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PXGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD OREGON", FRIDAY, 'AUGUST 17, 1931 Political Appointees In Many Departments Violate Leg islature's Wage Reduc tion Act Is Discovery, By VIROII. P1NKI.KY United Press Staff Correspondent STATEHOU8E. BALEM, Ore. (UP) Herbert Hauser, iUierlntendent of transportation In ths public utility commission, faced a difficult problem Jn dismissing 18 members of his do. pertinent. This move wns made necessary af. ler the state emergency board grant ed only 10,000 of s 50.000 deficiency appropriation requested. Mauser's task was made more dlffl cult because In his department are a number of political appointees Most of them were "planted" by Hen- hy Hanzen, political, advisor to aov ernor Meier and budget director. 173 Pold Tor Wrapper 8everal of the political appointees receive 173 net monthly, or a basic salary of 310. One of these ap 'polntees spends most of his time wrapping license plates and handling bundles. Hauser la anxious to administer the bus and truck act efficiently. He attempted to solve the punzle by dis missing a large portion of his staff by retaining aeveral appointees and letting aeveral others go. Employes discharged were given ex actly four days' notice. Members of the state emergency board were somewhat surprised laat week to discover that many depart ment have violated the legislative salary reduction act- which became effective last March, Many OlTen Raises A aurvey by he United Press shows that at least 75 raises have been granted and numerous so-cslled ad justments made. Three agencies, the state board of control, banking department and pub llo utility commission, are examples. There are others, too. The act was Intended to operate Jn all departments and commissions alike. Many high salaried worker, however, did not take their full cut while- leas than 100 a month work ers said nothing but received their entire reduction. Nine Not Cut In the board of control nine of ten employes never received full cuts. In several Instances, employes now receive more than when the act be came effective. In the banking department only A. A. Schramm, auperlntendent, and one stenographer, the lowest paid worker In the division, took cuts. Salaries raise have been granted a number of employes In the depart ment. Eleven employe have been voted raises In the public utility depsrt ment. Some workers received in cresses amounting to $71 a month. Raises have been arranged In some Instances by charging the salary Jointly against the motor transporta tion and utility dlvlslona. lllvont Dodges Methods to avoid taking the salary reduction and means of securing larg er pay checks have been numerous. One official today told the United Press that during the first two months after he came here recently, some new plan to defeat the act was suggested dally. Many raises have been secured un der the guise of "adjustments." Some departments have Invented titles and assert that additional responsibilities have been added. All raises granted since the act became operative will be permanent. EE WILL BE FEATURE OF E (Continued irum pugs one) made possible through quantity buy ing on tha part of the Individual units. One of the first to be noticed fea tures of Lumsns handsome store It the vegetable and fruit Island, which assures crisp, freh products by meant of a continuous water spray system I'lithror Has Bnkrry, The bakery, upectaliMng In Fluhrers breads and pastries. Is In the center of the store and is rendtly located by a neon sign on the middle pillar, New equipment has been Installed In the strictly modern refrigeration room, which has a capacity of 4733 cubic fret. At the rear of Lu man's store Is an up-to-date smoke house and saunas kitchen to provide meat for the market. Forty-ripht feet of refrlperatton esses furnish ample room for the hiph frrstle meat displays. The market Is situated t the west side of the store. LEGION HEAD REACHES PORTLAND AUGUST 24 DrNVrat, Aug. 17 (API Edward A. Hayes, national commander of ths American Legion, will Tlsll Portland ths morning of Autt. 34 en routs to Astoria to attend ths convention of the Oregon department of tho Legion, Aug. 33 to 35. Commander Hayes, of Decatur, III., will return to Portland Saturday. Aug. 35. for a brief visit. Cse Msll Tribune want ads. AUTO GLASS Fender, nod? a) fUnlstoi Repsti General Sheet Metal Light Structural Iron filtll I METAL tVOHHs 109 b. Sth BL Plioua Ilk SHARE IN $10,000,000 FORTUNE imm -,-) .' ii.j ii niiiiiii) , i in hi K r ( . . . i Mrs. Hilda Ochsner Hinckley, third wife of the late Prof, Washing ton H. Ochsner of Stanford, Cal., university, will receive one fourth of an estimated $10,000,000 posthumous oil fortune by an agreement with other litigants, and has been appointed guardian of her eight year old son, John Henry Ochsner, (shown sbovs with her) who will get one fifth. Ochsner died poor, but his Kettleman Hills, Cal., prop erty developed oil and three wldowa and three children contended for the estate. (Associated Press Photo) OLD QUARRY USED AS HUGE FACTORY FOR MUSHROOMS BY TIIOMAS COPE United Press Stnff Correspondent PARIS. (UP) Creamed mush rooms are International, but cham pignons -a-la-cre me are rrencn. And thereby hangs a tale of sev eral hundred horses and men. of ghosts riding bicycles In an eternal night, of mystical chemical doings far under the ground, of secret paths In the ancient forest of St. Germain. If you know the way, you come to a cliff overgrown with mosses and long grasses and shrubbery at the Dane of which gapes a black, rectan gular hole. The debris of a one-time quarry can be recognized. This Is not Merlin's cave, but the main entrance to a factory. Or bet ter, to 30 kilometers of catacombs wherein thousands, millions, billions of future champlgnons-a-la-creme are puffing out their white Jlttle bel Uea In chalky nitric cradles. Four-score mushroom nursemen move In the twilight, some with the aid of lanterns, others more used to the business, with the occasional help of a match. In a constant tern pcrature of 50 to 00 degrees Fahren heit, some of those martyrs to the rich man's table have been working under the earth since the 60-year-old quarry was converted Into a mush room nursery seven years ago. Some of them are so familiar with every twist and turn of the cata combs that they get along on bicy cles. In any case, It's pretty soft underfoot; for almost anything you touch. If It Is not a mushroom, Is part of 700 tons of manure which are brought to the nursery of Carrlere- sous-Bois every month. The manure Is supplied, for the carting away of It, by some 3.000 horses In the barracks of the dread Garde Mobile on the capital's outskirts and by the Garde Republlcalne bar raj In aPria Itself, comprising 7,- 00 1) to b.ooo horses. The manurels piled up three feet deep In underground bins snd treated with chemicals until It Is sterilized, almost Illy white with glucose, and warm enough to steam.. Then Its put down In long white strips In the twilight and mushroom chips are Inserted at regular Inter vals. Nitrate and patience do the rest But what of the ammoniac fumes which should be sufficient to kill all the horses and men of the Garde Mobile and Republlcalne? Exit from the catacombs explains: a large ventilating plant keeps the air circulating. Get your Crocks at Hubbard Bros. Vi gal. to 13 gal. FEED SHORTAGE Great Abundance of Food for Humans With Slight Alteration of Diet, Claims Secy. Agriculture Wallace WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. (AP) -A shortage of livestock feed, rather than human food, was described to day by Secretary Wallace as the crux of the drought problem. He suggested that any shortage In food could be taken care of by shift ing diets to mora abundant products. With some slight modifications In diet, Wallace added, there Is "a great abundance of food for human beings despite the worst drought the nation has ever had." These conclusions, Wallace said, were based on estimates of probable production plus stocks on band of various commodities correlated with diet studies worked out by the bu reau of home economics. "We have a prospective supply large enough to meet average domes tic demand for grain products, fluid milk and cream, citrus fruits and vegetables except potatoes and dried legumes and sugar," he said. "Ordi narily these foods constitute a large share of the diet, furnishing some 63 per cent of the calories and about 157 per cent of the protein." The secretary aald the most mark ed effect of the drought would enow In meat supplies, with ample stocks of beef, veal, and mutton for the remainder of this year but declining stocks next year. Wallace expressed a belief that estimates of drought damage In terms of dollars had been exaggerat ed. His own rough calculation of the damage placed It at several times less than the 95.000,000,000 given by some estimators, he said. The administration Is setting up a livestock feed committee which will have charge of the feed situation Jn the drought area and will make rec ommendations on its use to the de partments of the government dealing with the drought problem, he said. 5,00 Farmers Attend school COLLEGE STATION. Tex. TrP. More than 5,000 Texas farmers and farm women, the largest numbed ever to attend the annual short course at Texas A. & M. College, were enrolled when the school opened here recently. a. Tit ft". ...t VR w i Tec"' to area T CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK, Ore. (Special) A registration book, mantalned at the Information bureau at the run of Crater lake, la filled with names from every part of the globe, followed by numerous written expressions of the signers. The signa tures represent onjy a small fractional part of the huge total of visitors In the park during the current season. but are in excess of several thousand names. Many of the expressions are similar and Include such as "Too wonderful to describe." "Simply beyond words." "So unusual." "Glorious, Divine, Ma jestic, Sublime." A new Yorker wTote: "United States can boast only of such beauty." A visitor from Toledo, O., wrote : "An experience to remember forever." A Sierra club member left the words: "A bit of heaven dropped from the sky In southern Oregon." Tourists from El Centro, Calif., wrote: "From Mexico to Canada, the most wonderful drive of all was today, bringing us to Crater Lake. A young woman from Los Angeles was emotionally struck by her visit. She wrote: "Wept at first glimpse." j END BERRYDALE PLAY PROGRAM AUGUST 31 Because of the start of school, the program being carried on at the Bcrrydalo playground will be discon tinued Aug. 31, Miss Golda Boone, recreational supervisor announced today. Supervision at the city playground, located on Bear creek at the Main street bridge, will be continued until a later date. the result of brewing for QUALITY not quantity. Try Bliu-Weinhard beef you'll like it! Draught or in bottles at the better places tW -A fl&t ...late W r :Mto "I've never bad to much fun or been so rested m my life, and I'm cer tainly going again next year." This, or words to this effect, Is the declaration uttered by nearly every one of several hundred rural home makers in Oregon who this year are enjoying the first real vacation they have had in many years, by attending the Home max era" Vacation camps, es tablished by the home economics di vision of the Oregon Extension ser vice. These camps, 10 of which are being ne.a in me state this summer, repre sent sn effort to give Mother a much deserved "break" in the matter of va cations. Father has his fishing and hunting trips and the children their club work and camps, but heretofore Mother has not fared so well. If the family should vacation together, her task of caring for their needs usually goes right on, often under more dif ficult conditions. In the homemakers camps, however, no husbands are allowed, and no chil dren. The homcnakcrs call on grand mother, sister, or someone else to look after the family, take a sack or two of fruits and vegetables to help with the food problem, and go to camp. Each camp is completely staff ed, with the home demonstration agent In charge, if the county has one, or else Miss Gertrude Sklw, home demonstration agent-at-large. There is a cook, two assistant cooks, a nurse, a swimming instructor and life guard, a librarian, and one or two persona to teach the women arts and crafts in which they may be interest-1 ed. The homemakers spend from w.ec to five days there, reading, resting, hiking, boating, swimming, learning fancy etltchery doing anything they care to or nothing at all. But they ire not allowed to work. These camps are a part of the or ganised recreational program of the borne economics division of the ex tension service, and were started three years ago in Lane county. Clackamas held one last year for the first time, and this year 10 counties are having camps. Lane, Josephine, Multnomah. Deschutes. Malheur, Clackamas, Jack son and Baker counties have already completed their camps for this year. Cost of the camps Is determined by the expenses, but In no case Is it more than 92 per person, plus trans portation. Most of the food, except staples, is taken from the farms by the homemakers. Music Entertains t Visitors at Caves OREGON CAVES NATIONAL MONU MENT, Ore. (Special) Soft music from woded mountain 0sldcs forma long to be remembered greet ings for Oregon Caves visitors as a part of nightly summer programs pre sented by the management of the Oregon Caves Chateau. A group of highly trained vocalists and Instru mentalists provide well balanced pro grams in a natural amp 1 theatre, il luminated by & roaring, log bonfire. Entertainment under the stars, has developed a great popularity among monument visitors, arriving dally from all parts of the nation. s' for LEU COMPLETE DETAILS IN Sunday's IN AM URGEO BY FARMERS CHICAGO, Aug. 17. (AP) Mors teeth in the AAA was seen by farm bureau leaders from 11 states ae tha av to recovery. Pledging wholehearted approval of the agricultural adjustment act. th group yesterday urged that the seers lture be ulven control over speculation, over direct livestock buying, snd further control over pro cessors. But the government's development of new farm lands while Its crop re duction program Is .underway was branded as "Inconsistent." JOURNALIST SELECTED TERRITORY DIRECTORY" WASHINGTON. Aug. 17. (AP) Appointment of Ernest Omening, Journalist and lecturer, as director of the newly created division of terri tories and Island possessions, was an nounced today by Secretary Ickcs. Omening takes office immediately. MEDFORD IRON WORKS 1155 North Central Foundry and Machine Shop fieurs, sprockets. Pulleys. Holsfs Car Wheels. Saw Mill and Minlni Machinery A safe, sane and economical administration of state af fairs in the interests of econ omy and reduced taxation. Application of the New Deal principles to Oregon by an administration friendly to and cooperating with Presi dent Roosevelt. Increased Federal economic lid to Oregon through sym pathetic cooperation with the national administration. A new "Rooseveltian" deal for Oregon and its people. Td. Adr. by Martin Campaign Com. Paper
