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Petitions Circulated by Group Regarding School Dance Class Petitions for making dance classes voluntary to prevent alleged "discrimination" against children whose churches oppose dancing are reportedly being circulated In Schol District 6C Jean M. Shelley, chairman of the group initiating the petitions,, said Friday that their object is not curtailment of dancing activities in the schools but merely a revision in administrative procedure Excused by Note Under the present method, It is understood, children op posed to square dancing folk dancing or other social danc lng taught in the classes may be excused by a note from their parents. Submitting these notes, Shelley said, places the chil dren unnecessarily in the pub lic eye. "Oregon law," he aid, "requires that any child's religious principles be kept in confidence." "We feel," the petition states, "that the discrimina tion now felt by many of our children on the dance prob lem is a violation of their constitutional rights." . School Superintendent H. P. Jewett replied Friday that the district is administered f according to regulations laid down by the state board of education." He said that pu pils excused from dance classes can read ja the library or study other subjects. "They are not forced to do anything," he added. Want Elective Course The petitioners, as Shelly explained it, wish the dance classes to be, in effect, elec tives. They suggest that a form for stating a positive de sire to participate be sent to all parents. Children of those parents who sign and return the forms would receive the dance instruction according to this plan. Others would be as signed to alternate activities, preferably another type of physical education. According to Jewett, 32 pu pils of the 800 enrolled in grades three through eight have asked to be excused from dance classes this year. Jewett explained that in the junior high school, as one example, the classes are held as a 40-minute period once a week over an 11-week span. Future Protection Shelley called the figure of 32 pupils "misleading' since, he asserted, other mi- pils despite school policy have been excused by individual teachers without a note being required. He then explained that the petitioners are par ticularly interested in future protection of their rights The petition points out that putting the dance classes on an " elective basis would be comparable to the present procedure for participation in Bible history classes. Jewett replied that while the dance classes are included in the state board's curriculum the voluntary Bible history class es the "entirely outside it Shelley stated that over 200 persons have signed the peti tions so far. He reported that 52 parents and representa tives of eight churches met at the Church of Christ, Central Point, earlier this .month. Some petitions, he said, were turned in at this meeting while others are still in cir culation A resolution similar to the petition was submitted to the school board last December, Shelley said. He explained that the petitions would be submitted to the board some time before its July meeting. Those endorsing the resolu tion besides himself, Shelley Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF- TUTR. NUSSBAUM loved a bridge game, but hated a kibitzer lVX breathing down the back of his neck. Furthermore, this kibitzer was the most irritating kind always ready to explain how an extra trick could have been made. Nuss baum's moment of triumph came when he made a grand slam, vulnerable, doubled nd redoubled. "All rights wise guy," he gloated to the kibitzer, "what was wrong with that?" "Just two things, said the kibitzer promptly. "One, if you had bid properly, you never would have reached a grand slam. Two, playing the hand . correctly, you never would have made it!" 1 . "Modern music," suspects Goddard Lieberson, "is the kind that ii played so fast it's almost impossible to detect what classical com poser it was stolen from." Sign aDove a baseball manager's desk: 'It's amazing how man; people have 20-20 hindsight!" 0 1959, by Bennett Cert Distributed by Xing- Features Syndicate. reported, included the Rev. Paul Kroon, Community Bible church; the Rev. W. H. John son, Pentecostal Church of God; the Rev. James Pack, Pentecostal Church of God; the Rev. Clarence Jackson, Pilgrim Holiness church; Earnest Ralls, Country church; Joseph Bowdoin, pas tor of Medford Community church, a resident of school district 6C; Lester Wilcox Jr., of Forest Acres Community church; the Rev. Gordon Pet erson, Sams Valley Gospel i church; Jewell Bennett, Church of Christ, Second st.; Fred M. Brown, Missionary Baptist Sunday school; the Rev. Lyman Stiles, Joe N. Buchanan and Emery Abel, Assembly of God; and C. W. Powell, radio minister. Medford's Oldest Firm Observes 75th Anniversary Hubbard Brothers, Med ford's oldest business, is ob serving its 75th anniversay with a 10-day sale to con tinue through April 25. , The company, started in 1884 in Jacksonville by Ashel Hubbard, was moved within a few months to Medford. The firm is now owned and operated by sons of the found er, Chester and Roland Hubbard. The store has been located on two sites other than the present 335 East Main st. ad dress, but all in the same general area. The business has been at its current location for approximately 55 years. The present structure was built several years later. . The firm, when started 75 years ago, sold farm machin- miT oraHnallv evnanHinff trt include naraware, ine owners reported. More than 20 years ago the two departments sepa rated establishing' two stores. During the anniversary cere monies all persons who stop by the store may register for prizes. 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A variety of media and ex pression will be shown, ac cording to Miss Judy Wy more, president. Art Instruct or Warren "Wolf is supervising the show. Grade school exhibits will be - displayed Monday eve ning; high school, Tuesday; and junior high, Wednesday. The public is invited to view the three-evening event, Miss Wymore reported. THE ANSWER IS NO " Dallas, Tex. -4CPD County Treasurer . Warren G. Hard ing said -he'd had a pleasant chat in the courthouse corri dor with a stranger who told him he had just been in dicted on three counts of passing bad checks. Harding said the conversation ended when the man asked: "By the way, I wonder if you would cash a small check for me?" Tax Commission Mail Load Heavy . Salem (UPD Forty-five sacks of personal income tax mail arrived at the State Tax Commission offices ' here Thursday. That total was one and one half sack less than the volume received April 16 last year. 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