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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Sunday, Aug. 23, 19S9 Local Opiometrisls Attend Seminar Dr. A. W. dutch, Dr. Frank Freeburger, Dr. Robert Har land, Dr. George Jennings, Dr. Richard Nelson, Dr. Wil liam Thompson, all of Med ford, attended a postgraduate seminar last week at the Rogue Valley Country club for optometrists of the south ern Oregon area. Presiding at the conference was Dr. A. M. Skeffington of St. Louis, Mo., author, lec turer, teacher and research authority "in the vision care field. "Urban living and over protection of our children are resulting in a generation of poor readers," stated Dr. Skeffington. "Educators , are being blamed unjustly for faulty methods of teaching when, all too often, the real core of the trouble in the child's inability to read is an existing visual problem. "Such a problem may eas ily stem from the fact that during the early development years, the child was never given the chance to run and leap and climb or to do those things for himself that are such a necessary part of the development of those visual skills required for learning to read," he said. Cars Collide on Siskiyous Thursday Cars driven by Myrtle Alice Herrick, 39, of Encini- tas, Calif., and Jack Lester Downey, 58, of Talent, collid ed head-on on Highway 99 near the Oregon California state line Thursday night, state police said. No injuries were reported but heavy damage resulted to both cars, officers said: The car driven by Myrtle Herrick was southbound and passing another car on a blind curve when her car collided with that driven by Downey, state police said.. The investigating officer told the California woman that a complaint charging her with passing with insufficient clearance would be filed In district court. ILLINOIS VALLEY Boys Ride to Caves By MARGARET M. CROWL Cave Junction - Stopping in Cave Junction Wednesday for lunch were eight boys and two leaders from the Medford YMCA on the way to visit the Oregon Caves via bicycles. It was the second day on tne road and Grayback Recrea tion Camp was their destina tion that night. Grayback camp is 12 miles- from Cave Junction and eight miles from the Oregon Caves. Those making this trip were Darryl Stockton, Jim Dunn ington, Jim Lonzway, John Foster, David Jones, Mike Gilhoosen, Paul Jenny, Ken Rodgers and the two leaders, Jerry Smith and Curt Salt-marsh. Melvhi I. Gray, parade chairman for the Illinois Val ley Jubilee Labor Day Parade has announced there will be awards for 15 classes. Three awards will be given for each class. Classes for the parade are commercial, in dustrial, non-profit organiza tion, mounted unit, marching unit, cowboy, cowgirl, novelty, unusual, humorous, childrens, pioneer, musical unit, live stock, and best out-of-the-val-ley unit. The parade will march down Redwood ave. to Caves highway and then to the VFW grounds. Entries are requested to reg ister with parade chairman, M. L. Gray prior to 8 p.m., Sept. 6. Mrs. Paul Glines, Ocean Lake, visited Mr. and Mrs, Harry Hartwell and her daughter, Mrs. Rolland Holm last week. Dinner guest at the Robert Bottel home in O'Brien re cently was Lloyd Cranford, supervisor of plant quaran tine, Sacramento, Calif. He was' in the Illinois valley to conduct a training meeting at the state line inspection station. Jo Bush of San- Rafael, Calif., a cousin of Robert Bottel, was visiting in the val ley uesday and Wednesday. Emerson Smith and daugh ter, Zada, were dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Crowl Monday. Others present were Bonnie Cavyell, Kay and Carl Warner. Jim Champion, Crescent City, Calif., attended to busi ness and visited friends in the Illinois valley Tuesday. Mrs. A. E. Bottel of River side, Calif., mother of Robert Bottel, O'Brien, Mr. and Mrs. William Bottel and daughter, Lynn, of Fresno, Calif., Mr. and Mrs. Don Reed and son, Del, of San Fernando, Calif., cousins of the Robert Bottels and two teenage friends, spent Thursday and Friday visiting at the Bottel home. William C. Friend, com mander district 13, American Legion, Grants Pass, has been appointed department com missioner, area 3, to the ora torical commission by the state department Commander Fred E. Bennett for the year 1959-60. The state champion ship in the oratorical contest last year was . won by Steve Hansen, Grants Pass. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Causey and the Rev. and Mrs. Georee Gray went on a picnic at Gas- quet last Sunday. Arriving in Cave Junction Tuesday evening to spend sev eral days visiting were Mr. and Mrs. Howard Davis of Burbank, Calif. Mr. and Mrs Davis are former owners of the Central Cafe and lived in the Illinois valley for many years. Drive Against Mail Soliciting Gains The Medford post office has reported that the post office department's drive to stamp out the activities of "merchants in filth" who so licit minor children for the mail-order sale of obscene ma terials is making "substantial headway." U. S. Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield has notified the local postmaster that during the fiscal year which ended June 30 the de partment conducted more than 14,000 separate investi gations of traffic in mail order obscenity, of which about 10,000 were based on complaints from parents. Actual arrests during the year totaled 315, an increase over' the previous year and al most double the number of arrests during 1957. Phoenix Girl Hurt In Vehicle Mishap Gwendolyn D. Feris, 16, of 401 Fourth st., Phoenix, was reported in "satisfactory" condition at Sacred Heart hospital Saturday following a traffic accident at 8:15 p.m. Friday on Colver rd. about a mile south of Phoenix. State police said she suf fered a deep laceration on the right side of her head and possible back and other in juries. Police said she had been driving a pickup truck, ap parently southbound on Col ver rd., when she ran into loose gravel and lost control of the vehicle. The pickup rolled over one and a half times, police said, and they were told that her arm was pinned under it for awhile. She was taken to Sacred Heart by Medford Ambulance service. Police said she was cited for having no operator's license. Tetreault Wins Contest Trophy Rudy Tetreault, district manager of the Oregon State Motor association (AAA) for Jackson and Josephine coun ties, last month won his sec ond contest trophy for indi vidual sales performance. He won a similar trophy in December of last year. Tetreault and his staff, Mrs. Helen Stevens, Miss Nancy Becken, and Wilbur Arnold, were the association's dinner guests at Mon Desir Wednes day night. A district trophy was also won by the Medford office, 1133 South Riverside ave. Other districts competing in the' contest were Astoria, Bend, Coos Bay, Klamath Falls and Pendleton. HUNGRY Burlington, Vt. - (DPD - Ken neth Simonds received a sus pended 90 day jail sentence for stealing 12 dozen dough- Huts, five cans of orange juice, 10 packages oi cooKies, 10 loaves of bread, 10 pack ages of buns and two quarts of milk. Sacramento Area Group Numbers 88 at Festival CAH VJE AFFORD TO SLOW DOWN THE GREATEST CONSTRUCTION JOB If HISTORY? Thirty-seven months ago this na tion began to construct the greatest highway system in the world a project that will affect directly the lives of more Americans than any thing our nation has built. It is the nation's first long-ranged planned highway program sched uled for completion in 1972. Now this bold, imaginative pro gram is in jeopardy of a costly slow down. For a nation with over 68 million motor vehicles, such a dis ruption wiU cost far more than keeping it on schedule. What are we building? We are building hundreds of thous ands of miles of modern highways. The most dramatic part of the pro gram is a massive 41,000-mile sys tem of Freeways a network of super-highways connetting every state, practically every city of 50, 000 or more. This is the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Are we on schedule? Yes, at the end of three years we are right on schedule. Interstate System construction is 107 per cent of its scheduled rate. Contracts have been completed on 4,050 miles and are underway on 5,229 miles. Contracts on- primary, secondary, and urban roads have been com pleted on 73,709 miles and are un der way on 30,249 miles. All this has been done in three years. Why the slowdown? Lack of Federal funds. For Inter state System construction the Fed eral Government is putting up 90 per cent of the costs, the states 10 per cent. Other highways in the program are being built on a 50-50 basis. Federal money comes from a highway trust fund, maintained by Federal highway user taxes. The highways are being built on a pay-as-you-build basis. But the fund because of last year's increased program and other , factors, is depleted. Money for fur ther construction should have been apportioned to the stajtes by July 1. It has not. Because of the financial problem, 25 states have been forced to stop awarding new contracts for Inter state construction and 16 soon will follow. The program is grinding to a halt just as it swung into high gear. How much is it costing you? Talking in terms of "billions of dollars" can be misleading. You have been getting all this new con struction plus maintenance of all our 3,300,000 existing miles of roads and streets for just one pen ny for each mile you drive your car. It's the smallest cost of operat ing an automobile. - Today the average cost of own ing and operating a car is 9Vz cents a mile. Seven cents pays for the depreciation and upkeep of the car. One and a half cents pays for your fuel costs, not including taxes. And only the remaining penny goes to building and maintaining highways. And modern highways pay you that penny back immediately. For it has been found that driving on Freeways designed like those of the Interstate System lowers your oper ating costs to 8 J4 cents a mile a saving of one cent, or more than 10 per cent. Nation saves $2.1 billion Altogether the Interstate System will save the nation $2.1 billion each year . . . $550 million in vehi cle operating costs; $725 million in accident costs; $825 million in time savings for commercial vehicles. But more than money is in volved. Modern, limited access highways reduce accidents by two thirds. The completed Interstate System will save 4,000 lives each year and prevent one million accidents. Delay of this program for just one year will cost the na tion 5,700 lives during the period of 1960 to 1970, according to the National Safety Council. In good faith In 1956 when the program started, the act authorized a definite annual Federal expenditure for 13 years to see it through to completion. The nation's roadbuilders geared up for the tremendous job ahead. State Highway Departments were en larged, hired thousands of engi neers and technical personnel. Con tractors around the nation tooled up purchased equipment. Industry expanded its facilities to meet the challenge. For the Interstate Sys tem construction alone requires each year 49 million tons of steel, 1.4 billion barrels of cement, 13 bil lion gallons of peroleum products, five million gallons of paints The program was accepted in good faith by those who had the responsibility of seeing it through to completion. A slow down could hurt contrac tors, work considerable hardship in industry, reduce the highly techni cal organizations developed by the states, and throw hundreds of thousands out of work. . What is the solution? None of this- need happen. There are at least three ways to keep the program on schedule borrowing from general funds, bond financ ing, and raising the Federal gaso line taxes. The soundest of these seems to be the recommended increase in gasoline taxes. It will meet the im mediate fiscal need. It will keep the program on a pay-as-you-build basis. It will be non-inflationary. And most important, it will cost the average motorist less than one mill for each mile he drives. Hav ing the world's finest highway' sys . tern at his disposal will remain the smallest cost of operating a car. There's, a lot at stake. Our eco nomic growth. Your personal safe ty and - your comfort. Even our nation's defense. Slowing down the greatest con struction job in history will be an expensive economy. Ashland - Mr. and Mrs. I Howard R. Hagge of Sacra mento, Calif., first began at tending performances at the Oregon Shakespearean Festi val in Ashland in 1956. Each season since, Hagge has brought an increasing number of friends with him to the festival. In 1957 the party consisted of some 30 persons and had increased to 52 by 1958. For the 1959 season, Hagge's group numbered 88 people from the Sacramento area who were in Ashland from Aug. 14 through 17. Each . summer the Sacra mento party stays four days in Ashland to view all four productions of the Oregon Shakespearean Festival. This year they, witnessed "Twelfth Night," with the special "Maske of the New World," "King John," "Measure For Measure," and "Antony and Cleopatra." With the group's increased size, it more than fills two Ashland motels. On Sunday, following the performance of "Antony and Cleopatra," Hagge and his group enter tained many of the Festival company members. Those in the Sacramento group were Mr. and Mrs. Mar vin Blanchard and family, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd F. Bruno, Miss Pamela Dokken, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Drew, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Else and family, Dr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Fricker and family, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Gayman, Mr. and Mrs. Howard R. Hagge and family, Dr. and Mrs. Hardre, Mr. and Mrs. David Harme and family, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hollister, Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. Jensen and family, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jo seph, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kleps and family, Dr. Her man Leader, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Letson, Mr. and Mrs. Colvin McCambridge, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nolan and fam ily, Mr. James Parsons, Miss Catherine Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Pearson and family, Dr. and Mrs. Glenn Pope and family, Mr. and Mrs. Alan Post and family, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Revilla and family, Senator and Mrs. Albert Rodda and family, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rodda and family, Mr. Carson Sheetz, Mrs. Kathryn Taylor and f am- Oil prodiitclon in Venezu ela last year averaged 2,799, 000 barrels a day. ily, Mr. John Treantos, and Mr. and Mrs. George White. A recent survey showed that only 53 per cent of all the American pupils who ranked in the upper fifth of their high school classes went on to college. LAND IMPROVEMENT MACHINERY NEW BUILDINGS FENCING FERTILIZER STOCK FEED SEED We extend credit for all sound farm purposes at low cost. Let's get together and talk things over when you're in town! Your funds ore insured here up to $10,000 by Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Your savings earn interest at 3 semi-annually. - U09 COURT STREET MEDFORD Miiiniiiiiiiiiiiii iHiiiiiimiiMiHiiiMiiinmiiimmiiiiiiiiiii iniiuuiiiniiiimiiiniiiii n iiiiiiiiniiniii t oebU 2919 N. Pacific Hiway Published in the public interest by Crater Lake Machin'ey Co. Your Caterpillar. Dealer Phone SP 2-6207 To all of you . . . every man and woman who had a part in the planning and building of Sears new Rogue Valley Store . . . we of Sears say "Thanks for a job well done, in record time." , We are grateful to the Medford community leaders and civic-minded individuals who have played such an important part in the determination that the Rogue Valley should have these new modern retail facilities in the Medford Shopping Center. Our sincere thanks go tq our many employees who have worked tirelessly to prepare for the grand opening, making our new store as attractive as possible. And we are deeply appreciative of the wonderful cooperation between our contractor, Buttress and McClellan, the sub-contractors listed below, and the hundreds of skilled craftsmen who worked together to complete the finishing touches on the structure. And to the most important people in our store, Our Customers, we extend a special "Thank You" in appreciation of the generous Grand Opening response experienced during these past three days. It is our sincere hope that all who haVe had a part in the opening . . . our customers, our employees, the construction crews and the Civic Leaders of Medford and all Rogue Valley Communities . . . will feel that this is their store. And, because it is their store, Sears says, again, "Thank you!" SEARS ROEBUCK AND CO. Jackson at Biddle Medford, Oregon 1.1. C. Lininger & Sons McLaughlin Plumbing Ernest Conrad & Son Tru-Mix Concrete Rogue River Paving A. L. "Tex" Nash Sleeck Electric Co. Trowbridge & Flynn Leland P. Lovejoy Moore Steel Service Co. Medford Steel Co. Selby Glass Co. Taylor Sheet Metal Mercer Steel Co. Elfstrom & Eyre Inc. Commercial-Home Insulation Co. Dutch Farfan The Bay Co. Emert & Zedrick Co. Capitol Painting Co. Bob Marshall Steward Griffith Co. T. R. Florey Phil & Menill Sfembridge BarnardVToilet Partitions Smith Engineering S&l! Landscape Nursery Jack Smith Big Pines Lumber Co. American Steel & Supply Hubbard Bros., Inc. John 7arren Hardware
