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TWO MEDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday March 4, I95S PROPOSED ADDITION The six-classroom proposed addition classroom building' at the far left. Residents of Lone Pine district at Lone Pine ghool is shown to the right of the architect's sketch will vote on a 590,000 bond issue Tuesday, March 6, in the school above. The existing gymnasium is in the center and the existing cafeteria to finance construction of the proposed addition. Lope Pjne School District Residents To Vote on Bond Issue for Addition Polls will be open between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 6, in the Lone Pine school cafeteria for district residents to decide a S90.000 bond issue to finance construction of a six class room addition. Residents must be a registered voter 30 days prior to the elec tion to '- be eligible to cast a ballot... : ; ; O Other Rooms Planned The proposed addition will include six classrooms, teach er's work room, rest rooms, a3 290 and 295. The amount of land boiler room, storage saace and a covered passageway, ine ad dition will be built o$ the east side of the existing gymnasium and cafeteria building with a covered passagewayQconnecting the two structures. Construction of the proposed new wing includes black exterior walls with cemegf; asbestos board; concrete slab floors with asphalt tile finish; glulam ridge beams with solid wood beams and wood roof deck;: built up roof with insulation board; and acoustic tile ceiling finishing. Heating win be by radiant floor .'panels or unit ventilators, and powered ventilation through the roof is planned for all class rooms, according to Jack A. Ed son, architect. "Windows will be aluminum for low maintenance. Prepare Master Plan Nine-Year-fod Pulls Down Power Pole Saterrl (U.R) A'- hine-yearJd Salem boy dumbfounded his playmates Friday bjD announc ing he was "going .to be .like Superman" and then pulling down a power pole with his bare hands. The lad, Duane Merth, leaned against -the guy wire of a pol In his back yard. The rusty wire snapped and the pole toppled over. Merth's father was started too and phoned Portland General Electric? Company which dis patched two trucks to the scene. PGE men said the boy got an assist in portraying his comic strip hero from the fact that the pole was a little rotten. No power outage resulted. A master plan has been pre pared by Edson in cooperation with the Lone Pine school board to insure that future additions will fit into a planned pattern should a need for additional facilities arise. The proposed ad dition now represents the first stage of the master plan develop ment. School board members point ed out that the present enroll ment iS 273, and the anticipated enrollment next fall is between available for subdividing in the Lone Pine District, and the fact that the district is adjacent to Medford makes a continued in crease in enrollment a certainty, they said. This year's enrollment of 273 compares with 244 last year and 229 two years ago, when 11 teachers were on the faculty. I In 1925 Lone Pine district sold the old one-room frame school building and constructed a new two-room concrete build ing, and for the first time em ployed two teachers. The aver age daily attendance for the school year 1927-1928 was 55. ' Temporary remodeling of the two-room building was- done in 1932, and three teachers were employed. The average daily at tendance had climbed to 65. In 1935, the district again added two new rooms, a central hall, basement and front stepsl However the district contin ued to employ only three teach ers until 1941-1942 when the Addition Started To J'ville Hall t Jacksonville The addition of a combination kitchen and meeting room to the Jackson ville Community Hall started recently. The' addition, being built with funds and labor furnished by the Jacksonville Lions club, wilLseat about 100 people. The kitchen, which will be com pletely furnished by the club, will be large enough to supply food for a large banquet .with seating in the ballroom, accord ing to Gordon Kirkland, club president. ' The 26-by-54-foot addition is designed to fill a need as a meet ing place for organizations in Jacksonville. It will also be available for organizations out side Jacksonville to rent, Kirk land said. It is expected that the project will be completed sometime in May. Materials for completion of the structure - are now stored inside the community hall, Kirk land said, making it impossible to hold dances or other large functions there until the project is finished. Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Preji Correspondent L Hollywood U.R) Seorge Montgomery famed as a furni ture maker, husbawl of Dinah Shore, wett ern movie ac tor and social charmer around town at last is blots oming out to be what he wants: A d r a matic actor. Aline Mosbr . George has been a prominent social figure in the mofie colony. His hand made . furniture decorates the homes of such stars as Van John son, Jack Webb, William Hold en and Joel McCrea. Furniture manufacturers beg him to en large, his small, furniture busi ness; he turns down a fortune in orders. He and l&iah are top tennis players at the swanky Racquet Club in Palm Springs. They en tertain the biggest names in town. But fru-ated George, like others bitten with the show business bug, just wants to be an actor. - Sam Goldwyn Quoted "At . parties Sam Goldwyn keeps-saying, 'I must put you in a picture some day.' Mervyn LeRd- says he'll find something for me," related George. "But at last I have done a dramatic role that I hope will mark a new trend in my Career after 40 pictures and 20 west erns. The film is "Huk." made en tirely in the Philippines, co starring Mona Freeman. Al ready Montgomery has been honored with two other dramat ic scripts, and he hopes he's headed for a big-time comeback. "I was under contract to 20fh Century-Fox before the war," he said. "I got the top fan mail on the lot and was up for top productions. "Then came the war," he add ed. "When I came back nothing was but westerns. They found out I was from Montana and could ride a horse so I did west erns. But I'm not satisfied with doing those things." The handsome Montgomery is determined to drive for acting fame, but curiously he could step into other creative business es if he chose. He started mak ing benches for his home nine years ago. When Alan Ladd and other friends swamped him with orders, he started a shop. "We get hundreds of letters from people who want to buy furniture," he said. "But I'd have to start a big factory that would take time away from act ing. And it's too difficult to ship custom-made pieces." Freight Increase May Be Detrimental 3 Salem (U.R) Clifford Ferg uson, counsel and director of rail transportation for the State Public Utilities Commission, said Saturday he was afraid the 6 pef cent freight increases ap proved for railroads Friday o'would prove detrimental to the economy of our state. "This would seriously handi cap industries of this state in ability to meet competition in eastern markets," Ferguson said. He had just returned from Wash ington where he argued against rail freight increases before the Interstate Commerce Commis sion. The official pointed out that 90 per cent of the economy of Oregon rests on basic commod ities, most of which are market ed in the East. - He said reported "hold-downs" to five per cent boosts wouldn't help the state much since Ore gon would still have the added burden of long transportation hauls. The increases were approved, by the ICC. - :' , average daily attendance reach ed 90, and a fourth teacher was added to the staff. The building consisted of five Tooms, four classrooms and lunchroom. . During 1948, gymnasium and cafeteria were added to the school. A fifth teacher was hired, and the average ..daily attend ance reached 104. In the 1951-1952 school year, two primary - class rooms were finished and used. The average daily attendance was 174, with seven teachers employed. Dur ing the next two years the base ment was partitioned to make two temporary classrooms. A Nichol's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Press Feature Writer S3 Washington (U.R) Usher L Burdick, the North Dakota Re publican, is doubly irked. First, ne is sore9 because "The only dish you can order in the House restau rant without having to take string beans on the side is ice cream." mad because there is no free bread on the tables. You have to order it and pay extra. The 200-p o u n d :- lawmaker doesn't eat bread and he hates string beans with a passion. But he got so worked up over the string beans and lack of bread he decided to look into the mat ter. So, as he said in his news letter, he called on William Brockwell, manager of the House restaurant. The interview went something like this: Burdick: "Why can't we have free bread in the House restau rant like you can get in other beaneries?" Brockwell: "Well, some con gressmen used to come in and order a cup of coffee, grab all the bread in sight, and would not buy anything else. Not only that the annual expense would be $8500 for free bread." Burdick: "I think I could ar range with the state mill and elevator in North Dakota to send you all the flour you need if you want to compete with other restaurants on the ques tion of bread with meals." Brockwell: "No that wouldn't do because it would cost too much to bake it, and then if we furnished bread with the meals we would have to furnish butter and that would cost a lot more." .The congressman gave up OEA Debates Sales Tax for Education Portland (U.R) Miss Mildred Wharton, vice principal of David Douglas High School in Port land, Friday was nominated without opposition to the vice presidency of the Oregon Ed ucation Association. She will suceed to the presidency in 1957. The nomination was made at the annual meeting here of the OEA representative" council that was marked by debate over as sociation support of a sales tax for school purposes. - Representatives refused to back a resolution supporting a sales tax by name but gave the association board of trustees a free hand in backing any tax legislation that would ease the financial plight of school dis tricts. A resolutio-i offered by James King of Lebanon recommended that the OEA "join with other groups who are interested in the welfare of public schools in sup port of a sales tax." Opponents argued that the state's largest organization of teacher: would be . committing public relations, suicide if it sup ported a sales tax resolution. The council voted to support passage of a tax referendum measure that would permit the state . legislature to put the emergency clause on tax measures. there, but he went on to allow that "While free bread would not solve the Benson surplus wheat question, it would be a national gesture in the right di rection." "It would seem,'" Burdick said, "that we are doing our utmost to maintain a surplus of wheat." Then in the closing paragraph of his letter, the North Dakota congressman - said, going from bread to beans: : I Constitutional Rights ' ". . . There is one thing I in sist on and will never yield, no matter if hell and high Avater may surround me I. will not be forced to eat anything I don't like. "On that I stand on my consti tutional rights, the Fifth Amend ment, the right of eminent do main, the American way of life, free enterprise, E. Pluribus Unum, and the Declaration of Independence. "I may not succeed in all these defenses, but I have put in enough, I think, to sustain my position against "being forced to eat string beans." It is not up to me to file a minority opinion in this case, but I happen to like beans in any shape and bread and in ad dition, North Dakota. We rested a couple of cases right there, didn't we? Quarterly Meeting Of SBE Scheduled Salem (U.R) The regular quarterly meeting of the State Board of Education will be held here March 7 at 10 a.m. in the state library, Rex Putnam, sup erintendent of public instruc tion has announced. Preliminary committee meet ings were set for March 6. Gen eral education, vocational ed ucation and vocational rehabil itation were on the agenda. WBmmmmff ' jS ki TRAINS CRASH NEAR BOSTON, 13 KILLED Firemen search wreckage of Boston & Maine commuter trains at Swampscott, Mass., killing 13 persons ana injuring more than 60 others. More than 1000 were aboard the two trains. Both trains were Boston bwind in a driving snowstorm when one rammed into the rear of the other. $ome passengers who survived the wreck were involved in a second collision of two other commuter trains about five miles from scene of the first accident o Vets Should Keep Policies Up-to-Dafe Veterans who fail to keep beneficiaries for life insurance up-to-date may cause unneces sary trouble for dependants in case of unexpected death, Coun ty Service Officer Charles Hol brook warned yesterday. He said the most common causes of beneficiary mix-up are probably in cases where the veteran has failed to. name a beneficiary, or named a . close j blood relative but later married and failed to change the bene ficiary to his wife or children. Service life insurance hold ers should know at all times who the beneficiary is, and to state in writing to the veter ans administration, any desired change. Mix-ups and serious questions occur in many other ways, Hol brook said. Some policies are now challenged because the vet eran who went back into the service since 1950 stopped his World War II insurance to be covered by free indemnity while in service, then picked up hisf earlier insurance again after be- Hay mixtures with grass and alfalfa have averaged about 37 per cent greater yields than straight grass in four years of trials at the Dickinson, N.D., experiment station. ing discharged. In such cases the beneficiary must be renamed. A 4d i t i o n a 1 information is available at Holbrook's office in the courthouse. HOW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALS Station Sundays KWIN 10:15 1400 K.C. A.M. Substitute Different Word for UN Delegate United Nations, N. Y. (U.R) U. S. Delegate Mason Sears ap ologized to India's V. K. Krish na Menon for calling him "frightened of a vote" and sub stituted the word "apprehen sive" for "frightened." "It means the same thing," Krishna Menon said. "Or at least it does in English. I dont' know about American." 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