FOURTEEN 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-
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
Senator Carl Hayden, a
Democrat, has represented
Arizona ever since it became
state, 45 years ago, in the
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