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O G o SUNDAY. JUNE 12. 1960 a ' v raHl-i ampUglE., WLUf UttUi UH6. q State to Withhold Money Until Colleges Make Better Use of Spaces MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. -' O Fiscal Committee Irked at Results 01 Space Study Schools Said Wasting Present Classrooms Salem -(UPD- Legislative fis cal committee members de clared Friday that no more money for classroom construc tion will be given the state system of higher education until higher education comes up with a program to better use the classroom space it already has. The committee was given the results of a study show ing that only about one-fourth of all instructional space in Oregon's state-operated col leges is now being used. It said that space utiliza tion at the University of Ore gon, for example, averages 64 per cent on Mondays, Wednes days and Fridays and 41 per cent on Tuesdays and Thurs days. The space utilization study was prepared by state fiscal officer Kenneth Bragg. The report criticized the system's capital construction policy of "stockpiling" build ings, and added: "Construc tion of unneeded buildings re sults in hoarding capital. Be cause hoarded capital both loses its earning power and reduces the purchasing power of those from whom it was collected in the form of taxes, it is not economically sound." John R. Richards, chancel lor of the state system, told the committee that Bragg's re port "is clear in its evidence that classroom space can be used more intensively than at present." Improvements Cited He said the colleges have improved on this in recent years and further improve ments include a proposal for a six-day week for Oregon colleges. State Sen. Edwin Durno (R-Medford) said the space use problem is way past due and told Richards, "you will get more classroom building money only over my dead body." House Speaker Robert Dun can (D-Medford), State Sen. Alfred . Corbett (D-Portland) and other committee members also voiced strong feelings. , In 1959 the state system asked for $20,125,000 in build ing funds and received $10, 062,000. A tentative 10-year program of some $100 million was adopted. Richards noted that the re port charges that the board of higher.education is attempt ing to build for future rather than present needs. "I think that this is true but would point out that struc tures requested of the next legislature are intended for use not earlier than 1963 when enrollments will be con siderably higher than at pres ent." Not Involved Duncan said he hopes the voters do not confuse this is sue with the measure on the November ballot which would authorize bonds for a state bonding program because is it not involved. The measure would permit the state to is sue bonds for construction of buildings at state institutions and office buildings in addi tion to some higher education funds. There is also a November measure that asks for an in crease in the state's bonded "indebtedness to build addi tional self-liquidating higher education facilities. The fiscal office report said college classrooms in the state system are used about half Remmkr EVERY DAD. . . On. Father'i Day FATHER'S DAY CARDS SON UNCll FATHflt MOTHU 4 HUSBANO GtANDfATHH FATHER'S DAY IS JUMI ltTH $m ef complete tnmy . , . w on display Complicated Civil Case Is Nearing End in Court Here A complicated and dramatic civil case involving a German immigrant and his will is nearing its end here. Background of the case reads like something out of a Perry Mason story. An inves tigation covered four years, and cost approximately $5,300. It reached back to 1845 to a church in Germany where birth, death and marriage rec ords were traced. It turned up one brother in Denmark and 12 other relatives in West Germany and the United States. Hinging on the investiga tion was an estate valued at over $50,000 left by -August Lorenzen, German carpenter, who had migrated to this country about the turn of the century, and died in Sacra mento, Calif., Dec. 23, 1955, after residing in Medford for several years. The estate in cludes some oil wells near Shelby, Mont. Others Involved The case also involves Marie K. Kiddle, former executrix of Lorenzen's estate, who was his housekeeper and claimed to be his daughter. She was also Lorenzen's nurse in Med ford and California. The lengthy investigation also included Mrs. Kiddle's background to prove to the court that she was not Loren- of the time and laboratories a third of the time. A compari son with two states now study ing space use of their colleges - Michigan and California -shows that Miqhigan had about 40 per cent higher "stu dent station" utilization in 1956 than Oregon has now and California got about 25 per cent more use out of its classrooms in 1953 than Ore gon does now. Bragg said the state in studying the problem must: 1. Inventory existing space. 2. Study classroom distribu tion by days of the week and hours of the day. 3. Make an analysis of space use by departments and buildings. 4. Analyze student station use by size of rooms. 5. Analyze student station use when rooms are in use 6. Analyze the effects of extending the class week or the academic year to a full 12-month basis. Longer Weeks With the exception of Ore gon State college, which has a 44-hour class week, and Ore gon Technical institute, with a 35-hour week, schools in the state system operate on a class schedule of 40 hours a week. The report points out that "many, if not most," public colleges and universities have switched to a 44 or 45-hour week. A projection of University of Oregon student station use indicates that the school's 1959 enrollment of 6,460 could be "potentially increas ed to 12.400 by achieving dur ing a 44-hour week the level of utilization that presently occurs on Monday, Wednes day and Friday mornings." Bragg said the only detailed study of classroom and lab use by hours of the day or days of the week made avail able to him by the state sys tem was one for the univers ity. A greater projection, he said, shows a potential of about 21,000 additional stu dents could be handled in ex isting classrooms, and this can be projected for every school operated by the state. a zen's daughter, and that Lor enzen had actually died a bachelor. The investigation re vealed that Mrs. Kiddle mar ried seven times, and used the first names of both Marie and Opal. A series of legal actions were started against her in 1956 by Medford attorneys on behalf of Lorens Lorensen, of Shelby, Mont., brother to Lor enzen, who sought successful ly to recover the estate in Jackson county circuit court. The legal action includes 41 witnesses, 17 of which were depositions taken in Minne sota, Washington, eastern Ore gon, Sacramento, Calif., Texas and Oklahoma. Judge Signs Order Finally, on June 29. 1959, Charles S. Woodrich, Douglas county circuit court judge, presiding over the case here, signed an order and decree setting aside the "alleged will of August Lorenzen dated Dec. 13, 1955," and Marion L. Langley, Medford, was de clared the new administratrix of the estate. In companion lit igation on March 4, 1960, Mrs. Kiddle was ordered to deliver all the money, property and benefits from the Lorenzen estate. She had 10 days in which to comply, but accord ing to current charges she dis appeared. She was arrested by Jack son county sheriff's officers Thursday, and is being held in the Jackson county jail on charges of contempt of court. A hearing will be set before Judge Woodrich here in the near future. In his oral opinion, Judge Woodrich stated the will was "a product of undue influence exercised by Marie K. Kiddle over the decedent." Domi nance is shown by the respec tive physical conditions of the two parties. (Lorenzen was an invalid since 1926.) It is shown also, according to his opinion, "by the almost complete control over all of his financial affairs within a relatively short time and the testimony that she could han dle him and could get money out of him." Testimony In Court Testimony showed that in August, 1955, Mrs. Kiddle got Lorenzen to sign a blank check with which she bought a new car costing $2,350, and took title in the name of Ma rie K. and former husband, George Duke Oliver. 7 -V 1 HE'LL APPRECIATE A CHANNEL MASTER TRANSISTOR RADIO $5995 TROWBRIDGE & FLYIIII 214 West Main In September, 1955, accord ing to evidence presented, she got Lorenzen to sign another blank check with which she paid $1,800 down on a trailer house. In September, 1955, $1,000 was deposited to a bank account in Medford un der the name of Marie K. Ol iver. After purchase of the housetrailer, the housekeeper and Lorenzen moved out of the house at 1100 Spring st., where he was living, and never returned. They lived in various trailer courts around town, according to testimony. By Thanksgiving of 1955, Lorenzen had become serious ly ill and although urged by a doctor to place him in a hos pital she did not do so. Within a few days she took the ill man to Sacramento, Calif., tes timony revealed. Soon after their arrival she contacted a Howard Tom, a real estate man and notary public, who took her word that she was Lorenzen's daughter, and prepared 12 documents, including the will. The property estimated in ex cess of $50,000 was not inven toried. Lorenzen died Dec. 23, 1955, according to court testi mony. Call Attorneys After Mrs. Kittle acquired all of the various properties owned by Lorenzen, Lorens Lorensen, only known living relative then of Lorenzen called Medford attorneys. He had become suspicious as notification of property dis posals appeared in papers there. He requested an inves tigation of his brother's death and will, records show. Much of the cash in the Lorenzen es tate had been spent by Janu ary, 1956. Shortly after this date the attorneys representing the brother filed an injunction and a suit to set the will aside. 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