Southern Oregon News Review, Ashland, Ore, Thun. April
OREGON
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without authorization from cither
the legislature or the people
Twenty thousand signatures
are necessary to place the men
sure on the ballot and so far tin
majority of the signatures on thl.
petition have been secured up
state. To date southern Oregon
has not shown the Interest it
should In securing signatures for
this petition.
During the next fifteen days
route salesmen of Fluhrer Raker
ies will place petitions ready foi
signatures of registered voters at
your nelghboihood food stores
We urge that you make a special
effort to sign these petitions and
lend yom active support to a
measure which can mean much
to the future of the Rogue River
Valley by utilizing for stale os.
the Camp White hospital l.iclll-
tle*.
The time is short! Your signa
tures are needed*
Win. II. Fluhrer
NEWS REVIEW
sand for ponderosa pine . . . A
special count by the I, S Bureau
of the Census got under way at
Yreka this week, with six enum
erators taking the count.
The
Bureau expects to have the final
figures within thirty duys.
Cranberry growers in Coos
county have been offered orders
for more than the entire estimat
ed crop, through the C ons Cran
berry Co-Op. . . . During 1947
more than a quarter million dot
lars was spent for building con
tructmn at Coquille building in
spector Paul Snider says . . . six
thousand Port Orford seedlings
Were planted In the Shore Acres
state park neur Coos Bay last
week by lit) Marshfield high
school students . , . The founda
tion of the new mausoleum be
ing built In the IOOF cemetery
at Medford is completed as the
starting of work got under way
on th«* $100,000 building
Monday, April 19, the districts teresting to note that fifteen of
included
In the Rural School dis our school districts have for sev
Published every Thursday by
trlct of Jackson County will vote eral years hud no base ut all.
THE SISKIYOU PUBLISHING COMPANY
at their schoolhouses or other these having been lost at soon
Ashland, Oregon
38 East Main Street
usual school voting places on the earlier time by the districts' rail
Carryl H. Wines and Wendell D. Lawrence, Publishers
question of exceeding the 6*7 hig to make u levy. Due to the
limitation on the Rural School heavy increases in population
W ENDELL LAW RENCE. Editer
District’s equalized county levy. and Increased costs of service ano
This election is provided for in materials, practically all school
Entered as secend-class mail matter in the post office at Ash
the Rural School District Law in districts and other municipalities
land, Oregon, February 15, 1835, under the act of Congress of
accordance with Section II, Artl have badly outgrown their levy
March 3, 1879.
cle XI, State Constitution.
bases in the past decade.
This is the first year the new
There Is nothing unusual about
Rural School Law has operated this election. It Is simply a coun
Briefly, the law requires that tin tywide simultaneous vote by all
sum of all the levy bases in tin districts on the question of ex
The faculty of the Ashland high school showed that they were think Rural School District be taken as ceeding the 6*7 limitation instead
the levy base for the county Rui
ing about the future welfare of the city’s future citizens when they al School District; the sum of all of a vote by each individual dis
trict on its indlvdual budget. The
sponsored the vocational guidance clinic which was held at the high the school district levies of th bases of the component districts
districts within the Rural School have been combined into the one
school Wednesday. Several local business men and business women met
District Is to be the equalized
with various groups of students and discussed the problems relating to county levy of the Rural School base, the levies of these districts
have been combined into one
employment in the fields of auto mechanics, beauty operating, engineer District; and the voting on this levy, and the voting to exceed
ing, aviation, secretarial work, athletic coaching, teaching, forestry, levy Is to be done on the third the 6 per cent limitation, law
Clarence Hartwell of Beath
Monday in April in all the dl
street is improving his home
journalism, radio, nursing, law, farming, ministry, medicine, pharmacy, tricts comprising the R u r a l been combined Into one general
county wide election held on the
with a new concrete retaining
School District.
same day throughout the county
business, and art.
wall.
The sum of the bases as indi
Many of this city’s high school students will not enter any college.
Failure to grant the Rural
A large number of them arc today planning to go directly to work cated above is $268,955.44, which School Board authorization to
means that this amount is all the make the full levy as indicated
by C. H. Wines
after leaving high school. These students, particularly, need assistance Rural School Board can place up above would cause, in practically
in choosing a work which will be both profitable and suitable to their on the county levy unless the all of our school districts, an In
Authorized Dealer
people give authorization by creased district levy and in many
A proposal to place a $25,000
talents.
W H IZ Z E R M O T O R S
their vote on April 19 to place a of our districts having a large
343 E. M a in
P hone 2-1541
We noticed in the list of professions and jobs listed, that the group larger sum in the levy. The school attendance it would cause bond issue before the residents of
Rogue
River
was
discussed
by
school
districts
in
the
consolidat
which was no: going to go to college had been somewhat neglected.
higher levy millages than they
the village board last week, mon
Where was the symposium on plumbing, carpentering, logging, weld ed district have asked for $1,003. have ever experienced.
367.26, which, as you will note,
C R. Bowman, County School ey to be used to provide a more
ing, painting, mining, clerking, telephone operating, sailing, restaurant is $734,411.82 more than their
adequate water supply, repair the
Superintendent.
present well, and install meters.
work, truck driving, and other occupations which form the livelihood combined bases. This $734,411 82
Is the amount the people are ask
The disposition of Camp White . . . Archie Hesernan of Linn
of the majority of Americans?
ed to permit the Rural Board to is of vital importance to every re county has announced that he
As a recommendation we’d like to see the high school follow through levy over and above the combin sident of the Rogue River Valley has bought out the logging oper
with the plan which they began Wednesday and sometime in the next ed base of $268,955.44, in order and it behooves each and every ations of the Emmert Brothers of
few weeks hold another vocational forum with representatives of the that several districts In the coun one of us to support whatever Sweet Home and also their in
ty Rural School District may reasonable plan Is offered for Its teiwt In the C A M Lumber Co.
above occupations present to tell about the nature of the work, the each have the amount as has re use. The wrecking of Cami sawmill near Lebanon. No details
main advantages and disadvantages of the jobs, the qualifications and quested for its school. In case of White hospital would not only be of the transaction were given
training needed, the remuneration, the hours of work, and the seasonal an adverse vote, in other words, a tragic waste of adequate facili The Cottonwood Lumber Com
Its combined base, then the 734,- ties which are sorely needed by pany of Lakeview bought at pub
M arble. G ran ite. Bronse
demands.
411 82 will have to be placed upon our state and nation but would be lic auction held Monday. April
E x tra L etterin g A va ila b le
The individual’s who will enter these jobs soon after high school have a refusal to let the Board exceed a real economic loss to the Rogue 5 from the Fremont Forest some
2,900.000 feet of timber In the I
a right to know and should know about the .union organization of the several school district tax River Valley.
Messman creek area. Price was
levies by the order of the several
The
Jackson
County
Chamber
"On the P la ta "
their future occupations, the supply and demand of labor and where school boards.
of Commerce has underway a the minimum of $15.90 per thou
It is interesting to note that of campaign to secure slgnatuies
the source of supply is located.
There are ja,ooo occupations in which people in these United States the present budgets handed to from registered voters of the
the Rural School Board for the
are employed without the advantage, or disadvantage, of a college edu school year 1948-49, there is not a Rogue River Valley on a petition
which will place a measure on
• Mimeographing
• Typing
cation. The people who enter these occupations need more vocational single one that does not exceed the state ballot in November en
• Dictation by Telephone
guidance during their last year in high school than do the people who the levy base formerly assigned abling the state of Oregon to take
• Postcard Duplicating
to the district. In other words, if over Camp White hospital. This
are entering college.
of
the new Rural School Law had measure is necessary because the
Ashland
Phone 5541
If these children, who tomorrow will be our artisians, our crafts not come Into existence all dis Oregon state board of control was
tricts
in
the
county
would
have
advised it could not legally take
men and our service workers are taught in the schools that the most
had to vote this year to exceed over the Camp White hospital,
important thing in any job is the feeling of pride that comes from
the 6% limitation. It is also in even though It wished to do so,1
knowledge that a job is well done and that any type of task, no matter
how menial, can be a joy and a pleasure if the individual has pride in
his work, then this country will have fewer dissatisfied workers and
their work will have a much higher standard.
Vocational Guidance
OREGON
REVIEW
O. R. EDWARDS
MONUMENTS
BURNSAGENCY
Public Stenographer
Chamber
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Orientation
The boys who tomorrow may be drafted and who will move from,
a fairly sheltered civilian life into the Army life need a great deal of
orientation. This is supposedly handled by the Army after the draftee
enters the service. This seems like locking the barn after the horse is
stolen. The boy who is entering the Army should have a broad orienta
tion about the services before he ever steps into a uniform and stands
in a chow line.
If some local veteran’s organization is looking for a worthwhile pro
ject they might make arrangements with the high school and college
authorities whereby the boys in the senior class could receive a series
of orientation talks which would attempt to prepare the boys for the
Army life.
There is often a tremendous mental strain involved during the first
two or three weeks of a draftee’s Army life. He has been moved from
one type world, which he knew well, into another, with which he is
totally unacquainted.
This strain on the individual could be largely alleviated by proper
pre-draft orientation, which would have as it’s purpose the preparation
of the individual’s mental attitude toward that change.
The young men and boys who tomorrow will be in ranks, today
need to be prepared for that phase of their lives by being told the why’s
of military discipline, the reasons behind the way the services operate,
the best ways of making adjustments and how to make the most of
the one or two years which will be spent in service.
This pre-orientation, properly presented, would help in keeping a
lot of vinegar filled youngsters out of the guardhouse, and it would
help in keeping a lot more highly strung neurotic youngsters out of
the consulting pyschologist’s office.
True the servic« do have orientation, but during the period of time
that the incoming soldier gets his orientation lectures, he is usually
so confused that if there wasn’t a corporal nearby to tell him which
way to go, he’d go straight up.
Today this problem should be considered and met, by local service
organizations, by local schools, and by local churches.
It’s an important problem, and one that has been entirely overlooked
in past years.
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Airport
Seems to us that the present international situation should have had
some bearing on the Ashland airport situation. We’re sure that this was
no time to toss an airport, any kind of airport, out the window. It’s
good that the local flying enthusiasts are not letting the matter drop.
This community will need in the near future an airfield. If the expan
sion of the airforces goes through it is entirely possible that some type
of training, such as the pre-war CAA training for pilots would be set
up in various colleges. If there were an airport handy, there is no reason
why Southern Oregon college couldn’t be included in the group of
schools which would offer this course.
Commerce Offices
This Money 6Talks9
The American Way
Thin i* Ihe B onkrr T . Wanhinelon Commemor stive half dollar. One
dollar mailed Io Booker T . Washington Birthplace, V irginia, will
bring >ou the coin and help 14.000.000 Negroes to help themselves.
DO YOU KNOW who 1 am?
I am an American half dollar
but a very rare one. For I was
created by special Act of Con
gress, named the Booker T.
Washington Commemorative Half
Dollar, and minted by the U.S.
Government Then 1 was assigned
a mission for America
My mission is a wonderful
thing. It is to help many of our
14,000,000 American Negroes who
are in need to become self-suf
ficient citizens; to free them from
misery and poverty and disease;
to make this a better America by
giving them the oliance to better
themselves
How am I going to do this?
Congress answered that. It au
thorized that I be sold at a pre
mium price of one dollar, the dif
ference between my par value of
50 cents going toward the build
ing of industrial training schools
that will help the Negro people
These schools will serve as a
living memorial to the great
American I was named after . . .
Booker T. Washington
Booker Washington was born a
slave in Virginia, but from his
Î
humble birthplace he rose to the
American Hall of Fame as an
educator. Before he died he
proved that democracy lives fori
•all Americans
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So Congress said that 1 "should
help perpetuate the ideals and
teachings of Booker T Washing
ton.”
I want to carry out that mis
sion, because I am a symbol of
America and America has never
fallen down on a big job yet.
Neverl Not at Valley Forge, or
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And we will never fail, because
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There will be only 5,000,000
coins like me issued . all to be
sold for a dollar.
You can get an All-American
“Half” by writing to Booker T.
Washington Birthplace Memorial,
Booker Washington Birthplace,
Va Just send your name and ad
dress and a dollar, or more, for
each coin
Your good deed will help me
carry out the legend to which I,
as an American coin, am dedi
cated—‘‘In God We Trust."
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON BIRTHPLACE MEMORIAL
Postoffice: BOOKER WASHINGTON BIRTHPLACE,
VIRGINIA
Enclosed find $ ................. as mu share in the Booker T.
Washington Birthplace Memorial. Send m e ........... com
memorative silver half dollars. (Authorized by Congress
to be sold at $1.00 for each coin.)’
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