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Transportation, Other Services of 549C Reviewed (Editor's note: This is an other in a series of articles reviewing the proposed budget for school district S49C. Today's article dis cusses services provided by the district, such as trans portation.) The responsibilities of a school district are not limited to maintaining its plant and providing instruction for stu dents. They extend into services which, while not direct in struction, are of an instruc tional nature, and services such as attendance and health, transportation, and commu nity. A total of $155,470 of the proposed $3,914,846 Medford school district budget for 1960-61 is allocated for at tendance and health services, pupil transportation, student body activities, community services, and payments to oth er school districts. Some $22,340 is budgeted for attendance and health service. Of this total, $700 is for a truancy officer and $250 Is budgeted for principals to handle truancy calls in areas . outside the immediate Med ford area. OEfckool Nurses Salaries Of some $21,390 budgeted itr health services, $14,425 is earmarked for salaries for school nurses, clerical help and salaries for those provid- iag other health services to the district. Budgeted for supplies and ether expenses is $6,965 fhich includes $1,600 for the oChild Guidance Clinic. The budget committee, In ejwwidering the budget, ex pressed the feeling that the 91,600 for the Child Guidance Clinic is derived from the rong source. The committee approved a resolution direct- d to the Clinic that it be ab sorbed within the county health department and funds be sought from the county for its operation. Committee members, as well as administrators, said the Clinic has provided serv ice to the district in helping students, but since the work of the Clinic involves people other than students, as well as students, committee members felt the responsibility of the Clinic lies with the county or state, and not the school dis trict. Other Budgeted Items Other items in health serv ice include $2,800 for band aids and other first aid sup plies, $2,000 for doctor's ex aminations for students who otherwise do not obtain them, and $565 in travel expenses for school nurses. Pupil transportation serv ices is a $98,064 item in the proposed budget. Salaries for the supervisor of transporta tion, drivers and mechanics totals $52,651, with another $41,QM allocated for supplies and repairs necessary for maintenance and operation of district-owned buses. Public liability, property damage, medical care, colli sion, fire and theft insurance is estimated to cost $3,253 next school year, an increase or the present allocation be cause of the addition of sev- eral buses resulting from last year's consolidation of other districts with Medford. Transportation for field trips and grade school ath letic teams to contests is esti mated to cost $1,100 next year. The $1,100 does not in clude transportation of high school athletic teams to games, since those teams fi nance their own transporta tion, district administrators noted. Student Body Activities Student body activities which receive district assist ance are those which have an i n s t r u c tional relationship, such as debate, speech, vocal music and the International Relations League, which is held at the University of Ore gon campus each year. Total budgeted for assistance to stu dent body activities is $7,150. A total of $2,816 is pro posed for community services, which includes $500 for sala ries incurred from meetings of citizens, parent teacher as sociation meetings and other activities at schools which are of general information and of interest to the public, but non profit. Textbooks for non-public school pupils is expected to' cost $2,016 next school year. Previously, the item has been included in the regular text book budget, but this year, on the state-supplied forms, the item is now listed in a fund by itself. Provision of Law State law provides that dis tricts may provide textbooks to parochial schools for grades 1 through 8 if it is a standard school. Supplies and materials for civic meetings are expected to cost about $300 next school year. Tuition to other districts is estimated to cost $25,100 next school year. Tuition is paid by the district for students who live in the district but desire courses not offered here. For example, students who wish to participate m the Future Farmers of America attend either Crater High school in Central Point or Phoenix High school since the course is not offered in Medford. Questionnaire of AFL-CIO Attacked Portland - PJPD - L. L. Stew art, president of Associated Oregon Industries, Tuesday labeled a ouestionnaire sent legislative candidates by Ore gon AFL-CIO interests as an attempt to "threaten and in timidate the candidates into accepting the AFL-CIO view point as the price for its elec tion support." N Stewart said in past years labor leaders solicited opin ions of candidates on prospec tive legislation but said this is the first time the question naires have been accompa nied with a statement of la bor's position. "The threat is obvious. The candidate better be 'right' or he'll be 'wrong' as far as the top echelon of the FL-CIO is concerned ... in the elec tion," Stewart said. The nine point question naire covers workmen's com pensation, u n e m p 1 o yment compensation, income taxes, right to work, wages and hours and area education districts. Grange News Hoxy Ann Grange The charter was draped at the last meeting of Roxy Ann Grange for Clarence Tedrick, who was a charter member, killed in a car accident near Eugene. During the meeting plans were completed for the crab feed to be held at the Grange hall March 20. It was reported that Mrs. Clarence Pfnister, Mrs. Bruce Moffatt and Mrs. Orie Moore had attended the regional of ficers' conference at Roseburg, March 2. Group singing, games and several cowboy songs sung by seven-year-old Billie Dean, ac companied by his uncle, Larry Dean, made up the lecturer's program. Mrs. Wilma Van Gordon brought an heirloom cro cheted bedspread for the dis play table. Refreshments were served by the Ritcheys, Burch fields, Mrs. Irene Shirley and Mrs. Madge Nowlin. Ipr - : 1 Back Stairs: Photos of Grandchildren JOHN V. LISAC Named Representative Maxwell Names Representative John V. Lisac, Medford, has been named area representa tive for the Maxwell House division of General Foods corporation. He will call on retail and wholesale outlets in Medford, Grants Pass, Ashland, Kla maths Falls and Crescent City. Lisac replaces Wyatt S. Rogers, Eugene, who will con fine his work for the division to the Eugene area. Lisac has been employed by his father, John P. Lisac, at the Medford Bargain house and by United Grocers. Wall Street Chatter New York-(UPD-Record bus iness, stable prices, steady profits and improving divi dends are apparently not enough for a bull market that has pushed beyond the normal historical valuations of earn ings and dividends, notes Prentice-Hall. But with more than 13 mil lion people now owning cor porate stocks, P-H says in its weekly report on business, a real bear market would have very substantial business and political repercussions . "So it's unlikely that the admin istration will sit on its hands and let nature take its course in Wall Street." Prentice-Hall looks for def inite moves by the GOP Ad ministration to ease money, spur government public works, encourage more road and home construction and even step up defense outlays. Quotes From the News By United Press International London World-famed tenor Jussi Bjoerling, who went on stage and sang a full performance of Puccini's "La Boheme" after suffering a heart attack: "It was very difficult to carry on." San Francisco Pvt. Ivan Fedotov. one of four Russian sailors who drifted 49 days in a disabled landing craft, describing the ordeal: "We fought against the danger of death and it made us eager to stay alive." Old Bridge, N.J. Richard Combs, stating some day he and his wife will tell their four-year-old foster daughter Alice they nearly were prevented from adopting her because of her 138 I.Q.: "Right now we're going to give her all the love and af fection and make sure she knows she's wanted." St. Louis, Mo. The St. Louis Weather Bureau, apologiz ing for falsely predicting up to a foot of snow: "We've no excuse, no alibi. "We've just missed, can't you hear our sigh? "We hope that you may still recall "The times we missed it not alL" Some further irregularity is to be expected as the lows are tested, but there are indi cations that the long market decline is running out of steam, says Standard & Poor's. "We would advise against in discriminate selling and be lieve that judicious purchases could be rewarded by good trading profits before long." Oregon Slope Man Freed on Assault Vale -lUPtt- Charles Bulmer, 27, Oregon Slope, was found innocent by a Circuit court jury Tuesday of assault charges. Bulmer had been accused of assault with a dangerous weapon in connection with the shotgun wounding last Dec. 12 of William Richmond, 28. He testfiied he shot Rich mond at the Bulmer home af ter Richmond backed him against a. wall. Richmond was treated at an Ontario hospital for leg wounds from the .410 shotgun blast and later released. WAVE LENGTH Schenectady - Longest in frared waves are about one sixty-fifth of an inch in length. By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI White House Reporter Washington-OIPD-Backstairs at the White House: ' If P r e s i dent Eisenhower takes his grandchildren with him to Russia in June, the John Eisenhower's will have to revise much of their policy on publicity about the chil dren. The photogenic Eisen hower kids will be as much in the limelight as the I resi dent, himself, and their activ ities will be recorded by pho tographers of many national ities every time they leave their hotel rooms. Living in Gettysburg, the kids are pretty much insu lated from this sort of thing just now. The secret service agents assigned to their pro tection have strict orders to permit no conversation be tween reporters and the chil dren, and absolutely no photo graphs. Photographs Taken Not long ago Barbara Ei senhower had some commer cial photographs made of 11- School Klevs Medford High School Edited by Jim F r a k e. Staff: Diane Mohr. Rita Mc Beth, Jim McCormack, Ann Mac Manama, Sue Reule. Edonna Pace and Esther Jacobs. The annual Boys and Girls League week, March 7-11, has been one of various activities at Medford High school. The agenda began with a bike - riding and bermuda wearing day Monday. Because of the uncertainty of the weather, the sack lunch day to be held Tuesday was post poned until later in the spring. A special assembly was pre sented Wednesday morning. The show, covered by station "KORN-TV," featured John Lacy as master of ceremonies and Jim Lacy as cameraman. Acts in the show included "Mother Goose" (Lowell Dean), who gave several ex amples of modern nursery rhymes compared to the old ones. x The traveling station then visited an "Expreso" cafe where "beatnik" Sharon Laing danced. During the assembly, at an Alabama lunch counter, Shir ley Satterfield gave her ren dition of "Summertime." Nick Gier, as an Italian in Alaska, played "Twelfth Street Rag" and "Dark Eyes" on his ac cordion. From a night club in Paris, the Jim Collins quintet pre sented several numbers. This group also introduced and concluded the show. Thursday night, a father daughter banquet was held at Kim's restaurant. Therese In elin. American Field service foreign exchange student from Switzerland, spoke. On "erubbv day." Friday, many would-be beatniks were discoursed, plus many other just-plain "grubs." Elections for Girls and Boys League officers were held dur ing registration room period Friday. Results were posted that night. The 1960-61 league officers are Boys' League: Dick Ragsdale, president; Jim Barry, vice president; Stan Dowson, secretary; Bob Walk er, treasurer; and Al Funston, sergeant at arms. Girls League: Suzy Thomp son, president; De Anne Tayl or, vice president; Carolyn Finch, secretary; and Linda Morlan, treasurer. The week was concluded by the "cotton and cord" dance, a girls ask boy affair, Friday night in the boys' gymnasium. Although no admission was charged, donations were ac cepted for the AFS summer exchange student fund. Pro ceeds exceeded $40. Lauren Stayton, senior, emerged the victor of the "Christmas" chess club tour nament by winning a three way play-off with Jim Wilson and Ken Wise. students have a chance to de termine the fields of learning in which they need improve ment. High scorers will take fur ther tests next year and are then eligible for college scholarships. Doug Kliever, senior, won the local United Nations con test which consisted of taking a test covering material about the United Nations. His test was chosen by a faculty com mittee to be submitted to rep resent MHS in national competition. In Saturday league basket ball action last week, eight teams earned the right to ap pear in the post-season tour nament to determine the over all winner of the league. In first round play, the Seven Aces faced the Bache lors, and were edged out 21 20. The Lushes rolled over the Fun Five, 60-25. In first round games Sat urday, the Studs were to tan gle with the Koots, and the Maynards were scheduled to meet the Watusies. De Anne Taylor, Wyllajo Mills, and Linda Bateman, all members of the Future Home makers of America club, left for a recent FHA convention. De Anne is a. candidate for state office; Wyllajo will be the clubs' degree chairman; and Linda is to be the FHA vice president for 1960-61. At 4:15 p.m. that day, it was announced that the con vention had been canceled due to the bad weather con ditions; the group returned and voted for the state offi cers by mail. Last week the 48 juniors who had ordered class rings in the fall were asked to pick them up in Room 241. Marvin Kautz, junior class counselor, said that approximately half of the juniors now have class rings. ' year-old David and his class mates at Keefauver Elemen tary school in Gettysburg. To be sure that the pictures did not creep into publication, the photographer was ordered to turn over all of his negatives to the John Eisenhower fam ily, along with the finished prints. This may be quite neces sary in rearing of a well- ad justed grandson of a Presi dent, but what happens when he goes to Russia? Members of the Khrushchev family were photographed and inter viewed every foot of the way during their visit to the United States last year, and the Eisenhower family can ex pect the same sort of treat ment in the Soviet Union. Sound Movie Played A 40-minute sound movie on the President's trip last De cember to India, Africa and the Middle East has been playing to rave audiences all over the world, screened by American embassies and the United States Information Service for foreign officials, and even some segments of the foreign public. A similar movie will be prepared on the President's recent South American trip. The film of the December trip, in brilliant color and containing some spectator crowd scenes, can be viewed rather easily in some far away land, but not by the American public. Not even the reporters who made the trip with the President have been allowed to see the film. This is just about as silly as the stern White House pol icy concerning the "apprecia tion" coins distributed in the President's name during the South American trip. The lit tle souvenir discs with the President's initials on them were given to members of the crew of the commercially chartered press plane, but to the reporters and photograph ers who rode the plane (at a whopping price), wrote the stories and made the pictures? No, a thousand times no, strictly forbidden. During the President's De cember trip, a similar sou venir of appreciation was dis tributed abroad in the form of a coin with a map of the tour on one side and a mes sage of appreciation from the President on the other side. The coin was attached to a key ring. The supply of key rings was held so jealously that one of the hardest working members of the Eisenhower staff on the trip complained weeks later, "I saw a hotel head waiter with one of the things, but I never got one." The President's next trip of appreciable duration will be to Augusta, Ga., next month. It is expected to run close to two weeks in length. Joe Smith, the perennial petrel of Republican politics who now bills himself as the "next vice president of the United States," is sending out his campaign literature in en velopes bearing a return ad dress of "The White. House" in large red letters, and in much smaller type, a New York city street address. POLIO RECOGNITION London - Infantile paraly sis was first recognized as an epidemic disease in the cen tral European countries in about 1840. Portland Slates St. Patrick Parade Portland-flJPD-Portland will stage its first annual St. Pat rick's Day parade Thursday with color guards, bands, floats, and Irish can-can girls. Free shamrocks from Ire land will be given away to ladies along the parade route. And the first 100 persons to join the parade when it forms at Park and Burnside sts. at 2:30 p.m. will be given green hats. The parade will start at 3 p.m., work its way up Broad way and down 6th ave. back to Burnside st. MAIL TRIBUNE. Medford, Or. Wednesday, Mar. 1 6. 1 960 A 7 No striped snake, native to the United States, is poisonous. St. Patrick's Day CARDS m f? Thurs. March uram'c 217 E- Maln W 116111 a Medford OBfflBT SSJfl irVlllS Wide -Track widens the stance, not the car. With the widest track of any car, Pontiac gives you better stability, less lean and sway, accurate control. S. ft-r-r 7 IL waow ttieic SEE YOUR LOCAL AUTHORIZED PONTIAC DEALER DEAN & TAYLOR PONTIAC CO. 6th and Grape Medford Many jsnsiors took the Na-" tional Merit Scholarship Qual ifying test (NMSQT) last week. The test is sponsored nationally by the National Merit Scholarship corporation. Through these tests, which cover math, word, and Eng lish usage, and social studies and natural science reading, UNUSUAL man wanted Large life insurance company, established over 100 years offers District Agency with exclusive franchise and liberal expense and develop ment allowances to a well established man for Medford and vicinty. Must be interested in a permanent business where he will per form personal production, contact brokers and develop associate agents. Finest net cost pro duct, training and selling programs, repre sented by 57 increase in annual production from 1959 over 1958. If you are this man, write fully, giving name, age, family status, past employment, experience in sales, and other pertinent information to Box 657 ID, Medford Mail Tribune. All replies are held confidential, and personal interviews will be arranged during the period from March 16 to 26, 1960. TIMBER PRODUCTS CO. 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