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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1958)
Congress: Those Personal Letters By FRANK ELEAZER United Press Correspondent Washington ttPi The lighter side of Congress: It's getting where a voter hardly knows what to believe. Everywhere the old standards are crumbling. Take that per sonal letter you got from your congressman. Well, it was a personal let ter wasn't it. Sure looked like It anyway. Typed, not mass produced on a duplicator. Your name's at the top, hot off the same typewriter. And if that isn't the congressman's signature, he better see if somebody else is cashing his checks. Maybe so. But before you start trying to make charac ter around the neighborhood displaying your high - level mail, consider the machine age. Satellites aren't the only things those scientists- have been laboring at. Congress has provided each member not only a battery of plain old-fashioned typewrit ers and secretaries (neither plain nor old-fashioned) to run 'em; it also allows the mem bers their choice of other handy office devices. In the House, these may cost up to $2,500 per mem ber. The money can be blown all on one device, or spread around on half a dozen. A current favorite -at $2, 165 will do everything for the letter-writing member but sit on his lap while he thinks of something to say. Once he's over that hurdle, a pretty girl commits his effort to tape. The tape runs through a glorified or three-stage type writer, orbiting off hundreds of copies, stopping periodi cally to let the girl who doesn't actually have to be pretty fill in names and ad dresses as required. along with your name on it. But now, with atomic war heads and all, he said it isn't the one with your name on it you have got to be worried about, it's the one labeled "to whom it may concern." And that isn't the end. The end, naturally, is the con gressman's signature. And that he may, or may not, af fix himself. The latest thing on Capitol Hill is. the automatic letter signer. The congressman writes his name for the ma chine once. Thereafter, it takes pen in hand and signs for him. There is hope here. Eventu ally they may invent a ma chine to make speeches and "extend" in the Congression al Record speeches never ac tually made. Then, can we do away with congressmen altogether. Like Rep. Clarence Cannon (D-Mo.), who notes regularly that war, while still hell, has changed in other ways. Just this week he told the House it used to be that you didn't have to worry about getting hit, unfcl the bullet came Men's Beginning Volleyball and Exercise Class Begins Monday, Feb. 24 at 7:00 p.m. EVERY MONDAY 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Fee: $7.00 Swimming to Follow Gym Class For Further Information CH Y.M.C.A. 522 West 6th - SP 2-6295 And then there is Rep. Leon H. Gavin (R-Pa.), who recent ly visited West Berlin. There local officials showed him, with pride, their new Con gress Hall. Gavin, whose district is perhaps best known as the home of the Punxsutawney groundhog, was not im pressed. In his report to the House he said the edifice, built largely with American funds, looked to him like a ruptured butterfly. "It would seem that the design criteria came from a white silk top hat, placed crown down, and crushed in the middle with a strong, ver tical blow from a meat cleav er," reported traveler Gavin. Chairman John A. Blatnik (D-Minn.) canceled his "sub committee's hearings on tran quilizers this past snowy Mon day. Everything was too hectic, he indicated. Incidentally, the Blatnik subcommittee has received unofficial reports that the drug industry may bring out soon a new formula to counter the widespread use of tran quilizers. They plan to call it an ir r i t a n t, the subcommittee hears. , Medford Man Suffers Wounds in Quarrel Ellis Albert Thorpe, 1112 Sunset ave. Medford, was re ported in fair condition at Rogue Valley hospital Satur day morning following a family quarrel at his home Friday during which he was stabbed several times with a paring knife, authorities re ported. , Mrs. Helen Geneva Thorpe is being held in Jackson county jail on a charge of as sault with a dangerous wea pon, on request of District At torny Thomas Reeder, accord ing to sheriff's deputies and state police. Officials said Thorpe suffer ed cuts on the face and stab wounds in the chest. 549 Enrolled in Adult Education Classes in City A total of 549 people are enrolled in winter term classes of the adult education program sponsored by the Medford school district, ac cording to Lindsay M. Vinsel, director of adult and voca tional education at the school. The largest number, 189, are enrolled in general edu cation courses, which include Mathematics, conversatio n a 1 English, business letter writ ing, typing, bookkeeping, shorthand, public speaking and Spanish courses. Trade extension courses have 106 students. Courses include nurses' aide, blueprint reading, mechanical drawing, welding, elements of radio and casualty insurance. Homemaking. Courses Eighty-six persons are en rolled in homemaking courses, Vinsel noted. The courses in clude clothing, tailoring, lampshade making, millinery, and cake iecoration. Apprentice courses attract ed 43 students, there are 46 in college extension courses, and 79 in hobby classes. Ap prentice courses are brick layer, carpentry, inside wire man, optical technician, plumber, power lineman and sheetmetal, and college exten sion courses are juvenile de linquency, school law and or ganization and audio-visual aids. Hobby classes are radio workshop, art appreciation, photograph, rocks and min erals and driver training. The beginning typing class has 51 students, the greatest number enrolled in any one class, while Spanish I is sec-j ond with 31 students. Stu-' dents in other classes range downward to two in optical technician. EAST EVANS CREEK Sunday School Has Party By NELLIE BERGMAN East Evans Creek-Meadows The young people of the Meadows Sunday school had a class party at the Amos Maplesden home recently. Valentines was the theme. Saturday evening visitors at the Lloyd Beers home were Mr. and Mrs. William Daws and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Yocom of Medford and Mr. and Mrs. Stafford of Walla Walla, Wash. dren in the Sams Valley school. x Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bergman visited Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Wehl and family of Trail Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Emery Sting ley visited Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Stowall of Eagle Point recently- , B r y o n Coultesis feeling better after a recent illness of two weeks. Floyd Estes of Shady Cove visited Wednesday in the Meadows with friends. He formally lived here. - Mr. and Ms. Paul Mattison and daughters, Carolyn, visit ed in the Meadows Sunday. They are from Grants Pass. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Canady and children of Ashland and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Forten of Eagle Point visited Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Patterson of An tioch rd. Sunday. Milo Hanks of Lakeview, Ore., is the new owner of the Brim property ,in the Meadows. Mr. and Mrs. William Har ruff of Drew and Mrs. Harry Downey visited at the Carl Bergmans recently. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Ander son of Gardena, Calif., have purchased the Jim White and Savard properties and have moved in, and have their chil- 706 Students at SOC from Jackson Ashland Figures on the over 1,000 enrollment at Southern Oregon college ac cording to geographical distri bution show that a total of 706 students are from Jackson county, of the total, 454 are men and 252 women. A total of eight students are attending from foreign countries, including one each from Arabia, Chili, Germany, Korea, Philippines, and Yugo slavia and two from Japan. Other states and territories, including Alaska and Hawaii, have contributed 24 students to the 1002 enrollment; Oregon students number 970, revealing that the bulk of the student body has been attracted from this state, and more specifically from Har ney, Josephine, Klamath, Lake and Lane counties. Vacation visitors in New Hampshire spend an estimat ed 200 million dollars an nually the State Planning' and Development Commission reports. Sunday, February 23, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNETHREE Traveling Teacher Sets Visit at Phoenix High Phoenix Ernest Spafford, orte of 10 traveling science teachers, is scheduled to visit Phoenix High school during the week of March 3 to 7, school officials have an nounced. Spafford will present five lecture - demonstrations dur ing his five-day stayat Phoe nix High. He is to set up his equipment in one room and classes will come to the room to see the demonstration, offi cials said. They said this would be the only" school in Jackson county visited. About - 300 . students will view the demonstrations, each taking notes upon which they will be quizzed, officials ex plained. Math and science classes will be given first chance to take part in the special classes. Program Sponsored The program is sponsored by the National Science Foun dation and the Atomic Enger gy commission. The gas, oil and station wagon used by each teacher is donated by private industry. Each one of the 10 traveling teachers spent about-one-year in training before "going on the road". Most of the equip ment used in the special class es have been built by Spaf ford while studying at Oak Ridge last summer. Spafford will give' demon strations on space travel, atomic structure, solar ener gy, fission, math investigation, force, properties of matter and combustion, officials said. The Phoenix Parent Teach ers association will be given a demonstration by Spafford on Thursday, March 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the high school and the Phoenix Lions' club will be given a demonstration on Tuesday, Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m. Reserve Enlistments To Close March 7 y. Effective March 1 all en listments in the Army Reserve will be closed, according to William H. Naylor, command ing officer. He said men wishing to en list must do so before this date. Information is available by calling SPring 2-9295. OLD STORE -NO MORE! NEW STORE - VALUES GALORE! Yes, ACME Has RflQWIEnD- Out of the High Rent District! Conveniently Located at 245 South Central at 10th FREE PARKING While you shop at QUALITY At Lowest Prices! 2 II II II II I " i;mii,;i:iii I II II I I - X I SPECIALISTS IN HOMEWARES ! 245 South Central at 10th Phone SP 2-5201 Plans for Centennial Subject for Meeting Portland Plans for the British Columbia centennial will be discussed at a lun cheon March 15 at the Uni versity club here. 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