Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 25, 1958, Image 14

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Newspaper Page TextFOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. February 25, 1958 Problem of Merging Oregon's School Districts Under Way By DICK HUMPHREY United Presi Correspondent : Salem IW The next 14 months should pretty much settle the fate of the little red school house in Oregon. In all the state's 35 coun ties, nine-member committees ire tackling the difficult problem of moulding 778 op erating school districts into about one-third that number of new administrative dis tricts. At least that's the hope of most of Oregon educators and the intent of the school reor ganization act passed by the 1957 Legislature. Superintendent of Public Instruction Rex Putnam and Dennis Patch, who heads the Board of Education reorgan ization effort, both agree the county committees are taking to their tasks with intelli gence and very little emo tionalism. These committees have un til April of 1959 to examine their local school districts, hold public hearings and come up with a reorganization plan which will meet Board of Ed ucation approval. Oregon citizens will get a progress report from the com mittees in March. In general, the purpose of the 1957 law is to create new administrative districts that will provide both elementary and high school education. The new districts will incor porate all districts within their borders and may even cross county lines if this will create a better economic or social unit. The idea is to divide the state into the most logical districts to provide the best possible education. Actually, consolidations have been going "on in Ore con for some time. In 1940 there were 2,000 school dist ricts as compared with 778 now. But the 1957 act for the first time puts some pressure on the counties to consolidate and forces, first of all, a lo cal examination of school dis tricts by local people. The composition of the county committees is largely rural farmers and lumber men which 'should allay somewhat fears of the State Grange that reorganization will destroy the little red school house and put all the children on buses to a distant school Naturally, many small dis- Does your car need an auxiliary gas tank? l Rambler's first in sales gains up 81. Reasons: Rambler 6 with overdrive holds three official NASCAR Economy Records less than le" a mile for gasoline. Smart new styling. Highest resale value. Easiest driving, parking. Get the only car that gives you the best of both: American big car room and comfort, plus European small car economy and handling ease. fie. American Molon Means More for Americans LEA MOTORS Bartlett ot 5th - Medford tricts will disappear, but ed ucators don't expect too much opposition because small rur al districts have a difficult time meeting state building standards and finding quali fied teachers. The Board of Education hopes that county committees will plan so that no small dis tricts are left out in the cold so every pupil will be educa ted relatively close to home. upponents of. reorganiza tion will have a chance to speak up at hearings before county committees and later may protest to the Board of Education. Most complicated feature of the 1957 law. is its election formula. This provides for an elec tion in the proposed new dist rict after the county reorgan ization plan has been approv ed by the board. If a majority in the new district favor it, it will be formed. If at least 60 per cent of the voters oppose it, forma tion is delayed 30 days while the opposing district tries to gather the names of half of the voters who voted in the first election. Second Election Possible If petitioners are success ful, another election is held and a majority vote against the administrative district would keep the opposing dis trict out. Otherwise the ob jecting district is in. If the opposing district holds out, another election will be held for consolidation without the opposing district. This must also get Board ap proval. Finally, if the entire pro posed administrative district is opposed to consolidation, another election can be held a year later. Once created the new dis trict would be governed by a seven-member board with each director coming from a different zone of the district except in the larger cities of Portland, Salem and Eugene where zoning would not be re quired. W vJ r i 4 SWALLOWING nuts, bolts in bizarre attempt at suicide, Jack Soble, 54, jailed Soviet spy, is reported recovering in New York hospital after surgery. " (International) Gisele MacKenzie Marries Manager Las Vegas, Nev. IIP) Sing er Gisele MacKenzie and her manager, R o b e rt Shuttle worth, 44, were married Mon day in the 'Presidential Suite of the Flamingo Hotel. The couple flew to this gambling resort from Holly wood Sunday night, took out marriage license at the round-the-clock bureau and were wed by District Judge Frank McNamee about two hours later. The wedding climaxed a six-year romance of the 31- year-old songstress and Shut tleworth, who has been her manager for 12 years. This was Gisele s first marriage. Shuttleworth was divorced in Toronto, Canada, in 1950. The average haul of bitu minous coal is 289 miles. Man Trapped for 8 Hours in Well Cave-in Rescued Cambridge City, Ind. OP) Rescue workers digging carefully with spoons freed a 42-year old man trapped for eight hours Sunday when a well cave-in buried him to his armpits. The situation was so deli cate that state police re-routed highway traffic away from the area for fear vibrations would loose more gravel on the nearly buried man. Wilbur (Pete) Harold was caught 16 feet below the sur face when the sides of the well caved in as he was dig ging for a broken drill point in the basement of his home in nearby East Germantown. His helpers, Paul Stone and Park Sourbeer, alerted police and about 100 rescue workers rushed to the scene. Oxygen Used A barrel-like structure was placed over Harold to pre vent him from being buried alive by falling gravel, and oxygen was administered throughout the long ordeal. . Because of the narrow size of the hole, only one man at a time could dig, and the cramp ed workman had to be re lieved every half-hour. The rescuers used a small spoon about four inches in diameter to painstakingly scoop away the gravel. The dirt was placed in a five-gallon can and hoisted to the top of the well. Concrete blocks which Harold had used to line the well collapsed in the cavein and had to be removed. . .'' Rescuers said Harold re mained in good spirits throughout the operation. He was hospitalized for a check up, but physicians said he ap parently suffered no ill ef fects except for shock. Rubber consumption in the U. S. amounts to about 20 pounds per person each year which is far more . than the world average of only about one pound per person each year. . English Pull Strangler on Facia While We Merely Pull Choke on Dash By EVERETT R. IRWIN United Press Correspondent Chicago (IP) Should an English - speaking motorist pull the choke on the dash panel of his sedan or the strangler on the facia of his saloon? And when he's meeting an automobile (or motor car, if you please) at night, does he touch his foot to the dimmer or the dipper? Two Englishmen and an American bandied about the vocabulary of motoring and wound up wondering if they speak the same language. James S. Lewis, an auto mobile editor for a Chicago newspaper, touched off the friendly battle of words. He complained that while driving an English-made car last week he had to pull off Chicago's outer drive and check the manual before he could decide whether to set the heater lever at "screen" or "boost." He discovered that "boost" means "fuli blast" and that "screen directs warm air xo the "wind-screen" for "de misting." "The windscreen is the windshield and the demister is the defroster" Lewis wrote. "Why can't the English learn to speak?" Defends Mother Tongue Hugh Dempster, British ac tor, and Gordon Q. Evison, commercial consul for Great Britain here, came to the de fense of the mother tongue today. "We use a demister when we get in a motor car after a party and . breathe heavily," Dempster said. "A defroster is a heating machine that takes away frost from the out side." Lewis admitted the reason ing was logical. "Excellent for England," he added. "But look outside and you'll see why we Americans use' defroster." Outside the snow was heap ed two feet high and the mer cury shivered at 10 above zero. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS New York Former President Truman, replying to a GOP senator's statement that Truman should work for bi partisanship in the conduct of foreign affairs: "The bipartisanship policy I left the Republicans has been largely disrupted by them. They haven't been able to completely ruin it. but they sure have tried hard enough." Chicago Grover C. Hall Jr., editor in chief of the Mont gomery (Ala.) Advertiser, in charging that Northern politi- j cians "caterwaul about Jim Crow" in the South, but fail to deal with it in their own back yards: ! "Your Illinois politicians caterwaul about Jim Crow in j Montgomery. Ala., but grapple not with the fact that . . . j there is more residential segregation in Chicago than in : Montgomery." , Hollywood Italian glamor girl Sophia Loren, in saying ! that American beauties are all carbon copies of Marilyn . Monroe: "American girls have imitated her shamelessly They all ' look the .same long blonde hair, eyes closed and mouths j hanging open. It's a phony sex appeal." t . ry. 1 . j.a.e your word conver tible'," Dempster said. "Con vertible to what? We say 'drophead'." It's so much more descriptive. That's what hap pens, isn't it? The head drops." Christian Danker, English automobile representative in the Midwest, put in a shilling's worth. "The Englishman says he has a strangler in his saloon" Denker said. "An American says he has a choke in his sedan." Lewis turned up his nose at "saloon." Tavern or Sedan "Horrors," he said. "Would you refer to this tavern as a sedan?" Dempster moved front and center. "Come what may, we're going to stick to our 'bonnet' (for hood) and 'booster' (for fan) and 'boot,' " (for trunk) he said. "You call a boot a trunk," he snorted. "I looked it up. A trunk is an elephant's proboscis. And how can you put your trunk in a trunk?" Lewis said Americans pre fer to put boots in their tires. "Those things?" Dempster scoffed. "They're" gaiters. Same shape as the gaiters worn on one's leg." Evison said the English prefer "facia" to dash panel or dashboard. "A dashboard is a splash board," he said. He said the British are picking up some American expressions, like "automa- with a smile, tion" to "make the language crisper." : "And we must permit you a litte deviation from the pure mother tongue," he conceded BUSINESS COLL ANNUAL Homecom Open House March 21... 4 p.m. -7 p.m. you are invited! A 1122 S.W. STARK ST. PORTLAND, OREGON CA 3-3137 a...miwra Wall Street Experts Rig Interpretations In Style of Greeks Elmer Walzer "Frankly, We USe a lot Of fuel," reports Mrs. Rudy Liniger, 1303 E. Lynn, Seattle. "But then we're h'eating a three-level, 14 -room house. We're convinced that Standard" Heating Oils give us more for our money than any other type fuel or we'd certainly heat some other way. We lite Housewarmer service, too they seem to take a personal interest in our heating problems." i Call your Housewarmer today K7 STANDARD HEATING OILS FABER FUEL CO. VALLEY FUEL CO. I 26 West Main Phone SP 3-1576 401 South Fir STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA Phone SP 2-4119 Ey ELMER C. WALZER United Press Financial Editor New York (IP) The Del phic Oracle of the ancient Greeks was an expert on dou ble talk, sub tly done so that it was al ways right. Wall Street experts, skim ming over re cent develop ments, have rigged up some fancy in t e rpretations of current items, Delphic Or acle style. These interpretations are good or bad, according to the way you feel about them. Their listing explains some of the' confusion in the market place. Here are a few: Sharp rise in the short in terest to nearly 4,000,000 shares good, because that stock represents I potential purchasing power;', bad be cause the short sales repre sent a vote of lack of confi dence in the market Cut in Federal Reserve re quirements to pump. S3 billion credit into the economy Good because it provides funds for business; not good because it doesn't make cred it demand any greater. Crude Oil Cuts Needed Cuts in crude oil process ing Excellent to help get rid of top-heavy inventories of petroleum products; bad for crude oil producers. Cuts in oil imports Excel lent for domestic crude oil producers; bad for interna tional trade and foreign rela tions. Cold weather and heavy snows Wonderful for sellers of fuel oil, gas, coal and elec tricity; bad for retail trade, construction, railroads, etc. Tax cut Good for general economy; bad because it would indicate -the recession was worse than most people had thought. ' ' Industrial output down to 133 per cent of the 1947-49 Local Man Injured When Horse Fails Richard Sturgill, 30, of route 3, box 68C, was report ed in good condition at the Rogue .Valley hospital Mon day noon after he was in jured Sunday when a horse he was riding fell on him. Sturgill was taken to the hospital by Medford Ambu lance service about 1:15 p.m., according to officials. . He suffered undetermined in juries. The accident took place at Hillcrest Orchards. average Good because it means industry is curtailing to work off inventories; bad for the five million unem ployed. Failed During New Deal Era Government make -work schemes Good for increas ing employment and helping recovery; bad because these things never worked in new deal days. Population increase Good for consumer, purchases and higher production; bad, never helped China or India. Consumer credit decline Good because people are get ting bills paid and getting ready to make new purchas es; bad because it indicates lack, of consumer confidence. The one thing that could be said about all of the forego ing is that they are in the news and everybody knows all about them whether good or bad. What this stock market needs for a real boost is some unexpected and very favora ble development. You can't predict the unexpected. 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Regular 2.98 each, Now ' PRICE BOYS' SLIPPER SOX-leather or catspaw soles, sizes 7-10 Regular to 2.98 Now 1.88 BOYS' LEATHER GLOVES-Small, medium only Fur lined, Regular 3.95-Now 2.49 -Fleece lined, Regular 2.95 Now 1.88 f BARGAIN TABLE! CHILDREN'S APPAREL! DRESSES, SKIRTS, BLOUSES. ALL V2 PRICE! ODDS AND ENDS Sizes From 1-14 House and then in the Senate.