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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1954
Pages 1-6
Oregon Veterans
Pay $1,092,649
In Property Taxes
Salem U.R Veterans with
homes and farms financed by the
Oregon veterans' home and farm
loan program paid state property
taxes on 10,285 pieces of prop
erty totaling $1,092,649 for the
year 1954-55, according to Direc
tor H. C. Sallfeld of the State
Department of Veterans' Affairs.
The veteran doesn't pay these
taxes direct to the tax collector.
He pays one-twelfth of them
every month to the Department
of Veterans' Affairs along with
his monthly loan repayment. The
Department in turn pays the tax
collector and does it in advance
of the Nov. 15 deadline in order
to give the veteran the advan
tage of a three per cent discount,
The tats 'savings for the 10,285
property holders this year
amounted to $33,793. The aver
age tax paid by each veteran was
$106. .
The department collects the
veteran's taxes for two reasons,
Saalfeld said to relieve him
from the necessity of paying his
own taxes in a lump sum, and to
prevent tax delinquincies.
Largest tax payments went to
Multnomah county, which re
ceived $27898 from 2,455 vet
erans' properties. Lane county
was second with $84,746 from
752 veterans, and Clackamas
county third, with 723 veterans
paying $83,423. .
Traffic Deaths
Drop in October
Chicago U.R) Traffic
deaths in October fell from 1953
levels for the 10th month in a
row, the National Safety Council
has reported.
But the October death toll of
3,580 was the largest for any
month in 1954, and the two per
cent decrease from October of
1953 was the smallest since Janu
ary. . a---.-- -ma&iTjk i -
For- 10 months, the council
said, deaths totaled 29,350 per
sons, about six per cent fewer
than the corresponding months
of 1953.
The North Atlantic and North
Central states were responsible
for the continuing improvement
over last year, it said.
Leading cities in each popula
tion group for the 10 months iri
cluded: Over 1,000,000 population: Los
Angeles, first.
Population 750,000 to 1,000,
000: San Francisco, second.
Population 500,000 to 750,000:
Seattle, first.
Population 350,000 to 500,000:
Portland, second.
Population 100,00 to 200,000:
Berkeley, Calif., first.
Population 50,000 to 100,000:
Richmond, Calif., third.
Population 25,000 to 50,000:
Palo Alto, Calif.; first.
1953 TALENT WINNER Sharon Laing, above, was winner of
last year's amateur talent contest sponsored by Jackson county
chapter No. 8, Disabled American Veterans. She also wiU ap
pear in this year's show, but since she was a winner last year,
will not be in competition. Entries may still be made in the'
contest, and many have already been received, according to the
sponsors. Contestants are limited to non-professionals under 18
years of age. There will be two classes, for those over and under
12 years of age. Tickets are now on sale. The contest will be at
, 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3, at the Medford High school auditorium.
The four winning acts will be f featured on television next
Tuesday. - .; .
China Debate Topic
C riticism Said Based
On I Feii'of Speec h
Chicago U.R A collegiate
group has refused to withdraw
recognition of Red China as a
debate topic for college students
and has blasted criticism of the
subject as ; "distrust of free
speech." , . ,
Thp refusal was announced by
the National Intercollegiate Com
mittee on Debate and Discussion,
an arm of the Speech Association
of America.
Controversy Stirred ;
It was this committee which
originally proposed the subject
last May as" chief topic for col
legiate debate teams and stirred
up a controversy in universities
across the nation. f
A number of institutions, : in
cluding the U.S. Naval and Mili
tary academies, have banned the
topic. Many scholastic - and . na-
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tional leaders, , Including Presi
dent Eisenhower, have said they
see no harm in it.
The committee revealed that
it held a meeting here Saturday
and Sunday to consider the dis
pute and voted unanimously not
to back down.
It ' also issued a sharp state
ment ' deploring " the distrust
"manifest in the disposition to
forbid the testing of governmen
tal policies in public inquiry and
debate."
" "The committee' is convinced
that distrust of free speech is
distrust of democracy itself," the
statement said
Belief Said Confirmed ; ,
. . .The . committee, composed of
six educators, said "reports al
ready received from all parts, of
the country confirm the belief
that the. proposition is timely,'
vital and debatable." ,
A number of : college presi
dents, notably in Nebraska, have
protested that the topic, "re
solved that the United . States
should extend diplomatic recog
nition to the Communistic gov
ernment of China," forces stu
dents to debate on the Commun
ist side.
t
However, the committee said,
its reports show that both affirm
ative and negative arguments on
the topic have been "equally op
posed, to Communism. ' :
Jackson School Fourth '
Graders Present Pery
A Thanksgiving play entitled
"Who's Thankful" was given re
cently by fourth graders of Jack
son school for the student body.
The play contrasted the conven
iences of 'the Pilgrim Thanks
giving with those of today: The
cast included Connie ; Hum,
Jacque Chestnut, Roma Sims,
Judy Bass, Mary Barr, Judy
Brookman, Christine Thornburg
and Priscilla Cauthon. Donald
Kent acted as the radio an
nouncer and the staging and cur
tains were handled by Ronald
Calkins. -
The fourth grade chorus sang
"Over the River and Through
the . Woods," "Giving Thanks,"
"Thanksgiving Day" and "Prayer
for Peace." ,
RE-WEAVING
for the invisible repair on
good clothing caused from
burns, tears or moths, f
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Phone GR-6-3453
Farmers' Crop,
Livestock Prices .
Up in November
Washington (U.R) Prices
farmers received for crops and
livestock increased eight-tenths
of one per cent during the
month ended Nov.15 , according
to the Agriculture Department.
The increase followed two
consecutive months of decline.
!The department said the cost
of things farmers must buy re
mained unchanged during the
month.
Because the increase in farm
prices was slight, the depart
ment said, farmers' returns in
mid-November averaged the
same as mid-October, 87 per
cent of socalled "fair, price"
parity.
Theoretical Level
In mid-November last year
farm prices averaged 90 per cent
of parity.
Parity is a theoretical level,
measuring farm prices against
farm costs, which is supposed to
give- farmers the same , pur
chasing power they had in the
"normal" base period of 1910
1914. J
The report said increases in
prices of commercial vegetables,
potatoes, eggs, milk, and wheat
during the month ending in mid
November were partially offset
by lower prices for cotton, or
anges, and corn during the
month. . , ,
Meat animal prices held "rela
tively steady" with a slight drop
in cattle prices nearly offset by
higher hog prices.
According to an old supersti
tion, popular with husbands and
wives of the Middle Ages, which
ever brought the first Christmas
holly into the house would, rule
the household for . the ensuing
year.
Fruit Conlainers,
Heat from Waste
Due alHort Meet
A display of cardboard con
tainers for fruit, being used ex
perimentally in the Rogue val
ley, will be featured at the an
nual meeting of the Oregon State
Horticultural society Dec. 2 and
3 in Corvallis, according ' to
David B. Lowry, Medford, state
president.
The display will be handled
by orchardists from the Medford
area.
Another display slated for the
state meeting will be a demon
stration of the use of wood waste
products being used to supple
ment, or do away with, orchard
oil heaters.
Cooperation Asked
The Forest Products Labora
tories, Corvallis, has asked for
the cooperation of the Fruit
Growers league and the Rogue
River Valley Traffic association
in research on use of wood waste
products in orchard heating.
Robert W. Root, Medford, is
chairman of the Fruit Growers
league committee.
In addition to Lowry and
Root, those from this area at
tending the convention will in
clude Dunbar Carpenter, Med
ford; Orville C. Hamilton, Cen
tral Point; Ward B. Spatz, Med
ford; Martin Luther Jr.. Med
ford; Robert K. Norris, Medford;
Stephen G. Nye, Medford; , Don
Barry, Medford; and John Hig
din, of the Southern Oregon
Branch experiment station.
They are leaving today for
Corvallis, and most of them
plan , to return Friday or Saturday.
COOKIE .
Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) Mrs.
Perry E. Johnson had just about
lost her patience with her 21-month-old
son, Steven, who
didn't want his , dinner. "You
know what I ought to give you,"
the mother said, thinking in
terms of a spanking. "A cookie?"
the little boy asked. Mrs. John
son gave him a cookie.
In almost every pagan rite
gifts are offered, to placate the
tempers of gods and spirits. Thus
for years the Church frowned
upon the exchange of gifts as
pagan. . . , '
WRONG SIDE OP TRACKS
, Lourenco Marques, M o z a m
bique (U.R) Game authorities
reported buffalo and antelope
dying from thirst, afraid to cross
the newly laid railway tracks to
drink at the shores of the Lim
popo river. The new tracks run
from this Portuguese East Afri
can capital to Southern - Rho
EARLY START
Bristol, Conn. U.R) Missing
for two hours in a swampy
woodland, Leo Goulet, 4, walk
ed back home and explained, "I
wasn't lost I was just squirrel
hunting.". .
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