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itudeiot :-;(Sovernnii(eiBt E)ay mtkMs CSeaafly For Two-E)ay Evemii Don Robinson, Medford high school, and Harvey Hueners, Jacksonville high school, have been elected the two top offi cials to rule over the Elks-sponsored student government day in Medford and Jackson county, Tuesday and Wednesday. , Hueners will serve as county judge and Robinson as mayor. A highlight of the first day will be the annual banquet at 6:30 p.m. which about 300 per sons are expected to attend. Speaker of the evening will be State Sen. Mark O. Hatfield, professor of political science at Willamette university.' The top event set for Wednes day will be the annual student onerated cnnnril meeting in the city hall at 7:30 p.m. Earlier the same day, students will report to the office of the official with whom they will work with dur ing the day to learn the duties involved. On Tuesday, students will reg ister from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in the basement party lounge of the Elks temple. Oath of office will be administered from 2:30 to 3 pjn., and students will visit radio and television stations from 3 to 5 p.m. A "get-ocquaint-ed" meeting is set for students, their parents arid officials in the Elks club before the ban quet. Committee Named The special committee plan ning the two-day program in cludes the following: Mrs. Jo sephine Smith, social studies teacher at Medford high; Mrs. Una B. Inch, assistant to the county rural school board; Mrs. Dorothy Snedden, secretary to Medford's mayor; Tom Mac Leod, station KYJC, and Frank T. Hussong, exalted ruler of the Medford Elks. Students elected to the Med ford city council were: Ward I, Emily Gannaway and Don Sla ter; Ward II, Stanly Culy and Dan Kellington; Ward III, Ken Piland and Patty Read, and Ward IV, Sue DeVoe and Mary Kay White. Loren Jacobs . was chosen city manager. County commissioners elected LONG WEARING ... Closely Woyen Looped Pile AND . . . with Approved Credit NO DOWN PAYMENT were Frank Artmire, Prospect, and Don Dillard, Butte Falls. Others chosen were as fol lows: . . CITY OFFICIALS: Appointed Barbara Roach, treasurer; Elaine Sorum, recorder: Charles Kanehl. judge; Jack Day public works direc tor; Mike DeVore, police chief; Ed McCullough, fire chief; Frank Bash, engineer; Emil Muhs, attorney; Pete Young, building inspector; Noel Black, electrical inspector; Jeff Williams, plumbing inspector; Walt Gamer, street superintendent; Don Weber, sewage superintendent; Buddy - Brit tson, police lieutenant; Paul Eckel, airport manager. Glen Allison, scnool superintendent; May Overstreet. water superintend ent; Dorothy Rhymes, assistant water superintendent; Melissa ' Jennings, water commission chairman; Carl Gordon, civil service commission chairman: Ed Manley. library board chairman; Viola Russell, budget com mission chairman; Kathleen Guiley, planning commission chairman: Jim Link, Chamber of - Commerce mana ger; Marion Can trail, mayor's secre tary; Nancy Russell, health nurse; Mary Lou Murphy, reporter, and Jim Powell, publicity director (radio and TV), all of Medford high school. Four named from St. Mary's high school of Medford were Timothy Du gan. traffic engineer; Joseph Hasler, park commissioner; Donald Relling, li cense collector, and Judy Pavlot, health nurse. COUNTY OFFICIALS: Elected Don von Buskirk, district attorney, Crater high; Jim Welch, sheriff. Cra ter high; Ron Vreeken, circuit judge. Phoenix; Howard Young. district judge. Eagle Point: Jerry McComb, engineer-surveyor. Butte Falls; Dar lene Nye. clerk. Prospect: Linda Mal loroy, treasurer. Eagle Point; Marie Walters, assessor. Eagle Point: Carl Christian, constable. Eagle Point; Jim Martin, coroner, Prospect, and Roger Puhl, school superintendent. Phoenix. Appointed Nathan Douthitt. chief deputy sher iff, Crater high; Pat Snook, tax dep uty sheriff. Crater high: Sharon James, court reporter. Phoenix; Ken neth Oswald, juvenile officer. Pros pect; Bill Madden, assistant juvenile officer. Phoenix; Mickie McConochie, watermaster. Butte Falls; Sue Colley, chief ' deputy clerk. Prospect; Carol Iverson. deputy elections clerk, Jack sonville; Sonja Smith, deputy records clerk. Jacksonville; Fred Devos. dep uty accountant clerk. Jacksonville; Jane Cooper, welfare commission, Jacksonville. . Maria Abbott, health officer. Cra ter high; Barbara Webb, public health nurse. Crater high; Don Floyd, sani tarian. Phoenix; Jerry Cave, jailer. Eagle Point; county agents, in agri culture and home extension. Bob Gray, Zoe Turner, home demonstra tion. Kenneth Bigham, boys 4-H. Mil dred Gail, girls 4-H, and Donn John son, horticulture, all of Crater high; Ginger Dew, custodian. Crater high; Allen - Swearingen. veterans service, Jacksonville; Tessie Ragsdale. veterin arian. Eagle Point; Ray Dahl. assistant school superintendent. Phoenix, and Fred Oldham, civil defense. Phoenix. SO LOVELY FEET BY feiyj u u iyj uvi iniiyjisi) FOR THE LARGER ROOMS IN 3 BEAUTIFUL PLAIN COLORS o ROSE e GRAY NUTRIA 24"x36 .98 30"x54" .. .. .. 3.95 48"x72"....... 6.95 1 f M 1 w ' U J. PAUL MYERS . Stat KP Chancellor KP Chancellor Sets Visit at Local Lodge J. Paul Myers, Oregon grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias from St. Helens, will vis it the local Talisman lodge No. 31 on Monday. Officers and members of the lodge will meet at the Medford hotel for a dinner at 6:30 p.m., at which Myers will be the guest of honor. The group will then go to the lodge hall for the regular meeting. It is planned" to have the con fering of the rank of esquire, snd members of the KP lodges from Grants Pass and Bandon have been invited to the meet ing, local officials added. Army Engineers Okay Pasco Warehouse Use ' Washington - (U.R) f Army engineers Saturday said they have no objection to use of six warehouses at the Pasco, Wash., depot' for grain storage by the Commodity Credit Corp. A spokesman for the chief of engineers office said this ad vance is being teletyped to the office's North Pacific division in Portland, Ore. - Before a storage permit can be granted, however, the region al office of the General Services Administration must concur, the spokesman said. AND ECONOMICAL NO SLIPPING Rubberized Back FEET v in 6 attractive plain colors -e GREEN GRAY WINE RED ROSE FREE Customer Parking 341 NO. CENTRAL UUUAJ U U MEDFORD o GRANTS PASS o ASHLAND Oregon's Government Reorganization Goal Of Many Legislators Br STATE SENATOR PHILIP LOWRY A favorite subject for legisla tion is the reorganization of State Government. This has for its desired goals increased effi c'ncy and financial savings. To a lesser extent political con sid er ations may occasion ally enter the picture. The eternal hope of I W I legislators is I lV I t113 a PaPer '' 1 change in the form of government will produce an efficient result in substance. In many respects, the exper ience of the Hoover Commission with its recommendations of pro posed reorganization of the Fed eral Government has demon strated that there is need for constant legislative attention to this subject. Our. Oregon State Government, from the stand point of its basic organization, has changed little from its incep tion. The most notable change was the establishment of the State Board of Control in 1913, which had the effect of dividing the Governor's executive respon sibilities with the Secretary of State and the State Treasurer in the management and control of the state institutions. This repre sented a departure from our usual ideas of establishing exeC' utive authority and responsibil ity in the Governor as the execu tive officer o fthe state. "Little Hoover" Committee Our legislature in 1949, seeing that a need had developed to adapt our government organiza tion to new conditions, created a committee, commonly referred to as the "Little Hoover Com mission," to make a start along this. line. This committee con firmed the commonly held opin ion that government in Oregon had, through the years, followed a tendency to sprawl out. Boards and commmissions had grown and new functions of govern- ON FLOOR YELLOW XZS 7 mm m ment developed without any par-, ticular regard to where they fitted in. to our basic theory of dividing government into execu tive, legislative and judicial branches. ' . ; V ' " : v ' The first tangible result of this committee's study was the crea tion of the Department 'of . Fi nance for the purpose of consoli dating purchasing by state agen cies and reducing costs through systematic large scale buying.? Indications are that this program has largely succeeded, although this department is presently un der attack because , of allegedly high administrative costs. Among the numerous proposed changes before us is one to trans fer the Motor. Vehicle Depart ment of the Secretary of State to the .Governor's office, hot be cause of inefficiency in the- Sec retary of State's office, but be cause investigation shows; that matters affecting motor vehicles are strung through five different state agencies. . . Hope for Reorganization . It is the ultimate hope to re organize this motor vehicle func tion in such a way that the citi zens, will have to deal with only one state department. Jackson County's Earl Newbry, Secre tary, of State, has gone on record before the Highway Committee as stating that he neither opposes or favors, this particular., reor ganization. Under his adminis tration, many farreaching. im provements have been made in this department. k . Also before us is a proposal to change, the Oregon Liquor Con trol Commission from a three man board to a single. paid ad ministrator. This proposal has the endorsement of the liquor and beverage organizations but is being viewed with great cau tion by a number of legislators. One of the principal changes sought by the Democratic mem bers would make the Public Util ities Commissioner an elective, rather than appointive, office. This has the endorsement of the State Grange, but the opposition of a number of other organiza tions. The belief has been ex pressed that this office requires technical skill and should not be made subject to political con siderations. The theory of utility rate regulation is that the utility is entitled to a fair rate on the amount of its investment and no more. . .. ; ' '.- The public hearing on this bill principally showed that the Pub lic Utilities ; Commissioner may be in need of additional funds to properly investigate anti regu late rates, both existing and pro posed. ... The idea that a single admin istrator can' better run a state agency than several persons act ing as a commission is seen in the Senate bill which would replace the three-man State Tax Com mission with a single commis sioner. Objections made to this change are that three heads are better than one and that it is dangerous to consolidate , too much authority in & single indi vidual. . ' Would Abolish Board One pending bill would also completely. ; abolish" the State Board of Control and transfer all of its functions to the Governor. The check and balance here,' if this were done," would " be that the Governor- is resnonsible to the people at election time. An- otner measure would consolidate all revenue functions in a single department. ' ' ; . A great tendency of all of us, when facing 1 4 a tough ; govern mental problem, is to immediate ly seek a1 solution in the form of' administration rather than .to meet the problem itself head on. In our quest for efficiency in government, we do not want to sacrifice the principle of careful, and deliberate, if . occasionally slow, action. Nor do we want to run the risk of investing single individ uals .with : unlimited authority. Likewise, finding ideal, single administrators at the Oregon sal ary level is not easy. For this reason the belief is - common among legislators that the un paid commission system, based upon public service, is a superior system to the ' employment 1 of paid administrators who might be men of mediocrity. - , . Efficiency: in government ac complished at the loss of any" of our oasic principles of free gov ernment, is to be avoided Where a choice must be made, efficiency must be secondary. Any pro posed change should be able to withstand scrutiny from both of these standpoints. ; That, ; no doubt, is why legislators are slow to act in this field. : - ' Sunday, February 20, 1935 Mobilgas Economy Run Set; Scout Teams Plotting Route All roads lead from Lbs An geles to the base of Pikes Peak at Colorado Springs, Colo., so far as the route scouts for the 1955 Mobilgas Economy Run are con cerned. , Scouting . teams of the Amer ican Automobile Association and General Petroleum Corporation, sponsor of the Economy Run, are now testing every possible route to the terminal point, the Broadmoor Hotel at Colorado Springs."-'- A. C. Pillsbury, regional direc tor of the AAA, said the scouting teams will present their findings to the Automobile Club of Southern . California, -which will make the final .route selection. The Mobilgas Economy Rim, conducted annually - to demon strate for.: the motoring public the economy potential of Amer ica's new automobiles, will begin . -, V Ooohh! It's going to be wonderful! "Kteplnj home will be fun. Our heme is going to hove all r ' the modern conveniences I've always dreamed about. Best : of all we'll have " IAOIANT 39 South Bartlett H!(bl fr fHA ifflprovwiMnl leani. Up f 34 months H per N rfown pcymmt. 1 "WheTs this ebevt a bet tor, warmer way t live? Sand ma the 58 reasons to th I can know all about rim advantages of Electric Radiant GLASSHEAT". xJW SAI 'iOfilL cZ -A J Lb MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE at 12:01 a.m. March 14 at the General 'Petroleum Garage, '8th and Flower streets, and will ter minate the afternoon of March 16.:. Awards ' will be presented March 17 at ceremonies in Colo rado Springs. ; . Each of the stock passenger cars in the rim will be in com petition for . the "Sweepstakes Trophy and class prizes. En trants will be divided into four price classifications: low, low medium, upper - medium . and high. . . ... , Cars to compete in the run are being selected by AAA offi cials from showroom floors, as sembly lines and warehouses. As each car is selected, it is deliv ered to the Mobilgas Economy Run impound garage, 1230 Lin coln avenue, Pasadena. . The exact route to be followed that heavenly heat ; jiR? ''hi'' " you warm all over, in every room, from floor to ceiling And - when 1 clean, the house will stay clean. Thaft the beauty ' ; of GLASSHEAT. Don't envy me. Call GLASSHEAT OF SOUTHERN OREGON SsuoMMd by 17 III Ti NAM! ADDRESS 1..... PHONI.. Sparkling New-Season Displays in Medford's Fine Shops and Stores. Money When You Shop in Medford -Shopping Center for Southern Oregon and Northern California. Americans To Fly New . West German Airlines Cologne, Germany' (U.R) American pilots will fly the new West German commercial air line planes during the first year of its transatlantic services, the Deutsche Lufthansa Airline an nounced -Saturday. The pilots are being engaged by the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. from which the German airlines has ordered eight four-engined Constellations for the : transat lantic run. The co-pilots will be Germans. in the run will remain secret un til all cars are placed in final im pound on March 4. : : .-. TYPEWRITERS ADDING MACHINES Repaired MEDFORD OFFICE EQUIPMENT COMPANY 41 S. Grape Phone 2-4100 that keeps Phone 2-9854 o o o e Published by The Mail Tribune in Cooperation-with Medford Retail Merchants .
