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BUDGET DECISION
By Charles V. Stanton
The outcome of the election on the Roseburg school
district budget fooled me.
THE FOLLOWING BUSINESSES REMAIN
I op ra M
An editor is presumed to have his "ear to the ground'
and to be able to predict elections with a reasonable de
gree of accuracy.
I must be getting hard of hearing.
I learned another lesson and that's not to wager on the
outcome of elections, particularly right after being strip
ped by income tax payments. I should know better than
to assume a betting risk in my financial position. But,
with reckless abandon, and cocksure of my judgment, I
wagered a cup of coffee no refills that the budget
would be approved, if 3500 voters turned out at the polls,
and further, that the' negative vote wouldn't exceed 1500.
So, I'm stuck for a dime. That should cure me from being
so reckless on these things.
It had been my opinion that the normal nucleus of
anti-tax votes would be around 1,000 and that another 500
people would be influenced by demands for an "evalua
tion," as proposed by opponents of the budget. I calculated
that a certain amount of doubt would be raised, but I sure
ly was far off in my estimate on the "vote of confidence"
issue. -
Budget Cuts Mandatory
Possibly I'm wrong again, but it is my opinion that
the outcome of this election is a 'Victory for the anti-tax
group rather than those who want an evaluation. I must
qualify that statement by a time limitation. It applies
only to this , year's budget-
The proponents of an evaluation of school policy, meth
ods, curriculum, building program, etc., admit that it will
take at least a year probably more to dp an effective
job of evaluation. Consequently 'any cuts made in the next
budget must be based strictly on economy measures
rather than upon a survey of school efficiency and de
ficiency. ' '
The overwhelming defeat of the .budget makes it man
datory upon the budget committee to revise its figures for
the coming school year. . The committee already had
claimed the budget to be austere, based on current man
agement; policies. The management policies .now must be
altered to permit a lower financial expenditure one sat
isfactory to voters in the district, to whom the issue must
be referred at a third election. -. But the cuts involved must
be made without the benefit pf the proposed evaluation.
Everyone agrees that the long range evaluation' is desir
able but, inasmuch as it cannot be made in time to aid
in the preparation of the current budget, reductions must
be made arbitrarily to reduce (the budget to an acceptable
figure, . , . , ,'t . ,
Voters Should Assist
Inasmuch m we must accept the defeat of the budget
as indicating a lack of confidence in the school system as
now organized, it is my belief that those who voted in the
negative should give the budget committee the benefit of
their opinions with- regard to changes desired. Certainly
every negative voter had his reason for voting as he did.
Members of the budget committee are not mind readers.
Every voter having an idea of the economy he wants in
cluded in the budget, has a duty, I believe, to advise the
budget board, cither by an open expression at a board
meeting, a letter to all or one of the members, or a per
sonal conversation with one or more members.
It will not be possible to submit-any budget that will
please everyone. We all have our personal ideas of how
the schools should be conducted, what should be taught,
and other such matters. The best we can expect is a budg
et compromising the various opinions.
If, however, those who voted in the negative will give
the budget bonrd ideas as to what cuts are desired, an ac
ceptable budget should be available for the third try.
I believe none of us (excepting News-Review adver
tizing salesmen) wants the budget to go to a fourth election.
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The Illinois presidential primnry
miiiht best be described n.i a kind
of holding operiftlon for all the ma
jor candidates involved.
It was most crucial for Adtoi
Stevenson because it was h 1 s
home slate. A poor showing there
would have sent him plunging. As
a minimum for staying in tho race,
he had to have a respcclablo score
in Illinois.
He got it. The 700.000-odd votes he
hung up compared almost exactly
with the 700.000-plus he recorded
in Illinois in 1952 as Democratic
candidate for a lecond term as gov
ernor. He bested by nearly 200.000
the total amassed four years ago
ny senator jvpiimver. then the only
Democratic ballot entry, as Ste
venson was this lime.
As for Kefauvcr, he failed to pull
a write-in vote big enough to em
barrass Stevenson on his home
grounds. His 30,000 total was less
than 5 per cent of the former
governor s vote. In the view of
most, he would have had to run
up at least 75,000 to do even slight
damage.
But since Kefauver made no Il
linois appearances and his write-in
campaign was a relatively subdued
affair, he didn't suffer much, ci
ther. At the worst, his momentum
from the New Hampshire Minne
sota and Wisconsin primaries was
slowed.
The Illinois event demonstrated
once again how potent organiza
tion politics are in that state. Ste
venson piled up nearly half a mil
lion voles in machine-dominated
Cuok County, some 220.000 more
than President Eisenhower drew
there on the Republican ticket.
The President passed the 740,
000 mark la his statewide total
PRESIDING OFFICERS ot the recent Phythian Sisters district meeting in Roseburg were
front row, left to right, Gertrude Hess, page, Roseburg; Violet Jackson, manager, Med
ford; Ola May Heaton, guard, Bondon; Josephine Cline, past DDGC, Medford; Edna
Kluver, press correspondent, and Doris Lauer, secretary, both from Roseburg. Back
row, left to right, Margaret Garberson, protector, Grants Pass; Edyth Landis, page, Rose
burg; Edna Bryant, gYand chief of Oregon, Medford; Thelma Cameron, district deputy
grand chief, Roseburg; Jessie Schlinsog, treasurer, Roseburg and Bertha Griggs, senior,
Klamath Foils. The first prize in the yearbook contest was won by Roseburg. Grants
Pass will be host to the district convention in 1957. (Photo Lob).
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George Luoma Pleased
With Budget Vote Result
To the Editor:
Naturally I am so pleased with
the school election results that I
would like to personally shake
hands and congratulate everyone
Young Republicans Elect
Two Officers; Barker Gives
Stand On County Court Job
who voted.
Thi
hat real problems do exist has
been publicly recognized. Some sup
port present policies.
It is important to remember that
many lay citizens have sincere
convictions on different sides of all
important issues involved, and
these parents and other citizens
are good people.
Most important, our educators
aro hired to and spend their full
time in the origination and ad
ministration of scliool affairs. The
job is theirs and only through and
by them can actual results occur.
Undoubtedly during the coming
year various lay citizens will fur
ther their Interests In trying to
help on education matters but we
all understand that these efforts
are merely that, helpful assistance,
and the actual results must neces
sarily be obtained by those in con
trol who are .hired for that pur
pose. : , George Luoma
Roseburg, Oregon
and wound up roughly 40.000 ahead
of Stevenson. Obviously his advant
age was gained in traditionally lie
publican downstatc where he out
ran the Democratic prospect by
more than a quarter million.
Yet here it must be noted that it
would be most unwise to attach
undue significance to comparisons
between Mr. Eisenhower and Ste
venson. They were not running
against each other.
FURTHERMORE, the total Il
linois vote was a weak 1,500,000.
That means 800,000 people who vot
ed in (he 1952 primary didn't turn
out mis time, anil a wnopping 3,
000,000 of the 4.5OO.O00 who voted
in the 1052 Illinois fall election fail
ed to show.
When the vote Is so very light,
It is foolish to seek significant con
clusions from the respective vote
percentages gained by the leading
entries.
About the only safe deductions
are largely negative ones. Mr. Ei
senhower's downstatc triumph sug
gests farm rebellion there is not
now of serious moment. Angry men
act. And under Illinois law -any
Itepublican farmers who had pass
ed the 1955 primaries (affecting
mostly local affairs) could have
switched this time to the Demo
cratic column. Yet the results indi
cate most cither supported Iko or
stayed home. No one knows, of
course, how the stay-at-homes will
vote next fall.
On the Democratic side, as we
have seen, the Illinois primary
gave Stevenson the home state bal
last he absolutely had to have, hut
didn't push him ahead. At the same
time, it did nothing to advance the
Kefauver fortunes.
It was not what you might call a
decisive day at the polls.
Southern'Pacific,
Highway Men Are
Banquet Guests
Southern Pacific, highway de
partment and other officials who
helped the Lower Umpqua area
last winter when Highway 38 was
blocked were honored at the annu
al banquet of the Lower Umpqua
Chamber of Commerce.
Five SP officials were on hand
lo hear plaudits for the railroad's
cooperation in transporting school
children around the huge slide
which blocked the highway east of
Keedsport. .
Highway men, including State
Engineer R. 11. Baldock and Di
vision Engineer Tom Edwards,
spoke briefly on the project of
clearing the slide. Also, persons
instrumental in setting up ferry
service to circumvent the s I i de
were honored, including Cpunty
Judge Carl C. Hill, according to
Chamber Secretary Gay Vaughn.
Southern Pacific public rela
tions man t.cilh Abbott was mas
ter of ceremonies at the affair,
hold at the new Highland School
lhursriay night. George Gratke
and Mrs, Lillian Halm were nam
ed "man and woman of the year."
President Skip Carson presided.
More than 200 attended.
Levity crept into the program
when "Sons of Noah" citations
were presented to various officials.
The citations, drawn up by William
Tugm.m, editor of the Port Ump
qua Courier, commemorated a
headline in a Portland paper dur
ing flood times last winter. The
headline indicated Reedsport had
been evacuated, Vaughn reviewed.
Two new officers were elected to
the Douglas County Young Repub
licans Club in Roseburg this week.
New secretary is Anette DeDobbel
aere, and new treasurer is D e 1
Martin. John Horn continues as
president.
It was reported at the meeting
that the Young Republicans were
planning a candidates' night May
9. All Republican candidates will
be invited.
The Young Republicans got a
preview at this week's meeting
when truest M. Barker Jr.. candi
date on the GOP ticket for county
judge in the May 18 primaries, re
ported his stand in the current
campaign.
Barker said he was dedicated to
(he thought of establishing a coun
ty court which will exercise "posi
tive and active leadership in coun
ty affairs." He said it would be a
court which would make positive
decisions ."based upon the wishes
of all the people within the county
not. any person or one group.
In The Day's News
(Continued From Page One)
Attorney General Rules
On Traction Co. Tracks
SALEM The City of Port
land and Multnomah County have
full power to determine whether
Portland Traction Co. could main
tain its tracks on Hawthorne
Bridge. Attv. Gen. Robert Y.
Thornton ruled Friday.
The power is conferred upon the
city by a 1913 legislative act,
Thornton said.
The opinion was sought by State
Sen. Monroe Swcctland, Mllwau
kie. Transit Savers, an organization
of customers of the traction line's
interurban system, have de
manded that the line be permitted
to use tho new bridge in order to
continue service to Portland's
West Side.
COMPANY EARNINGS UP
NEW YORK Net income
for the Scott Paper Co. was $5,
7 no . H 4 for the quarter ending
I March 31, equalling 72 cents a
' share.
I Net income last year for the
I same period was $5,601,492 or 70
j cents a share. The firm has a
1 plant in Everett.
fully, not flashily. Their faces
gave evidence of culture. They
were surrounded by white people.
No talk was going on. People
were just looking out at the scen
ery. Then casually, naturally the
colored woman turned to a white
woman in the next seat and made
some remark that opened a con
versation. In the course of the con
versation it developed that she and
her husband were just back from
Japan, where they had spent sev
eral years.
She is a teacher, and has been
leaching English in the Gl schools.
He is a Red Cross official. They
are on their way home for a vacation.
In their years in Japan, they
have been close to a fascinating
situation a conquered country
whose conquerors are engaged in
the fabulous task of making the
conquered people over from ene
mies into friends.
They spoke interestingly of this
amazing enterprise. They told of
the Japanese people's feeling to
ward us. They told of the feeling
of our people toward the Japanese.
They related illustrating incidents.
They answered questions. They
offered opinions that were obvious
ly based upon experience and un
derstanding. In a few minutes the
conversation was animated, inter
ested and PERFECTLY NATU
RAL. Among those taking part in it,
there was no consciousness of race
or color or social differences.
This. I think, is the moral:
TIME has been passing in our
country. It took time, for example,
for those two colored people to
acquire a degree of education and
culture that matched the education
and the culture of those with whom
they were associating in that rail
road club car. Their parents or
their grandparents couldn't have
managed it, because not enough
TIME would have elapsed.
Time heals so MANY sore spots.
Let's go back a few centuries
into history.
The Mormons conquered Saxon
England. The culture of the Nor
mans was higher than the culture
of the Saxons. For a long, long
time the wall dividing Norman
from Saxon was high and impass
able. But TIME tore down the wall.
In England, there is no longer any
Norman or any Saxon. There are
only ENGLISH. The same thing hap
penea in trance when Rome con
quered Gaul. There was a long
time when there were Komans and
Gauls. Hut time fixed that. Now
there are only FRENCH.
If we can have TIME enough
if the radicals and the rabble
rousers on both sides of this segre
gation business will only keep their
shirts on and let nature take its
course we will arrive at a solu
tion ot this race problem that will
be quite satisfactory to everybody.
I think this little incident in the
club car bears out that conclusion.
He also called for coordination
of activities of all county officials, '
an enlarged park and recreation
program, sound conservation prac
tices and "a county court which ;
will take the politics and personal!
favoritism out of the road depart
ment and install up-to-date proced
ures." He said he also believed a qual
ified engineer to take complete;
charge of the maintenance and
construction phases of county!
streets, roads and highways should
be hired. He said the - engineer '
should purchase all equipment and
material on a "bid basis from
Douglas County merchants and
dealers wherever possible," and
not have the purchasing power
"delegated to individual members
of the court or employes of the
road department.
Barker had considerable to say
about- what he thought was wrong 1
with the county road department,
which has been under fire from
former commissioner Elmer Jletz
ger in recent months. i
He said the accounting depart
ment should be simplified, "but
all suggestions to such an accom
plishment have so far been vigor-j
ously opposed." 1
He also said the court "through
its failure to exercise its proper i
control of this department bas al
lowed practically a free hand with I
public funds both when and1
where they are spent." I
He said the county auditor has'
urged the court to correct this
supervisional situation, but it had
taken no steps to "rectify these
practices."
He said the court was recently ,
quoted as saying it had been
"thinking about hiring an engineer
for 4'. 4 years." He said he would
not try "by any stretch of imagin
ation to call this a constructive
step towards better county govern-1
ment . . .when people employed by
the county government are allow
ed lo spend upwards of $570,000 of
public monies without an audit
being able to arrive at an actual
accounting."
He said the problems must be
dealt with "in a fair and impar-i
tial manner." He called for a coun
t government "which will work
for the people and with the people
of Douglas County using the means
of public hearings to listen to rep
resentative groups and interested
individuals before making decis
ions which affect the health, wel
fare and livelihood of the residents
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