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.
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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-
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