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2 D THURSDAY. MARCH 16. 19B1 MEDFOMD MAti. TrUBUNrJ, MtWUHU, ORE. School News Hedrick Junior High Edited by Sara Madden, Vicki Hall and Karen Meadows A special award assembly was held Tuesday, March 7, to award letters and certifi cates to seventh, eighth and ninth grade basketball play' crs and wrestlers. Elected "most valuable player" by the seventh grade Red and White teams was Bruce Bertrand. Tim Watrud was elected "most valuable player" by the eighth grade team and also was awarded the David Dunn Memorial tro phy. Larry Vowell was elect ed "most valuable player by the ninth grade team. "Outstanding wrestler" awards went to Bob Gresh am, seventh grade; George Way, eighth and Greg Gan dee, ninth. The public is invited to hear Medford's all school band lestival on Thursday, March 23, at 8 p.m. at Hed rick Junior High school. Six hundred and forty band stu dents will take part from 14 grade schools, two junior high schools and the senior high school. Damage from the heavy wind storm Friday, March 3, resulted in the loss of the large skylight over the main stairs. Claude Haggard, safety en gineer of the California Ore gon Power company, gave a demonstration of closed heart massage to the eighth grade homerooms, Tuesday, March 7. March 3, 4 and 5, Mary Beth Lockington and Sally Wakefield represented Hed rick at the FHA state meeting at Oregon State college. They stayed at Azalla hall which was located about a block from the college. During their stay they listened to several talks by different organiza tions, one of which was "Un derstanding Ourselves" given by Mrs. Avery H. Steinmetz. At the end of their talk, in which they told of their trip to the rest of the group in FHA, they thanked all of the girls who voted to send them, Barbara Meyers, former Hedrick student, is now the , treasurer of the FHA state officers. The Faculty Sandblowcrs, played the ninth grade Mis sissippi Suckers, Wednesday, March 8. The undefeated fac ulty team averaging 203 on the line and 200 in the back field, with a height advantage of eight inches per man play ed, and lost, to the small, but' 110 LB. FREEZER SPECIAL 25 lb. Beef Roast 10 lb. Round Steak 20 lb. Ground Beef 10 lb. Rib Steak 4 lb. Stew Cubes 9 lb. Short Ribs 3 lb. Cube Steaks 8 lb. Pork Roast 8 lb. Pork Chops 8 lbs. Pork Steaks 5 lbs. Pork Sausago $63 98 NO TO Corned Beef Link Sausage Cube Steaks LOCKER BEEF PRAWNS Large, Tasty OYSTERS Big FREEZER SPECIAL 25 BEEF CHRYSTAL MEATS 4th and Fir speedy ninth grade team of sharpshooters. The score was 53-40 in favor of the Suckers who led all the way. Jewett School Mrs. Zelma Foole, first grade teacher at Jewett school and president of the Jackson County Oregon Edu cation association, announced that two teachers of school district 6 have been elected to offices in the Jackson County OEA. For the 1981 1962 school year, Bill Russell was elected secretary and Don Lacy was elected treas urer. An assembly program was provided for the student body of Jewett school by three of the first grade classes last week. Miss Ila Mae Higinbolham's class presented a play In which the children character ized a spring garCen complete with plants, bugs, rain, sun nd all. Mrs. Ethel Morrison's class did a choral reading and a number of rhythmic activi ties. Mrs. Foote's boys and girls set to music some bull bouncing and rope jumping routines. Hearing tests will be given to pupils of Jewett school the last part of this month. As state audiometrist will check the hearing of all first, third, and fourth grade pupils March 30 and 31. Spring vacation falls dur ing the week of March 13 to 17 this year. Report cards will be given out Wednesday, March 22. Pupils of Jewett school completed all their six weeks tests the week before spring vacation and so this year the teachers will have extra lime available to work on the grades. Plans for the annual Jewett Spring Music program call for two performances this year. Because of the large in crease in enrollment from last year (a jump from ap proximately 300 to 500), the program will have to be pre sented on two different evenings. An estimated 600 parents, and friends turned out to see the program a year ago and a number were unnble to se cure even standing room within sight of the perform ance. Dates selected for the programs this year are March 25, and March 27. The annual open house at Jewett school, in which par enls are Invited to see samples of children's work in al rooms, has been scheduled for Thursday, April 20. WASTE BUY Cut Wrapped and Quick Froien Small 12-oz. Jar . Cut, Wrapped and Quick Frozen evpNeiiK mmm ieBBM pbpbb UNIVERSITY STUDIO - This geodesic dome, based on the architectural design of Buckminister Fuller, is being erected on the University of Oregon campus just off the Pacific highway. The building will bo U.S. Claims Court Called Government's Conscience Washington - IUPD - Did you know the U. S. government has a conscience? Its voice is neither still nor small, but loud and insistent. It is lodged in the U. S. Court' of Claims. The court's job is to right the financial wrongs - legal and moral - suffered at the hands of the federal gov ernment by individuals and businesses at home and abroad. The court relics on the prin ciple laid down by by Presi dent Abraham Lincoln in whose administration the tri bunal got its real authority. Lincoln said, "It is as much the duly of government to render prompt justice against itself in favor of its citizens as it is to administer the same between private individuals." Members of the court have voiced this philosophy with some dexterity down ihrougn the years. Their jurisdiction follows the flag. Jurists who now point the finger of duty at the U. S. Treasury are Chief Judge Marvin Jones of Texas, for mer member of Confiress, and Judges Samuel E. Whitakcr, .Tennessee lawyer who was once city attorney of Chatta nooga and later mayor of Riv erview; J. Warren Madden of Illinois, law professor and for mer chairman of the National Labor Relations board; Don N. Laramoro, one-time Indi ana state judge; and James R. Durfee of Wisconsin, former chairman of the Civil Aero nautics board. Judge Benjamin H. Little- MONTHS TO PAY ON APPROVED CREDIT 69 49 5-$l lb. lb. 98' 49' Lb. Ea. ONLY 5 1 2 98 SP 2 7315 ton of Tennessee, former chairman of the Board of Tax Appeals, still sits on cases quite often, although he re tired from the court in 1053. For years the Claims Court has been housed in a museum like red brick structure, for merly the Corcoran Art Gal lery, located a stone's throw from the White House. It serv ed during the Civil War as a storage place for ammunition. New Home Plans now are under way for construction of a new home, which also will accom modate other federal courts Aggrieved parties may file their own cases with the Claims Court, and Congress can refer claims there for fact finding and recommendation. No claim is too small and no subject matter too bizarre for consideration. For instance, there was the 1924 suit by Herbert S. Ward, an Agriculture department in spector, for $1.50 lunch mon ey which the comptroller gen eral had disallowed. Ward won, arguing his own case. In 1918 and 1920 came a federal tax on candy. The court had to decide if the tax applied to the pop corn deli cacy known as Cracker Jack. It did. In 1937 an elderly couple who operated a silver fox farm in Alaska sought dam ages because of the enlarge ment of Mount McKinlcy Na tional park. The advent of horses, rangers, dogs and tour ists created so much confusion the foxes stopped mating. Duke Stubbs and his wife won a $50,000 judgment. About the same time one ot the court's most celebrated cases was urougnt ay i. in. Belcher, a Central City, Ky., dealer who supplied $200 worth of coal to the local post office. He borrowed this mon ey at the bank while waiting for the government to pay but was never able to collect. Paid in Full Belcher died while trying to convince the comptroller Rcneral that the debtJiad not been "paid in full" by the bank. His widow finally sued and got the money. "T h i s method of settling government obligations is so novel that it should be patent able," the court said in its opinion. "(But) that a just government would pursue such a course ... is almost i incrnHil-iln " One more recent case that set a legal precedent w a s brought by Thomas Lee Caus by, who operated a ahlckcn fnrm near the Greensboro, N. C, city airport. The govern ment leased the field and be gan flying heavy military planes at low altitudes. Causby's hens stopped lay ing eggs. The court, upheld in lt)4(i by the U. S. Supreme Court, ruled that the govern ment had taken an easement over his property and was li able for just compensation. Not all cases arc so folksy. Many involve damages caused by war. allegedly unfair dis charges from civil service. In I dian claims, government con j tracts and the like. Now scheduled for argu ment before the U. S. Su preme Court Is an appeal by three Army privates who de I fectcd to the Communist Chi i ncse after the Korean War j but returned home later. They i sued for $!),2SH in prisoncr- of-war pay, although while i held in Korean prison camps : they had fraternized with I their captors and informed on i fellow prisoners. ' Court Split I This case split the Claims Court. Speaking for the ma jority, Jones said, "It is al most" Incredible that these men would ask for pay In the ligM of the conduct disclosed in the record." However, Madden thought the Army had no legal right to refuse the money, regard ; MICA CENTER j India produces 55 million pounds of mica annually. I I V'l l Vkii used as a sculptoring studio by university students. It is constructed of plywood and Douglas fir with a concrete floor. tUPI Telephoto) less of how "traitorous and contemptible" the conduct of the men had been. They have "incurred the just condemna tion of public opinion," he said, but "the courts have nothing to do with that judg ment." . The Supreme Court will hear the case some time this term. Oregonians know and demand good seafood and that's why BUMBLE BEE Tuna is a favorite. You can actually see and taste why it's best.5 SEE its clearer, cleaner color, its firmer, smoother ;texture.' BEST FOR OREGON'S PROGRESS Columbia River Packers Association, Inc. has ex- Oregon's progress, this growth provides more year panded steadily throughout the 61 years it has 'round employment for more people and millions been packing BUMBLE BEE Seafoods. For in new, taxable wealth for Oregon's economy. COLUMBIA RIVER PACKERS ASSOCIATION, INC., ASTORIA, OREGON pi He Listened In On Bird Conversation Always they gathered there on the mudflat when the tide was out, all facing the same way, all apparently satisfied with the food they had eaten earlier in the day. Close by the sea gulls was a group of black skimmers; solemn looking birds with orange colored bills and shiny black, streamlined bodies. The sandflat, always in evi dence at low tide, was a few yards from shore, but far enough out to offer a cushion of safety to the shore birds that always rested on its gooey surface. Any human passing along the shore was in direct view of the birds. The man who now stood there alerted the birds, but they only watched. The man measured with his eyes the distance from the shore to the mudflat. He marked, in his mind's eye, the exact spot where the birds always gath ered. Ready With Equipment Before the ebbing tide un covered the mudflat the fol lowing morning the man had been out there, carrying with him a microphone, a length of insulated wire, and a small canvas sack. With extreme BEST FOR . a : t . : ' : : Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins (Register and Tribune Syndicite 1961) care he placed the micro phone wrapped in the canvas sack on the mudflat. He anchored it with a loop of wire pushed down into the mud. Unwinding the wire as he walked he waded back to the shore and carried the wire into a clump of bushes. By the time the ebbtide lib erated the mudflat from its blanket of water the man was comfortably seated in the screen of trees, a pair of head phones on his ears, a tape re corder at his elbow. The mud bank glistened in the sun. By ones and twos the sea birds came winging in to rest on the wet sand, all facing into the gentle wind. The man waited for the birds to ex amine the wet canvas sack. Evidently it didn't frighten them. They accepted it as a part of the mudflat. The man switched on the tape recorder, adjusted the earphones. The "conversa tion" among the assembled birds began. Plainly, over the hidden wire came the "voices." 'Talked' At Same Time There were intervals when several birds "talked" at the same time; other times when only a single bird-voice came over the wire. With the aid of pMBLE' I j rwJOUD WHITE TUHAl OREGON'S TASTE I K3 KS3 Bo 5 Hearing Set on Water Rate Bill Salem - WPD - The Senate Commerce and Utilities com mittee Wednesday ordered a public hearing on SB449 which would allow the public utility commissioner to inter vene and settle water rate dis putes between customers and a parent district. Chairman Thomas R- Ma honey (D-Portland) said the hearing probably will be held next Monday. Sen. Richard Groener (D Milwaukie) sponsored the bill and complained that the City of Portland is charging high water rates to outlying dis tricts and customers can do nothing about it. The committee voted out two bills "do pass." One was HB1238 requested by the Port of Portland which would de lete the requirement that ma terial dredged from rivers be binoculars the man could eas ily pick out the one doing the "talking." At such times all the other birds remained quiet. Occasionally, one of the black skimmers, a few yards away, would cock its head to one side, as if listening. The man got it all down on tape and played it back. But he didn't understand it. Perhaps there's nothing to it at all, but the man is con vinced there is more that goes on on the mudflat in the way of ideas or gossip than is un derstood by a human observer -even a silent world is full of sound, if we only could under stand the "language." TASTE the delicious, more delicate flavor of fresh, prime quality tuna, always juicy, never dry. Next time you're buying tuna, be sure you buy the brand with the BUMBLE BEE on the label. located not more than half a mile from shore. The other was SB311 which would authorize people's util ity district to make purchases without competitive bids when the purchase is for technical equipment. Traffic Congestion In Space Forecast Washington, (Science Serv-ice)-Traffic congestion may be one of the most serious problems man may have to face when he starts commut ing regularly from earth to outer space. This new frontier gradual ly is becoming cluttered with earth-launched orbiting ve hicles and other debris. The successful launch of SAMOS II, the U.S. Air Force's new "watchdog" satellite, has in creased to 35 the number of objects now orbiting the earth. These include 16 U.S. satel lites, one of the Soviet Union, several dead rocket bodies and other space "junk." They will soon be joined by French and English built satellites, probably of the smaller "sports-car" variety, as well as vehicles to be launched by the joint efforts of 12 Western European na tions now meeting in Stras bourg, France, to establish a joint space research program.
