State Librarian Believes Cities And Counties Should Take Over Library Duties
By PAUL W. HARVEY JR.
SALEM lTI Miss Eleanor
Stephens, whose 50-year-old Oregon
Stale Library has made a tremen
dous contribution to the cultural
development of Oregon, thinks it's
time for counties and cities to take
over much of the library job.
Miss Stephens, state librarian,
doesn't like the way in which rural
state library patrons still have to
order hooks by mail. She thinks
they should have service from
county and local libraries.
The Oregon State Library, the
first mail order library in the
United Stales, was founded 50
years aso this month bv Miss Cor
nelia Marvin. Now Mrs. Walter
Pierce, she arrived here from Wis
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consin to start the library. In ils
first two years, it had only 2,500
books.
With little cash, but with a weal'h
of tenacity and determination, she
spent 24 years on the job. sue
worked tirelessly to build up a
modern library, and to start local
libraries.
She succeeded in getting the
Postoficc Department to grant a
cheap rale on book shipments.
Miss Harriet C. Long served
from 1930 to 1941. Her major ac
complishment was getting the
marble library building built in
1939. Miss Stephens has been car
ryin? on the work since.
The library has 630,000 hooks,
and ships 170,000 a year to its cus-
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TERRIBLE! NOW
OH, DEAR! IF HE SHOWS
UP THERE WITH THE COPS
WERE SUNK! WE CAN'T
PROVE OUR INN0C6HC6
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THE SHERIFF TOMORROW!
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tomers, most of whom live in re
mote areas.
Ils primary business Is its mail
order department, by which it
mails books to residents of rural
areas where there are no libraries.
It has other jobs, too. It loans
books to other, libraries, and pro
vides an extensive reference serv
ice. The slate library plays a big
part in shaping state legislation by
giving information on state affairs
to members of the Legislature. It
keeps the state archioxVs. and
serves public officials. It also loans
books to inmates of state institu
tions. And it keeps on plugging for bet
ter school, local and traveling li
braries. All of this costs the taxpayer
onlv 15 cents a year.
Miss Stephens, facing an increas
ingly tougher task in preaching the
inmo'-'ncc nf hrv,Vn in this age of
television, often loses patience with
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The cord's all tangled up!"
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county courts and city councils. It
seems that wh?n they have to cut
expenses, the libraries are the first
to get cut.
Under a 1955 law, she's now pro
moting the idea that two or more
counties should join together to
have regional libriaries.
She says "local resources are
not being built up as they should
be. The state library is being di
verted from essential services.'
Miss Stephens believes the state
library should do less mail order
business, and concentrate more on
research and supplementing th
collections of local libraries.
But she can't reduce the mail
order department until there are
more local' libraries.
Her job, from now on, will In
clude selling the counties and cities
on parting with enough casn to
build new libraries.
The customers of the state li
brary are grateful for the service,
DESPERATELY WELL, WE CMO'T DO
TO AVOID AWV REFLECTION ) ANYTHING A&0UT HIM
ON OUR BEHAVIOR, AT LEAST NOW! WE'RE DUE AT
TILL WE'RE SELECTED!!" W&SWcAVOys FOR
THE FINAL INTfeKuiEWJ
I-THINK ITS PERFECTLY MADDEN
To CARRY ON A' L0W6 CONVER.-
bAIION WHEN BOTH PARTIES ARE,
LISTENING TO PIFFERENT RADIO
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TRUE. BUT IT'LL BETH' LAST
AH LOVES WEDDIN' IN OUR
GRACIEL FAMBLY.' WE
STENGEL, MIGHT'S WELL
SHE N MAKE IT A
ISSHORELV HUM-DINGER.7
GONNA MARRY
ME, NO
DOUBT.7
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Miss Stephens gets hundreds of
thank-you notes every year. -
Many persons in isolated areas
depend on the library books to re
lieve boredom. Others use them
to learn trades and hobbies, am!
how to cope with problems on their
farms.
When they want almost any kind
Canyonville Girl
By VIRGINIA PROCTOR
Kay Ferguson was hostess to a
! number o( her friends at a slum
ber party recently preceded by
swimming in the afternoon and
skatinj in the earlv evening. In
eluded were Karen Smith, Janet
C'resswell, Jackie Fairfield and
Betty Gayle Willis.
Ford' T Go
A familiar landmark will soon
disappear when the Oregon State
Highway Department takes up its
60-day option to purchase Ford's
restaurant on U.S. 99 north ot
Canyonville.
Mr. and Mrs, Henry Ford, the!
present owners, state thev plan to
rebuild in the locality shortly.
Two small crass fires occunied
the Canyonville volunleer fire de
partment recently; both were prac
tically extinguished by neighbors
with hoses before the firemen ar
rived. The first occurred Sunday
afternoon behind the Forest Glen
Hospital and the second occurred
Monday afternoon behind the
Charles Rimell home near Canyon
ville Bible Academy.
Part of the old DuBell Drooertv
west of town will hit the block Aug.
23 when the Oregon State High
way Department conducts an auc
FUNNY BUSINESS
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"You'ro just the guy I'm looking for now I can praotioe
, Without getting winded I"
FROM NINE TO FIVE
But I have this gossip on the
. . . from someone who
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of a question answered, they turn
to the library.
Miss Stephens is proud of her
library and ils staff. So are the
thousands of persons who know it
and use it.
But she wishes people would get
on the ball and create more of I
them.
Host At Party
tion to sell the land purchased by
'them. Seven acres in all, the prop
erty is immediately outside of 'he
ciiy limns, west oi canyon i reeKj
and north of the Tiller-Trail High-:
way.
Actor Manson Refuses
To Answer To Probers
NEW YORK w Actor Alan
Manson, named in previous testi-
mony as a onc-tinic member of the
Communist party, Thursday re
I fused to tell the House Un-Ameri-ican
Activities Committee whether
;he had been a parly member.
, Manson was the 18th witness to
appear before the committee here
in ils probe of Communist infil
tration into show business. He was
the 17th witness to balk at answer
ing questions about possible Com
munist affiliations.
Actor George Hall admitted to
the committee Wednesday that he
once had been a card-carrying
member of the Communist party
and named six other actors, in
cluding Manson, he said were
members with him of the Mid
town Branch of the party.
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Vital Statistics
Marritgi Lictmti Isiuid
KUHNIIAUSEN-MCKENZIE -Larry
Kuhnhausen, Roseburg, and
Pauline McKenzie, Oakland.
WRIGHT-HUFFMAN - Roger
Winslow Wright Jr., Chiloquin, and
Virginia Pearl Huffman, Azalea.
DAILEY-DYSINGER - Gail Roy
Dailey and Joanne' Dysinger, both
of Roseburg.
Divorct Suit Filtd
WILLIAMS Vada June vs. Bil-
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lody of two children, $40 per month
per child.
COUNCILMAN DIES
GRANTS PASS I Walter A.
Fern, about 70, a city councilman
here 25 years, died of a heart ail
ment Wednesday morning while
watching the annual Gladiolus Fes
tival narade opening the Josephine
County fair.
He came In Grants Pass from
New York in 1911, and had retired
a few years ago. He first served
as a city councilman from 1929 to
and then continuously since
1934. His widow. Mary, survives.
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