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wvnuPDmv - niiwnMVAi, UWiOBEn 19 I960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, ORE. Try and StopMc By BENNETT CERT . A L DORNE, prexy of Westport-'s Famous, Artists School, was told that a student-had a very important question for him. "Fire away," said Expert Dome. "It's this," frown- r a uic aiuueni oay . you've got a whole house ' lull ol priceless, world-famous paintings. A flash Cre breaks out You've T cot time to save only one : ol the paintings. Which ,. one do 1 you choose?" I That's easy," pontificated- Expert Doran. "The pne nearest the door." .... ' During a water shortage in Southern California, stu dents at a. local high school were asked to make sug gestions for conaervatinn. Most ingenious one was this: "Make everybody hold an armload M dirty dishes in his arms while taking a shower bath." '..''. . "I can't understand you young whippersnappers today," grum bled a boss to an underling who had had the temerity to ask for ; ev raise. "Why, boy, by the time I waa your age, I had already ,, Inherited my first million!" OIS60. by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kins futures Syndicate Education Board DKs Gladstone 'K Salem - ItffD - The State Board of Education set a precedent late Tuesday by authorizing a school district, 'Gladstone, to become an ad ministrative -school district " even though the district has no high school. , v Oregon's counties are In the process of consolidating their ' districts into administrative , ones, which provide education from grades one through 12 The board action means that an election must be called in Gladstone within 60. days by the Clackamas county schools superintendent for a vote by Gladstone citizens. The issue has been hotly contested in the county. -Attend Milwaukie School 1 - Gladstone now' is an ele mentary district only, and Gladstone teenagers attend Milwaukie Union high school. If the new plan is approved by the voters, Gladstone would withdraw from the Mil waukie district and .students would have to attend nearby high ' schools, Milwaukie or West 'Linn, ' ori a tuition basis until Gladstone could build its own high school ' The vote was 5-2 with Mrs. Roberta Caldwell, Oregon City, moving for approval. An initial . motion by Ronald . Jones, Salem, for rejection of the. Gladstone plan had no sec ond and was lost. - Twenty-seven counties were granted six-month extensions for submitting final school district reorganization plans. They i are Baker, Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Crook, Curry, Deschutes, Douglas, Gilliam, Grant, Jefferson. Lake, Lane, Linn, - Malheur, Marion, Multnomah, Polk, Sherman, Tillamook, .Umatil la, Union, Wallowa, Wasco, Washington,. Wheeler- and Yamhill. To Grant Degrees The board set another piece dent by authorizing : the Pendleton school district to grant associate degrees in ap plied science. The post high school classes, in. electronics, are now held' in the vocational building of the old Pendleton high , school. The instructors are local engineers. The board voted to support the state apprenticeship coun cil in its deferral of a voca tional education program for employees of General Engi neering, Inc., at The Dalles. General Engineering is asso ciated with Harvey Alumi num. The council notified the board it had decided to hold up the program loca.ly pend ing settlement of a labor-management dispute. EARTH'S WEIGHT Chicago-The earth's weight is computed to be about six sextillion six hundred and six ty quintillions of tons. Too Many Calls Displease Boss ' Dallas,. Tex. IUPB-- James D. Mask's, director of the Dalles Public Library, has posted, a new. memo. It is 'Administrative Direc tive No. 158. and says: . To: all staff members ' '. Subject: personal J e 1 -phone calls 1. There will be - abso lutely , no . more personal telephone calls in and1 out of this building. , 2. The telephone is al ways so busy that I cannot even call my wife. Finch Jury Told To Be Prepared - -Cos Angeles'. -JUPDr The 11 women and 1 man making up the jury in the second murder trial of Dr;. R, Bernard Finch and : Carole Tregoff were in structed to appear in court today prepared to begin de liberations. . '. f ..' Superior Court Judge Le Roy Dawson told the jurors to bring extra clothing be cause as soon as they get the case they will not be allowed to go home until they arrive at a verdictor become" hope lessly deadlocked . as did ju rors in the first trial.. They will be asked to find Finch,- 43, and Carole,- 23, guilty of first degree murder for the July 18, 1959 gunshot slaying of the surgeon's wife. Conviction would- carry with it a mandatory sentence of either - life -imprisonment or death in the gas chamber. Chances were coprosecutor Clifford Crail would conclude his summation - the last of four delivered by defense and state attorneys-either late to day or early Thursday. The judge's instructions will take about one hour after Crail finishes and - then the case will go to the jury. ' State Highway Men Promoted : "Salem -flJPD- Four state high way department employees in the construction division, two in the Portland area and' two in Salem, have, been promoted, the department announced to day. ' ' ' " ' ; ' '. -Draftsman Donald E. Keys of Hillsboro will become an engineer-designer In ihe rural design section in Salem. William S. Wells, a drafts man in Portland, was named an engineer-designer, also in Salem. Kenneth Boardman, Salem draftsman, will move up to engineer - designer here and Lewis A. Carlile, photogram- metrist in Salem, was pro moted to assistant photogram- metric engineer. . NEW WORKERS New York-Each year about two million voung DeoDle in the U.S. start in their first jobs. WE STRIVE TO SERVE. .. With dionity and reverence to all who call, this firm has served lo the best of our ability, for a quarter of a century and more. Funeral and Ambulance service. irVeddings since 1952. - LITWILLER . FUNERAL HOME Highway 66 at Normal Ave. Ashland Dial MU 5-4541 ( C. Mtwlller Mrs. Litwlllar Ashland's Leading Funeral Director Since 1935 In the Days News : By FRANK JENKINS ' From San Francisco: Californian's must approve the water bond measure on Nov. 8 or face the threat of a nose-diving economy, dead ly floods, parched lands and abandoned farms, according to Thomas J. Mellon, a San Francisco, business executive. He told the monthly meet ing of the Feather River Proj ect Association today that the state 'water program as em bodied in Proposition 1 on the ballot holds the answers to the problems of growth, flood and water shortages. He pre dicted Proposition 1 will be passed by the California vot- I THINK most of us up this way will agree that Prop osition 1 is probably the most important measure to be vot ed on in California since Ad mission Day.' But up here in the North,, which HAS the water that is so precious to the state's future, there are some problems. - For example: : . . On the California ballot at the Nov. 8 election there will be another measure that is immensely significant. If is Proposition 15. It proposes to reapportion the California leg islature in such a manner as to give the South a majority in the Senate. -The South already has a majority of the popular vote, it has a majority, as of now, in the Assembly. If -Proposition 15 is. approved at the coming election, the South will have a majority in BOTH houses of- the legislature. That is to say: If Proposi tion 15 is approved on Nov. 8, the North will be in per petual danger of losing its water to the, more populous South. HERE'S a thought: The South has oil. Its oil is a natural resource. The North needs oil. It GETS oil. There, is no battle over it. The North BUYS ITS OIL from . the South, ; which has more than it can use and so is happy to export its surplus. The North has water. Wa ter, too, is a natural resource. But the North can't sell its surplus water-legally! It has to give it away. Not only that. The North will have to pay its share of the taxes to build the facilities to carry the wa ter . to the South after the North has given its surplus away; . : : " .-.-'. - Somehow that doesn't sound right. It certainly won't be right if after having given its water and having helped by paying taxes to build the facilities to carry its water away, a situation arises in which the North will have to give away water it is going to NEED BADLY in the fu ture if it is to bring about full development of its area. That situation could arise if Proposition 15 is approved on Nov. 8. WHAT will the North do on Nov. 8? Personally, I think the at titude of the North toward Proposition 1 will depend on the Fate of Proposition 15, the. legislature.- If Proposition which proposes to reapportion 15 is approved, the North will be, in perpetual danger of losing its water. So ' ''':. '' : It seems reasonable to ex pect that , until , the . fate .of Proposition 15 ; is ' known (which can't be until after the election in November at which the voters will pass on BOTH issues) the North, will be in clined to VOTE AGAINST BOTH. - That would be only simple precaution. Russian Ships Head for Home Washington (UPD Four So viet ships, once believed in position to track' a dramatic Russian space shot, are head ing back across the Pacific home. Their departure after more than four weeks on station buttressed a belief here that Russia failed or . postponed some spectacular space feat planned to coincide with So viet Premier Nikita Khru shchev's trip to the United Nations. The Navy said Tuesday in reply- to questions that the four Russian missile tracking ships turned around during the week end and began to steam west toward Siberia. They were riding high in the water, indicating thy were low on tuei ana xooa. . . Some days before Khru shchev's Sept. 19 arrival in New York City, the ships took up positions in the Pa cific on a line stretching 1,500 miles from a point 500 miles southwest of Hawaii back to ward Siberia. The vessels were of the same class as ships that track ed two series of long-range Russian missile tests in the Pacific earlier this year. i 6 J " 1 I --TfflWlH A PASTOR, TOO Some people call him Father King. Others call him Chief King, while still others have dubbed him Fire-ahd-Sin-Fighter King. In reality, he is Father Stephen King, pastor of St. Vincent de Paul parish at Leeds, N.D., and captain of the Leeds volunteer fire department. The priest started his fire-fighting avocation in 1932 when he organized a fire department for the Trappist monstery in Rhode Island. Since then, Father King has led a double life a priest and a fireman. (UPI Telephoto) Southwest Oregon Directorships OK'd Salem-IUPD - Sixteen nomi nating petitions for director ships in the southwest Oregon area, education district were approved . Tuesday by the State. Board of Education. Oscar Paulson , assistant state superintendent, said all 16 petitions had been certi fied by the appropriate county clerks. The action clears the candi dacy of the 16 persons for five director posts when two suits involving the proposed district are settled. The suits, one in Curry county and the other in Marion county, seek to nullify boundaries of the district as established by the board this summer. . Bonneville Power Signs Contract Washington-IUPD-The Bonne ville Poer Aamimstration and Webb & Knapp, Inc., New York City, today signed a 20-year contract to supply electric power for a new type of steel mill to be built at Anaconda, Mont. I William A. Pearl, Bonne ville power administrator, said the contract calls for de livery of 120,000 kilowatts of power. Half of the supply will be delivered starting July 1, 1963, and the re mainder by Nov. 1, 1963. About 45,000 kilowatts are firm and 75,000 are second ary industrial type. The contract was signed at the Interior Department by Pearl and William Zecken dorf, president of Webb & Knapp. Webb & Knapp will build a steel mill of 350,000 tons annual capacity costing be tween $30 million and $40 million. The plant, which will be the largest steel pro ducing facility in the North west, will use a new process to make steel from iron left in discarded copper slag at the Anaconda Company's smelter. . . . Pearl said a new substation would be built at Anaconda. He said $145 million in new plants would be in operation when all contracts are com pleted and . that Bonneville power revenues should rise by $6.5 million a year. SOVIET EXHIBITION Jakarta, Indonesia (UPI) The Soviet Union Tuesday night opened an 18-acre ex hibition of products ranging from farm equipment to a model of a Russian earth sa tellite. The permanent pavi lion housing the displays will be turned over to the Indo nesian government at the end of the exhibition's one-month run. Pearl Mesta Backs Nixon Candidacy Washington -IIIPII- Washing ton hostess Pearl Mesta, who once supported Lyndon B. Johnson for president because he s got everything, today endorsed Richard M. Nixon as "the best qualified candi date." Mrs. Mesta said in a state ment she was supporting the GOP nominee because "we need a man not only of test ed experience but also of hu man understanding, guided by deep principles." The famed Washington party-giver, U.S. minister to Lux embourg under President Tru man, said she had decided to back Nixon "only after much prayerful reflection because I have many affectionate tics with the Democratic party, but of course my country conies first." Hollywood WPll Actor Jo seph Cotten, 55, and British actress Patricia Medina, 37, will be married Thursday at the home of producer David Sclznick. The couple took out a marriage license Tuesday in nearby Santa Monica. Both have been married once before. Birmingham, Ala.-dPD-Mrs. Kathryn Anderson,- 33, a "model housewife" and moth er of three who was'acquitted last year of bank robbery charges, pleaded guilty Tues day to forging a $502 check on her husband's insurance company. She was sentenced to five years in prison. 4 5 EX-COLLEGE HEAD DIES High Point, N. C;-(UPIl-Dr Eugene J. Coltrane, 77' for mer president of Brevare College and onetime fielc representative of the,Nationa. Committee of Education bji Radio, died Tuesday. - : Important Otii Hear J J "Vi G0V-MARK I fl HATFIELD... V I F and local j I 1 Republican Candidates V OLD FASHIONED 2 POLITICAL RALLY f J I 6:30 P.M. 'H I Saturday, Oct. 22 SPi 1 TlJ In Front of the q1 J 35 Courthouse in Medford Come, meet and hear your -candidates! Free refresh ments and musical entertainmentl lots of funl (Spon- sored by Jackson County Young Republicans Club.) ml Mmm' M If MmW f miiiJ ffWfcii ' PRESCRIPTION DRUcS STORES fl IjftliPrf I im cm ''
