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f 9 TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, January 13, 1936 Local Government Problems e Discussed March 1 WIIB March 1, Thursday, has been picked as the date for a hearing in Medford on problems to local government. Twenty-four persons, repre senting various interests in Jackson, Josephine and Klamath counties, met in Klamath Falls Friday afternoon to discuss ar rangements for the hearings and to set the times for them. The Medford hearing will be follow ed by one in Klamath Falls the following day, March 2. Urged To Atiend Any person or group wishing to get on the record problems affecting local government is urged to do so during the hear ings. Invitations are being sent out to all city and county gov ernments In the three counties, and to all other units of govern ment, including special districts. The hearings are being con ducted by the state legislative interim committee on local gov ernment, which was set up by the 1955 legislature to make a study of the problems, and to prepare suggestions for legisla tion which might aid in solving them. Josephine County Judge Ray mond Lathrop, a committee members and Robert Johnson, executive secretary of the com mittee, conducted the Friday meeting. Jackson county people attending were County Judge Rodney Keating, Mayor Earl "Miller and City Manager Rob ert Duff of Medford, and Eric Allen Jr., managing editor of the Mail JTribune. Local Arrangements Duff and Miller plan to call a meeting here next week to set up, local arrangements for the Medford hearing, which probably will be held In the courthouse. It is expected to be an evening meeting. The committee has a wide field of study, according to Johnson. He said preliminary meetings have indicated there are eight general subjects on which the committee hopes to gain information and proposed solutions. These are: 1. Ways that sewage disposal, water, fire and police protec tion, public transportation, parks and recreation,' road con struction and maintenance can best be provided and financed in unincorporated urban areas and in new or, growing cities, 2. Annexation and incorpor etion laws and procedures. Governmental Units 3. Local government organiza tion, and the differing types of governmental units serving ex panding suburban areas. . 4. Functions and powers of county and city governments . in serving such areas. 5. Methods of financing costs of public services in these ex panding areas. 6. Taxation ' methods, includ ing overlapping and equitable sharing of tax burdens. 7. Governmental controls over such things as subdivisions. building, zoning, inspection and others. 8. Separate problems relating to the first seven. Committee Listed In addition to judge Lathrop, committee members are Port land City Commissioner Or mond Bean, chairman; State Sen. Paul E. Geddes, Roseburg; State Sen. Stewart Hardie, Con don; State Rep. V. Edwin John son, Eugene; State Rep. George Layman, Newberg; State Rep. Al Loucks, Salem; Curtis M. Ev erts, Portland, secretary of the state sanitary authority, and John P. Misko, Oregon City. The present series of hear ings is to seek both information as to problems and proposals for their solution. After this, the the committee will formulate tentative recommendations, and then will hold a second series of hearings before submitting them to the legislature. A Nichol's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United P' Ftwr Writer Washington (U.R) Every one knows a dollar bill is worth about half a buck. But it may surprise you to learn it s also half cot ton. I was asked the other day to find out how much it costs to make each buck with its ' re semblance of George Wash- Harmoa Nichols mgxon. us . very feooa question, according to the people at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. First, there is the material. The one spot, like the bills which run up to $100,000, are half linen and half cotton. There also are the red and blue fibers which are imbedded by secret processes into the paper. Then there's the ink which the bureau manufactures by mixing dry col ors, oils and the like. Looks Like Bakery Manpower is also a factor. If you saw the ink mixers in ac tion, you'd think you were in the hind end of a bakery where they mix other kinds of dough. Then there are the Secret Ser vice boys who are on the look- put for counterfeiters, not that they are apt to find any in their own shop. Add it all up and you have to be a mathematician to calculate how much it costs to produr t each bill. I'm no mathematician. When the cotton part of the bill starts to wear to a fray, and is limp, it is turned oyer to the Treasury and burned. A new bill is then substituted. My questioner also wanted to know how long it might be be fore the late Franklin D. Roose velt gets his likeness on a paper bill. The answer is up to the Secretary of Treasury who has the final say. Some Out of Print Gen. Washington now is on the dollar bill. Woodrow Wilson is on the $100,000 gold certifi cate something that dbesn't sell very well these days. It's small enough, but is a little hard to bust up when you buy a 15 cent beer. Salmon P. Chase is pictured on the $10,000 federal reserve note. But none have been print ed since 1945 because the de- HARD OF HEARING? OPENING OF THE MEDFORD OFFICE Today hearing is a Pleasure! IF IF IF 3 IF o IF IF IF IF L. E. BREEN You have one of MAICO'S Transistors We have 5 models to choose from. You have trouble in Church, at your Lodge or in groups. - I CAN HELP YOU! 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That was during the period when folks turned their faces up to heaven in the Civil war. Chase put his weight behind the move, and told the director of the mint in Philadelphia that God ought to be mentioned someplace . on the coins. Incidentally, there was no pa per currency in the country un til 1861. The Civil war brought that on, too. The first paper dough was pro duced by two men . and four women who worked in a single room in the attic of the main Treasury building. They produc ed $1 and $2 bills, which were worth about that at the time. 12 Fire Hydrants Installed Recently Twelve new fire hydrants were installed in -Medford dur ing the past mpnth, Robert Lee, assistant water superintendent announced Friday. The installations are part of a water department program to improve the city's fire protec tion rating. Available water sup ply and condition of the water distribution system are impor tant factors in determining the rating, Lee said. . Six of the new hydrants were placed in new locations, the oth er six replaced old, obsolete hy- drants which were too small and for which it was difficult to obtain replacement parts. Fire hydrants being replaced were installed between 1905 and 1908 New hydrants have been in stalled at East Ninth st. and South Central ave., West Third and North Fir sts., West Fifth and North Fir sts., Jackson and Sagmaw drives; Aloha st. at Valley View dr., and Highland dr. at Koxy Anne rd. Illinois voters have favored Republican candidates in eight of the past 14 presidential elec tions. Bonneville Power Outlook Shows Need for Kilowatts Portland (U.R) The an nual 10-year power outlook is sued by the Bonneville Power administration was released Fri day. It predicted Pacific North west power requirements would hit 65,000.000,000 kilowatt hours by 1965: - The report said the present loads of 37,000,000,000 kilowatt hours would about double dur ing the next decade, excluding new large industrial loads. - Capital Investment Needed Capital investment needed to meet long-range needs was esti mated at $7,000,000,000. Bonneville experts said that in order to meet the demand, all available hydro resources of the region, including high-cost steam generation and imports of surplus power from Utah, Ida ho, Montana, and British Colum bia systems, would be required. BPA warned that without new hydro projects, the area could experience a rapidly rising pow er shortage beginning in 1961- 62 and reaching . more than 1, 000,000 kilowatts by 1965-66, particularly if critical water conditions prevail. Projects Underway However, 45 projects where planning or site investigations are under way could provide more than 8,000,000 kilowatts of new generation if they all prove feasible, the report.said. Residential use alone in the Pacific Northwest is expected to treble in the next 10 years due to almost complete urban and rural electrification. And North west consumers use an average of 6,700 kilowatt hours a year. compared to a national average of 2,685. The report said present north west pooled operations whereby the federal system, privately owned utilities, and publicly owned sytems are integrated re sult in a net gain to the region's peaking capability of; between 600,000 and 1,000,0000 kilo watts. ""' On The Side By E. V. Durling. (Distributed by King Ftsfura Syndicate. Inc.) Oh. that it were possible. After long grief and pain To find the arms of my true love. Round me once again!. In a wakeful doze I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow. The delight of happy laughter. The delight of low replies. ijbisxsun. Note it said that only about 15 per cent of American wives love their husbands. I question that. I believe at least 20 per cent of. the married women of this coun try love their husbands. In any event the average American woman who does not love her husband is extremely clever at making the best of the situation. It was Roger de Bussy-Rabutin who said, "When we can't get what we love, we must love what we have." Almost Confidential Gypsy Rose Lee, the daring danseuse, in discussing the some what unresponsive reception of her dance in Glasgow, said, "The Scots are not interested in sex. They like comedy." ... On New Year's Eve in Luxembourg all women are bound by tradition to give a kiss to any man who asks for one. Please Note Shelley defined a kiss as "the soft and sweet eclipse when soul meets soul on lovers' lips." . . . Am asked where jn the Bible can' be found the saying "mur der will out." It is not in the Bible. It is from Chaucer. Asking Queries from clients. Q. What was the coldest day in New York City history? A. Fourteen below zero on Feb. 9, 1934 . . . Q. Have you a reader in .Love, Ark.? A. No, sir. None in Henpeck, 111., either. . . . Q. I understand you played football at four prep schools and five colleges. Right? A. That's wrong. I only played Valley Equipment Is New Holland Dealer . Valley Equipment . company Highway 99 south, has been ap pointed authorized New Holland dealer by R. M.- Wade and com- pan, Portland, New Holland dis tributors for the Pacific North west. R. A. Naumes of the company pointed out that New Holland's farm-engineered machinery is a leader in mechanizing American farms, and- equipment in the complete New Holland line will be particularly important in the Medford area. Equipment will include for age harvesters, row crop, wind row and siklebar attachments, and a series of New Holland balers. A special display will be held at the Valley Equipment show rooms in the near future." Pickin' Pears News and Notes From Camp White ' By BILL HURN THE VAVS advisory committee meeting was held at Elks Temple Monday night with - Chief of Special Services Frank J. Glon ning, chairman of the group, presiding, Thirteen committee representatives from as many civic clubs, lodges and other organizations and nine VA staff members, with two volunteer assistants,- comprised the January forum group.' Glonning outlined the special programs for the first two months of the new year, and in troduced Assistant Manager Reu ban H. Denning, who reported on items of member load and waiting list;, transfers and re placements on the staff, announc ing his own transfer to Iowa City, la. and the appointment of Harold Jaffrey '. as his suc cessor as assistant manager, ef fective as of Jan. 15. He thanked all for their work and coopera tion and expressed regret at los ing associations of Camp White Announcement was made by Glonning of the social service emergency fund with report of pledges already having been made to it. History, experience and progress elsewhere unTJer VA was reported by Social Ser vice Chief Herbert S. Daniels and a copy of its rules given to each committee member. Organizational sponsorship of sports and contest activities was discussed and BPOE volunteer ed, rating the preference of se lection of the activity they might prefer. Report was made on the find ings of the national VAVS ad visory committee on the turn over of volunteer workers and it was given study and apprecia tions expressed on the filing of the data requested on the com mittee's questionaire. Volunteer worker information cards for 1956 were distributed for crediting toward certificates earned by the workers.. Credits for casual unlisted groups con tributine assistance over the credit was announced. Tentative dates for Turn-About Party, anniversary of national VAVS, and -Hobby Fair were given and discussed. A plea for more sewing vol unteers and at a greater freq uency was made. Sewing- mach ine and materials under VA are available according to Glon ning. : Jlie meeting closed on a full evening of revised1 accomplish ments and with additional plans. Friday afternoon and evening VFW and auxiliary from Grants Pass were at Camp White for their regular monthly treat. The auxiliary under Mrs. Lelia Birch and Mrs. . Helen Lusk, VAVS representative, and alternate, made ward visitations to with candy and cigarettes. In the evening Hospital Chairman George Perry and Mrs. Perry, with Clyde Jessup and Herman Wood assisting, held a game ses sion for members. VA employees awards recent ly made by Manager E. K. Rick: er were to Miss Lilah . McCul lough on a members certificate, suggestions; to Elmer Richey for a vase wall-bracket plan, and to Melvin H. Lewis for an idea on extension cord arrangement. Get Marvelous KING-OF-ALL . To Clean Your Septic Tanks and Cesspools And to Keep Them Clean We guarantee satisfaction or your money back. - Get King-Of-AII today at your local Feed & Seed, Hardware, Plumber or Bldg. Supply Store. football at three prep, schools and three colleges. Passing By Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, king of jazz trumpeters. Eight months ago Louis was quite a mass of manhood. Weighed 272. Now he is a streamlined fellow. Weighs only 171. Credits his re markable weight reduction to a herbal formula furnished by the debonair dietician, Gayelord Hauser. Briefly How long do you think it would take a jet plane to travel from Soviet Russian to the Unit ed States? The answer is about seven minutes. Wales, Alaska, is only 74 miles from Russia. . . . As for the possibility of a happy marriage for those who marry very young, consider the case of Mahatma Gandhi. He married when 13. His bride was 10 years old. They remained married ior over 60 years and had four sons. Asides You have the pronunciation situation well in hand if you can correctly pronounce the fol lowing words: impious,, irrepar able, precedence, domicile, con summate. . . . What pitcher rightly rates the nickname "Iron Man" How about Satchel Paige who once pitched 29 games in one month' That was when he was with the Bismarck, N.D.. team which in one season won 104 games out of 105 played. Elevators in the U. S. carry about 30 times as many pass engers each year as are carried by the railroads. FBI To Hold Auto Theit Conferences Federal Bureau of Investiga tion law enforcement conferen- j ces on auto theft will be held in Eugene, Portland and Pendle ton in April, according to J. F. Santoiana Jr.,- special agent in charge of the Portland FBI of fice. The conferences are designed to encourage additional coordin ation among law enforcement agencies and improve efficiency in dealing with auto theft. Con ferences will be conducted on a forum basis providing mutual exchange of information. Santoiana said that 1954 there were an estimated 215,940 auto mobiles stolen. Although 94 per cent were located, the -12,956 cars not recovered .represented an investment of more than $12,000,000, he said. A similar 1 series of confer ences was held in 1952, when 8,707 individuals representing 3,121 agencies participated. ' Read and Use Classified Ads HOW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALS Station KWIN . 1400 K.C. Sundays 10:15 A.M. DRY DOUGLAS FIR CORE WOOD (Split andor Rounds) Excellent Fireplace Fuel PROMPT DELIVERIES Natural gas is usually found with crude oil in under-ground vaults of stone, shale and sand. Medford 'Central Point Jacksonville Phoenix 1 CORD $17.00 17.75 18.00 18.00 PHONE TimberP MEDFORD VA CORDS $24.50 25.25 25.50 25.50 2-8086 Company 0RE90N (U-Haul at $15.00 Per Cord) Summit and McAndrews Road (DILIEMMM(DIE SMM (JANUARY 16 TO JANUARY 31, 1956) CLOSING OUT Stoneware - HARDWARE - Leather Goods 00 Check Your Needs! ROPE - CHURNS - PAILS - GAS CANS - SPRINKLING CANS - HAMMERS WRENCHES -SCREWDRIVERS - OIL CANS - RULES - TOOL BOXES - ELECTRIC FENCE SUPPLIES - VISES -LEVELS - BRACE & BITS SQUARES - FLOWER POTS - DOG COLLARS - DOG DISHES - VASES RABBIT FEEDERS - PITCHERS - ETC. WHILE THEY LAST - Buy a DIESEL-BURNING SPARK OIL HEATER NOW. $15.00 trade-in allow ance for your old heater during this sale. ' :' 20 OFF! POULTRY SUPPLIES FEEDERS - FOUNTS - BROODERS - REMEDIES -HEAT LAMPS - EGG SCALES - EGG CANDLERS -BROODER THERMOMETERS - -EGG BUFFERS -LEG BANDS - NEST SETS - ETC. 20 OFF! LAWN & GARDEN TOOLS HOSE - SPRINKLERS - RAES TANK SPRAYERS - SHOVELS - CULTIVATORS - LAWN RAKES -SPADING FORKS - ETC. 10 OFF! FENCING NAILS BARB WIRE - POULTRY NETTING - FIELD FENCING - STEEL FENCE POSTS - NAILS - STAPLES -ELECTRIC FENCE POSTS - SMOOTH WIRE - YARD FENCING -ETC. 15 OFF! POWER LAWN MOWERS CLOSING OUT LAST YEAR'S MODELS ONE REEL TYPE POWER MOWER 50 OF OTHER STYLES AS LOW AS $50.15 SPECIAL FEED PRICES HEN SCRATCH .-......:............. ROLLED BARLEY .......... ........... REG. PRICE 2.55 - NOW ONLY 2.35 PER 70-lb. WHEAT ....-.......-..............................REG. PRICE 4.30 NOW ONLY 4.10 PER CWT. GROUND OATS AND BARLEY . .1. REG. PRICE 3.55 - NOW ONLY 3.35 PER CWT. SAMSON'S SPECIAL EGG MASH .............. ..REG. PRICE 4.50 - NOW ONLY 4.30 PER CWT. SPECIAL PRICES ARE IN EFFECT FOR THIS SALE ONLY ' Limit 5 Sacks to a Customer While. It Lasts See Samson's During This Sale For the Biggest Bargains of the year All Sales are final and limited to stock on hand. 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