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INEQUALITY IN SCHOOLS
, i Charles V. Stanton
The hearing being held today on the petition of the
Sutherlin School District, seeking a slice off the Glide dis
trict, serves to point up one of the critical problems con
nected with our school system.
There is a wide variation in school district valuations.
Some have enough valuation that a moderate tax will meet
nil administrative needs. An adjoining district may be
levying a confiscatory tax and still lack money to operate
adequate schools.
Too, ve have districts (and Riddle may be cited as an
example) where some economic change suddenly brings an
unexpected demand. In such districts there is a lack of
required facilities. The necessity for capital investment,
plus operating costs, can boost taxes until the community's
business and economic growth is throttled, for business and
industry will avoid such an unhealthy tax atmosphere.
Oregon taxpayers have been heavily burdened by
mounting school taxes. Yet Oregon people have shown a
remarkably tolerant and patriotic spirit in providing for
their schools despite the tremendous sacrifices involved.
But we have been doing little to correct the wide dis
parities, aside from an occasional patch on the old cloth.
Equalization Desirable
Equalization of district valuations is a desirable objec
tive. In the situation before the District Boundary Board
today Sutherlin, a "poor" district, is endeavoring to get a
slice of valuation off Glide, a "rich" district.
The Glide district reached out a few years ago and em
braced the Copco Toketee development. This brought in a
large valuation with but little additional administrative
cost. Glide district ii probably better situated financially
than' any district in the county. But Sutherlin, an
abutting district, is one of those suffering from rapid
growth and inadequate valuation.
The problem 'is not to be solved, in my opinion, by one
district hijacking another's valuation. While it might work
in one instance, it would create complete confusion if ev
ery "poor" district started raiding every "rich" district.
There is a serious question concerning the present con
troversy, inasmuch as the Glide district has outstanding
bonds secured by existing valuations. If we start a raid
ing situation in the county, it probably would become a
difficult process to find a buyer for school bonds.
Yet the wide disparity in valuation, as compared with
need for school facilities, make some readjustment neces
sary. New Plan Proposed
Two counties, Lincoln and Crook, met the situation bv
adopting the county unit plan. Under this plan the whole
county becomes a single school district. -A county board
of education, aided by sub-district advisory boards, han
dles all policy through an appointed county superintend
ent. This plan has its disadvantages as it eliminates local
autonomy. It also has a handicap in the matter of com
munications. Josephine," Hood River and Klamath Coun
ties have adopted the county unit system in part, but in
each one or more large districts are outside the county
unit.
At the last session of the legislature the Association of
County School Superintendents submitted a bill which prob
ably will be introduced again.
It would set up a countywide school taxing district
from which no district would be exempt. Each school dis
trict would retain its autonomy, would have budget-making
and tax-levying powers. But from the central fund
money would be appropriated to equalize variations in val
uations and costs. ,
The bill obviously is not the full answer. V would
still have rich and poor districts. We possibly would ap
proach a better equality in taxation. But we can never
have a complete answer until someone comes up with an
idea by which all districts can share alike in available
valuation and taxes, with flexible controls to meet emer
gency situations.
:J4J
NHW YORK Ml -r- A human skull rolled out on the table,
nnrl the duchess cried, "Take your hands off me!"
lxst. any mystery arise from the foregninir sentence, let
me hasten to explain. 1 wrote it only to please two of my
oldest critics.
A dozen years ay;o 1 took up that odd kind of mental
citrpenteriiiK called newspaper columninif.
Over all those years
news
friend has told me perhaps a
thousand times, "The only way to
interest readers is to startle them
at the start. You should begin
every column with Ihe sentence.
'A human skull rolled out on the
lable'j-and then go on and wrile
about whatever else you have in
mind."
Another news friend has agreed
with him in principle, hut has
held out for this opening sentence,
"Take your hands off me," the
duchess cried.
ii nas ine inree mings mat
interest people most-sex. money
"It has Ihe three things that
and high society," he claims. "You
could use that sentence day after
,j ' " .
v.01 n never i re oi i. i. , ' . " .
,, . ,, , , ,, . . , l "oes a columnist need a good
Maybe they wouldn t but 1 1 memory?
would. And so let us say goodby i A ,Vi. He needs a bad memory
forever to the rolling skull and Otherwise he couldn't wrile the
the crying dmhess. same idea 10 times over and still
ror some reason manv readers keep a clear conscience
are interested in Ihe behind the-1 Q 0 columnists hke each
scenes trials and tribulations of other'
writing a daily newspaper column.: A sure Mmf w women
Today I'd like lo answer some like each other
of the questions most olten asked Q Whv are columnists alwavs
me during my 12 years of buried selling up straw dummies and
l'fe. , knocking them over"
Q. Do you own a yachi A. Thev hae found that if Ihev
A. !"&')! "tEditori note: He hit real people, the real people
ays, "no!") hit ba.k-and that hurls
Q. Is it hard getting a new idea Q Do most columnists wrile
every day? from an inner need? If so, what
A. No harder than it would bens it?
to give blood every day. A Hunger.
Q. My son, who is in the sthi Q What is the greatest problem
Ort. Frt., Oct. 21, 1935
&,jie.
grade and says the cutest things,
wanls lo be a columnist. What
should I do?
A Hold his head under cold
water: repeat whenever necessary.
Q. What ready is the best train
ing for a columnist?
A. Dilch digging, flagpole sit
ting and strip leasing.
t). How does a columnist really
get most of his ideas?
A. t rying himself to sleep.
I) Columnists are alwavs cru
sading to chante Ihe world' W'hih
nr - . ,
"-,,ur ' J"" proudest
A. .My lifelong altemut lo lain
I more recognition each year for the
strono romn 01 lonni
-dp-
-taVa-w
$5 nice (J3io5A a t
It was inevilable that great at
tention woulfj he paid to the re
leased German war prisoners who
could give the first eyewitness ac
counts of Adolph Hitler's last days
in Berlin.
The men who have been freed,
one of them Hitler's body servant
and another his personal pilot,
agree that their leader committed
suicide with his longtime friend,
Kva Rraun. Roth say the bodies of
the two were burned to ashes
outside the bombproof bunker in
the German chancellery grounds,
where Hitler had frantically direct
ed the Nazi war eftort in its last
phase.
The effect of this firsthand tes
timony is to confirm one of the
most remarkable intelligence per
formances recorded in World War
II. A Hritish intelligence officer H.
It. Trevor-Roper, painstakinRly
dug out the final chapter of the
Hitler story from captured docu
ments, testimony of such witness
es as were in Allied bands, and
the physical evidence in and
around the bunker.
As a ma Iter of fact, Heinz IJnge.
the Hitler body servant now freed,
was one of Trevor Roper's
sources. His detailed diary was
left behind and came into British
possession.
la suite of this generally very i
convincing report, the legend per
sisted from the outset that Hitler
had not died but somehow had i
made his way out of Germany to j
a hiding plact abroad, Lisbon or j
Buenos Aires or some such spot.
There was do shred of evidence
to support this notion.
Ihe chief reason it did not per
ish was most likely the wish of
many Nazi people to believe that
Hitler still lived. Ther could cling
to only one fact: that utterly no
trace was found of Hitler's body
Two Planes Sent
To Bring Home
Three Senators
- WASHINGTON i.fl -The Defense
Department said Thursday two
large passenger planes are being
sent on special flights to Europe
to bring home three senators and
their wives who declined to wait
for scheduled flights.
Robert Tripp Boss, assistant
secretary of defense for legislative
and public affairs, said in reply to
questions that the planes are be
ing sent to bring home certain
members of Ihe Senate Appropria
tions Committee.
The senators, all Democrats, are
Mct'lellan l Ark! and Stennis
(Missl who will board one plane
in Madrid and Chavez (NM) who
will be picked up in another at
Paris.
Hoss said that when the senators
told Defense Department Repre
sentatives abroad that a proposal
lo use a later scheduled govern
ment plane was linncceplable, the
Pentagon had "no alternative" ex
cept the special flights.
The defense officials said it tie
veloped, when dales lor the three
senators' return were picked, lhat
no suitable planes on scheduled
I missions would be available on the
j specific dates.
were not acceplable to the mem
bers of the committee," the state
ment said.
A spokesman said the planes will
be Constellation-type, four-engined
transporls and lhat the cost of
sending the planes will be approxi
mately $20.0110.
Aides of the senators said they
knew of no rentiest for spe rial
plant's And dcclaretl (he senators,
before Iravine. hart advised ihe
Air Korce when Ihey would hae
lo return.
t that mulri fart a columnist?
A Having to write a rolumn on
a typewriter with a broken "I"
key.
i). What ia the one thing l
rolumnit need mot to become
successful''
A A successful employer with
a sense of humor.
Arms and the Man
'';' "
'
no ashes, n o bones, nothing.
Linge now comes forward to help
extinguish that frail spark of hope.
He declares that he himself as
sisted in reducing Hitler s body to
ashes and disposing of them in a
manner which assured there would I
be no trace left.
If the legend persists beyond
these disclosures, it will be a Ihing
wholly of the imaginations of the
men who want to believe.
.More realistic men will see fi
nality written in the eye-witness
confirmation now given to Trevor
Roper's story.
We who love life and liberty may
not readily understand why Hitler
could find no course but death. But
he had lasted the anguish of pri
son before, and even in the unlike
ly event he could have escaped to
exile, he might have found such
self-banishment nearly as painful.
He knew his ultimate dalh at
Allied hands was a strong probabil
ity. Since that was so, he chose
to manage the last act according
to his own lichts. With Ihe same
flair for the ilraiirhlic lhat marked
so much of his life, he wrote the
closing scene as a sort of modern
day, Wagnerian "twilight of the
goo
Miner saw himself the whole
way as a man of destiny, living
a life that was a work of art. Such
life cannot end without arlislii
flourish. .More than ever now, it
seems plain he supplied the stun
ning conclusion he believed tha
grim circumstances called for.
Gambling Resort
Gets Publicity;
Cost Plenty High
r .o
I.AA Vr.tiAS. lev. (J Thtc
gambling resort loves publicity, i more rapidly than Los Angeles
When a couple of characters like' A good example of it is to be
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis found in Marin county, which is
come to town, it would be sad '. growing like a week. Only a few
day indeed if the local press agents ! years ago two traffic lanes were
failed to capitalize on thorn. i sufficient to handle the situation
Take Wednesday night, for in-! on Highway 101, northward from
stance. There was Dean and .lerry, lne Golden Gate bridge. But the
lounging around the Sands Hotel. car not too thick, and they built
waiting for a plane to return them a four laner. Now the four-laner is
to Hollywood after a brief vaca-'wor5e congested than the old two
tion. laner used to he. So they're build-
According lo Ihe hotel's publicity I '"? " e'Rht-lancr.
man, this is what happened: I .'" ,almost ." me at all, the
Tk. ran,;.. ... j . i, , I eighl-laner will be worse congested
lack M.hT InH llo2 , l)lac-"hn the four-laner now is. Down
cuHin i m in nnT "laiv'n-?"'1 i lown San Francisco has reached
had edJeH ?,',"' a1,1"ilJl,'',!the peak of its retail trade ca
of Newfrk r .n V A " 1 'nke ' Paci,v ,or ,he simP1' rMS01 ""at
out card, .kV ! re P'""n ! there is no longer a place to park
patrons m0nPy 10 anv n,ore cars " yu can t find
a place to park anv more cars.
Slore than 100 people gathered, it is obvious that the stores can't
And no wonder. The boys were get anv more customers,
paying off double, triple and then i That is soinc on in all the
some. I hey peeked at players' j Big Towns all over our country.
gave lllcm better ones
if they needed them. Thev scream
ed at those lhat rejected advice.
The press agent quoted manager
Jack Kntratler as saving Ihe shell
nanigans cost the hotel $71 sss h.-.
lore ihe funnymen left after half
an hour, although how so precise a
figure was arrived at was not ex -
elaine"
i But Ihe loss, said Kntratler. was
"nothing compared lo Ihe two mil
lion nnnars in goodwill. ,
the public."
Weight No Object. Says
Wife In Divorce Action
OnCACtO An attempt to
reconcile a wife with a husband
who contends she's too fat failed
Thuesday. Trial of their divorce
suit was set for Dec. 8.
Mrs Lillian Korzen. 44 refused
to report her weight as of Thurs-
day Jo Judge Charles S. Dougherty
of Circuit Court
Weicht has nothing lo do with
Jni.. she declared. On Icarmnii
elfurts to hrins peace between her
and her husband. Michael, 4.1. had
failed. Judue Dougherty ' set the
trial date.
Ihe judue had ordered Mrs Kor-
Inert J',,'?'- " "T K'V"'n
sued for duoroe. to slim down
from 1W pound, to her wedding
dav weitht of 127 to see if a recon-
cihation could be worked out.
NEA Service. Inc. t
In The Day's News
(Continued from Page One)
for a set of dentures, and so on.
The best dentist in the kingdom
gets no more for each specific case
of tooth treatment than the mer
est tyro.
The result, he concludes, is that
Ihe practice of denlistry is reduc
ed to a monotonous routine with
no rewards for skill, competence,
learning or experience.
That's socialism for you. It
seems to be working out no bet
ter in modern Britain than in the
early Knglish colonies on the At
lantic seaboard of raw and new
America, where the colonists tried
it out as a way of life, and didn't
care much for it.
They pooled their efforts and put
everything into a common pot, out
of which everyone shared alike.
1'he industrious character whn
arose at the crack of dawn and
lahored in the fields until dark
ness drove him home got no more
in Ihe final divide-up than the lazy
bones who lay in bed until mid
morning and called it a day when
the sun was still high in the west.
The worker with Ihe green thumb,
whose corn and beans and pump
kins flourished and viehleH Iuim.
; "? gl no more to eat in the
: '""K run than the numbskull who
! nnP(' out 'he corn and Ihe beans
and the squash plants and left the
weeos standing.
So, in the course of time, in
Plymouth and in Jamestown, thev
tossed out socialism and went back
to free enterprise.
So much for tha British and their
dental problem.
We have our problems. One of
them has to do with all the auto
mobiles we are able to make and
buy. This problem ii becoming
m me ay area of califor-
ma. which ia nnw orA.iMnn
What to do about it?
I wouldn't know.
Rut here's one possible solution:
More people may have to live in
the smaller towns instead of everv-
j '""ly ganging
TOWNS.
up in Ihe BIG
!
Austria Will Proresf
U, V:-I,a:-.
: M ungarlan Violation
VIENNA. Austria i. The Aus
trian Cabinet voted Thursday lo
make an energetic protest to Hun
liary against violation of Austrian
territory Tuesday by armed Hun
Kan.in Communist police.
The CihinM tnnt am inn ftur
hearing from Interior Minister Os-
kar Uelmcr that 18 Hungarian
border guards held Austrian wont-
n at sunpoint in crossing a quar-
ter mile into Austrian territory.
Il,e Communists sai they were
'hunting a refugee,
WANT BABY COBRA?
CHICAGO . If anybody wants
i hooded cobra from India the
-inroln Park Zoo has more than
it wants. Kight 9-inch cobras were
hatrhed last week Thev are worth
W '" s, 'ach- The 100 maintains
. , ,
' P,rman-nl cobr Population of
Tr"" 'xtrfj ones probably will
be traded to other loos.
More Votes For Northwest
States On Columbia Pact
Laid Before Commission
SEATTLE 11 A recommend! -
tion that the proposed compact
among Columbia River watershed
states he reopened to give more
representation to Washington, Ore
gon, Idaho and Montana was laid
before the Columbia Interstate
Compact Commission Thursday.
Each of the four itates should
he given three votes, instead of
two, a permanent organization
committee suggested. Single votes
would be allowed Wyoming, Utah
and Nevada.
Jack V. Rogers, Wenatchee,
chairman of the Washington com.
pact group, and Ofell Johnson,
representing the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce, said the planned
small representation had been a
major influence in preventing the
Washington Legislature from rati
fying the pact.
Ratification has been voted by
Utah, Nevada and Idaho.
Numerous other points which
may require amendment of the
proposed compact came before the
all-dav meeting. Johnson said that
U.S. Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell
is studying the water provisions to
determine if they would interfere
with federal water rights. The pro
posed agreement gives upstream
states preferential rights on the
use of water.
Jack D. Stevens, Seattle con-
PARKING LOTS SLATED
SALEM in The severe parking
problem around the Capitol will be
relieved next month when three
state-owned lots will be turned into
parking lots for 100 cars.
The lots, located within three
blocks of the Capitol, will be used
by state employes.
The city will grade and gravel
two of them, while the third will
be handled by tke state under pri
vate contract.
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and whit, with all the nictrici,
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$1895
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under black. Motor completely
overhauled and in top condition.
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way work.
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"So what if he didn't moke a touchdown w k
he's got an OK Used Carl" ) C
You'll score high with the grandstand in your MmIT I
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ROSE AND OAK STS.
1 lulling engineer of the Puget
Sound Utilities Council, questioned
wheather the compact should go
into the power question. In its
nresent form, it provides that the
commission may recommend that
a share of the power in down
stream plants be allocated to up
stream states on the basis of the
storage they provide.
Stevens said this might interfere
with negotiations with Canada for
upstream storage sites in that
country.
He proposed that power provi
sions be eliminated entirely from
the compact and suggested that
the commission take up such prob
lems only when both parties in a
dispute asked their mediation.
Notice Of Sale
The medical equipment, medical supplies,
office furniture and furnishing of the late Charles
B. Wade, M. D. are for sole.
The office will be open October 21 and 22
during the hours of 10:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., and
evenings by appointment. Phone ORchard 3-8357
THIRD FLOOR
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'51 WILLYS Station Wagon
4-whel drive with I teats and
windows all around.
$1095
Morse Names Mrs. Lewis
To Manage Campaign
PORTLAND 11 Sen. Wayne
Morse said this week his 1956 cam
paign wilt be managed by Mrs.
Jean L. Lewis.
She is currently manager of his
Portland office. Mrs. Lewis is an
attorney and a member of the
state Legislature.
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$1495
'32 PONTIAC Carolina
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$1295
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