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VOLUM E XXXIV
< •< >1-1 > H ILL, <)!<!<<;< )N, TH U RSD A Y , Al ’R IL 23. 1931
Meier Explains Many Visitors
His Stand On View Lake In
State Schools Winter Setting
Governor Julius | „ Meter's ad­
As expected there was u record
dress Io the »late board of higher
education here today, pointing out breaking curly spring pre-season
his recommendations, us to propos­ travel to Carter Lake yesterday,
als for reduction o f expenditures consisting of 317 cars, containing
and looking Io tiie probable consult lltt& persons. Many were local,
dation o f the system under one head Klamath l ulls and other cars from
other sections of the state, and
is ns follow s:
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there was u sprnkling o f ears from
“ The survey shows that both the
eastern, middle west anil roust
per capita expenditures for opera­
states.
tion nod maintenance und the out­
According to figures given out by
lay for fixed capital in Oregon are
very high us compared w ith other Superintendent E. C. Solinsky this
states, For the form er we pay $3.12 morning, up Io today the travel at­
tier capita as compared w ith an tendance at O u te r National park
average of »I.6A for all the states since the purk roads were cleared
In capital outlay we invest »13.24 of snow und opened to public trav­
|ier cupitu ns compared w ith an el on A p ril 1st last consisted of 3875
average of »6.31 for the country us persons traveling in 115« cars.
One mousing feature of this early
a whole.
season travel is that the m ajority
“ If these figures are correct, it of visitors to the national park cx-
is apparent that substantial savings |Ax t Io be charged tile usual fee o f
run be i ffected without reducing
»1 per ear, und when they find there
our publicly supported educational
is no charge their faces light up
Institutions Io a level of which we . happily, as though they bad jus« re­
need be ashamed. A reduction of cej
ved a big prize in the Irish
»I.IMI per capita fo r operation and,
sweepstakes race, eaperially the
maintenance would »till leave us tourists.
w ell above the average to r the na­
There w ill be no etiarge for the
tion and would, at the same time,
help m aterially in reducing the defi­ entrance of cars until the snow lias
gone awuy and the park conces­
cit in sight.
sions
ure in operation, probabiy un-
“Along the line of economy the
survey reveals two Important facts ‘ ‘ ’ “ "ì d“ y ° f
win* ,al
about our student enrollment. First July 1st next, or perhaps a few I
we have n rule o f attendance for weeks earlier.
The deep snow in the park is ’
each ten thousand of population of
now
settling und a week or so o f j
112 students as-compared w ith 19
fo r the country as a whole. After warm weather w ill melt much o f it
making due allowance for the great­ away, so those person* who desire
er percentage o f all students who to see Die national park in its w in - :
are educated in public institutions ter cloak und have not yet done so ,!
In Oregon, we s till find that our in ­ would he wise to do so w ith in Die
stitutions contain over fifty per next week or two.
Cent more students in relation (o
population thun the average fo r the
country as a whole.
“ In the second place the propor­
tion of Oregon students who fail
Io graduate is almost double tliul
found on the average ill the public
institutions of the United States.
To quote t i i e report: 'For th irty -
five land-grand colleges and uni­
versities, the perrenlage of the class
of 1924 who graduated in 1928 or
before was 41.7 per cent. Compar
ing this figure w ith the 22 per cent
fo r Oregon Stnle college and 17.4
per cent nnd 19 per cent for the
U niversity of Oregon indicates llia l
only half of (he expected number
graduate w ithin the four year
period.
"1 bis indicates that our large at­
tendance is abnormal and wasteful
and that high pressure methods of
student recruiting are inducing
many young men nnd women to en­
ro ll in institutions of higher learn­
ing who are not able, financially
or srholnslically, to complete the
curriculum .
“ Each student costs the stale of
Oregon »276.99 a year, which in it ­
self is »62.07 per student in excess
of the rate fo r Die country at large.
Included in our enrollment are
1,613 students from outside Die
slate of Oregon. The survey sug­
gests D i a l many of these have come
on account of Die lower standards
maintained In Oregon institutions.
The tuition fees charged do not be­
gin to cover the cost o f educating
this large number o f out of slate
students. In fact, at the rale of »150
per year charged by Die college for
non-resident tuition, the stnle loses
»126.99 per .year on each out of slate
student, or a lotnl o f »204,834.87
per year. Here Is n clue to a means
of saving money fo r Oregon w ith ­
out in any way Im pairing Die e ffi­
ciency or lowering the standards of
our educational institutions.
“ The survey accounts fo r our ex­
cessive attendance by costly and in ­
tensive .student recruiting methods.
W hile Die appropriation fo r the in ­
stitutions of higher learning was
before the legislature, a represen­
tative of one o f the institutions of
higher learning spent a week in n
local high school rccruliling stu­
dents, nnd two weeks later another
representative of the same institu ­
tion visited the same high school
fo r the identical purpose. Undoubt­
edly representatives of the other In­
stitutions o f higher learning dupli­
cated or approximated these e ffo rts.,
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N U M BER 2
Managua in Ruins Aft r Earthquake
WASHINGTON
BY RADFORD MOBLEY
ai / tocacter
W idespread ruin and . titu tio n followed the recent earthquake at the capitai of Nicaragua in which
Ì500U persons lost their lives and many thousands were rendered homeless.
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Kaye Don, English m otorboat racing driver, broke G ar W nnH’. —„„„J
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Aues. The new r e c o r d ' w i ^ d e ’^ ^ t h e ’ u a f ’S
w hiJh
J(4&jor Sir Henry Scagravc was killed.
THE N U G G ET
H O M E R O BBED
wAîuiNCTON
bureau
The intensely human side of
President Hoover’s nature is em­
phasized by bis invitation to Bryan
I ’utiedt to pass a whole day and be
an overnight guest at tiie White
House. Bryan i* the 13-year-ok’ he­
ro who earned nation-wide praise
fo r his e ffo rt, Io save the lives of
• iis little brother and 24 other c h il­
dren who were eaught in a stalled
school bus near l.amar. Colo. The
president has paid the little fellow
the additional honor o f letting him
name the time, offering to wait un­
til he is fu lly recovered from the
effects of freezing his hands and
feel w hile keeping the other c h il­
dren active and warm.
Those who view (he nation’s cfcief
as a cold, unemotional being w ill
get a new slant on him by this in c i­
dent. Other presidents have had the
happy faculty of dramatizing their
public acts, becoming popular fig ­
ures in the public mind. Mr. Hoover
preserves his dignity at ail times
except when it concerns children.
The little ones “ see through him ”
and take to h!m instantly. They ap­
preciate his real sympathy and un­
derstanding and five minutes after
meeting him are on terms of corni-
a lity w ith him.
Few presidents have been draped
w ith the austerity that Mr. Hoover
is supposed to have. That he is so
cool and devoid of outward signs of
w o rry can be charged to the fact
that since his early manhood the
Chief has always been in the thick
of impossibilities, most often in fo r­
eign lands where the highest “ poli­
tics’ had to be played to get people
of different upbringings to come
around to his way of doing. It is be­
ginning to seep through to the pub­
lic consciousness that Mr. Hoover’s
coolness is almost entirety of the
head and not of the heart as evi­
denced in his offer to fraternize
w ith little Bryan fo r a whole day.
t The home of Nellie and Lindel
Jacobs on the Pacific highway was
entered and several valuable keep­
sakes stolen Wednesday evening be­
Published by the Students of tile Gold H ill High School
tween eight and nine o’clock.
T h " r »•'On is thought to be some
E d itor—Opal Hayes
one fam iliar w ith the Jacobs home.
General News—Lucille H ittte.
S|>ortg Editor—Linstey Doriuan
Mrs. Pickett, a nearby neighbor,
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heard the dogs causing a disturb­
Social L d ilo r—Sylvia Cardin.
Grade News— Minnie Harrison.
S TR AY DOGS W IL L H A V E
ance about eight o’clock. When the
TOUGH TIM E IN GOLD H ILL
That stray dogs and others which
ATTENDANCE HONOR BOLL
lo t the eighth grade as these results Jacobs sisters returned home later
are allowed to run at large are due
Tiie attendance honor ro ll fo r the are used as a basis fo r graduation in the evening they found the house
had been ransacked and among
fo r a tough lime is the promise of last six weeks fo r which the slu- into higli school.
Mayor Ferguson, lie says that com- dents have been neither absi •ill nor ' U w 'ill take two weeks to com­ some of the valuables taken were
plaints are coming in from all parts lardy is as follows: V irg il Ellington, ptete (he grading of this test as it a gold watch belonging to their mo­
ther. money, a small bank and sev­
of town against the damage o f dogs Minnie Harrison and Mary Linda *s very complete and covers all the
Those who have met the presi­
allowed Io roam about unleashed, H \Vild.
work in the fundamental subjects eral other valuable articles. The en­
dent since his return from the Car­
tire
loss
of
the
amount
is
unknown.
nuisance Io Die properly hik I gar-1
Jnt.cn Ijy every grade student since
ibbean are impressed by his buoy­
dens of neighbors and that he ex- ,
entering school.
MUSIC FESTIVAL
A Ford coupe belonging to Robert ancy of step, showing that he is in
peeled Io see resolutions adopted , The annual musical festival under 1 t i i e Gold H ill High school was
Cook, an employe of the Gold H ill the pink of condition. Since coming
against such nuisance by the next '
the supervision of Mrs. Minnie Guy one o f the highest ranking schools News, was broken into Monday to the White house he has lost
meeting of (he city council
w ill be held Friday,' A pril 25, at 1:30 in a sim ilar test that was given lust night and several valuable articles twenty-five pounds and whatever
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p. in. No admission w ill be charged fall.
fat he may have had has turned into
were stolen.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Livingston liait
and everyone is cordially invited to
muscle.
Pictures
showing
the
The
home
o
f
Fred
Brown
on
First
as guests Monday, Mrs. I.ivingston’s
The seniors plan to give th eir play
attend the program which w ill eon-
roundness
of
his
face
do
not
give
Street
was
broken
into
and
robbed
nephew and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. s st of folk dances, orchestra and next month. This play promises to
an adequate idea o f his fitness. The
Monday evening.
Hemlinger o f Portland, Ore. Mr.
band numbers and numbers by the lx* unusually good as it is fu ll of
use of the medicine ball daily and a
The
chief
of
police
has
been
n
oti­
Hemlinger is w ith the postoffice de­ Glee clubs.
mystery and the ghosts walk.
careful diet are the main secrets
partment and is enjoying his vaca­
I.as Friday the high school gave fied and an early apprehension of of his fine physical condition, ac­
the culprits is expected.
tion in Southern Oregon.
a vodvil and basket supper.
ATTENDANCE BANNER
cording to Dr. Bowie, his medical
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There
were
many
interesting
aide.
The seventh and eighth grades
Such practices should lie eliminated,
RESOLUTION
both as a matter of sound policy and won the attendance banner last re­ numbers such ns Dr. Bimcut, the
Mr Hoover has declared himself
A
resolution
introduced
at
a
spe­
a* a means of promoting economy. port month w ith an average of 97.4 Hogue River and Sams Valley plays cial meeting of the Sams Valley w ell pleased w ith the results o f his
and
the
baby
show.
“ W ith five separate business o f­ percent.
plea a year ago to big industrialists
The prizes fo r the best costumes Grange No. 666 on A p ril 22. 1931, for
fices. Oregon institutions spend 8.9
to keep wages up to a high level.
transacting anv and alt business.
were
awarded
to
Mss
Hankey,
Lnida
per cent of their lolal income for
RESOLVED TH AT: whereas, the Recently a report that a sinister in ­
ACHIEVEMENT TESTS
W ild nnd Glen Lingren. The money present peculiarly distressing eco­
overhead and business adm inistra­
Stanford achievement tests were
fluence, “ bankers” being specifical­
tion, ns compared w ith 5.6 per cent given io all Hid grades except the is to tie used to help publish the nomic conditions have made it im ­ ly mentioned, was attempting to
annual.
possible fo r thousands of people to have concerns cut the pay of em­
for Nebraska and 4 per cent for firs t last Friday. The County school
Ohio.
pay their taxes and
superintendent w ill correct the tests
ployes in order to show a better
GRADE NEWS
WHEREAS: we believe there balance sheet, went the rounds of
Nathan Bannery of the fourth should be retrenchment in public as
the newspapers. Meanwhile govern­
grade and Ted.v of the second have w ell as in private business, there­
ment reports show a lessening in
moved Io Bandon.
fore.
unemployment.
Patricia MeisInf r nnd June Mul­
Be it resolved by the Sams Val­
Support of Mr. Hoover's demand
lins have returned to school.
ley Grange No. 666 that we go on fo r high wages is seen in a report
The firs t gi ' ' i s busy making a record as favoring a campaign of
from Italy in w hich Mussolini is
fnrm and warden.
retrenchment in county govern quoted as saying that fu rthe r cuts
Miss Elizabeth B urr visited the mental affairs, and that every de­
in the pay of government employes
sixth grade Monday.
TRICK OF UNSMASHABLE MATCH BOX
partment be required to cut expens­ in that country w ill seriously im ­
ArtJnir Bates, Jack M artin and I.eo es at lenjt 10%, and that particular
p air th eir buying power, ordering
W alker o f the sixth grade arc mem­ attention is called to the county en that no fu rthe r economies of such
bers o f the ju n io r bait team,
ginccring department where we be­ character be made.
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lieve a cut of 20% is necessary nnd
BABY CLINIC HELD
feasible.
DEMONSTRATION
Dr. Wilson and Mrs. King, county
We also favor abolishing the posi­
AGENT TO VISIT
nurse, held a baby clinic at the tion of County Road Master and re­
To all the ladies of the community
school house Tuesday afternoon, quiring the County Engineer to per­ who are interested. ♦
A p ril 21. They were assisted by Mrs. form this service himself.
On May 1 at the lib ra ry building
C. W. Martin and Mrs. Lota Reed.
We also denounce the traveling Mabel C. Mack, Home Demonstra­
Among the mothers who brought expense fees to certain county o ffi­ tion agent, w ill hold an all day
their babies for examination were cials and employes ns reckless ex­ meeting from 10:30 to 3:30 w ith
Mrs. B. Boss. Mrs. .1. Logan. Mrs. travagance, unwarranted and abso­ basket luncheon at noon. This meet­
I.. Bates. Ths is the Inst baby clinic lutely defenseless.
ing w ill include an explanation of
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u ntil
September.
A pre-school
this project and individual help on
clinic w ill be held in May.
Mrs. George Dorman a.id son clothing problems of renovation or
It was very gratifying to those were the guests of friends in Med­ planning the new garment, (each
who have the interest of Gold H ill ford Friday.
person bring garment to be remod­
Mr. and M rs. Tom Murphy of eled or new material and needles,
Press two opposite corners o f Die cover of an orilln nry penny match box at heart to hear the complimentary
remarks on the babies by Dr. W il­ Medford have moved into their place thread, scissors, thim ble and tape
so Dull It Is slightly throw n out o f squnre. Bring the bos before your nudl
enee, stand the cover on Its tide, place the drawer upright on top o f the son, to which the reply was that the on the highway north df town.
measure.)
cover, ns shown In the drawing, nnd nsk Rome one to try to crush it w ith n supe rio rity o f our environment and
A ll children on the Health Honor
All the ladies of the community
blow o f the hand. It w ill he found that the two ports o f the bos fly In sep
healthful climate over our sister Roll in the Gold H ill school are to who are interested are urged to be
nrule directions when the hand comes In eontnet w ith them.
towns have much to do w ith the be rewarded in some manner on present. There is no charge and all
(C«p) tlg lu , W ill U Llntltiurcl. i
condition of health of our children. May Day,
are welcome.