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1) I Page 1. Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore., Sunday, Dec. 81. 1947iifV tT"TT Tl l 4 Charges Made Of Inefficiency At Fairgrounds ! (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) 2 "2. You have no plana, pro- ; gram or method of procedure, You show a gross preference for . certain Individuals in allotlng - stalls and for groups in allow - ing use of buildings and - grounds. "3. The fair board manager is running a business, using the facilities of the Lane County ; Fairgrounds. "4. You have consistently re fused to raise the price of the ' facilities at the Fairgrounds and have been running it at a great ; loss to the taxpayers of Lane County. "5. There is absolutely no supervision of any activity held ' at the Fairgrounds. "6. The position of caretaker is being used exclusively by the Fair Board as a barn attendant and is a caretaker in name only. "7. You have been using the ; money at your own discretion contrary to the advice of the former district attorney. "8. The high-handed manner . in which you conduct your hear ings is particularly repugnant. Groups who are asked to appear before your board are not even V allowed the courtesy of an open' hearing but are called in indi : vidunlly and made to feel like a prisoner at the bar. "9. In view of the financial status of the Fair Board we be lieve that it would be a good . idea for the district attorney to bring this matter to the atten- - tion of the grand Jury at his -earliest convenience. "We, the undersigned, in view , of the above mentioned facts, demand the resignation of Mr. i Simons from the Fair Board : and of Mr. McCulloch as sec- ' retary and manager of the Lane County Fairgrounds because we believe that they are the worst . offenders." May Circulate Petitions Gibbs stated that, if a satisfac tory exp'anatlon of the above charges is not forthcoming, he would circulate petitions bearing these charges and asking the res ignation of Simon and McCulloch. Mclnnlf declared Saturday that he was still awaiting an explana tion of action taken by the board la September when It refused the us of the fairground! to the American Federation of Labor for Labor Day program. Mclnnls claimed that after refusing use of the grounds, even though the AFL was prepared to pey for such use, the board reversed itself and al lowed the Veterans of Foreign Wars to present auto races there. He claimed the board also allowed a olrous to contract for grounds space, although the circus failed to appear. The fair board refused use of the grounds to the AFL for the Lai- r Day program on the grounds that It hud decided not to let .any groups use the grounds before the Lane County Fair the RECORDS r ror mus.ca. p.easure the venr nrnnnrl , POPULAR ALBUMS "A COLLECTION OF TROPICAL SONGS" Andrews Slstere ( $3.94 "MUSICAL SMOKE RINGS" Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra $3.94 "DANCING IN THE DARK" Carmen Cavallaro $3.94 "SOUVENIR ALBUM" Ethel Smith, organ toloa .' $3.94 CHILDREN'S ALBUMS "GOLDILOCKS' AND THE 3 BEARS" $2.37 " 'ERBERT'S 'APPY BIRTHDAY" $3.15 (unbreakable records) "RUMPELSTILTSKIN" $3.15 (unbreakable records) CLASSICAL ALBUMS "MASQUERADE" Boston "Pops" Orchestra $4.20 "THE HEART OF THE SYMPHONY" RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra $4.20 . . . or let them choose their own . . . give a RECORD BAR GIFT CERTIFICATE r,aht Killer! esses m w m mi m m v w w 7n Explosion BERN (U.R) A Swiss ammuni tion depot buried deep in the mountainside along the Simplon Rail Line blew up Saturday, and military authorities listed a cas ualty toll of eight killed, four miss ing and six injured. The first great blast about mid night and the series of explosions which continued nearly 12 hours smashed a rail station and six houses, tore a gaping hole in the solid rock, and rained missiles over a wide area. end of September, Mclnnls said Had Expected to Fay The AFL later presented its Labor Day program at the Civic Stadium. Mclnnis appeared before the fair board to ask an explana tion of the refusal to let him use the grounds. He was told they had allowed the circus and auto races to have the space because the board needed the money, he charged. He added that he had expected to pay for the use of the space at the time of the refusal. Another statement regarding use of the fairgrounds, but making no definite charges, was issued Sat urday by Elmer Windsor, com mander of the local VFW Post. "We are not attacking any In dividual board member at this time, but we feel there should be a definite policy for use of the fairgrounds," Windsor said. "Meetings should be open, all the grounds should be kept up, and there should be no discrimina tion as to use of the grounds." Windsor said he talked with some members of the VFW board of directors at a meeting Friday night and that board members had agreed that ."they were not satis fied with the way the fairgrounds have been handled." There seems to be no policy governing use of the grounds, and there is, perhaps, some discrimin ation as to use of the grounds," Windsor declared. Charges Not Connected He specified, as did Mclnnis, that these charges were in no way connected with the formal list of charges submitted to the Regls'-ter-Guard office by Gibbs. Gibbs, in addition to his printed list of charges, declared that fi nancial reports on the fairgrounds were not open to the public, and were not seen even by the county court. ' County Judge Clinton Hurd pointed out that the county court has not asked to see the fair board's financial reports, since the fairgrounds are now self-supporting, and no tax levy is needed to add money to the fund. He explained that the fair grounds books are audited an nually. Budget Is $43,590 The budget for operating the fairgrounds for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1948, Is $43,590. A report on the Lane County bud get report showed the estimated Income for the fairgrounds for the same period to equal this sum. The budget is supplied mainly by funds raised by the Lane County fair, with $3800 provided by the state and $4310 from ground rentals. Before the war about 40 per cent of U. S. exports went to the British empire. rilh J?min Imrt .-j- liJlV 23 JJUiiy mu a iriiy m Of Schools' Growing Pains (Main Story on Page One) Increasing population pres sure in Eugene is probably felt nowhere more directly than in the city school sys tem. At present the school board is actively planning the erection of a new grade school in the Westmoreland district and classroom additions at Stella Magladry school, The board is also contemplating construction of still another ele mentary school, and the need for a new hieh school has Brown con- jsiderably since five-year prop erty levy (expiring this year) was instituted to raise $900,000 for such a building. Speaking of the school board's action In scheduling a special elec tion in January to seek $200,000 for use In improving the elementary served that the history of the schools, Supt. Clarence Hlnes ob Bailey Hill School, "without em bellishment, clearly shows the ac celerated rate with which prob lems have descended upon all Lane County schools in recent years." History Outlined Located outside the west city limits, Bailey Hill School has been a part of the city school, system (district 4) since August, 1846. On the occasion of the recent com pletion of a remodeling project there, Dean Lobaugh, assistant superintendent of the Eugene system, prepared an historical a nalysis of the school's growth and development. So far as can be traced, there is no record of the date of the first erection of a school building at Bailey Hill, but older residents of the community claim a building was in existance there in 1870. Known to be the seventh oldest school in Lane County, the Bailey Hill school probably antedates the Ulvii war. The original part of the present building was erected in 1894, and served as a one-room, one-teacher school until 1913. At that time a second teacher was hired to help with the increased enrollment, and the school room was partitioned to provide for a division of the low er and advanced classes. Expand- in 1928 In 1928, overcrowding again prompted expansion. Financing the work with a bond issue, pa trons of the district provided for construction of a new classroom and a basement lunchroom. For the first time, the school was pro vided with furnace heat. How ever, the original building was again used as a single room, and graders at Bailey Hill were trans ferred to woodrow Wilson Junior High, and plans were made to house the first six grades in the scnoois upstairs classrooms. Fire Sweeps Store; One Hurt, No Panic CHICAGO (U.R) Fire broke out in a State Street department store Saturday, but thousands of Christ mas shoppers, aided by special guards, clerks and a toy depart ment Santa Claus, filed from the building without panic. . Only one person was hurt. Fire Commissioner Michael J. Corrlgan estimated the crowd in the build ing at 15,000 and said it was a "miracle" that a stampede did not develop. The fire occurred In the mech anism of an overburdened escal ator between the first and second floors of the Goldblatt Department Store at 1 p.m., when the Christ' mas rush was at its height. Junction Cannery Workers Set Meet JUNCTION CITY Mrs. Alice A. Bissell, business representative of the Cannery Workers local, said Saturday that the Junction City meeting will be at 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 22 instead of Dec. 29 as previously announced in mailed notices. The meeting will be In the Junction City Townsend hall and will be for all local members. broken Eyeglass Frames Repaired For Watch Repairing It BURK IIART'S, J- E. Broadway. sm or JfoLJay t)tfmUH 9e us now for money to make holiday purahaset r to meet any other seasonal and ytaiend needs. Deal with a leaaDy owned eompany and sot hi hindered in solving your none? problems by rigid .rules aci regulations. Convenient month ly repayment terms. Prompt, friendly and courteous servtee. Come in or phone. CASCADE FINANCE CO. Mt, LftTtvrar Billdlftf 99 WUUmiU tlrttt Anim ilrttt from Bx Thulr the two-teacher arrangement con tinued in force until during the 1945-46 school year. Then a third teacher was hired, an-' the basement lunchroom pressed into service to accommo date first and second graders. When the floor flooded during wet weather, the youngsters wore rub ber boots to class. Facing a student increase from 62 to 83 in that year, the Eailey Hill district found that due to its low assessed valuation ($226,000) it was in no position to finance an adequate building program Therefore, as several other subur ban schools had done, Bailey Hill asked to be consolidated with the Eugene district (No. 4.) Transferred to City In an election on August 26, 1946, this plan was approved. Im mediately the seventh and eighth Check Goes On To Determine Meteor Path (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) that the object appeared to be sta tionary, Pruett said: "When a meteor is moving away from a person it does appear to be stationary." One Sighted Nov. 22 As Pacific Coast regional di rector for the American Meteor Society, Pruett recently checked reports on another brilliant me teor sighted over the Cascades northeast of Eugene on the night of Nov. 22. By plotting directions indicated in eyewitness reports, he '.eter mined the course of the "fireball" and filed an official report with the meteor society. Such scientific compilations can only be accomplished by reviews of numerous accounts from wit nesses to the celestial spectacles, Pruett said Saturday, in urging that any who saw the meteor this Friday send him full information. He asked especially that the re porter's name and address be given, the direction i:l which the meteor was first seen, the direc tion in which it disappeared, its apparent height, snd angle of descent. T -.1 i y ajiwui But it wasn't long until the re lentless effect of population Brnwth necessitated further ac tion. Sixty-two students enrolled at Bailey Hill in Sept., 1946, but this number soon grew to 78. As a temDorarv measure the Eugene school board provided for the transfer of the Bailey Hill sixth graders and a few fifth graders to Lincoln School. But to provide a "more permanent" rem- ertv. nlans were initiated lor an extensive remodeling program at the Bailey Hill School. This work, only recently com' nleted. included the addition of another c!;ssroom, a modern kit eher and lunchroom, installation of a sawdust furnace, indoor toilets and a septic tank hook-up. The older rooms were remodeled, storaee and cloak rooms added and an attractive hall provided to serve as an entrance to the bulld,- ing. Landmarks Gone The old doorway to the 1894 building was sealed up, Lobaugh has reported, "and the belfry and bell, community landmarks, be came just memories." Eighteen thousand dollars were spent in the remodeling program, and the annual expense of operat ing the school is now almost $7000, according to the Eugene official. On the basis of a district valua tion of $226,000. a tax levy of around 110 mills would have been required had the Bailey Hill pa trons been forced to handle the problem without outside assist ance, Lobaugh estimates. He has further reported that the school is now staffed by three teachers, has a full-time janitor and a hot-lunch program serving nearly every pupil. But even .with all this, the Bailey Hill problem has not been solved. Already the community's growth has outstripped the ef forts to provide adequate educa tional facilities. Ninety-four pupils have enrolled in the school's six grades this year, and it has been necessary to transport a number of them to Lincoln School to re lieve overcrowding in the first and second grades. Lobaugh estimated that if Bai ley Hill were still trying to oper ate an eight-grade school, It would have to accommodate 112 pupils, as compared with 62 m 1944-45. THE GIFT From How Orphans Tie In With Relief Train (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) convent near their airbase. The sauadron's Methodist chaplain eained permission from the mother superior to transport the youngsters to the airbase. The cooks cut down on the portions served at the squadron's own Christmas dinner. And the whole outfit saved their candy rations and goodies from packages their families had sent. Pockets Filled With Candy Before the evening was over the children were singing with the GI's, some in Flemish, some in French. And the Americans finally heard them laugh when Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck danced from the squadron's movie projector onto a portable screen They returned to the convent that night clutching oranges and candy bars, and their pockets were filled with more. . They were happy, but a happier bunch of GI's turned In that night and most of them still remember Christmas eve, 1944, with a special s e n 1 1 m e nt. In post-war corre spondence the squadron chaplain has kept them informed of the benefits still being supplied to the orphans of Gosselies through funds they left with the mother superior. This Is just one of many stories that could be similarly told. Today Americans are dis patching Friendship trains and ships filled with food and cloth ing donations, but the ."friend ship" principle was well-established by Uncle Sam's troops before the war ended. It was known to the people of virtu ally every war-ravaged country as a spontaneous characteristic of the American people. Consequently, the orphans of Gosselies and millions of others whose lives were blighted by the struggle to' halt Hitler and Tojo would not be amazed to know that a group of Girl Scouts in Eugene, Ore., U.S.A., gave up their Chirstmas party this year to buy a case of corn for the Northwest's Christmas ship. Nor would the GI's who taught them the meaning of friendship be inclined to subscribe to the derisive attitude of a scorning minority who suggest that "we're being played for suckers in these FROM those who care, to those who appreciate the finest Data on Bus Fares Lacking ""Muerauon of the Oregon Motor Stages' request for an increase in fares paid by not be on the agenda of the citv 7:30p.m:.t Ve ci;yTairnaay St Citv Manager Saturday that his oScTSJS statements of the m , "n" ation which the council advised the transit company to submit be- "'v auiion would be taken ...... ous lares. auRsmreu run The Oreeon Mntn,- ci-. . . .. re quest for authorization to charge 10 cents per fare and in .u ,. at three for 26 cents was read to uie council ai us last meeting Seeger said the company has in dicated that til. nrnU j . - - c ... ollu 10ss figures will be presented to the council to support a claim that a pending wage increase for drivers and shop employes will necessi tate Increased revenues from bus fares. The data had not been re ceived Saturday however. uue lor Discussion ToDics that will ho fnl, . Monday's meeting include the pro poses vacation 01 a portion of Inavale St. between nn Emerald. A hearing on this pro- pusm ana an accompanying sug gestion that Inavale St. be relo cated to Dass between Pm.. !, and Onyx on a new line, running uu-euiiy east ana west, will be held by the council: Seeger reDorted SaturHnv tht protest to this proposal has been received Dy mis onice and will be presented to the councilmen dur ing the hearing. Bids received from two con tracting firms on ' wnvk In plete facilities at the site of Eu gene's new municipal swimming pool will also be reported to the council for consideration. These bids, to cover construction of a bathhouse, installation of a heat ing plant, and other work neces sary to complete the project, were opened Wednesday. Stien Bros, entered the bid at $62,497. That submitted by John Kovtynonich totaled in ex cess of $75,000. and the orphans met, managed somehow to understand each other's speech, and before long to understand each other. RUSSELL'S really Russe ",nl,t Club itft ?K Nation." L , samples (if" iM ?.araei o th, .' VIENNA .... u. s. tZ-ti Inrin. bit . ' 7?" S tried tn r0 and arr.l.j u.. " Inrin has been toMj, Russian aniuu.. r B ;ment.Thenaraeoltha Will ttrtt V- ..-..-Ml-iun an, slayins. The S(iW! ... I military hospital, to fis, me matt house told the provost n mure mat inrin Amur! nan irJ ..i... . mnnnu then set unnn hu t . , to the floor and kitW j. me nean ana body. 4 iarmers now are fej lowest percentage ot hiiuv in me united ! 1900, Russian Kicfe LifeFromYar 3 II APPLIANCE CENTER Lb. 5ttfl-M-m7 nnt TM 70 WEST TENTH . PHONE 6245
