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
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"Modern music," suspects Goddard Lieberson, "is the kind that ii
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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.
EXPATRIATE DIES
Cannes, France - (UPD Mrs.
Mary Elsie Clews, 78, a lead
ing' member of the expatriate
American colony on the
French Riviera, died Wednes
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she was the widow of Ameri
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A cross section of creative
art effort among Medford
schools will be displayed
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THE ANSWER IS NO "
Dallas, Tex. -4CPD County
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ing said -he'd had a pleasant
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Tax Commission
Mail Load Heavy .
Salem (UPD Forty-five
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mail arrived at the State Tax
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Thursday.
That total was one and one
half sack less than the volume
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Another fairly substantial
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Sunday, April 19, 1959 7
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since returns from faraway
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be delivered here.
At least half of the esti
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refunds on taxes withheld
from wages. It is estimated
that between 300,000 and
325,000 refund checks will be
sent out by the commission
this year, compared with 339,-
000 in 1958.
Processing of returns has
been going on since the first
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refunds already mailed.
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