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MFJ)FORT MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. FRIDAY. .TUNE 24. 1038. PAGE ELEVEN 13 NEW KEY JOBS ROOSEVELTS LIST Civil Aeronautics, Wage- Hour and Maritime Com mission Acts Creates Jobs Carrying Good Salary WASHINGTON, June (API President ' Roosevelt will have 13 more key lobe on hie "men wanted" list when he eigne three major pieces of legislation now on his desk. The civil aeronautics bill, the wage-hour bill and the amendments to the maritime commission act will create new ofllcee with salarlea rang ing trom '7600 to aia.ooo a year. Other vacanclea already waiting to be filled offer paychecks up to 117, 500 a year. Five board members and one ad ministrator would receive 113,000 a year as officials of the proposed new elvll aeronautics authority. Three air safety board members would get $7500 each. A wage-hour administrator would be paid (10.000, and three members of a proposed maritime labor board would be paid (10,000 each, Subject to Senate. The president can fill these Jobs ' this summer subject to senate con firmation after congress convenes. In vacancies which existed before congress adjourned, however, ap pointees could receive no salary until confirmed by the senate. Highest paid Job In the category Is ambassador to the Soviet Union, who will receive $17,500. Two other Important diplomatic posts are open , minister to Canada and minister to Iran at (10,000 each. Congress created 21 new federal Judgeships during the last session. Thirteen district Judges, who are paid (10.000 a year, and four cir cuit court Judges at (13,500 each are yet to be appointed In that group. ; In addition, there are one circuit and two district court vacancies due to 'retirement and death. Many Jobs Unfilled The office of comptroller-general, with a 15-year term and $10,000 a year salary, has been vacant since 1036. There has been no comptroller of the currency since May. The Job pays (15.000 a year. The office of budget director, paying $10,000, has been unfilled for several years. A $15,000-a-year Job on the federal reserve board Is also vacant. The president has not appointed a successor to Dr. Arthur E. Mor gan, who was ousted from the board of the Tennessee Valley authority last spring. TVA directors get $10,000 a year. Commissioner John W. Hanes of the securities- commission has been appointed assistant treasury secretary, but has not yet resigned his SEC post. When he does, another ( vacancy will be created. Prospect Scouts Try Semaphoring PROSPECT, June 24 (Spl.) Scouta of troop 10 took a hike to the aum mlt of Pimple Head, near Prospect, June 18. The main idea was to edu cate the Scouta In rudiments of sem aphore and morse signalling. Pimple Head was used sa one signalling base, while Vaughn's ranch, across a canyon from Pimple Head, was used aa the other. Scouts who bad to stay on the other side to receive signals from the Scouta on Pimple Head were consoled by plenty of strawberries and Ice cream served by Mrs. Vaughn. The Scouts (there waa 14 In all, Including Scoutmaster Heston Grieve and Assistant Scoutmaster Harry Ooode) had an all-around good time and left reluctantly, hoping to return for more Instructions In 'signalling, but the main reason will be to get more strawberries and Ice cream. Top quality Tteur lotvbfiicei STANDARD OIL FLY SPRAY . KilL FUES Quid LIGHTEN HOUSEWORK wirh Standard Oil Cltaning Fluid, Slf-Polihing Wax, Furnltur Polish, Handy Oil STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA t' . iiuTT iiiiiiih mmniaal 'SCOUT LEADER'u one of five jobs he'd like, Thomas Corcoran (above) once told newsmen. Attorney with the R.F.C., Corcoran is credited with having drafted much New Deal legislation. BY EXAMINAT IN CIVIL SERVICE United States civil service commis sion today announced open competi tive examinations for the following positions; Operating engineer (marine Diesel), $2,600 a year, bureau of marine in spection and navigation, department of commerce. Experience Is required. Photo-engraver, $1.44 an hour, 40 hour week, government printing of fice. Under Instrument maker, $1,260 a year, geological survey, department of the interior. Experience In the instrument-making trade Is required. Medical officer, $3,800 a year; asso ciate medical officer, $3,200 a year, food and drug administration, de partment of agriculture. , Public health nurse, $2,000 a year; graduate nurse, $1,800 a year; nurse technician, $1,800 a year, Indian field service, department of the Interior. (Applications for the foregoing positions must be on file In Wash ington, D. C, not later than July 21.) Assistant gardener (greenhouse) , $1,260 a year, bureau of plant In dustry, department of agriculture. July 14 Is the closing date for re ceipt of applications. Title of the examination now open for the position of assistant scaler haa been changed to scaler. The be ginning salary has been changed to $1,800 a year and the application filing date has been extended to July 11. The examination la for the United States forest service in Oregon and Washington. Complete Information regarding the positions and qualifications therefor may be procured at Medford post office from Earl H. York, secretary of the local board of civil service examiners. There are Esperanto clubs In near ly all large cities. The eyes of Infants do not coordin ate properly until the age of three months. On September 22, 1914, a Oerman submarine, the U9, sank three British cruisers in one hour, with a loss of 1400 men. , Syncopated rhythm Is found in the music of nearly every savage of seml clvlllzed nation. Catching Octopus by Hand Is Easy, Coast Youth Says AP Feature Service DE POE BAY A rd en Howard hunt for octupuses barehanded and brings them ashore alive. It's his method that does It. "I grab an octopus where hit eight tentacles come together." he says. "This brings my two thumbs right between his eyes and the pressure tnere seems to paralyze him. "When that doesn't work, I can turn the animal inside out, but that usually kills him." He says an octopua wil not bite a man or crush htm to death, but will hold him under water and drown him if that makes any difference. TO E EGYPT CAIRO Youthful King Parouk Is sponsoring a $70,000,000 plan to give each of his 16,000,000 subjects some of the benefits of the western civilization he likes so well. When Parouk opened parliament be announced a 10-year program of social reforms for the fellaheen, or peasant, who form 80 per cent of the population. The Egyptian government realizes a higher standard of Mving will in crease production and give the coun try more money to pay its bills. - Western civilization has made Ions strides In Egypt In the last half cen tury. Tourists who come to Cairo are often amazed at the broad,, clean streets of the European quarter, with It streams of automobiles and Its nine-story apartment houses. Many Egyptians wear western clo thes, topped by the scarlet tarbousli But 10 miles from the city the fel laheen, whose ancestors butit the pyramids, still live In low huts of brown Nile mud, with roughly thatch ed straw roofs, their mode of life little changed from that of their an cestors. ' $V NAME DIRECTORS FOR APPLEGATE SCHOOLS BIG APPLEGATE. June 24. (Spl.) School districts here casually held annual elections Monday, with all going well In each district except Union town, which may not even have a school next term. Children from permanent homes have completed their grade work there, and with other families continually moving In and out of the district, the number of pupils by fall will be uncertain. For this reason no teacher has been hired. FredStraube and Louis Straube were reelected director and clerk at Union town. At Beaver Creek school Ed Finley and Mrs. Lee Port were reelected di rector and clerk; Watklns, Mrs. Jim Wlnnlngham, new director, Mrs. Bert Harr reelected clerk; Applegate, Ed ward Kubll, new director, Mrs. Wesley Davis, new director to succeed Frank Knutzen, who moved to Medford, The Standard o Com pariton for J7 Ytan I 3jfl?jr summer drink reaches a 1VSV5sSsS- new standard of refresh- S&g- ment when made with U gTM' Schilling Tea. The full Hi JSS' flavor of Schilling Tea is gjffil red, cellophane-sealed UsEffS package, (jf For better iced tea . . . use Schilling. Schilling The powerful suction cups of octo puses' tentacles have raised many painful welts on his akin, he says, but he has yet to be In serious trou ble. The, sea monsters he catches are features of a small aquarium here which he manages. Howard doesn't consider the octo puses the most dangerous ocean crea ture he has to contend with to keep his aquarium stocked. The wolf fish, a large eel-like creature. Is reputed to be able to bite an oar In two and the keeper risks his hands In forcibly feeding it and wiring Its Jaws shut after the meal, Howard says. Jack O'Brien, reelected clerk; Ruch. Sterling, Mathcw Ray and Mrs. Ralph Gildea, new director and clerk; Uttle Applegate, Fred West, new director. Mrs. Fred West, reelected clerk. Cooper Union in New York City was the first structure in which iron beams were used throughout in the floor construction. A sledge of five Esqulmo doge can travel 60 miles a day for several days. VST-. 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