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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!
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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
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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.
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Miry Tunjito, Surttory
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