FOURTEEN -MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Sunday, January 22, 1956
130,000 Drivers"
Paid Fines During
1955, Report Shows
Nearly 130,000 drivers paid
fines for violation of Oregon
trafifc laws during 1955, Secre
tary of State Earl T. Newbry has
reported.
The year-end report, covering
traffic cases handled by the
state's district, municipal and
justice courts, disclosed that
129,064 abstracts reporting con
victions of traffic misdeeds were
processed by the state office.
The total, 4,495 cases were re
ferred to the financial responsi
bility office for further action.
Most of the latter consisted of
drivers convicted of driving
while intoxicated, a charge
which called for mandatory li
cense suspension under Oregon
law.
Los Licenses
Recommendation of convicting
judges resulted in loss of licens
es for 1,535 drivers.
Suspensions were for such
charges as reckless driving, 617;
violation of basic rule, 361; no
operator's license, 83; hit and
run, 68; failure to stop, 43; fail
ure to yield right-of-way, 24;
and miscellaneous traffic charg
es, 339.
The 1955 figures for total
number of convictions showed
a slight increase over 1954.
Fatal accidents reported in
November, 1955, totaled 24 for
the state, with two persons kill
ed in Jackson county, and 25
persons killed and 21 injured in
the state.
March of Dimes
Coming Events '
Events scheduled throughout
Jackson county in the next few
days to raise March of Dimes
funds for the fight against polio
include the following:
Jan. 24 Modern dance at
Oasis, Eagle Point, 8 p.m. to
12 p.m. Music by Dick Spain,
Bill Lively and Rogue Valley
Boys. Crater high school Fresh
man class Dutch auction and
box social, 7:30 p.m., Crater
high gym, Central Point.
Jan. 25 Square dance spon
sored by Jackson County square
dance association at YMCA, 9
p.m. Policemen vs. Firemen
basketball game at Medf ord
high school, preliminary Yel
low Cab vs. Hawkinson's, 7:30
p.m. Grater Lions club auction,
KBES-TV,- 9:30 p.m.
Jan. 26 Radio auction, at
KWIN, Ashland.
Jan. : 27 Radio , auction,
KWIN, Ashland. Yoggi Hussane
and Texas wrestling, with lady
referees, 8:30 p.m., Ashland
junior high gym, sponsored by
Ashland Lions club. Phoenix
Lady Lions dance at Commun
ity clubhouse'. Music by Melody
Wranglers. Local talent show at
intermission. Modern dance at
Rogue River. Baked food sale
by Crater high school students.
'Fireball' Route Traced;
Headed For Oregon Coast
Bend U.R) A brilliant green fireball with a fiery
iail that blazed over the eastern Pacific at 5:24 p.m. Jan. 8,
apparently had the southwestern Oregon coast as its target,
but possibly never reached land. .
western Oregon coast as its target, but possibly never xeach
This was the conclusion announced here.. Saturday by Phil F.
Brogan, Northwest director of the American Meteor Society
who charted the path of the tailed meteor after studying re
ports received from observations in widely scattered areas.
The object, traveling at a terrific speed, was observed
from near Jefferson on the north to Medford on the south.
It was also sighted on Oregon's high desert, east of Bend, and
reported from Lakeview and Klamath Falls.
Brogan said the fireball apparently became visible about
70 miles above the earth, as it bored into the atmosphere,
moving in a southeasterly direction. It was about 300 miles
off the coast when sighted by an observer near Cheshire and
another observer in Corvallis;
A heavy cloud bank in southwestern Oregon, on the
coast, hid the fireball from possible observers.
Brogan said data relative to the fireball-are being for
warded to Dr. Charles P. Olivier of the University of Pennsyl
vania for further study; He is AMS national director.
OverWeight Attack To Start in County
Disbursements for
First Half of Fiscal
Year Are $4,651,289
.Disbursements totaling $4,651,
289.58 for operating the county
government in the first half of
the current fiscal year were re
corded by Karl L. Janouch, Jack
son county treasurer. -
In a semi-annual cash balance
statement as of Dec. 31, Janouch
listed $3,302,064.63 cash balance,
of which $1,740,000 is in time
deposits and $685,859.07 of
school district funds in savings
accounts. Time deposits draw
IVi per cent interest and savings
accounts 2 per cent.
Six Month Balance
The' balance at the close of
the first six months of the fiscal
years was $3,957,202.62, includ
ing the time deposits and savings
accounts. In addition the county
has-$32,406.38 invested in school
and U. S. bonds. The Medford
irrigation district purchased
$20,000 of U. S. bonds for $19,
310.45, using a surplus in the dis
trict's sinking fund.
A total of $1,975,325.82 tax
WEATHER By United Press
Northern California: Recur
rent rains Sunday; snow level 4
or 5 thousand feet; precipita
tion moderate to locally heavy
north portion; little change in
temperature; southerly winds
15-35 above Point Arena near
coast and west to northwest
winds 1.0-20 below Point Arena.
Jacksonville School
Play Practice Starts
Jacksonville Jacksonville
High school juniors arid seniors
interested in the annual junior
and senior play met with Thayer
Tarvin last week at the school.
Tarvin, who will direct the play,
is a member of the Footlighters,
Medford's little theater group,
and directed the play last year.
The play selected this year is
"It's Great to Be Crazy," by
Donald Peyton. There will be 10
characters in the cast, which in
cludes Pat Moore, Betty Stevens,
Letti Ann Diedrick, Fred
Straube, Oteka -Sheppard, John
Beams, Nancy Adams, Norman
Powlowski, Sonja Smith, Bob
Clark, Tommy King, Carolee
Thurman, Roberta Wicksten and
Vicki Tweedy.
The play is a comedy. Thelma
Wall will be in charge of back
stage make-up, and student man
ager is Phyllis Stevens.
A practice schedule was set up
for the next six weeks with
March 9 the date for -the public
evening performance. An after
noon performance will' be held
for the student body on March
8.
A coordinated attack on obes
ity common overweight will
be undertaken in Jackson coun
ty soon. Joint sponsors of the
movement are the Oregon Heart
society and the Jackson County
Medical society.
It is planned to organize four
groups of 20 persons each, three
of them in Medford and one in
Ashland. The groups will meet
periodically for 16 to 20 weeks,
with the aim of having each
member lose one pound per
week.
'Reducing Loves Company
"Reducing loves company" is
the way the project is describ
ed. The program here is an ex
tension of a pilot program start
ed in Portland, where six groups
were organized, and where five and the medical society are
of them attained the objective strongly in favor of the program.
of weight reduction.
Other groups are now in prog
ress in Corvallis, Eugene, As
toria, La Grande, Albany and
elsewhere. Originated in Oregon,
the program is being adopted by
Washington and Florida groups,
and the U. S. public health ser
vice. The groups will be carefully
supervised by physicians, for it
is known that indiscriminate re
ducing can be harmful. Those
wishing to participate should
consult their family physician
for referral. Obesity is classed
as one of the most important of
the nation's medical problems,
and both the heart association
Steering Commitiee Chairman
Dr. Ralph Hibbs, representa
tive of the medical, society, is
chairman of the steering commit
tee for the project. Other mem
bers are Dr. Loren Messenger,
psychology professor at South
ern Oregon college; Mrs. Robert
Sleeter, secretary of the group;
Miss Dorothy Husky, county
health educator; Miss Dorothy
Collard, public health nurse;
Miss Beverly Bennett, of the
SOC physical education depart
ment, Allen Hatch of the child
guidance clinic, and Miss Celia
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Walker, of the welfare depart
ment. The weight reduction classes
will begin as soon as enough in
terested persons are found to
form them.
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receipts was turned over to the
treasurer by the tax collector,
including $1,648,122.93 for cur
rent year taxes and the balance
for delinquent taxes paid for the
years 1948-1955 inclusive.
Slightly over 30 per cent of
the fiscal years taxes have been
received.
School Fund Receipt
School funds received 72.2 per
cent of tax payments to the
treasurer; cities 13.2 per cent;
county libraries,' 8.9 per cent;
irrigation districts, 3.1; rural fire
districts, 1.3; state forest fire tax,
1; and water, sanitary and other
districts, .3.
The major portion of the re
ceipts recorded during the six
month period were from O and
C funds, amounting to $1,373,
541.11. Local national forest receipts
amounted to $191,510.16; school
bond sales, $150,984.74; state
payments to the county for mo
tor vehicle licenses,, alcoholic
and amusement device taxes,
$296,901.99; and interest earned
on time deposits- and bond pur
chases, $14,618.34.
Of the total disbursements,
48.2 per cent went for public
school purposes; 7.8 per cent to
cities, irrigation, rural fire, wa
ter, and other districts and 44
per cent to county government.
The latter included $685,859.07
O&C receipts to school districts
and $94,848.03 for courthouse
construction, improvement and
maintenance. .
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