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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Sullivan suggested the plan to
bar all parking on 13 thorough
fares between 4 and 6 p.m. The
plan is on a 60-day trial basis
before being made permanent.
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