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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1963)
MKDFORD MAIL IHlhUNt. MtDOHD. OHtUON A 7 23 Organizations Plan to Attend VAVS Meeting White City Twenty-three organizations from southern Oregon and northern Califor-! nia, members of the advisory j committee. Veterans Adminis- j tration Volunteer Service, will I meet Monday, Feb. 11, at! 11:15 a.m. j Dr. E. G. Everett, chief medical officer of the domi-1 ciliary and chairman of the VAVS, will preside. Plans for the annual recog nition ceremonies and Turna bout party will be discussed. The Turnabout entertain ment for the volunteers will be held March 1 at 8 p.m. in the VA theater. Certificates will be awarded volunteers who have contributed 100, 300, 500 and 1,000 hours of service to disabled veterans. Entertainment will include music and other features by the domiciliary orchestra the Astronauts-and members. Several volunteers will re ceive pins for 2,500 hours of voluntary service. The meeting also will in clude planning for the annual Hobby Fair at the domicili ary which coincides and will be a feature of the annual Pear Festival at Medford, April 20 and 21. Frank J. Glonning, deputy chairman of the VAVS committee, attends meetings of the Pear Festival committee, and is chairman of one of its special commit tees, arranging for that annual show and parade. The Hobby Fair, becoming an integrated part of the Fes tival, is supported by the VAVS here. Mrs. Todd Buys Old Law Volumes Mrs. Ann Todd, Eagle Point, Friday was sold several volumes of obsolete law books from the Jackson county courthouse law library for $1. Her sealed bid was the only one submitted to the county court. Mrs. Todd told the county court she was sorry the coun ty had spent $3.18 on a legal advertisement of the bid open ing. The court's earlier resolu tion directed the obsolete vol umes be disposed of on a bid basis or first come first served order. County Judge Earl M. Mil ler agreed the court should reconsider its method of dis posing of the law volumes. He said a number of old volumes mistakenly had been thrown away and were not included in the sale. Mrs. Todd said she had been picking up the obsolete volumes as they were discard ed before the county court issued its new order. The decision for control of the law volume disposal was aimed at her personally, Mrs. Todd said. It originated with Medford lawyer H. Dewey Wilson and former County Commissioner Chester Wendt, and not the Jackson County Bar association which took little interest in the matter, she said. Storm Front Brings Dampness to GP Grants Pass - A storm front which moved into this area at the end of last month broke up what might have gone down in history as the driest January on record here. Up to Jan. 29, precipita tion for the month totaled only .05 of an inch. The storm, however, dumped enough rain on the area to swell the month's total to 2 92 inches, still below the 15-ycar January average of 6.77 but above the 1949 low record of 1.18 inches. Minimum temperatures re corded here in January also were the coldest since 1949. Below - freezing minimums were recorded on 27 straight days, with an average mini mum of 23. 7 degrees. The 15 year average January mini mum is 32 5 degrees. Kiwanian Wives lo Aliend Luncheon Vivp nf mpmhprt will be guests Wednesday at the regu lar noon luncheon meeting of Medford Kiwanis club at Rogue Valley Country ciub. A musical program will be provided by Medford High school students. The forthcoming Kiwanis Kapers also will be discussed at the meeting, and Robert Gregory, professional director, for the annual show will at tend. A "meet the director" party is planned also for Wednesday evening at the high school band room. The Kapers production. "Well. Flip My Wig." will be presented Feb. 27 and 28 and March 1 and 2 at the Medford High school auditorium. Dr. Douglas Philips is Kaperj iairman. School Business Is YOUR Business... Consolidation is GOOD Business! Mill!! uiffflnnn ju lyj iyj Ha lii Consider These VITAL, BASIC FACTS about Consolidation! "Consolidation should not be an emotional subject - nor one of justifiable pride in a good school system. The question should be "What will give our children the best educational opportunity pos sible?" Should we let the pride of our oiders deny a better edu cational system for our children? "Consolidation" will, beyond any doubt, produce a finer educational plant and a finer curricu lum for all our children of Medford, Phoenix and Talent. The Bureau of Education Research, University of Oregon, in its study of the Phoenix District makes these comments. 1. Supervisory personnel in the Phoenix District is inadequate. Con solidation will provide full supervisory service. 2. There is a need for teacher in-service training in Phoenix. Consoli dation will provide this important educational aid. 3. There is no opportunity in Phoenix for 7 grades to have vocal music experience. "A general music course is desirable," states the report. Consolidation will correct this deficiency. 4. Many classes in Phoenix schools have as few as 4-6-8 and 10 stu dents per teacher thus creating a high teacher-student cost ratio. Consolidation will eliminate such uneconomic factors. Such elimin ation spells efficiency and savings of the tax dollar. Read the many favorable-and the many critical factors of District 4 (Phoenix) in this report. Then vote for consolidation it makes good sense. Consolidation is not lust a bid district absorbing a smaller one. Rather, it is the merging of TWO good school districts to create ONE FAR BETTER. And as far as Phoenix-Talent losing control -this is not so. In our democracy, there will always be an import ant place on any consolidated board for the able people of Phoenix-Talent to contribute to the operation and direction of the big ger district. VOTE MONDAY AT THESE POLLING PLACES If You Live In EITHER of These Two Districts-Be SuirVtoVOTE! TALENT: MEDFORD DISTRICT: Talent Elementary School Gym Griffin Creek School Jefferton School Ruch School Hoover School Lincoln School Washington School PHOENIX: Jackson School lone Pine School West Side School . Howard School Oak Grove School Wilson School Phoenix Elementary School Gym j4ck,onvill. School Roo.ev.lt School nil 1 - w- iii " T i """TrrTin ' -ry J.i 1 IITKT S r frill n slmFl I SCHOOL DISTRICT MAP I CenWPenMJ j I ill Z - . "fiX'ROOUE VAllfcV 1 I III D h JACKSONVILLE J I O J jT . NHOEWX I III -n-ruch L TALENTkT 1 111 5 DISTRICT JOIST. 7 S 549-C J 4 J 01 ' J . " I COPPER. . I CALIFORNIA , . I BILL MC COBKLC Watch CHANNEL 10 TONIGHT 5 p.m. iu US IN PASSING... The costly, inefficient driving of school buses in the transport of school children along Bar nett Road across District 4 and District 549C boundary - daily - both ways, is an uneco nomic practice and a waste of taxpayers' money. Consolidation will eliminate this practice. TOTE AND THIS QUESTION... Do the taxpayers of Phoenix-Talent want to pay for an elementary school on Argonne at over $200,000 in cost that would be an abso lute duplication of Hoover School nearby, which is capable of handling all the children in this area? FOR CON READ THIS ONE, TAXPAYERS... From the latest published figures in the county super intendent's office on per pupil cost: The Phoenix High School (1959-60) sustained an annual $787.95 per student cost, while at the Medford High School, the per student cost was $449.70. When this im portant fact is combined with the richer, fuller cur riculum of 91 courses in Medford High as contrasted to 52 in Phoenix High and with Medford ranking better than 98 academically - right at the top, among our nation's high schools - then one with all honesty, must conclude that Medford High School is delivering absolutely top educational benefits to its students for 43 less money per annual student cost. SOL Ml on n. Poi. Ad. Citinnl Commit, far Consolidati.n Miry Tunjito, Surttory 2441 Iditmoiit Dii.
