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State to Withhold Money Until Colleges Make Better Use of Spaces
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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
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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.
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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.
They petitioned the court for
appointment of a new admin
istratrix of the estate. They
then found they had to file a
will contest suit, which was
tried for three weeks in 1958
and 1959, according to rec
ords. Now the Jackson county cir
cuit court is attempting to un
ravel the last of the tangled
threads of the case through
the suit which seeks to force
Mrs. Kittle to turn over all
papers and properties in the
Lorenzen estate.
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representative, to deliver to
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Grange session in Roseburg
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Salem - (UPD - The Oregon
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Agriculture Director James
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possible 850 seafood producers
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