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Oregon Education Problems Outlined For Rotary Club The grave problems facing Oregon in the field of education were discussed at Tuesday's luncheon meeting of the Medford Rotary club by Marble Cook, field representative of the Ore gon Education association. In his address at the Jackson hotel. Cook warned that this date's pyramiding school popu lation will reach 525,000 by 1960, and 20,000 teachers will be required 10 years hence. This will require a capital outlay of $200 million, not considering re placements of existing plants and needed repairs. CoiU Vary Oregon is the nation's fastest growing state, and a sharply ris ing birth rate and new settlers are the causes of this serious sit uation, Cook said. Widely vary ing millage cost of school sys tems Is obviously caused by cer tain concentrations of wealth in some areas with lower school populations and decreased wealth in other districts with large numbers of school children. "The psychology of the United States taxpaying system is all wrong," Cook emphasized. "The average taxpayer pays no in come tax that he actually re s ceived in money due to the with holding plan, and thus is not conscious of the increasing bur den of federal spending. Only 10 cents in every tax dollar goes to the many demands of local com munity and county government, and another 10 cents to state services. The remaining 80 cents goes to Washington for mount ing federal spending. Out of the 20 cents remaining in Oregon from every Oregon tax dollar must also come the cost of edu cation through local property taxes and the basic school fund," he said. Room for Improvement. There is room for much im nrovement in Oregon's educa tional system. Cook told Rotar- ians. Generally, tne siaie aoes little for handicapped children, has an inadequate vocational program and needs a more flex ible system adapted to the vary ing capacities of school children. The speaker paid a high trib ute to Medford's school system, citing it as "one of the nation's finest." , . , Lester Harris, principal of Medford high school, who intro duced the speaker, augmented his remarks with a warning that the local high school, construct ed for 800 students, will un doubtedly be faced with an en rollment of 1,000 by 1952 be cause of the fast growth of this community. Past presidents of the Medford Rotary club met in a brief meeting with President Jim Dun levy and members of the old and new boards of directors to plan the club's 1950-51 program. WORK ON LAWNS Camp White, Apr. 26 Center members here taking over a vol unteer detail, two hours daily are making great progress with spreading top soil in preparation for the lawns to follow. Arrange ments for sprinkling have been made and new lawns have be gun to sprout in the program to keep the domiciliary center green. In Spain, which is about twice as large as Oregon, 5,000 rod-and-line fishermen live by catch ing trout and salmon for market. Communists Admit Membership Decline; Party Badly Shaken By Lvle C. Wilson United Priss Correspondent Washington, Apr. 26-U.R American communists publicly admitted today that their mem bership is declining and their party organization is badly shaken. Registered party members probably do not exceed 47,000 this year. The admission came in the published report of last month's New York meeting of the na tional committee of the com munist party, U.S.A. That is the party's official style. Continuing Process Communists themselves esti mate they are off in membership this year by about 15 per cent from their 1949 strength. This decline has been a continuing process since 1945. Except for a couple of years early in the war, the climate prior to 1945 was reasonably satisfactory for the growth of the communist party and the placing of some members or sympathizers in government jobs. But in that year began a ser ies of incidents and disappoint ments which by now has arous ed a great many Americans to the menace of a communist fifth column in the United States. The Alger Hiss case, the New York trial of communist party leaders on charges of conspiring against the United States and revelation that the FBI has its own agents operating within communist ranks were recent jolts to the party organization. Stooges Not Included Communism got fat here on the depression of the 1930s. Israel Amter polled 105,681 votes in 1938 running an as avowed communist for represen-tative-at large in New York state. It is estimated that by the end of World War II there were upward of 75,000 enrolled com munists in this country, perhaps as many as 100,000. That does not include the fellow travellers and stooges who fronted for the communists. 3y lfl47, party memberships had fallen below 75,000, but not much. Director J. Edgar Hoover re cently gave to a congressional committee the latest FBI esti mate of communist membership 55,000 in 1949. Now the communists them selves report a 15 per cent drop. That would leave about 47,000 active members. The belated effort by the con gress of industrial organizations to oust communists, and fellow travellers from control of some of its member unions Was a hard blow. Organized labor ii stand ing firmly now against the red comrades that they are looking for members and influence among the most under privileged working groups Negroes and the unskilled unorganized whites. Good Newt For America All of this adds up to bad news for the communists and good news for Americans. But it does not mean the communist menace has ceased to be. Secur ity and intelligence officials hold that communists are active or potential agents of a foreign power in this instance the Soviet Union. If there are only 47.000 of them, there still are 47,000 po tential fifth columnists in the United States, many of whom have been schooled in espionage, sabotage and trouble making in general. , , , In its report acknowledging the 15 per cent membership slump, the communist national committee revealed a few things which suggest that the party is vigorously alive and kicking just the same. For instance: The party rais ed a bail fund of more than $1 million in less than 10 days aft er its leaders were convicted in Communicable Diseases Rise During Past Week The number of communicable diseases in Jackson county jump ed to 51 last week, according to a report from Dr. A. Erin Mer kel, county public health officer. Chickenpox, with 22 cases in Medford and one in Jackson ville, headed the list. Mumps were next, with eight cases in Medford, five in Evans Valley, and two each in Ashland and Talent. There were scattered cases of influenza, measles, whooping cough and scarlet fever. Medford and Ashland each reported one case of tuberculosis, and there were two cases of pneumonia in Shady Cove and one in Talent. SHOP TONIGHT UNTIL 9 P. M. Store Hours: Doily 1:30 a.m. to S a.m. ic.pt Wednesday 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. 117 S. CENTRAL TELEPHONE 2-6241 April 27 through April 29 is CAROL BRENT NYLON WEEK Buy them in Boxes of 3 and Save PAIR 30 DENIER, 45 GAUGE 89 30 DENIER, 51 GAUGE 1.09 15 DENIER, 51 GAUGE 1.15 15 DENIER, 54 GAUGE 1.39 15 DENIER FRAME-HEEL. ...1.59 OXIS of a 2.50 3.05 3.20 3.85 4 "O toxes of 3 every pair perfectly matched in color ond length! And you save on every polr. They're Wards own beautiful Carol Brent nylons delud ing the neweit, smart frame-heel style. Now, In fashion-right new shades. (54 gauge are Individ ual! packaged In handy plastic tubes.) Gel yours today. Sites from 8'j to lO'i. New York on charges of conspir acy. In two other 1949 fund drives it raised $1,500,000. Of a single pamphlet defend ing the communists against the conspiracy charge, nearly 5 mil lion copies were circulated. Well informed officials here do not regard the decrease in party membership as any kind of assurance that the menace of American communism has been satisfactorily reduced. The FBI, for instance, regards the communists as a dangerous minority. National defense se curity officers will give you the same estimate of what the com munists amount to. Fire Chief To Bring Training Truck Mere Acting Fire Chief Leo Weld ner left for Klamath Falls this morning, where he will pick up a fire truck at the Oregon Tech nical institute, and will bring it to Medford to use for training of firemen. The truck was prepared especi ally for this purpose, he explain ed, and includes a pump, lad ders, salvage equipment, gas masks, and other regulation equipment which firemen learn to use. He expected to return here late today. The truck will be available for training use by Medford regular and volunteer firemen for a month or so, he said. Wednesday. April 28, J 950 Pioneer Resident of Ashland Dies Monday Ashland, Apr. 26 Services for Mrs. Martha Jane Carter, 93. will be held Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at Litwiller funeral home with interment in Ashland ceme tery. She died Monday at Port land. A native of Ashland, Mrs. Carter was born Aug. 14, 1856, the fourth of eight children of Capt. and Mrs. A. D. Helman, Jiioneers and founders of Ash and. She attended Ashland schools and was married to John Carter who preceded her in death in 1918. Mrs. Carter lived in Klam ath Falls for a number of years before moving to Portland to re- MEDrOHD (OHECOM) MAIL TRIBUNE ttTXN Mrs. L. H. 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