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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.
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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.
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Celebration Planned
In Columbia Basin
Seattle (U.R) Financing
plans for a 10-day Columbia
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first irrigation of the area in May
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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.
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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.
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