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NIWIPAMt PUSUIHIH ASSOCIATION Memoer California Nawspapor PubUlhart Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Tha Mall Trlbuno 10, 20, 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 1, 1153 (Wodnaiday) Possibility of the enlarge ment of the Medlord airport by the Air Force, lor uae as an emergency Jet landing field, was aeen here mHay. A deed executing the sale of Southern Pacific railroad property between Main and Sixth ita. to the First No tional Bank of Portland was filed with the Jackson county clerk's office Tuesday. tO YEARS AGO April 1. IMS (Thursday) Dr. C. M. Paske installed as ruler of Medford Elks lodge. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Up state hens have started laying V-hapod eggs (for victory) on editor's desk, reports state." 30 YEARS AGO April 1, 1333 (Saturday) Local restaurant men warn beer may be scarce for first tew days after sale becomes legal. Public interest high. Butter shortage predicted in Oregon as production de creases. 10 YEARS AGO April 1, 1123 (Sunday) Coin n tennis club holds rlc nic on Rogue river. Jackson County Game Pro tective association ousts Gov. Walter Pierce from member ship for "failure" to keep ap pointment promises. 30 YEARS AGO April 1, 1913 (Tuesday) Local amateur talent gives benefit show at Stur theater for victims of Dayton, Ohio floods. Work started on improve ments at Crater Lake Na tional park. What's Yoir I.Q.? Nina at tan correct Is tuaerier; seven or eight h) eicelleat; fivo or la It toed. 1. From what source is in sulin obtained? 2. Who was the last British sovereign of the House of Stuart? 3. Is macaroni hollow, or solid? 4. Who was the first wo man ever appointed as a for eign minister by the United States? 3. If you welcome a rise in the stock market, would you be a "bear" or a "bull?" 8. What did Abou Bon Ad hem st when he awoke in the nigitt? 7. Of vhat country was the artist Murillo a native? 8. What one thing is essen tial in fishing, a blow in bo.v Ing and a tragedy in golf? 9. Is the puffing adder a venomous, or a harmless rep tile? 10. Into whal sea docs the Dneiper River flow? Answers: 1. From the pen cieatic glands of cattle and ksf. 2. Queen Anno (dlod 1714). 3. Hollow. 4. Ruth Bryan Owen. 3. Bull. 8. An angel writing in a book of told. 7. Spain. 3. A hook. 3. Harmless. 10. Black Soa. caiMJAN 17 MONDAY. APRIL 1. 1M3 A Good Investment The three institutions fluence on youth today are the family, the church and the school. The public may not have much jurisdiction over what kind of influence the family or church will have on children; that is up to the family and the family s religious But the public does have a considerable amount of influence over what kind of schooling the children receive, and whether that schooling will be of sufficient quality to develop the kind of leaders needed m the future. AN INVESTMENT in the schools of today is an "investment in the future. If the investment to day is adequate to obtain a quality product, then the investment is well worth it. This is the premise on which the budget for School District 549C for next year was developed. It is a premise on which the Medford district, along with other school districts in this area, base their philosophies. And it is this investment which patrons of District 549C will consider Wednesday when they vote on a proposed budget exceeding the 6 per cent limitation by $2,766,272.64. The total budget for the district ($5,061,057. 07) represents an increase of $427,278.75 more than this year's budget. It is a figure which was not arrived at hastily or easily. IT IS a figure which had its roots in discussions starting last fall between a teachers commit tee and a sub-committee committee. During these discussions various pro posals were considered for a teachers salary schedule revision. The two groups came up with what was con sidered by the majority an equitable salary schedule designed to attract and hold competent teachers. The district had fallen into a position in which prospective teachers were being attracted from this area because of below average starting salaries. This was a major concern of school ad ministrators last fall because it could, if it con tinued, tend to lower the level of competency of the teachers hired. The revised teachers salary schedule is not the only reason for the increase in the budget, however. School administrators could see other increases coming with higher prices and more children. THE budget committee Alfhm AVnarit 11nir VIMIV.f l.ll''.. ,wi iii.iii, ..111, i.v.. .11. allowance to as small an increase as possible. Every budget item was scrutinized individual ly, some of them at more than one meeting, and some of them on a continuing discussion basis until a final decision had to be made. Such was the case of additional classrooms, another factor contributing to the increase. Ordinarily, additional classrooms are includ ed in capital outlay programs for which bonds are issued. It takes time before an election can be called and held, bonds can be sold, bids called for construction, and the actual construction be gins. School administrators feel that by bonding for classrooms, the people whose children benefit from the building are paying for it through the years. BECAUSE of an unsettled boundary situation, and the knowledge that the state's recognized bonding attorney would not approve a bond is sue unless there were no such situations, suf ficient time was not available to call for a bond issue. The budget committee had no choice but to include in the budget funds for construction of a minimum number of classrooms. Through rearranging school service area boundaries, and utilizing all available space, in cluding a high school shop project, the commit tee determined that five classrooms was the min imum number necessary to avoid double-shifting some primary pupils next year. DECAUSE of the teachers salary schedule re vision, the need for an additional 14 teachers, and the need for additional classrooms to handle the increased enrollment, the budget committee trimmed every item in the budget possible, a trimming which amounts to postponing many items until next year or the year after. The committee made sure, however, that the academic program offered from the first grade through high school was in no way jeopardized by cutting anything from the budgei or reducing the amount requested. Not all items in the budget increased, though. Many of the operating and maintenance of plant items have been reduced in cost during the past couple of years by reorganization, better utiliza tion of personnel ami equipment, through selec tive purchasing or bidding, and by other eco nomical changes. yHIS reduction in operating and maintaining the plant has carried over into next year's budget in many categories. With the increase in the budget, however, the pel' pupil cost in the Medford district still will be about average with other districts of com parable size. This, educators feel, is perhaps the major basis on which a school budget should be con sidered. If the district can provide a quality educa tion, such as the Medford district does, at an av erage cost, then the investment is well worth it. And it is on this basis that we recommend a favorable vote Wednesday. E.H. A. i . havine the greatest in background. of the district budget couldn't do much about fnr thorn artA L-ppn fho MEDFOKD 'We're In Complete Accord With The President We Don't Want To Interfere With The Legislative Branch Of Government" Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter lubmitud for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of t paper. In fact the contrary is often the case. Good Advice To the Editor: A broker ad vises you to put your money in a dozen different kind of stocks. That's good advice, if you got 7 million dollars to burn, you can sit in the brokerage house and watch them all tumble at the same lime. Everett Acklin Ashland, Ore. Congratulations To the Editor: The Oregon Association of School Super visors wishes to extend sin cere congratulations to the staff of the Medford Mail Tri bune as the recipient of the Oregon Education Associa tion's Communications Cita tion. Your understanding, sup port, and presentation of the contributions, problems and needs of public education has been highly commendable. We are happy our profes sion has had this opportunity to recognize and acknowledge your contribution to public education. Gladys Durrunri, President Oregon Association of School Supervisors, 812 South Oakdalc avc. Medford. Russian Pan Pal To the Editor: T wrote to a 36-year-old engineer geolo gist in Moscow, and he wants more pen puis. His wife is also an engineer, works in the state office. They have a little girl, Tanja, who will be 7 in May. His main hobby is collect ing cards of art. and art gal leries. Wonder if there isn't someone in Jackson county that would like to help make new friends and show that we are not as bad as the news papers make us sound? Here is his address, the state comes first; U.S.S.R.. Moscow, G. 30ft B. Filcuskajc 231 fc. T6 L. T. Rosenberg. Mrs. E. A. Swilzor, Talent, Ore. Wracking Yards To the Editor: Something else Medford needs: Some of our men in chain- I bcr of commerce and county i commissioners with hack bone enough to clean up the gar bage, or some may say wreck ing yards, on the highways. I Why worry about a few i signs along the highways? The town is going to expand more 1 anil more. They all do some. Why not put a stop to this garbage along our highways now, before they get the best i of you? If you have to have them j on the highways, put them back a mile or so and make them put a high fence around them. If you would like to see what 1 am griping about, just drive out Crater Lake avc. just past Cotter Butte rd. E.E.J (Name on filcl Medford ' Minority Rights i To the Editor: In iew of existing knowledge regarding I evils of polluted air and the current emphasis on measures ; to prevent it. State Sen. Wal ter Pearson's continued op ! position to the ban on smok j ing on buses in Oregon ap pears both stupid and Irre sponsible. Many non-smokers I are compelled by circum- I stances to ride buses in Ore- gon, and even thougli. in some instances, thev may constitute; Mr. Arnold Jenny in another a minority, still they have an letter to the editor, the adver inalienabie right to air to Using for the city should be breathe instead of concentrat- concentrated in two areas, one cd, second hand nicotine ! on each side of the city, to fumes. acquaint the people with the .t the moment, my feeling ( services available These areas on this Question is consider-' should be along the Freeway. MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON ably heightened by virtue of the fact that I have just spent three days in bed with badly congested sinuses and throat complications - a direct re sult of' 10 hours on a Grey hound bus returning from California, during all of which the vehicle's interior was thick and blue with cigarette smoke. Mr. Pearson, who, I hasten to point out with thankful ness, is no relative of mine, completely overlooks the fact so ably stated by Thomas Jefferson, that in a democ racy "the minority posses their equal rights which equal laws must protect, and to vio late which would be op pression . . . ." Grace N. Pearson Route 2, Box 50 Jacksonville. Ore. Time of Troubles To the Editor: Why is it, when a man is out of a job, that all the trouble comes his way? Traffic tickets that have to be paid, even if your family goes hungry, creditors that have to have their money, even if you don't have it. They say they will attach your wages, which, if you did have a job, would cause you to lose it. Ilicy say Governor Hatfield has a rough job. Well I'd like to trade places with him. At least he can pay his bills. He seems to think Oregon is doing so well, he should go to the state employment office and see all the men out ol work. Maybe I am complaining a lot. but if someone would give mo a job or find me one. may be I wouldn't have to. Maybe Hatfield knows of a job? C. L. Millard Box 167 Talent, Ore. No Eaiy Solution To the Editor: The problem nf advertising signs along the Freeway through Medford has no easy solution. The time of prc-Frceway days is gone and any solution which is reached will, I bcieve, be in the best interests of all if old traditions are discarded and a different approach is tried. A little calculation might be enlightening. If people can travel on the Freeway as far in two days as they did in ; three days on the old high j way, apart from gasoline sales, the business which they ; give to the points between ! those two day's travel will be decreased by one-third. The drop in that business will nor mally, in time, be replaced by an increase in local business i and by greater travel along i the Freeway, not by increased advertising. The history of our conquest of the "wilderness'' contains many accounts of the despoil ing and destruction of the beauty of the countryside. The business sections of our cities have become mazes of build ings and paved streets in which little ol natural beauty remains The destruction and dis regard of natural beauty in our cities is necessary only if men accept it as necessary, and fail to March for better ways of building their cities and selling their merchandise and their services. Medford has a rare oppor tunity to break away from the traditional practices and chart another course. I would hke to suggest an outline for such a course. First, as was suggested by France's Economy Faces Paralysis Unless Month-Old Coal Strike Is Settled Soon By JOSEPH W. GRIGG Uniled Press International Paris -0Pt- France's boom ing economy faces creeping paralysis unless the month-old strike is settled soon. Dwindling coal stockpiles lower than normal after the coldest winter in more than 8m years - already have forced some factories to close and others to slash production. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From London: Queen Elizabeth II came home from Australia after a Commonwealth tour that raised undercurrents of doubt about the value of parading royalty in distant domains. Behind the loyal greetings lurked a realization that the six-week royal tour of Fiji, New Zealand and Australia had scarcely proved the re sounding success that might have been anticipated. Cor respondents covering the tour reported the welcome in parts of Australia was less than 100 per cent enthusias tic. The London Times, in an editorial, suggested that this kind of royal tour might have outlived its day. Q UESTION: If Queen Elizabeth's lour wasn't the rousing success it should have been in order to justify the rather large sum of money it cost the tax payers of a Britain that isn't too flush in these, WHY wasn't it. A CORRESPONDENT of the Manchester Guardian, one of the greats of British news papcrdom, offers this possible explanation: "If the Queen were truly an cxtravcrt, rollicking and glamorous, yet a slightly mys- tcrious woman who tried to j live up to her publicity build-1 up, perhaps this visit would) have hecn different. ! "But she is not an extro vert. Her own response to bis cheering crowds when they were near was part of the reason for the dying of en thusiasm." H mnimmmmmm Maybe Britain's Elizabctli should take some lessons from our Jacqueline. F ROM Toronto: Canadian Prime Minister Dicfenbaker, in a political ad dress, warned his audience that an OVERPOWERFUL press (he doesn't think much of the press) could be danger ous. He said: "If we ever arrive at a point where two or three powerful newspapers control the thinking of Canadians, then the people's rights will be at an end." JETS put it this way: If Canadians ever reach the point where two or three newspapers CAN c o n t r ol their thinking, Canada will indeed be a goner. The only way the people can remain free is to DO THEIR OWN THINKING. jROM Nice, on the French Riviera: There is little doubt that a solution could be worked out if the City Council were to prepare and present a com prehensive plan of advertis ing and of city improvement. Second, a master plan for the cleanup and beautifica tion of the city should be de vised. The suggestion from individuals and organizations interested in the fulfillment of such a plan should be soli- i cited. A large part of the labor ! could be supplied by people who are being supported by ' public funds, and others who j might be serving a sentence for infraction of the laws. Third, advertise our city to j the traveler as a place where ! prices are right, where service i is given gladly and courteous-; I ly, where we are interested in his welfare, and where he! can see beauty and loveliness' ; created by the efforts of a i Community riedtcatcd to a bet-1 ; ter life. Clarence L- Miller. 3200 Run! way. Medford Proper Perspective To the Editor: You've been identified as the writer of a piece about the -0 Miracle Miles which appears in a re printing in the March 2S is sue of the North Lincoln Ncw-Guard I just want to say it's a swell summation and you've laid things down in proper perspective. Well done. Echo Smith Box 373. Oceanlake, Ore Wordless Tug To the Editor: There is ever a wordless tug at the heart Officials warned that pro I longation of the stoppage for another ween or 10 days would result in widespread shutdown of plants and would throw hundreds of thousands of workers out of jobs The nationalized electricity and gas industries hitherto have kept operating on their coal stockpiles, helped out by a trickle of imported coal. " ' King Saud of Saudi Arabia is reported to be seriously ill. Reliable sources reported that there is no immediate fear for the 61-ycar-old mon - arch's life, but add that his troubles are complicated by a disinclination to follow doc tor's advice. rFHERE just MIGHT be an- other reason. After the crash of his plane the other day tthe occupants had previously left it. you will remember) the Nice dis patches reported: inc ou wives ana concu-i hums nf Kins R&llfi. armwl with 30 checkbooks, headed for the swank shops of this Riviera resort city to replace some of the clothes lost in the crash of the Saud's priv ate plane." His troubles ARE INDEED complicated. Moldy Books for Molding Minds By Arthur Hoppe Molding the little minds of our little children sure causes lroubl(, Now Ws our fa . , . versial schooioooks. Again, Parents say they're lousy. As usual. I think this is because no little child has ever ac quired the vast knowledge his brilliant little mind is capa ble of acquiring. According to his parents. So the Right Wing has lots of support in its fight against our present system whereby the State selects our lousy schoolbooks. It wants local school boards to select our lousy schoolbooks instead. Be cause, says the Right Wing, the local school board better understands local problems. Like whether this is a repub lic or a democracy. , s ection by the local chool board sounds great j Speaking as a parent, I fig urc the local garage owner housewife and Five &. Dime ; manacer con rin t srleri anv lousier schoolbooks than the Stale Curriculum Cnmmis. sion. And it would be very democratic. But printing lots of differ ent lousy schoolbooks to meet every local theory of little mina-molding would be ter ribly expensive. So it's an awful problem. And the only solution I see is universal adoption of the Multiple Choice Schoolbook Scries.! Which I just invented. Allow me to quote from our first volume: "The Multiple Choice History of Our Constition." "Our country is a (repub lic) (democracy) (tool oi Wall Street). It was founded in 1776 by (saints) (revolution aries) ituols of Wall Street). They wrote a Constitution which endures todav because . for most of us when we sec young girl, childhood all gone and womanhood yet to be. What a transitory briefing ensues, of "you best do this j and don't to that.'' The follow-, ing bit of verse did not make ! the Poet s Corner so is sub mitted to the humble but so popular communications that there might be a message to young feet taking tentative ! steps into the imponderables of beginning adulthood. To Bivnda Wind-blown and free, your waxen curl Wave on wave of pale-gold whorl Like heralds of the coming morn While yet the sun is still unborn. Unfettered yet by love s demand. Unhecdful of the houred-sand That warns you of the coming day When family cares will have their say. Emblemed hope, stay sweel a? you arc j Tho restless feet call you afar. To greener fields that becken so Be stayed awhile, sweet eyes aglow. F. J. Clifford Route 2. Box 200Y Central Point, Ore. The electricity industry was said still to have 850,000 tons stockpiled but it already has cut out nearly all exports of power to neighboring coun tries. The gas industry had coal i stockpiled at the beginning of the strike estimated at rough ly 25 days normal consump tion. The government was study ing plans for rationing elec tricity and gas to both indus trial users and homes if the coal shortage becomes critical. The government estimated that the strike so far lias cost some 4 million tons in lost 1 coa 1 production. That meant j a ioss 0f roughly S80 million t0 the national coal board j Which runs the state-operated : coai industry, 1 The loss in wages so far to t lrle 200.000 striking miners was estimated at roughly S3 million. One bright spot in an otherwise bleak picture was the end last week of a paral lel strike of 3.000 workers in the state-run natural gas plant j at Lacq. south of Bordeaux. The plant produces between j 13 and 14 million cubic me ters of gas daily, which are fed through 280,000 miles of pipelines to industrial centers throughout the country. But it was estimated that it will take several more days before gas output at Lacq is back to normal. The natural gas fields at Lacq produce roughly one-half of the na tion's entire gas supply. Although the full impact of (it is divine revelation) Ul works well) (everybody is a tool of Wall Street). The purpose of our Consti tut tion (is) (is not) (sure is basically (holy) (confusing) It has been (wrecked) (streng thened) (who cares?) by amendments such as that au thorizing the Income Tax, which is a (Communist plot (nuisance) (capitalist plot) to soak (the rich) (everybody) (the poor). This shows our leaders have always been (tools of the Kremlin) (politi cians) (tools of Wall Street) and the people are a bunch of (dupes) (dopes) (dupesi. "(Conservatism) (individual thinking) (radicalism) is the only solution. We have to (throw off our chans) (think it over) (throw off our chains). And thus every American must (Stand up!) (Sit down!) (Stand up)." The great thing about these Multiple Choice Schoolbooks is they're designed to please everybody. Just like the ones ! wc ve ot now- Which don't ' please anybody. Not that I think our present texts are lousy because they're contio versial, Heaven forbid. I think they're lousy because they aren't. The trouble is we confuse I education with mind molding. And each faction wants tr I mold littlp minds in ile nwn j ---old. So, as a compromise wC make a standard mold fcr all little minds. I say let: give the little minds a Mul tiple Choice instead. Because that's the essence of a func tioning democracy. And any way, when you mold little minds they tend to grow up a little moldy. Maybe our children would w ind up thinking pretty much what we think. But at least they would've thought about it. And unless more people lop and think, I've got the 1 u . 9 7 irz , J - f" . tp V ll inv-wo1" uicn in . MdiiaodMtuw. Check one. . "Tht Amaricans have linally laken an interest in Latin America s problems. I hale lo admit it. but wi hac, Castro lo thank for it!" I the prolonged coal stoppaga was slow in uiiuug me na tion's economy, it already was being felt progressively. Fac tories mostly have kept oper ating on a hand-to-mouth ba sis, with many plants helping out others whose coal stocks already were exhausted. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (e Field Enterprises. Inc. SEEING FROM WITHIN What is wrong with thO "realist" who believes in ''looking at the facts" is his naive belief that we get our percep tions from the things around, us-when, act ually, the per ceptions come from us. In his book, ,-Ed-ucalion and Ham the Nature of Man,'' published ?. decade ago. Prof. Earl C Kelley tells the old Austrian folk-tale of the three wayfarers stopping; at noon to rest beneath an oak tree. One, looking up through the branches, said. "What a fine mast this oak would make for a ship as I used to sail upon." A second, who had been a draper's assistant, said, "What a fine brown cloth my master could have dyed from this fine bark.' The third, who had spent his youth as a swineherd, said, "What fine fat pigs could be grown from the acorns which fall from this oak.'' Which of them saw the "fact" of the oak tree? As Kelley points out, after re counting some psychologi cal experiments at the Han over Institute, "since the perception is the usable reality, and since no two organism:: 'jan make the same use of clues or bring the same experimental background to bear, no two of us can see alike. We hav no common world." If we truly understand this, it will make us more humble, more tentative, more tolerant, more flex ible in our opinions and in our disputes. If, as Kelley indicates, no two persons can know the same thing, and no item of knowledge can have the same effect on each of them, then we can never go from the "facts" to values about them. He uses the example of Abraham Lincoln. It is, of course, a "fact" that he lived, that he was Presi dent, that he was assassin ated. But, in Kelley's words, "there are as many Lincoins as there are learn ers." He explains whal he means in these words. "Lincoln is on thing lo an Old Guard Republican, who holds him as a model but believes little that he be lieves. He is something else to the descendents of the slaves whom he freed. He is still another person to the South I crn aristocrat ... To some i he does not exist at all, and j to others he is far from what we hold him to be." This docs not imply that we cannot arrive at a co;n j mon judgment, at basic val i ue-agrccmcnls It docs sug gest, however, that such judg- i mcnts cannot be rooted in "objective facts," but only 1 in the ways in which we grasp and combine these facts with our memory and ; our experience It is not the hard facts of the objective world that keep from working together. but the hardness of heart that , makes us think the oak tree 1S onIy for masts, or for I cloth, or for pigs.
