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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-
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mand just wasn't big enough to
justify the printing cost.
Chase, by the way, was Secre
tary of Treasury when the mot
to "In God We Trust" first ap
peared on a coin in 1864. 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.
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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.
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(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
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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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