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Page 1. Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore., Sunday, Dec. 81. 1947iifV tT"TT Tl l 4
Charges Made
Of Inefficiency
At Fairgrounds
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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-.
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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
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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.
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