Corvallis Gazette-Times from Corvallis, Oregon • 9

a IS? La of a 4 It v. n't a -y I jvu'd call CI Tl.Wr a i r' vcreci the srr.ill La of a drumrrar, i a tnsm- Knl sLy cf wiB ijmu, la! nr FirLt act up i P. 're "cr.e of tie world's m-vt trn-f rs." rirjT.astcr I'Ahir in circts hyperbole a platinum blonde v. ho strode into the cae wielding a whip. "Crack!" went the whip, and into the cage bounded five leopards, followed ty a trio of sleek triers.

wcr.t t' crowd ss prodded and prompted the tig cats onto their stands. The animals struck ferocious poses until cr.e leered the illusion by roll! 3 onto its Lack and rolling iu head against the cage bars Lite an overgrown kitten. So what if the "fierce and dangerous vild animals" acted more Lke well-bthav- nrci hen a ed pussycats. Zo if tie prtrv.ri "electrL'yi-g" s-'. I cf fa Duo and The a 4.1 on the "thrills, whit if a pair of "i g'-rr.

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Mere voices joined in: "Cir! Clg-P'jr!" He complied. They eedhlm on. Pretty soon Pop! went the balloon, and down went the clown, knees r.d t.lvus spuwling, to delighted cheers frcm tie kids in the stands. A drumroH. A fanfare.

Remaster Join Miller strode to the center ring and dolled his tall hat. "Lay-deeez and gennamun! of ALL ages! WEL-come to the 1GS4 edition of CTa-daaaa!" blared the trumpet.) The A-MER-icap Conti-NEN-tal i to the csr- vsTl y. Freer go to end proj-cis. cf the growls lock-J a l.Ule rtd Ut sat in the waging afternoon sur.J.lne Lr the cprvs'r matinee were havir a t''l. "Hot d.s! Iia 'js!" wee-n'e vendnr inside the Eeuiuii County Fair rro g-t.

ccr.es! Snow cones! Cherry, flurry snow cones!" szr.g tack her hus-from his stand nearby. A lone clown, all floppy shoes and baggy pants, wandered into the center ring. Nobody paid much attention until he pulled a big, red balloon from one patched pocket and began to blow it up. He paused, held the bal l.c';4 i cf fci rt Lt. Lut to 2.ir-c:i T.

ir clutched her mcll.sr's arm in cr.e I.USe fist and a big gob cf cotton cr.ndy in tie other the American Ccntincr.Ll Circus and its pancly of fctL rmers were about as exciting as they come. TaySar was one of a few hundred children who dragged or were draped by 7 A' nrn Section ADVICE 1 1 If 1 i i IV' Fridav. S3tmbr 14, 1334 Idors calisd ousslio J. big threat to' oceans Incumbent backs aid for research 1 v. Sy Steve Jones of th Gantta-TimM Sen.

Mark Hatfield told stories of his childhood in Dallas Thursday as he swept through the mid-Willamette Valley Thursday shoring up grassroots support among Republicans here. Beginning with a luncheon in Albany, and continuing through a $5-a-person fundraiser in Corvallis in the evening, the Oregon Republican echoed the themes of peace, hope and prosperity that have won him 18 years in the U.S. Senate. "Jobs, jobs that is the key all over this state," said Hatfield in an afternoon interview in Corvallis. But despite the concern about jobs, Hatfield suggested no new programs to directly create jobs.

Instead, he called for a stronger federal role in research aimed at creating new opportunities for jobs. "The federal government has a legitimate role to play in stimulating research," the Oregon Republican told a crowd of about 200 at the Corvallis fundraiser. He said the federal government should pay for such efforts as the recently proposed Center for Excellence in Forestry Research at Oregon State University and a biomedical research institute proposed at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. Earlier in the day, Hatfield toured the Coryallis Hewlett-Packard Co. plant where plant manager Daniel Terpack showed him how robots assemble calculators.

But the Senator confessed he was confused by some advances in technology. He said he doesn't use a personal computer and doesn't even know how to Hotiy Latham Sen. Mark Hatfield talks to a reporter Thursday afternoon at Nendel's Inn in Corvallis. By Wendy Madar 4 of OatMt-Tim I We have met the enemy and, to paraphrase the cartoonist Walt Kelly, he is us the painter who pours turpentine down the sink and the gardener who hauls pesticide dregs to the dump. Industries are regulated, but what the householder does with toxic wastes is not regulated.

i "What most people don't realize Is that industry isn't the only culprit in chemical pollution," says ocea-nographer Juditl, Capuzzo. "When people at home don't want turpentine or other chemicals, they pour them down the drain. It goes into the sewage treatment system, often interferes with the treatment process, and is not completely degraded. Then it enters the environment." Capuzzo, from Woods Hole Ocea-nographic Institution, is one of several hundred scientists from around the world who are in Corvallis this week for an ocean disposal symposium. She is chairman of the slum, which ends today.

"What people don't understand is that we dump wastes in the ocean all the time," Capuzzo said in an interview Thursday. "In terms of volume, sewage and sludge from harbor and other dredging are the dominant coastal environmental problems." i Both sewage and dredge materials are contaminated with DDT (banned in the early 70s but still present in the environment in targe quantities), heavy metals and other toxins. Sewage is anything that goes through sewer lines to treatment plants. Whatever people dump down the drain has to end up somewhere in the environment, Capuzzo said. She cited silver, from silver chloride used in photography, as an example of a heavy meial that is ending up in the oceans via sewer systems.

"I love to ask my eager undergraduate students if they develop their own photographs," said Capuzzo. "About 40 percent say yes, and when I ask them what they do with their developer chemicals they say 'Pour them down the drain. Capuzzo said businesses that use silver chloride have to abide by toxic-waste-disposal laws, but not private citizens. "Most people think that oil spills are the biggest source of petroleum pollution in the marine environment," she said. "That's not true.

Oil spills in U.S. waters in one year only equal one-tenth the amount of chronic discharge (from disposal of crankcase oil and other petroleum products in sewer systems and city landfill sites)." She said the worldwide pattern is similar, Capuzzo said many communities in new biigiaiiu setting Up lOXtC waste collection systems for private citizens; the wastes are then taken to hazardous waste disposal sites. No such system exists in Oregon, although Stephen Sander, of the Oregon. Department of Environmental Quality, said there is great concern here about the problem. "We have been trying to interest local governments in setting up small collection facilities," Sander said.

The response has been mainly negative, although in spring of 1983, the Gresham fire department conducted a house-to-house chemical i cleanup. cv.i A citizens' committee in Eugene is studying possibilities for setting up a toxic-waste collection center, Sander said. One county in Washington has a small pesticide-collection project going, and Alaska is following British Columbia's lead in contracting to a private company to set up a system for the state. California is a leader in this area, Sander said. A group in Sacramento is preparing a handbook to guide communities interested in the backyard toxic waste problem.

Copies will be available from Gina Purin, Golden Empire Health Planning Center, 2100 21st Sacramento, Calif. The Corvallis Disposal Co. will pick up used crankcase oil in non-glass containers with lids when it picks up newspapers and other recycled materials. "I think we've come a long way in the past 10 years in understanding what happens to waste in the oceans' Capuzzo said. "The interaction between decision makers, regulators and scientists is getting closer." Those who make the laws are beginning to realize that there are more unknowns thar'knowns in predicting environmental impacts of pollutants, said Capuzzo.

And scientists, who often have tended to avoid political issues, are becoming more involved in decision-making "That's partly what this conference is all about," she said. political solution." The message brought warm applause from the crowd at Nendel's a group that seems, if anything, more supportive since Hatfield's brush with the Senate Ethics Committee' over his connection with Greek businessman Basil Tsakos. The Ethics Committee will decide within a week whether to conduct a full-scale inquiry into Hatfield's dealings with Tsakos, the committee chairman, Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, said Thursday. Hatfield's wife, Antoinette, has sckscledged that she received 55, 000 for real estate and redecorating "work done for Tsakos, a financier who wants to construct a $10-billion oil pipeline across Africa. Hatfield has supported the idea.

Despite the threat of further in-vestigatiori, people interviewed at the fundraiser said they hold Hatfield in the highest regard. "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts," said a laughing Milton Mater, 1415 S.W. Brooklane Drive, as he recited the old Roman proverb in its original Latin. "I think he just fell into it without thinking," said Mater, chairman of the Benton County Republican Qub. Hatfield may have made an error in judgment, but did nothing wrong, said Carl Aschenbrenner, 5750 S.W.

Philomath who said he has known the Hatfields since 1942. type. "I know very little about things mechanical," he said laughing. But Hatfield knows his mind, and he drew clear lines between his brand of Republican thinking that that of more conservative members of his party. He rejected the Reagan administration's continued use of military force in El Salvador and called for a "peace army" of doctors, agriculture workers and teach- ers.instead of more military aid.

The war in El Salvador "cannot be settled by military force any more than Vietnam couid be settled by force," Hatfield said. "All we're doing Is bleeding the people to death. We better start moving toward a folded-star quilts, tatted items, graham-cracker house ornaments and many other projects. The festival will take place at the Assembly of God Church, 2110 N.W. Circle Blvd.

Samples of projects to be completed at the fair are on display at Corvallis Home Interiors, 1921' N.W. 9th St. Cost for the fair is $1.50 a day. Registration forms are available at the Benton County Extension office, 2720 N.W. Polk and at Corvallis Home Interiors.

The event Is sponsored by the Benton Extension Homemakers i Advisory Council. It's time to, pre-register for -classes offered during the 1984 Home Arts Festival, scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 16- 17. The annual festival presents a wide variety of crafts-classes-Participants can learn to make machine-appliqued sweatshirts, Home arts to be taught at festival its own downtown OUS0 holding -year-o The house is an example of the bungalow style. That style is charac- a 111 a.

a tH 1 It -J terizea oy a larm porcn wiw siuooy little columns," second-story gable facing the street, shingle siding on upper floors, and bay windows on the ground-floor sides of the house, Hammrick said. -v He said the bungalow style marked a transition between the elaborate Victorian period and later styles. Shortly after the turn of the century, kits for bungalow houses could be purchased from mail-order catalogs for $2,000 or $3,000, although the Burnap-Rickard house is a little big for that, he said. Karen Thomas of Corvallis did historical research on the house, a necessary step in applying for nomination to the National Register. Arthur said the house has about 1,000 square feet on each of two floors, an attic and a basement.

Correction Because of a reporter's error, a Records item in the Sept. 8 Gazette- By Melissa Grimes of tha Gaiatta-Tlmat Squeezed between commercial buildings downtown, the 69-year-oid Burnap-Rickard House Is going to keep holding its own with a little help from its friends. The house at 518 S.W. 3rd St. was placed on the National Register of Historic Places recently.

The register is an official list of cultural resources that are judged worthy of preservation. The owners, Cynthia Arthur and David Ueland, will get substantial tax breaks in exchange for a promise to maintain the house's historic features. The house has historic value because of Its architectural style and the local prominence of its former residents, including a former Benton County commissioner, said James Hammrick, architectural historian with the state preservation office in Salem. It was built by developers Morse and Minnie Burnap In 1915. They lived In it for two years before selling It to Peter Rlckard, who served four terms as a county commissioner and two terms as county sheriff, starting in 1869.

He was re-elected to the county commission in 1902 and served until 1908. Rickard, a farmer and stockman, moved into the house from a farm in rural Benton County after his His daughter, Leatha Rickard Porter, who died this winter, moved into the house in 1939 and lived there until 1983, when she entered Heart of the Valley Center. She was a local hatmaker. Arthur and Ueland bought the house from Porter in August 1983. "We really just fell in love with it," said.

Arthur. The real estate agent who sold them the house said other potential buyers were interested in the property but wanted to remove the building. That bit of information only strengthened the couple's resolve to buy and renovate the home, which they now live in. Ueland is a carpenter, so the couple will be able to keep down costs by doing much of the work themselves, said his wife. "So we just decided to take on a great big project.

It's almost overwhelming. We'll be working on it for a long, long time," she said. They replaced the the wiring and plumbing when they moved in a year ago and did some pruning, Arthur said. The house needs paint and plaster and a staircase In back. 1 "But because there was practically only one owner, it Is in just beautiful, beautiful shape inside," Arthur said.

I 1 1 Times contained incorrect information. The item should have said 16 marijuana plants were found growing in a pump house at a residence that has no known address. The pump house is on property ad- iaoAnt In Ctar Rnilt P.n Aft Cum'- Hotly Latham The Burnap-Rickard House at 61 8 S.W. 3rd has been judged worthy of preservation. WMft WWV, WW, UUWt mit, but it was not at that address..