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Thursday, August 28, 1958 5 MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Big news is scary. So .Let's talk about little news today. Here's some little news: PRESIDENT EISENHOWER ; has signed into law a bill j giving to ex-Presidents pen- j sions of $25,000 a year and to ; widows of ex-Presidents pen sions of 510,000 a year. Four persons are now eli gible: , Former President Hoover. Former President Truman. Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt. Mrs. "Woodrow Wilson. The bill includes some trim mings such as office space, free mailing privileges and a staff of assistants. TTOW much will it cost? iA The IMMEDIATE cost Isn't very great. The two el igible ex-Presidents will cost us $50,000 a year in pension money. The two widows of ex. Presidents will cost us $20,- 000, making a total of $70,000. Ike will soon be eligible, add ing another $25,000. So let's lump the present pension total at $100,000. CAN we afford it? Let's see. Every billion dollars spent by the federal government costs each individual in the U.S.A. about $6. Each million dollars spent by the federal government costs each of us - about six-tenths of a cent. Each $100,000 costs each of us about six-hundredths of a cent. (This figuring is done with out benefit of an electronic brain, and the exact decimal points aren't guaranteed Mathematics isn't my special ty. But the figures aren't too far off. As one small taxpayer, I'm not going to kick about an error of a few hundredths of a cent one way or the other.) Personally, I'm willing to . put up my share of pensioning our ex-Presidents - and their widows. It isn't geing to break me, and I think they deserve a pension. An ex-President of the Unit ed States can NEVER AGAIN be an ordinary private citizen. All the rest of his life he will live in the white light that beats about the Presidency He can't make his living in the ordinary ways because throughout the rest of his life he will be inhibited by the traditions of the Presidency, Phoenix Library To Have Altered Hours Next Year In the Interests of better service and greater conven ience to readers the Phoenix branch of the Jackson county library system will operate on a slightly altered schedule during the next year, Mrs. Josephine Furry, Phoenix li brarian, has announced. The library will continue to be open on Monday after noons andTuesday eveiyngs, she said, but will now be open on Friday instead of on Thursday afternoons. This change in schedule will make it possible for bor rowers to visit the library at the time new book deliveries are made each month from li brary headquarters, to inspect the new titles received and to make special requests or to indicate special subject in terests for the guidance of headquarters librarians in se lecting titles for succeeding shipments. Volumes on Hand - The Phoenix library now has 681 catalogued volumes on hand, compared with the 496 volumes one year ago: and 2,327 books were circu lated during the previous year. As soon as shelving can be made available in ,the Phoenix city hall to take care of additional volumes, these will be supplied, accord ing to Jackson County Librar ian Helen Webster. The new schedule of the Phoenix library, as of Sept. 2, is Monday, 2 to 5 p.m., Tuesday, 7 to 9 p.m., and Fri day. 2 to 5 p.m. The library will be closed on the Labor Day holiday, Sept. 1. 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