EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Sunday, October 27, 1337
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Patrons of Medford school
district 549C will vote Tuesday,
Nov. 5, on a $1,786,000 bond is
sue to finance a two-year build
ing program in the district.
The proposed building pro
gram is part of a long range pat
tern of planning, which has
been carried out by the school
board for several years. Board
members and school officials
have been collecting data on the
district's building needs for the
past year and a half. Their find
ings were supplemented by a
study made by school buildings
and finance authorities from the
University of Oregon and from
lay persons familiar with financ
ing and constructing school
buildings.
In a pamphlet prepared by
school board members , and ad
ministrators, the two-year pro
gram includes seven projects.
They are:
Addition of Claiiroomi
1. Addition of eight class
rooms at Medford High school,
and construction of up to 10
new classrooms on land owned
by the district south of the pres
ent shop and music wing. Reno
vation and relocation of rooms
would result in new and addi
tional science, commercial, vo
cational shop and homemaking
departments. This would bring
the maximum capacity of the
high school to an enrollment of
1,600. Estimated cost is $898,
000. 2. One new elementary school,
grades one through six, at
Grand ave. and Corona st. in the
northeast area. The building
would be planned for 500 stu
dents. Classrooms to handle an
estimated 360 students to begin
with would be provided. Class
rooms may then be added from
current budgets. Total estimated
cost is $324,500.
3. One new elementary
school, grades one through six,
would be constructed on a com
parable basis to the school on
Grand ave. between Siskiyou
blvd. and Dellwood ave. in the
southeast area. Only that por
tion of the building would be
constructed in 1957-58 that
would be needed for the next
school year. The following year,
additional rooms would be con
structed as required. Estimated
cost is $324,500.
Multipurpose Room
4. Renovate the multipurpose
room at the West Side elemen
tary school. A stage with rest
room and dressing room facili
ties would be added to the exist
ing building. All other Medford
schools have these facilities
now, the board noted. Estimated
cost it $24,000.
5. A classroom and dressing
room addition to Roosevelt
school. The school's m u 1 t i
purpose room has neither dress
ing room nor adequate facilities.
The board considered it advis
able to' construct an additional
classroom to care for special
and music classes. This would
be done by an addition on the
existing building. Estimated
cost is $22,000.
8. A shop and storage facility
for the school buses owned and
operated by the district. The
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district does not have a garage
to house and service its buses
and other motor vehicles. Esti
mated cost is $52,000.
McLoughlin Woodshop
Renovate the existing Mc
Loughlin woodshop and district
shop to be used for regular class
room instruction. The board pro
poses that the present woodshop
building be renovated for music
classes and that rooms now used
for music be assigned to regu
lar academic classes. The pres
ent district shop, which is in
adequate to serve district pur
poses, would be renovated for
a junior high woodshop. This is
the most economical way to care
for needed classroom space and
services, members noted. Esti
mated cost is $14,000.
In addition to the seven proj
ects, equipment is estimated to
cost $112,000, and legal fees
will require another $5,000.
The total is $1,786,000.
Planned for next school year
are science, shop, homemaking
and five or six classrooms at
Medford High school; basic unit
of probably 10 classrooms on the
Grand ave. elementary school
site, one unit of eight classrooms
on the Siskiyou blvd. elemen
tary school site, and West Side
and Roosevelt renovation and
addition; and construction of a
district shop, warehouse and
school bus shop.
Board members pointed out
that if enrollments did not war
rant additional space in 1959-60,
construction would be post
poned until it was needed. Tax
payers, he noted, would be pay
ing only for those buildings
renovated or constructed.
No work is planned immedi
ately at the junior high schools
unless increased enrollment
would require additional rooms
at McLoughlin Junior High.
Relieve Classroom Needs
The board anticipated that the
proposed program will relieve
new classroom needs in all
schools for a number of years
with the exception of a few class
room additions.
Architects have been instruct
ed by board members to design,
select and use economical con
struction materials that will re
sult in a low cost building with
all non-essentials eliminated. Lo
disrupt family vacations, which
usually are scheduled to coincide
with the school calendar. It also
would create a loss of income to
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Matter of Fact by
ZHUKOV'S NEW LEVER
Warshaw If Marshall Tito of
Yugoslavia is correct, both the
most vital levers of power in
Soviet Union
are already in
the hands of
Marshall Zhu
k o v. Always
assuming Tito
is right, there
fore, Nikita S.
Khrush c h e v
must now be
regarded
Joseph Alsop
as probably
holding his high post almost on
sufferance.
Such is the necessary mean
ing of a remarkable piece of in
formation confidentially passed
on by the Yugoslavs to the
Poles, as can now be revealed,
at the recent Belgrade meeting
between Tito and Wladyslaw
Gomulka.
The Yugoslavs stated that
substantive control of the
K.G.B., or Soviet Commission of
State Security, had been ac
quired at the beginning of Au
gust by the Soviet Ministry of
Defense for which read Mar
shall Zhukov. This new develop
ment may not sound enormously
significant to the Western read
er unfamiliar with the strange
Soviet power structure.
But in fact the K.G.B. is none
other than the somewhat di
minished inheritor of the ruth
less Czarist Okhrana, of Lenin's
grim Cheka, and of the succes
sive blood-stained police organi
zation of Joseph Stalin, the
G.T.U., the N.K.V.D., and last
but not least, the M.G.B. of the
unlamented Lavrenti Beria.
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EN Beria was liquidated,
the terrible powers of the
Soviet police were somewhat
pruned; at the same time, Be
ria's ministry, the M.G.B., was
downgraded to a commission,
the K.G.B. Shares in the new
organization were also parcelled
out, as you might say, among
the various leading personali
ties and factions in the Kremlin.
The famous Gen. Serov, wide
ly regarded as close to Khru
shchev, was named to head the
K.G.B., but the key posts in his
organization were so divided
that everyone of importance in
the Kremlin was safeguarded
against everyone else of import
ance. If the Yugoslavs are cor
rectly informed, this "collec
tive" control of the police has
now broken down in favor of
Marshall Zhukov.
Gen. Serov still heads the
K.G.B., as Nikita S. Khrushchev
still serves as the effective So
viet chief of state. But behind
Serov, always assuming the
Yugoslavs are correct, there is
now a police organization ac-
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schools are impossible under
present conditions in view of the
small size of most the classrooms,
If it were possible, the board
said it would be "educationally
disastrous" to overload teachers,
The cost of operating a double-
shift would be high since it
Joseph Alsop
tually dominated by Zhukov
and the Ministry of Defense. In
this case, in turn, the real power
in the Soviet state structure is
now very largely concentrated
in the hands of Marshal Zhukov.
jHRUSHCHEV has the
authority for public pur
poses. He no doubt also retains
effective control of the Commu
nist party apparatus. But in any
showdown, the Party apparatus,
sacred, anointed but unarmed,
cannot hope to outweigh the
combination of the police and
the armed forces.
Much is the inward meaning
of this really astonishing piece
of information. There is circum
stantial evidence that the real
source was Nikita S. Khru
shchev himself, who met Mar
shall Tito at Bucharest at the
end of the first week in 'August.
But even if one assumes . that
Khrushchev told Tito that Mar
shall Zhukov now had substan
tive control of the K.G.B. as
well as the armed forces, one
must still wait for the statement
to be tested by events.
One must also note, however,
that this intensely significant
report is a quite logical sequel
of past developments. For the
earlier threads of the story, one
must go to Vienna, as this re
porter has done. What is to be
discovered there is both fasci
nating and meaningful.
In brief, after Stalin sent Mar
shall Zhukov into postwar exile
in Odessa, most of the members
of Zhukov's wartime staff who
had been personally closest toj
the fallen Marshall were picked
up and imprisoned by Beria's
police. Among them were two
Majors, low in rank but very
close to Zhukov, Vassiliev, who
had been Zhukov's personal
aide de camp in Berlin, and
Nekhrassov, who had occupied
another confidential post. After
Zhukov's fall, Vassiliev was ac
tually sent to mine number 8 at
Vorkuta.
TUT after Stalin's death, both
Vassiliev and Nekhrassov
were released. And after Beria's
fall, Nekhrassov was given the
M.V.D. Troop Command which
is the most important operation
al agency attached to the K.G.B.
And Vassiliev in turn was given
command of the Department of
Special Political Investigation of
Important Cases that is really
its title which is the key org
anization within the M.V.D.
Troop Command.
These facts are vouched for
by two reliable Austrian veter
ans of the Soviet prison camps.
One of them, a Vienna publish
er, Hans Baumert, pretened con
version to Communism in order
to escape the rigors of Stalin's
police. He was fully trained,
thereafter, for a work as a Sov
iet secret police agent in Eur
ope. As a member of the Soviet
secret police organization, Bau
mert actually saw Vassiliev in
his new office in Moscow's Lub
yanka Prison. He also heard of
ficially of Nekhassov's appoint
ment to head the M.V.D. Troop
Command.
The other Austrian, Dr. Rafael
Spann, the son of the respected
Viennese professor, spent two
long days with Vassiliev on a
train taking them both from
the Vorkuta mines to new pris
ons in western Russia. This was
before Stalin's death. To Spann,
Marshal Zhukov's ex-aide de
camp spoke bitterly and frank
ly, saying in effect that Stalin
must die one day; that Zhukov
would then become the strong
est man in the Soviet Union; and
that all those close to Marshal
Zhukov believed he meant to
take political power and to use
political power when his chance
came.
THE evidence of Vassiliev
and Spann casts an interest
ing light on the familiar theory
that Marshal Zhukov is just a
simple military man with no
interest in any political position.
The same sort of light is cast on
the same theory by practical
examination of the results of
the successive political convul
sions in the Soviet Union since
Stalin died.
Marshal Zhukov played a de
cisive role in at least two of
these convulsions, the Beria
crisis and the attempt to dis
place Khrushchev last June.
After all these convulsions, Zhu
kov has always emerged with
his standing and power consid
erably increased. After the June
crisis, he could justly claim that
he and he alone had saved
Khruschev from his enemies.
Thereafter, Zhukov publicily be
came the first man ever to be
elected to the ruling Soviet
Presidium who had not risen
through the sacred ranks of the
Party apparatus.
But was it not logical that
there should also be a private
sequel?
Prior to the June crisis, the
defeated faction in the Soviet
I Presideum might certainly have
cal products, materials, and labor
are to be given primary consid
eration, the board said.
Because of increased enroll
ments,' the school district has
more children than it has class
rooms to care properly for them
on the basis of state standards.
There are 206 students more than
the standard rated capacity of
920 of Medford High school. The
1,126 students this year are the
largest high school enrollment in
the school's history. By school
year 1962-63 the enrollment is
anticipated at 1,438, or 341 stu
dents more than the rated ca
pacity. Junior High Increase
There will be a large increase
in junior high school grades
starting in 1958-59, when the
largest sixth grade class in the
school's history graduates to the
seventh grade.
However, the board said the
two junior high schools will be
able to handle the increase, if
the fifth and sixth grade classes
now using 10 rooms and other
facilities at Hedrick can be
moved to another school. Minor
renovations and changes at Mc
Loughlin also will add classroom
space.
Anticipated enrollment in jun
ior highs next year will be 1,364.
The present student capacity of
both schools is 1,703, based on
state standards.
The elementary enrollment ex
ceeds classroom space by 439
students this year, if the fifth
and sixth grade pupils were re
moved from Hedrick to make
room for junior high students.
The shortage will increase to 616
students by 1962-63 school year,
the board noted.
Basis For Figures
Enrollments and classroom
shortages are based on students
now residing in the school dis
trict. If more students continue
to move into the district than
move out, as they have in the
past, the problem will become
more acute, the board pointed
out.
The growth of the district is
reflected in enrollments. In 1947,
it was 3,314, and in 1957 it is
5,554, a gain of 2,240 in 10 years.
Based on children now residing
in the district, enrollment will
increase in five years to 6,394.
For the first time in the history
of Medford schools, there are
more than 500 students enrolled
in every grade one through six.
There are 278 high school seniors
who will be graduated this year,
compared to the 544 first grade
students enrolled this year.
Three Alternatives
The board listed three alter
natives which might be used in
stead of constructing new build
ings and additions. But all three
were felt to be unsatisfactory, it
said. The alternatives are:
(1.) To operate schools on a
double-shift program, (2.) to op
erate the schools on a 12-month
year and thus increase their use
by 25 per cent, or (3). to increase
class loads.
Disadvantages to the three al
ternatives are:
1. Operating on a double-shift
basis deprives the pupil of half
his schooling; six hours of school
work cannot be crowded into a
half a day; it would tend to in
crease the delinquency problem
since half the students would be
out of school half the day; and it
would deprive pupils of almost
all special activities which are
accepted as a significant part of
the school program.
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2. The 12-month year would
their own men in the "collec
tive" K.G.B. After the June
crisis, there could be no place
any longer for Molotov or Kag
anovich or Malenkov men in
the Commission of State Secur
ity. What could have .been more
natural than for Zhukov to re
quest that the vacated places
should go to Defense Ministry
nominees, thus acquiring sub
stantive control of the K.G.B.?
And in the circumstances, what
request could have been more
difficult for Khrueshchev to re
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would be necessary to put two
shifts of teachers, additional cus
todial and maintenance service
crews at work instead of one.
Prescribed Standards
The school district must main
tain the minimum prescribed
standards or present a plan for
achieving the standards in order
to qualify for state financial as
sistance for operational purposes.
State funds cannot be taken
away from a school district, but
they can be withheld until quali
fications are met.
Since state funds will pay for
about 28 to 30 per cent of the
operating costs of the Medford
schools, it would mean a corres
ponding increase in taxes of
about 15 mills if state aid were
withdrawn or withheld.
There is no evidence to indi
cate that either the federal or
state government will grant
funds for school house construc
tion. The board noted that the
state does have limited funds
available for certain distressed
districts, but Medford does not
qualify for the assistance. In
comparison to other districts,
Medford is ranked as one of the
most able of the larger districts
in the state to support its school
program.
Assessed Valuation
The assessed valuation of
school district 549C is $34,555,-
728.22, an increase of more than
$5 million since 1955-56. The in
crease was largely due to annex
ation and consolidation with
Oak Grove, West Side, Kenwood
and Dewey.
The net bonded debt of the
district June 30, 1957, was $1,
819,488.46. The total maximum
limit for bonding the district is
$7,103,121.91. The present bond
ing margin left is $5,283,633.45.
Thus the district is bonded to
25 per cent of its limit.
The existing bond principal
and interest payment for the
school year 1958-59 will be $158,
966.88, a reduction of $41,360, or
1.2 mills, less than this year.
Medford has the lowest total
school levy in the county. The
special levy is 42.5 mills, and the
school bond levy iS: 1.8 mills, for
a total of 44.3. The school bond
levy was reduced 4 mills this
year by use of O and C funds
granted districts for bond pay
ments. Annexations and consolida
tions did not cause additional
building needs in Medford, the
board pointed out.
Admitted Students
Medford has admitted junior
high and high school students
from all the districts now a part
of the district for more than 30
years. Elementary studentsfrom
Dewey and Kenwood have at-1
tended Medford schools for the
same length of time. Oak Grove
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and West Side schools, the board
noted, will be able to handle
their students in grades one
through six for a few years un
less there is a large increases in
those districts.
The board studied the idea of
using the same plans used for
the new Jefferson school for the
two new proposed elementary
schools. Contractors agreed that
plans for one building cannot ef
ficiently and successfully be used
on another site unless the phys
ical conditions are nearly ident-
i ical. This situation does not exist
on the two proposed sites, the
board noted.
Depend On Assessed Value
If bonds are approved, the
amount of increase in taxes will
depend upon the assessed value
of the property. The estimated
bond payments, including prin
cipal and interest, would average
about $138,000 per school year,
the board noted. This would be a
gross increase of 3.9 mills on the
present evaluation of $34,555,
728.22. Present bond payments will
decrease next year an estimated
$41,000 below the average pay
ments the past several years. The
net increase of taxes for bonds,
interest and principal, would be
about 2.7 mills on assessed value.
As the value of the district in
creases, the amount assessed for
bond principal and interest on
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a home would decrease. This,
however, does not include costs
of operation, salaries, supplies,
equipment and other essentials
in the district. If the latter in
crease, the total tax load will
increase accordingly, the board
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