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.
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Comment On This and That
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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
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