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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.
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(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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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