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(District 549C Patrons to
Vote obi Budget Tuesday
Voters of School District
849C (Medford) Will be ask
ed to vote on the district's
1958-59 budget next Tuesday.
Each year since 1946 the
budget has been presented to
the voters, to approve the
amount over the 6 per cent
limitation. This is necessary
because the constitution pro
vides that a budget more than
6 per cent over a district's
tax base must be approved
by the voters, and the tax
base has long been far too
small to provide for the need3
of the growing district.
Estimated expenditures for
1958-59 total $2,525,441.17
compared with S2.329.765. 89
Tn 1957-58. Estimated receipts
tor next year total $1,007,-
035.85, making $1,518,405.33
the amount necessary to bal
ance the budget.
Adding the amount of $93,
358.21 estimated not to be
collected In taxes, the total
estimated tax for 1958-59
would be $1,613,763.54. Sub
tracting tlje tax needs within
the six per cent limitation,
$453,757.31, and the amount
not affected by the limita
tion, $162,923.44, leaves the
$997,082.79 outside the six
per cent limitation which
must be approved by voters.
The total budget for the
coming year is $195,675.28
larger than the one for the
current year. But the net
amount to be raised by local
property taxes is only $38,-
534.34 more than this year.
The difference is accounted
for by an increase in other
income, largely from a higher
payment from the state basic
school support fund.
Reasons for the increase,
and an analysis of the budget
generally, have been pre
pared by school officials,
members of the district board
and budget committee and
officers of the local Parent-
Teacher association.
Budget Influences
"The school budget," they
aid, "influences the type and
kind of teachers a system
has; the type and amount of
equipment; the conditions and
maintenance of buildings; and
types and kinds, of teaching
aids, reference materials, li
brary books, textbooks, and
all the other Items needed
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in a moaern educational pro
gram." Major factors causing the
Increase are larger enroll
ment, more teachers, rising I
costs of supplies and equip
ment, higher salaries of em
ployees and increased trans
portation costs.
Last year's comparable en
illment was 5,362; this
year's, 5,600; and next year's
expected, 5,825. The system
is taking in about twice as
many first grade students as
there are graduating seniors.
Twenty-two additional
teachers will be needed next
year to relieve excessive over
loading and to staff new
schools.
Enrollment Statistics
Enrollment statistics for the
system indicate there are
3,120 pupils and 108 teachers
in the eight grade schools;
l,320pupils and 58 teachers
in the two junior highs; and
1,160 students and 50 teach
ers in the senior high.
The teacher's salary sched
ule is essentially the same
in Medford, Klamath Falls
and Grants Pass for 1958-59
and is comparable to sched
ules of most other districts.
Increases in school costs
are duo largely to "non-controllable"
factors, such as in
creased number of pupils; ris
ing cost of necessary services,
supplies and equipment in or
der to maintain a minimum
standard program; and in
creased demand on schools by
community and state,
an estimated 50 per cent in
anestimated 50 Fer cent in
cost in the past five years.
School supplies were estimat
ed to have risen 6.5 per cent
this ear; art supplies eight
per cent this year; and school
furniture, an average of four
per cent a year the past four
y-ars.
Maintenance Supplies
Maintenance supplies were
up an average of eight per
cent in 1956, seven per cent
in 1957 and 7:5 per cent in
1958.
- Sixty-nine per cent of the
cost cf operating Medford
schools is paid through local
property taxes, with 25 per
cent more coming from the
state, 1 per cent from the
federal government and five
per cent from the county
school fund.
Medford's school tax rate
of 44.3 mills is among the
lowest in the state, compared
with other districts of sim
ilar size, and is the lowest
among first class districts in
the county.
Estimates of actual tax irK
creases for property owners
as a result of the proposed
budget also were included in
the report.
Example Cited
The owner of property with
a market -alue of $5,000
would pay an estimated in
crease of S5.38 for the year;
S7.000, $7.53; $10,000, $10.75;
S15.000, S16.13; S20.000, $21.
50; and $35,000, S37.63.
The estimates are high, and
would be more accurate by
multiplying the assessed value
from the tax notice by 4.3
mills, or .0043.
Costs for schools have in
creased an average of 12 per
cent or more each year, while
the tax base could only in
crease six per cent. The mill
age rate this year of 44.3
compares with 45.2 in the pro
posed budget for next year.
The .9 mill increase does
not include an estimated 3.4
mill increase in tax rates
which will be assessed against
Medford school district tax
payers as their share of the
new county equalization
formula for financial support
of schools within Jackson
county.
New Formula
Briefly, the report states,
the new formula is based
upon equalizing one-half of
approved operation costs of
county public schools.
Members of he budget
committee stated that the rec
ommendations made in the
Medford budget have been
reviewed "item by item by
the school staff and adminis
trators, and by members of
the school board and budget
commmittee." Dr. D. Kirk
land West is committee chair
man. "Medford students -have
consistently rated among top
graduates and performers
in competition with other
schools of the state," the com
mittee said. "This success can
in a major way be attributed
to the exceptional education
al opportunities offered our
students by the people of
Medford." ;
Other Members
Other committee members
are Robert Cunningham, sec
retary, and Sara Fay Puhl, P.
G. Humphreys, R. C. Taylor,
Frank C. Bash, William A.
Barker, Edward Branchfield,
Otto Ewaldsen ar?d Keith
Hockersmith.
. Polling places at McLough
lin junior highfeoys gym and
KIWANIANS HONOR DENTISTS Dr. John Dickson, left,
president-elect of Southern Oregon District Dental Society,
receives plaque from Bill Singler, Medford Kiwanis club
president, honoring Jackson county dentists who participate
in the Kiwanis sponsored clinic. Individual dentists contrib
ute one-half day per month free of clarge giving care to
youngsters who otherwise could not afford, to have work
done on their teeth. The clinic, in operation since .mid-March,
is located in the county courthouse and has handled more
than 350 appointments since it opened. Dentists were guests
of Kiwanians last week at their noon luncheon at Rogue
Valley Country club.
Tuttle Honored by
Area Pear Growers
Shelby Tuttle, retiring man
ager of Southern Oregon
Sales, was honored at a lunch
eon last week at the Rogue
Valley Country cb.
More than 40 industry refP
resentatives, civic officials
and area businessmen saluted
Tuttle as an effective com
munity leader for the past
37 years. The special testi
monial luncheon was planned
by his associates in the Med
ford Pear Shippers associa
tion. Tuttle was presented an
embossed leather binder con
taining telegrams, cards and
letters from hundreds of his
friends and . associates who
had learned of his planned
retirement.
Makes Presentation
Making theO presentation
was Raymond Reter, Medford,
president of the International
Apple association and person
al friend of Tuttle since he
Hedrick junior high school
cafeteria will be open from
2 to 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Any person 21 years of age
or over, who has lived in the
district six months, and who
has registered at least 30 days
before the election may vote.
arrived in the Rogue valley
in 1921.
In tracing the chronological
highlights of Shelby Tuttle's
career, Reter related some
personal and family history
facts and anecdotes concern
ing Tuttle and then reviewed
his association with the pear
industry.
The Tuttle family moved to
the Rogue Valley in 1921,
after his discharge from the
U.S. Army and acquired the
old Washburn Orchard.
In 1926 Tuttle was named
as assistant manager of South
ern Oregon Sales when that
organization was formed. He
became manager in 1934 and
has been active in that ca
pacity until his recent retire
ment. He will be retained in a
consulting capacity by S.O.S.
even after his formal retire
ment, according to company
spokesmen.
FAINTED TOO SOON
Batesville, Ark. (UPI)
Mrs. Robert Anderson heard
a judge sentence her husband
to three years in prison for
receiving stolen property.
Then she fainted.
She missed the judge say
ing, "but I'm going to sus-
Vision Is Learnable,
Lecturer Tells Group
The age of gadgets and
push buttons has done much
to deprive today's children of
the visual advantages and
benefits gained through the
doing of chores about the
home and the many things
for oneself that were part of
everyday living for our fath
ers and grandfathers." -
This statement by Dr. Ed
mund F. Richardson, interna
tionally known lecturer from
Hollywood, Calif., and direct
or of study groups for the
Optometric Extension pro
gram, in addressing members
of the Southern Oregon Op
tometric Society, keynoted a
post-graduate conference re
cently. "The binocular oo-ordina-tion
so necessary for the maxi
mum and efficient use of vis
ion in school to gain mean
ing from the printed word is
developed by children through
Episcopalians
Honor Bishop
Portland (UPI) Episco
palians in Oregon Wednesday
night honored their retiring
bishop, the Rt. Rev. Benja
min D. Dagwell, at 70 din
ners in parishes and missions
of the Diocese.
Bishop Dagwell, in an ad
dress over a 10-station net
work to the dinners, spoke to
about 30,000 persons. He said
he has confirmed 23,500 per
sons, or an average of more
than 1000 annually.
The bishop was presented
with a check for $11,174 by
Coadjutor Bishop James W.
F. Carman as "some recogni
tion of the love and apprecia
tion" of Oregon Episcopal
ians. Bishop Dagwell accept
ed the check "not as a per
sonal gift, but one that is go
ing into our work."
pend the sentence
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the experience gained by 'do
ing' for themselves..
"Over 80 per cent of the
teaching in the modern school
system is through the visual
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pathway, and vision is a total
bodily process that is learned
in the same way that walk
ing and talking are done. Be
cause vision is learned, it is
trainable.
"Furthermore," Dr. Rich
ardson said, "it is also time
that we took a good look at
the school classrooms to see
whether they are built ade
quately to sustain concentrat
ed vision over many hours of
time which, in itself, is a
highly unnatural thing in the
use of the eyes."
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