universe. s Tons of lava and rock have spread death and destruction over a wide area. Thick clouds of volcanic ash virtually blacked out the sun over ports of Bali and darkened the sky over near by populous east Java, i The spokesman said lava flows have isolated several areas to the east and south of Agung. However, tho areas are acces sible from the sea and boats are being rushed from nearby is lands to aid victims and evacu ate threatened areas. Besakih, the largest and most sacred of Bali's temples, is on the slope of Agung, but so far it is reported undamaged. The temple is the focal point of a 100-year ceremony which was under way when Agung erupted. During the ceremony held once each century, bones of the dead are burned to cleanse the island and rid it of spirits. A large number of tourists are on Bali for the ceremony. However there have been no reports of any foreigners among the casualties. Most of the tour ists are staying at Denpasar, the capital of Bali, about 40 miles southwest of Agung. The island la just off the east coast of Java, Indonesia'! most populous island. Vesuvius The Worst Br ASSOCIATED PRESS The most famous volcanic eruption occurred in 79 A.D. when Mt. Vesuvius, dominat ing the Bay of Naples, spewed molten lava that buried Pom peii with a population of 20,000. Three-fifths of Pom peii now is excavated and the ruins are viewed by thousands yearly. Other eruptions: 1883 35,000 killed by tidal waves when Mt. Kraka tau erupted on an island in the Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java. 190230,000 killed when Mount Pelee erupted at St. Pierre, Martinique. 19113,000 killed when Taal volcano erupted in the Philippines. 1948 100-plus killed In eruption of Villarrlca volcano near Santiago, Chile, 19514.000 killed In eruption of ML Lamington in east New Guinea. 1951 475 killed when Mt. Hibok erupted In the Philippines. 1960 Thousands killed when seven volcanoes erupted in Chile. 1961 Volcanic eruption forced abandonment of Tris tan da Cunha, tiny British island in th South Atlantic. f nn ii i ii i m 1 1 i -r r v'' (Photo by Paul Peterien) Spring came officially to the Emerald Empire Thursday, and the nightcrawlcr in tne clutch of Greg Jones, 13, was an unwilling participant in the event. Greg and his dad, Evan E. Jones, 1778 Lake Dr., Eugene celebrated the first day of spring with a fishing expedition to the Oregon Coast. Greg collected the nightcrawlers from his lawn last night. lideration," he said. . '(
