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12 A WEDNESDAY. APRIL 19. 19B1 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Use of County's PuHSc Library Increases 28 Per Cent in Year ' The use of the Public LI- brary of Medford and Jackson , county during March to creased 28 per cent over a year ago,' according to Omar A. Bacon, librarian. The increase is from 21,800 books borrowed for home use in March 1960 compared to 28,000 this year. The greatest 1 increase was in the county branch libraries, where the .increase amounted to 3,900 books or 114 per cent, he said, The March' use follows the general heavy use which .started with the current fiscal ": year last July. The home use of .books Increased 30.5 per cent In the nine months be ginnings July 1, This repre sents 48,500 more boons bor rowed from branch libraries and downtown Medford, or an increase of almost one book per person. The branch It braries increased 107 per cent and the Medford: library. IB per cent,..,' Moro Using Library J :; Many, more persons are us ing the services of the library now than last year. . There .have been. 5,100 new users in .the nine months, compared .to only 3,700 borrowers whose registration expired. This is a net gain of 1,400 persons, or 38 per. .cent, Bacon noted, Each month an average of 145 new patrons are added to the total served. Other services of the li brary show equal gains, More " persons use the reading room facilities, and more children attend the story hour each week, he said. Publicity of the story hour had to be dlscon tlnued to hold attendance . within the' capacity of the library facilities. ' There are many reasons for the increased use of the li brary, . according to Bacon. .The main ret son is the fact that the library represents the basic source of adult informa tion and cultural knowledge in the county. The public library Is the only agency charged with pro. viding general information for adults, and is a supplementary source for students ot all ages. Another Reason The next greatest reason for the rapid increase in the library use is due to the in creased budget for the current year. The city of Medford provid ed an increase of $4,011, Jack son county court, $14,404, and a state library grant $27,000 for a total of $45,415 increase. These funds made it possi ble to open the branch , 11 braries many more hours, start a branch in Prospect, and provide Quantities of new books, pamphlets, and records to the entire county. Since the library has been depressed for many years -when compared to libraries of Klamath, Douglas, and Jose phine counties, this "shot in the arm" from the increased funds produced a rapid in. crease in library ;' use and users, Bacon said. ' Becoming Cultural Center As a result of the increased budget and . general accept ance, the public library is on the road ; to equality . with neighboring counties,, and to Ashland Man Pleads Guilty To Petty Theft Ashland - Michael Bow Kin Lam, 19, of 455 South Mountain ave,, Ashland, pleaded guilty to a charge of petty theft in Ashland mu nicipal court yesterday. .. Lam was sentenced to five nights in jail and was ordered to pay a $25 fine. The charge originated from the theft of an item from an Ashland gro cery store April 8,. Ashland police said. . ' Turkey Gets New Phone Number To Help Eviction ! Massena,' N.V.-(UPI)-"Tom the Telephone Turkey" may be making a long distance move today.; . . ... ' Tom Is a 15-pound, three-foot, wild turkey who likes the comforts of the aluminum , telephone booths at Barnhart Wand State, Park., . ' , ' Park director!, who think' telephone booths should be rerved for people, are planning to net Tom and ship him 1 i to the Thousand Islands State Park about 100 miles west tt hre. ; ', ..'"'' ' i ' , ' ' The officials arc depending on seven lady wild turkeys at t' e Thousand Islands Park to woo Tom back to the joys of i trtt and swimp. ':;,'.!. . . C.'liolals were going to bring. a hen turkey to Tom, but ladies turned out to be as hard to catch as Tom was to . frark Director Charles Mitchell said. f-s having his troubles too. Ever since Friday when his telephone number appeared In print, his phone has been ringing almost constantly. ! i r . .... Park rangers discovered Monday that Tom had moved to a new booth, about a half-mile away, apparently to escape the ringing. The unsympathetic rangers immediately re vealed Tom's new number - Rockwell 9-9773. . becoming an effective cultur al service. The future of the public li brary depends on continued generous support, according to Richard H. Travis, presi dent of the Public ' library trustees. . . The state grant of $27,000 ends July 1 this year. Unless local support is increased for the coming year, library serv ice will drop back toward the limited service of prior years. Present library users will be turned away unless funds are available for more help and more books, he said. The budget presented to the county court and the city pro vides for an Increase of $28, 771 from the two bodies, Travis said. : City's Share The city's share was set at $7,199, and includes $3,939 to improve the lights in the Medford library reading rooms. Better lighting was recommended as a result of study by the California Ore gon Power company, which showed that light levels in the reading room ranged from 3 to 20 candlepower. Recom mended levels range from 60 to 75 candlepower. The county court is asked for an increase of $21,612 for the coming year, according to Travis. The increase will be used to keep the Prospect li brary open for 12 months in stead of 6, as this year, and to open the busy Central Point library 40 hours a week, In stead of the present 30 hours. It will also provide $6,500 Increase for books and maga zines. Telephones for the branch libraries are also in cluded, '' ,'' Total Requested The total budget requested this year is for $120,754, com pared to $114,704 last year. A total of $67,876 is requested from the county, $42,303 from the city of Medford, and $10, 575 from miscellaneous fees and services.- These services will include $1,000 from Ash land public library for cata loging their adult books, and $1,500 from the Jackson County Curriculum Materials Center for cataloging its ma terials. . , Library fees and services is Increased by $4,675 over the budget of 1960-61. The public library is pro viding an important service open to all the people of the county, Travis noted. It now has registered more than 25 per cent of the people in its area. When children under five are excluded and family cards are included, It easily directly serves half the people of the county, The other halt benefit indirectly. "It is our hope," Travis said "that funds will be available to continue our present level of service." PLAYING THE GAME T'ovsmcn Dbvise Game To Keep From rdlinn Aslcop in Press Gallery , Br DICK WEST Washington - ICTD - One of the problems that many Wash In tnn MWfDapermen mutt cope with is how to keep from falling asleep during c o ngresslonal debates, In s a y i n g that, I don't mean to Imply . i . , I VSa?'.i I nallsts are un- drowsiness or that all forensic activity in the House and Sen ate Is necessarily conductive to somnolence. 1 ' The oratory, at times, can be stimulating, or at least irri tating, so that wakefulness presents no difficulty. , The problem only arises when the floor is being held by a certain group of law givers whose speeches, if they could be bottled, would quick ly corner the sleeping pill market 7 . There Is ' no written rule that I know of that expressly forbids slumbering in the press galleries, but anything more than an occasional cat nap Is considered bad form, Pinch and Punch For this reason, the gallery occupants must Improvise ways of staying awake. Some of them punch themselves, some take turns pinching each other, and some of us more scholarly types play the spon sor game. The object of this game is to think up odd kinds of legis lation that could be intro duced and then pick the ap propriate members of Con gress to sponsor the measures. For example, one of the players recently hit upon a proposal to change the size of coins so that dimes would no longer be smaller than nickels and pennies. . : As sponsor of this measure, he selected Rep. Paul A. Flno (pronounced "Fceno"). Thus It became known, under the rules of the game, as "The Fino Mint Bill." The real sport, however, comes from the invention of mythical bills that hava co- sponsors. In this category, the players must ; find ' combina tions of congressmen-to match the legislation. Three Choices : ' If the measure happened to deal with farming, the logical sponsor would be Sen. Norris Cotton, Then the player would have a choice' of three possi ble co-sponsors, , He could have a "Cotton Hull Bill," or a "Cotton-Bush Bill" or a "Cotton-Mills Bill," depending on whether he picked Sen, Prescott Bush, or Rep. W. R. Hull Jii, or Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, Each player writes on a slip of paper a brief descrip tion of the ' legislation and then lists the co-sponsors. The last time I played the game, we had measures that: - -Required all homeowners to have a backyard bomb shel ter: The Diggs-Celler Bill. -Established rates for use of federal highways: The Toll Rhodes Bill. -Required disclosure of gambling operations: The Bar-lng-Betts Bill. -Set standards for carbine manufacturers: The Short-Rel-fol Bill. -Fixed minimum wages for chefs: The Kitchen-Cook Bill. ' X I. J r II Mr ' i anr n r nnpr t pr to w I NATIONAL LIBRARY WEPK APR. 16-22 Limited resource! for education and information en danger free people. Be glad you live in a country where the press is free to print and you are free to read. "For a fuller, richer life Readl" . Medford Mail Tribune v V.";"-:" - --J -r-'.v -' -V 'fi n .it GREETINGS!- When the Philadelphia Chil- seemed as glad to see eight-year-old Robin dren's Zoo opened for the season, a llama Faigenbaum as she did to see him. i (UPI Telephoto) 4-H NEWS Busy Beavers The Busy Beavers 4-H club met at the home of Charles Mose recently. The meeting started at 7:30, and the 4-H members brought their enrollment cards to be signed by the leaders. Planting shrubs at the Sams Valley school was discussed.., Cynthia Pleasant's cousin, Maria Ysunza was visiting. Carole Jacket, Reporter Modern architecture re quires tres and shrubs and landscaping In general to pro vide -warmth and naturalness to man-made buildings, ac cording to the American As sociation of Nursery man, whether they are homes, fac tories, or other structures. I WHO IS I f J. R.? J Measures Signed By Gov. Hatfield Salem - (D?D - Gov. Mark Hatfield Tuesday signed Into law SB75, extending civil rights laws to all goods and services offered to the public. Other bills signed: SB4 - Deferring reapprais al in certain counties. SB29 - Highway abandoned vehicle account funds. SB30 - Chauffeurs' licenses. SB31 - Permitting initial vehicle registration .up to 15 months. HB1320-Chiropodists' ex ining board renamed podia trists' examining board. . ATTENTION NAME ........ .........: ................. ADDRESS ......:... 1...... ......... 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