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
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No striped snake, native to
the United States, is poisonous.
St. Patrick's Day
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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.
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