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. Any Jackson county
library patron is entitled to
use the Phoenix library, and
Jackson county readers are
especially invited to do so
by Mrs. Furry while the head
quarters library at Medford
is closed, Sept. 1 to 15.
Books ai your Medford pub
lic library can help you with
your home fix-up and paint
up problems.
Did you know that you can
telephone the Medford library
for information and assistance?
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