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PAGE 1V0 HERALD AND NEWS, Klamalh Falls. Ore. Monday, Feb. 29, 1960 District Blames Planning, Deficits; Cites Money Saved On Sale Of Bonds Edltor' Note This Is tho fifth in a series of six articles on the South Suburban Sanitary District. By TOM STIMMFX Faced with a $200,000 deficit even before construction began, the South Suburban Sanitary Dis trict cut corners as sharply as il dared. Its economics were signifi cant, It changed plans, rescheduled work, and developed new tech niques to save money. It delayed paying almost half a million dol lars by deleting that much work from its contractors. But unplanned and unanticipated expenses transcended savings the district had achieved. A result was a proposed tax levy to meet im minent bond and interest pay ments and to fix streets. A unique cost saver was a pipe laying machine developed by ml' I : o . . 1 . ,yy UNPLANNED and unanticipated expensoiOontributod to South Suburban sewer construction costs, example was water erosion of oxidation pond dllcet (top photo) con trolled,' at an extra cost of $5,000, bf a rock rip-rap surface (lower photo I. Decision By Supreme Court Gives Womgn Right To Sue LANSING, Mich. VP - Mar ried women of Michigan now en joy a new right before the ba of justice under a pioneering 4-3 Doors Omii 6:41 P.M. NOW PLAYING! vice-vioLiftr tun if TODAY'S HEI IUHSIE OF CHINE ! STEVE COCHRAN MAMIE VAN DOREN Uperator In ClnsmaScops IWureAti 7:00 t4 10:30 twis At 1:40 Only "The Man Bp Wit maa wmWRLS ,rT.slWss- fn Wi She 4 - rVfc V ' LESUE A HENRY UNDERSTOOD IVOM EN" eoio b, ot iux Cinim.ScodE' srtOPHONio ounb Maurice Gunderson, district proj ect manager, and pieced together by Gunderson and Fred Lewis, president of the board of directors. It is the only known machine ca pablc of simultaneously grilling under streets and laying asbestos cement pipe without cutting into street surfaces. It saved time, tempers, and money an estimat ed W0. 000 -so far. Construction was scheduled on a basis of minimum cost instead oj convenience. That was one reason crews seemed to be working in one place one day and somewhere else Qk next. "We had to go by something," Gunderson said, "and cost of construction was tllQanglc we used. It wasn't convenient, but it saved money." The type of excavation employed mncl ,f il Pla C K3vnH mnn. cy although it contributed muclWii mud and dust, and left, great decision of the State Supremo Court. It is the right to sue for loss of consortium that is, marital cijQforl, affection and companion- Miip. me uuuuinc icporieuiy ex ists ifew other states. Justice Talbot Smith, who wrote the majority opinion, said the de cision marks a stride away from the outworn legal view derived trom Old lCnglish and Roman law that a wile is only a "vassal, chattel, and household drudge The court ruled Thursday in the case of Shirley Montgomery oi Garden City, who sued William S .itepnan. Mcpnan drove a car which collided in 1958 with one driven by her husband, lioberl injuring him severely. Mrs. Montgomery said she was deprived of her husband's "aid assistance, enjoyment, sexual re latlons, love, conjugal affection. companionship, felicity, advice counsel, comfort, cooperation and mutual service. f She asked $35,000 damages. Judge Carl M. Weideman dis missed the case in Wayne County ana me nign court re versed Weideman. In the accident, Smith said, the husband suffered a brain concus sion, lost voluntary kidney func tioning, and sustained four frac tures of the pelvis and other severe injuries. , QUAKE SHAKES TOWN ORLIiANSVILLE Algeria lUPP Orl(sville. scene of a 1954 1.500 lives, was shake nhlshyilg a 1.300 lives, was shaken by a slight temblor Sunday night. There was no damage or casualties. Door Open 6:45 P.M. NOW doe the most surprising things! Who heaps of dirt along most suburban streets. Pipe used most of it as bcslos cement was considered wholly practical, but less cxpen sivc than other types. The office, unpretentious by any standard, was equipped with used typewriter, used adding ma chine, used desks, and some fur niture obtained for nothing. Ve hicles and construction equipment were second hand. A tank truck needed to water down dusty streets was assembled for $3,000 .iiosi oi xne aistswi s 18-nun crew works on Saturdays, and lor overtime payment receives n o I cash but promissory notes due in five years. The office is open on Saturday and inspections may be arranged on Sundays for convenience of propQiy owners. Consumers could o themselves and the district a favor by paying $14,000 due in de linquent connection fees and ren tal charges. The district caiQi legally wrile off unpaid charges. drawing interest at cigQper cent. The law snvs f-hiirrmt mnct ho paid. , lllames Engineers Despite an op'ftiistic prediction by Cornell, Howiand, Hayes and Morryticld that its cngiQring es timate should absorb a fu per cent increase in bids.jniderson says bluntly that the Vaulting engi neers goofed. "They didn't includeicidental costs they should have," he said As examples, they forgot 0ffiO rental and supplies, omitted the two office employes salaries, and underestimated legal costs by sa,oon On We job, too, engineering or rorsQrerc costly. An estimated 100 yards of blasting at $25 a yard actually became 1.104 yards. The job cost $27,610 instead of $2,500. Wind and water erosion began eating away dikes around the oxi dutfji ponds. The district covered (uses wun rocfQp-rap an unanti iipaled $5,000 expense. When these omissions and extra costs began to compound, the dis trict exercised its option to delete work from the contract. From a $1,018,412 contract ithc value of performance bonds), it deleted $226, DUO from sewer line construc tion. $17,703 'rom the oxidation ponds, and (Uo from pumphouse construction. Total deletions: $249.- 249. O A A. few of these deletions repre sent money saved, but most pIctiQuch ot the wQV "We hava a. lot of work, to do,' Lewis said, -.-. - - Long before construction began, the district effected substantial savings in two areas. One was (he disposal facility; the other was the bond sale. Kor treatment facilities, the dis trict chose oxidaiinn ponds that S3ate without "anpower and render waste biologically pure. Di rectors say the unit, largest on the West Coast, emits no odors The puBiphousc and oxidation pond Ml along Kwaun. were lescriucd byfin engineer for the Oregon Slate Sanitary' Au thority as the most satisfactory sewerage (iiosal unit now opcr aling in tlMstate. Kngineers estimated a conven lional plant would cost $510,000: the pumphouse and ponds cost i by contract price) $200,401. Over the 25-ycar bonded indebtedness period, the facility is expected to save property owners a million dollars. Bond Interest Th& first estimate the district referred on bond interest: approxi mated five per cent. This was dis missed immediately as too high, and Gunderson was put to work seeking a belter raQ lie and ll'.,.nM v..il. ,r;.. - ,,iiv,i nuiui, unite nidiicici, pre pared their own prospectus, rather than hiring an outside firm to do the job, and made a pilch for ICaslcrn buyers. i ne prospectus attracted more than 40 bond purchasing firm: The fijxt opening produced a low avcragVbid of 3.9085 per cent in terest. The district rejected this offer and re-advertised. The sec ond opening produced a low bid of 3.7095 per cent from John Nuveen and Company of Chicago. The dis trict had saved $77,000. It was almost unheard of in financial circles to turn a bid down." Lewis said. "Bond and in surant' people trom all over the United States came here take a look at us to see what kind ol people we were, and how we got that low rate." A Portland finan cier told Gunderson it was the slickest bit ot bond selling he's ever seen, and he was willing to bet it couldn't happen again. Simple interest over a 23-year- I period is expensive. The average 3. 70.)5 rate accepted will cost $1, 032.374 interest on a Sl.800.000 principal. Any higher interest would have cost that muchmore. and would have required monthly charges higher than $3.25, Lewis said. "Every properly owner out here owes Gunderson a real debt ol gratitude for getting the interest where it is." Lewis added. "This is the only issue (bond buyers' were scrambling for." Next: The District and the Court ,"DEifNIS THE MENACE" j 1 DON'T WWTa RED COWBOY SHIRT ! VA CANT SEE THE BLOOD'.' ft Con's LaeyeP HONOLULU (UPD- C. Ed mund G. Brown of California could "walk into the While; House if he commuted Caryl Chessman's death sentences ac cording to Chessman's attorney George T. 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I think a mem ber of the court is wavQig and will give him the fourth vote needed for a majority." Davis said Brown would have a "choice of actio n" if that happened. O "He has the choice of either flopping around and getting no place ... or of walking Q the White House," the attorney said. Stata Ehsaa)Qd DOWSfKVlLLE (UPD The prosecution resumes its case today against Larry Lord .Mother well, 43-year-old construction fore man accused of murdering Mrs. Pearl Putney, 72, a Washington, D.C., widow, O The stale is expected to call two women to the stand, who as sertedly received jewelry from Motherwell belonging to Mrs. Putney. On Friday the jury was pre sented with the bleached skull and bones allegedly those of Mrs. Putney. Motherwell" is accused of slaying the widow after traveling across theyunlry with her from Wash- he left her body on an abandoned logging road in Sierra County after murdering her. State police reported a minor two-car accident at Modoc Point about 3:45 p.m. Sunday. Officers said a car driven by John Lehan, 55, 45000 Greensprings Drive, was making a left On from lasf. 97 to the old highway wQi it yjs struck by a car driv en by MScellus Adama, 65, 1139 N E. Imperial, Portland. With Lehan were three passen gers. Officers said no injuries were reporters. Both cars left the scene on therf own power. HIS LEGS FASCINATING EAST HAGBOURNE, England ili Qvinner of a "most fas cinating legs" contest in which 15 barefoot coniestants Sunday night paraded beWid a curtain Qaised knee-high was 29-year-old Colin Chappie, a married man. Lucy Granilo, 15, was runner-up. Paris Debuts Knee Hemline PARIS (AP) Paris fashion de-1 signers today lifted the wraps from their new spring creations, to permit publication of the first I960 (f)igh fashion photos. Q Buyers and manufacturers have had a month to exploit the new styles before copyists jet a chance to make what they can of pictures and sketches. a The public can now take its choice between Dior's somewhat shapeless "Silhouette of Tomor row," Nina liicci's whirling gypsy line, Heim's conical Eiffel tower, Ballinain's tubelike Corinthian column, Lain in-Castillo's "free and easy" fashions, or half a doz en others. The "free and easy" claim and a hemlength that just covers the knees, incidentally, are the two things that "11 the major fashion collections have in common. The wQtline ftanders from normal to low to high, jackets are long, or short, or medium, and Hie new colors make up a whole spectrum white, coral pinks, violets, blues, yellows, e green, beige, gQy, navy, and black and white combinations. Shallow scoops and bateau necklines are winners, and sleeveless dresses are as common as crocuses in spring. IQt silk prints, mostly W'ral. are out in front, with a modest following of polka dots and big pale plaids. Crepes, shantung; chiffon, mat satin, organdy, lace and smooth woolens fill in the fabrics picture. Nothing the designers brought out could be described as revolu tionary. Even Saint - Laurent . Silhouette of Tomorrow" didn keep the fashion crowd sitting on the edge of its chair for long What could be less original thaff the small-waistcd, flaring-skirted pleated-princess style which is the basis of Ricci's I960 gypsy? But by a sort of slight-of-scam, de signer Crahay's creations on a Oiliar theme manarggfl to look lresh as a daisy. w Tanganyifcin? Hear GraBaifl MOSHt, Tanganyika (UPD - Evangelist Billy Graham told 40.000 persons Sunday that 'jChrisI belongs to Africa just as Viuch he beliefs to any other con tinent." More than 10 times the popula tion of this Tanganyika town flocked to hear Graham on his religious crusade of Africa. The meetine was conducted hp. (ore the backO'P of snow-covered' Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tall est mountain. Graham is on a three-month religious crusade over the Afri can continent. At his rally,. Graham urged those who had never been Chris tians to remain after the meet ing. More than 6.000 persons stayed behind to hear Graham speak on the Christian faith. After the mcQng, Graham was introduced to 103-year-old Samson Chakuagaro who. in Iiiq youth, met the famou.PBritish explorer David Livingstone in Nyasaland. Samson is now apastor of the Lutheran Church the Moshi area. RICE A- RON. delicious with fish! o mm Beafnik Poet Takes Bride In Japanese Buddhist Rite KYOTO, Japan CUPD Beatnik poet Gary Snyder of San Francis- was married Sunday to Joann Kyger, 25, of Santa Barbara, Cn a Zen Buddhist ceremony. Snyder, 29, has been living in Japan forlhe past year studying the Zen Buddhist religion. He met his bride at a poetry recital in San Francisco's North Beach area in 1958. Kennedy Asks Defense Hj6e0 WASHINGTON (AP)-Sen. John F, Kennedy (D-Mass) called on Congress today to vote increased' missile, air-alert and ground force spending before President Eisen hower goes to the summit confer ence. A candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, Kennedy said in a prepared Senate speech this "investment in peace" would cost less than Eisenhower's esti mated $4,200,000,000 budget sur plus, Kennedy said he agrees with Ei senhoQ that, with its present mixture of forces, America s de fenses are superior to the Soviet Union's at the present time. But if the administration's de fense program is allowed to stand, Kennedy said the United States faces a missile gap "on which we are gambling with our survi val." Such a situation, he said, not onlv creates doubt amnnp: U.S. al- .Qesfkit leaves the enemy in doubt T "Snd such doubts are tempting him." "While those doubts persist, he will want to push, to probe and possibly to attack, Kennedy said. "He will not want to talk disarma ment. He will not 'want to talk peace at the summit. "I urge that this Congress, be fore the President departs for the summit, demonstrate conclusively that we are removing those doubts sgr-l that we are prepared to pay the full costs necessary to in sure thsfVeace." The American scientist Stein- melz discovered the laws of alter- Qtingurrent in 1892. a smartly designed spring' materfilty i wardrobe casual- to dressy . . . ensembles, versatile separates timiPand match, at wonderful LaPointe's prices! sC The couple exchanged their vows before a small group of friends and rows of Zen Buddhist monks who sat closely together? chanting the traditional sutras. Snyder recited a solemn pledge" of marriage and then the couple' exchanged a string of Buddhist beads to complete the ceremony. Snyder, who describes himself as a "vagabond" poet, said he n' a serious student of Zen. "But I am not qualified to discuss any.; thing about Zen," he said. H is studying under Ruth. Sosaki, an American woman wl is the widow of Shigetsu Sasaki," Sasaki is credited with spreading Zen in the United States. Snyder lives in a three-room' Japanese house on the outskirts of Kyoto. He draws his water from a well and cooks with a wood stove. He chops the wood himself. His bride is aO'i'mcr student at Santa Barbara College anVtha' daughter of retired U.S. Navy Capt. J. H. Kyger, of Santa BarUstra. SnTtfcr said he has no definite! plans about coming back to thg t!nitfH Stales, hut nlans to writ a novel if he docs. On The Record SISKIYOU ("Ol'NTV MARRIAGE LICENSE.. . Homer Dumt Alex-nder, 24. S-. Cloud, and Dorothy Marie Hamlltnn, McCIoud, licenie iuued Febri) 23. W Donald Lee Addinffton, 34. Central Point. Oregon, and Myrna Lee Reed. 22. Talent, Oregon, license iaaued Fbr,, ruary DIVORCES Helen Rirhter from Joe A. Rlchter j granted February 19. Final decree or divorce: Arue l. Price from Evelyn G. Price, granted February 23. 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