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CUGENE, OREOON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1955
Time to Review Our School Needs
There is no cause for alarm, but
Eugene's school problem which com
pounds itself annually is a subject for
deep thought during (he next few yearn.
The initial thinking has already been
done by the Lay Advisory Committee
which, although less than a year old, has
so far proved its worth.
Our need for new schools and more
classrooms to meet the demands of an
expanding population is not unique. Nor
is it unexpected. Every year since the
end of World War II our school admin
istrators have warned us we are facing
a constantly increasing load. Many
school districts across the nation, but
particularly jn the West, are confronted
with these same problems.
But what are the answers? Where
will the money come from? Who should
pay? How many schools will we need
in the next five years? In the next 15?
The school board of District 4, acting
on recommendations of the advisory
committee, is moving ahead with plans
to build a new senior high school in
the River Road area and a new junior
high at the old Airpark site. There is no
money available for these schools which
administrators estimate will cost a total
of more than 2'i million dollars. But
they must be built.
These two new schools are only the
beginning. The Lay Advisory Commit
tee, which has done an excellent job of
planning immediate school needs, sees
the picture up to 1960 this way:
The total enrollment in School Dis
trict 4 this year is about 10,871 pupils.
By 1960 it will be 15,385, half again as
much.
Based on a desirable 25 pupils per
room, we will need a total of 245 new
classrooms for all grades to take care
of the increase.
In addition to expansion of already
existing schools, we will need, besides
the new senior and junior high schools,
new elementary schools at the Airpark
' site, in Sunny Hollow, River Road, Cal
Young area and the South Willamette
area. . . . ' '
And that isn't all. The committee has
recommended that Woodrow Wilson
Junior High fthe old high school) be re
placed as soon as possible; that the old
River Road School be replaced; that the
Willagillespie School be replaced within'
five years; that the Glenwood and Twin
Oaks Schools be replaced when possi
ble. Population trends in the Willaken
zie area show that, a third high school
ultimately will be needed. And more
junior highs will be needed as the wave
of pupils moves along. These needs go
beyond 1960, but the committee is wisely
looking to the future.
It remains for the committee to find
the best method of financing these need
ed facilities. The financial forecast is
not as gloomy as it might seem. At pres
ent we are working on the second year
of a five-year serial levy to raise three
million dollars for construction of ele
mentary classrooms. Our total bonded
debt is approximately four million dol
lars. Our bonded debt capacity, by law,
is about ten million.
The finance committee has recom
mended that we (1) extend the present
serial levy to finance elementary
schools; (2) that we bond the district for
junior and senior high school building
needs and (3) that a revolving fund be
established for advance planning. In
short, a combination of tax levies and
bonds which the committee hopes will
keep the millage rate down.
There has been much political lalk
of federal support for expanding school
needs. But we cannot count on any
such aid in the near future, whether or
not it is a wise plan, We've got to face
the school problem now, ourselves. And
now is as good a time as any to bone
up on our responsibilities. As taxpayers,
we've got to carry the load one way
or the other.
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The Stanford Research Institute, em
ployed to survey the wisdom of Oregon's
throwing a "world's fair" upon the anni
versary of statehood, says maybe Oregon
better tone down its ambitions. A "re
gional fair," says the institute, would be
a sounder idea. The report sets out sonic
reasonable sounding arguments ahoul
money and housing and such.
We hope the promoters of the fair
will heed the Stanford report, and will
also consider that there hasn't been a
first-class, star-spangled, all-stops-out
world's fair since 1939, when there
were two one in New York and one in
San Francisco. We also hope the promot
ers will go ahead with plans for sonic
kind of celebration to observe the an
niversary in 1959.
Oregon's attaining slatehood was a
very important thing for Oregon, and,
coming as it did on the eve of the Civil
War, it had a certain national import
ance. But, looking at the thing with some
perspective, il was hardly an event of
world significance, hardly one to justify
the throwing of a "world's fair."
The Payoff
Think of Ihe joy that must he in the
heart of James Kgan of Tangent, Ore. lie
saved the life of his three-year-old
daughter, Deborah, last Sunday because
he knew how to apply artificial res
piration. Instead" of the terrible tragedy of a
child drowning, a child still lives because
her father had first aid training. First
Sid training is knowledge possessed by
too Jew people. Most public safety per-'
sonnel, such" as firemen and polkiiinen,
Have fiftt aid UainiifK. usually through
t!tP facilities of the Red Cross, but o(Mi
thev arc too far from Hie scene of
trady to sayc lite . . J
James Egan stuinbhl a'ross the body
of his little d,ie,htor fit a slough where
oeshe fell wllc playing with two cousins.
fie was luckv that he fount the ynuflg-
stcr i time, bt it would have lwcn
.Vuitless if he had not known what to
do after the :sirerv. o
hot summer months, and it is a good
bet that many lives would be saved if at
least one person in each family had first
aid training. It is possible for any person
to enroll in a Red Cross first aid class
free of charge by merely calling your
local Red Cross office. During the past
year, incidentally, more than 1.700 per
sons in Lane County took Red Cross
first aid training.
Talk Costs Little
Harold G. Kissick, director of the of
fice of international conferences told
the House appropriations committee t he
other day that it would cost U. S. tax
payers $1,100,000 for the coming Big
Four "summit" meeting and the foreign
ministers, and related conferences there
after. We doubt if one taxpayer would pro
test this tost to discuss world peace and
relieve world tensions. If the meetings
do nothing more than air views of dif
ferent world leaders on relieving ten
sions it would be worth more than t lie
cost. II would cost more to lose one jet
bomber winging on a mission of destruc
tion. Interestingly enough, it will cost
us only $275,000 for the talks between
President Eisenhower, and Prime Min
isters Eden, Enure and Rulganin. The
foreign minister meetings will cost
$450,000.
Polio Declining
The U. S. Public Health Service an
nounced last week that polio cases h
Ihe nation, although up 12 per cent from
Uie week before, had dropped 40 pfr
cent from the correspiNidint! week' the
year before. J'lwt is a marked dctrwse.
Suuv Ihe bogimyng ol .the year a
total of 308 cas nfspiilinmyliiis has
IVen reined toiiipaitl with 4.697 fur
Ihe.same verioU ofeJfl.Vfi a drop ifY al
mjislol.OOOasef. o
It is still loiyarlv in the polio -o.ison
toVll whether this triad wilPcnntnine.
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IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG
Haircut Prices
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EUGENE (To the Editor) I
believe Mr.' Sparrow has an av
erage amount of intelligence,
therefore, he should understand
what inflation is.
I've been in the barbering bus
iness nearly 35 years and I've
seen barber prices and wages
fluctuate considerably. In 1924,
common labor was receiving 40
ccnls per hour. In 1940, a haircut
was 50 cents standard price, and
common labor was 50 cents per
hour. Skilled work, like carpent
ers, was 75 cents per hour.
Mr. Sparrow seems to Ihink
the price of a haircut is too high
now at $1.25, but does he think
wages of $1.85 per hour for com
mon labor is too high also? No, of
course not. When he is doing the
work, he surely isn't one of those
selfish men who always wants his
wages up, but everyone else
shouldn't make anything. I know
Mr. Sparrow can understand this
and 1 would like to ask him it
he would he willing to work for
a wage of 8 or 10 years ago, and
try to buy food etc. at the present
day prices.
Big steel and other highly or
ganized groups get a substantial
wage increase every year, but
the barbers can't get. one every
four or five years without some
Binn CRYING.
This is a true incitlent: A car
penter making S2.25 per hour
asked me why we couldn't cut
hair for 50 cents and he would
bring his kids in if the price was
50 cents. Now he tries to cut
their hair. I said, "Would you
he willing to work for a 1940
wage and try to huy commodities
al our present priecs?" He said
no and I said that we can't
either.
By custom, the price of a hair
cut should be the same as an
hourly wage for common labor,
or SI. 85, but would Sparrow cry
then if this were Ihe haircut
price. .lust because the price of
a haircut goes up is no reason
the journeyman barber is making
more. The customer just lets his
hair grow longer and gets more
than his money's worth.
A good barber in 1940 was
making $35 -540 per week. Today
wilh the price of a haircut Iwo
and one half times higher, his
wages are lucky to be SR5-S70
per week. Show me any olhcr
skilled worker that is working
lor that, except possibly your
automobile mechanics.
1 hope Mr. Sparrow can under
si and and will admit Ihe price
of a haircut is not as high ae
cimlingly as oilier wages and will
use his intelligence lo write an
other poem saying so. If Mr.
Sparrow wants to work for me.
common labor price of 1940
wages, I'll cut his hair FREE.
I.. .1. OSWALD
814 Willamette
Senator Replies
WASHINGTON D C. (To the
Editorl 1 have, no desire to go
into treat, detail concerning the ,
attack upon me by Mr. John I..
I.tiiitlherg in the lelter columns
of tin' Bcgi!er(',uard for'.lune
12. 1955. Vcause I support sljie
liod for .Htska.
Hmtovrf. M, Luntlbcrc h;t
made jjarlkul.tr'p lint of 'ihe
fart Jjli.il Alaska slftmltl not re
ceive slatehgod bete sft -t a
proportion of Alaska's land is
owned by the federal ?ovetrnenl.
I think it is percent i point out
Ih.it.o't Mr. l.u.berg's0.undarf?
had b-'n adopted concerning Ore
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a ".tit- tnoiv. ttnt'n
n annum lo ine i n
course, become stale properly un
til after the statehood act had
been passed in Congress. Thus, if
Ihe measuring stick used by Mr.
Lundberg had been in effect in
1859, it is possibl that Oregon
never would have become a state.
I agree that there are many
crucial problems concerned in
granting statehood to Alaska. Yet
it is my considered opinion that
these problems will be belter
solved under statehood than un
der Alaska's present ambiguous
and unsatisfactory territorial stat
us. I think that is the reason why
the Oregon Slate Legislature,
wilh both Republicans and Demo
crast participating, has repeated
ly memoria' od Congress to enact
statehood for Alaska.
I believe that .statehood for
Alaska is in the public interest,
in the national interest, and in
the best interests of the Pacific
Northwest. I still Ihink that Con
gressman Ells'vorth did not vote
in the public interest when he
voted against Ihe hill creating
statehood for Alaska and Hawaii.
Sincerely,
ItlCHARD L. NEUBERGER
United States Senator
Public Power
OAKRIDGE (To the Edilorl
At Ihe dedication of Lookout Point
Dam we heard the virtues of
mulli - purpose projects extolled
hy the Republican speakers. We
heard of Ihe greitf efforts put
forth by Republicans of olhcr
days lo bring to completion such
beneficial projects.
Then the sad news. They said
Republican leaders have decided C. A. PADDOCK,
there will be no further such star Route Box 197.
dams built by the people because
we just can't afford it. They
said we need all tax moneys lhat
can be collected for defense pur- So TheV ScW
a few billions for development
of electrical energy?
I remember well during World
War I when Germany had gained
control of most of the nitrate
supplies of the world, located in
Chiiet (nitrate being necessary
in making gun powder), and pri
vate power companies had failed
to produce sufficient electrical
energy to enable us to produce
synthetic nitrate. It became nec
essary for the government to
build Muscle Shoals Dam on the
Tennessee River so that the ni
trate could be produced. How
many American lives were lost
in that war because private power
companies failed to meet the
situation?
Because of the foresight of
some Republicans, such as Teddy
Roosevelt, Clifford Pinchot and
Charles- McNary and because of
Ihe wisdom of F.D.R., we were in
a different position at the out
set of World War II. In the
Northwest we had Grand Coulee,
Bonneville and others so that we
had the power to produce Ihe
aluminum, planes, ships, tanks
'and guns; and how many lives
were saved because we had that
electrical energy?
And now Republican leaders
toll us we can't spend our lax
money for the production of elec
trical energy, We must depend
on private power companies.,
Eisenhower told Congress in his
budget message lhat if and when
bis partnership plan was accept
ed, funds would be budgeted for
multi-purpose . projects and the
lesser Republicans have been
chanting that theme ever since.
This is certainly a good example
of political blackmail!
Sincerelv
poses and if more such dams are
bull! it must be under the part
nership plan where the profit end
of the project, the power pro
ducing unit, w ill be turned over to
the partner and we the tax pay
ers will retain only the dam
structure.
Since when, in modern days, I
wonder, has not electrical energy
been important in Ihe defense
program? And if we can spend
many billions for alomic power
projects, which now are to be
sold as surplus property, why not
I believe that through ihe vari
ous talks and contacls lhat were
established Ihe San Francisco
meeting (of the U.N.) achieved
positive results. Soviet Foreign
Minister V. M. Mnlolov.
Tell my government that many
of us are alive and lhat we need
help. We would also be grateful
for food parcels. Attributed to
American Pvt. Sidney R. Sparks,
said to be in Red slave camp by
reluming Austrian prisoner.
S1DEGLANCES
By Galbraith
Orcpi
There are thousaiftft of persons in the ildicn who rccci? all
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readyobcRuu, to promice cxp tetf bene- "" hiit 2 'c of imind in 0
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WASHINGTON f NEA) The
big thrill for some otthe world's
great nuclear scientists at the
United ations cSnferenee on
Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy,
opening at Gen
1 va on Aug. 8, is
that they'll be
p e r m i 1 1 e d to
push a button.
That will close
an eltjctric cir
cuit to start the
machinery thjtl
will operate a
small atomic re-
. jrtor. It. wilk.be
the p ri nc l p a I
item in the U.
Geneva.
This reactor, of the "swimming
pool" type, will be at the bottom
of a vertical, cylindrical tank, 10
feet in diameter, buried 20" feet
in the ground. Water is kept cir
culating in the' tank to keep the
reactor cool and as insulation to
prevent radiation.
When the button is pushed the
reactor will give off Ihe equiva
lent of about 10 kilowatts of
energy from the eight pounds of
uranium 235 in the reactor at the
bottom of the tank. This will give
off a light blue glow through
the water. Occasionally Ihe re
actor will be flashed to 100 kw.
output. Then the blue glow will
be brighter. .
This may sound like a long way
In go to see a very simple thing.
But it must be realized that out
side of the United States, Canada,
Britain, France and Russia, few
scientists have had a chance lo
see an atomic reactor at work.
U-235 AVAILABLE
The United Slates has now
made available 440 pounds of
uranium enough for 32 small,
research reactors and has of
fered to pay half the cost of con
struction to countries entering
into an agreement for sharing in
formation on the peaceful de
velopment of atomic energy. The
U. N. conference at Geneva may
be a curtain raiser to this new
era.
In addition to the working,
swimming-pool reactor, the Unit
ed States exhibit at Geneva will
also have scale models of five
types of research reactors.
There will also be a reactor
simulator an exhibit to show
how the control rods of a reactor
are operated to start and stop the
chain reaction of alomic fission.
Another exhibit shows the pro
cessing of uranium ore to the
enrichc metal used In nie
rctctors. ( .
A model of a chetiical process
ing plant ill show how the uran
ium is purified for reuse, after
it has been "poisoned" hy, lift
isotopes made in the reactor.
The United States is not yet
ready to offer to help build anj
of these chemical processing
plants in foreign countries. The
present agreements ith 22
friendly countries call for bring
ing the atomic fuel back to the
United States after its-tisablo en
ergy has been burned up in the
research reactors. '
ISOTOrE DISPLAY
But this is the first time that
this process .of purification
sometimes rcferre1 to s taking
the clinkers out of the burned
fuel has been declassified by the
U. S. ,
An exhibit of instruments used
in measuring atomic reactions
will also he on display at Geneva.
There will be two displays on
the use of isotopes, or radio
active atoms, in medical science
and in industry. And there will
be a general exhibit on basic re
search. A hundred" American firms
manufacturing equipment for
atomic energy processes are co
operating with the U. S. Atomic
Eonergy Commission in preparing
these exhibits.
Fifty educational and private
research organizations have a
share in it. But none of their
equipment will be for sale at the
Palais des Nations headquarters
for the U. N. conference.
At a private exposition hall
in downtown Geneva, however,
some 22 American manufacturers
have taken space for what will
be the world's first atomic trade
fair. They will have their equip
ment for sale, subject to the re
strictions in the U. S. atomic en
ergy and export control taws.
Fourteen American publishers
will display and have on sale over
100 technical periodicals and
some 300 books on atomic energy.
The basic library of over 5,000
technical reports declassified by
the U. S. Atomic Energy Commis
sion will be open for inspection.
The United States has given these
libraries to friendly countries in
the atoms-for-peace program.
And just lo give the scientists
a chance to go to the movies,
for relief from the 400 talks on
Ihe program, the U. S. has pre
pared for showing at Geneva sev
en films on reactors, use of iso
topes and safety precautions.
FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
Bulgarian Gold in Fort Knox A
May Cross American Palms
WASHINGTON Now we can
start worrying about the Bulgar
ian gold buried in Fort Knox,
Ky., and the big boom in imper
ial Russian bonds, which for the
last 38 years have been valuable
principally for papering walls.
We might even consider the
$9,100,000 of Communist money
which has been on deposit so long
in the Treasury Department that
even the Reds seemed to have
forgotten about it.
All told we've got in cash or
solid gold about $41,000,000 that
used to belong to the Commu
nists and their satellites: our gov
ernment figures that at long last
maybe we ought to pay it to those
unfortunate Americans who lost
their properly to the Reds in the
long ago.
So we have up a bill before
the Senate (it's already been
passed hy the House) lo declare
a dividend for the patient ones.
The State Department and the
foreign claims commission ex
perts now arc talking up the idea
before the Senate Foreign Rela
tions Committee.
Let's take first that S9. 100.000,
which the Reds paid us as a tok
en on their debts when we recog
nized them in 1933,' For 22 years
the money's been sitting there in
a special account, intended for
payment to those Americans who
lost their Czarist Russian invest- q ry-, ' c ,
( ments in the Red revolution of 50 1 hey bay
1917. Why tney oion t get tins
money 22 years ago is some
thing nobody yet has explained.
BOND GOING I P
"I notice lhat the imperial Rus
sian bonds are going up in price."
suggested Sen... I. William Ful
bright ( D-Ark ). "Is that on ac
count of this legislation?"
"It would seem reasonable."
replied Whitney Gillilland, chair
man of the Foreign' Claims Set
tlcmt'nt Commission.
"Would any of this money go,
to the holders of the bonds?"
insisted the gontleman from Ar
kansas. "Oh. ves.". replied fommission
er Gillilland.
Before iu rush out to huy any
of those ancien bonds with ie
impeyal Rus'.Sn 8a "cmblaz-
oned on them, ytju might be wise
t pm-Vr tlic (act hat STS.OO').- .
Otto wrth of. thcKi now'are out
slanding here In addition thete
are S33fl.0nm more, in V. S.
trio of underling Communist
countries, the gold became avail
able to pay oft claims.
NO MONEY
Here again there's not enough
money to go around when you
consider that one American oil
company, alone has billed Ruman
ia for $20,000,000 in stolen refin
ery properties.
One man who had an idea was
Rep. Alvin Benlley (R -Mich) who
tried lo get the house lo adopt
an amendment calling for the
U. S. government to confiscate
all Rumanian. Hungarian and
Bulgarian property in this coun
try and give it to the creditors.
The opposition suggested soft
ly that if Bcntley managed that,
he'd actually be declarin" war be
cause in international circles you
just don't go taking another fel
low's properly in peace time. At
least you don't in the politer in
ternational circles.
1 don't own any imperial Rus
sian bonds, myself, though I
might pay (attention to all brok
ers) 10 cenls for one to frame
in memory of those who've
waited nearly four decades to
collect.
(Copyright, 1955, by Unitec)
Features Syndicate, Inc.)
By 1975 the one-car family
could he in Ihe minority and a
large proportion of families may
be using three or more cars.
Lesler L. Colbert, president.
The Chrysler Corp.
The current drought in the
snulherm Great Tlains is fully al
severe as the first drought iin the
1930s.
Agriculture Secretary Benson.
Dr. (Billy) Graham, with his
vast . . . following, is turning into
the Johnny Ray of religion. -A
lot of the young people t Wem
bley (Stadjum) were Bible hohhy
soxrs. ...
John Rdfcrn, Brjtish news
man. ' . . ,
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