TWELVE MEDrOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tildar. January II, 1957
Bond Issue Merits 1
Discussed During
PTA Group Meeting
Cave Junction Elmer
Fleming, Josephine county unit
school superintendent, discussed
comparative merits of two hotly
contested school bond issues at
a joint meeting of all Illinois
Valley Parent Teacher associa
tion? here this week.
District 7 (Grants Pass) re
cently passed a $540,000 bond
issue for a new junior high
school to accommodate between
400 and 500 students. The ques
tion of whether voters in the
county-unit district want a sec
ond county high school or to
continue the present tuition ar
rangement with District 7 is ex
pected to be presented soon.
The vote, Fleming said, prob
ably will be in the form of a
bond issue for a new county
high school. Should it pass. Dis
trict 7 will drop its negotiations
for an additional junior hish, be
cause a county high school will
attract some 600 students from
the city system.
Fleming stated another jun
ior high school in the cy would
bring only temporary relief to
the enrollment problem, since
the school is expected to be fill
ed to near capacity in its first
year of operation in 1953.
By 1961. he added, the nor
mal ra.te of population growth
for this area should bring en
rollment in the two Grants Pass
junior high schools to 1.334. The
plant now in operation can ade
quately accommodate no more
than 550, leaving 784 students
for the proposed school, which
would be built for a maximum
of 500 youngsters.
The county-unit face's the
same problem of growth, Flem
ing said, but would begin with
a larger student capacity.
Answering charges that
"small" high schools do not
compete in educational or so
cial advantages with larger
schools, the superintendent cited
as an example the Illinois Val
ley High school, which has less
than 230 pupils and which, he
said, "is one of the best schools
In the state."
The proposed new county-unit
high school, with 700 to 800 stu
dents, would not be an excep
tionally small school. Over a pe
riod of time it could offer as
many advantages as the city
school, plus the added merits of
more personal attention by in
structors and more student par
ticipation in e x t ra-cirricular
activities. Fleming noted.
'"The tuition arragement we
have had in the past with Dis
trict 7 has been mutually bene
ficial," the superintendent said.
Present tuition for county stu
dents at Grant Pass High
school is to S351.74 per year per
pupil. The amount is low be
cause class rooms are crowded,
necessitating a lesser number of
teachers, Fleming said.
The cost of maintaining a new
high school is estimated at more
than that because crowded con
ditions would be eliminated, this
also being the case if a new jun
ior high -were erected. A county
unit high school would require
a bond issue of between $700,
000 and $800,000.
Fleming pointed out that the
plant would belong to the county-unit,
which will have full
supervision as to control, main
tenance, expansion and other
problems. He said the Illinois
Valley high school, completed
in 1948. is now entirely paid for,
and the county-unit has no bond
ed indebtedness. He compared
the county-unit's financial stand
ing with that of District 7. now
facing a bonded indebtedness of
$1,400,000 if the new junior
high school is built.
Refusal of Hotcakes
Starts Riot in Jail
San Antonio. Tex. U.P1
Eighty prisoners rioted at the
Bexar county jail today because
they were refused hotcakes for
breakfast.
Thev broke 10 -window panes
and 25 or 30 light bulbs, but
calmed down before the drawn
pistol of Sheriff Owen W. Kil
day and went back to their lit.
tered cells. , .
The prisoners began to throw
spoons, food and steel breakfast
trays at the breakfast table. They
were disgruntled with their
breakfast, consisting of cream of
wheat, bread toasted on one side
and olemargarine and coffee.
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BREAKING THE COLOR BARRIER An attempt was made in Atlanta, Ga. to break
through the segregation barrier on city buses when a group of Negro ministers sat in
sections reserved for White passengers. The driver refused to proceed until its direc
tion sign was changed to read "special." Seated at left are Negroes B. Joseph Johnson
and V. H. Borders. The two women are unidentified.
Spain Seeking Return of Gold
Spirited Away To Russia in 1936
Madrid. Spain 0J.R) Anti-iaway with signs warning, Dan-' Spain insists that there will
Communist Spain is reaching out
to Russia for a fortune in gold.
The gold was spirited away
from Spain to the Soviet union
during the Spanish civil war in
1936 under conditions resem
bling a bank robbery. If all of it
were returned, it would net
Generalissimo Francisco Fran
co's regime from $500 million
to $1 billion.
Possibility Opened
On his deathbed, Ihe man who
sent the gold out of Spain, Juan
Negrin, finance minister in the
old Republican government
which Franco overthrew, opened
up the possibility of its return.
He instructed his son Romulo
to give the Franco government
the documents proving that the
gold had been handed to Russia
for safekeeping and not, as Rus
sia claimed, in payment for
arms.
It was Sept. 13, 1936. Franco's
forces were hammering at the
gates of Toledo and threatening
Madrid. The Republican govern
ment empowered Negrin to take
whatever steps he considered
Becessary to safeguard the gold.
Gold Taken
He wasted no lime. As Val
entin Gonzales, "El Campesino'
(The Peasant) wrote later: "I
was given a list of the cases to
be collected. All was done in an
atmosphere of absolute mystery
as if we were handling a rop-
bery."
Troops sealed off the Bank of
Spain and the public was fooled
Daily's U-Drive
Medford Airport
gcr-Explosivcs.'
The 510,079,592 grams of gold
were packed in sealed cases,
loaded on trucks and driven a
mile to the railroad station.
There, the cargo, believed also
to include silver plate and jewel
ry, went southward over a period
of 24 days on seven trains.
The only hitch was an engi
neer who objected to carrying
sold when he had been told it
was tools. He was replaced.
In Russia, according to Rus
sian Gen. Krivitsky in his book.
"I, Chief of the Secret Service,"
a platoon of 30 Secret Service
men unloaded the gold in Odessa.
Troops kept the public away.
High government officials help
ed carry the cases from the
ship to the train.
Four Bank of Spain custodians
spent six months counting the
gold in Russia, were held for
another two years and then sent
to scattered corners of the globe.
The gold, so far as the Western j
world knows, has remained in
Moscow. I
Spanish officials are despcr-
into their shaky economy. But
not at any price.
Spaniards believe Russia might
be persuaded to return the gold
in exchange for establishment
of diplomatic relations with
Franco. The Russians are be
lieved anxious to get represent
ation here.
be no diplomatic relations, with
out a Soviet guarantee to stay
out of Spanish internal affairs
or without the gold.
New Office Built by
Supply Firm in Hilts
Hilts A new office building
for the Fruit Growers Supply
company in Hilts was completed
recently, according to resident
manager M. E. Barron. . .-
The new building houses 11
sound-proof offices as well as a
large accounting. off ice, and will
enable the company to conduct
all of its office business under
one roof.
The new frame structure, is
located west of the railroad
tracks in the plant area, apart
from the residential part of
town.
In Portland,
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