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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1963)
1 i- . ! PAGE 4 A HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Ore. Sunday, June i, 1963 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Committee Calls County One Unit Plan Unlikely ((Editor'! Note: Following publication of an editorial In the Herald and News endorsing the proposed one school district plan lor Klamath County, op ponents of the proposal were In vited to rebut the editorial. The following material was submit ted too late to be Included in today's editorial page. However, in fairness, It has been decided to depart from usual practice of restricting such material to the editorial page and publish It ! here.) First, Mr. Sweetland, let us ex press our appreciation to you for Three Killed In Weekend Traffic Toll Ry United Press International Three persons were killed ini Oregon traffic Friday and Satur day, and a Portland man was killed In a California traffic ac cident In which five persons lost. their lives Saturday. Patrick James Young, 20, Bend was fatally injured early today in Upper Shevlin Pork near Bendi when a car he was in struck group of trees. Three others werel hurt. Six-Year-old Edgar F. LaFay- cite. Brownsville, was killed and his father seriously injured In a two-car crash near Woodburn Fri day afternoon. Dee Anderson Shankles, 69, Portland, was dead on arrival at a hosptal early Saturday after his car was Involved in a tnree-ve-hide rear-end collision. And David Lee Danner, 31, Portland, was killed in a four. vehicle crash near Miltipas, Calif. Another victim in the multiple fa. tal crash, Helen Barnett Greene was believed to be Danncr's mother-in-law and a passenger In his car. School Denied State License SALEM (UPIl-Simmons Insti tute of Portland has been denied a license to operate as a private vocational school, State School Supt. Leon P. Minear said Friday. Mi near said the denial was based upon the findings of a pub lic show-cause hearing held in Portland on May 27. According to J. M. Adams, con sultant, private vocational school licensing, State Department of Education : -'That the Institute had failed to submit Instructor qualifications requested by the department. That Simmons Institute has been conducting classes and re ceiving tuition with out having a license. j That evidence has been re ceived that students have been influenced to invest in other busi ness ventures of the Simmons In- i siitute, or Its owners, faculty members, or salesmen. Minear pointed out that his find ingl show that the school had operated without being licensed even while' the application for li cense w as pending and that opera tion without a license is contrary tu state law. giving us an opportunity for a re buttal to your editorial. ' You have outlined many hoped for objectives of the single d i s trict plan, but we feel that you have condoned letting "the end justifies the means." We seek prompt relief for KUIIS and a sound long range education plan. It Is our conviction that this can be done more effectively, fairly, and economically through reor ganization into two districts, not one. On taxes, how can you so bland ly term as insignificant a tax increase of some 26 per cent on our rural friends? And then at tempt to moralize such a "tax shift" by hiding it under the thin veneer of respectability by calling it "equalization?" This tax shift is now, immediate, and benefits, if any, to our rural areas are in the vague, very, very distant future. How can anyone suggest that one assume the role of a dream in this present day and age. and blissfully hope that our rural peoples will accept, without rancor and hard feelings, the burdens im posed upon them by this "one district" plan; the burdens of in creased taxation, the loss of rep resentation with the resultant loss of control of education In their schools, the feeling of being lit erally "dragged" into a situation in which they have Indicated a willingness to help, but in which they want no full time partner ship. Nowhere in any of the discus sions have die proponents of dis trict consolidation given any in dication of how to solve the crowd ed conditions at Klamath Union. All we hear are vague terms such s "flexibility," equalization," this could happen," etc.. with nothing said as to "how soon," now much, "what," or 'where." It seems that on such an important issue as this, we should know exactly where we are going with all contingencies speiiea out As an example, let' look at the representation which will make the policy and decide upon the pnnosopny of education for all of Klamath County. It would he three years before final representation based upon population and area comes into being. With a countv as large as Klamath, with many divergent views and needs, it would require extremely wlae and able persons to administer! the new district Justly and fairly to all, and people of such wisdom would certainly shy away from becoming embroiled In such a dif ficult situation. In addition, the lime Involved In getting to know the Individual school needs, both as to buildings and educational ly, would be a full time job, there hy excluding many competent prospective board members, and limiting the job of a "school di rector" to persons with unlimited time and means at their disposal. lou mention that there arc built in "safeguards" in the selection of school board members to as sure orderly, broad based repre sentation on the consolidated boards. The entire effort of the proponents of this "one-district plan" has been made in the "over-lap" area of our suburbs, with their philosophy appearing to be that there are more voles here than in the rural area of the system, and hence their expres sion of We've got the votes, we , ride right over them." At no time did they ever go into the rural areas and attempt to sell this proposition, and this a proposi tion dealing so directly with all our peoples. If they can use tin: tactic of "divide and conquer' so effectively now, what can hap pen when you put the city and sub urbs together under a single dis trict wherein the selection of board members is based on pop ulation as the first criterion When, if ever, would our rural peoples be able effectively to ex press their desires? The single district plan Is extremely questionable gamble on our present admitted good school systems and their future growth, with tiie only apparent certainty being an increased tax burden on our good rural neighbors and the loss of local control of their schools, by both metropolitan and rural areas. We feel that there is enough centralization and consolidation on the state and federal levels, and that the first step toward cen tralization and future government control of our "grass roots heri tage" on local education and school programs is presented and proposed by the single county dis trict plan, and further endorsed by Mr. Sweetland's favorable opinions! We oppose the plan, and ask voters to X no on Monday. Committee opposing one district plan.- Jim Noel, Don Noel, Elton Smith. Chairman, Ben Adair, Ted Hyde, Jim Crismon, Buzz Wagner. Tb . -x ! . Jp a ( i 'V , l I r-? A I ) 1 1 1 Testimony By Biologist Nullifies Earlier Remark PORTLAND (UPli An Idaho I Power Co. fish biologist told a Federal Power Commission hear ing here Friday that salmon and stcelhead fingerlings recovered! from above Brownlee Dam and released below Oxbow Dam ac climated well. But small fish released from in cubation channels below the dams did not fare so well, according to Wendell E. Smith. The FPC was hearing testi mony on Snake River Dam fish passage problems. Smith's com ments came on cross-examination. His statements appeared to nul lify assertions made in direct tes timony Tuesday. At that time he told FPC Examiner Allen C.i Lande he favored artificial spawn ing of salmon in incubation chan nels and hatcheries below t h e dams because the Middle Snake runs were dying out. Cross examination was by Dean F. Ratzman. assistant regional so licitor for the Department of the Interior who questioned both lings until Monday and indicated Smith and Idaho Power's otherjit would take three more days to expert witness, Donald Barclay, cross-examine witnesses. He said engineer in charge of designinglthat a hearing in Boise proposed sizes than the Incubation chan nels proposed by the power com pany, but the success of such ponds would depend upon the sup ply of cold fresh water available. the Snake River dams. At the close of Friday's testi mony, Lande recessed the hear- by IPC had not been set Smith told Ratzman that rear ing ponds can raise fish to larger SHRINE HOSPITAL GRADUATE Diane Heitsmith, now 8 years old, tolls Al Nybaclc, president of the Klamath Falls Shrine Club, about her experiences at the Shriner's Crippled Children's Hospital in Portland while recovering from a congenital dislocated hip which crippled, her from birth. Diane started her series of treatments at the hospital when sha was I -year-old and returned from her last operation just two months ago. She faces another checkup trip in October, but is now almost completely recovered and can run and play like the other children. The Klamath Falls Shrine Club supports the hospital through funds raised by the annual Shrlners Crippled Children s dance which will be held this year at the Klamath Auditorium Saturday, June 15. Ernest Pitts Dies Wednesday A former resident of Klamath Falls, Ernest Pitts, died Wednes day, June 5, in the Sacred Heart Hospital in Medford. Mr, Pitta was a resident here from 1942 until he moved to Med ford in 1953. At the time of his death, Mr. Pitts was foreman of the Medford Concrete Compa ny. He is survived by his wife, Thelma. 3479 Table Rock Road, Medford; two sons. Kenneth of Hayfork, Calif., and Orville of Dorris, Calif.; a daughter, Dar lene Moon of Burns, Ore., and six grandchildren. Final rites will he held at the Conger-Morris Chapel at 1 p.m. Monday, with graveside services and interment scheduled at the Klamath Falls Memorial Cemete ry at 4 p.m. Obituaries SCHMIDT Harold Marlon Schmidt. died Juno 7. Survlvtd by widow, Helen, chlldrtn, Barbara. Fred. Donald, all of Klamath Fallal brothar, Ray Schmidt; sistar, Cath erine Barnes. Maryvllle. Mo. I half broth er. Leo Collier. Dei Moines. Iowa. Fu neral services will be held Monday. June 10. at 11 a.m. In O'Hair's Memorial Chapel. Klamath Lodge No. 77 AP I, AM officiating. Interment Eternal Hills Me morial Gardens. Fremont Pupils Join Society Nine members of the Fremont School National Junior Honor So ciety were announced at the re cent school award assembly. Honor Society Dins were awarded to Mar tin Alter. Forest Costanzo. Jack Crabtree, Vicki Lake, Judy Nich olson, Nola Ostrom, Marguerite Pavne. Sandra Ruconich and Bruce Winterhalder. To earn pin, a student must nave neen on the honor roll for at least three of. the four nine-week report pe riods. Other students who have been on the school honor roil ouring the past school year included: Barbara Adams, Penny Anderson, Linda Britt, Neal Buchanan, Bev erly Ford, James Green, Carole Horn, Bruce Johnson, Nancy Leonard, Jim Mathews, Sharon Taylor and Steve Wilson. Your uaabla diicardf will help ut to hflp ethtn. Don't throw 'dm away. 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