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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
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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
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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
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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. : : .-.
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