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r, O T9 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, June 20. 1957 Annual Shrine Circus cheduled in August More than 20 entirely new acts will be featured in this year's annual Shrine Circus, in the Medford High school stad ium Aug. 2 and 3. The Shrine Circus, made up of professional circus entertain ers, is produced by Nobles of the Shrine, under the direction of veteran producer Tom Pack, according to L. C. Taylor, Cir cus committee chairman. Tay lor pointed out that all proceeds from the annual circus are de voted to helping crippled chil dren and adults, both on local and state-wide levels. Receive Car During the pat fue years, a total of 203 southern Oregon children have received care at the Shriner's hospital for crip pled children in Portland with out cost, and regardless of race, creed or color, including 55 Ir'tn Douglas county, 21, Jack son: 41, Josephine; and 42. Kla math county. At this time, 10 southern Oregon children are being cared for at the Portland hospital. Out of the purchase of chil dren s tickets for the Circus the Rogue Valley hospital last year pledged S3.000 to furnish and maintain an orthopedic room In the new hospital, in addition to SI. 000 presented to the Port land Shriner's hospital for crip pled children. Circus committee members in clude Taylor, Jorgen Jorgen son, Chet Hubbard, Glenn Fa brick, A. K. (Woody) Morse, and William (Bill) Shei, president of the Shrine club. Starting Pay for Teachers Increases Corvallis Salaries for be ginning teachers are up about .$100 this year over last with the demand continuing to. run fa ahead of the supply in all fields, iccording to Mrs. Kath Tjo Smith, director of teacher piteemnt at Oregoa State col-leg. All of OSC's 352 teaching gra di:lt this year could have been plcH weeks ago, Mrs. Smith liii Requests were received from all areas of the state, from ever other state in the nation nl from some other countries, sigwi contracts, she reported, but onl because they are '"ex tremely choosy" about location nd type of position. Elementary teachers are in greatest demand, Mrs. Smith Mid. with the biggest call for tea'hers in the intermediate graces. Thi is a shift from pre vious years when teachers in the younger grades kinder garten to third grade were ror.st needed. About two-thirds of the OSC graduates are. staying in Ore giji to teach, according to Mrs. placed here, she emphasized, but opportunities in other states at tracted about one-third of the graduates. Mirick, Drysdale To Teach at Session Eugene More than 200 high school students are expected to attend the university's high school music summer session. which opens for three weeks June 23. The session, under Ira Lee of the university music school, will feature theory classes, instruc tion by outstanding musicians. opportunities to perform with top ensembles, rehearsals with small groups, and work in the chorus, band, orchestra and solo performance. Four concerts by the students will be highlights of the session On July 2 a (recital of band numbers is planned. An inform al pop concert will be on July 5. Ensemble presentations are on schedule for July 8. The final concert on July 12 will feature the large chorale and orchestra groups. Instructors will include Irvin Mirick and John Drysdale, both of Medford. 4 e-A w Tax Commissioners Attend Forum at KF Klamath Falls OPi The tended a public tax forum here Wednesday night where more than 250 taxpayers were on hand to hear answers to their tax questions. Commission Chairman Sam uel B. Stewart, said that the commission is not trying to transfer all tax authority to the state level as some persons be lieve, but has as its whole ob ject to make the property tax work at the local level. Stewart said he doesn't believe the state's reappraisal program had any bearing on the recent jump in Klamath county's taxes, which are the highest in the state. Higher taxes in Klamath county, he said, as anywhere else, are the results of increased budgets. Delegations from the Medford and Lake county chambers of Commerce attended the meeting. KEEGAN TOWNSEND " New Legion Commander Legion Installation Scheduled Sunday KeeEan Townsend, Medford. will he installed commander of American Legion post 15 at .joint installation ceremonies at Lithia Park Sunday, June 23. He will replace post commander Charlie Holbrook. Townsend. new employed at the Medford Mail Tribune, was an oil field service engineer in several midwest states before enmins here in 1954, and served in a para-niedic training batta lion in Ft. Benning, Ga., during World War II. The ceremonies Sunday will include installation of new offi cers of both the Medford and Ashland Posts. A dinner in the park is planned, to which Amer ican Legionnaires and their fam ilies are invited. The affair will be held at the park bandstand, beginning at 2 p.m. Predafory Hunters Boost Coyote Take Salem More than twice as many coyotes were taken in April than in March by Oregon predatory animal hunters. This is revealed in the monthly re port to the state department of agriculture, cooperating agency with the U. Sf Fish and Wildlife service. The total April take in 32 Oregon counties was 814 preda tors, compared with 551 In March. The April destructions included 567 coyotes, 183 bob cats, 9 bear and 55 fox. The hunters also caught 39 badgers. 17 skunks, 66 racoons and 110 porcupines." Umatilla led the counties on coyotes, with 74 destroyed; the top coypote takes were in Lake. 63; Crook, 60; Umatilla, 50; and Morrow, 45. Lake county ac counted for 39 bobcats. Yamhill topped the fox column with 18, Lane was second with 12; and Marion and Linn accounted for 9 and 8, respectively. The bear catch was all in seven western Oregon counties. Bend Asks for Wider Highway Approach - Salem UP W. C. Williams, state highway engineer, said Wednesday a request from the city of Bend that Highway 97 on the south approach to Bend be widened to four lanes would be presented to next week's meeting of the State Highway commis sion here. However, Williams said that "no funds were available" at present for the project. He ad ded that it was on the commis sion's present scheduled pro gram. Williams estimated the pro ject would cost about 5180,000 with 60 per cent of the money coming from allocated federal funds and the rest from state funds. Catholics Declared Graham 'Inquirers' New York W More than 1.000 of the 20.046 persons who have made "decisions for Christ" after hearing Billy Graham's Madison Square Garden sermons have been Roman Catholics, it was learned today. A spokesman for the Billy Graham New York Crusade told the United Press that "speaking very, very conservatively, at least one in every 20 'inquirers' hare been Catholics." More than half the Roman Catholics who have made "de cisions" have indicated they wish to affiliate with some Pro testant denomination, the spok esman said. The remainder "for the most part have simply said that mak ing decisions for Christ will help them become better Catholics," according to the spokesman. . Bill To Ban Liquor Sale Gets Ballot Title Salem OP! A ballot title has been announced for a proposed constitutional amendment to ban the sale of liquor in Oregon. Preliminary petition for the initiative has been filed by George Brown of the anti-liquor league. The ballot title reads: "Pro hibiting the sale of alcoholic liquors purpose: To amend the Oregon constitution by prohibit ing the possession, manufacture, importation or sale of all alco holic liquors, including beer and wine, for use as beverages after July 1, 1959." Bonnie Kuhnhausen Loses Court Appeal Salem 'IF Bonnie Lee Kuhn-1 had appealed her habeas cor hausen Wednesday lost a ha- j pus action that was dismissed beas corpus appeal to the Ore- earlier by Marion County Cir gon Supreme Court. - cuit Court. The high Court held The Oregon City woman con- the action of the trial court sus victed of second degree murder taining a demurrer was correct and affirmed its dismissal. 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