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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.
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