4 Friday, January 16, 19S9
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Medford nd Jackson County
History from th files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 16, 1949 (Sunday)
The Mile O Dimes anti-
eolio project receives $250 in
donations in one afternoon's
solicitation on Central ave,
Rumors hint that the fed
eral fish and wildlife service
and park service are to be
asked for a re-evaluation of
the effects of Rogue river
dams upon fish, wildlife and
recreation. , . ,
20 YEAR3 AGO
Jan. 16, 1939 (Monday)
Two serious skiing acci
dents at - Crater Lake give
impetus to the winter sports
s a f e ty program instituted
there.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge P.ot" column: "'With
respect to the legislature, a
subscriber starts off letter
!to the editor. He then pro
:ceeds to peck off 800 words,
and "show none."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 16. 1929 (Wednesday)
Sites in Jackson county are
selected for beacon lights to
guide night flyers.
A Rogue River fish bill, is
Introduced into the state
legislature.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 16, 1919 (Thursday)
Medford and Ashland High
school boys enjoy a rough
free-for-all, climaxed by Med-
ford's victory parade through
the streets.
Dry officials seize a local
citizen's grip in hopes of dis
covering evil spirits, but find
only apples. .
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
even or eight is excellent; live or
six is good.
1. A . motherless calf in
range herd- is called a d.
2. Where are a cow's horns,
in relation to its ears?
' 3. For what is dwt an ab
breviation?
4. What did the dish . run
away with?
.5. Correct the following
'She has laid unconscious for
several hours."
6. In poetry, a sonnet has
how many lines?
7. Is Washington, D.C., the
capital, or the capital, of the
United States?
8. What word unquestion
ably containes all of the
vowels? -
9. In basebaU slang, what
is a bingle? ,
10. With what is the 16th
Amendment to the U. S. Cen-
stitution concerned?
Answers: 1. Doaie; 2. Just
above the ear; 3.- Penny-
weiaht; 4. The spoon; 5. "She
has lain . . .'; 6. Fourteen;
7. The capital; 8. Unquestion
ably; 9. A one-base hit; 10.
Income taxes.
TO HONOR DULLES
West Point, N.Y. -TCPD- Sec
retary of State John Foster
Dulles will be presented with
the second annual Sylvanus
Thayer award at Founders
day ceremonies here on March
20. The award is presented by
the U.S. Military .academy's
Association of Graduates to
the American who exempli
fies the West Point motto,
"Duty, Honor, ..Country."
It Will Pay Dividends
The news reported yesterday that the county
planning commission has
tion of a county paries
sion, and tnat tne .county court eviaenuy win
concur, is good news of major importance.
Jackson county now has a population esti
mated variously at between 68,000 and 72,000
persons. In addition, it
visitors each summer.
Recreational facilities,
quate to meet the demand. And with the growth
of population and of touring both of them
seemingly inevitable the inadequacies will be
even more marked unless steps are taKen to
increase the areas available and developed.
THE county already is in the parks and recrea
tion business. It has -assumed responsibility
for the administration of
Emigrant reservoir recreation sites, . which, are
going to be major ones, and there are other areas
for which it is now, or soon will-be, responsible.
The county court, burdened as it is with
mountains of administrative detail in its every
day business, should not have the additional
burden of investigating, recommending, or even
having primary administrative responsibility for
a parks and recreation department.
Neither should the
(although it should work
court and the new organization), for it too has
plenty to keep it busy. The fact that it recognizes
this, and recommends that the parks and recrea
tion function heretofore handled by one of its
own subcommittees be turned over to a new com
mission, is proof of the
'THERE will be some
development.
' But the fact remains that the demand is there,
v The "forest service,, despite manful efforts to
develop new forest camps and recreation areas,
cannot meet the demand. .
The state parks department, with limited
funds, cannot do the job
Private enterprise is
and recreation in the
speaking here.
CO RATHER than turning to Uncle Sam, or
the state, or to private enterprise which can't
and won't do the job, let us face the fact that it
is a county responsibility: that the job must be
done, and that it can
level where government' still is close to the
nponle it serves.
L . -
If the county acts
the acquisition of sites
already, gone), it will be
and a duty-to both residents, and visitors.
It need not be fabulously expensive, although
some county funds obviously will be needed.
And these funds, intelligently employed on
the advice of a separate
ommended, will pay big
in years to come. E. A.
Medford, Then, And Now
During this Centennial year, Oregonians are,
more and more, going
long-ago and more recent, of great interest
For instance,' Gene
some old files of his business the other day, and
found a letterhead in use sometime between 1900
and 1904 by Weeks &
store to Weeks and Orr.
Furmture Dealers and
: ' The reverse of the stationery was printed in
a description of Medford, "a live, growing city
of 3500 inhabitants "
JERE are excerpts:
"There are yet many thousand acres of govern
ment land which can be homesteaded, also timber
lands open for entry, and there are thousands of
acres of railroad land for sale on easy terms at reason
able prices.
"Prices of lands range from $40 to $150 per acre;
orchard lands from $100 to $500 per acre . . '.
"Carpenters wages are from $2.50 to $3, masons
$3 to $5, laborers $1.50 to $2.50 per day, farm hands
$25 to $45 per month. We have yet to see a thrifty,
energetic man without work in Medford or vicinity.
"We have a progressive, hustling, up-to-date, hos
pitable people, who cordially invite you to come and
investigate, assuring you that the many varied re
sources, advantages and charms of this favored valley
and climate will ever after bind you fast."
' Some things about this sound as though they
are far, far in the past. Others, on the other
hand, sounded as though they could have been
written for a Rogue Valley brochure of today.
Circumstances change, even in 50 years, bu
human nature, very little. E.A. .
"As Poor Richard Says...
On the 253rd anniversary of Benjamin Frank
lin s birth tomorrow, a few citizens will recall the
homespun maxims on thrift originally published
m his "F oor Richard s Alamanack."
"Spare and have is better than spend and crave."
. "He that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing."
"For age and want save while you may,
"No morning sun lasts the whole day."
"If you know how to spend less than you get, you
have the philosopher's stone."
In the latter days of
As poor Richard says
used to impress on the
of thrift. But in the more sophisticated atmos
phere of the present day, many of our legislators
and. not a few of our people seem to apply
Franklin s maxims in reverse.ji.Jt.K.
recommended the crea
and recreation commis-
is host to thousands 01
even today, are inade
the Howard Prairie and
planning commission
closely with both the
importance of the move.
complaints about such a
either;
not interested in parks
sense of which we are
.
best be done at a local
. i. ....
rapidly, particularly m
(many choice ones are
fulfilling an obligation
commission such as rec
dividends to the county
to find Oregon history,
Orr was going through
Baker, the predecessor
At that time they were
Undertakers."
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the American colonies
became a current phrase
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Washington Report
By WILLIAM
STRENGTH-AND WAITING
Washington - Soviet propa
ganda used to be effective in
this country mainly with
young m en
and women
who fancied
themselves to
be victimized
intellectuals -and
with
gangster types
who would
grab any old
vehicle to
power.
It was fair to say in those
days. that in the field of in
fluencing sensible people the
Soviet Union was an elephant
that could not dance.' But the
elephant can dance now; in
deed, he is dancing all over
the front pages and air over
the toes of our government.
This is the unpleasant truth
about the' visit of Soviet
Deputy Premier Anastas I.
Mikoyan. Whatever else he
may be doing here, he is
doing a folksy job of selling
the line that the Communists
are pretty good people, after
aU. '
TJERE he is grinning in a
Rimer market. -There h is
talking seriously to business-
men-and making some head
way with them. -Here he is
joking with. Hollywood
comedians and eyeing buxom
movie actresses with that
semi-respectful and manly
leer that our public expects
of important men confronting
such impressive womanly
charms.
Nearly every place he has
been he has hit just the right
note of appeal to Americans.
Sometimes he has been just
a little apologetic ' about the
vast crimes of the Commu
nists. Some of these things
were perhaps bad, yes; but,
man to man, you know how
matters get out of hand some
times. Again, he quipped
about the impermanence of
official jobs in Moscow.
Our national characteristic
is to be very kind to the
partly or the maybe re
pentant as well as to those
who declare total repentance
For proof, just recaU the Mc-
Carthyite period when shrill,
pro fessional ex-Communists
were accepted by many as the
absolute and final authorities
on what was good Ameri
canism. Even the occasional hostile
demonstrations have helped
rather than hurt Mikoyan's
mission, for they have creat
ed a bit of an underdog sym
pathy for him.
TJE HAS made a big soft sell
f-here, no two ways about
it. The State Department does
not officially acknowledge
it, but important people here
are worried about his impact
Try and
White
-By BENNETT CERF-
rpHIS POEM, authorship unknown, was received in the mail
.from A. J. Meekins, of Topeka, K.ansas:
She ransacked every novel and the dictionary too,
But nothing ever printed
for her ' baby's name
would do.
She hunted appellations
from the present to the
past, '
And this is what they named
him when they christen
ed him at last:
Julian Harold Egbert Ulyss
es Victor Paul
Achilles Marcus Cecil Syl
vester George McFall!
But after all the trouble she
.had-taken for his sake, .
His father called him Pie
face and his schoolmates
called him Jake.
Two shaky-legged calves wobbled over to a mother cow lazing in
a pasture. "Hey, mom," mooed one, "can Junior stay for lunch?
- C13S3.b7ettCri DutrtbuUd br Kin rrtur 8j-adleUk :
Menace
ktt? Alucny TOlfi AAC Trt
OifT. ...MX. WLSCW THIS . . ..
S. WHITE
Among them, two conclusions
are now emerging, and
neither is eood news.
The first is that the Soviet
Russians have gained in West
ern Dronaeanda know-how al
most as they have gained in
space implements. The old air
of glacial menace has vanish
ed under the sunshine of i
wide Soviet smile. The old
movie-heavy tone of dreary
Soviet rhetoric has gone, too.
In its place are the snappy
reioinder and the happy
touch - we are all good fel
lows together.
Where this marked lm
provement in Soviet influence
techniaues has comeirom is
of course, not certain., am
some believe the principal
author is the Soviet Ambas
sador here. Mikhail A. Men
shikov. He can look as Ameri
ran as the savins goes, as
annle Die. - ,
The second conclusion is
that it might be wise to re
vise the old estimate that we
need more East-West ex
changes. -
T?OR SUCH exchanges,
it
" now appears, might be
more harmful to US - ' than
otherwise. Moscow, for ex
ample, no doubt would accept
as a visitor to Russia some
American official on a re
buttal "good will tour." But
does anybody suppose such a
visitor coflld enjoy the free
dom - including the freedom
of the Dress to be generous to
a mid-war traveler - tnai
Mikoyan has enjoyed here?
And. worse yet, suppose
such a miracle did occur? The
central fact remains that it is
not the Russian people who
make or even influence bo
viet. oolicv. "
All this is not to support a
mere rieiditv here. It is only
to suggest that sooner or later
we must face up to the fact
that we cannot really ease
tensions with our propaganda
In the nature of the case our
antagonist has the better of
us in this field. lor tne con
test is played with different
niles.
For us, it must be the long,
plodding pull - patience
r -eneth, and waiting.
(Copyright. 1959. by United
Feature Syndicate, inc.;
tog Hauling Rate
Bill Introduced
Salem (UPD Rep. Clarence
Barton (D-Coquille) has intro
duced a biU setting minimum
rates for log hauling in Ore
gon.
Barton said complete re
vision of log-hauling statutes
was long overdue, especially
to orevent gypsy truckers
from Washington and Cali
fornia coming to Oregon when
their own forests were shut
down and escaping Oregon
income taxes.
Stop Me
-6
Things Change Slowly But They Change
Even in
By RAYMOND LAHR
Washington - (UPD -Much
can change in 10 years, even
in an institution so allergic
to change as the United States
Senate.
It was 10 years ago this
winter that the Southerners
were at the barricades fight
ing successfully to block the
adoption of a new anti-filibuster
rule. The proposal then
was identical in substance
with the one adopted this
week with only token resist
ance from the South.
And it was the Senate lib
erals who were fighting 10
years ago for the rule they
scorned this year on grounds
that it was too feeble.
Western senators were once
the great champions of un
limited debate in the senate.
More recently the defenders
of the right to talk have been
southerners, nervous about
the chances for passage of
civil rights legislation.
If the Southerns had made
an all-out fight this year to
keep the 1949 rule, they
would nave risked adoption
of filibuster checks which they
would have considered even
more offensive. So, as they
did in 1949, they gave a little
Editorial
Comment
A SMOOTH CHANGE-OVER
The problem of who is the
rightful secretary of state has
claimed most of our headlines
and, we fear, has obscured
one of the most orderly
cnanges oi government in
memory.
The Legislature has chosen
to pass up an obvious chance
to play games with the secre
tary of state situation where
in it could have embarrassed
the new Governor by holding
up his inauguration and eiv-
ing the Democratic choice a
better chance to claim the of
fice.
The Democratic T.e pi si attire
also could have, with plenty
of precedent, stacked all of
its committes aeainst Rennh-
licans and denied any GOP
chairmanships - the last
Legislature did just that. But
inere are several Republican
committee chairmen, and one
Republican committee major
ity. There's more to lawmak
ing than chairmanships and
apparent majorities,, but these
are important gestures and
can be important in fact.
The Democrats also deserve
praise for a generally courte
ous and open-minded apprais
al of Gov. Mark Hatfield'.
legislative program as out
lined in his inaugural address
. And former Governor firm.
ernor Bob Holmes who had
his churlish moments after
the election, turned his nffipe
over in good shape and bowed
oui witn a smile.
At the denartment level
there was more of the same.
Jim Johnson in Motor Ve
hicles, a meame in many eyes,
rolled out the pa met com
plete with staff meetings and
a reception at home, for his
Republican successor. John
Richardson left things in good
shape for Freeman Hnlmer
promptly promoted the two
men Kicnardson would have
promoted had he stayed.
It all bodes well for a good
legislative session and a pro
ductive year ahead. Salem
Capital Journal.
TODAY
In Oregon History
(A Centennial Feature)
JANUARY 16. 1854
Columbia County was
created by the Territorial
Legislature. It includes tha
northeast part of Washing
ton County as it was after
Clatsop County had been
created. It was named after
The Columbia River, which
provides the eastern and
northern boundaries.
Public Hearings on
Judicial Bills Due
Salem-(UPD-Members of the
Joint Judiciary committees of
the Oregon legislature decided
today to hold public hearings
on about 27 bills implement
ing the report of the Legisla
tive Interim Committee on Ju
dicial Administration.
Sen. Carl Francis (R-Day-ton),
and Rep. George Layman
(R-Hillsboro), respective chair
men of the two committees,
were authorized to divide the
hills. A portion will be intro
duced in the Senate and the
rest in the House.
The interim committee bills
will cover the entire Oregon
judicial system from the State
Supreme court on down
through the Circuit and Dis
trict courts with special atten
tion given to juvenile oourt
reforms and laws dealing with
juveniles.
Conservative Senate
to avoid losing a lot.
Loopholes In First Law
The Senate adopted its first
anti-filibuster rule in 1917
after a filibuster had blocked
passage of President Wilson's
measure to arm merchant
ships. That rule presumably
allowed the votes of two
thirds of the senators present
to limit debate. It was soon
discovered, however, that the
1917 rule contained loopholes
big enough for a confederate
army to march through.
A battle was joined on Feb.
28, 1949 on a new proposal
which would have closed the
loopholes and permitted a cut
off of debate by the same two-
thirds vote. The South fought
back with a filibuster which
tied up the senate until March
17, when a deal was made and
a new rule was adopted.
The old loopholes were
closed but a new one was
opened in that the restraint
on filibusters did not apply
to any future proposals to
change the rules. And the
vote requirement was stiffen
ed to require the consent of
two-thirds of all elected sena
tors, however many might be
absent.
Engineered by Johnson
Now under the wizardry of
senate Democratic leader Lyn
don B. Johnson, the senate
has adopted without a fili
buster a rule to let two-thirds
of the senators present choke
off debate on a bill or on fu
ture proposals to change the
rules. Johnson, author of the
new rule, was a freshman sen
ator lined up with the Dixie
bloc 10 years ago.
After the 1949 - contest,
critics of the new rule called
it a step backward. Now some
critics of the 1959 rule have
complained that it puts the
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
What of this Miki yan, who
has been filling our front pag
es for days?
He has seemed to be
charming visitor. He has done
the right thing when doing
the right thing was called for
He has said the right thing
when saying the right thing
called for. He has been unfail
ingly courteous and tolerant.
Whatever has happened, he
has been able to take in
stride.
What shall we think of
him?
A WORD of advice:
Let's not be deceived
by his smooth, suave, sophisti
cated personality. If he felt it
necessary, or advisable, or
called for by circumstances or
developments that endangered
the regime of which he is
part, he could order a MIL
LION people liquidated with
out a qualm of conscience or
the twitch of a muscle in his
disciplined face.
Under his smooth, suave.
polished exterior is a COM
MUNIST. Under his skin he is
just as hard and cruel and re
lentless as Stalin or Lenin or
any other dedicated commun
ist. If this were not true, he
couldn't hold a high place in
the communist hierarchy
that rules tho U.S.S.R. with an
iron hand.
TE CAN take that for
" granted.
We MUST take it for grant
ed.
If we don't we'll be endan
gering our future.
OO WHAT?
Well, we mustn t per
mit ourselves to miss the les
son that Mikoyan has brought
us. The lesson is this:
The Russian GOVERNING
CLASS is NOT a set of ignor
ant barbarians. There have al
ways been brilliant brains in
Russia. There have been VAR
IOUS KINDS of Russian
brains. There was Peter the
Great. There was Catherine
the Great. There was Ivan the
Terrible. There was the ideal
istic Alexander I, who in the
early days of his rule encour
aged education, art and liter
ature, who until he was cor
rupted by Prince Metternich
seemed to be on his way to
ward the abolition of serfdom
in Russia.
There was Tolstoi. There
was Pavlov. There was Metch
nikoff. And recently there has
been Pasternak.
BUT now there is commun
ism. The communist sys
tern is brutal and terrible. Mi
koyan is a part of it.
The terrible fascination
of
Russia and the communist
system is that they are able to
draw good brains from other
countries, to be added to the
brains that are already pres
ent in Russia.
Mikoyan himself, for exam
ple. He was born an Armen
ian. Armenia has back of it
a long history of love and lib
erty.
TF WE permit ourselves to be
-- deceived by communist
Russia and by the men who
run communist Russia, if we
permit ourselves to UNDER
ESTIMATE communist Rus
sia, it can be fatal.
senate back only to where it
was before 1949. In both
cases, they ignored the fact
that loopholes in the 1917 rule
made it virtually meaning
less. It remains to be seen
whether the 1959 rule or the
threat to use it can influence
the future course of the sen
ate. For better or worse, free
dom of debate in the senate
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Centennial Cake
To the Editor: With re
quests coming up for enter
tainment ideas for the Cen
tennial of Oregon's admit
tance to the Union, we might
go back some 87 years and
cut us a piece of cake from
that state-wide celebration.
That was held four years be
fore my birth. But a well re
membered portion came up
when I was about 10 years
old. It was a last day of school
picnic when I heard one wom
an remark to another, "Why,
Mrs. Rogers, you've brought
a centennial cake." "Yes," re
plied the maker of that early
day confection, "I thought
I'd make this once more, like
we made to celebrate 100
year deliverance from the
British yoke. My, my, how
time does fly, that was 14
years ago. So in memory of
that, I decided to make this
once more, hoping some of
the children here today would
remember the suffering; the
hardships and loss of dear
ones to make us free, that
the little flag on the cake
symbolizes."
That three-layer cake was
red, white and blue (kinda
purple from juice of swamp
huckle-berries) ; topped with
13 frosting stars around the
tiny home-made flag. Some
how, what she said there was
anchored in my memory very
near like she said it. Maybe
it was a piece of the cake
(kinda small like) that helped
me to remember.
There was the usual sing
ing of patriotic songs, a dia
logue and speaking of pieces;
that of my cousin up Eugene
way was, "Curfew Shall Not
King lonight. Mine was
"The Sword of Bunker Hill."
He lay upon his dying
bed, .
His eyes were growing
dim,
And with a feeble voice
he called
His weeping son to him.
"Weep not my boy," the
veteran said,
"I bow to Heaven's high
will,
But mark, O mark, I give
to you
The sword of Bunker
Hill."
There was much more to it,
but now lost in the rubble
of marching years. But what
puzzles me mostly, inquiry
through the years has found
but two people who have
memory of that long ago cen
tennial cake. Surely Michi
gan was not the only one to
make a cake for it.
- F. J. Clifford,
Central Point
Pool of Misery
To the Editor: Referring to
your contributions column,
Mrs. Hurst should be proud
of being "a soft-hearted sen
timentalist" about conditions
under which dogs are kept at
the pound. It's too bad there
aren't a few soft hearts on
the Dog Control board. They
have the nerve to take money
from Mrs. H. and all the oth
er taxpayers. Isn't it part of
their job to create decent con
ditions at the pound?
A few days ago it was re
ported in your paper that a
Warren Bayliss asked not to
be reappointed to this board.
Can Mr. B. point to a single
improvement of conditions at
the pound during all the time
he did serve on this board?
Did Mr. B.'s conscience final
ly catch up with him? - or
some of the sad-eyed pound
dogs . begin to haunt his
dreams? What do these peo
ple, do at board meetings-
pick their teeth? Or learn the
latest in buck-passing? This
is someone s responsibility,
If not theirs - whose? Mr
Hagier, the electrocution ex
pert, is of course, not respon
sible for the conditions under
his - nose and obviously is
really an animal lover in dis
guise. The disguise is so good
it could fool' me.
If you think this soft-heart
ed sentimentalist is just pull
ing out all the stops, go take
a look for yourself and ask
yourself how you would like
your pet to end up in that
Dool (or pound) of sheer
misery. '
Marty Williams,
P.O. Box 1287,
Medford
of U.S.
has made it a great conserva
tive force. When a bill i
passed, it means that nearly
all senators believe that th
proposed law can be tolerated
if not approved.
Sen. Richard B. Russell (D- "
Ga.) the South's spokesman'
in the senate, is authority for
the statement that shutting
off senate debate by majority
vote would be tantamount to
amending the Constitution. '
What Is the Difference?
To the Editor: "Schol Bui
Involved in Gold Hill Mis-
hap." "Court Records." '
The article appeared In
Tuesday's edition of the Med-
ford Mail Tribune, also the
court records published same
date.'
The older one gets and the
more they hear and see the
harder it is to understand
laws made to protect and con
trol people.
Having traveled in most all
parts of the United States and
the world in general, I have
never seen anything in my
life to equal what I read in
these articles. t
A well known business
man hit a school bus with a
truck hard enough to damage
the emergency door and rear
bumper of school bus that
was stopped unloading chil-.
dren and the chief of police
of the town said "No citation
was issued." On another page
of the same paper, court rec
ords listed one man as fined
for "following too close," an
other for not stopping at traf
fic signal."
What is the difference fol
lowing too close not stop
ping, or hitting a SCHOOL
BUS? Is there a reason for
favoritism? Seems to me hit
ting a school bus unloading
children surely calls for a ci
tation, according to Oregon
Laws.
David N. Ennis,
Route 1, Box 107-A,
Gold Hill.
Appreciates Holmes
To the Editor: Now that
Governor Holmes' term lias
ended, I think a few words of
appreciation are in order for .
the fine job he did for Ore
gon in two short years.
Being human, he made mis
takes, but in my opinion
these mistakes were heavily
outweighed by his courage to
stand up for his convictions,
his unquestioned honesty, and
the excellence of his appoint
ments. He opposed capital punish
ment vocally and by exerting
his executive powers, in spite
of strong opposition during an
election-year, because of hi
deep moral and religious con
victions on the subject.
His inteeritv has never
been questioned, even during
the campaign, and there was
not a single hint of scandal
throughout his administration.
This, in itself, is something
of a rarity.
Last, his unerring choice of
fine appointees gave us,
among others, the best Liquor
Control Commission and Pub
lic Utilities Commissioner in
many a long day.
I am grateful to him for an
outstandingly fine job and
wish him success in the fu
ture. I hope our new Gover
nor will be as good as Gover
nor Holmes. If so, I will have
no complaints.
M. E. Norton,
Box 85,
Phoenix, Ore.
Sweefland Airs
Education Issues
Salem - (UPD - Sen. Monro
Sweetland (D-Milwaukie) told
a PTA meeting here Thursday
night what he believed to be
the four biggest issues con
fronting Oregon education.
Sweetland is chairman of
the Senate Education commit
tee. The issues: '
... Scholarships to prevent
the waste of talent.
. . . Community colleges to
provide two-year, low -cost
education beyond high school
in many sizeable Oregon com
munities with no local college
facilities.
. . . Adequate building pro
grams for state colleges and
universities, catching up with
overdue buildings by a bond
program.
. . . Flat grants to keep up
basic school funds in all
school districts until a thor
ough study of future plans
can be made by a new interim"
committee.
DRAW SCHOOL PLANS
Clinton, Tenn.- (CPD -Architects
today began drawing'
plans for rebuilding Clinton
High school, destroyed by
dynamite last Oct 5..