PHOENIX, TALENT
WOULD VOTE ON
Boards of Two Fast-Growing
Communities See Need
For Expanded Facilities.
Petitions asking the Jackson
county school district boundary
ooara to call and set the date
for an election on consolidation
of districts four, Phoenix, and
22, Talent have beer, prepared
following a joint proposal of the
two school boards, at their meet
ing m Talent Tuesday afternoon,
to inaugurate the movement at
once.
(n Phoenix circulation of the
petitions is already under way
and circulators who may be con
tacted are Gt G. Skinner, Mrs.
Bert Stancliffe, Mrs. E. W. In
man and .M. Dale Newton ac
cording to Lyle Lindley, school
superin'endent. Talent School
Board Chairman Frank Dunkin
said copies of the petition will
be passed among residents there
shortly. Signatures of at least
50 legal voters from each dis
trict must be obtained, Lindley
declares. He explains that a legal
voter is anyone who can vote
for a school director and that
U. S. citizenship, residence in
the district for 30 days and age
of 21 years or over are the re
quirements.
Expansion Needed
Marked increase in the en
rollment of the two schools and
indications of further growth
which mean eventual expansion
of the schools' facilities brought
joint discussion of the problem
by the boards last November
Decision to submit the consoli
dation question to the people
was reached after three subse
quent meetings.
Ultimate outcome of consoli
dation would be construction of
new high school and mainten
ance of the districts' present
structures as grade schools.
Recognizing that future decis
ions rested in the hands of the
people and in the board that
would be chosen for the larger
district, the joint boards Tues
day, however, went on record
as recommending that if con
solidation is voted "a suitable
lcci tion be selected as near half
way between the present schools
in Talent and Phoenix as is teas
ible and possible; and that ac
tual building operations on such
a new site be postponed until
building conditions become more
nearly normal unless the school
enrollment of such consolidated
district increase ta the extent as
to make building operations im
perative in.order to provide ade
quate educational facilities for
our youth."
Petition Circulate
Lindley said the petitions will
be in the nands of Phoenix cir
culators until Monday or Tues
day of next week.
The school district boundary
board is composed of county of
ficials including the school sup
erintendent, the judge and the
two commissioners.
County School Superintendent
C. R. Bowman met with the com
bined boards Tuesday to explain
points of law.
Talent Man Beats
Phone Shortage By
Building Own Line
Talent, Feb. 1 U n a b 1 e to
purchase telephone equipment
a year ago to connect his home
south of here with that of his
mother a quarter-mile-a way,
Frank Dunkin acquired and in
stalled an office inter-phone
system and now claims he
wouldn't part with the arrange
ment "for anything."
Dunkin, chairman of the
local school board here, says
that he and his family are able
to converse with his mother,
Mrs. Mabel Dunkin, from any
place in their spacious home
and that it seems, almost, that
she is in the house with them.
Because the wire extending
between the two homes is not
insulated, calls from airplanes
to the Medford airport are often
overheard and music of some
military band is picked up in
the morning.
Daily Weather Report
FORECASTS
Medford and vicinity: Mostly
cloudy with showers tonisrht and
Saturday. Little change in tempera
ture. Oregon: Mostly cloudy with show
era or snow flurries north and west
portions throughout state tonight and
Saturday. Little change in tempera
ture. Gentle to moderate aouth to
southwest wind.
LOCAL DATA
Temperature a year vago today:
Highest 60. Lowest 39.
Total monthly precipitation
3 inches. .
Excess f6r the month .69 inches.
Total precipitation since Septem
ber 1, 1945, 1401 inches.
Excess for the season 4.42 inches.
Relative humidity at 4:30 p.m. yes
terday 68; 4:30 a. m. today 95.
Tomorrow
Sunrise 7:23 a. m. Sunset 5:27 p. m.
ObservaUons Taken At 4:30 A. M.
120 Meridian Time
High Low Prec.
Boise 38 2
Boston I 25 23 .04
Chicago 22 12 .01
Denver 40 29
Eureka 50 35
Havre 18 11
Klamath Falla 33 14
Los Angeles 68 41
Medford - 43 27
New York 53 30 .09
Omaha 31 23
Phoenix . 62 26
Portland 45 42 .35
Reno ..... 51 14
Roseburff 50 37
Salt Lake 33 22
San Francisco - - -.. 57 34
Seattle 46 40 .03
Spokane 39 30
Washington. D. C. 53 30 .14
Vaklma 48 24
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VALLEY GROWERS
MEET SATURDAY
Valley growers of tomatoes
and peaches are invited to attend
a public meeting at the Jackson
county Courthouse at 1:30 p. m.
Saturday at which time Ralph
Koozer, manager of the Bagley
Canning Co. of Ashland will dis
cuss a profit sharing plan.
Although full details of the
plan were not revealed, it was
indicated that peach growers will
be asked to reserve a certain per
centage of their crops for the
cannery, diverting it from the
fresh fruit market. It was under
stood that the cannery would re
quire only a small per cent of
profit and the balance would go
to the grower.
An effort to increase the to
mato acreage to 300 acres will
be made, Koozer said.
COMMUNICATIONS
Letters to uie editor most soai
the nam and address of Uie writer
although the ose ol a pen-name or
Initials for publication It permls
Ula the Mall rrlbune reserves
the right to edit all tetters with a
view to elarlrj and enndensaUon
. Why They Hide
To the editor: Many times I
have noticed the publication of
objections to "Name on File"
signatures, the latest in yester
day's paper signed by Ray Of
fenbacher. I can think of many legitimate
reasons why such a practice may
be preferable to one's own name
besides my own reason to-wit:
My family is very sensitive to
any kind of publicity and would
be embarrassed to death if I
were to sign my name and they
had to admit to any relationship
to the writer.
However, you have no idea
how much wit and humor and
yea, even sage comment you and
ycur subscribers miss because of
this particular family's aversion
to seeing their name in print. I
and many other "Name on Fil
ers" are between two fires, our
own particular problems on one
hand and ridicule by Mr. Offen
bacher and followers on the
other. Many communications are
written and never sent. Alas,
what a loss to humanity.
Well, again here goes nothing.
(Name on File)
Dr. Durant In Error
To the editor: In Dr. Durant's
lecture in the high school audi
torium he made two statements
that are quite erroneous.
He said, as per Mail Tribune
report: "Religion is the greatest
force for civilization of all."
How a man of Dr. Durant's men
tal calibre, who poses as an
historian (and a "great" one ac
cording to the Report) can make
such a false assertion is surpris
ing. The greatest force for civiliza
tion is science. Religion has al
ways lagged behind science and
history show's that times with
out number it has persecuted
and gaged science In it's blind
intolerant zeal. This has been
the case not only in Christian
dom, but also among the ancient
Greeks and Romans. Religion al
ways tried to block the way to
science and truth-seeking phi-,
losophy until forced to concede.
Galileo's career is an example. :
Owing to the church he barely!
escaped with his life. All through !
the dark ages for centuries the
churches would allow no free
speech that tended to doubt their j
religious doctrines. Where would :
our modern developments bej
without science All our great
industries and modern comforts;
are based on scientific discov-i
eries.
One might argue that this isj
all material welfare, not civtliza-
tion in the highest sense. This
is because religion has failed to
attain a universal high moral
standard. It is not the fault of
science that materialism is so
prevalent.
Dr. Durant said that the fear
of starvation Is the urge for a
high civilization and makes men
rich. Thanks to science there is
practically little or no fear of
starvation in the United States.
The same may be said of New
Zealand. Yet these nations are
the most advanced in civiliza
tion. India and China are ex
amples of where for centuries
starvation and the fear of it, is
the great curse, and their civili
zation is the lowest. It is because
civilization has almost eliminat
ed starvation and the fear of it
that progress Is made. Fear of
starvation never helped civiliza
tion, although it may have been
an urge In some Individual cases.
Youth and young manhood is
not obsessed with the fear of
starvation. He looks much higher
than that. He dreams of great
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Six-year-old Margaret Miller struggles In arms of woman deputy In Chi
cago court, reaching for mother, at right, alter court gave custody of tha
girl to father as he filed divorce suit.
achievements, honor, fame and
the glories of emulation; he longs
for adventure, he revels in and
dreams of great enterprises.
Dr. Durant states: "There is
nothing in history that gives
promise of eternal peace." That
is absolutely no reason for as
suming that eternal peace among
nations is unattainable.
Sydney S. Barker
Central Point, Box 217
NAVY VETERAN DIES
ON WAY TO HOSPITAL
Roseburg, Feb. 1 U.R Re
cently discharged navy veteran
Edwin L. Donnelly of Portland
collapsed on a Greyhound bus
near hero and died en route to
a Roseburg hospital.
Coroner H. C. Stearns said
death was due to a heart ail
ment, Donnelly was on his way
to the hospital at Camp White
near Medford.
FAITH REWARDED
Eugene, Ore., Feb. 1 (U.R)
City Recorder John Fields' faith
in humanity was higher today.
Opening his mail Fields found
a money order for $50 from a
man who was fined that amount
and set free to raise the money
18 years ago.
'Ashes Of Trainer
Scattered On Turf
Of Harness Track
Goshen, N. Y. (U.R) The beat
of the hooves and the sharp "hi
yi" of the silk coated drivers
gets into the blood of a harness
man. He wouldn't rest real well
if he couldn't hear the Morgans
pounding down the stretch.
That's why the death-bed re
quest of Jack'Matthews, veteran
groom and trainer, didn't seem
strange to those who know and
love the standard-breds.
A score of old friends stood re
cently at he finish line of fam
ous Good-Time track here
scene of the great Hambletonian
race as the ashes of Jack Mat
thews were scattered on the turf
in front of the grandstand; on
the turf where Greyhound and
Rosalind and Billy Direct and
all the Hanover horses trotted
and paced their way to glory.
AMBER CHOSEN
Hollywood, Feb. 1 (U.R)
British Actress Peggy Cummins,
20, was chosen from 215 contest
ants today to make her Ameri
can screen debut in the title role
of a $3,000,000 movie production
of "Forever Amber." Opposite
her in the male lead role of
Bruce Carlton will be screen
hero Cornel Wilde, removed
from suspension to take the part.
This nation's imports of black
pepper reached about two mil
lion pounds last summer. Be
fore the war the total imports
usually ran 60 million pounds
per year.
Friday, Feb. I, IMS
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBDrTE SZTZII
OREGON INFANT DEATHS
SHOW HEAVY DECREASE
Porfland, Feb, 1 (U.R) Ore
gon's Infant mortality rate de
clined 24 per cent between 1933
and 1943, the state health com
mission reports.
The commission said Oregon's
infant death rate has been long
among the lowest and often the
lowest in the nation.
Babe Ruth was near-great
left handed pitcher before he
won fame as a home-run king.
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CIVILIAN JOBS OPEN
AT TORT LEWIS, WASH.
Fort Lewis, Feb. 1 (U.R)
Army officials announce 300
jobs are open immediately at
Fort Lewis, because of the
rapid .discharge of military per
sonnel assigned to the fort.
Janitors, hospital mess at
tendants and ward attendants,
clerks, typists and stenograph
ers are among classifications of
employment open. '
LUNCH AT TALENT
Talent, Feb. 1 Lunch service
will be resumed Immediately at
the S. and D. service station at
Talent function according to
George Sasek who is operating
the counter for the owners, Lee
Sitts and Jud Davis. The lunch
room has undergone recent re
modeling and enlargement and
now has accommodations for 14
persons. Twenty-four hour serv
ice is planned by the owners.
ICKES NAMES AIDE
Washington, Feb. 1 (U.R)
Secretary of Interior Harold L.
Ickes today announced the ap
pointment of John H. Provinse
as assistant commissioner of In
dian affairs.
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ol the
Irrigation District
The Talent Irrigation District Board of Directors,, in
response to a growing sentiment throughout the District,
and with the object of making more economical and ef
ficient distribution of its never-too-plcntiful water supply,
hat decided to take over maintenance of farm lateralt in
the District.
Unlike most other Oregon irrigation districts, the Tal
ent District hat always maintained only itt main canalt
leaving up to the water utert themselves all maintenance
of ditchet leading from these canalt .to the individual
farmt.
Thit tystem, while resulting in lower water assess
ments, hat never been satisfactory. Leaky flumet, ditchet
cleaned poorly or not at all, and divertion ttructuret con
silting of piles of rockt or mud caute a serious lost of
water. Laterals on too steep ground wash deep gullies,
undermining fencet and buildings, and in many catet the
water utert served by tuch lateral! have neither the time,
equipment, experience or finance! necessary to put and
keep them in proper shape.
It it felt by the Board that the increased efficiency
in water distribution, and the water saved by proper im
provement and maintenance of the farm lateral tyttem
will be well worth the added cott of thit service.
Thete cottt run. In other Dittrictt where tuch mainte
nance hat alwayt been carried on by District crewt, to
approximately $1.00 per acre per year. They may be
somewhat higher in thit District, during the time the badly
run down farm lateral tystem it being rehabilitated, but
wilt be about the tame thereafter.
It mutt be noted that, tince no astettment hat been
made for farm lateral maintenance during the pretent tax
year of 1945-1946, no cleaning of tuch lateralt can be
done by District crewt thit Spring. Thit mutt be done, at
in the past, by the water utert themselves. However, there
are sufficient fundi in the District treasury to keep a small
crew buty throughout thit teaton Installing divertion
ttructuret, replacinq flumet, installing tile where neces
sary and, in general, Improving the physical condition of
the farm lateral tyttem. Thit it it expected will affect at
leatt tome saving of water during the coming year.
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