Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1963)
MEDFOHD MAIL IMlbUHt MblJrORU, UHIUUN ttunuAi, Ai-MIL 14. Communications class numbered 74 students, compared to Eagle Point's graduating class of 54 students. Letters to the Editor mutt bear the name and addrett of the writar. although under j The school budgets appear certain circumstancai the use oi a pan nana or initial for publication it permistible. 10 a hodge podge of padded The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all lettere with a view to clarification and : accounts, in that they inter condensation. Letters submitted for publication mutt not exceed 400 wordt. The Ictiert change the amounts from one printed in thit column do not necettarilr r.or.i.ni the viewe of the n.o.r: i fact the account to another. This is contrary is often the case. A Heap of Living To the Editor: Much has been written of the shortcom ings of the American home. It is my opinion that nothing is wrong with the institution of home-making that wasn't first wrong with our society as a whole. What with nations arrayed against each other And threatening to violate on a grand scale perhaps the most important of The Ten Commandments THOU SHALT NOT KILL it is not to be wondered at if the temp tation is great to break the others also. Our ever-faster pace of liv ing is turning many of our homes into little more than the equivalent of landing fields. So many couples are forced to neglect their fam ilies because of the burden of holding jobs on the outside. As for the status of the young er generation, it was recently well set forth by former Pres ident Eisenhower: "Parents coddle their chil dren with soft living. Today's leaders sold newspapers and did other chores to help their parents, but today's youths grow up in apartments or fine homes and are not called on to do even such minor chores as mowing lawns." Dexterity with the hands is lost art. Prefabrication, power tools and equipment have taken care of that. It is good, of course, that drudgery in the home has long since been eliminated: nevertheless, many an Old Timer would give anything to again see a woman who can "deftly lay a fire, and spread a cloth, and light a lamp, and by the magic of a quick touch give a look of home wherever she may be," and who is also able and willing to cherish a baby in her bosom. In all too many homes the old-fashioned Family Circle is practically unknown what with Mom and Dad gone for the evening, the while Broth er is glued to the TV and Sis ter talks interminably on the telephone. A Texas minister recently elated: "The trouble with most unhappy marriages is boredom: the happiest solu tion is often divorce." In view of our ever-increasing divorce rate, it is doubt ful that the majority of to day's parents will bo able to attain the contorting news paper headline, ""MARRIED FIFTY YEARS," so proudly won by their forebears . . . It does, indeed, take "a heap o' livin' in a house to make it home" in these Un certain Sixties! Geo. M. Babcock 427 Hospital dr. Ashland, Ore. Churches as the Apostle Paul indicates when htr assed them, "Why they were baptizing for the dead if the dead did not rise?" John F. Peterson 611 South Holly st. Medford. Incredible Event To the Editor: The Christ Ian world will soon honor and celebrate the incredible, great est event since the creation of this earth: The resurrection of our Savior Jesus Christ. And we have the counterpart of that great event every spring when the trees and flowers are coming back to life, from their dormant death-like sleep over winter. After our Savior had been chosen to be the propitiation for Adam's transgression and the plan of salvation must have been given to us- at the game time and which also caused the war in Heaven. And comparable to the war that no doubt will have to be fought again with commu nism to decide if we are going to have our free agency or not. It was necessary for God our Father to clothe the Spirits of Adam and Eve with the elements of this earth and his daughters (the Morning Stars) to be his co-creators with him upon the earth There could have been nc other reason God placed the Tree of Knowledge in the Restraint To the Editor: Noticing this little poem in a book entitled "Morning Manna" by A. E. Esteb, caused me to think of the occasional rather caustic replies to some of our neigh bors opinions appearing in these columns. I have written them keen and sarcastic and long, With righteously wrathful intent; Not a stroke undeserved, not a censure too strong, ' And some alas, some of them went. I have written them challeng ing, eager to fight, All hot with a merited fire; And some of them chanced to be kept overnight, And mailed the next day In the fire. Ah, blessed the letters that happily go On errands of kindliness bent, And much of my peace and my fortune I owe To the letters I never have sent. Anon. I was recently given a copy of "The First Settler's Story" by Will Carleton, which closes with these lines: Boys flying kites haul In their white winged birds; You can't do that when you're flying words. "Careful with fire," is good advice we know; "Careful with words," is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead, But God Himself can't kill them when they're said. Harold J. Reith Briggs Bldg. Shady Cove, Ore. especially true under Admin istration and Instruction, in Eagle Point School Budget which, in some cases, even To the Editor: In reference ; the salaries are split between me iaoJ-64 fcagie rami , the two accounts. Following are some com parative figures from the Cen tral Point budget (enrollment 2,728, per student cost $523) and Eagle Point budget (en rollment 1,400): For Office of Superintend ent, Office Business Admin istrator, Principals, Super visors and Consultants: Eagle Point, S75.900. Central Point, S70.978. Eagle Point has a total cost of S4.922 more on these ad ministrative costs, with about one-half the size enrollment and two school units less than Central Point. The total Eagle Point school district expenditures were over a million dollars last year, and will be well above a million into the hundred thousand mark this year, un less the residents look up and take action to secure the best educational opportunities for their children by following their tax money as it is used by the school district. John Benson Eagle Point, Ore. to school budget, I attended the budget hearing and believe the residents of the district would be interested in infor mation given by the superin tendent concerning some of the increased expenditures Referring to "Salaries, Super intendent's Office," the school board is responsible for the proposed raise to $10,000; this item has been raised S3218 since the 1959 budget. We were told Central Point paid their superintendent S15.000; however, according to the Tribune 2-15-63. the Central Point superintendent salary is being raised to $12,500 in the new budget. The question of the cost per student in the Eagle Point district; answer: Eagle Point cost per student compares favorably with any school in area of comparable size (no figure was given). The num ber of students in Eagle Point stated as approximately 1,400. In checking a school dist rict of comparable size, I find that Phoenix has approxim ately 1.400 students and their cost per student in the 1963 64 proposed budget averages $570. The Eagle Point pro posed budget averages S603, or $123 more per student. These costs are based on the general fund expenditures only, and do not include ex penditures on bonds and in terest. The Phoenix high school curriculum appears to offer more courses, especially languages and mathematics. and their 1962 graduating Birthday Poem To the Editor: The follow ing is a poem which I wrote, and it is to be read to the accompaniment of the hymn, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus." I am dedicating this song to a neighbor during my girl hood days, W. R. Bullock, 615 North Columbus, Med ford. He will be 98 April 14. Mrs. Bertha Applegate Guches 1404 Thomas rd. Medford IF JESUS CAME TO MY HOUSE If Jesus came to my house To spend some time with me, I'd welcome Him with open arms And I'd say, "Come in, please." Oh! I'd be so thrilled and happy. To have such an honored Guest. Although our home is humble And the food is not the best. I'd take Him everywhere I went To meet my friends you see. Because He came to my house To spend some time with me. I'd ask about our loved ones Who have gone to live above. And I'd ask our Saviour to tell them That we all send our love. I wouldn't hide the books I read And put the Bible in their place. When we sat down to dinner, I'd ask Him to say Grace. I wouldn't change plans I'd made. Our conversation wouldn't change, For He knows all we say and do And nothing would we gain. I'd have Him stay forever And I'd cry when He left, you see. Garden of Eden so that we. : Because He came to my house his spirit children, could learn , To spend some time with me. to appreciate the gooa irnm the evil and which we can go. if Jesus came to my house plainly infer from his state- j To spend some lime with me. ment to his son when he said, j i-d welcome Him with open - oenoia man lias ucvint - arms one of us to know good and Ani Id say -Come in. evil. Gen. 3:22. Then in due time God sent , his beloved Son to earth as Paul indicates in Gal. 4:4 "When the fullness of time j was come God sent his Son made of a woman made under the Law." etc. His mission was to bring to earth the full plan i of Salvation formulated in the Heavens when the host of his Spirit Children sang and shouted for joy. and which in eluded the gift of the Holy Ghost ordinance of Baptism that Jesus indicated to Neco demus when he said he could not see the Kingdom of God without being baptized by water and the Spirit." (Holy Ghost) It follows then that we must all be baptized that have lived upon the earth and have not had it done by them- j selves. By proxy as theyj were doing in the Corinthian ! please " each other. You can call it incompatibility, the same as some married people suffer from. Now after reading an ar ticle in the S. F. Chronicle recently about "wife swap ping," it occurred to me that there may be a remedy for incompatibility, in that very thing. There may also be another way to find a remedy for the virus of incompatibility, if the wife can make the "indel ible imprint" on the husband, or vice versa. This "indelible imprint" was fully described In a broadcast last March 10, by the "University Explorer," U n i v e r s i t y of California. These weekly broadcasts are printed in a letler form and mailed to subscribers. At any rate science is pro gressing by leaps and bounds and many secrets in nature are bared by biologists. John E Ring 1049 West 10th st. Medford. Incompatibility To the Editor: Richard E. Byrd in his book "Alone," where he describes his four months alone in a cabin built of ice blocks, tolls of the rea son why he choose to live alone in it. He said that Amundsen and other polar ex plorers had said thai two men who live alone in a cabin in the arctic waste (or else where) for any length of lime, develop an antipathy toward Poets' Corner Conducted by Arnold Eugene Jenny Resurrection Morn All was hushed and still, and in the silence deep No sound disturbed the calm of Nature's sleep; While through the silent Garden's hallowed ground There breathed a peace so wondrous, so profound. Then slowly, slowly o'er the sky there spread The first gold rays of sunshine dipped in red; And dawn broke through the darkness of the nighl To shed upon the sepulcher its light; The stone rolled back, and lo! the Tomb lay bare, As song of birds burst clear upon the air. And Nature's sleep gave place to life reborn . , . And it was morn! Eric O. Robalhan The Manor, Medford o Home-thoughts. From Abroad Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England now! And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows Hark! where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops at the bent-spray's edge That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture! And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower, Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower! Robert Browning O Beauty't Handiwork Methinks I knew not what sheer beauty meant Until this night I gazed with eyes intent Upon God's splendor-blazoned firmament. I saw vast galaxies of world's unknown . . . Nebulae . . . where ancient constellations shone With a grandeur truly heaven's own. Beauty aeons old! The magic of its thrall Looms bright above this earth's dark pall Till man's designings here look drab and small Handiwork of God, so matchless, free Let this consummate beauty my gift be. These unplumbed depths of mystery! George S. Whittaker Grants Pass, Ore. o Windt Are Children Winds are children playing April, backs to March-time, fingering squills, twirling papers. tumbleweeds and thistles. Winds are whiffets blowing whistles, cutting capers, climbing hills, chasing May-time Winds are children playing April. Helen Gearhardt Russell Los Gatos, Cal. A Sacred Trust To the Editor: To work and study with quiet dignity, dil igently to the height of one's intelligence, though it be lim ited, and even to strive to go beyond known limitations us ing every asset and faculty, must truly be called keeping the trust. These thoughts occurred to this writer while visiting this week at the Haven School for retarded children, located near Salem, Ore., on Battle Creek rd., founded six years ago by Lillian and Alfred Moss with the assistance of Ruth Dempsey, whose teach ing in this field has been of great inspiration to me. When older students at Haven School conscientiously assist the teacher with smaller boys and girls, for work and study that they themselves an developing, a strong mut- j ual bond is built. For any of the youngsters to violate this bond through disobedience is almost a breach of loyalty. An orderly pattern of effort evolves there is calm dis cipline bringing results. Some thing attempted, something done! Though it may only be the tying of ones shoe laces. Yet, there were stimulating i moments of fun and suspense during classes. For instance, ! after bunnies made of con-1 struction paper had been put together by little hands that I sometimes fumbled, I held i my breath along with the children while waiting for teacher to staple to the indi vidual animals little white cotton tails. An exhilerating surprise! In many different ways the children themselves might tell you about their day in school and the things that in terest them. Did you know that Myrtle had a birthday party today with a cake of pink icing and candles and we all received tiny plastic whistles'.' There was a happy noisy din and some ears were plugged. Did you know that we have a little paper called "The Wrangler" in which to report to you news about us? And we also have a real school bell. We're going to the zoo next Friday, and teacher has been showing us giraffes, chim panzees, bears, elephants and other animals projected on a screen. Yes. we study, work, laugh and play. But we know when it's time to be serious. We are preparing ourselves for lid justmcnt to life, or whatever those big words mean, and we just think we'll make it. This writer left for home after attending Haven School feeling that these wee folk falling into many categories of retardation do have goals to reach, now goals every day. Betty Cullers 615 Breys ave. Salem, Ore. shape. Mr. Bowles explained the Silver Lake tour, its purpose, to show the feed situation. Apparently there are those who see what they want to see and nothing more. If they didn't see herds of deer either in good or poor condition, they were disappointed. Suppose they discontinue the doe harvest. With the feed situation what it is, will our deer herd increase or starve, come a heavy winter? What It Should Be To the Editor: And Hi Hunters: I and my husband at tended the Game commission hearing. After studying the Game Bulletin, April, 1963, I won der where these hunters who see no deer have been. Since 1953 the deer harvest has exceeded 100,000 yer year. The hunters have in creased from a little over 204,000 to near 264,000. In 1948, approximately 166,618 hunters took 39,785 bucks. In 1962, 263,838 hunt ers took 92,903 bucks and 46,809 doe. One point apparently miss ed by the anti-doe hunter Is the feed situation. In the interstate unit, feed is low and many deer in poor The Game commission have experts who study the dear situation all year, know the problems and set regulations to maintain a lasting herd. Write them and give them a vote of confidence. Let's accept deer hunting for what it should be, a privi lege, a recreation, the thrill of the hunt, and not just for the meat. - Mrs. Calvin Clayton B.F. Star Route, Box 70 Eagle Point, Ore. teepinfte tearfof m See us NflM away iff you RMd money to he!? pay your lacini tax as. "Money from Crater fU Manes it Ilka Monty Frew nomtj CRATER FINANCE SjH 185 PINE CEL 664-1218 g TODAY IS- BRAKES RELINED Super Heavy Duty $495 All 4 Wheals Including labor on All U.S. Cart and ' j-Ton Trucks 3-YEAR WRITTEN GUARANTEE FREE ADJUSTMENT AT AIL TIMES NATIONAL BRAKE CENTER 1216 N. Court St., J Blocks South of Big V, Hiway 99, Medford-OPEN SAT. 4jaWB: JJjTmW fcxPRB SbVlT" Joyfully we celebrate today the KjT" ' jpfP feRal JP aeBrBMkSL miracle of Easter. For you end thote f 47 XLV f KBd,' ) you love' we wi,h ,lme my mC J jfciiLij-, fli eSRwaVk igfl. be most wonderful end rewarding VeeeH pV HulaLr ''Ski. ' at you gather in the church of your y ""jlrfalT LflaV 'WlllSifcRi choice to heer anew the ege-old jj vj " lil'trjr1lUll' fl Httiek- . messege . . . mey you derive re- V 'Bfc- " MP M Jajk" rJTT ;:5BpS. J newed spiritual strength from the a B.. Mm'' W bajSg" jLrTKe Hhesl hope of life ever-lesting. Eester it, Bje' ajp f BeeeeejlJ leftf -Q-lft-'-aPpT indeed, e very speciel day WpW d , 7 f time when femily ties end friend- jJf Mm J ilgejn 'j ' I KtlitW. Mot ere closer thtn ever. Jorgen- MJMJ w:wttt -'"m taV "n'1 hoPes YOUR E,s,er wi" bt j5(5BeTVj4Rw kjV e)J)S jSBBBBa truly e For the Finest in Dairy Products, Always ask for "Jorgensen's
