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FOURTEEN MEDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, March 13, 195S Rogue River School District Said Not On 'Distressed' List A Btory from the legislature at Salem last week said the House Education committee had listed 34 school districts in Ore- eon as being "distressed' from a standpoint of being unable to undertake new school construe tion. The Rogue River school dis trict, No. 35, was on the list. County School Superintendent All Mekvold, in commenting on the story, said last week that he does not know where the com mittee got its information, but that it is incorrect. The Rogue River school district is bonded only a little more than 35 per - cent of its capacity, and thus is in a better position than some other districts here in Jackson county. Report Misleading He termed the committee's re port as misleading, at least in sofar as it pertains to Jackson county, and went on to point out that the situation is not clear-cut. One Jackson county school : district is bonded to capacity, : he pointed out, and others are bonded anywhere from 12 to 91 per cent of capacity. Four of - the county's districts have no bonded indebtedness at all. ' The school superintendent em : phasized that he does not mean . to imply that school districts : have no building problems, nor ' that it may not be necessary for I some sort of assistance to be worked out for them. His rea ' son in commenting, he said, was to point out that Rogue River is not an unduly distressed district ; as was implied in the Salem . story. Averages Told The average percentage of bonding capacity used by county '. school districts is 54.58, with a median of slightly over 50 per cent. : But these percentages in them ; selves do not reveal the true .position of a district, he added. . One which is bonded 100 per : cent may be fully equipped with needed facilities, whereas an other with only 50 per cent could have needs totaling more than the remaining 50 per cent of capacity, he said. Bonding capacity in Jackson county is 12V4 per cent of as ' sessed valuation for elementary districts and 183i per cent for . other districts. Man Trapped in Auio Wreck Takes Own Life Portland (U.R) An Oregon City man Thursday shot and killed himself as he lay in the wreckage of his auto on the Bertha Beaverton High way, police reported. He was Frank Stalick, 45, of Oregon City. Police said Stalick was pinned in the twisted remains of his auto after it collided with a car driven by Austin Love Wright of Portland. Witnesses t the collision said Stalik, after struggling to free himself, suddenly shouted that he was going to shoot himself. He took a gun from the auto's glove compartment, and shot himself in the head. Neither Wright, nor his pas senger, were injured. tufKvmvi mf-m- 'Uyw i.im.v iwm '. it wmmjmmmimmii NO TRAFFIC PROBLEM HERE This lone boatman, paddling tip Market-st in Cincin nati, has it all to himself. He is four blocks from the Ohio River that crested in Cincin nati at 61 feet berore starting to falL New Richmond, about 15 miles from city's outskirts, was the hardest hit area. The names of some States are projected in other states. For example, New York has a town named Alabama, Pennsylvania has an Indiana, and Louisiana an Arizona. Five States have a Cali fornia, three an Ohio, and seven a Wyoming. The Berbers of Morocco, who regard the bitter flesh of the argan as inedible, press the pits for cooking oil. Goats, which enjoy, the olivelike argan, often climb 20 feet into a tree to reach the fruit. State Speed Board Attacked in House Committee Hearing Salem (U.R) The State Speed Control Board, which, decide? how fast traffic should move on various sectors of the highways and posts signs to that effect, has come under fire in the House Highways Committee. Rep. Lloyd Haynes (R-Grants Pass) branded the board as the most 'red-tape-bound" agency he had encountered before a legis lative committee. He said the committee should be considering a bill to abolish the board, rather than a bill enlarging authority of the county courts to set speeds on certain county roads. County Court Bill The board came under discus sion when the committee heard testimony on a bill that would allow county courts to set speeds on roads where traffic had sud denly become a problem due to sudden population growth. Judge F. L. Phipps, represent ing the Association of Oregon Counties, said the speed control board sometimes took as long as six months or a year to act or. requests for speed posting. The board is composed of the chair man of the State Highway Com mission, the secretary of state, and the superintendent of state police. Compulsory Inspection The highway committee also heard testimony relating to, com pulsory motor vehicle inspection. A bill that would establish such a system in Oregon is before the committee. It would permit li censing of private garages and service stations to conduct the inspections for a nominal fee. Motor vehicles would not be eli gible for licenses unless they had passed the safety inspection. Purpose in Universe Pond Digger Finds Tree 200,000 Years Old Lebanon, O. (U.R) A tree that might be 200,000 years old was uncovered here recently when a farmer started to dig a new farm pond. Ohio State University geo logists, examining the find, thought it was felled by an an cient glacier which moved down from the north and covered the state. The tree, almost perfectly preserved, was" found in a vein of blue-gray clay which the ex perts began testing for radio activity to confirm its true age. A Tribute To The RED CROSS The Red Cross answers the call wherever, when ever, however, disaster strikes ... the Red Cross Is there . . lending a helping hand to the stricken, fhe troubled, the homeless. The service that the Red Cross renders is measured in human lives saved, mended, rehabilitated. Its ability to serve is measured by the contributions of its members. Please join the Red Cross now ... the dollars you give buy that which is priceless! Medford Pharmacy, Inc. We Are Open Today 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. PHONE 2-6253 127 EAST SIXTH We Salute Our Town! By J. HUGH PRUETT Astronomer. Extension Division Oregon Higher Education System The response from readers of the recent article on Heaven prompts me to consider a some what related subject. When we realize the immensity of the starry expanse around us and the seemingly perfect order ex isting in it, we at times irresist ibly cry, "What is it all about? Is this a result of blind chance? Could there be purposeful intel ligence behind it all?" Some are completely satisfied that the grandeur of the heavens was provided s o 1 el y for the pleasure of the dwellers on our tiny globe. The less we know of the "great spaces," the easier it is to accept this thought. The agnostic claims we do not know whether there is purpose and that we can never find out. The atheist says there is none; the theist, that there is. The editor of a magazine pub lished by the Free Thinkers once wrote me that he saw no purposeful intelligence in the universe in general. "If we des ignate by the term 'atheist' a person who does not believe that any individual personality designed and created the uni verse, takes any interest in man kind and demands worship, then I am an atheist." He believed that "even the rudimentary knowledge of various sciences negatives such a god. The athe ist makes mankind his god and service to mankind his relig ion." A different view is given by the noted astronomer, the late Dr. Edwin B. Frost, who was connected with the Yerkes ob servatory of the University of Chicago for a quarter century. In "An Astronomer's Life" he wrote: "Everything that we learn from the observational point of view in the study of astronomy seems to me to point precisely and always toward a purposeful operation of nature. When you accept this, it seems to me to be inconsistent with physical sciences not to believe in a mind behind the universe. I can not imagine the planets getting together and deciding under what law they would operate. The order that we see does not appear to have been produced as the chance outcome of ran dom motions coerced into some measure of uniformity. . .. "Thus in a purposeful crea tion I find it not at all incon sistent to believe that there must be mind behind it, developing the purpose. I make the premise that it is a spiritual being . . . distinct from matter, and that it is not subject to sense per ception. . . "I find it justified in my own mind by the effects which this view has had on inspired men through the ages. . . If the uni verse is purposeful, then it is plain to me that man . . . must himself be distinctly a result of purpose rather than of acci dent "One thing illustrative of this spiritual attitude is that man has his curiosities, his wonder, his awe and his reverence for the material universe . . . which may indicate to him a divine power behind it." Child Learns To Waik : Again for Third Time El Dorado, Kan. (U.R) Not yet seven years old, Shonda Cook has just learned to walk for the third time. The child was stricken with polio at the age of 18 months, just when she had become fair ly surefooted. A bone operation shortly after her fifth birthday made it possible for her to learn to walk again. But another operation became necessary later, and it resulted in her legs being in casts for six weeks. When that ordeal was over, she had to learn for a third time to use her legs. WHO CAN HELP YOUR HEARING? I AM A TRAINED SONOTONE HEARING AID CONSULTANT ' 0 C. R. Adamson BY TRAINING and long experience, I have helped hundreds to better hearing. Now I have a wonder ful new hearing aid to help you break through that iron curtain of deafness, and bring back conversa tion, music the laughter of life. This is the brilliant, new Sonotone "1200." Here, for the first time, Sonotone has put not three but FOUR transistors in a hearing aid to bring you DOUBLE hearing help 1. MORE POWER than ever before, for easier hearing NOW. 2. RESERVE POWER, so you can use this Sono tone for yearj to come. If your present hearing aid is unsatisfactory or if you hear but don't understand you owe it to your self to investigate just how valuable this splendid new Sonotone can be for YOU. And remember, if hearing help is possible, I can bring it to you. Come in and let me prove it. There' no obligation. C. R. ADAMSON, District Manager 839 East Jackson Blvd. SONOTONE 4-H Youngsters of County Invest $120,000 in Projects Japkson county 4-H club members invested more than $120,000 in their projects dur ing 1954, according to Glenn Klein and Jean Brooks, county agents for 4-H club work. During the year, the county's 700 club members realized a profit in excess of $22,000. They made more than 675 articles of clothing to wear or use in their homes; prepared 3,950 dishes and baked 940 It ems as part of the family meal, and prepared and served more than 920 complete meals. Club members also froze or canned more than 800 quarters of fruit and vegetables; made 40 articles for their own rooms; made model airplanes, stools, metal fixtures, and did home electrical work. Livestock club members rais ed 224 dairy animals, 140 beef animals, 218 sheep, 102 swine, 78 rabbits, more than 800 turk eys, ducks and geese, 14 colonies of bees, and several acres of crops and pasture. According to the county ag ents, the $22,000 profit does not include items such as profit on vegetables and flowers raised, meals and dishes prepared for family use, fruits and vege tables frozen and canned, fur niture for room Improvement, and woodworking items. Dead line for Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday No Downtown Parking; Rule Tried in Boston Boston CU.R) Boston is try ing out a complete no-parking rule on key downtown streets during the evening rush hour as another means of cutting the city's apparently insoluble bottle-necks of traffic. Police Commissioner Thomas F. 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