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Vol. 15 No. 28 May 25 -

Lane County
waterways:
A boater's

paradise

by Frank Babcock

From the thundering, ·r aging waters
of mountain rivers, across flat, breezy
valley reservoirs, to the tidewaters and
bays of the Pacific coast, Lane County is
a boater's paradise.
For every mood of the water awaits an
opportunity for the boater--and some
(although not all) of those opportunities
are perfect for the LCC student on a tight
summer budget.
• One local canoe and kayak dealer
says, "We are lucky. Within minutes of
Eugene we have two rivers--the
McKenzie and the Willamette. In the
upper portions of those rivers and in
some of their tributaries there is some
excellent 'white water"' --the stuff that
turns kayakers on.
• A local power boat dealer says,
'' Within 30 minutes of Eugene is a wide
selection of outstanding boating reservoirs: Fern Ridge, Fall Creek, Cottage
Grove, Dexter, Dorena ... those are just
some of the more popular ... Fern Ridge
Reservoir is the most popular (U.S.
Army) Corps of Engineers reservoir in
the state! And that's including Bonneville Reservoir (Columbia River).''
• Coastal streams, such as the
Siuslaw, flow gently by the docks and
marinas of the deep-sea enthusiasts and
into the endless Pacific. And mountainous dunes divide the sea from a
abundance of coastal lakes.
For the variety of waters there is an
equal variety of boats--and endless
adventures.
Rapids , Riders and Dreamboats
For the kayak enthusiast, the upper
re"':ches of the major rivers provide the
challenges. The waters are cold, swift,
and often deceptively treacherous.
''Shooting the rapids'' is the highlight A sailor takes his boat out on Fern Ridge Reservoir. Lane County boasts numerous sailing spots . Photo by Christie Davis.
of a downriver excursion and require..:: .
strength, skill, concentration--and a
knowledge of river conditions.
There are portions of local rivers ideal
for the beginner, but kayaking in its
purest form, is not for daydreamers.
The hazards presented by an angry
river require th-at the kayaker be totally
equipped--thus, the initial minimum
outfit is going to cost upwards of $500,
including the boat. There are many used
kayaks available locaay in the $150
range, but helmets, wetsuits and life
preservers are as important as the boat
itself and are fairly expensive.
Local kayak outfitters advise the
beginner to seek the advice of
experienced kayakers before taking on

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Jogging trails

Saturday Market

Gold mining

Train rides

Horseback riding

River rafting

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Rust endorses hand clearing to replace herbicides
by John Dutton

Jerry Rust

Photo by Jeff Patterson

"Herbicide spraying to control brush on
reforested land should be replaced by hand
clearing," according to Lane County
Commissioner Jerry Rust.
Rust made this comment before eight
students at LCC last Friday, May 19.
Rust had just returned from a trip tc
Washington, D.C., where he met with
congressmen and Forest Service officials, to
demonstrate the problems of herbicide
spraying. Rust had taken with him to
Washington, D.C., a videotape produced by
LCC students. The tape contained interviews with Oakridge Mayor Ronel Paddock,
gubernatorial candidate Emily Ashworth,
and Rust. It promoted the advantages of
hand-clearing brush as opposed to helicopt•
er spraying of herbicides.
Rust confided a personal anecdote to his
listeners: "I have never announced this
publicly before, but I collapsed while
planting trees in an area that had been
sprayed. I was flat on my back for six
months." Rust said he believed he also
suffered severe headaches and weakness

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Traveling a mile of tunnels

by Steve Myers
Underneath the LCC campus is a
maze of tunnels which connects all the
college buildings. This subterranean
passage system is seldom seen
because only authorized personnel can
enter. According to Walt Van Orden,
LCC plant services director, a little

Glenn

tunnels run
over a mile of
underground as much as 25 feet
beneath the surface. These passages
are l0feet wide and eight feet high and
are constructed of eight to 10
inch-thick concrete. They are dimly lit.
Glenn Hale is one of the authorized
employees who travels in the tunnels.
In fact, his job requires him to spend
most of his working hours in the
tunnels underneath the school. He is
probably the loneliest man on campus.

because of exposure to herbicides. He said
that experience made him aware how
dangerous herbicides really are.
Rust told the LCC audience Friday. '• Most
congressmen were not available but every
last one had their staff there and they were
impressed.
"I wanted them to see a couple of things,"
Rust explained, "that there is a costeffective alternative to spraying and that it is
a hot political issue. I got a positive reaction
from a fot of them."
He also alleged that some politicians were
supported by the timber lobby and were, he
claimed, draggingtheirfeeton the herbicide
issue. ''Governor Straub, Senator Hatfield,
and Congressman Duncan are with the
timber industry on this issue. I have written
at least a half dozen letters to Straub but he
has a deaf ear to this problem."
He recommended that concerned persons
write to their elected officials and let
decision-makers know how they feel about
herbicides. He added. "This is an election
year and their jobs are on the line, they have
to listen."

According to Van Orden this is a
safety precaution to prevent flooding
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problems, like the time in 1969 when a
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section of tunnel underneath the
Health Services Department was
flooded with four feet of water due to a
•major leak.
Hale' sjob requires him to check only
According to Van Orden, the on Mondays and Fridays, but he
primary purpose of the passageways is doesn't stop there. He spot-checks the
to allow easy access to all the pipes and pipes every day of the week.
"Whenever I go anywhere in the
wiring which run along the walls of the.
... , '' he explained when I first
school
tunnels. That's where Hale comes into
during the tour " . . . I go
him
met
the scene.
tunnels so I can check on
the
through
a
spend
''Plumbers and electricians
pipes.''
the
lot of time down here," explained
"It takes a little longer this way, but I
Mark Shepherd , the LCC grounds
police the tunnel area for
also
manager , as he led me on a tour of the
unauthorized people who find their
way down here. \Ne don't have much
trouble like that anymore, but we used
to ."
Hale is 48 years old and the father of
three children . He stands six feet tall
and weighs about 200 pounds. He is a
soft-spoken man with graying hair and
glasses .
' ' I didn •t use to wear glasses until I
started working down in the tunnels ,' '
he related . "The lights aren 't
florescent so it 's hard to see when
you 're· working. It 's not very bright.
" Sometimes I come out of the
tunnels , especially in the summer,
when it's real bright and I can 't see
anything for five minutes ."
The tunnels house all the pipe and
wiring needed to make the school
operational: The domestic hot water
line, the heating water pipe , the
drinking water pipe, the electrical
conduit , the gas pipe, the telephone
conduit, and the intercom system . The
only thing that is not in the tunnels that
is needed by the school to operate is the
... sewer line . Those are even deeper
than the tunnels.
The underground network also
houses several other necessities. At
Hale
Photo by Jeff Pat«:rson
different points th_roughout the- maze
catacombs. "But Glenn spends more metal side doors open up to reveal
time down here than anyone else.'' rooms which house circuitry control
Hale has been spending time in the panels and gigantic ventilation fans.
tunnels since he was hired in October One portion of a side tunnel is blocked
of 1973. His job's main concern is off by a screen fence and is reserved for
maintaining the heating and ventila- use as a storage room for LCC
tion systems. This takes up most of his Archive's material--historical records
time Tuesday through Thursday of of the college.
every week, but on Mondays and
The most interesting aspect of the
Fridays he goes over every inch of tunnels is where they connect to three
pipe in the tunnels checking for
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Consumer Services
administr ator has
warnings and tips
for the public
by Sarah Jenkins

When Caroline Wilkins speaks, consumers aJl over Oregon listen. As the
administrator of the state's Commerce
Department Consumer Services Division,
Wilkins has-•as the saying goes-•clout.
Last Friday, 20 women crowded into
LCC's Women's Awareness Center (WAC)
to listen to Wilkins talk about the work her
office does and specific problems facing
consumers.
Wilkins' speech was co-sponsored by the
WAC and LCC' s Social Science Department.
Wilkins' office, which was established by
the Oregon Legislature in 1971, co-ordinates
all consumer services in the state. She
explained that in an effort to save consumers
money, her office "keeps tabs on all the
services available to Oregon consumers so
there is no duplication (of services)." This
includes working closely with the Attorney .
General's Consumer Protection Agency, the
Departments of Agriculture and Education,
the Public Utility Commissioner (PUC), and
others.
However, the most time•consuming of her
office's duties is handling complaints
directly. In January, Wilkins and her
four•woman staff received over 1, 700
telephone inquiries. A written form from the
consumer must then follow the phone call to
make the complaint "official."
While noting that her office has no
"enforcement arm," Wilkins stated that 84
per cent of the complaints filed with her
office are resolved to the consumer's
satisfaction.
Wilkins also had several suggestions for
consumers. '•The closer to home you handle
complaints, the better," she stressed. If a
problem arises with a local business she said
that the consumer should first contact
Eugene's Better Business Bureau (a part of
the Chamber of Commerce). " The local
office here is very good,'' she explained ,
·•and they sometimes have a better
understanding of the problem than we do in
Salem.''
Another warning Wilkins gave concerned
dealing with mail order companies . While

Caroline WIikins
. Photo by Christie Davis

there are many reputable ones, she
explained, •'There are the others who are
just trying to rip-you off.'' Warned Wilkins,
'' Be careful! As the old saying goes, there is
nosuchthingasafree lunch." Those "super
bargains.'' she added, ''are more than likely
frauds."
Wilkins also stressed the importance of a
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Terrorism threatens the individual-but backlash threatens constitutional liberty

political and constitutional
changes
(brought on by a need to keep order) will limit
constitutional freedoms in the future.
First, all terrorist groups currently in the
international limelight express the wish to
topple the oppressive political structure,
either in their own country, or world-wide.
They disguise themselves as Marxists
with half-baked Marxist rhetoric, but their
Commentary by Paul Yamold
political platforms are either laughable or
non-existent. Nor do most terrorists possess
As recently as last Monday, bombs ripped
the illusion that a majority of any social class
through three buildings in New York City as
will be brought behind their political cause,
the result of international urban terrorism;
though they attempt to identify with the
though no injuries were reported, a group
"struggle of the proleteriat."
.
identifying itself as Puerto Rican Freedom
The Red Brigade makes no bones about its
fighters (under the initials F.A.L.N.)
cynacism. Members have already expressed
defiantly took ''responsibility'' for all three
their intention to topple the Italian
bombings.
Parliament, and force the evolution of a new
The F.B.I. refers to it as a small group of
fascist state. After this is accomplished the
fanatics, which, because of its small
Red Brigade rationalizes that the Italian
organization, is difficult to infiltrate. _
people will then have no choice but to rebel.
But where international terror is concernIf this sounds as naive as banging your head
ed, there are no isolated incidents.
against a brick wall because it feels good
Palestinian, German, Dutch, Irish, and
when you stop, then it's time to look below
possibly Italian terrorists have all trained in
the surface of the rhetoric, and the backlash
Libya under the watchful eye of General
hysteria that has followed.
Kadafi, the military dictator of Libya, who is
Whose wishes are fulfilled by a
generous when it comes to arms and cash.
withdrawal of civil liberties and the
From this secure base of operations. much of
establishing of marshall law or even military
Europe has been throttled by kidnappings,
dictatorship? Though there may be more
sky-jackings, bombings, and asassinations.
than one answer, an example would
Most recently, Aldo Moro, a former Italian
illustrate my point very well. Immediate
Premier and influtential leader of the ruling
suspicion might lead us to consider CIA and
Christian Democratic Party of Italy, was
Russian sources.
assassinated after being held hostage by the
It is no secret that both the CIA and
Red Brigade for several electrifying weeks.
International Telephone and Telegraph
It is true that all this calculated carnage is
(IT&T) played at least a financial role (with
happening miles and miles from Eugene.
covert political pay-offs) in the overthrow of
Why should we think of it as anything more
the Allende Government in Chile, and in the
than a media sideshow, where the
subsequent takeover of the current military
desperadoes ought to be hung by their
junta.
thumbs till they turn blue? How could urban
And it is no accident that Carlos, the
terrorism disturb our relative tranquility,
infamous Venezuelan who is suspected of
here in the Emerald Empire?
coordinating guerilla raids from Paris to
The key to answering this question lies in
Ireland and across Arabia, was trained by
determining 1) what the terrorists plan to
the KGB in Moscow--before moving his base
accomplish by their actions, 2) how the
of terrorism and assassination to Europe.

Wilkins------continued from ·page 2
woman establishing ber own line of credit,
rather than be dependent on her husband's
. credit rating.
With therecentadventofthe Equal Credit
Opportunity Act, women can no longer
legally be discriminated against when
applying for credit. "More women should
take advantage of this," Wilkins stated,
"because it can be a major step forward."
Wilkins enthusiastically explained that
women asking for separate credit can apply
using any name they wish: "You can apply
as Mrs. Joe Smith or as Mary Smith or as
Mary Smith-Jones--it's entirely up to you.''
Wilkins added, "Women have always
been in the forefront of consumerism--first
as consumers and then as consumer
advocates. We are experiencing a resurgence in consumerism now. And women are
an important part of it.''

Oregon Women's

Conference offers
workshops

Laurie Shields, founder of the displaced
homemakers movement will open the fourth
annual Oregon Women's Conference at
Lewis and Clark College, June 23, 24, and
25. Shields is the national coordinator for the
Alliance for Displaced Homemakers, traveling to "light fires" for national and state
legislation for displaced homemakers.
Seventy workshops covering lifestyles,
education, law, mental health, careers, child
care, media, religion and political process
will be led by Oregon women and
organizations. A celebration with poetry and
music featuring the Ursa Minor Choir will
close the conference.
For further information, call the Oregon
Council for Women's Equality, 224-9782, or
write the Oregon Women's Conference,
P.O. Box 8568, Portland, Oregon, '97207.

The British also have a notorious
reputation for espionage. counter-espionage. covert activities. and for maintaining a
heavy-handed colonialist foreign policy
which dates back to two centuries ago. As an
example, some historians claim that it was
none other than the agents of certain British
bankers who short-circuited the French
Revolution in the 18th Century to maintain
Britain's economic balance of power on the
continent. If this is ancient history to us,
another scenario is in order. According to the
newspaper, New Solidarity, intelligence
officers of the British government may be
directly supporting the Baadar/Meinhof
gang in West Germany in order. again, to
strengthen Britain's position among her
"allies."

The following is my memo of resignation,
which I· wish to share with the campus
community.
I resign from my position as department
secretary for Study Skills, effective June 9,
1978.
I have enjoyed the staff and students very
much during the last two school years and
will miss everyone. The commitment and
caring of the teachers is really special and
beautiful.
Thank you, Jim(Ellison), for always being
willing to listen to my point of view, and your
understanding of my position. Your
acceptance and encouragement have made
it easier for me to fulfill the routine duties of
this job, and keep a cheerful attitude about
being here.
My criticisms are mainly concerned with

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Graphic by Judy Jo rdan
Even if British or American governmental
pay-offs are not directly made, it does not
take a fertile imagination to realize that
money can be channelled to an organization
without its knowledge. This would mean
little risk for the government providing the
cash, while providing the same manufactured chaos.
Whether or not these intrigues are real
cannot be said positively at this time; though
incredulous. (and perhaps fascinating to
some ofus), they tend to lead away from the
real question we are addressing.
What is required of us to deal with this
explosion of terrorism?

the total lack of upward mobility especially
for women on campus, as well as the narrow
definition and lack of variety in secretarial
positions. These elements combine to stifle
individual creativity and growth in the job. I
feel that I could have a great deal more
responsibility and provide services to the
college far beyond the expectations for a
seci:etary, and I'm sure many others feel the
same. However, with narrow job descriptions, and an attitude prevailing among
administrators that everything is fine the
way it is, many bright and talented young
people will seek career fulfillment elsewhere, as I have chosen to do.
I am looking forward to continuing my
education and putting more energy and time
into creative writing, gardening and
travelling after leaving LCC.
Connie Hood

Ballot measure circular needs petitioners
To the Editor:
For the information of those concerned
about the seemingly uncontrollable power
companies in the state, an organization
called Oregonians for Utility Reform is
currently circulating signatures on an
initiative petition to get a measure on next
fall's statewide election ballot that would
prohibit utilities from charging their
customers for construction costs of power
plants that do not yet produce power.
If our initiative is approved, the power
companies will be forced to borrow money on
the capital market if they are to finance their
projects, instead of hiding these costs in
their rates.
Rather than use the easy money they are
currently allowed to get from the ratepayers,

We do have plenty to fear if terrorists are
allowed their demands, and as long as some
of the world's countries play host to these
hooligans. But, as a nation and as a planet,
we have much more to fear from the
"security" which a fascist state has to offer.
It may be true that countries such as Italy,
Germany, or Spain might be more easily
tempted into this type of back-lash; there is
no doubt that emotions are running higher
and that the fascist roots of World War II are
far from dead.
Sometimes it's too easy, in fact, for events
and politicians to stir populations into
reactionary states of mind. It took Joe
McCarthy ashortwhiletosuckthe U.S. into a
frenzy in the 1950's. He used a good dose of
anti-communist rhetoric. to make the "Red
Scare'' his personal campaign issue. Are we
so sure, looking back on those years, that it
can't happen here ?

Narrow job description led to resignation
To the Editor:

Victory over this menace will only come
through rational thought--the high-strung
emotional backdrop is just what terrorists
need to set their stage. When an individual
confronts a crisis situation in an emotional
state, he or she tends to "over-react."
Governments, too, can ·'over-react."

they will have to see if investors have enough
confidence to loan them the money.
Experience from other states has been
that once the utilities are prohibited from
charging for construction work in progress
(CWIP), they are less likely to build such
unusually costly and risky projects as
nuclear plants.
All around the state, we have already
collected 29,000 signatures on the CWIP
petition. To get the measure on the ballot, we
need to double that amount by the first week
in July. If anyone would like to help circulate
the CWIP petition, please contact me at
485-4908.
Sincerely, •
Mark Cogan

There is no argument from this writer that
terrorists must be punatively and not
sympathetically dealt with when captured;
and convicted: I shed no tears over their spilt
blood. But they must be dealt with in the
ways that our constitution dictates.
To rewrite the law in ways that will more
easily control terrorists will be to sign away
our constitutional freedoms one by one.
It is not easy to watch innocent people
suffer, or die. Nor is it easy to keep a cool
head in the face of such useless carnage. But
the toughest challenge will be to avert the
iron fist of authoritarianism which the Red
Brigade has vowed to bring about.

SHS Correction
A story that appeared in last week's
issue, entitled "SHS dedicated," stated
that the Student Health Service sees about
40 students per day and that 1,658 patients
had come to SHS in April. The average
patient load per day for that month is
actually 82.5. We regret the error.

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'Political power-cloud shrou ds solar energy'

by Wes Heath
The calm on campuses today is just the
•'lull before the storm,·' says political
activist Tom Hayden. "The apathy is only
skin deep."
Hayden made those observations last
week at the University of Oregon during a
two-and-a-half-hour lecture on economic
reform in which he also talked about
activism, solar energy, and the ''Campaign
for Economic Democracy," a Californiabased organization which was co-founded by
Hayden and his wife, Jane Fonda. Hayden
was one of the original "Chicago Seven"
Vietnam war protesters arrested in 1968.
When asked why his organization avoided
the socialist label, Hayden admitted it was
only because "it's easier to run on the
Econo111ic Democracy ticket." He added,
''Its beauty is its blandness. You can't come
to a negative definition of economic
democracy like you can 'liberal' or
'progressive."'
Hayden said he_ be,ieves the nation's
economy will incite the same kind of campus
demonstrations as did the Vietnam War
unless immediate changes are made in the
students' financial prospects.
"What many people are calling apathy is
really just a cover for confusion," he said.
''It's hard to put the need for a new economy
on a picket sign." Hayden feels that young
people are ''bound to be less well-off than
their parents--what with PhD. 's looking for ·

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jobs at Sambo's."
Hayden lays most of the blame for this at
the feet of big business--a kind of financial
bloodguiltiness which he claims will only be
purged by the redistribution of wealth and
power in America. To accomplish that task,
Hayden says the corporate structure of

Tom Hayden
business will have to be revamped to make
individual citizens less at the mercy of
"monolithic companies" that put profits
above people.
Traditional liberal government programs
attempting to do this have failed--the failure
of progressive tax reform programs and
anti-trust laws, he says, have made
untraditional methods more and more
attractive. Hayden offers as an example his
blue print to see union pension funds,
''which constitute the greatest private dollar
amount," invested in housing projects and
other "job-producing" activities instead of
in corporations, especially since "some of
those companies are undermining the
unions themselves." he alleged.
He would favor less money spent on the
military "in order to finance social
reforms.'· And he would like to see
immediate cuts made in the taxes levied
against the middle class.

·'We are at the end of the New Deal era
where you could buy off the lower class with
the tax dollars of the middle class without
disturbing the loopholes of the upper class,''
he said.

"Large corporations are like nightcrawlers," he said. "If you cut a nightcrawler into
seven pieces you have seven nightcrawlers ...
But he said to defeat the oil companies is
simply a matter of supplanting them by solar
energy.' 'The whole world could be powered
by solar energy in the next 50 years,'' he
claimed, '· if its supporters can overcome the
bureaucraticfanagling of pro-oil lobbyists.''
Replying to the argument that solar
energy would not be compatible with some
climates. Hayden disagreed. "The only
cloud over solar energy is the cloud of
political power." He added, "Solar energy
won't just come up like the sun at dawn.
What we have so far is the result of
activism."
The activism of Hayden's Campaign for
"Economic Democracy" is of three major
kinds:
• First, the support of laws that promote
the redistribution of economic power, such
as the national "solar bank" bill which
would establish, 30-year loans at 3 per cent
interest for solar-powered businesses.
• Second, the assistance of political
campaigns of those who are willing to work
for economic democracy. Hayden himself
ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate seat
last year which is now held by S.I.
Hayakawa. Hayden said his organization
"runs four or five campaigns at a time,'
primarily in districts which are least strongly
held by its opponents. '• We get them at weak
points." he said. "We don't play to their
strengths."

• Third, "organizing the unorganized."
Hayden said students and teachers are
'' totally unorganized.'' calling them '• sheep
and robots of the status quo.''
Responding to a question about the kind of
organization he recomments, Hayden said
that nonviolent protest alone is inadequate.
''Action is also needed,'' he said. ''You can't
convert a company making bombs into one
making solar cells unless you run it.'' He
recognized nonviolence chiefly as a means of
"wearing out" an opponent.

Hayden believes his organization will
Hayden lamented the practice of depend- become a key force in socialist reforms
ing on anti-trust laws to break up monopolies because ''it isn't a one-issue organization
because he feels those laws are ineffective. like the antiwar groups were."

"Just the facts, please ...
just the facts."
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It's a good experience, working with good people.
Writers, photographers, advertising salespeople, production workers.
Lots of skills are needed in the production of a newspaper.
The rewards are just as varied.
The TORCH offers salaries, commissions, work-study and credit.
Also, job references, friendships and occasional pizza parties.
Think of us next fall when you plan your usual schedule of lectures and classes.
Then, come by and talk with us about what you can gain from working with
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To insure that his organization doesn't
falter because ofineffective leadership in the
future, Hayden said he has established an
Organizer :.[raining Institute. And he said
his headquarters in Santa Barbara are used
each summer to teach children as young as
age seven the "Economic Democracy"
principles--' 'just in case this generation
doesn't pan out," he added.

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large underground rooms, locatec
directly beneath the Health and
Physical Education Building, Performing Arts Building and the Center
Building. Auxiliary power plants are
located in these chambers. The
smallest of the three is in the space
beneath the PE Building and the
largest is under the Center Building.
''The generator under the PE
Building is mainly used as a booster
station,'' explained Shepherd, talking
as he led me through the catacombs.
''They use it to supply more power to
the physical education section when
thev need a lot of electricity to have a
basketball game or the like. The
Performing Arts generator serves the
same purpose.
''The big one under the Center
Building is mainly an emergency one
in case the main power supply
fails--the computer is in the Center
Building," he adds.
Besides housing -t he large auxiliary
generator the room under the Center
Building holds a multitude of other
necessary equipment: A hot water
booster for the kitchen, for example,
brings the hot water from the boiler
room (located at ground level on the
bottom of the Machine Technology
Building) to the proper temperature to
meet health specifications for washing
dishes. Also in the chamber are the
computerized controls for the entire
ventilation system of school and the
gigantic air vents which service the
Food Services Department. Through a
side door behind a rack of pipes is a
storage room for civil defense
supplies.
'' Right now, I would guess the
replacement value of the entire
operation at several million dollars,''
said Van Orden. "There's a lot of
money tied up in this operation.''
Hale must spend roughly 20 to ZS
hours a week down in the passageways, by himself. He has found a way
to allieviate his loneliness.
"I talk to myself," -he smiles.
"Every six months I have to lubricate
the entire exhaust system by myself. It
gets monotonous . . . so I talk to
myself."
Hales wasn't working at LCC when
the flood occured in 1969, but he said
some problems have arisen since he
started working in the tunnels.
"We've had a few bomb scares that
caused some panic and one time we
found evidence of someone taking a
crow bar to a metal entry door ... they
were trying to get in for some reason.
Other than that we don't have too much
trouble down here.
'' You know sometimes it gets pretty
spooky down there. I've been down
there working and have had guys
(co-workers) sneak up on me and scare
me to death. It doesn't happen very
often. Usually I can hear someone
coming a long time before they even
get near me.''

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·Former fire fighter says Forest Service wastes money
News Feature by Jack Desmond
''Dispatch, this is Fall Mountain lookout.
Fire report."
"Go, ahead, Fall Mountain."
We jumped to our feet at Bear Valley
Guard Station. Bill pulled out a pad of paper
to copy the location of the fire while I went to
the map on the wall to check the location of
the smoke.
"Township 15 south. Range 30 east,
Section 19, northeast of the northeast, near
Luce Creek," replied the lookout.
The smoke was six miles away according
to the map.
"Desmond, this is Dispatch."
"Desmond," I answered as I yelled into
the mic.
"Head for the fire."
'' All right, Desmond clear.''
My partner Bill and I ran out to our
pumper. With luck, we might beat the
helicopter carrying firefighters to the
smoke. I jumped in the driver's seat while
Bill pulled out the maps. The engine kicked
over.
"Hey, Desmond. If you need any help on
the fire, call us," shouted out the other
pumper ,foreman as we sped out the
driveway.
We crossed the paved highway and I
shifted into third gear as the truck roared up
the hill.
"Come on, go faster," I muttered to
myselfasthetwo-ton truck faltered going up
the final hill. Shifting into second, we blasted
over the summit.
Swerving by one stump and bouncing over
a log, I realized I was driving too fast for the
narrow, twisty road. I shifted into fourth gear
and redoubled my concentration.
The helicopter reported over the radio that
it could see the smoke from 10 miles away. ,
Dispatch went crazy and dispatched every
available person and pumper.
I swung hard to the right at the junction of
roads 1528 and 1527. The fire should be only
another three miles away if we were headed
in the right direction.
I swung hard to the left around a sharp
bend and nearly lost the truck in a gully, but
the truck swept on past the dense, stunted
ponderosa forest.
Another road intersection came up .
''Turn right,'' my partner cried.
"Noway. It's to the left. We want to head
in the direction of Ingle Rock.'' I pulled off to
the left at the intersection and braked the
truck.
"Look. We want to go on road 20. That's
where the fire is."
'' I guess you •'re right.'' I never had trusted
my partner's judgements.
I threw the gear into reverse and gunned
the accelerator. The truck lurched back 10
feet and sunk into a ditch.
' 'Damn,'' I cried as I swung open the door
and saw our dual wheels sunk in the hole and
the rear axle resting on the ground.
The helicopter crew overhead called in to
Dispatch that they had spotted a car leaving
the scene driving at a fast pace.
"We can get out of here," my partner
exclaimed as he jumped into the driver's
seat. Shifting the gear into low drive. he
eased the truck out. I hopped into the
passenger's seat.
"Next time, you do the driving while I do
the orienteering." I huffed as I hastily
arranged the maps on my lap .
Our truck spun on the gravel a few more
curves until we spied the helicopter hovering
over the thin smoke.
"All right. There really is a fire. We're in
the money on this one."
Bill slowed the truck down the last few
turns and we pulled off the road at the fire's
edge. I glanced at the fire and couldn't see
anyfirefightersfromthe helicopter. Victory.
We had actually beaten the helicopter fire
crew to the fire.
I hardly savored the joy as I grabbed the
radio and ran out to the fire. The fire was
burning hot in serveral piles of logs. The fire
wouldn't be any problem, but is would be

useless to tell Dispatch to cancel all the other
troops coming. The Forest Service helicopter in Colorado had predicted high winds for
the day and I couldn't stop automatic
dispatch cards.
''Dispatch, this is Desmond. We ' re on the
fire. It appears to have been caused by
lightning. Desmond clear."
"OK, Dispatch clear."
The fun was over. Now began the
drudgery.
My partner slung the water hose over his
shoulder and dragged the hose to a pile of
burning logs. He flipped the nozzle on and
the flames diminished. I ran back to the
truck, slipped on a pair of chain saw chaps,
and lugged the chain saw back to the fire.
Two of the helicopter crew straggled up to
the fire huffing and puffing. They stared at
the 40 ft. by 100 ft. fire that was now only
creeping through the pine needles and
burning a couple of logs.
"Is this all there is," cried one.
Within 45 minutes, everyone else had
arrived. Three more helicopter crews, four
more pumpers, the helicopter foreman, an
assistant fire control officer, the fire control
officer, and the chief fire control officer.
Nearly half of our forest fire crew was on this
fire. Meanwhile, two large DC-6 air tankers
and a spotter plane were circling overhead.
Our crew of 17 retreated· from the
sputtering fire as the spotter plane flew in
low to direct the air tankers. The first air

tanker rumbled in , unleashed its red
retardant . doused the area to the west of the
fire. and headed back to LaGrande, The
second air tanker flew in a bit higher,
disgorged its load over the fire, and the red
retardant drifted over to our crew and
spreckled the green pumpers red.
After taking group pictures, our crew
returned to the charred area. The two air
drops had done nothing. A few logs were still
glowing and we set to work as the sun
unceremoniously dropped below the hills.
The crew dug a circle around the fire while
the helicopter foreman dropped the twisted,
lightning-struck white fir. That tree was
worth one hundred dollars to each one of us
for having graciously started a fire.
After the white fir was safely on the
ground , most of the head honchos left
because there was no more excitement to be
had from this fire.
Now that the fire had cooled down, we
began stacking logs in several large
bonfires. By the time we had stoked up four
large bonfires. night had risen. The bonfires
were burning hotter than the fire ever had
and occasionally they would singe needles of
a pine tree. The fires cast an eerie red glow
and smoke belched into the sky as I imagined
pointed tails and horns growing out of the
people around me.
The fire boss called us together to brief us
on the fire strategy.
"I was just talking with Dispatch on the

radio and they said that high winds are
predicted for the night,'' said our fire boss.
A few of us snickered because the
predicted winds hadn't blown all day.
" I'm going to call the fire controlled at
1:00 a.m. "
Several fitefighters mooed, an expression
for a term called '' milking a fire. ' ' Milking a
fire is to sit on the fire as long as humanly
possible to earn as much money as possible.
By declaring the fire controlled at 1 a.m. we
would be able to collect fire hazard pay for
two days which amounted to 25 per cent
extra. Economics was never left out of fire
strategy.
At 1 a.m., our fire boss left with several
other firefighters and drove back to the
helicopter station to have a good night's
sleep.
There wasn't much to do except stoke the
bonfires to keep warm, break out the
C-rations, and try to sleep before morning
came to finish mopping up the fire.
The moon had risen and the light was
dancing in the forest outside of our dying
bonfires. I stole away from the group to be
alone. Away, I felt the omnipresent light
from the moon -surge through my body. Back
and forth the moon and I went.
It was soul-stirringly beautiful and I was
making seven dollars an hour.
continued on page 8

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Eugene Opera! will close its 1977-78 operatic season by bringing together some 200
voices of four musical groups to present Johannes Brahms' "German Requiem." under
the direction of Philip Bayles. The production. to be performed in English. will be
presented8p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 26, 27. Churchill High. Bailey Hill Road. An 8
p.m. May 20 performance will be held at Umpqua Community College, Roseburg.
Tickets are $4, with a limited number of $2 tickets available for students and seniors
through a purchase by the City of Eugene. Transient Room Tax Fund. For further
information contact the Eugene Opera! office, 485-3985. Roseburg tickets are available
at Ricketts Music Store .
The Place in downtown Eugene has scheduled a series of musical events: Friday May
26. "Kalapana" at 9:30 p.m., cover charge $1.00. Tuesday and Wednesday May 30, 31.
"Stone Ground" wi11 play starting at 9:30 p.m. Cover charge is $2.00. Thursday June 1,
"D<!vid Laflamme," cover is $2.00. Friday June 2. and Saturday June 3. at 8:30 p.m ..
"Country Joe McDonald." Coveris$3. 75in advance. Sunday June 4. and Monday June 5,
"Mithrandir." no cover. Thursday June 8, "Tom Paxton." Cover $3. 75 in advance.
Saturday June 10, "Vassar Clemens." with "Wheatfield." Cover charge is $4.50 in
advance .
Oregon Repertory Theatre will present the world premiere of "My Cup Ranneth
Over," by Robert Patrick, as its next Midnight Mafia production. The one-act comedy
runs May 26, 27, June 2 and 3, with doors opening at 11 :30 p.m. and curtain at midnight.
Tickets are $1.50 at the door.
The EMU Cultural Forum presents Proctor and Bergman formerly of the Firesign
Theater on Friday. May 26th at 8:00 p.m. in the EMU Banroom. Tickets are $2 .50 and are
available only at the door.
The EMU Cultural Forum proudly presents Jimmy Buffett in concert on Tuesday, June
6, 1978at8:00 p.m. in McArthur Court. Tickets are $5.50. $5.00, and $4.00 for University
of Oregon students, and $7.00, $6.00, and $5.00 for the General Public. Tickets are
available atthe EMU Main Desk, The Sun Shop, and Everybody's Records in Eugene and
Corvallis.
Many neighbors are willing to share their garden space with others. The Eugene Parks
and Recration Department and the Community Energy Bank have compiled lists of people
needing individuals to share garden plots and energy. If you are looking for a space to
plant in or have extra garden space please contact Lynn at 687-5303 or Cindy at 485-8133.
There's lotsofmusicforyou at Saturday Market this coming Saturday. May 27. Warre1;
Win wood will be performing original guitar and harmonica music at 1:00 p. m .. and Lyndia
will be sweetly singing at 2:30. Of course, there will also be the same delicious fresh food
and fine handcrafts always found at Saturday Market. That's at 8th & Oak downtown.

Mime Circus presents 'Pyramus and Thisby'
bv Michael Tenn
LCC students who see a clown juggling

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Film recreate s hopeless feelings
Film review by Janice Brown
Caskets covered in American flags pass by
on a conveyor belt. Wounded men wrapped
from head to toe in gauze and casts are
helped off an airplane.
One man dressed in an officer's uniform
limps along with the aid of a cane: His face is
thin and gaunt. his eyes are vacant except for
a disturbing glint that is glazed over them.
The officer, the wounded men, and the
caskets are returning from Vietnam.
"Coming Home," currently playing at
Cinema World, isa film that anyone who still
views war as an alternative should see.
The officer with the cane is named Bob and
he is played with agonizing conviction by
Bruce Dern. Dern should win an Oscar for
this role.
Officer Bob is not the main character. The
film centers around John Voight who plays
Luke.~ victim of the war in Vietnam, who is
paralyzed from the waist down.
Luke represents the forgotten remains of
the Vietnam war. Voight' s Luke is heroic, not
because of his valiant actions in Vietnam, but
because he overcomes his own self-pity. And
because he has learned to "live with" the
atrocities he saw and the ones he committed
in Vietnam.
Voight's Luke is fun of light, energy,
compassion and strength. The viewing
audience loves Luke, and so does Officer
Bob's wife, Sally.
Jane Fonda plays Sally, a woman who
grows from an ignorant hawk at the
beginning of the film into a loving dove.
Fonda's transition is so natural and flowing
that it is hard to believe that only an hour or so
passes in film, instead of a year or so in
Sally's life.
Sally meets Luke in a Veteran's hospital
where she volunteers as a nurse's aide while

her husband Bob is in Vietnam. The hospital
is understaffed which distresses Sally, so
she speaks to a group of women (officers'
wives) hoping to get an article in the ladies'
newspaper about the situation at the
hospital. The women don't want to hear
about the problem, though. They would
rather print articles about fun and games.
Sally returns to the hospital and tens the
wounded Vets that the women think little if
anything about the wounded men. ''To
them" she says, "You're just a bunch of
discarded peanut shens."
Fonda's, Dem's and Voight's portrayals
are an superb. Voight' s Luke is a particularly
memorable character: Like someone from
the past whom I knew and loved and forgot
about until I saw him sitting there in his
wheelchair on the screen.
Dern• s role is more difficult to portray than
Voight' s. Bob is not likeable. He is a hawk
that can't wait to get to Vietnam. But _when
he returns he is a broken, disturbed and
disillusioned human being who blames
everything and everyone, but his own
ignorance, for his plight. Bob's dialogue is
scattered and broken--like he is. Dern relies
on body movements and his face reflects a
deep inner struggle.
The subject matter in this film is touchy.
The memory of the war is still vivid. It is only
a film, yet it is difficult to be totally objective
about a matter so important. I think the film
is excel1ent. An the elements--direction,
screenplay, cinematography, editing and
performance--are near perfect. The film is
accompanied by a sound track made up of
some of the most popular and meaningful
recordings of the 1960's, whic~ return to
haunt and recreate the emotional hopelessness of the era and the imbecilic war of
Vietnam.

while riding a unicycle in front of the
P~rforming Arts Building at 11 a.m. on
Friday can be sure that they've caught the
opening of The New Mime Circus production
by Michael Tenn
of "Pyramus and This by."
Touted as ''The 1978Dance Event" by the Performing Arts Department, "Triple Play''
A play within a play. ••Pyramus and
win showcase the dance, music, and design talent of LCC students Friday and Saturday
Thisby" is a part of Shakespeare's
nights. May 26 and 27.
"Midsummer Night's Dream," ShakesFaculty members as well as students will be performing ''far-out and nutty things,•'
peare's parody on bad acting.
The New Mime Circus will portray a group according to Dave Sherman, a stagecraft instructor and one of the show's coordinators.
The show centers around "Facade," described by Sherman as "a complex
of would-be actors who bungle a tragedy and
arrangement of words and rhythm patterns set to music.'· It was origin any written in 1922
turn it into a comedy.
by poets Dame Edith Sitwen and Sir William Walton. Four readers will be accompanied by
The show will be just as·' ... delightful for
children'' as it will be for adults, according to a seven piece baroque orchestra. The orchestra wi11 be composed of staff members and
faculty from the Performing Arts Department.
Karen Landsdowne, LCC Language Arts
instructor, who teaches Shakespeare class·'Facade'' will be preceded by a selection of classical arrangements played by flutist
es.
Robin Russell and guitarist John Jarvie. who is well known localJy for his professional
In case of rain, the production will move
guitar concerts and has taught at LCC and at the U of O for many years. A string quartet
indoors to room 301 of the Forum Building.
will also play.
There is no charge for the show which is
The show will dose with jazz dancing, choreographed by dance instructors Nicola
sponsored by the Student Activities Cultural
Foster and Mary Curry. The dancers will share the stage with a jazz ensemble directed by
Fund.
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LCC instructor
given award
at SHS dedication

Holistic medicine promotes natural healing
by Dr. Staywell and Staff of the Student
Health Service
The price tag for medical treatment was
$180 billion last year. Yet how healthy are
we?
• 60 million Americans are overweight
• 50 million people smoke
• 20 million people have mental or
emotional disorders
• 10 million people are alcoholics
• 10 million .get a form of venereal disease
every year
• 4 million people have diabetes

by Colleen Donahue
For her volunteer nutrition counseling to
LCC students this year, instructor Carol
Easton was awarded a special plaque on May
12 from the LCC Student Health Service
(SHS).
SHS Director Laura Oswalt awarded
Easton the plaque at the dedication
ceremony held for the new SHS facilities
adjacent to the snack bar. She informed the
audience that Easton had held 66 private
conferences during the year with students on
nutrition.
Although Easton will not be returning to
LCC next fall, she would still like to see the
program continue. However, since it is all
volunteer work, it will be strictly up to her
successor or other trained LCC nutritionalists.
"I enjoy doing it because it puts me in
contact with more people than I see in my
nutrition classes," says Easton.
Some people have come to her for
planning vegetarian meals, and still others
have asked for her help in dealing with
allergies. Some have even wanted to gain
weight.
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Is there a relationship between the cost
and extent of health care and the inadequate
health of so many Americans? Certainly
prohibitive cost is a major _factor in the
inability of the poor to afford treatment and
get the health care they need.
But it may also be that the extent of
services available mitigates against more
self-treatment by the 170 million who can
afford it but don't seem to benefit much from
it.
In his book, "Medical Nemesis," Ivan
111ich writes that, ''The true miracle of
modern medicine is diabolical. It consists not
only of making individuals but whole
populations survive on inhumanly low levels
of personal health. That health should
decline with increasing health service
delivery is unforeseen only by the health
managers, precisely because their strategies are the result of blindness to the
inalienability of life."
In short, many of us have come to rely on
doctors and hospitals to bail us out of
personal health responsibility. We would
rather ''booze it up, smoke, be fat and lie
around,'' to quote one health critic, than take
care of ourselves the way we would have to if
our "Medical Mama" weren't there to
promise to make it all better.
A few people, however, have sensed the
inadequacies of the present medical set-up
and have begun to create alternatives. The
holistic health movement is comprised of
individuals and health practitioners who are
dedicated to creating the environment and
the tools for optimum self-care.
The following are several of the principles
of the movement:
• Doctors and drugs do not cure; people
cure themselves. In many cases, doctors and
drugs can actually interfere with the natural
healing process .
• An individual's expectation and beliefs
influence the choice and success of healing
methods as much as or more than the
methods themselves.
• Technology and science are not
necessarily improvements over historically
effective natural healing and other medical
practices.
• Holistic health practitioners, in general,
do not diagnose, treat or prescribe; they
educate in a setting that minimizes the
patient/physician role.
Many of the holistic approaches to health
are not new. Fasting, according to one
source, is the oldest form of healing, practiced instinctively by animals before
man. Yoga is an ancient Hindu philosophy
and science. Homeopathy was developed in
the early 19 th century, about the time the
medical "establishment" was practicing
bloodletting and leaching.
This article is not intended to debate the
efficacy of one healing method over another
or compare them with traditional medical

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Carol Easton
But the students she counsels most are
referred to her from the SHS physicians and
nurses, because students want to need to
lose weight, she said.
Before advising students about a diet,
Easton asks them to keep a record for seven
days of the foods they regularly eat. ''This
gives me an idea of their calorie in-take, the
problem foods they may be eating, particular
lifestyle, and amount of nutrients in their
foods."
From there, she gives the student a diet to
follow, selecting foods from the milk, meat,
vegetable, and fruit groups, and breads and
cereals.
Women are usually advised to stay on a
1,200 calorie diet and the men on a 1,500
calorie diet. ''This allows plenty of food and
nutrients, so you don't get fatigued. Weight
loss on this type of plan is usually one or two
pounds a week." says Easton.
She generally tells students if they want to
lose weight, they are going to have to change
eating habits. Students on a weight
reduction plan weigh in once a week and
keep a chart of their weight loss.

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methods. But the following are some Herbs have many different actions,
examples of various forms of holistic including astringent. cathartic, diuretic and
healing. (Pleaserefertothe article on "Body alternative effects.
IRIDOLOGY
therapies" in last week's TORCH for
Iridology or irisdiagnosis is the science
others.)
of diagnosing physical illness from the
COLOR THERAPY
Light and color are parts of the marksandcolorchangesintheirisoftheeye.
electro-magneticspecturm, and what we see Iridologists consult specific sections of the
comprises much of our knowledge of the iris that are believed to correspond to
world .. Color--the energy waves absorbed different organs of the body. lridologists can
and reflected back to us from objects--has often tell if an organ is functioning properly,
certain psychological and physiological whether a person is under strain, and the
effects. For example, the color yellow may health of the blood, nerves and skin. Bernard
make us thoughtful and blue mav make us Jensen's book "The Science and Practice of
calm. Color therapy is oriented t~ creating . Iridology" is a good source ofinformation on
healthful color combinations in our personal this topic.
environment, according to Mary Anderson, NATURAL FOODS
Foods which have been grown without
author of "Color Healing."
chemical fertilizers or pesticides and which
FASTING
Fasting predates all forms of medical are eaten in as close to their natural state as
treatment, for people have always instinc- possibleconstitutesthedietofholistichealth
tively stopped eating when they felt ill. seekers. Most are vegetarians who stress a
Fasting for periods of time is a method of diet of grains, nuts, seeds and legumes, and
cleansing the body of accumulated wastes, often fresh fruits and vegetables. Some
build up physical stamina and resistance to natural-food-advocates supplement their
disease. and rejuvenate the functions of diets with vitamins and minerals. "Eating
different organs. In the "Miracle of for Life" by Nathaniel Altman is a good
Fasting,'' Paul Bragg writes that fasting has reference book on this topic.
also been used in dieting, but can be TAI CHI CHUAN
This is a form of meditation which
dangerous if undertaken haphazardly or
emphasizes slow movement, relaxation. and
without n:iedical supervision.
calmness of mind. Movements in Tai Chi
HOMEOPATHY
have been described as basically slow,
A system of therapy in which minute doses continuous, light, gentle, circular, rhythofnatural herbs and minerals, many of which mic, energetic and graceful. Tai Chi
are poisonous in large amounts, are practitioners say it is beneficial in improving
prescribed on a "like cures like" basis. For one's energy. "Tai Chi," by Cheng
example, a person with a sore throat might Man-Ching and Robert W. Smith is a good
receive a substance which in larger doses reference here.
would cause a sore throat, says William
YOGA
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A group of physical and mental disciplines
Principles of Homeopathy.''
of ancient Hindu origin, it is based on the
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Juliette Levy, in her book "Common and negative currents, and when these
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primitive people everywhere discovered There are a number of yoga postures,
that certain roots, plants, barks and seeds breathing exercises and cleansing practices
possessed medicinal properties. Until which can accomplish this which are
recently. herbal fold medicine was disdained described in the book "Yoga Self-Taught"
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A better society through socialism

by Sally Oljar

• A woman with three children is married
to a man who beats her. She wants to leave
her husband, but having no marketable job
skills, she wonders how she will support
herself and the kids.
• A lesbian woman employed in a state
mental hospital lives in fear that her
employer will discover her sexual orientation and fire her.
• A young black boy, caught shoplifting,
unsuccessfully attempts suicide. When he is
prevented from it he yells at his captors in
desperation, "Can you get me a job?"
Can these situations be accurately
described as "individual problems?" Not
entirely, says New American Movement
(NAM) representative Judy Maclean.
These individuals and others are "oppressed" by society's institutions, she says.
''These individual instances are examples
of the capitalist system failing," MacLean
told an audience of 60 students and staff
members last May 16 at a lecture jointly
sponsored by the Women's Awareness
Center and the Social Science Department.
She told the group that capitalism as an
economic and social structure reinforces the
philosophy of individualism. And in so
doing, it promotes what Maclean called
"fragmentation" among people. "We lead
little, separate lives ... competing against
each other for jobs and in school. .. TV keeps .
us alone in our homes," she said.
Maclean believes that ''fragmentation''
among individuals is one of the largest
hurdles to jump in the quest for '' American
socialism." The key, she says, to a better
society is in collective social and political
action. Thus, the "personal problems" of
the battered wife, the lesbian social worker
and the young black boy become "shared
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"The women's movement and the gay
rights movement are pointing the way on
personal issues by bringing people together
and struggling ... through struggling we
learn our power," she continued.
As a representative of NAM, Maclean
described a ''vision of a socialist, feminist,
democratic society" to her listeners. She
began by pointing out that the' 'latest wave''
of socialism has emerged from the political
and civil rights movements of the 1960' s,
although socialism, as a political philosophy.
has been in the United States since the early

Judy MacLean
Photo by Christie Davis
1900's. The NAM brand of socialist doctrine
is "really for getting rid of inequalities in
work and in minority groups.''
Her vision of a' 'socialist society'' calls for
taking "resources" out of private hands:
'' Stop using resources to make money,
(instead) use resources to meet human
needs." The government, business, and
schools should be operated and administrated by a method of collective decisionmaking among the people working in the
organization.
Feminist ideals fit so well with socialist
philosophy, she claimed, that "either one
without the other heads for big trouble."
Both socialism and feminism stress equality
in work, exchanges of traditional male/female career roles, and in more "socialized"
child care. Both movements are calling for
an end to the male ''power dyanmic'' in this
society, she said.
Democracy will best survive under
socialism, she claimed, because it will
"extend constitutional freedoms and make
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democratized" if bosses are elected instead
of appointed.
by Robert Anders
•'When you look at America today, there is
nothing in the way of the vision I've
The new BRING manager, Ken Sandusky
described. (America) has material security,
says he and 10 publically paid employees
democratic traditions, and is not a police
hired last September, have streamlined
state," she said.
BRING's recycling of paper, glass and
metals to show a 29 per cent increase for the
same quarter last year.

Firefighters - continued from page

Epilogue
Last year, the Forest Service spent
$31,000,000 for fire management activities
in Oregon and Washington alone. The fire
described cost over $5,500 to suppress,
mainly because of two retardant drops that
cost $2,000 each.
Again, last year, Oregon and Washington
suffered 1. 726 fires in a one month period
from July 23 to August 23. Of that total, only
12 were larger than 10 acres.
There are many FS people who would
claim that these fires were suppressed
because of quick FS action. However, that is
only partially true. The overwhelming
percentage of fires in Oregon are caused by
lightning, and lightning fires have low
potential and do not burn readily. For the
past seven years, an average of only 8,900
acres have burned each season, yet the
Forest Service manages 25,000,000 acres in
Oregon and Washington.
Unfortunately, many people seem to think
that fires are the manifestation of Beelzebub
on this planet and must be suppressed at all
costs.
So far, it has been at all costs.
The Blue Mountains of Northeastern
Oregon are slowly withering away, partly
because fire no longer sanitizes the
mountains. The ponderosa pines sprout up
in thick patches and choke each other out in
their scramble for nutrients. One million
acres oflodgepole pine are dying because of
the mountain bettle kill. The native grasses
struggle each year against the onslaught of
sagebrush and tumbleweed.
Meanwhile, the Forest Service continues
to expend money. A 1,000 acre fire on Pine
Mountain east of Bend cost $308,000 to
suppress. A 70-acre fire northeast of John
Day cost $82,000.
Each year, trees ar~ cut down to be
processed into paper. Some of the paper is
sent to Washington, D. C. where dollar signs
are printed on the paper. The printed paper
is sent back to Oregon. We take the money
and spend it to suppress fires.

8.l{ING (Begin Recycling In Neighborhood Groups) located on Franklin Boulevard
near Seavey Loop one mile from LCC,
recycled 759 tons of material last year. The
Comprehensive Employment Training Act
(CETA) employees, working under the
direction of Sandusky, have constructed a
fence around the warehouse, built a glass
crushing shed, sorting bins, and office space
as part of the reorganizing and renovating of
the facility to increase production which,
according to Sandusky, should exceed last
year's figure.
Elise Fischer, a former BRING employee,
initiated a number of programs in an effort to
increase the materials reaching the facility;
since last year 20 recycling education
presentations, for example, reached more
than 1,000 Lane County residents.

To promote its objectives BRING also
publishes a newsletter, teaches the Recycling and Resource Recovery Class at the
University of Oregon, and presents recycling information on radio, television and in
the newspapers.
AccordingtoBRING's Board of Directors,
made up of seven local residents, the facility
is exploring new types of recycling projects
which could have a significant impact on
Lane County's future. For example, an
expanded glass container reuse system
would provide inexpensive containers to the
public. and would be environmentally more
oractical than traditional recycling.
In pursuit ot alternative sources of
funding, the Board is exploring the field of
grants and tax status. ''The problem we face
with recycled material is transportation and
demand," says Sandusky. "The glass, for
instance, must be taken to Owens-Illinois in
Portland for purchase."
Sandusky feels recycling preserves
natural resources and saves manufacturing
time; he also believes the educational
aspects of BRING's operation is a key to
changing peoples' attitudes and creating
greater public involvement.

Journalism conference slated

About 40 high school and community
college journalism students will meet at 1CC
Friday, May 26, to share information and
discoveries about their publications and to
take part in discussions about reporting
ethics.
Reporting on police arrests, and reporting
on women and minorities are two of the
agenda items for the "Journalism Exchange,'' sponsored ·by the LCC Mass

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with coffee and breakfast rolls at 8:30 in the
Board of Education Room of the Administration Building, and is open to 1CC students,
personnel, and guests. No fee is charged.
After discussions by area high school
newspaper staff members from 9to 10 a.m.,
Jim Dunne, head of the Mass Communication Department and instructor of the Media
and the Law class, will discuss bench-barpress agreements and also court rulings on
reporting trials, arrests, and legal proceedings. Dunne taught media law at Washington State University for 11 years before
coming to 1CC.
Another communication instructor, Dr.
Dan Rothwell, will speak from 11:15 to noon
on avoiding distortion and stereotyping
when reporting on women and minorities.
Rothwell teaches interpersonal, and small
group communication theory.
Five former 1CC students who now work
as professional journalists in Oregon wi11
give advice during the 2 p.m. panel
discussion, '' How to Get Your First
Journalism Job, And Keep lt." Rick Bella
and Jim Gregory (reporter and circulation
manager both of the Springfield News),
Kathy Durbin (reporter for Willamette
Week), Kelley Fenley (sports editor of the
Woodburn Independent), and Jim Worlein
(sports editor of the Ontario Observer) will
return to campus to share anecdotes.

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Keeran, Martin, Breen earn
Alt-American track honors
by John Healy

Charlie Keeran, Ken Martin and Brad
Breen gained All-American honors and the
men 's track team finished tied for thirteenth
at the National Junior Collegiate Athletic
Association (NJCAA) track and field
championships last week in Champaign,
Illinois.
Keeran finished third in the discus,

Ken Martin was the first American to cross
the finish line in the 10,000 meters at the
NJ CAA championships last week. Photo by
Rob Stanley.

Martin fourth in the 10,000 meters and
Breen second in the javelin to give the Titans
18 points and a tie for thirteenth with
Southern Idaho and Se_minole (Fla). Essex
Community College (N .J.) ran away with the
meet title, scoring 60 points to runnerup
Central Arizona'.s 42 points.

Martin stayed with the leaders for the first
five miles of the 10,000 (equivalent to 6.2
miles) last Friday, but fell behind when the
leaders began forcing the pace, according to
Al Tarpenning, men's track coach.
'' Ken ran a good race--he was the first
American across," said Tarpenning. "That
was one of the best 10,000l have seen in quite
awhile."
Keeran finished sixth in last years discus
final, but improved to third this year with a
throw of 163-2. ''He really looked good on his
entire series of, throws," recalled Tarpenning. "All his throws were over 155-0 ... he's
never had a series like that."
Breen, nagged by an injured ankle most of
the season, put it all together at the national
meet, uncorking a throw of220-9for a second
in the javelin behind Region 18 foe Jari
Keihas of Ricks.
"We knew the throw was their eventually," explained Tarpenning. "He's been
hampered with that sore ankle since spring
vacation.''
Breen threw over 235-0 in pratice just
before the national meet, said Tarpenning,
and ''we knew he was about ready.''
''The day he threw was very windy. The
throw he got in was about 221. I tell you, if it
hadn't been windy it would have gone
240-0.''
Three more Titans qualified for the finals
in their respective events but failed to score.
Bruce Rolph finished ninth in the shotput,
Dave Magness took ninth in the 5000 meters
and Rob Stanley also finished ninth in the
steeplechase.
"Dave ran a real good preliminary race,
but the day of the final in the 5000 was very
windy and it really hampered him," stated
Tarpenning.
Stanley ran into the same problem--the
''Even the
wind--in the steeplechase.
point getters ran several seconds slower than
their bests ... it probably hurt us more than
anything.''
Chuck Casio-Cross made it to the
semifinals of the 100 meters but cramped up
with ten yards to go and couldn't qualify for
the final, according to Tarpenning.
Jodell Bailey finished sixth in his 400
meters semi and Lynn Mayo finished fifth in
his 800 meter semi as both weren't able to
qualify for the final in their event.

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Athletic Assn. [NJ CAA] track and field championships last week in Champaign, Illinois.
The fresbman from Eagle Point will be back next year, however, for another shot at the
nationals. Photo by Rob Stanley.

W Olllen drop all six matches at
N CWSA tennis tournaDlent
by Steve Myers

The women's tennis team lost all six
matches they played in the Northwest
Collegiate Women's Sports Association
(NCWSA) tourney held May 18-19 in
Bellevue, Washington.
Cheryl Shrum lost her first round in the
first singles division to second seeded Diane
Hale of Green River College, 1-6, 5-7.
Schrum then lost in the consolation round to
Kim Kiser of Columbia Basin College 3-6,
2-6.
In the second singles competition Gail
Rodgers lost her first round to first seeded
Mary Tang of Bellevue College, 4-6, 1-6.
Rodgers lost in the consolation round to
Chris Carter of Seattle Central College,
3-6,2-6.
Peggy Gangle and Carol Campbell lost in

the first round of second doubles competition to Debbie Brand and Elma Garcia of
Yakima College 0-6, 1-6. Brand and Garcia
went on to win the second doubles event.
Campbell and Gangle went on to lose in the
consolation round to Lynette Brown and
Rhonda Adair of Highline College 0-6, 0-6.
According to coach Don Wilson this
community college tennis tournament
involved the northern league competing
against the southern league. Lane is in the
southern league and had to face for the first
time tennis players from such metropolitan
areas as Portland and Seattle where tennis
competition is more intense.
"In the face of such competition the LCC
women's tennis team did very well,''
commented Wilson. ''They definitely did
not luck out in the draw of who they had to
play against."

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outfit with apricot stripes, $41.50 at the Athletic Department; Mick Balius
wearing a rust suit with beige and green stripes, $44. 95 at the Athletic
Department; and Janet Boutelle wearing Adidas powder blue french cut suit
with navy side stripes, $69.95 at Luby's. Photo by Daniel Van Rossen.

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tee-shirts, ora tank-top. At left, Janet is
wearing Adidas royal blue shorts with
white side stripes from Luby's, $10.95, ·
with Nike's powder blue, french cut
by_ John Healy
tee-shirt from the Athletic Department,
$7. 95. Mick runs in a pair of Dolphin
Eugene, Oregon: Running Capital of
shorts and tank-top, both available in The World.
assorted •colors from the Athletic
Conservative estimates put the
Department [shorts, $6. 95, tank-top number of "serious" runners and
$7. 95]. Janet crosses the footbridge in joggers in Eugene at 10,000. Many
yellow Nike shorts and matching neighborhoods now resemble the Los
tank-top, accented with white nylon Angeles freeway with runners and
mesh.
Shorts [$6.95 and tank-top joggers of every shape and size whizzing
$9. 95] available at the Athletic about in their quests for physical
Department. Photo by Daniel Van fitness .
Rossen.
The end result of the latest American

extensive network of bicycle paths to
Pre's Trail to scores of quiet neighborhood streets, Eugene goes first class.
Probably the most widely known
running area in Eugene is Pre's Trail, a
five mile series of looping sawdust
jogging paths along the Willamette
River in the vicinity of Autzen Stadium.
Developed in the early '70's and
named for former standout Oregon
distance runner Steve Prefontaine,
Pre's Trail begins next fo Autzen
Stadium, where you are greeted by a
fad--the jogging boom--in overcrowed large map outlining the entire Pre's
jogging paths and neighborhood side- Trail circuit.
walks .
The small loop measures 1.6 kiloEugeneans, however, live in a city a meters, equivalent to a mile, and
cut above most of the rest of American connects to Alton Baker Park if you get
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kilometers) and parallels the WPlamette much of the way.
The trail surface is a combination of
sawdust and small wood chips,
measures roughly ten feet in width and
has well marked trail signs. There is
even a'' par course'' for those interested
in doing some stretching exercises
during a run.
An even more extensive system of
bike paths can be found along both
banks of the Willamette. A wide ribbon
of asphalt meant only for bikers and
runners extends from Springfield to
Valley River Center on the north bank of
the river, and from a point across from
the University of Oregon to the new
footbridge near VRC on the south bank.
The new footbridge that spans the
Willamette near VRC is a welcome
addition to joggers, as it allows one to
utilize the bike path on both sides of the
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Good shoes are essential to either the
casual or competitive runner. At left,
Nikes "Lady Road Runner" features
powder blue nylon tops, accented by
royal blue stripes, available at the
Athletic Department, $24. 95. Adidas
"Formula 1" shoe, in black suede with
yellow stripes , features a square heel,
available at Luby 's, $39.95. Blue and
white suede styling is featured on this
shoe by New Balance , available at
Luby 's , $29. 95. Photo by Daniel Van
Rossen.

A child's summer need not be dull
waiting for the summer recreation
programs to begin, read on.
There are some special activities in
the Eugene Parks and Recreation
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• The Hardy Bunch , a continuing
activity time designed for (but not
limited to) handicapped children under
12 is scheduled for June 2 and June 16.
There is no fee and drop-ins are
welcome from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at
Westmoreland Commmunity Center.
The Center is located at 1546 W. 22nd;
the phone is 687-5316.
• June 10 is the date of a special film
presentation at Whitaker Elementary
School. "The Magic World of Topo
Gigio'' will be shown at 10 a.m.
Admission is 25 cents.
continued on page 11

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15 horses available

by John Healy
Two hundred acres of rolling pine covered hills interlaced with miles of scenic
riding trails. No trail guides. Just grab a horse and go. Wander along
. meandering creeks. Explore. Escape. Dream of how the Oregon frontier once
was.
Admittedly, that description sounds like an advertisement in the "Travel"
section of Sunset, which bills itself the "magazine of better western living ."
But Windgate Farms, a stable northwest of Junction City where the novice or
expert rider can rent a horse for four dollars per hour and not be shepherded by a
"trail guide," fits that description.
If you want to "live better" this summer, consider putting Windgate Farms
on your agenda .
•'We're the only business in the (Eugene) area that lets you go out without a
guide ," explains Ron Norbert, an employee of Windgate Farms.
Amble through a vast, emerald green meadow. Up into the hills swathed in a
mantle of dark green pines and stately oaks . Left, down a rutted dirt path
bordered by thickets of wildly entangled underbrush.
Windgate Farms, owned by John Reavis, has a stable of 15 horses suited to
each level of riding skill, according to Norberg.
''They (the horses) vary from being very gentle to horses that take a fairly
experienced rider. A problem we have is people who ask for a horse that's more
than they can control," he says.
''They think that by asking for something faster they' re going to get something
more manageable--that's not always true," he explains .
Turn right, into a modern day ''Sherwood Forest . '' The sunlight fades as you
go deeper into its depths . Closely spaced pines, the heavy branches bent low.
Musty smell of pine needles. Heavy, rich odor of dark earth.
The stable is generally busiest during late spring, summer, and early fall, says
Norberg .
''We're right in the middle of the Eugene area, with the U of 0, and Corvallis,
with Oregon State. It seems like we get a lot of business during finals week,'' says
Norberg.

Kids----------continued from page 10

• Also on June 10, there will be a
picnic and scavenger hunt sponsored by
Sheldon Meadows Community Center,
2455 Willakenzie Rd., and Westmoreland Community Center. Pick-up times
for participants is 10 a.m. at Sheldon
Meadows and 10:30 a.m. at Westmoreland. The fee of $3.50 includes
insurance .
• June 21 will be '· Bike and Canoe
Day" at Sheldon Meadows. The
participants will ride bikes from the
Center to Alton Baker Park, where they
will learn canoeing strokes and safety in
the Park canoeway. The fee for all day is
$2. 00 and kids should bring a sack
lunch .
The Parks and Recreation Department will begin its Summer Program in
June with many more dasses and
day-trips for kids. Anyone imerested
can receive a schedule of events by mail
by calling the office at 687-5353.

• Also of interest to kids in grades one
through eight is the Springfield
Library's annual "Summer Reading
Program. '' This year's theme is '' Under
the Big Top," according to Children's
Librarian Marylou Belknap. Sign-up for
the program will begin June 5.
To receive a Summer Reader's
Certificate both from the library and the
jtate of Oregon, children must read 10
books before August 12. They will also
be eligible for prize drawings and
special' 'Summer Readers'' book bags.
Parties for interested kids, featuring
clown and magic shows by Jerry and
Janice Doty, will be held Tuesday, June
13, for first and second graders;
Wednesday, June 14, for third and
fourth graders; and Thursday, June 15,
for fifth through eighth graders. All
three parties will be from 2:30 to 3:30
p.m. in the library's Junior Department.
For more information, call Marylou
Belknap at 726-3765.

"I guess people are trying to forget their finals, " he adds with a laugh.
Horses are on the trail from8a .m . to dusk. each usually putting in a six to eight
.
hour day.
'' We find people ride an average between one and two hours ,' ' states
Norberg . " If a rider doesn't stay out a full hour , we pro rate the fee and charge
one dollar for every 15 minutes .' '
Downhill , to the moss covered banks of a soft stream winding its way down into
the Willamette Valley . Fresh, clean smell--untainted water . Across the brook
and up towards the crest of the next hill. More pines. Always the sun , beating
down. warming, drying out water-logged bodies.
Windgate Farms has " grown a lot" in the last few years , according to
Nordberg. ' ' Financially , we are much better off than a number of years ago. ' '
But the " boom -period " that the business is currently enjoying has its
drawbacks.
' 'It used to be on a busy day we would have three groups . Now on a very busy
day we have close to 100 riders .
" When it was a lot smaller I think it was more personal ," reflects Norberg .
Still , the scenery more than makes up for any problems one encounters in
renting a horse .
''Because of that (the isolated location) we have ':l lot of property. If we were
closer in (to Eugene) it would be a lot more expensive to get the land we have .''
Imagine ... Azure blue canopy above , dotted with puffs of white billowy
clouds . Below a meadow, fences, barn , house , dirt driveway shaded by oaks ,
across the valley more tree-shrouded hills . Around you, patches of scrub pine
waving in a summer breeze. Take a ride.

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" Summer Safari ," a series of ten
weekend tours to points of historic and
geologic interest in Oregon , will be
offered this summer by the LCC
Community Education Division.
The guided tours , which carry no
college credit , will offer families an
opportunity to experience informal ,
first -hand introductions to the history ,
geology and biology of selected sites in
the state . Some of the locations were
selected from the itinerary of the book,
"Just Down The Road," a chronicle of
travels in Oregon by Ione Reed. Tour
guides are graduate biologists with
. by Janice Brown
extensive experience in their specific
Lenny Nathan , proprietor of' 'Gourmet Cheesecake,'' ignores the rain to serve
areas.
his
customers at Saturday Market. Photo by Jan Brown.
Nine months out of the year many
The outings will explore areas of
Eugenians--cooks and crafts people-- didn't think that meant all the time,'' better days for the market. Throngs of central and eastern Oregon , the
spend their Saturdays at the same place. she said as she served up a scrumptious • customers appear, and so do jazz Cascade and Siskiyou Mountains , the
It's becoming a tradition for many to strawberry blintz. She looks forward to musicians, blues musicians, jugglers, Oregon coastline and points of interest
devote their weekends to an atmosphere the warmer months and is willing to clowns, mime artists and even one gent in the Willamette Valley. Travel to all
that smells like falafels, sopapillas, rough the weather until then. Her booth who plays music on a saw to the destinations will be by air-conditioned
calizoni , egg rolls, cheesecake, museli, is constructed imaginatively as are most awesome pleasure of the many children Trailways buses.
and quesadillas .
of the booths at the market. Katie stays always present.
The excursions begin Saturday, June
,.,..
Rain or shine the venders at the dry once the booth is set up, a task taking
24,
and will be held every consecutive
'
Saturday Market appear to sell their herabout40 minutes, but she says if it's
Saturday through August. Two outings ,
~ handmade wares and serve their exotic • raining she gets "soaked" in that time.
' on July 22 and 23, and on August 26 and
'
cuisine. Out of the past four Saturdays,
Toothervendersjust the setting up of
27, are scheduled two-day tours.
only one was dry, yet the venders were a booth becomes a monumental task. At
An August 12 tour will take visitors to
there cheerfully displaying their goods. the Pizza Co. booth, owner and operator
~
Sumpter and Granite, two eastern
It isn't necessary to buy something to Bonnie, prepares her pizza on an old
Oregon ghost towns that are enjoying a
have a good time. But the craftspeople wood-burning iron stove complete with
modern rebirth , and will explore nearby
do offer a variety of wares: Candles, oven. Bonnie and her assistant Jan load
mining operations and visit one of the
leather goods, jewelry, tapestries, and unload the 500 pound pig iron stove
largest gold dredges in the world.
pottery, stained glass, mounted photo- every Saturday ... by themselves. "Oh,
A July 29 excursion to the coast will
graphs, wind chimes made of sea shells, we just get it onto a loading ramp and put
feature exploration of coastal intertidal
and original water colors are just a few of it on a flat bed truck," says Bonnie .
zones and tide pools, and visits to Cape
the items for sale at the market.
Bonnie and Jan have been doing this
Perpetua and Newport, where particiNot all venders find it easy to grin and every Saturday at the Market for the
pants will tour the Oregon State
bare the rain though: Katie of Bubala' s past four years. It is just something they
University Marine Biology Center, the
Blintzes doesn't care much for the foul do . They are used to it. And it doesn't
Undersea Gardens and the wax
weather . A Californian who has been in seem out of the ordinary to them.
museum.
Eugene for only three months , Katie
"In the beginning there were a lot of
''The Great Mountain Lakes of
hasn 't "gotten used to the weather people qround to help us when the
Oregon,'' scheduled for July 22 and 23 ,
yet.
market closed . But pretty soon when it
is a 300-mile round trip exploring
"I heard it rained in Eugene, but I ~ame time to load the stove , everyone
Crater, Diamond , Waldo and Odell
disappeared,'' Bonnie smiled .
Lakes.
Another booth that serves Mid
Other destinations in the program
Eastern cuisine (including an egg plant
include the Strawberry Mountain
dish called "Ba Ba ghanoush") has an
Wilderness Area, the smaHer towns of
unusual booth construction: The owner,
northern coastline , the meadows and
an architect, created the booth out of
mines surrounding Cottage Grove, the
long bamboo poles and canvas.
remains of the lumber towns of
Quickly constructed booths set up in a Wendling and Mable, and the hidden
Not all the venders have booths
though, some craftspeople spread parking lot each Saturday in May valleys and madrone-laden hills along
blankets on the asphalt and display their through December is the essence of the Umpqua River .
Saturday Market at Eighth and Oak
wares (except on rainy days) .
Persons wishing to participate must
The sunny days are definitely the Streets . P-hoto by Jan Brown.
preregister by June 14. Tuition for the
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Steam locomot ive travels into yesteryear
by Wes Heath

People who don't like steam trains are
about as scarce as hobos with stock
portfolios. Plenty of folks could take
them or leave them, of course. But
nobody--positively nobody--hates the
steam locomotive.
That probably accounts for the

growing popularity of Oregon, Pacific
and Eastern' s steam train excursions
every summer weekend from the
Village Green in Cottage Grove.
For old-timers, the three-hour,
37-mile train trip is a fond reminder of
the days when steam was king. For
younger enthusiasts, the steam engine
called "Old Slow 'n' Easy," or Number
19, simply conjours up pleasant
memories of the steam locomotives that
wheezed and whisted their way through

''Old Slow 'n 'Easy, '' a steam locomotive, rambles its way along the Calapooya
foothills and around Dorena Lake. Photo by Mary McCullough.

Groups offer weekend trips

childhood story books.
Since her inaugural run in 1972, the
64-year-old Mikado steam engine and
her ten-car entourage known as the
"Goose" have carried thousands of
passengers on a sleepy trip into
yesteryear. Geographically speaking,
that takes you up the Row River,
through the Calapooya foothills, along
Dorena Lake to Culp Creek and back
again, and for a modest fare (considering that this is the only steam locomotive
train trip in Oregon) : $4. 90 per adults,
$1. 95 for children.
According to Merlin Nicolson , a
spokesman for OP&E, this summer's
steam train tours beginning June 17 will
be ''better than ever' ' with good
narration at key points along the way.
His company expects big turnouts
this year and has purchased enough
extra cars to accommodate 100 more
passengers per trip; so Nicolson
recommends that you come about one
hour earlier than the 10 a . m. and 2 p .m.
departure times on Saturdays and
Sundays in order to avoid "cramped
quarters" at the small depot. It's fun to
come early anyway to watch the engine
work up steam for the trip and to take
pictures before boarding.
As a matter of fact, photographers
who want pictures of the engine as it
rounds curves should sit as close to the
caboose as possible. I found that most of
the good scenery was on the right side
while going toward Culp Creek and on
the left coming back; so a right hand seat
in the club car near the caboose is a real
good seat for more than one reason!

When the train bell rings passengers
know it's time to board the " Goose. "
Photo by Mary McCullough .
Nicolson announced that the openair cars have been discontinued because
of the extrmeme fire hazard . And the
train museum has been sold to a private
collector in Galveston, Texas. Included
in the recent sale, Nicolson said, was the
Shay locomotive called ''the Cliffhanger" and the self-propelled coach car, the·
WYlOO.
Old 19's less popular diesel-driven
cousin, a 1000-horsepower Alco locomotive, will be making the same excursion
on weekdays at 2 p . m. beginning July 3.
The season for both engines officially
ends just before Labor Day.

by Jack Desmond

It's Friday afternoon and the sun is
shining, just begging for you to get away
from it all. But you don't have a car to get
away from the mess that the car has
created.
Canoeing down the Donner and
Blitzen river, hiking up Mt. Jefferson,
or hiking across the wind-swept dunes
south of Florence are several weekend
trips offered by various groups throughout the Eugene-Springfield area.
• The Outdoor Program, located at
the University of Oregon's Erb Memorial Union, coordinates a bulletin board
system to organize trips. According to
Patsy C:hristgau, work-study student at
the center, a person merely posts a trip
description list at the center's bulletin
board; usually other people will
respond, wanting to participate, and ·
then all parties take care of their own
details of the trip .
• The Sierra Club offers one or

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footsteps after reaching what was
previously a dead end.
Then there are a large number of
neighborhoods that make for an
enjoyable run if you don't mind curbs
and occasional dogs. Some of the
quieter areas are the University district
west and east of the U of 0, parts of the
College Hill area (but beware of some
steep hills), Fox Hollow in south
Eugene , and Laurel Hill valley (but you
have to climb Hendricks Park's
notorious hill if you don't want to run
along the freeway to get there).
Sawdust trails , asphalt bike paths,
sidewalks . All waiting for a pair of new
jogging shoes to try them out.

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gold .... Gold .... GOLD! ... These
words from the distant past echo today
in the minds of both professional and
amateur prospectors.
From the parched, sun-baked soil of
South Africa, which produces more than

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The Oregon Gold Dredge separates gold from lighter sand and gravel and
deposits the gold particles in the sluice box. Photo by Christie Davis.
half the world's supply of gold, to
Alaska's freezing tundra, gold is
waiting to be discovered by a lucky
prospector. In the words of Roy Lagal,
Students and Staff
author and life-long prospector, "Gold
is where you find it.''
KELLY SERVICES has opportunities to
You can even find it in Lane
work on cemporary assignments this
County--in fact, right near Cottage
summer . Openings in over 100 job
Grove and also Oakridge and even in
classifications .
Blue River.
Certainly most gold fields in America
• Clerks
are found in the western United States,
• Typists
from New Mexico to Alaska. Traces are
• Secretaries
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found almost anywhere in Oregon.
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Concentrations (likely spots for re• Switchboard Operators
covery)
are located in the southwestern
• Keypunch Operators
part of the state near the California
Kelly has a job classification for you -- some
border. The Rogue river is one of the
for people with little or no experience! Call
more profitable areas in southern
or visit the Kelly office near you .
Oregon.
The largest concentration of gold
fields
in Oregon is around Ontario, near
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is to submerge all the material collected
east of Eugene.
Most Lane County gold mines are in the container with water, making sure
located on National Forest Land: The all of the material is thoroughly wet.
Bohemia mine is in the Umpqua • Then rotate the container vigorously
National Forest as are the Combination, and begin removing the larger rocks.
Mineral King, Musick, Evening Star, [I;
and the Green Peak mine to name just a
few.
These mines are located near the
head waters of Sharps'Creek 'approximately 15 miles southeast of Cottage
Grove. Maps for this area can be
purchased from the Forest Service.
Ron Wold, the information offficer in
the Mineral and Land section of the
Department of Agirculture, explained
some of the requirements for prospecting on goverment land . "The main
requirement is to obtain permission
from the forest service," Wold said,
explaining that permission can be
granted by any forest ranger. The
ranger station for the Umpqua National
Forest is in Cottage Grove itself, at
70405 Cedar Peak Road. The phone
number is 942-5591.
•
''The main reason behind this
• requirement is public safty: Our forest
rangers can't help you, in case of a
mishap, if they don 'tknow where you
are.'' The rangers can also be very
helpful to the prospective gold miners
by explaining the exact location of the
mining areas and also informing
prospectors of any possible dangers in
the area .
Oakridge's North Fork Gold
Another area, for the gold prospector x· ( ( ( 'e :'!' :.
in Lane County, with a fair concentra- I
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north of Oakridge.
Here are the i"
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Highland Cabin, Billy, Christy, and
Panning for gold on Quartz Creek .
Ironside mines . All these mines are in
Photo by Christie Davis .
the Willamette National Forest, which ·
have their offices in Eugene located at Rotate the container in a circular
211 East 7th. Their phone number is motion, tipping the container slightly,
allowing the water to spill out gradually.
687-6521.
Blue River Gold
This will carry away some of the lighter
Still another area in the county with a material with it leaving the heavier
small grouping of mines is in the north- material in the container.
• The second method is usually only
east section near Blue River. Included
in this area are the Lucky Boy, Lucky used when water is not present. Place
material suspected of containing gold in
Girl, Cinderella. and Rialto Mine.
These dot the headwaters of Quartz a container, as in wet panning. Shake
Creek about four miles north of Blue the container, picking the larger rocks
River. These mines are also part of the out. Use a back and forth motion to spill
the lighter material off gradually. Save
Willamette National Forest.
Gettin' The Gold
the material left in the container for wet
There are two basic ways for panning later.
recovering precious gold: One is wet
Goldminingequipmentisavailableto
panning, theotherisdrypanning. Since suit everyone's enthusiasum and
gold is slightly over 19 times as heavy as pocketbook. For $1.25 the amateur
water ,prospectors can easily recover it prospector can buy a stell pan six inches
by panning. Pans and panning methods in diameter.
have remained basically unchanged for
The cost can escalate to around $3,400
for an eight inch surface dredge. The
thousands of years.
• To wet pan start by placing material portable surface dredge has proven
suspected of containing gold into a itself invaluable to the prospector,
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Boater's paradise

be rented in Eugene for $13 a day , and
many of the lakes in the area are spotted
with small marinas that offer daily , or
hourly rental rates on small outboard
fishing craft , or rowboats .
On the other hand , a family can expect
to invest $3 ,800 or more for a basic
waterski package which includes a good
quality boat with ample power .
The high-powered inboard racing
boats that start burying their throttles in
excess of 55 miles per hour start at
$6,000 to $7 ,000, but usually surpass
$10,000 in initial cost, fully equipped .
Larger boats with spacious cabins and
all the amenities of home are more
expensive yet. The bigger the boat and
the more creature comforts and power it
contains, the greater the initial cost, and
the greater the cost of operating and
maintaining it. Consequently, for power
boating the sky really is the limit.
The Wind-Blown Variety
Throughout history, sailing has often
been regarded almost mystically as the
medium for a spiritual bond between
humans and the sea.
Today, it is often associated with
affluence--as the pastime of the elite.

more, however , which makes rental a
nice alternative for the now-and-then
sailor . In Eugene, a small cat rig or sloop
can be rented for about $30 per day .
Safe and successful sailing does
require the acquisition of some basic
skills, however , and some form of
instruction is necessary for getting
started. LCC often offers sailing
instruction through the Adult Education
Program and the Eugene Chapter of the
U.S . Coast Guard Auxiliary occasionally
offers sailing class~s .
Sailing, like power boating, is a wide
world , and the expense and the
adventure can become as extravagant
as the sailor's dreams .
The thrills, excitement, and variety ot
pursuits upon the water are nearly
without limit. But the highest level of
pleasure can be plunged into horrifying
tragedy almost instantly as a result of
the most innocent of errors, or
ignorance of safety practices and rules .
So time spent studying safety
manuals, attending a boating safety
course , and becoming familiar with
one's equipment is time invested in
more assured pleasure.

times'' because each felt pressured by
the other.
Like the thrill of roaring down a
highway at 90 miles an hour, river
rafting is dangerous. Morton was
floating down the McKenzie a couple
of years ago and saw what happens
when people aren't prepared.
• "-It was a snowy, windy day and I
only had a surfsuit on . I pulled out
below Martin ' s Rapids by a campfire to
warm up. A couple in a IO-foot rowboat
came floating down through the
They didn 't have any
rapids .
lifejackets on and were obviously
inexperienced. Their rowboat went
'ass over teakettle ' in the rapids. It
took the combined efforts of a
power boater and us to rescue them. ' '
River rafters call that harrowing
experience "buying a farm ," a term
coined by veterans who had survived
theravagesofWorld War II and whose
only thought was to escape to an idyllic
spot , such as a farm , that would be free

from danger .
If you're not ready to buy a farm,
you don't have to listen to Morton's
words.
You can float the lower McKenzie
anytime, but the upper McKenzie is
nothing to screw around with.
(Especially) later in the year because of
the exposed rocks," he warns.
A spokeswoman for the Willamette
National Forest explained that "Because of so many dangerous rivers, we
don't like to give advice."
However, there are five launching
sites along the McKenzie between
Blue River and Vida. These launching
sites are marked by road signs to
provide convenient access for rafters.
The lower McKenzie is generally
considered a fairly safe river to float ,
though several participants in the now
Parade"
"Whitewater
defunct
drowned one year .
Though care should be taken when
floating rivers , Lutman relished the
continual challenges that the rivers
present.
''There was a log jam ahead where
the channel narrowed . You could get
under the log if you really ducked
down . My wife and I tried to a!')gle off
to one side to le everyone else
through . The current was so strong
that our canoe was swamped .''
Lutman then had to corral the canoe
and push it towards the shore . After
hard work , he and his wife were able to

drag the canoe to the beach.
Says Lutman, "It's always your
ability that gets you through . ''
If you're planning a raft trip down
any of the rivers in Oregon, here are
some tips on preparation.
Where to go
The McKenzie, the Deschutes, and
the Santiam rivers are ideal day float
trips. The upper McKenzie and the
Deschutes are both swift and challengFor beginners, the lower
ing.
McKenzie below Ben and Day Dorris
State Park is a good first trip .
What to bring
Surfsuit (if cold), helmet , lifejacket.
Organized trips
The Outdoor Program at the U of 0
offers several trips a week in t~e spring
and summer down the McKenzie and
other rivers. However , these trips fill
up fast. The Sierra Club and Mazamas
occasionally offer float trips.
Renting rafts
Rafts can be rented at the Outdoor
Program office for six dollars a day .
However , the rafts can only be used on
Outdoor Program intiated trips.
Franklin 's Rentals offers two-person
rafts for seven dollars a day ;
four -person rafts for nine dollars a day .
A $25 deposit is required .
Latest information on river conditions
The Outdoor Program posts hazards . Currently, there is a log across
the river at Paradise Campground on
the McKenzie River .

ing , racing , and travel are a few of the
most common activities of local boaters
in local waters.
A used aluminum fishing boat with
trailer and motor can sometimes be had
for less than $500.
But an aluminum cartopper with
outboard motor and lif<>-jackets can also

However , sailing can be enjoyed as
one of the least expense and most
challenging forms of boating . It is
possible to purchase a small, used
sailboat for as little as $350 and thereby
possess a boat that can provide endless
hours of excitement and pleasure .
New boats generally cost $800 or

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any stretch of river. Rapids are
classified by a national standards rating
system for difficulty, and while some are
perfect for the novice, others are a
challenge for the experts.
There are the hard-core canoeists
who insist upon challenging the white
water of roaring mountain gorges, but a
canoe is less manueverable than a kayak
and is more adapted to the straighter
stretches of fast water. Yet a canoe can
become, virtually, a dreamboat on a
calm lake, a lazy river, or a peaceful
millrace.
Canoes are ideal for group or family
adventures and, in quiet waters, the
beginner need not feel overly intimidated by an absence of skill.
A basic canoe outfit can be acquired
for as little as $350. But, like most forms
of boating, one's wants, needs, and
pocketbook are going to dictate the
financial outlay.
One need not purchase a canoe,
however. Canoe rentals are available
locally and the cost (canoe, paddles, and

fingers and hope for a midday fish fry .
Sea Charters
The Pacific Northwest is famous for
its salmon runs and one of the more
expedient ways of hooking into one of
those lively "Silvers" or monstrous
''Chinooks ' ' is to go to sea on a charter
boat .
The only real prerequisite is a valid
fishing license and a salmon tag be~ause
the charter service provides the rest:
Boat, licensed skipper, and a bait boy to
tend the tackle and bait (also provided) .
Charters, as a rule, generally go out
for four hours and the fee is usually
about $20 per person. In the summer, it
is recommended that reservations be
made several days in advance-particularly for weekends.
Powered Craft, Modest & Grand
Power boating covers a spectrum so
wide as to be nearly incomprehensible.
From 12-foot aluminum cartoppers to
elegant offshore diesel cruisers, there is
a boat, a price range, and an adventure
for nearly everyone. Fishing, waterski-

For 'test of ability'

can really get a lot of adrenalin
going .. .getting through a obstacle is
an unbelievable experience,'' he says.
Lutman counsels that the best
partner to have is "someone that you
don't know very well,'' because of themutual responsibility and reaction
needed between the two paddlers. He
has rafted rivers many times with is
wife, and he adds that, unfortunately,

or great weekend,
rafting is exciting
by Jack Desmond

"You can know every pebble in the
stream and n'ever swamp, but you
never know what will happen. One
time, our raft flipped and I plunged
into the water. A snake on a rock also
happened to fall into the rapids . He
turned and looked at me. We knew we
were both ' had' so we went down it
together until he disappeared ,'' said
Gary Lutman , a long-time river rafter.
River rafting has mushroomed in the
last few years, although no one knows
for sure how many people participate
in the sport . Ken Morton, another
long-time river runner , estimates that
thousands of people float down the
McKenzie River on the warm , sunny
days over the summer .
Rafting rivers for some people is an
enjoyable way to relax on a weekend .
For others , like Lutman , rafting is a
test of his ability.
" No one else except the guy in front
and you (in the raft) is responsible.
life-jacket) is a modest eight dollars.
The McKenzie River Special
The McKenzie River , with its
sparkling ripples and deep trout pools is
famous for its fishing and for its beauty.
It seems almost fitting that a boat should
be designed specifically for it.
The flat-bottomed dories that are
often seen sitting motionless on the
clear , rushing waters are just that--McKenzie River Boats.
With the oars in the hands of
experienced guides the boats appear to
defy the current when manuevering to
where the fish are.
Aonedaytripon the McKenzie with a
licensed guide costs $85, but the fee can
be divided between two people. It is
recommended that rain gear, tackle
and a lunch be provided by the
customer, although guides can usually
supply the tackle.
Some of the more optimistic customers bring no lunch, but cross their

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