27 Children Killed
In Rash of Fires
During Week End
By United Press International
Twenty-seven cmiaren - iu
from Massachusetts - were
killed during the week end in
a cross country rash of fires.
A United Press Internation
al count showed at least 36
persons in all died in fires.
The most disastrous blaze
occurred late Saturday when
a mother and her seven chil
dren died when flames de
stroyed their four-room frame
house at Crystal City, Tex.
Firemen said the blaze, be
lieved caused by a wood stove
in the kitchen, spread so rap
idly that the house was
"burning like paper" when
they arrived. The bodies of
Mrs. Sotero Rodriguez and
one of her children were
found on the kitchen floor.
The other six children died in
their beds.
Trapped by Flames
Five children of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Miles of Cris
field, Md., died when they
were trapped by flames in the
second floor of their frame
home.
Four children of Mr. and
Mrs. Orlando Watkins' of Bos
ton were trapped and killed
when a space heater exploded
near their bed and set fire to
their home.
Three children of Richard
Sullivan were killed in a fire
that swept their farm home
near Hanson, Mass. Sullivan
rescued his eight other chil
dren. A fire of undetermined ori
gin at Idaho Falls Sunday
swept the two-story frame
home of Mrs. Dorothy Han
sen, killing three of her four
children. The victims includ
ed 4-year-old twins Wendy
and Bruce. The fourth child,
Vicki, 10, was injured criti
cally when she jumped from
a second story window.
Another fire Sunday killed
two youngsters, aged 1 and 2,
at their home at Shirley,
Mass., near Ft. Devons where
their father, specialist 5-C
Richard L. Christman, is stationed.
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KfcEP
CRATER
A Los Aneeles fire blamed
on a cigarette destroyed the
home of Mrs. Carmen Gomez,
who watched helplessly as
firemen battled the flames in
a futile eliort to save ner
two young sons and Rudolph
Rodriguez, 21.
Kenneth Juliano, 10 months,
was killed in a fire that broke
out in a room of his home at
Brockton, Mass.
Other week end fires claim
ed the lives of adults at
Lynn, Chicopee and New
Bedford, Mass.; South Port
land, Me.; Gothenburg, Neb.,
and Rockport, Ind. .
Annual Meeting
Held by Council
Frank Glonning was re
elected chairman of the Rogue
Valley Council on Aging at a
recent meeting of the coun
cil. Ivan Farris, Ashland, will
continue as vice chairman;
and Walter A. Hatch, secretary-treasurer.
Elected to the board of di
rectors at the first annual
meeting was Mrs. Clayton
Walker, one year term, and
John Gribble, who will re
main on the" board for an ad
ditional three years.
Progress reports were given
on the Fifty Plus club, the
development of a constitution
and by-laws, the Christmas
gift sale and Senior Activity
Center.
Mrs. C. W. Guches, chair
man of the health committee,
outlined the organization of
the Friendly Visiting Service
which started n October. She
mentioned the need for men
volunteers to visit the patients
in the nursing homes and
homes for the aged.
A question and answer
period followed the meeting.
Mrs. Ena Foss offered the
loan of a piano for the Center.
Musical activities are now
planned by the group. Per
sons interested in participat-
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Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
THE HURRICANE SEASON still is months away, but the
U. S. Weather Bureau already has given official names to
expected big blows along the Atlantic coast and across the
Gulf. As usual, the storms
bear the names of females.
(Sure, sure: they're HER
icanes, not HIM-icanes!)
and here they are, in the
order of their expected ap
pearance: Arlene, Beulah,
Cindy, Debra, Edith, Flora,
Gracie, Hannah, Irene Ju
dith, Kristy, Lois, Marsha,
Nellie, Orpha, Penny, Quel
la, Rachel, .Sophie, Tanya,
Udele, Vicky, Wilma, Xcel,
Yasmin and Zasu. TV view
ers will recognize Arlene,
Gracie and Zasu but Quel-
la and Xcel? Who dey?
The Post Office has been making announcements, too. Alaska
Isn't feasible to abbreviate, insists the P.O., so letter writers are
requested to spell it out. Our new forty-ninth state thereby joins
five older states which the P. O. disdains to shorten: Idaho, Iowa,
Maine, Ohio and Utah. j
1959, by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kins' Features Syndicate.
iqht Women
On Duncan Jury
Ventura, Calif. -HIPD- Testi
mony in the Elizabeth Ann
Duncan murder trial . begins
Tuesday before a jury of four
men and eight women.
Selection of the jury in the
bizaare case in which Mrs.
Duncan is accused of hiring
two men to kill her daughter-in-law
was completed last Fri
day after nearly five full days
of questioning.
Dist. Atty. Roy Gustafson,
who is expected to demand
the death penalty, estimated
the trial would last up to a
month.
He has charged Mrs. Dun
can hired two ex-convicts to
kill her daughter-in-law, Olga,
30, for $6,000. Mrs. Duncan
was pictured as a possessive
mother afraid of losing her
son, Frank, 30, an attorney,
to the younger woman.
ing may contact the Center at
SPring 2-4163 or Edward
Root, SPring 3-2623.
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Casting Completed
For Kiwanis Kapers
Casting for the annual Ki
wanis Kapers of 1959 has
been completed, Kiwanis
spokesman announced this
week.
Rehearsal schedule for the
show, entitled "Now and
Then," has also been setT"
The production, which will
be held March 4 through 7,
will compare the 1850s with
1959.
The advertising drive for
the program has also been
completed, it was announced.
Money received from the
event supports the Kiwanis
Dental Clinic.
The program will be held
at the Medford High school.
Tickets are available from
any Kiwanian.
NEWSPAPERMAN DIES
Deland, Fla. --(UPD- Thomas
Bracken, 82, former head of
the Biographical and Subject
Index Department of the New
York Times, died here Sunday.
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In these days, we're hearing
a lot about budgets.
In Washington, it's Presi
dent Eisenhower's budget. In
Sacramento, it's Governor
Brown's budget. In Oregon,
we go them all one better. In
Salem, we're talking about
TWO budgets-the Holmes
budget, which was submitted
by the retiring governor, and
the Hatfield budget, which
was submitted by the incom
ing governor.
FIRST-what is a budget?
For an answer, let's go to
the dictionary, which gives
us this definition: "A finan
cial statement of estimated in
come and expenses of a coun
try for a period of time; also
a plan for financing a govern
ment, based on such a state
ment." When he put that one to
gether, Mr. Webster was ob
viously thinking about public
budgets. In this piece, I'd like
to point out that there are
TWO kinds of budgets-public
and private. They differ in
many ways.
FOR example:
If you have a household
budget, this is the way you go
about putting it together and
TODAY
In Oregon History
(A Centennial Feature)
FEBRUARY 23. 19J0
The women of Portland
held a mass meeting today
to demand that the steps
of the city's street cars be
lowered so thai a lady can
ascend and descend with
out being subjected to the
leers of male loiterers. Tak
ing official congnizance of
the seriousness of the situ
ation as affecting public
morals and decency, Mayor
Simon has intervened in
the dispute and the street
car company has agreed to
lower the steps on all its
cars immediately.
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administering . it: First, you
determine from your antici
pated income how much you
can afford to spend for var
ious household purposes. Then
if you have it in mind to
MAKE YOUR BUDGET
WORK, you spend for these
various purposes what 'you
have allotted to them and
NO MORE.
The process' is the same in
the case of a business budget.
You first determine how
much your anticipated income
will permit you to spend. Then
you apportion this total
among your various depart
ments. Then you tell your de
partment heads that THAT'S
IT-there isn't any more. If a
department head overspends
his budget seriously, you call
him on the carpet and tell
him what's what in no un.
certain terms.
IN GOVERNMENT, it's oth."
erwise.
In the case of government,
you first ask your depart
ments how much they think
they will WANT to spend.
The heads of these depart
ments then go into the silence
and figure up all the things
they'd LIKE to have and all
the people they'd LIKE TO
HIRE-and, after that, they
add about 10 per cent to the
total on the broad general
theory that you may cut them
down a bit and they'd better
have same FAT that can be
trimmed off without hurting
anybody if the wind happens
to blow in the economy di
rection. Then
After getting these esti-mates-
You figure out how much
you'll have to nick the tax
payers for to make the budget
come out even-or something
like even.
117HY these differences?
" It's simple.
In private budgeting-either
household or business- the
money COMES OUT OF
YOUR POCKET.
In government budgeting,
you just determine how much
you think you'll have to have
to make the books balance
and then REACH INTO THE
TAXPAYERS' POCKETS
AND TAKE IT OUT.
WITH these j budget-making
facts of life in mind, I'd
like to offer a suggestion to
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Special Meeting Central
Point Lodge No. 135
AFiiAM Wednesday,
Feb. 25, 7:30 p.m. Work
in E.A. Degree. All Ma
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Wilbur Smith, W.M.
FOR RENT Duplex. Very nice
large 2 bdrm. unfurn. Carport,
DJ3 a. tioiiy. SP 2-2452
LOST Oft STOLEN Fox Terrier,
brown, 4 white feet & white
breast. Leave information at 216
xjncoin or at" 2-2840
PLANT tuffs Krari ' '
Hawthorne $3; Kwanzan Cherry
$3.25; Hopa or Eli Crab $2.50.
Many others, also good selection
of shrubs. Brewington's Nursery,
SP 3-3971. 2605 Tennessee Dr. off
Debarr.
FOR SALE If you have a lot of
amijr neie is a lot oi nouse. A
well built 2500 ft. 4 bdrm. older
home in a choice neighborhood.
It has fireplace, den, dining room
& sewing room; hardwood floors
down. Shop, sleeping porch, dou
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back yard with roses & nut trees.
Get a Park Ave. address with an
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For terms 8c viewing Ph. SP-
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FOR RENT 3 bdrm. house. Inquire
at 938 S. Hollv. t
FOR SALE Chrome dining table &
6 chairs, overstuffed davenport
& 2 chairs (needs recovering).
ii y-f i-iuiD,
FOR SALE -52 Jeep pickup, 4
FOR SALE 21" Packard Bell TV
iira. opace a, aei Aire Trailer
y-uuri,. rnoeniK. aee alter 5 p.m
FOR SALE 500 ft. 6" Welded
steel irrigation pipe .90 per foot.
GReenwood 6-5149, Grants Pass,
evenings
ex. njin I
2x6 No. 3 S4S $65 per M. Fainted
Cedar Shakes $13.50 per sq.
Glass Mt. Pumice block $1.35 ea.
8". 10" & 12" Resaw sheathing
$40 per M.
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icnncssee nr. vjii ueriarr.
FOR SALE 52 Ford 4 speed
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19-A (on Thompson Creek Rd.)
fippiegaie, Oregon.
FOR SALE 2 Ladies Health Club
Memberships $60 each. SP 2-7072.
HAVE vacancv for elderlv person
in quiet country home. TA 6-2877.
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No more worries about
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STORDOR WHOLESALE
Grants Pass. GR 6-2478 .
FOR RENT 3-rm. furn. apt. $35.
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CARPENTER work wanted; all
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Big Green Fir Slabs
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BUNDLES OF OLD NEWSPAPERS
for sale 20c each. Mail Tribune
office 33 North Fir.
FOR RENT Clean warm apt. Close
in. All utilities pd. Washing fa
cilities. 217 S. Riverside.
For Sale Fireplace wood.
PHELPS FUEL SP 3 5878
the legislatures of both Ore
gon and California:
up how much money
you can raise without making
the tax burden TOO HEAVY.
Then -
Apportion the total among
your departments and tell the
department heads to cut their
cloth accordingly-then that's
what it will be and there
won't be any more.
That is the way it's done
in private households and in
private business organizations
and I can't help thinking it's
the way it ought to be done
in government.
Fishing was New England's
first commercial enterprise.
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Michelangelo designed a
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are found at Civitavecchia,
Italy.
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Feb. 26
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