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In fhe Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Sacramento:
Evidence that state depart
ments have spent millions of
dollars unnecessarily in an
nual race to exhaust their
budget appropriations ahead
of a June 30 deadline has
touched off a statewide investigation.
lyHAT does it mean?
" It means that if all the
money appropriated to a de
partment to finance its ac
tivities isn't spent by the end
of the fiscal year for which
it was appropriated the sur
plus will go back into the
general fund where it
COULD be used either to pay
off delit or to reduce the
amount of tax money needed
to finance the state's activi
ties during the NEXT fiscal
year. In either event, the tax
payers would benefit.
To prevent that, the de
partments rush in and SPEND
IT before the year ends. It
should be added that this
practice is quite common in
our federal government. It
exists in the governments of
all our big states and our big,
sprawling, overgrown cities.
Parks Commission Considers
Two New Projects for Bedford
LET'S do a little supposing.
Suppose you are a
stockholder in a relatively
small private corporation.
Suppose it operates on the
budget system. Suppose one
of its departments rushes in
. and SPENDS its surplus in
stead of turning it back to the
. treasurer to be added to the
net profit out of which divi
dends are paid.
What would you do?
You'd go on a rampage and
demand that whoever was re-
gposible for that particular
piece of recklessness with
your money be FIRED.
IlHY your rampage?
" Well, in the case of the
small corporation of which
you are a stockholder the
wasted money would have
come out of YOUR pocket. If
it hadn't been wasted, there
would have been more left
for YOU to spend.
In the case of government,
we fall into the bad habit of
thinking of government mon
ey as manna from heaven. It
ISN'T manna from heaven.
Government money comes out
of the pockets of the taxpay
ers. The more money govern
ment takes out of the tax
payer's pocket, the less there
is left for ! the taxpayer to
spend FOR HIMSELF.
HOW can government ex
travagance be checked?
Here is one way:
Study the records of your
elective officials. When comes
election day, VOTE AGAINST
Medford's parks and recrea
tion commission is considering
two new park projects.
The commission Wednesday
night appointed a committee
to explore the possibilities of
joint city-county cooperation
in development of park facili
ties on Roxy Ann butte.,
It appointed another com
mittee to prepare preliminary
plans for a neighborhood park
o nsix lots owned by the city
on six lots owned by the city
ton school.
Mrs. Edith Eden asked the
other commission members
to consider retaining a land
scape architect to assure pro
per park planning.
Expert Expected .
City Manager Robert A'.
Duff told the commission that
Dr. Lynn Rodney of the Uni
versity of Oregon will come to
Medford with a swimming
pool expert to inspect the pro-
posed park-swimming pool
site on the Jackson County
Housing Authority property
on West Jackson st. The com
mission agreed to ask Chester
Corey, Ashland park director,
to attend.
Eugene Garner, represent
ing tne Medford Welcome
Wagon club, discussed the his
tory of planning for the de
velopment of Roxy Ann. He
pointed out that this develop
ment has been a project of
long standing.
Duff said plans were drawn
up at one time by the Civilian
Conservation corps. Miss Col
leen Hope, a commission mem
ber, said she thought any de
velopment undertaken now
should be coordinated with
the existing plans.
Major Problem
Duff said that vandalism
has been a major problem in
maintaining facilities there in
the past. "The principal prob
lem now is rehabilitation," he
commented.
He said city and county of
ficials agreed after inspecting
the site last year that a cus
todian should be retained on
the premises.
Mrs. Edith Eden suggested
that since Roxy Ann includes
city property situated in the
county beyond the city limits,
any official participation in
the development should be a
joint city-county enterprise.
She and Verl G. Walker
THOSE WHO ARE IN
CLINED TO BE EXTRAVA
GANT WITH THE PEOPLE'S
MONEY.
If enough people do it, that
will turn the trick.
Nothing else will.
were appointed to study pos-,
sibilities for such participa-'
tion.
Garner invited the commis
sion to attend meetings of the
Welcome Wagon club and
other interested civic groups
to be held as steps toward a
coordinated effort.
To Prepare Plans
Dr. Ernest Duce and Mrs.
Eden were appointed to pre
pare a plan for the Union ave.
park site. Duff reported that
the city will supply water for
it. He added that California
Oregon Power company has
donated some old power poles,
which could be used to desig
nate the proposed park's
boundaries.
Dr. Rodney, chairman of
the University of Oregon's
recreation and outdoor educa
tion curriculum, told the com
mission at its December meet
ing that he could bring a land
scape architect and a swim
ming pool expert to Medford
to inspect the West, Jackson
st. park site.
Duff said that Dr. Rodney
told him recently all Univer
sity landscape architects have
full schedules until next sum
mer.
Suggestion Mads
"Apparently we won't get
any free landscape service
from the University," Duff
said. He added that Dr. Rod
ney suggested the city enlist
the services of a local land
scape architect.
Mrs. Eden said that in view
of several park projects com
ing up this year, the commis
sion should consider - such
services. She listed a two-acre
park in Mark Goldy's new sub
division on Buckshot rd. and
one in the Earhart Park sub
division as well as the Union
ave. and West Jackson st.
sites. She said local landscape
architects are "a little loathe'
to offer "their efforts free of
charge.
Duff reported that Dr. Rod
ney has set a tentative date
of Feb. 17 for a visit by him
self and Don Van Rossen, Uni
versity of Oregon swimming
coach, to the West Jackson st
site.
Corey Invited '
The commission invited
Chester Corey to visit the park
site with commission mem
bers. They agreed that Corey's
DarticiDation should be on a
tentative basis and not com
mit the commission to em'
ploying him.
Mrs. Eden said she thought
some money from existing
park and recreation funds
should go into planning the
project. Duff said some of the
$75,000 from the housing au
thority ear-marked for the
pool could finance detailed
construction plans, but he
questioned whether the auth
ority would sanction, its use
for preliminary planning.
He sugggested that the com
mission ask the city council
for use of part of the $5,000
allotted in the 1958-59 budget
for recreational purposes to
finance planning. The $75,000
has not yet been turned over
to the city by the bousing
authority.
The bends we mean are brought on
by those Z-shaped door openings on
many of the '59s the kind of door you
have to fall, crawl or back into! Mercury
ends the bends with the most generous
doors in its field up to 6 inches
wider, with windshield posts 2 inches
forward, out of knee-knocking range.
Secret of Mercury's easy access is the
only body shell in the medium price
field not designed for a smaller car.
Big-car shell puts Mercury's transmis
sion under the hood instead of under-foot-Mercury's
power tunnel is half as
big as competition's. Lower tunnel
means extra leg room, extra-padded
seats. No more bucket-seat ride for
the man the middle. Come in for a
treatment and a turn at the wheel!
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Oregon-California
Power Link Debated
Washington - flJPD - Sen.
Clair Engle said today he is
'alarmed", over reports that
Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
may build hydro-electric
power transmission lines con
necting the Pacific Northwest
with California.
The California Democrat
said he has been .told that the
Bonneville Power Administra
tion has begun "exclusive dis
cussions" with PG&E on the
proposed project.
The senator said the PG&E
line reportedly under discus
sion is "believed to be a rela
tively small capacity line
which will not make much of
contribution to power ex
change" between the two
areas.
Back Stairs: Topic For Conversation
New Republican
Declaration Urged
Washington - (ITD - Rep.
Richard M. Simpson (R-Pa.),
is back with his demand that
the Republican Party draft a
new declaration of orinciples
to tell where the GOP stands.
As chairman of the Republi
can Congressional Campaign
Committee he has been press
ing for such action since short
ly after the 1958 elections in
which the GOP suffered wide
spread defeats.
In a Lincoln day speech at
St. Paul, Minn., Thursday
night Simpson said the party
cannot wait for the 1960 plat
form to be drafted at its na
tional convention next year.
SCIENTIST DIES
Washington -iUPD- Dr. Jesse
P. Greenstein, 56, internation
ally known cancer research
scientist, died Thursday of a
stroke.
By MERRIMAN SMITH
UPI White House Reporter
Washington -(ITD- Back
stairs at the White House:
The officers and men at
Moody Air Force Base out
side Valdosta, Ga., are still
talking about the landing
made there Feb. 4 by the Col
umbine III, the military air
transport set aside for Presi
dent Eisenhower.
With the chief executive on
board, the Columbine flew
south last week for the an
nual Eisenhower quail shoot
ing expedition on the Georgia
estate of former Treasury bee
retary George M. Humphrey
The Columbine in these
trips usually lands at. Spence
Air Base, a training center
for air cadets outside Moult
rie, Ga. Spence, however, was
closed in by miserable weath
er and Col. William G. Drap
er, the Columbine pilot and
Air Force aide to the Presi
dent, decided to try Moody.
- Thunderstorms and heavy
rains were sweeping the area.
The press plane, a commercial
liner chartered from Eastern
Airlines, landed at Moody
about an hour before the
President.
Conditions Bad .,
When Draper got over the
field, conditions were too bad
for landing, even with the
fine -instrumentation aboard
the Columbine and the navi
gational aids offered by the
big air base. Draper circled
the area for about 40 minutes,
then let down through the
soupy, wet weather.
The ceiling was around 400
feet when reporters and Air
Force personnel saw the Col
umbine break through the
menacingly dark weather and
walls of rain. An Air Force
colonel asked, "Does he al
ways come in so high with
the Columbine?"
Instead of landing at the
forward end of the -runway,
the Columbine seemed to
come down at an unusually
high angle and touch down
about midway the length of
the landing strip. This neces
sitated using virtually the full
strip to brake the ship on the
water-slick runway and turn
her toward the flight control
building ' where thte landing
ramp was waiting.
After the presidential party
motored' away from the field
personnel at Moody under
stood why the Columbine
seemed to have landed "high."
On one side of the ship, par
ticularly around the starboard
side landing gear, there was
a lot of mud and grass.
Then the story was pieced
together. When the Colum
bine lowered through the
soupy weather to her point of
touchdown, her first point of
impact put the landing wheels
on one .side of the ship into
the grass and dirt, instead of
hitting thee concrete runway.
Draper quickly threw the
power to his engine and the
Columbine lifted up momen
tarily. Then Draper brought
her back down in the center
of the runway, giving the on
lookers hundreds of yards
away the impression that the
ship had come in high.
For experienced transport
pilots this is a somewhat rou
tine flying problem when the
weather is bad. But it is. a
problem that seems, at least,
to become much more press
ing when the passenger on
board is President of the Un
ited States.
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Ortjen, Friday, February IS, 1959 5
CONFLICTS WITH TV
Stoke, England - (UPD - The
Rt. Rev. Anthony Otter,
bishop of Grantham, has
changed the time of his Len
ten services on Wednesday
from 7 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. Too
many parishioners want to
watch a TV show on British
family life called "The Arch
ers" which is on at the earlier
hour. , ,
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AUTHOR DIES
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