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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,
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Weather Officers
Sought in Service
Klamath Fails - A government-paid
college education
and an Air Force commission
will be offered all those who
qualify for the weather officer
training, according to Maj.
William Harris, weather offi
cer at Kingsley Field, Klam
ath Falls.
Although 30 semester hours
of college credits are general
ly a minimum requirement
for acceptance into the pro
gram, individuals with prior
meteorological experience will
be considered, he said.
"The Air Force will realize
a critical shortage of qualified
weather officers during the
coming years." Major Harris
said. "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
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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
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one is taking greater advant- tribuUng to this increase, I fglpSfSjlia See of ,lgjsSSjfeife.Sy I
age o the program, McNeil Chamber of Commerce Pres- r-T.,. a t- a ui wittmmmTat.j I
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Aliens Reminded To
ruiuAim - ins ismisatmett aaaress to the govern-!
biases- siiunigrauon ana Hat-
uraiizaiioii service was re- 5
minded all aliens in the stales
of Oregon that only seven
nen-eitizens must file their an-1
stuai address report as re-5
quired by law. i
L. Turner, district
direetor, pointed out that
dress report forms are avail-j
able at She nearest immsgra-;
lion service office or post if-i;
fice lor the convenience
non-citizens required to rcpurt j
TUESDA4?, JASSARg
File Addresses
racist earn January trader a I
provision of Hie immmsgratioa
and nationality act at J852.
Turner said the em non-
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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.
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