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10. 1 c THURSDAY. AUGUST IS. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL 1JRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Coloimy.- ranted Land DOD , United Pcttt International Stockton, Kan. -WD- The citizens of this dusty western . Kansas town are having the jitters over a seven - letter word that many of them didn't even know the meaning of ' until they looked it up. The word is "atheism." r For years Stockton lived contentedly in a regular cycle ' of spring plowing, the gritty and sweltering days of har vest, and the sweep of winter winds. But this summer, as towns people meet after Sunday church or step into the drug store to escape the blazing ' heat, the talk isn't of familiar things-rain, or the lack of it, and the wheat harvest. It's about atheism and the . actions of their own Farmer Brown. The word atheism comes clumsily to the lips of the citizens of this strongly re ligious community. "Six out of ten people here couldn't have told you what . atheism is," said Mayor L. B. Waller. Firmer Brown Helps . Stockton's anxiety began , last month when Carl R Brown, 77-year-old former Rooks county legislator and retired farmer, offered 160 acres of his land to an atheist colony. Brown, who lives alone in a rundown, cluttered house two miles south of here, be- . came interested in the cause of Mrs. Madalyn Murray, the : Baltimore, Md., housewife who carried her protest against re quired Bible reading in public . schools to the U. S. Supreme - Court and won. He offered two 80 acre tracts on the Solomon river to Other Americans, Inc., an atheist organization founded . by Mrs. Murray. Msr. Murray says she has - $100,000 in pledges toward building the atheist colony, including a university, infor mation center, radio station, printing press and home for the aged. She wrote Mayor Waller asking for police protection when she visits the site here this week end with her mother and two sons. Waller, noting the small size of the town and Its peaceful history, turned down the request. ., "We are inclined to believe your presence here will go unnoticed," Waller wrote Mrs. Murray. Deed Ready Brown said the deed nn one of the 80-acre tracts ready to turn over to her when she comes." Brown's action jolted (lie community. Church attend' . ance, which ministers say usually dips 25 per cent with the summer heat and vaca tions, shot up 23 per cent. Petitions asking Brown to . change his mind about the land offer began to circulate. "I haven't heard of any body in the community who has a friendly feeling toward the atheist center," said the Rev. Clifford Hauxwell of the Christian church. "Most of the people are al most sick at their stomachs at the very thought of It," aid Mrs. Lee Phelps, a house wife.. Brown, an enthusiastic ad vocate of nudist camps, has jams his house and a small made four trips to Europe adjoining building, where he attended interna- Many townspeople linked tional nudist gatherings and atheism and Communism in has a 5.000-book library that their first reaction, Hauxwell Forestry Projects Are Authorized in Public Works Plan Congressman Robert B. Duncan (D-Ore.) has an nounced he has received word from the Department of the Interior that $887,000 in new forestry conserv a 1 1 o n projects have been approved under the Accelerated Public Works Program for Oregon's Fourth district. The projects will not only create jobs for many chronic ally-unemployed workers, but will improve facilities for campers and hikers and con serve the nation s timber and water resources, Duncan said. Oregon is one of 24 states which will benefit from the work to be done on public lands, national parks, nation al monuments, wildlife refu ges and Indian reservations. Fourth district projects in clude a $166,000 bureau of land management forestry job to begin late in August in Josephine county. It will create 120 man-months of em ployment and the work will Portland Attorney Chairman of Board Chicago - lUPIt - Portland attorney James C. Dezendorf was elected chairman of the board of directors of the American Judicature Society here Wednesday at the groups golden anniversary meeting. ' The society, with a mem bership of some 20,000 attor neys, judges and laymen, is devoted to promoting efficient administration of justice. Cordovan leather is made from the hides of horses. Include reduction of tree hazards, seed collection on 2,800 acres, and the. construc tion and improvement of pro tection and sanitation facili ties along the Rogue River Trail. Another Project Another Josephine county project is the construction of the Calice forest access road to be undertaken by the bureau of land management In October. This $200,000 project will provide an esti mated 130 man-months of em ployment in the county. In Coos county, a $95,000 multipurpose forest improve ment project will be started by the bureau of land man agement in late August. The work includes 150 acres of reforestation, .150 acres of site improvement, 1,300 acres of snag-felling, slash disposal along 80 miles of roadway, and construction of 20 miles of control fence to protect forest seedlings, pro viding 108 man-months of employ ment. Another Coos county job is a $137,000 project which will provide 96 man-months of la bor and is to be invested in construction of the Elk Creek Forest access road. The bu reau of land management ex pects to start the road in October. In Douglas county, a multi purpose forest improvement project, valued al $289,000, is scheduled for late in August. BLM will fell tree snags, improve sites, reforest, clear away downed timber, and build protection and sanitation facilities at Wolf Creek and Little River. This nine-month project will create 372 man-months of work. NOT UP TO PAR Wimbledon, England - flJPO -; Baker Thomas Walters was lined $28 (10 pounds) Wednes day lor selling bread that was not up to standard. A woman testified she ate a slice of Walters' bread and found glass thermometer in it. . ,.,-: - fit T" " V!? 7"- t . said. Brown denies the re lation. Denies Communism "Emotionalism should not play any part in studying any subject, including relig ion and atheism," Brown said. "It is unfair to link atheism with Communism, for atheism condemns Communism as be ing dictatorial, with a disre gard for human rights." Hauxwell said "what we fear the most is the influence on our public schools." The minister said if the atheists move into the com munity and send their child ren to public schools, the baccalaureate services, pray ers that open PTA meetings and other religious obser vances in the schools would be endangered. Most of the citizens con sider Brown to be community minded. "Carl Brown has probably given more to charity than anyone I know," said Don Peebles, who heads a project to build a nursing home to which Brown is said to have made the largest pledge, $1,000. ,1-1 J" O I But Brown's standing in the community has been going downhill. He gave the city $2,500 in stocks, the interest of which is. used to hold an annual swimming meet for children of the community. Mayor Waller said the stocks prob ably will be returned. "I don't think the child ren should be taught that he is a great man," Waller said. Brown shrugs off the fer menting opposition in the community. "I'm not mad at them," he said. "It (atheism) is what I believe in." He said he will politely turn down petitions asking him to change his mind. He already has answered one bearing 42 signatures. "I have come to the con clusion that all religions are man-made," Brown wrote the petitioners on a battered type writer in his kitchen, which also serves as a study. A Pipedreaim Many Stockton residents, including Mayor Waller, con sider the atheist colony "a pipedream" and have taken a hopeful wait-and-see- atti tude. "Many don't think it will come to be," Waller said. "Have you seen what they (the atheists) plan to do? It will take much more than the $100,000 they have. Why a sewer system out there could cost that much. "When Mrs. Murray comes out she may change her mind about the land. I've heard that she's painted a very rosy picture of the site back East. It's poor land - very sandy - with poor improve ments and a poor house." The core of this commun ity's uneasiness was express ed by Waller. "We might be getting peo ple in here who aren't . ac cepted in any other town," he said. He said most of the letters he has received from other parts of the nation in support of the atheist center were poorly written and rid dled with bad grammar. "They all sound like nuts," Waller said. "Just who is coming out?" DEED IS READY Retired farmer Carl R. Brown, 77, seated at the typewriter in his kitchen-study, says the deed on one of the 80-acre tracts is ready for the atheist organization. He is contemplating turning over 180 acres to Other Americans, Inc. (UP1) Oregon Pharmacists Have More Earnings Than U.S. Average SECOND GLANCE Glamour and gasoline combine to make passersby take a second glnnce at this service slnUnn in Roseville, Calif. Manager Richard Rakes was caught in a rush hour struggle and the gas hose had to be propped up while he serviced the car. He utilized a mannequin, bcinR used in front of his station to advertise a sale, to help him complete the task. 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To Find Effect In addition, the survey was aimed at finding what effects the sales volume, form of ownership, and type of store have upon financial manage ment by pharmacy owners. The study also wanted to de termine the amount of aca demic " background prepara tion of pharmacy owners and their opinions as to how well this educational training pre pared them for a role of bui-M-ness manager. The study was made by personal interview and ques tionnaire. Fifty per cent of j tlie pharmacies studies were ownen oy one pnarmacisi. i The other half were divided between partnerships and corporations. The survey found that pre scription sales accounted for an average of 42.6 per cent of total net sales in Oregon pharmacies. Prescription sales averaged just over $53,000, approximately 7.3 per cent above the national average. Overall average gain in total net sales was 3.8 per cent over the previous year although one third of selected Oregon pharmacies suffered a loss in total sales volume. 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