Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 12, 1962, Image 5

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Newspaper Page Textmi in i.i fi ' rSlZljl. $ LlklL nlJL j GREETS MOTHER - California incumbent candidate Ed mund G. (Pat) Brown kisses his mother, Mrs. Ida Brown, on his arrival at a dinner in his honor in San Francisco. In a later speech Brown charged the Richard M. Nixon, his op ponent, seeks "one-man" rule in California. (UPI) Planning Group Approves Variance To Sign Provisions ine Meaiord planning com mission last night approved requests from Standard Oil company for variances to sign provisions in limited commer cial zones in Medford. The variances were sought to enable the company to erect a 36-foot sign at a station lo cated on the north side of Crater Lake highway and a 50-foot sign at a proposed sta tion to be situated on the east side of Biddle rd. opposite the interchange for Interstate 5 freeway. Hal Edwards, representing Standard Oil company, told the commission his firm wants the sign on Crater Lake high way to be "eye-level" to traf fic approaching Medford from the cast, and that it should be visible to motorists for nboul one-quarter mile before they reach the station. "This is what the public wants," Edwards assured the commission, "quick identifica tion of a sign, so they wi'l have time to slow their cars to make the turnoff." The vote on the Crater Lak e highway sign variance was 6 to 1, with Commissioner Larry Horton voting in oppo sition to the request. Like the true, human gypsy whose origin was probably India, but whose wanderings traversed all of Europe, and who later pursued their no madic life over America a . few years ago, the moth named for them, the Gypsy moth, arrived from Europe a few decades ago, and proved to be an undesirable citizen. The true Gypsy has just about disappeared from the rural scene, or has been absorbed by a superior culture but, in one section at least of the U. S., the moth named after them is still in evidence. The word Gypsy, for a moth In this Instance was well taken, and until a strict quarantine was enforced against the insects move ments, it threatened to pop ulate every area with its ob noxious presence. The Gypsy moth adopted a clever method of expansion, traveling great distances with little or no effort on its part. The larva of the gypsy moth would suspend itseif from tree limb, or the over head beams of a bridge and drop down on a passing truck, wagon, or train that passed underneath. In this way they could be carried to distant points to develop and later lay eggs, populating areas never before known to be occupied by Gypsy moths. The female Gypsy moth, willing to lay her eggs on tree trunks, boxcars, bridaos, or buildings, might be lucky enough to place a cluster on a carrier of one sort or anoth er that would later carry them to a distant town, or even state. This usually occurred the following spring as the eggs hold over during the win!cr. The following spring the young larva would emerge: immediately they would begin eating the leaves of the near est trees and shrubs Because of this nomadic tendency, quarantine lines With reference to the Bid- del rd. station, Edwards ar gued that the sign had to be 50 feet high in order for it to be visible to freeway traf fic over the top of the Inter national Harvester comoany building, which is adjacent to the station site. "This will be a S65.000 sta tion," Edwards said, "and will employ six men during the winter and between 12 and 14 during the summer months." Edwards said his firm ex pects more than 300.000 tran sient vehicles to pass through Medford next year on the freeway. "This city is a natural mid point between San Francisco and Portland or Seattle," he said, "but the signs have to be visible to them in order to gel them to stop in Med ford. If they miss the offramp, though, they're gone." Commissioner Walter Hig gins expressed concern that the "entrance to our city is going to be a hodge-podge of signs." but the group voted 4 to 3 to approve the variance request. The matters will now go before the city council for final action. Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. WATKINS (Register ind Tribune Syndicate 19621 and have pretty well contain ed the ypsy moth to a re stricted area. The peculiar flight of the adult Gypsy moth is a pretty accurate mark of identifica tion; the flight of the male is a crazy zigzag pattern; he never seems able to straighten up and fly right. The female is very reluctant to fly; at best she merely blunders along near the ground. Both male and female moths are nearly covered with hair. The antennae of the male is a comb-like structure, al most like the tip end of a bird's feather. The little used wings of the female are a dirty white, spotted with black spots. She Is willing to plaster her cluster of rust-colored eggs on any available support. Even the egg cluster of the Gypsy moth contains numerous hairs from the female's body. The larvae that hatches from these egg clustrcs, eat and grow until thev mav he two inches in length. Their bodies are also hair-covered and the hairs are barbed. causing pain and swelling if the caterpillar is carelessly handled. Todays Gypsies are mostly moin-creaturcs whose no : madic travels are pretty well restricted to only local areas j but always they arc watchful always there is a possibility ' that they will escape their ; bounds and resume their de structive travels. O THE BIBLE E3 U SI'EAKS Q Sunday, 9:00 a.m. K-SHA-860kc Enrollments, Financing Are By EARL H. ADAMS Mail Tribune City Editor (Eighth In A Serin) The basic problem facing education today is really a complex one: How to provide a quality education to an ever in creasing number of students on all grade levels in ex panded plant facilities with out supporting taxes being increased to a point of ex cessive burdensomeness. This problem is perhaps more in focus today than at any other time in history. Bar Association Presents Court An Award Plaque Medford Attorney William Kellington, representing the American Bar association, this morning presented an honor able mention award from the association to Medford's mu nicipal court. Medford Mayor John W. Snider accepted the plaque on behalf of the city and the municipal court. Kellington said the award was a result of the annual traffic safety inventory, which this year won the city two other awards. They were pre sented to the city about a month ago by Gov. Mark O. Hatfield. Medford's inventory, along with ones from 467 other cities, was evaluated by the American Bar association traffic court program. M e d ford scored within the top 2 per cent of participating cities, Kellington said. Work To Improve "This award was won be cause Medford s municipal court has continually worked to improve itself," Kelling ton said, "not because it was excellent to begin with." He pointed out that traffic cases are now handled sepa rately from other cases, that there is a "complete lack of tickit-fixing," and that law yers have been appointed to the municipal court bench. Observers at the ceremony included District Court Judge Loren L. Sawyer, Circuit Court Judges James M. Main and Edward C. Kelly, Police Chief Charles P. Champlin and Captain Clyde Fichtner. Former Municipal Court Judge Ronald Ricketls and present Municipal Court Judge Joseph Fliegel Jr., also were present at the ceremony in citv hall. Sfeelhead Measure Taken Off Ballot Salem-iUPIl-The Oregon Su preme court today tossed the steclhead initiative measure off the Oregon Novembor bal lot. It would have curtailed commercial fishing on the Columbia river and made steclhead a game fish. It was ballot measure No. 8. This leaves a total of nine measures on next month's ballot. The decision was 6-1, with Justice Kenneth O'Connoll dissenting. The majority opinion, writ ten by Justice Alfred T. Goodwin, held that 34,000 signatures collected under a faulty ballot title could not be counted. That left only 20.000 valid signatures on the initiative petition - not enough to get it on the ballot. FBI CRACKS DOWN Washington -lUPli- The FBI said Thursday it will ask for help from law enforcement of ficers throughout the nation to crack down in interstate gambling. Enforcement of re cently passed laws on inter state gambling will be dis cussed in a series of confer ences to be held by FBI field offices for state, county and city authorities between Oct. 15 and Dec. !. J 4 Y jr. : a. for STATE REPRESENTATIVE OuMf indino. trmhmn Legislator 1961 Session ?6 Pol. Adv. S V. McQueen, 2136 H.Hcreit , "7" $i 3 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON The post-war baby crop is entering high school, and each year more high school graduates continue to a col lege or university. Arthur S. Flemming, president of the University of Oregon, said the immedi ate problem "can be docu mented by the simple pro cess of counting the number of students in the public schools and estimating the number who will go on to higher education." The same is true at Ore gon State university, Cor- On the Air By ELEANOR WIESE The swindles, fraud and thievery that surround the interstate highway program will be probed by David Brinkley in a full-hour news special Saturday at 7:30 p.m. on KMED-TV. Brinkley says the nation's highway projects are costing some S41 billion, with a large amount finding its way into the pockets of highway of iciaLs, contractors, inspec tors and others. The program is titled "The Great Highway Robbery" and will serve as the new season's premier edition of "David Brinkley's Journal." "Wherever probers have looked, they've found scan dals, irregularities, fraud and thieving," Brinkley says. "Thirty-one states have been investigated either by state legislative committees, the FBI. the government account office or the Congressional investigating committee head ed by Rep. John A. Blatnick (D.. Minn.)." The show was filmed in New Mexico, Oklahoma and Florida. The film crews found roads built to "nowhere," new highways falling apart because of cheating on speci fications, dishonest appraisals of right-of-way properties, payola, falsified records, shakedowns and numerous shenanigans. The crews also repeatedly ran into opposition and ob stacles. In Florida, one con tractor threatened to "run Brinkley off the air" unless the program was dropped. In Oklahoma, a highway , of ficial who had testified to wrongdoing before the Blat nik committee and was still on the job, ordered highway employees not to talk. Brinkley says no one can estimate precisely how many billions of tax dollars are in volved in highway scandals across the country. "But we show that kited and phantom appraisals in right-of-way alone will raise the cost of our highway program by at least two billion dollars. And some Investigators estimate SOBBING SIMS 27th Anniversary Sale GAS POWERED MODEL PLANES COMET SABRE (Reg. .8I ... 4.88 WENMAC PLANES (Reg. T 1 .98 t 7.77 THIMBLE DROME TRAINER 9.98 COX CUB 150 7.98 LAY-AWAY NOW FOR CHRISTMAS Li Cnuai lima nrA rr r na u SOBBING SIMS IS NOW OPEN ALL DAY SATURDAY SIMS vallis, and it Southern Ore gon college, Ashland, and at high schools throughout the state, including those in Jackso.i county. In the state supported schools of higher education this year there are 31.812 students, a 10.2 per cent in crease over the 28,900 en rolled last year. Increases at the nine colleges and uni versities range from .7 per cent at Oregon Technical Institute in Klamath Falls to 26.5 per cent at South ern Oregon college. that on the 41,000 mile inter state highway system, tax payers are being swindled to the tune of $4,000 a mile." (Editor's note: It was this program that alleged improp ertics in the Oregon highway construction program, which were strongly denied by State Highway Engineer Forrest Cooper last week. It has been pointed out that the Oregon highway program is among the cleanest in the nation, and that Oregon stands No. 1 in percentage of interstate high way work completed of all the states. The allegation of impropriety apparently was based on a misinterpretation of a report of some years ago.) Norfolk, Va. -lUPli- The nu clear powered aircraft carrier Enterprise returned Thursday from a two-month tour of duty in the Mediterranean with the U. S. Sixth Fleet. The vessel will undergo mainten ance, then join the Navy's At lantic Fleet. NOTICE to Our Customers McGwires FURNITURE Will B. CLOSED Friday and Saturday October 12 13 for Redecorarion Open From MONDAY October 15 . Strong . Quick vSafe . No wojie Wokei 36 uniform potato strips with one llrok '66' WITH THIS AD Cycle & Hobby Shop 23 North Fir 772-2472 Among The University of Oregon has 9,600 students this year, and Oregon State university has passed the 10,000 mark. Flemming said the uni versity in 10 years from now, "taking into account the greatly increased enroll ments in community col leges, we expect a full time equivalent of 16.551 students. This is approxi mately double the number of students we now have." Present Equivalent The 9,600 students now enrolled at the university represents a full-time equiv alent ot 6,532 student;, he said. Flemming noted that communities of Oregon have been able to accommo date this increased enroll ment year by year for the past 15 years, but "because of the increased birthrate after the war (there will be) great numbers . . . en ter our doors in a very short period of time." 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WE HAVE STACKS OF IT- BABY RUTHS - SNICKERS - MILKY WAYS - PALOOPS-NESTLES CRUNCH M & M's HERSHEY BARS ...2c and 5c Buy They by the Box for the Trick or Treaters Buy Them by the Box for the Also Bag Candy 25c to 73c Add Federal Exciia TiX on HESiryE? I MEDFORD'S ORIGINAL DISCOUNT STORE I OPEN WEEK DAYS 8 TO 9 SUNDAYS 9 TO 2 Problems of Education tinue to face, elementary and secondary schools. Enrollment in the 17 schools in the Medford dis trict increased S per cent over last year; it has in creased on an average of about 4 per cent for the past several years, and in dications are the rate of growth will be about the same, or a little greater in the future. High School Enrollment Enrollment In Medford High school this year in creased 17 per cent from 1,585 to 1,860. This has cre ated crowded conditions, aiiii aor,c incenvi0' fo students and tcacher3. Other high schools in Jackson county are experi encing similar conditions, and each year that enroll ments increase, so do some of the problems of provid ing adequately qualified teachers, classroom space to avoid overcrowding, and providing for an expanded curricula to offer the larger number of students. In addition to creating SLUSHERS $1.95 CARTER HALL 51.19 SERIES Special FOAMY SHAVE CREAM All For 51.95 2 51.39 GIFT ITEM FOR MEN AND WOMEN NE LEEN A DAY tht ONE STEP lid to ig. appttitt control for Tj wilfht loil t, 1 30diyiuppiy...395 l I0diwpplj...635 $6.95 A SHAVER $1488 . taoiule a W l'h t'mert action rttulalei and i '(i ewt v"' peit M ft to 10 houfl. Thf LECN W plan mahtt it eai'tr to " advert to t low niona !tl while eating your favofitt toorti od ffmemtter. solid food eP vu rfu'a'. Hep you 1''"C f"l teii" u"an1d poundl. For guyi at nil ai &ALS loo? Txbl Mtrchtndis FRIDAY. OCTOBER problems of teacher short ages, classroom shortages, and of how to provide the curricula demanded in a more complex society, in creased enrollments create a major problem in financ ing. Public school districts each year face increased budgets, resulting usually in increased levies. If more classrooms arc needed, an additional levy is usually sought through bond issues, boosting an already high property tax. Financing Problem A financing problem also exists on the ptn institu tion of higher education level. Every two years, the legislature is asked to in crease funds for higher ed ucation, and every two years the problem of where the funds will come from be comes more acute. Bonds have been issued to finance construction of living quart ers for college students, but the money for general op eration of colleges and uni versities comes from gen FOR WOMEN ONLY RAIN SLUSHERS for HEAVY PLASTIC TRIPLE SOLES PLASTIC RAIN BONNETS KEEP THOSE TONI'S DRY FOR JUST PLASTIC RAIN WRAP FULL LENGTH WITH HOOD NEW Invisible Treatment jives you ICE O MEDICATED loafci and hlt dl(frfit from any thing you' tvar wiodl Thii cool, cryital-cloar fll dlippiau Into your ikln fht nomtnt you unoeth H n. Works Immcdiotoly to Klp con trol plnpla Infection, prtvont block hoodi, roduco oillnou. Rofrothlng, non-groaiy. rVfoct moko-up boio for glrli, m flno followup offer having for mon. By f harntacouHoal Division of Shulton. 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