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i i; i t r . 12 The Statesman. Salem, Oregon. Twwdtrf, Mrt 3. 1943 ! Building Rlaintenanccepairs, New Laws Provide Headache For School District Budgeters I i : y Robert E. Cuprar Otjr Editor. The Stattna ; j Providing the schooling required for torn 7,000 bojs and girls of the Salem srea i an expensive problem. Salera school district directors and citizen' budget committeemen found this out when they studied and. with few chances, signed their approval to a 1949-50 budget proposal aggregating f2.0S5.127 and call in for a tax le-y outride the legal limitation amounting to $717,475.' .. , j The school administration, at the j j- school board's direction, had pre- ; f rinnnnO rv r0 I pared the budget after considering j VoLwtlC lAUClLI aspects o its $2,000,000 business j like roofs In need of repair, play-! ' e" e ground Improvements to withstand I CCHPI 51 ll fill A Oregon rain, new state law re- fli3i3UliaHUlI 4.U quirements. and the biggest singie headache of the. lot Salem area fast population irtcrease which cry week adds more children already overcrowded classrooms. Toters Have -Final Kay I Salem's public school budget will be up for approval by the school voters May 20. in that hey : have the final say on the $717,475 which Is oer trie legal nanmum cf 6 per cent increase over a pre- vious budget. After debt service of district boid issues, maif.ly the $1,500,000 school building program now un- derwav the general fund of the school" budget require $1,931,970 an increase of S3 1! 000 or per cent over last year. As always i the school busines. more thari half the general fund Is in the cost of instruction, esti mated for the coming year 'at $!.- 038.00) abotit 8 per cent over last year. Teacher salaries, raised last jads direct'jr into! the west side year, a-re not due for increase this Gf Portland i year except w here the teacher's i rjr p. A Loar of Silverton. who tenure calls for an automatic sal-; prentod thf idea; explained that ary raise j distance? from Silverton to Need 17 Teachers . 1 Portland would be cut by 10 4 But at leat 17 new, teachers will mile and also v. oujd cut the mile be needed, according to the school age from Silverton to Oregon board's recent approval of school city ; population estimates and staff re- ; -he association members state quests by Superintendent Frank that the proposed Cascade high B Bennett This will account for way woajd become an important about $35,000 of the $78,000 adrii-, artfTV for lck ; transports tioa tionjto Instruction costs j It w.nuld shorten the mileage from Another $10,000 of the instruc-! portan(! to Springfield and Eu tton cost increase will be in text- Tn routlri northward book purchases. The amount is Si, would be advan hlghfor the coming year, explain- , J w fc ed Bennett, because books pre- J, . . .u ' scribed bv the state education de-I hlll 'f1(1, J T 1 pertment this vear are ln the so - ; Oregon City which the original ial studies field where more book i proposed C ascade highway route are used and turnover is greater) proposed to follow, than ln othsr subjects Every two ! Much support at the Silverton years the state review one-third meeting is anticipated from Mt. the textbook list for updating pur- , Anjtel. Woodburn and Tigard. poses. I The new proposed route would go Xven more of the additional ex-.i directly east of Mt. Angel. Lew pense li anticipated in items re- Clarbutt of Springfield is ln charge la ted ,to upkeep and operation of i of preparing a comprehensive sur the huge school plant which in- vey of resources. eludes 18 school buildings and! r St her facilities i Itepalra .f3Iiaimum T?mm C Maintenance and repair of theej I1 Hill HI Illr fatalities has been held to a hare 1 -:- minimum. says Superintendent j T IB Bennett, ever since the late rte- M 1"?. 1 ClCI SOll f refsjnn and outset of World Wnr I. for reasons of finance. Iahoc and material . ava!ia!htv and- again It crops up th e-, on m re f resting neois of sjrefchsng the nsf riictiona! !nd of the school of.- 4 ..It. - ' 1 'U,f ' ' ' " , l' " tst church ferMrs. f.liabeth Gla rn.crat,..n to th.s are, and h!hrr,dv? PeterM.A forrnerT officer in the ciTTn rme. Order of Eastern Star, who died at Some mne.iw1' in plsr.t costs; i . l. o. i. .. as- estimated in the budget, are: $58,419 for modernising buiMmgs rV fennine f i' l . ' 'I r . c 1 rr rnw in n toilets and light.n. 82627 in re-i k' 1 1 .Mi(H' ' i W nil II 1 1(1 I V i lonjf deferred ) like re-roofing and i redecoration of iom classrooms virtually unchanged ln 10-12 years: $30,745 for grounds Imprpvement lik playground fenring. hard-sur-facod play areas of 60 by 120 feet at each grade school; $21,091 for equipping classroom In new buildings for which the bond issue will cover barely the basic con struction cost. Some Seating Old Another $10,500 item Is for now seating for some classrooms til Salem schools which are still equipped with the seating uod ln schools here 30 to 40 years ago. The superintendent told the bud get committee it Is hoped through this Item to begin to re-equip a few classrooms each vear "until e are able to replac obsolete i equipment with more serviceable' , and modern furftiture" When Sultan Selim 1 of Turkey Maintenance and repair contem- conquered Persia in the 16th cen plated under the new budget have tury he included in his loot a num oeen Itemized for each school of ' ber of tile makers and took them the district in some detail By back to Turkey. ) schools, thee estimates ranee from, - - Jf" hundred dollars i:p to $.-' l 4.450-- including new auxiliarv ' P ,fo.r Si'"?,lh,h s'h.ool Of. bnd .pace made out of an oM th tat'ri;.3; " MX re" toiler r.H.m tat $7,500). new rest pairs. $1,250 for painting and de- roorns ($l.H00). build two rooms corating 10. classrooms and lessen a cafeteria entrances (2.500! and amounts lor lire aia-m ccrrec- tions. misce!laneou5 pa:rrt( lobs boiler and electrical repair. new blackboard and several b boards. (etin Under capital outlay, the senior high School would he sever d additional projects at a t of L Meet May 16 By Liltte Madaen ifnn Sifverton Correspondent KII.VERTON. Mav 2-(SDecial) Cascade; Highway association will meet a Silverton May 16. foj. a dlnner and discussion of chang ln ; th. proposed new Portland route plan. t a recent meeting held in Springfield. $ht group voted to ask the highway commission to build a highway north from Sil- verton to connect j wiwi "J 99E at the White schoolhouse. This route would become an extensici of the Cascade high way from Eugene ti Silverton, and at the 96E junction, would join tv-e WUson U!e ferrv road which Slated Today Funeral sr ices wl! be held to dav at 1:30 p m In Ihe First Bap- Mrs. Peterson was matron of the , gtSe 4 io r - grand m-arder of the- grand chap- member of church and school work". the first Baptist active in Sunday -Born March 14. 1888. at Crystal. N. D . she rame to Oregon with her finily in 1910 She was mar ried to Erhest W. I Peterson at Portland In 1912 arid the couple moved to Salem 11920. Survivors': besides ! the widower are two daughters. Mrs. Jean Es ther Hamilton. Vancouver. Wash., and Peggy Ernestine Peterson. Sa lem: sisters. Mrs Ray Todd. Van couver, and Mrs. Herb Erwin. Gull Lake, Sask.? and three grandchil dren. Linda Lou. Betty and Billy Hamilton, all of Vancouver. The Re. Lloyd T. Anderson will officiate at services, which are directed byi Clough-Barrick com- . tr.. ii,,,- k .i,no iim? mviuw x iwc . in cf open tile which has shown m vu!d-he looker ipaies left 'a- cant when jthe school was erected ner in years sgo. Similar projects are litod for improemefst the other 17 schools of tke loca' ,choo) Astern. Southbound? Co Gnyhovtid ec SA!lFRAIiaSC0JO75 I04IM tltt $" W LOSAIlGELESIIQta ! sowms Ttie uses AW Tftere jre go lowoe erol 4 N. Caerea SL i i 5,000 People, Plus Human and Mechanical Brains Produce Atomic Bombs in America N -STACK . al New 'Exotic Materials9 Used In A-Bombs; S7i-i-7i9 lfs Secret By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Associated Press- Science Editor NEW YORK. May l-ijph-Tw thousand workers product our atomic bombs today. This number equals the wartime peak. In war, all 5000 were concentrated at Los Alamos. N.M. Today the work is'split. with 1400 at a new bomb laboratory at Sandia, N.M., working as a branch of Los Alamos. The steps in bomb-making are sketched by Dr. J. H. Manley, technical associate director of the ' Los Alamos laboratory, in the ! j Bulletin of the Atomic scientists, published in Chicago, center of another large group of atomic en- : Tgy workers. 1 .Sandia designs many things in finished bombs. One is the A bomb shape. Published report : have indicated that these bombs may weigh three or four tons. Also that they are long. Upon the shape : depends part of the accuracy of the bomb drop. roses at Sandia Fues are another Sandia job ; Thee fuses fire the queer sort of cannons inside the bomb to shoot pieces of plutonium of uranium metal so that they come close i enough to each other to explode. : The" fuses can be made to obey a time clock ln a bomb, or a radio signal or pressure of the atmos phere. Use of atmospheric pres sure! Is so accurate that a fue will operate within about '20 feet of a pre-selected height. Details never have been published. Storage and guarding of bombs is another Sandia Job. Sandia supervises when bombs are ex ploded at the Pacific Proving ! ground at Eniwetock atoll. Sandia i '. .1.11 m I . can aiso use mis axon ,or xpe.i--.to September 3 ,t Camp Pendle ments considered , too risky for in- f r ... f. cornrflandinff of haoite.l areas. bited areas. i Start at Ixm Alamos Bomb-production starts with the Theoretical division at Ixs Alamos. This requires not only sortie of the best scientific mind, hut also mechanical and electronic brains There i a battery of In ternational Business Machines. When these reach their ?mi.ts. the electronic Eniac brsin atf Aberdeen Pro ing ground, Maryland, take over. A bomb problems reach liter ally to the stars. Only in the stars does ordinary matter exist in Some of the states that happen momentarily in the nuclear ex plosion of an A bomb. These are temperatures of millions of de grees, pressures approaching a bil lion pounds a square inch and action that happens ln millionth? of a seoond Exploring Chemicals The bomb work does not stop with uranium and plutonium, the only two known metals that ex plode. The Physics diision is ex ploring in addition the light weight chemicsl elements. Not all of these are metals. Dr Manley ; does not identify these light ele ments. He says, however, that in sorne reactions they release nuclear energy This is the same kind of concentrated energy that form an atomic explosion. Dr. Manley says ' the light element study in design- j d learn mors about the mysteries of unclear energies. (Other scientists, not at Los' Alamos, have named hydrogen and Tele-fun by Warren Goodrich 7.,. rone) nntam y mtmi The steady kom of the dial tone m your signal to begin dnUanf. The PacsAc Telephooe and Telefjraph Company. helium, the two lighest elements, as subjects for energy release.) Dr. Manley says that "exotic materials" are used in A bombs. The materials are secret. They are the job of the Chemistry and Metallurgy division at Los Alamos, j New materials, are being studied at Los Alamos. Some of this ex ploring is done in a cryogenic lab oratory, a place where tempera tures can be dropped very close to absolute zero, the point where heat ceases to exist. If wars should cease, not a pound of the explosive metals made for bombs would be wasted. Every bit can be converted for atomic power fuel. Marine Units9 Training to Start Aug. 20 This year's field training for Salem's marine corps reserve unit. C battery of the 4th 105 mm how ltrer battalion, will be August JO m,i t.h n nounced Mondav. It was also announced that the , unit can enlist at least 30 new i members, veterans or non-veterans, prior to August 20. Appllca-i tions are taken at the naval-re-: serve armory on Airport road or at the marine recruiting station ln Salem potoffice. The unit will be transported to camp by air and return by rail. . Major Hicics said he hoped toi take 90 per cent of the personnel to camp. Members will carry their Indiv i dual weapons at camp and will j fire their basic weapons for re cord. i . Graham bread took its name from Sylvester Graham, an Amer ican lecturer on temperance and food reform, who advocated bread made of wheat flour ln which all ; the wheat kernel except Ahe husk is used. "- The weight of the human brain increases 200 to 300 per cent dur lnf the first year of life. MD4mt try Waaie1yif en n fli&wl LINOLEUM... k k TlTvufS"" I Kil Armstrong Sloan M Y : "VSEUL. 1 TOLD VDU IP VOUT HAD A R-EPljTABLl; ESTABLISHED f LUMBER DO THE JOB, HE COUCD HAVE PUT IN SILENT PLUA8iN" WokmomhlprQucaVf r Mntwrfeils Swpwrvbsort Thorovfh lnep4Ktloer 43 ' PLUMB NG-HEATNGj 273 At. COMMERCIAL PHONt 3-4141 A-BOMB In'-, of Y i K P LONC-LOST ART A 13tta centary statse of the Vlrgis. milting for tws eeBtniies. U stsdisd by two girls at the Cloisters of the New York Met ropolitan Mnseum of Art. Ilaiiimell New Preaitlenl Of Railway Express ilf. H, I uiA, ivictj A jyrimL -Alfred L. Hammell, in the ex press business for 40 years, became president and director of the Rail way Express agency today, suc ceeding; L. O. Head who is retiring after a half-century in the express field. Hpmmell has been executive vice president. Use Organic Fertilizer O The right way to re build il O Free of seeds O 'Odorless 6 sacks $5.00 Bulk- 1 tor $10.00 "2 tons 17.50 Free: delivery anywhere in Salem area. Phons3-8127 0l PtWT First Session Of Emergency Board Slated Ths new sta te'smergency board, with authority to reduce or increase- stats budgets, will meet tor the first time next Monday In Salem. On f the initial matters tor discussion will concern funds to meet the per .cent Increase re quired ln the state's contribution to the state retirement fund. This Increase is necessary because the legislature increased the maximum retirement benefits to $3,000 from the previous figure of $2,400. Con tributions of state employes also must be increased to meet the hlher figure. State department officials said they doubt if established stats de partments would have their ad justed budgets in readiness by Monday and that another meeting of the emergency board might be necessary later. Under the new legislation self sustaining departments will come under the view of both the budget department and emergency board. Under the previous set up state departments not supported by ap- Eropriations from the general fund ave been under no restraint in spending their funds even though their budgets were subject to con sideration by the Joint ways snd means committee. All departments, under legisla tive directive, must reduce their budgets for general operating ex- rnses 5 per cent. Starting July . they must also adopt the civil service psy plan providing for wage Increases for state employes averaging $33 a month. The legis lature provided only sufficient money to cover a $20 a month in DRIVE TO ...And All 1425 Phone ZUU II II sHf-l . ! 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