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Shakespeare Festival protests censorship, turns down federal grantBy Ron Cowan dowment's new grant restric-The Statesman Journal tions on obscenity.

ASHLAND The rejection might imperil— The Oregon other pending grants, festival of-Shakespeare ficials said.Festival has The 32-member festival board,rejected a acting on the advice of artistic$49,500 grant director Jerry Turner, voted Fri-from the Na- Oregon day to reject the matching granttional Endow- Shakespeare because of a requirement to signment for the a pledge not to create obsceneArts, in pro- Festival work.

Turner said the action was

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taken as a philosophical stance;the theater has no intention ofcreating obscene work.

"Even Shakespeare in his dayhad his own set of censors,"Turner said. "Censorship waswrong then, and it is wrongnow."

The grant of $49,500, whichthe festival has received eachyear since 1972, is small in com-parison to the total $10 millionannual budget for the Ashlandand Portland operations. But therejection could affect severalother pending grants, accordingto development director JimCox.

The largest pending request isa $250,000 grant, which festivalofficials would have to match

three to one, for construction ofa $5.7 million outdoor stage pa-vilion.

The festival action follows adecision by California choreogra-pher Bella Lewitzky, Turner'slongtime colleague and friend, toreject a $72,000 grant for similarreasons.

Turner, who said he had see-sawed on his decision for thepast two weeks, said Saturdaythat he was astonished and

proud at the action of the con-servative festival board.

Board President Richard A.Bernard of Ashland said theboard had considered acceptingthe grant under protest but de-cided to take the more drasticaction.

An audience made up of festi-val actors, board members andthe media gave Turner a stand-ing ovation at the Saturdaymorning news conference.test of the en-

=NDAY SPECIAL: Father's Day '90 Drivers angerNE Salemneighborhood

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The twisted metal skeleton of whatmay have been a park bench stood askewon the corner.

Two grooves in the bark dust tracedfrom where the car hit the bench towhere it slammed into the side of thehouse.

In the middle of a blackened row ofshrubbery sat a homemade cardboardsign:

"Speeding isn't cool."In the past week, two serious accidents

have occurred in the 1000 block of PineSt. NE. And in a neighborhood brim-ming with children, families have decid-ad that

Pine Street three years, said."Not just the kids — a grown man died

last night, right before our eyes."Late Friday night, two cars collided at

the corner of Pine St. and Cherry Ave.,killing Raymond W. Brenneman, 34, of4345 Snowberry St. NE.

On Saturday morning, Ronald D. Bur-ton, 24, of 2690 Maple Ave. NE, was ar-rested at his residence on charges of felo-ny hit and run, driving without an opera-tor's license and driving withoutinsurance.

According to witnesses, both vehicleswere traveling at high speed when theycollided at about 11:45 p.m. According toan antnnal, ID -- -

Stephen Kelly spends his coffee breaks playing tacklewith his two sons, Danny, 6, and John, 3. Kelly, a corn-

Timothy J. Gonzales/Statesman Journalputer consultant, moved his office into his home abouta year ago.

Fathers of the '90s raise a new followingBy Dawn JacksonThe Statesman Journal

They emerged in the '50s and werestrong through the '70s — the WardCleavers and Michael Bradys.

Perfect fathers.They were the sole family providers,

problem solvers, disciplinarians, base-ball coaches and friends. They did it all,and they were good at it.

They knew best.Or did they?Fact or fiction, it's a tough act to fol-

low. But some fathers are trying.Take Wilbur Sewell of Scotts Mills.

Even though he and his wife have threegrown children, they adopted two babiesduring the past two years.

"We thought we did a good job lasttime so we wanted to do it again,"

Sewell, 50, said.He always has been involved with his

children — from changing diapers andfeeding to making sure lines of commu-nication stayed open.

"That's the key to good parenting," hesaid, "a lot of good lov i ng care."

And he's raising his new children the

Turn to Fathers, Page 2A.

By Dan PostrelThe Statesman Journal

BLUE RIVER — Mark Harmon won't liveto see the end of his research project at theH.J. Andrews Experimental Forest near here.

He and his colleagues are working on a 200-year study of the decomposition of logs in old-growth forests.

A two-century study of some rotting logs?Harmon, an Oregon State University forest

scientist, acknowledges that this isn't themost glamorous area of scientific inquiry. Butrecent research suggests that the slow decay oflogs and other dead wood, returning nutrientsto the soil, plays a crucial role in sustainingforests.

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"The forest, believe it or not, is a great dealmore than just the living trees," he said. "Butyou wouldn't know that the way a lot of peopletalk about the forest. They literally can't seeTurn to Timber, Page 2A.

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wnere it slammea into the sidle of thehouse.

In the middle of a blackened row ofshrubbery sat a homemade cardboardsign:

"Speeding isn't cool."In the past week, two serious accidents

have occurred in the 1000 block of PineSt. NE. And in a neighborhood brim-ming with children, families have decid-ed that they have had enough.

"There's too many people gettinghurt," Rick Parker, who has lived on

The Baltimore SunBERLIN — Security experts say they

think that the former Communist statein East Germany was providing an oper-ations base for bomb attacks and mur-ders of leading West Germans.

During the past 10 days, seven sus-pected West German terrorists havebeen arrested in East Germany

Experts say that contacts between theWest German Red Army Faction terror-ist organization, the East German StateSecurity police and Middle East organi-zations indicate that East Germany mayhave been active in international terror-ism. East Germany's former Communiststate was known to have given haven toterrorists who wanted to get out of ter-rorism.

In response to an emerging likelihoodthat the security police, or Stasi, alsowere active in terrorism, however, Interi-or Minister Peter-Michael Diestel hasauthorized a full-scale inquiry.

"The Stasi most probably provided abase for terrorists. Some were just reset-tled and lived there peacefully, butothers may have returned to West Ger-many with false papers," said Karl Wil-helm Fricke, a West German expert onthe East German State Security police.

Because the security police had a spe-cial center devoted to assimilating the

On Saturday morning, Ronald D. Bur-ton, 24, of 2690 Maple Ave. NE, was ar-rested at his residence on charges of felo-ny hit and run, driving without an opera-tor's license and driving withoutinsurance.

According to witnesses, both vehicleswere traveling at high speed when theycollided at about 11:45 p.m. According toan autopsy done Saturday, Brennemandied on impact and before his military-Turn to Traffic, Page 2A.

West German terrorists, Fricke said, it isprobable that more terrorists are living`in East Germany. One suspected terror-.ist was arrested Saturday, four were-seized Thursday and two others the:week before. East German police an--pounced that three additional suspects.were arrested Friday, but later said it-,had been a case of mistaken identity.

Red Army Faction members are held-responsible for a series of bombings and."killings that shook West Germany in the1970s and 1980s. For the most part, the;movement has died out, but the suspect-ed terrorists' disappearance puzzledWest German police and kept special.anti-terrorist squads busy for years.

The Stasi may have been active in theMiddle East as well, Christian Lochte ofWest Germany's Office for Constitution-al Protection said.

Lochte, whose office observes groupsthat it thinks threaten West Germany,said the Stasi made contact with manyRed Army Faction members in the Mid-dle East in a bid to become popular withPalestinian organizations.

If the investigation into the Stasi's in-volvement in West German and interna-tional terrorism did confirm a link, Dies-tel said, top politicians in East Ger-many's former Communist governmentwould face trial for their role.

Experts: E. Germanywas base for terrorists

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Students researching in Andrews Forest watcha spotted owl during an orientation session.Students are (from left) Malin Masreliez, OSU;

Bill Haines/Statesman JournalAlicia Villegas, OSU; Sheila Broomhead, Brig-ham Young University; Mark Hoffman, Collegeof Wooster, Ohio.

Timber/Researchers must see beyond trees

Bruce Thorson/Statesman Journalstruck and injured by a car. A fiery collisionkilled one man Friday night at Pine Street andCherry Avenue.

(left), Ricksign on Pinedonations for

and ChrisNE on Sat-

a boy who wasParkerStreet

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BLUE RIVER — Forest set-asides to protect the northernspotted owl are interfering withresearch at the H.J. Andrews For-est.

"It's not just the loggers that getyanked around," Art McKee, thesite director at the forest, said."We've had research projects thathave been moved or postponed be-cause of the owl."

The owl nests in old growth andmature forests, such as those thatcover much of the 16,000-acre An-drews scientific preserve.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser-vice is expected to announce thisweek whether the owl will be listedas threatened with extinction. Themove would restrict logging andother disturbances in owl habitat.

Independent of the listing deci-sion, the U.S. Forest Service andBureau of Land Managementhave their own plans for protect-ing owls and owl habitat on thelands that they manage.

Marcus MalichFowler put upurday, seeking

Andrews, part of the WillametteNational Forest, is home to aboutseven pairs of owls.

McKee said owl protectionplans have restricted severalprojects, including some in whichfewer than two dozen trees wouldbe cut.

Although some projects do dis-turb the forest environment, hesaid, the work can provide knowl-edge that will aid in forest man-agement.

"One might argue, isn't it worth

doing something extreme to fiveacres of old growth forest to defin-itively learn what the effects ofman's practices are?"

McKee said scientists and fed-eral officials are discussing waysof exempting research projectsfrom owl-protection restrictions.

David Klinger, a spokesmanwith the Fish and Wildlife Depart-ment, said the Endangered Spe-cies Act, which would apply if theowl is listed as threatened, con-tains provisions for such exemp-tions.

Continued from Page 1A.the forest for the trees."

Seeing the forest for the trees isthe prime order of business at the16,000-acre Andrews forest, in theWillamette National Forest about50 miles east of Eugene.

Research at Andrews forest hashelped fuel a revolution in scien-tific understanding of old-growthforests that, undisturbed by log-ging, supportcenturies-oldtrees.

No longerare such forestsviewed as bio-

logical waste-lands populat-ed only byslow-growingor dying trees.Research dur-ing the pasttwo decades has shown that old-growth forests support a rich, di-verse web of life.

Knowledge gleaned at Andrewsis reflected in the new forestry, anemerging method for harvestingtrees without biologically deplet-ing forests.

New forestry seeks to harvesttimber while leaving a mix of bothlive trees and dead material, muchthe way a fire or windstorm wouldaffect a forest.

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rally last January, when highwinds toppled some giant firs.

"It's really quite fortuitous," hesaid. "Usually nature doesn't comealong right when you're ready tostart a study."

About 35 scientists, mostly fromOregon State University or fromgovernment natural resourcesagencies, use Andrews as a prima-ry research site. As many as 50others make some use of scientificinformation that is developedthere.

Art McKee, an Oregon Statescientist who also is site directorat Andrews, said the size and vari-ety of activities there is matchedat only two other experimentalforests in the country — in NorthCarolina and New Hampshire.

The Andrews forest is namedafter a Forest Service official whowas concerned about the environ-mental effects of logging in theCascade Range.

In the 1950s, most researchthere involved logging and road-building techniques. In the 1960s,the emphasis shifted to logging'seffects on streams and water qual-ity.

Since 1970, the focus has beenon the forest ecosystem, thewealth of interactions betweenplants and animals

Andrews attracts students as

in the forest's nutrient cycle."They're so common — they're

everywhere — that it's been hardto tell people that they're so im-portant," he said.

Nor, he admitted, is log decom-position of much interest to thegeneral public.

"It's not a nice warm fuzzything, like the owl," he said.

He referred to the northernspotted owl, an old-growth-dwell-ing bird that the U.S. Fish andWildlife Service is consideringlisting as a threatened species.

At about that time, as if to illus-trate Harmon's point, the high-pitched hooting of a spotted owlechoed through the forest. Har-mon pointed out the bird, perchedon a moss-covered branch about30 feet above the ground.

The students looked and point-ed for about 15 minutes beforeHarmon resumed his lecture.

His experiment involves morethan 500 logs of different speciesthat were set out in 1985 at severalsites in Andrews.

Harmon and his colleagues peri-odically examine the logs, cutcross sections from some, andmeasure moisture content andother variables.

One of the purposes, he said, isto compare the rates of decay indifferent _ species. That informa-

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Marcus Malich (left), Rick Parker and ChrisFowler put up a sign on Pine Street NE on Sat-urday, seeking donations for a boy who was

Bruce Thorson/Statesman Journalstruck and injured by a car. A fiery collisionkilled one man Friday night at Pine Street andCherry Avenue.

Traffic/wrecks anger NE Salem neighborsContinued from Page 1A.style jeep exploded.

Parker, who inhaled fumeswhile trying to free Brennemanfrom his jeep, spoke in a raspyvoice Saturday. He said severalchildren and adults witnessed theaccident as they were watching forspeeders and taking down licenseplate numbers.

Just two days earlier, 7-year-oldDamon Runyon ran into the pathof a car on Pine Street. He re-mains in critical condition inSalem Hospital with head and leginjuries.

His mother, Marnita Runyon,said Saturday that he was heavilysedated but improving.

"He's holding tight," she said."He's hanging in there."

Witnesses said they don't thinkthe driver of the car that hit Run-yon was speeding.

But Thursday, they started acampaign to get drivers to slowdown. Residents want the city toreduce the speed limit from 30 to25 mph, paint a crosswalk andbuild an island to reduce PineStreet from four to two lanes.

They are circulating a petitionto ask the City Council to considertheir concerns.

Nancy Malich, who has lived onPine Street for 11 years, saidPortland Road, less than a mileaway, has brought a poor reputa-tion to the neighborhood. Now itbrings traffic, too.

Her neighborhood is bordered

by Cherry Avenue and BroadwayNE. A car driving through theneighborhood goes seven blocks —one-half mile — before coming toa stop sign.

"In this month, we've probablyhad nine accidents," she said."And they haven't been just littlefender-benders."

The four lanes are a remnant ofthe time when the street was amajor thoroughfare for NortheastSalem, before the Salem Parkwaywas built.

"Now they think it's a highway,I guess," Malich said.

Ernest and Marnita Runyonsaid that Pine Street looked a lit-tle busy to them when they movedin a month ago. But their two chil-dren had been taught to be carefulcrossing the street.

The Runyons moved to Salemthis winter from Fort Worth,Texas.

Marnita Runyon works at TacoBell. Ernest Runyon is waiting forjob placement at Americold. Theyhave no health insurance.

Few of the neighbors knew theRunyon family before Damon washit on Wednesday.

Now they have set up a dona-tion box in the 1000 block of PineStreet to raise money to pay forDamon's medical expenses.

And on Saturday, Marnita Run-yon's hands could barely hold thetubs of fried chicken and potatosalad that neighbors had preparedfor her family.

Ernest Runyon, a tall, mus-tached man wearing a red-and-black lumberjack shirt, circled hishands around Marnita, who washolding a rolled-up plastic Ameri-can flag like the ones that line thesidewalks along Pine Street.

She smiled."It's great."Marcus Malich, 13, has been

among residents demonstratingalong the street since Damon washit. He said the accident hasbrought the neighborhood togeth-er.

"It's too bad it had to happenover dead bodies," he said.

two CleCaUeS nab shown vItagrowth forests support a rich, di-verse web of life.

Knowledge gleaned at Andrewsis reflected in the new forestry, anemerging method for harvestingtrees without biologically deplet-ing forests.

New forestry seeks to harvesttimber while leaving a mix of bothlive trees and dead material, muchthe way a fire or windstorm wouldaffect a forest.

Tom Spies, a U.S. Forest Ser-vice ecologist, said, "In a lot of ourwork on the Andrews, we're tryingto understand how the naturaldisturbances have worked, so wecan incorporate some of that nat-uralistic thinking into our man-agement."

Spies' research includes a hill-side studded with 250-foot-tallDouglas firs, the oldest of whichmay have sprouted in the late1300s, about the time Chaucer waswriting the Canterbury Tales.

Spies is planning a study inwhich some old trees will be felledto create gaps in the forestcanopy.

Some such gaps occurred natu-

By Dan PostrelThe Statesman Journal

The northern spotted owl soonwill take its place among the greatfigures of the world.

The owl is scheduled to appearon the cover of this week's editionof Time magazine, which hits thenewsstands Monday morning.

Charles Alexander, a Time se-nior editor, said a late-breakingnews event could change the coverplans.

But such changes rarely occurso close to the weekly news maga-zine's publication day, he said.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser-vice is scheduled to announce thisweek whether the owl will be listed

Cascade Range.In the 1950s, most research

there involved logging and road-building techniques. In the 1960s,the emphasis shifted to logging'seffects on streams and water qual-ity.

Since 1970, the focus has beenon the forest ecosystem, thewealth of interactions betweenplants and animals.

Andrews attracts students aswell as scientists. For instance, 11undergraduate students from asfar away as Vassar College inPoughkeepsie, N.Y., will spend thesummer there in a program fin-anced by the National ScienceFoundation.

They'll live in trailers at An-drews and, under the direction ofOregon State professors, will con-duct their own research projects.

Last week, they heard orienta-tion lectures from Oregon Stateresearchers, including Harmon,who spoke about his log decompo-sition project.

Harmon told the students thatresearchers initially were slow torecognize the importance of logs

as a threatened species, an actionthat could sharply restrict logging.

The Time cover story wastimed to precede the listing an-nouncement.

The spotted owl has become thesymbol of the fight about cen-turies-old forests in the Coast andCascade ranges in Oregon, Wash-ington and Northern California.

The owl is considered an indica-tor species for the general ecologi-cal health of old-growth forests.

Scientists have said that 70 to90 percent of those forests havebeen logged. The remainder is pri-marily on federal land.

Environmentalists have argued

His experiment involves morethan 500 logs of different speciesthat were set out in 1985 at severalsites in Andrews.

Harmon and his colleagues peri-odically examine the logs, cutcross sections from some, andmeasure moisture content andother variables.

One of the purposes, he said, isto compare the rates of decay indifferent species. That informa-tion could help foresters deter-mine which types of logs to leavebehind to help replenish soil afterlogging.

It will be two centuries beforesome of the logs are fully brokendown by fungi, insects and otherorganisms.

Harmon said he's confident thatsomebody at the Andrews forestwill keep track of the project.

"I have no doubt that there willbe 20-year periods where peoplewill do nothing," he said.

"But this is simple enough.There's not much invested in it. Ithink people will go back and say,`I wonder what's happening?' Andthey'll go out and look."

that the remaining old growth hasgreat scientific, ecological and re-creational value and should beprotected.

Timber industry executives andworkers have said that enoughforest already is preserved, andthat additional set-asides wouldwreck the economy.

"We think the controversy is ofgreat interest, not only to peoplein the Northwest but to people allaround the country and even theworld," Alexander said.

He said Time writer Ted Gupspent several weeks in SouthernOregon, primarily Douglas Coun-ty, researching the article.

"In this month, we've probably had nineaccidents. And they haven't been just littlefender-benders. .. . Now they think it's ahighway, I guess."

—Nancy MalichPine Street area resident

Spotted owl heads for cover of Time

Fathers/Dads of the '90s adapt to change and raise a new followingContinued from Page 1A.same way.

Floyd Crabtree, 94, also rememberssharing the child-raising duties with hiswife — except for diaper duty. He doesn'trecall changing any — not a one.

Crabtree and his wife, Cora, Salem-towne residents who are celebrating their75th wedding anniversary today, raisedfour children, and it wasn't always easy.

"But we both worked at it," FloydCrabtree said. "And they're all turningout real good.

Family studies have provided scant in-formation about fathers' involvement inchild-raising and household duties.

"Fatherhood has a very long history,but virtually no historians," sociologistJohn Demos wrote in 1982..

But recent studies give us a clearer pic-ture.

According to an October 1989 surveyof married mothers by U.S. News &

or regularly, 61 percent put the baby tobed, 60 percent fed the baby in the eve-ning, 42 percent gave the baby a bath and32 percent got up for late-night feedings.

Some are making sure that work letsthem carry out that role.

Stephen Kelly, 30, has three children:6-year-old Danny, 3-year-old John and 6-week -old Kristin. About a year ago, Kellytook a chance and moved his businessinto his Salem home.

Today his computer consulting busi-ness is going strong in what used to be aloft above the family room.

He now has more time to spend withhis family. His wife, Linda, is a full-timemother.

Does he enjoy working and taking careof the children?

"I don't think that's the issue. It's justpart of the parenting role," Kelly said.

Linda said that having her husbandhome has made her life easier.

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him," she said. "But it's nice because Ican go to the grocery store by myselfwhen the kids are asleep and know thatsomeone's there to take care of them."

DickSalem, has adjusted

, a pediatric dentist inS a

Rowell, his timetable to meshi

better with his working wife's schedule.Mondays are his day with his 5-year-

old daughter and 2-year-old son. The daycan entail any number of activities, frombike riding and watching movies to play-ing outside or running errands with dad.

Rowell also is in charge of the childrenevery mornin g, dressing them and prepar-ing breakfast.

He said most of the household choresare divided.

"I feel I should do more," he said. "AndI know if I were on my own, I'd be doingeverything."

His time with his family is precious,and the Rowells make the most of it bytaking several family ski trips a year.

"We're all best friends," Rowell said.

from work to help his wife take care oftheir newborn son, who was born June

.The Taylors, of Salem, now have three

children, and both Laura and Allen work.Allen Taylor said he does "a little bit of

everything" with his children — changingdiapers and all. And he said he would doit even if his wife didn't work outside ofthe home.

"It's not realistic to expect women todo it all," he said.

Besides, "Men that don't share aremissing out on a wonderful opportunityto watch their children grow. It's critical."

But there are other sides to the issue— that maybe fathers aren't doing asmuch as they think they are.

Three out of five men in a recent sur-vey conducted by Working Mother maga-zine said women with small childrenshouldn't work outside the home.

And mothers still do most of the child-raising, with men taking on less than a

Thursday night, Congress passed afamily and medical leave act, which wouldensure that both parents are allowed timeoff to spend with newborns or sick chil-dren.

But the act needs President Bush's ap-proval, and he has threatened a veto.

Oregon already has a parental leavelaw, but it doesn't cover time off to carefor sick children.

All this heightens the feelings thatmost new fathers have had since the be-ginning of time — elation mixed withfear.

Mike Emerick, 25, expresses that am-bivalence: His first child is due July 20.

"I can't see myself halfway into this,"Emerick, who works for the Lebanon FireDepartment, said. "I changed diapers onmy brothers and sisters."

He plans to be there at the birth, like80 percent of today's fathers.

"It's all a little bit scary," Emerick said."But I'm in love with the fact that I'm