Corvallis Gazette-Times from Corvallis, Oregon • 9

till fiGcRilTEC By Wendy Madar of tto Gtt-Tinw 1 ,1 "1 An artist's drawing shows the erchod 3rd Street entrance for the proposed downtown JUooo lenging to develop and clearly ne'd' he s.i'rj, thpy also disrupt the teaching day when students are pulled out of the regular classroom Fryer plans to continue opera ting boarding houses for elderly people. He and his wife, Faye, run one home in Albany, two in Corvallis and swlli open a third next month. Wogaman said Fairplay Elementary School Principal Marie Stone will replace Fryer at Adams. Ringo, who was hired as principal of Inavale Elementary la 1380, is marrying and moving to Seattle with her new husband. After 4 '4 years in Corvallls, Gwynn has accepted a Job as principal of Sunset High School in Beaverton.

Wogaman said the district hopes to hire three principals in July. He also announced the retirements of Highland View Middle School sixth-grade teacher Marion Whitney, and Hoover Elementary ifth-grade teacher Dean Bruce-Whitney has taught in the district for 13 years and Bruce, for 33 years. other business, the board re-' ceived i "report on volunteers that stated that 1,764 volunteers were In the schools during the past year. The report said that the 20,553 hours given by these volunteers would have cost the district $55 If It had to pay the helpers a minimum wage of 33.35 per hour. The breakdown of volunteers by level was: 1,103 in elementary schools; 153 in middle schools and 332 in the high schools.

There were five volunteers at the Children's Farm Home Junior-Senior High School. Volunteers will be recruited for next year during the second week In September, with special effort to get people for the Farm Home School and food services. A volunteer display now in the Post Office will remain there through the summer. Volunteers are so Important to the schools that the board last spring approved hiring of a half-time person to help coordinate volunteers. Kay Eilers has been doing this Job since the fall.

In addition to other duties including producing the quarterly community newsletter The Term Paper. Corvallls will lose three school principals this year with the retirement of William Fryer at Adams Elementary and the resignations of Molly Ringo of Garfield Elementary and Glenn Gwynn of Corvallis High School. At the school board meeting Monday, Superintendent Thomas Woga-man said that Fryer twgan teaching seventh grade at Franklin Elementary in V.i.4. After a brief period at Vtuihington Elementary, Fryer became a teaching principal at lnavale Elementary in 1961. From 1963-65, he was principal of both Inavale and Roosevelt.

He then was principal for seven years at Mountain View Elementary and for the past five years, at Adams Elementary. "We've always been able to count on him for devoted service Jto the du, trict and to keep us honest on mfty points," Wogaman said. 1 Fryer, 57, said the decision to retire was the hardest he's ever made and announcing it to his staff members was even harder. "I've had a very good experience with the schools here," Fryer said. Retiring now Is particularly difficult ho-cause so many things 7 William Fryer are developing.

There's new Information on integrated curriculums, computers but in order to follow through, you need younger people with years ahead of them." Fryer said the biggest change he's seen in 29 years Is the proliferation of programs for specific groups such as gifted and disabled students, The program for developmeritaiiy disabled students now at Garfield Elementary was started at Mountain View while Fryer was principal there. While such programs are chal proposal Downtown merchants impressed by for mall, but cautious about public costs, details could or couldn't afford It. he said. For example, it's unclear how much merchants facing the mall would have to contribute to its upkeep, he said. And, he asked, if a parking-assessment district were created to finance construction of the three parking structures around the mall, how much would outlying property owners have to pay? People with businesses more than 350 (eet from the parking ga ligher ed post LaPointes at 264 S.W.

Madison summed up the opinions of most merchants. "Any ucvclopHiciSi ii i Step in the right direction," Bergqulst said. Special attention to the problems of outlying merchants and community desires could make It work. "Customers do, for the most part, want that convenience," she said of malls. Througiiout the country, people navt shown a preference for covered shopping areas, said David Brands of Portland, whose family owns the Crees Building at 233 W.

3rd St. Brands' family filed suit In 1833 to stop work on the north Corvallls mall. That suit was widely considered to fce one of the reasons that proposal failed. Sooner or later Corvallis will a shopping mall, either downtown or In the suburbs, Brands said. "We now have the time to do something downtown." fcho no wo are: Curtis J.

Cole. 3720 S.W. Army, health and physical education major; William D. Klfer, 3323 S.E. Charlotte Place, Army, education; Marc T.

Lanman, 2979 S.E. Greenmore Place, Air Force, engl-neering; and David M. Moore, 2030 Whiteside Drive, Air Force, i 1,1 Oy Steve Jones at Onnn Ttm FvraCv'iun iiTiufig merchant! and property owners Tuesday tm the mall proposed by Rohit Joshi It Associates was positive, but there were some dissenting opinions. "Basically, it looks like food plan," said Ralph Kitchel. owner KitchePs Shoe Repair st 454 S.W.

Madison Ave. "I think It's time Corvsllls made some positlre moves ahead." said Bob Adams, a partner in the Inkwell, 134 S.W, 3rd St, AJjms said be was "encouraged" bv the design of the mall ami the effort Joshi's people made to concerns of community groups. 1 "Tfee question now Is 'What has to happen to this proposal to make It work for Even Paul Green said the project has some merits. Green's engineering company worked on a now-defunct proposal to build a shopping mall at Northeast Circle Boulevard and Oregon Highway WW. "I do agree that if the public subsidized some parking down-town it would allow more new development to occur In the whole downtown." Yet Jack Stewart of Joshl Associates estimates it will require about 13 million in public money to build the mall, and that amount and how It would be raised bothers some merchants.

Richard W. Mehlhaf. who with his father, Richard C. Mehlaf, operates Mehlhaf's clothing store at 300 S.W. Madison was one of those merchants.

"I don't think the community wilt foot the bill," he said, referring to the $3 million subsidy. "II was a separate person (not connected with the development), I'm not sure I would want to pay for it." Bob Blackledge, who heads a family company that owns six downtown buildings, withheld his endorsement. There are too many questions about the. development to know whether the community ounty, request By Michael Blumfield ot thm 0n Tim Contract negotiations have reached an impasse between Benton County and some 140 of its workers who belong to the American Federation of State, County and Munclpal Employees. The county's personnel director, Frank Dieu, has asked for a state mediator to resolve the dispute.

At issue Is who will pay for an expected 13 percent Increase in medical premiums from Blue Cross. Another 2 percent increase In dental rates is anticipated. The county proposes splitting the difference half of the Increase paid for by the county, half by the workers. The union members not only don't want to pay any extra money, but want the county to cover all medical expenses. It does so for the sheriff's office employees, so it should do so for everyone, they reason.

Dieu said the county now pays for some 05 percent of an employee medical coverage. For individual Adams economics of the community, and it's important to keep our students in the state." Adams earned bachelor's degrees In science from the University of Colorado and Oregon State University, and a master's degree in engineering from Yale University. He has worked for CH2M-H1I1 since 1949. Adams has served on the State Commission on Judicial Fitness, the Benton County Planning Commission, the board of directors of the Oregon Chapter of the American Public Works Association, and the board of directors of the Oregon State Bank. In 1978, Adams was named Oregon Civil Engineer of the Year.

Support for education In the state has been going downhill during recent years, Adams said, partly because of the general economic problems In the forest lnduitry. "Education has taken its lumps, but people are realizing we heed to develop more support In order to bring hi-tech and research Institutions to Oregon, we have to realize they look for a strong education system." getting better length hair and a thin moustache. Charles suffered broken ribs and head injuries. He apparently was struck In the face and the back of the head with a blunt instrument. A hospital representative said he had no idea when Charles would be released.

given to Corvallis native Robert R. Adams, vice presirtwu and director of civil engineering at CH2M-HU1, has been appointed by Gov. Vic Atlyeh to the State Board of Higher Education. Adams will replace Edward Harms, of Springfield, whose terra expires Jane 30. Adams' appointment, which begins July 1 and ends June 30, 1989, has to be approved by the state Senate.

"Of course, I'm the new kid on the block but I think m' ve fallen behind In higher Robert R. Adams education," said Adams, who was born and raised In Corvallis. He now lives at 2500 S.W. Whiteside Drive. need to catch up, to strengthen our system.

We need to allocate money to do it we can't always sell livabllity to keep people here. Educa tion la Important to the overall Beating victim The condition of an 11-year-old Monroe man, beaten Thursday during a robbery, has improved. Ernie Charles is now listed in good condition at Good Samaritan Hospital. Charles, of 24695 Territorial Road, was assaulted by a man police described as being between 17 and 20 years old with red, shoulder- If( rages probably wouldn't benefit from their construction, yet those people might have to help pay for them, he said. "You can't spread the parking cost all over downtown.

It wouldn't be fair." he sld. Another merchant, who preferred not to be named, was concerned that routing traffic off 4la Street would severely hurt his business, which relies on drive-In customers. But Dcbl Bergqulst, manager of Pcoplo En Graduate of Lehigh Ronald Hukari of Corvallls was among 1,067 students at Lehigh University who were awarded degrees during the school's 117th commencement exercises June I in Bethlehem, Hukari received a master's degree In mechanical engineering. ROTC commissioning Fifty-nine Oregon State University students were commissioned as officers In the military services Saturday and Sunday after completing ROTC requirements along with their regular academic programs, Five of the 59 are women and 37 are from Oregon. Twenty-one wers commissioned as second lieutenants in the Army at a ceremony Sunday.

Nineteen were commissioned as ensigns In the Navy and four as second lieutenants In the Marine Corps on Saturday. Fifteen were commissioned as second lieutenants In the Air Force on Sundav. Corvallis residents commissioned Bob Lymv Camw-Timw Jack Stewart representing Rohit Joshi and Associates of California, left, and architect Aldo Genova display an aerial photo with an overlay showing the downtown mall. workers mediator North Side Seeks coverage, for example, a worker p.iys about 13.80 a month on a premium of some 183. The workers are In the second year of a three-year contract.

No other Issues are being negotiated. The impasse was reached after only the second meeting, which happened Monday. Both sides argue their cases on the basis of principles, not money, -Dieu said the county has negotiated for a cap on medical spending during the past few years and Insists that higher premiums are "a shared responsibility." Stefan Ostrach, field representative for the union's Eugene office and chief spokesman for the workers, said his group wants to see if other insurers could provide lower rates, which happened when put out to bid In Eugene. An offer to form a Joint commute? to investigate such a possibility was rejected by the county, he said. Ostrach said his organization also would like to study ways of lmple- meriting preventive measures into the medical Anna Sevens and her lawyers met with representatives of an unidentified company In Portland on Monday to begin work on a plan to reopen her Idle North Side Lumber Co.

Dean Quick, a lawyer and spokesman for North Side, said two proposals to reopen the company have been sent to Portland lawyer Gilbert Sussman, who Is leading the team of lawyers presenting North Side's case to the Bankruptcy Court. Everyone at the Monday meeting agreed to turn one of those proposals in'o a plan for restarting the company. Lawyers hope to flnifii the plan this wetk and present it to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court on Friday or early next week. Quick refused to identify the company Involved.

He did say it would "purchase a majority of North Side's operations." North Side's major creditors, such as Seattle First National Bank and Barclays American Business Credit, know about the proposal. But It is not clear "what their exact position Is at this time," Quick said. Lawyers have frequently said that any successful reorganization plan must have the backing of Uw company's biggest-creditors. North Side, which filed for a Chapter 11 reorganization under the Bankruptcy Act, lists 10.4 million In debts and fewer than $7.1 million In assets, according to documents filed with the Bankruptcy Court.