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Education Problems Discussed Yesterday By 150 at Meeting About ISO persons attended the Southern Oregon Conference on Education held at the Med ford Presbyterian church last niffht. The meeting, one of 20 being held throughout the state under the sponsorship . of the Oregon Education association and the Oregon Congress of Parents and Teachers, drew educators and parents from cities throughout southern Oregon. They had been invited because of their leader ship in business and civic affairs in their own communities. Purpose: Education Speakers at the session empha sized that its purpose was one of education to encourage con structive .thinking about the problems of financing good edu cation and maintaining good schools. Keynote speaker was State Sen. Dean Walker, Independence, who focused attention on three topics adequate buildings, or ganization of school districts, and state and local taxation and school finance. There will be a need for 7,000 to 8,000 new classrooms in the next 10 years to house the in creasing school population, Sena tor Walker declared. He discuss ed briefly several means of rais ing the funds to build them. Fund Sources Told The senator, long a recognized authority on taxation and budget matters, discussed sources of school funds, showing that they range from local to federal, and that at present about 60 per cent of school monies come from lo cal sources. He denied that the state tax picture is "a muddle," as has often been charged. Quoting from a recent survey showing that Oregon has a superior tax system to neighboring states, he - said that Oregonians have a balanced budget, a lower per capita debt and a lower per capita tax than either California or Washington. He said there is now no state deficit, and there will not be one until at least July 1, 1953. Mora Revenue, Less Spending . However, the only solution to the problem of continued solven cy for the state, he said, is "more revenue or less spending, or both." Any solution will require careful thought and action, he said. The senator raised several questions concerning school dis trict reorganization, pointing out that much has already been ac complished. But there is a need for more work, he said, and em phasized that the idea of reor ganization is not a "one-way" proposition, that efforts must be made to retain , schools where they are needed, and to respect the rural and small town areas. Following Senator Walker's talk, the group divided into smaller discussion sessions, and later a panel discussed questions raised by the smaller groups. On the panel were E. H. Hedrick, Medford school superintendent; Mrs. Edith Green, Portland, sta'e legislative chairman for the PTA; Ralph Moore, Grants Pass, former legislator; W. W. Balde- ree, Grants Pass, former legisla tor; A. u. McLAin, urants rass businessman and school board member, and Senator Walker. Mrs. Floyd Barrett, Grants Pass, regional vice-president of the state PTA, was moderator of the panel. Most-discussed subjects were reorganization of school districts and how to disseminate informa tion about the subject. Also discussed was the prob lem of new taxes principally a sales or business tax for financ ing schools, a question which split the panel on its advisabil ity and probability of passage. Mrs.: Frank J. Van Dyke, president of the Jackson Coun ty Council of Parents and Teach ers, was co-chairman of the event. The discussions followed a dinner at 6:45 p. m. A Nichols? Worth of - Comment On This and That Y HARMAN W. NICHOLS UaHe Ptm Faster Writ Washington (U.B This piece is being written by my two typing toes as of now, the only available Ku 1 "M parts in my anatomy. I have just come back from a lesson in weight-lifting and have concluded that such is not for a fat man, at least .not so much the first Harmon Hlchoks time. My instructors were Bill Brad ford and Louis Meyers, a couple of husky dandies who do more instructing than lifting in classes at the capital's YMCA headquar ters gymiasium. Bill made it clear that fat men can reduce, but that the portly should take it easy and not try to shave down to a de cent size in one lesson. Like I did. For pictures and purposes of valuable research on reducing, I was skinned down to a pair of bright blue shorts. Then came the business of hoisting the weights. I started with a couple of dumb-bells weighing one pound. I juggled these with ease. . We got up to 45-pound weights in each hand and I was puffing. And not lifting too well. . Bradford explained that or dinarily, the YMCA does not rec ommend a man over 25 to go into one of the classes without a thorough physical. The heart and chest must be obay, and the lessons at first, are easy. : There are other things besides weight-lifting. Less strenuous stuff like volley ball, bag punch ing, short sessions of basketball and the like. In the weight-lifting depart ment they start you out easy- like. " "We never let a newcomer try to life as much as he thinks he can," Bradford said. "We start him out with the little weights and work up gradually. Some thing like the farm boy who lifts a new-born calf and lifts it ev ery day until he can lug a full grown heifer across the lot. The example is a little silly, but that is something like the way we work." Builds Better' Bodies He and Meyers explained that the YMCA program is not aimed so much at putting on or losing weight but the important job is body-building. Making a man live a little longer. And feel a lot better. - The weights in the place run from one pound to seven or eight hundred pounds. The latter are the kind a fellow tries to lift with his feet, lying flat on his back. It's called a leg-press ma chine. , I tried them all, and I didn't lift very much. . Around Hollywood ; Hollywood U.R) Ginny Simms, who soft-pedaled her ca reer during seven years of mar riage, decided Thursday she's launctt i n g a comeback be cause she's "broke" in a Hollywood sort of way. "Guess you could call it "broke"' the singer smiled. Aline Motor "I want to get out and make some money-" While she was married to en gineer Hyatt Dehn, she was busy being a wife and mother of two Air Force Corporal En Route fo Stales - Richard Osborne, an Air Force corporal, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Osborne, Trail, is en route to the states from Korea where be has served for IS months, accord ing to word received by his parents. His brother, Leroy Osborne, who has served in .the Navy for 6V& years, is now stationed in the Mediterranean area and is on board the USS Monongahela. He also has served in the Korean, Japanese and Alaskan areas. Another son, Ralph sborne, is a, private first class in the Army. He was graduated from a cryptographic school in Georgia February 22, and is scheduled for maneuvers in. Texas. Before entering the Army in February, 1950, he was a laboratory tech nician in a sugar factory at Nys sa, Ore. Restaurant at Airport Now Open for Business Mr. and Mrs. Leo K. Potter, Merriman road, recently open ed the Airport cafe at the Med ford municipal airport, it was reported today by Airport Man ager Darell Huson. The. cafe is serving sandwiches and light lunches from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., according to Mrs. Potter. A later closing hour will be arranged later this spring, she said. . IT ALINI MOSIY Uaited Press Coimpoaatal children. At his request, .she dropped out of pictures and rec ords and just did . occasional television and radio shows. "You have to keep your finger in the pie to do records," she explained. "I had to quit that because the success of records depends on yuor being the first to record a new hit. There are so many eager beavers in that business, and you have to work at it all the time. Lost Momentum "Pictures the same way. When I was married, I sort of lost my momentum. I'm not in demand in Hollywood any more. The last movie I did was at Mono gram because I needed the money. It was dreadful and I'll never do one of those again. "I hope to do pictures and rec ords, but my main interest is television. I have a twice week ly radio show now." Miss Simms, it must be point ed out, is "broke" in a beautiful Beverly . Hills mansion with a swimming pool and a couple of servants. But she won only $200 a month alimony at her divorce trial. s Things Go Kaput " "I'd just moved into the home when everything went kaput," she shrugged. "The house is all paid for, anyway. Now I have to convince my agents that I'm ready to accept offers.- I've turned them down for so many years. ' "My divorce is final next month and I'll really kick up my heels." The shapely singer's competi tion hasn't changed much since she was married. Because of the downfall of big dance bands, she thinks, hardly any new girl thrushes have cracked the big time in recent years. Top Stars The top stars still are Ginny Friday, February 29, 1852 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUlfE SEVEN who started with Kay Kyser, Dinah Shore, Margaret Whiting, Doris Day and Jo Stafford. The only new-comer is Patti Page, discovered on a Texas radio station. "Frank Devol called to ask if Don't Miss the KIWANIS KAPERS MARCH 5-6-7-8 SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SELBY GLASS 303 No. Bartlett I knew of a singer for his band," she said "I couldn't think of any body to . recommend. There aren't any around any more. The only place a singer can get started now is on , Revision." : ON A NEW FLOOR BIG DOUBLE SESSION . TONIGHT, FEB. 29 at the- Rogue Valley Ballroom SKATING EVERY MON., WED., and FRI. 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