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RETIREM ENT DATE SET
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• "Exceptions to the above are as fo l-.
lows:
"A teacher or instructor not subject
to the teachers’ tenure law and serving
under a ' contract or appointment for
a definite term may continue-iii Ser
vice until the end of the school or
academic year immediately following
December 31, 1947. A person subject
to the teachers’ tenure law and serving
upder a contract or appointment for a
definite term may continue in service
until the end of the school term imme
diately following December ¿3$, 1947.
"A member of the retirement sys4
tern, 65 years of age or older who, is an
elected official or person appointed to
an office for a definite^ term may re
main in service until the end of the
term of his office if- such term of office
has not been completed-«c^i^or before
December 31, 1947.’/ ,
TW INS AND IRISH FURZE
(Cover Picture)
9 By E .A . Rosttfll
When spring comes to the* southern
Oregon coast near Bandon, the bright
yellow flowers of Irish Furze are not
f ir behind, adding their1 gay color to
the zest of the sea. Up from the beach
nearby came these two winsome twins
of Bandon along furze bordered paths
ju st as Ralph Gifford, State Highway
Department photographer, paused to
admire this scene before him while, on
one of his photographic explorations.
No sooner had. he paused than the
twins and furze became a part of the
Oregon pictorial record which he has
been making fo r'th e Travel Informa
tion Department for the past 11 years.
Through^the I publication of these pic
tures' Oregon is brought to the atten
tio n of magazine and newspaper read
ers far beyond the borders of the heavy
er state.
The southern Oregon coast has been
no exception to the wide publicity Ore
gon has enjoyed through pictures taken
by Mr. Gifford; its scenic coast, roaring
rivers and wondrous beaches are known
across'?.,the land through photographs
and colored moving pictures distribuí I
ted, by the travel department. I
Ironically, many things > of beauty
have -elements of danger. The hardy
yellow flowers and the Sven hardier
bushes on which the bloom may be
pleasing to the eye and they may paint
the landscape w ith thrilling Color, but
to natives of the región these flowers-1
H significant only of increasingly dif
ficult problems.
Many years ago when Oregon was
young, Lord George Bennett, an Irish
peer, settled along the coast. When a
town was, born, he named it Bandoipy
honoring his own native village on the
Emerald Isle. Then he remembered the
pretty yellow fl'owfers of his childhood.
So back in the 1870’s he sent for some*
plants for his spacious yard and they
thrived. I
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In fact, they thrived so well they
grew beyond' the bounds of Lord Ben
nett’s'yard. Through the years, the Irish
furze, also known -as , gorse, slowly
spread.^enveloping acre after .a c f ^ T o í •
day there are thousands of acres along
the coast,, north, south and east o f Ban
don whic^-^á;y%. succumbed to the un
relenting advance of gorse.
I Ini? the spring the countryside is
alive with its flowers, but blooms have
been replaced in th ep ast by searing red
and yellow flames as fire scourged-its
way through^ stands I of I treacherous
gorse. .
Efforts have been underway' for
.some time to eradicate the pfestiferous
shrub. Even aiftefdt- is burned, its oily
branches blazing with blast furnace
intensity-,/ it„s, roots send forth even
more bushes theh before.'
Chemicals have' been tried and so
ha« grubbing, but the gorse persists.
One day its tenacious .reign qyer coast
acres may1 be. broken, however, when
<|hiah-made measures will best Nature
her misunderstood lavishing of fay-
, ors on beauty which nourishes never
sleeping danger. I