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Q 0 0 Growth Trend Is Noted in Sayings, Loan '60 Report The First Federal Savings and Loan association of Med ford, 29 North Ivy st., has re ported a trend of growth and prosperity in 1860, "following the pattern of previous post war years," In its 86th semi-annual fi nancial statement issued De cember 31, the association re ported a 16 per cent gain in reserves raising the total to some $371,458.57, During the year, assets in creased 7 per cent to a total of $5,672,963.38, and a 9 per cent increase in savings boost er the total to $4,889,012.75. Loans tallied $5,013,006.31, an 8 per cent increase. The total loans made during the year exceeded $1,250,000, accord ing to Robert F. Kyle, exec utive vice president. Kyle pointed out that the 1,474 savings accounts main tained a year ago have in creased nov to 1,673. He said the association expects "con tinued steady growth" in sav ings during 1961, and loans should continue to "hold strong." In the December report, the organization also told plans for the construction of a modern office with off street parking at 201 West Sixth St., Medford. Occupancy is expected within a year. Officers and staff members of First Federal include Herb ert G. Grey, president; John Niedermeyer, vice president; John E. Myers, secretary; Mary Jane Myers, treasurer; Jeraldyn Jerome, cashier; Marlys Harsh, assistant cash ier; and Kyle. Directors in clude B. L. Nutting, Harry C. Skyrman, Grey, Nieder meyer, Myers, and Kyle, Styled-lo-Slim 9045 sizes --j-r "I love a step-in with clever collar interest!" Here is one of Spring's smartest - softly eased above and below waist, proportioned to fit, to flatter. Printed Pattern 9045: Half Sizes 1414, 16Vi. 18'2, 20',4, 22Vi, 24 Vi. Size 16V4 requires 34 yards 35-inch fabric. Send FIFTY CENTS (coins) for this pattern - add 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing. 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"In an effort to fill the many predicted vacancies the Air Force Wcther Service it conductin tn education and fimi(in proiram which ttiM eintcet unlimited oppor tune Cos - DRIVING ENERGY The restless, driving per sonal energy of two outstand ing Oregon legislators is prob ably the most important fac tor in the productive speed and elan with which the Leg islature rounded out its second week. The two dynamos are House Speaker Robert B. Duncan (D Medford) and Rep. Clarence Barton (D-Coquille), co-chairman of the Joint Ways and Means committee. By week's end, the Ways and Means committee, which handles all the money bills requests for appropriations), had already approved budgets for seven state boards and commissions-something which has never before happened this early in a session. By working seven days a week, Barton and his cohorts have their schedules so well in hand that night meetings already are being held. On a Sunday afternoon, Barton and his wife, Mae, who serves as his secretary, can be found in the empty, echoing marble halls of the State house, working out the pro gram for the next week's ac tivities. - Duncan, with his wife, Mari jane, and with Beth Wilson, his two secretaries, likewise occupies the Speaker's office for long, wearing hours to ex pedite the heavy work-load that burdens the 1961 session. In addition, the peripatetic Speaker has a busy schedule of speaking appearance that is giving rise to increased specu lation about the Medford's at torney's possible intention to run for governor in 1962. First bill, of the 389 intro duced by the end of the sec ond week, to become law was signed by Acting Gov. Harry Boivin (senate president on duty in the governor's chair while Gov. Mark Hatfield was attending the Kennedy inau guration). The bill appropriated $1, 250,000 for the expenses of op erating the 1961 Legislative Assembly. Out of that sum will come the salaries of legislators, their secretaries, legislative employees, stationery, books, office supplies, and the heavy costs of printing, plus the money for out-of-pocket ex penses which the lawmakers have voted for themselves In a controversial r e s o I u tion whose legality still is in ques tion. And, as the lawmakers, in a penny-pinching mood, go over the budget requests from other state government agen cies, determined to cut spend ing wherever possible, they are sure fo be reminded that this legislature, costing a mil lion and a quarter dollars, will likely be the most ex pensive in the state's history. Most newsworthy informa tion received by the legisla tors the past week was the re port prepared by Legislative Fiscal Officer Kenneth Bragg, reviewing Hatfield's 1961-63 budget. In it, Bragg anticipated another big, "unplanned-for" surplus in the state's revenues, questioned the real need for some of the new building program proposed by the gov ernor, and wondered whether the state wasn't hiring too many people. He suggested it might be better to have fewer, more capable state employees and pay them better, than to have a lot of people working for lower wages. This thick complex report is bound to become a source book of much argument as the session continues. Its very existence and the facts that it will bring to light vindi cates the wisdom of the 1959 Legislature which created the fiscal officer post. In the past, legislators were perhaps too willing to take the easy way out in money matters, accepting without much question (because they themselves were not too well informed) the statements and conclusions of the governor and of the state finance de partment in regard to the slate's finances. Now there is a finance ex pert, responsible to the Leg islature, who makes it his business to ask questions, probe motives, and draw in dependent conclusions without any regard to political ramifi cations. A certain result is that areas of government hith erto largely ignored or taken for granted will be thrown into public controversy. An unquestioned fact is that the legislative fiscal officer and his staff, a bi-partisan crew, have kept "strictly out of politics, at lit insistence of both Speakr Dunctn and Sea. Alford Corfcstt (D-Fort-tW) vhe iftrt iiutrvnafttal ix e?fttif4 tw ne officl wilt dittiftct 1mm s fc'Uhy- Mrgurit W. Wright Hatfield and his finance peo ple. Meanwhile, readers may wonder why it should cost $1,250,000 to run a legislative session lasting maybe 100 days. First, the lawmakers them selves get $600 for the ses soon (technically, for all of 1861, because they are elected for two-year terms and get $1,200 per term if representa tives and four-year terms at $600 per year if senators). Then, each legislator is al lowed one secretary (presiding officers get two). Secretaries get $17 per calendar day; that means they are paid seven days a week no matter how many days or how many hours, including "overtime," they may work. For a 100-day session, then, a secretary would get $1,700. This amount enables them to pay their living expenses, but they won't get rich at the expense of the taxpayers, thBl' for sure! A double room (with shower) in the old wing of Salem's biggest hotel costs S6.50 per day; In the new sec tion, it is $9 per day. Tasty, nourishing breakfasts and lunches at the Capitol Coffee Shop run from 50 cents to $1.00; a steak dinner in a good Salem restaurant costs $2.50 and up. For two people, then, the daily food bill would run around $10. Lobbyists are ail too willing to pick up She tab for drinks and dinner for leg islators, but most lawmakers prefer to pay their own way most of the time.) Take out room and board and there's not much left for coffee breaks, in-town trans portation, laundry, dry-cleaning, telephone calls, and all the other "little things" that can knock any housewife's budget out of kilter. Some lawmakers try to stretch their money further by living in motels, apartments, or trailers, or renting a fur nished Salem house (while the owners vacation in sunny California on the rent money), and doing their own cooking. A few commute to their own homes, running up their gas bills. Most legislators have chil dren as well as wives to sup port. Rep, Dick Eymann D Mohawk) has nine; Speaker Duncan has five with No. 6 due in March. Obviously, their salary as legislators wouldn't allow for any frivo lous gimcracks! The legislators determina tion to get more money some how, either by a set allow ance for expenses or by i pay raise approved by the voters another bill for this is com ing up), is therefore under standable. Make no mistake, the work ing wives earn their pay. Abil ity to type or take dictation isn't absolutely essential to a lawmaker's secretary, al though many like Medford Rep. John Dellenback's wife) have brushed up on their shorthand. Legislative wives make up in enthusiasm, polit ical awareness, social games manship, familiarity with the home folks and constituents, and devotion to their hus band's welfare what they may lack in the usual secretarial skills. Some of the unmarried sec retaries sometimes lack pro fessional training, too. At one session a soion would could type did his secretary's typing tor her; she may not have been able to type but evident ly had other desirable quali ties! Jobs as secretaries and com mittee clerks are sought with an eagerness only partially ex plained by the pay-$22 for some of the clerks. In a town as politically hep as Salem, there is a certain prestige value in legislative jobs. Wives of weli-to-do busi- j nessmcn or established state officials are as competitive for these jobs as middle class housewives who biennaily seek work to eke out a meager family income. So the Legislature's working I women include pert young things clickety-clacking down the gleaming corridors m I their spike heels, fur-draped dowagers, harried mothers (who have to do the house work after they get home at night), and grandmothers ! (whose families are grown). Certainly most of them are performing a useful public service, and, especially the committee clerks, have had years of experience. This ex perience, the skill and wide acquaintance acquired assures Republican women of Jobs even though legislative leader ship is in the hands of Demo-i crats - a factor in the jeai- oucy, buck-biting and intrigue ! lays plays part in I the Mck-ound scene at the MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE, Two Injured in Sunday Accident Two persons sustained ap parently minor injuries in a two-car collision at the in tersection of Niantic and Alice sts., Sunday about 3:30 p.m. Medford police said Valla Elaine Close. 38, of 1001 North Centra! ave., and Wil liam Perry French, 48, of 1306' i North Riverside avc., complained of minor injuries at the accident, but refused medical aid at that time. Both injured persons were passengers in a car operated by LeRoy Close, 48, of 1001 North Centra! ave. The Close vehicle collided with a car operated by Clayton Douglas Batten, 17, of 816 North Riv erside ave. Police cited Close for fail ure to yield the right of way to a vehicle on the right. Hospital Escapee Caught After Chase McMinnviUe -SBPIl- An Ore gon State hospital escapee was captured here early Sunday after a high-speed automobile chase. The escapee, Ruion Wells Hicks Jr., Klamath Falls, was taken into custody by Amity Police Chief Jack Stafford and a McMinnville police depart ment officer after his car struck a curb and stopped. Hicks escaped from the state hospital at Salem Saturday night. require little training or know-how, but considerable political savvy and an in with the "right" people. These are the patronage jobs for which the scramble begins as soon as election results are in: pages, messengers, doorkeep ers, sergeants-at-arms, and some assistant clerkships. This year, the House's pat ronage committee limited Re publicans to three out of the 30 minor positions at its dis posal. In the Senate, Sen. Wal ter Pearson ID-Portland) dis pensed the patronage. There are about 230 legis lative employees, with salar ies ranging from about S12 a day for pages to $35 a day for the expert professional con sultants hired by a few stand ing committees, such as the economic consultant serving the House Taxation commit tee. Some of these jobs undoub tedly could be eliminated some have been already) with no great loss of effici ency In the law-making pro cess, but the weight of tradi tion is heavy in the Slaie house, and screams of rage and pain arise when anyone suggests drastic cuts in the payroll. As it is, some clerks serve two or even three com mittees, personnel in some of fices already work overtime evening with no extra pay. These people feel they earn every cent they get. This is a typical attidue of all state employees, who usu ally consider themselves over worked and underpaid, from the governor down. With a bill in to raise the governor's salary to $25,000 a year, and raise other top state workers, the Legislature will not lake kindly to suggestions that it scrimp more on its own bud get. BEAVER'S TALE: Funny-of-the-week is a sequel to last week's laugh: At a Farm Bu reau "Oregon Farm Products" dinner for legislators, a bit of horseplay included the formal presentation to Sen. A! Flege! (D-Roseburg) of a gilded and bejeweied little shovel with which to continue his fastidi ous curb cieaning-up while walking his two poodles. 1 i 2tS3L, '., A Family Weekly First Shirley MacLalne's candid first byilned magazine articIe:"Nobody Reaiiy Knows Me Except Ma", Uui H ail in yw Chamber Directors Refer Stadium Plan To Committee Study Members of the Medford Chamber of Commerce board) of directors heard four advo-j cates speak on behalf of the! proposed stadium for the Med ford area at a Thursday meet ing at the Rogue Valley Coun-1 try club. President Bob Taylor intro duced "Hub Kittle, manager of the Yakima ball dub; John Weisbrod, Medford realtor; William Siebert. local archi tect; and James hi. Fleishman, president of Nortwestern I Baseball league. The proposal was referred f to the chamber's recreation and convention committee fori study and recommendation to the board. Chairman of the! group is John Pletsch, At the meeting. Manager) Don McNeil announced that Feb. 3 would be the new date for the annual dinner at the j county club. Tickets for the ! 7:30 p.m. affair are available I al the chamber office or from any chamber director. Speaker Named Dr. Howard W. Runkcll, of the department of speech and! drama, Willamette university,; Salem, has been named guest speaker with the topic, "U'ss all in the way you word it. Ray Johnson is chairman of the dinner. McNeil also reported on the j recent Pacific Northwest j Travel association meeting ini Spokane, which he attended.; The manager drew the assign- j ment of representing the as sociation and the northwest! at the Dallas, Tex., travel; , . 4 : The manager said he favor ed retaining the Oregon travel division under the state highway department, rather than moving it into the plan ning and development depart- Court Records &f STRICT COi'HT Terry L. Longicy, improper right turn, S5, Tracy j . Mse- unfaggeii tseaver peEts. $40. H. Bitftvard uniiiggcti beaver pcs, Margiirei Jacobs, taiiure to stop. Si 5. of liquor, $39. sion oi itquar, $30. Alfred Fosrfsi, vioiatfem t basic rie. 538. Ronald J, Kcgicy, failure io stop Leonard Petersen no ilgms, $7.30. Larry J. Freeman vJoisikm of Roscoe G. Day failure trans fer iitle, $5. Snnm A. Wise, no brakes, $Jfi. Primrose Pauline Mergan no safety chains, $iS. Jiofcert Peiie, no brakes, $18. Paul J Stewart, no operator's license, 53. Clyde E, Jones, improper nead JiShls, $7.50. jack p. Gouchcr violation of basic rule, $16. Rttiph E llulsc, violation of fessit rifle. Sir. yncemcta H. Sancfeea failure to transfer title, $5. Clyde E. Fjarii, no Pt3C permit, $23. San A. AquiMfis, no PVC per mit, $15, Leonard W. HowcH, permitting ; unljeeneij person to operate ve-: hiele, $15. Kllzabelb G. Kramheal, no iighi ?lfK Joe S. Sullivan no operator's license. S3. Wayne L. Reed, dumping rub bish on prohibited &nd, S3u. Richard J. msg, dumping rub- i bish on prohibited land, $30, llil?lT COURT Vyrbciie H. Thompson v, Ber narf T. Thomp&on, dlvoree eom- Jnsel M. Smith vs. Harold 5 Smith, divorce complaint. Cari F. McQmsii vs. Lois Earl- em? McQtiSgg, divorce complaint. Meridva Jon 'tosh vs. tonais Dean Tmh, ttivnrce complaint. Cnrtstitic Yvonne tiecves vs. Jer ry Reeves, divorce complaint. Bnetta miene waiJacc vs. Joats Marshal Waif ace, divorce decree. Marv Franres ue Wccrrf vs. Pete De Weerd, divorce complaint. APPLICATION John WiHism Lucas, 3741 Tahte Rock rd,, Medford. and Jenny Pa mela Whealson. 74S',a West Fourth si. Medford tsi3ki iounty iester Roy WiJwai, fSnmmnir, Calif. and Anneile Myri Peck, Uoniir. Charles Leroy Bandy, Star Rouie, Yreka and Cathrrine Klisabih PeebJes, 336 North Main U Yrcka, meat, as H is being proposed. The board isnanimously j mres ? w- iMJ tesk at This Orsel i adopted McNeil's position on) James L. Turner, district j 'pjr, , lil I this matter. director, pointed out that & K5 PhEiI jm jck. I I ri,mte nffirisSs .oortrdidrs report forms are a'....:- I K3f J1 irlf ITS fi m I ,( Tiavtr and simn tnmn "bio at the nearest hnmigra-; fJ ! B 9 Ik. i U.iM,,tlmw wm-o un 137 ow tfcrn service office or post M-lt M 2-Dr Stick Shift r WB Bit i . i rwmw tsififl nivrilxe bsr the convenience m S S I rI I h sm neriod in 1959. This tera required to report yL AS IS,,. 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Turner said the em non- 24, 18S1 11 citizens not required to report their addresses are persons in diplomatic status, foreign rep- Iresentatives of certain ksSer- t national organizations,' and (persons admitted temporarily J as agricultural laborers. gQ ; " t;'feoue. 5 gBM jftfifc tHiMrilW 1Wi i o' O G o 9 3 G
