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riOHT MTDrORD (ORSGOH) MAIL trtbttkb Sunday, March 2, 1152 Public Welfare Bill Down in Washington Olympia (U.R) Washington's public welfare bill lor January was about $137,000 more than December costs but nearly $1, 000,000 less than January costs year ago. Social Security Director Rod eric Olzendam said welfare pay ments for about 136,000 persons in January this year totaled $6, 341.000. January Brants last year for nearly 149,000 persons totaled about S7,3JU,uuu. Olzendam said about 6,600 more persons requested state aid in January than in December and that most of the increase was in the general assistance program fnr emnlovable nersons. The in crease in the general assistance program was normal for mid winter, when employment is at its lowest, he said. BANK ROBBED El Cerrito, Calif. U.PJ A lone bandit held up the Central Valley Bank here, Saturday and escaned with 20.000 in cash. police reported. It was the fourth California ban roDDery in re cent weeks. Use Mai! Tribune Want Ada ANNOUNCEMENT For SALES AND SERVICE . of the Famous ELECTROLUX Cleaner and Air Purifier and other Home Maintenance Products please .: . Phone 2-5000 A bonded, authorized represen tative will promptly respond. Vicinity Citizens Air Problem Of School Principal KAPERIMG KIWANIAN CAMPAIGNS Senator Blowhard ( Jack Peters) one of the Dandy Candidates is shown with his bevy of bathing beauties in one of the scenes from the Kiwanis Kapers and Minstrel show presentation of "Gee! Washington" slated for the Medford senior high auditorium on March 5, 6, 7 and 8. Left to riglit are Arlene Kellenberger, Claudette Letteken, Peters Evangeline Robinson and Glenda Gray. The girls are from Southf em Oregon college. Medford and Ashland Kiwanians are spon sors of the fourth annual Kapers. Medford's share of the proceeds will be used for underprivileged children's work. The seven scenes of the first act are of a hotel, a wedding, white collar girls, a political convention, big brass and red tape, and the Washington monument and conclude with a finale urging unity. The second act is a minstrel show, "The Supreme Court Jesters," with Bob Rector as chief justice. The farce-filled act is complete with end men and a variety of entertainers. 3 Celebration Planned In Columbia Basin Seattle (U.R) Financing plans for a 10-day Columbia Basin celebration to mark the first irrigation of the area in May were made here Friday. Directors of the Columbia Basin Celebration, Inc., headed See This Gorgeous Flowering Shrub Change From White to Pink to Purple in Your Yard! SENSATIONAL ufifll no rUflllllllfl uukun biiftituiNU niUnANUCH Blooms Usually Last From Summer Right Through Winter! Special-by- Mail! so:. Hydrangea MZ No other flow er i n g a bin b blooms so long or is so lovely. color cnanging' This amazinc blooms in early summer with thousands of snowy flowers . . . later the flowers turn to blush pink and finally in fall to Toval Dlirole. Then instead of falling nff when frost comes, they often last right through winter. Even the cut flowers live for months. Wonderful shrub for planting around foun dation of your house, or as border. Grow anywhere. Shipped 2 to 4 ft for easy transplanting. On arrival store or plant at your convenience. Send 50c for 1. plus 10c for postage, handling. $1 for 2. $2 for 5 post paid. C.O-D.'s welcome. Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Back. EXTRA GIFT if you order 2 or more, a flowering Red Twig Dogwood. Krnse Nurseries, Dept. I4MT, Bloonungton, 111. Name , Address .,, , Klubei? Meats, Inc. LOCKER BOXES FOR RENT DEALERS IN LIVESTOCK CUSTOM CURING and SLAUGHTERING BEEF & PORK FOR SALE Cut & Wrapped for Locker Phone Central Point 862 Table Rock Road Shipping Loss Worries Seattle Seattle OJ.R) The Port of Seattle commission is consider ing hiring a firm of economists to determine why shipping busi ness is slipping away from Seattle to competing ports. President E. H. Savage of the commission said several develop ments made it evident that the port must adopt an aggressive promotion policy. He said Seat tle has. already dropped to a minor position in the booming grain export business. Also, he said the port must consider the changes in the econ omy of eastern Washington that will come about as the Columbia river irrigation project develops. Savage added that the future of the coal export trade, iron ore movements and the fishing industry and Alaska develop ment are other questions which will be investigated in the pro posed survey. by Hubert Walter, Ephrata, said Pasco would open festivities with a big water carnival May 22. First water from Grand Cou- lee dam will be conveyed on a gravity system to about 80,000 acres of arid land this year. Among the other celebrations will be the "farm-in-a-day" pro ject sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The winjer of a national contest will be in stalled on a new farm complete with house, barn and new equip ment near Moses Lake. Ephrata, Soap Lake and Quin cy will stage separate celebra tions. In conclusion, 17 denomina tions are planning a mass reli gious service in the Basin area June 1. Dead line on Classified Ads: 530 p m for following day: 10 am Mon day; noon Saturday for Sunday am. BEAUTIFY and ENLARGE the LOOKS of Your Homo With a GOOD NEIGHBOR GLAMOUR FENCE You'll be surprised how it will add to the attractive ness of YOUR home, while giving protection and pri vacy. We'll build any height you want and any style you desire. We have many designs for your selection ALL LONG-LASTING REDWOOD used in the Construction of Good Neighbor Glamour Fence. 10 DOWN 36 MONTH TO PAY REDWOOD TRELLISES MADE TO ORDER Western Redwood Fence Company 37 South Riverside --Medford Telephone 3-1411 The school community of Lone Pine to the northeast of Medford, rent by dissention, resorted to the old American custom of the "town meeting Friday night. Nearly . 150 patrons of the school met in its chilly gymnas ium to discuss, sometimes bitter ly, sometimes quietly, the ques tion of whether the principal of the school is worthy of his job. Upshot of the meeting -was that the question was thrown back into the laps of the men who have to make the final de cision, the three members of the school board. School Welfare Aim It was apparent from the be ginning that each person present, in his own way, had only one ul timate objective the welfare of the school children. Their dif ference was over whether the principal, Thyre A. Dodge, is the best man to attain their unani mous objective. Medford Attorney Otto Frohn mayer, for seven years a mem ber of the Medford school board, had been brought in to act as a peace-making moderator. As he calmed heated speakers and called on others with opinions and statements to make, the prob lem shaped itself into the fol lowing sutuation: Dodge has been principal of the Lone Pine school for four years. During his incumbency, some parents have been increas ingly dissatisfied with his admin istration and with certain facets of his personality, The matter came to a head last week, when a group of 12 men met with H. Chandler Drew, chairman of the board, and J. G. Cameron, board member, Friday night at the latter's home. Their "grievances" concerned the safe ty program at the school which they felt was inadequate and mis guided; the student council sys tem, which involves the use of student monitors, and what, might have been a misunder standing about a ban on girls wearing "jeans" to school. Resignation Given On Monday, Dodge submitted a letter of resignation as of June 1 of this year. He said, "This res ignation and statement that I am not a candidate ... is being sub mitted at this time for the sole purpose to stop any controversy among groups of the community that might lead to a situation that would not be to the best ad vantage of the school or the children ... - "My decision to remove my self from the school has been prompted by the action of a small group of narrow-minded patrons of the district that refuse to even try to obtain the truth, but rather are fully satisfied to listen to and believe idle gossip and rumors..." - During the week a group of patrons circulated a petition ask ing for Friday night's joint meet ing of patrons and board mem bers. The meeting resolved itself quickly into arguments for and against Dodge's administration. Robert Stokes, one of the spokes men favoring Dodge, expressed confidence in the principal, and asked the board to refuse his resignation. Mrs. Virginia Wick ersham also supported Dodge, and recited some of the com plaints she had heard against him to "get them in the open so they can be squelched or let stand." Among these were the admins trative contention, as well as some mostly unspecified "rumors." Mr. and Mrs. Richarcl Davis represented the other faction, and Davis identified himself as one of the men who attended the meeting at Cameron's home the week before. As the evening wore on and the hall became colder, tempers began to get hotter, and Moder ator Frohnmayer several times had to slow down speakers who started getting into arguments back and forth on the floor. Diplomacy Questioned Near the end of the meeting Richard Schuchard, teacher of the fourth and fifth grades at the school, said that Dodge had in timated to him that he should not attend the meeting. He said he knows of no finer school ad ministrator than the principal, but he questions his diplomacy and bis tact in some of his per sonal relationships. Drew, as chairman of the board, made it clear to the aud ience that he, and other board members, will welcome the sug gestions and complaints of par ents and other community mem bers interested in. the school. Board members can't know the thinking of parents unless par ents tell them, he said. . C. C. Hoover, resident of the district, stated that he believed the community was in "bad shape' when it had to get in a "jangle" like Friday night's. He said the board had been duly elected. "You voted for or against them," he said, "or if you didn't it's your own fault. You are do ing Dodge, the board and your self an injustice by a meeting of this kind," he said. "They have the responsibility of hiring or firing, and if Dodge leaves now, he will leave with a good charac ter if we don't blacken it to night." Roscoe Roberts also said he was willing to let the board "do their job. If we're not satisfied with the way they do it, vote against 'em next election." The meeting concluded when Henry Padgham moved that the' meeting go on record unanimous ly as having "complete confi dence" in the board. Despite a quiet scattering of "noes" the re sult of the affirmative volte was declared unanimous. After the meeting Drew said the board's decision would be made within about two weeks. Defense Official Studies NW Needs Seattle (U.R) An official of the Small Defense Plants ad ministration was in Seattle Sat urday to learn the problems of Pacific Northwest manufactur ers and proposed solutions. Telford Taylor, chief of the organization, talked to witnesses from all parts of Puget Sound at a hearing in the Seattle Cham ber of Commerce Friday. Main complaints were the shortage of critical materials and disad vantages of Pacific Northwest producers in bidding for gov ernment contracts. Taylor said the scarce materi als problem is being met by establishing a pool of supplies specifically meant for small manufacturers who have suffer ed from the squeeze. He - said the contract problem is caused by geographic conditions. Most government procurement agen cies are in the East, he said. Sf. Mark's Students Receive Train Rides Some 156 students at St. Mark's Episcopal church Sunday school will get a free train ride today. The rides are prizes in a recently completed attendance and new membership contest conducted by the junior, interme diate and senior departments of the Sunday school. The 33 students who placed at the top of the contest will receive a ride from Ashland to Medford. The next 17 will ride from Talent to Medford and the remaining 106 will board the train at Phoenix and ride to Medford. Their train will arrive here at 6:30 p. m. Robert Dames, general super intendent of the St Mark's Sun day school, reports that the con test resulted in a 30 per cent in crease in attendance in the three participating departments. Stat LlcenM Needed ToSdl Nursery Stock Salem (U.R) The Oregon1 State Department of Agriculture reminded retail stores and other business houses selling nursery stock Saturday that they must take out a nursery - dealer's li cense if they expect to handle Easter lilies, other potted plants, bulbs,- perennials or orna mentals. Concerns or individuals selling only vegetable and annual flow ering plants or cut flowers do not need to apply for a license as the state nurserymen's law exempts those items from licensing. Two-Year-Old Drowns In Eastmoreland Creek Portland U. A joyful ex ploring trip ended in the death of two-year-old Anthony Gerard Schwartz here Friday. Jan Schwartz, 4, and Tommy Duncan, also 4, returned from the exploring venture to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel G. Schwartz in the Eastmoreland section of Portland. When asked where Tony was, the two youngsters replied: "He's in the water." Tony's body was discovered by a groundskeeper in a backwater of Johnson creek near the south end of the Eastmoreland golf course. The boy's parents ar rived at the scene as the body was pulled from the creek. STARK BROS. NURSERY STOCK 135 Years of Nursery Experience 20 Discount on TREES SHRUBS ROSES Hedge Plants Flowers Phone 3-3437 r OPEN TODAY Garden Seed Urge assortment bulk or packaged Garden Tools Garden Tractors Fertilisers Lawn Mowers Garden Host 10 Discount This Week and Other Garden Needs BIG Y SEED & EEED Open Evenings and Sundays In Back of Big Y Super Mkt. jffio CHECK THESE GIGANTIC vv. vssssssc iot -j SB SHEETS Ladies' NYLON HOSIERY 54 gauge 15 denier 69c pr. 51 gauge 15 denier 89c pr. 45 gauge 30 denier 95c pr. PLASTIC APRONS 19c and 29c and Pillow Cases While They Last! 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